Tyranny Defined - To Those Who are Too TrustingI write to you who have been raised in a trusting environment, especially those in the western part of the US. It is time to sit up and take a look around you and realize that the Constitution of this United States is in extreme danger of being supplanted by an elected and non-elected dictatorship. It is time to judge public actions against the standards and beliefs you have been taught are good. It is time to raise your voice and defend the Constitution from those who would ignore it and its foundations. Are you going to be counted? What is the difference between American Capitalism and Socialism?American Capitalism protects the effort and genius of the individual, allowing them to succeed or fail as they will. The duty of the government is to protect the earned property and wealth of the individual from unlawful appropriation by others and the government. The founders sought to establish a government which recognizes that American Capitalism is its source of income and brings the nation prosperity that the government by itself can never create or mandate. Socialism takes away the agency/freedom of the individual to succeed or fail, offering security at some level of existence. All property is taken from those who are better at generating it and redistributed to others under the guise of ‘doing good’, escaping the evil clutches of the Corporations or making things equal for all. Soon it destroys all initiative and desire for freedom. Tyranny defined by the founders and others“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” –James Madison “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and women. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” (The political works of Thomas Paine, p. 55) “Not only is it necessary for the right of private property to be held inviolate freedom to continue, but in at least one way the right of private property is an even greater significance than the rights to life and liberty. When the government departs from its proper role as the protector of inalienable rights and commences on the road to tyranny, the destruction of freedom ordinarily begins as an assault on private property. The reason for this is that if tyranny's first steps included the deprivation of life and liberty, the loss of freedom would be an immediately recognized. Having referred to a tyranny, it might be well to comment that tyranny is not limited to a government dominated by a single unjust ruler. Instead a tyranny can be any government under which rights to life, liberty and property are not maintained inviolate. If the government is a tyranny, that can be much jockeying for power and changes in individual leaders without any substantial change in the status of the people. When the Government commences on the road to tyranny, the destruction of individual property rights at first proceeds slowly. Plausible programs are presented that seem to involve the solutions to human needs. But the proposed solutions typically involve the taking of property from some and giving part of that property to others, which solutions violate the rights of private property.” (Jerome Horowitz, The Elders of Israel and the Constitution, p. 86) Let me introduce you to a guy named Amalickiah who was bent on destroying the liberty of his people, he sounds very similar to others we have mentioned "Yea, we see that Amalickiah, because he was a man of cunning device and a man of many flattering words, that he led away the hearts of many people to do wickedly; yea, and to seek to destroy the church of God, and to destroy the foundation of bliberty which God had granted unto them, or which blessing God had sent upon the face of the land for the crighteous’ sake." (Alma 46:10, Book of Mormon) The Grab for Power and Control by Obamacrats18 Czars! - I will simply refer you to Curtis Dale’s letter on this and remind you that these people are in policy making positions and you have not elected them. For the founders, taxes were a hot issue, they still are and all we hear from Washington is higher taxes and yet what follows is the standard that the President should be working to “There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. There can be no doubt that in order to a judicious exercise of the power of taxation, it is necessary that the person in whose hands it should be acquainted with the general genius, habits, and modes of thinking of the people at large, and with the resources of the country. And this is all that can be reasonably meant by a knowledge of the interests and feelings of the people. In any other sense the proposition has either no meaning, or an absurd one. And in that sense let every considerate citizen judge for himself where the requisite qualification is most likely to be found.” The Federalist Papers #35 "Of course the people don't want war... That is understood. But... it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. — " Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials, 1946 from Nuremberg Diary, by G. M. Gilbert.
This is the same approach as espoused by the White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Real or manufactured crises give these people the opportunity to falsely claim they are acting in your best interests while taking away your freedoms. Why Should I Care?Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. — C.S. Lewis In short you should care because in a few short years the whole landscape of the American economy will change, none of the promoted solutions will work and you will definitely have less freedom than you now have. I hope this bothers you at least a little bit. What to doOppose all Obama initiatives. Write your congressmen, tell your neighbor, be active in your faith, pray and remember this: “Let us not lose faith in God's ability to deal with tyrants today as he has in the past. As long as there is a remnant of people in a society you are capable of being instruments in the hands of God, who know how to intercede with God in prayer, mighty changes in the course of events can and will happen swiftly.” (Gwynne W. Davidson, D.D., The Red Carpet, p. 289 by Richard R. Kern |