What to do against the tyranny?

Submitted by Mitch van Biljon (United States), Feb 19, 2008 at 18:29

Larry, thanks for your sincere response. I always think of the founding fathers and their determination in the face of the British aggression. Since God helped our founding fathers he will help us today. Faith is a powerful tool but it needs us to take steps to halt the tyranny. You are correct in that the world's leaders are also against us, but who cares a hoot. Their opinions are worth nothing to me, the opinions of Bush means nothing to me. All that matters is the constitution. All you need to do is pick up the phone, send emails and sign petitions on a regular basis threatening that you will remove your representative from office should he vote against the wishes of the people.

The only time that a representative must ignore the will of the people is when it comes to people wanting to deviate from the constitution. Never forget the efforts of the ass Bush, the pathetic senate and hopeless House of Representatives to grant amnesty to millions of illegals. The people of the US stopped that dead in its tracks every time they attempted a form of amnesty. Millions of calls were made, millions of faxes sent and millions of emails. The Asses in office got the message. We can stop anything as long as we are active and honor the constitution. I would be happy to be jailed for supporting the constitution.

Posterity will look upon acts of personal sacrifice and will come to honor that. Remember that in peaceful mass protests you cannot be charged for terrorism and they cannot jail hundreds of thousands of people now can they? I say screw them, they are in the wrong and we are morally in the right as well as constitutionally. Let God decide on the outcome but let us decide on acting in the name of the constitution.

When I post links to these sites it is because these sites are very effective tools in the fight against our corrupt government. 1: www.worldnetdaily.com 2: www.numbersusa.com 3: www.patriotpost.us 4: www.givemeliberty.com

Some of my favorite quotes, which may give you some motivation to fight back. I am not calling for physical violence as the damage is too great. Peaceful and massive marches will get the message across. Remember that they are scared of us, but only when we act. The American sun rises and sets with the Constitution.

As Dr. Franklin also pointed out on Sept. 17, the Constitution itself is but a document – it relies on the people to give it truth and life. The Constitution, Franklin stated, "can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." As the checks and balances restricting federal usurpation fall away, as the American people become more and more dependent on a national government, will the promise of the rising sun sink into the sea of time? Only time will tell. Americans were given the greatest mechanism for the protection of freedom in human history on Sept. 17, 1787.

The choice to maintain that mechanism remains – as it always has – in our hands. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

These nations have progressed through the following sequence: >From bondage to spiritual faith; >From spiritual faith to great courage; >From courage to liberty; >From liberty to abundance; >From abundance to selfishness; >From selfishness to complacency; >From complacency to apathy; >From apathy to dependency; >From dependency back into bondage. -- The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic
Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748 - 1813) "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival.

There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Winston Churchill "Remember that a Government Big Enough to Give You Everything You Want is Also Big Enough to Take Away Everything You have" - Davy Crockett "Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." --John Quincy Adams "The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces." —James A. Garfield G. K. Chesterton once said "Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." "The chief cause of problems are solutions from the federal government." "Why is it that many, if not all, of us think twice before we say what we really think or believe? Have we been silenced by the popular hecklers? Are we afraid? Is there a cultural inquisitor who stalks us all?

Then, why is it that so many of us who know better about so much that we see around us cower and speak in hushed, mousy voices?" —Justice Clarence Thomas "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857 "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." ~ George Washington If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836) "If the people lead, the government shall have no choice but to follow" Benjamin Franklin "[T]he founders of our nation were suspicious, if not contemptuous, of government...

Today's Americans hold a different vision of government. It's one that says Congress has the right to do just about anything upon which it can secure a majority vote. Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery. At least two-thirds of the federal budget represents forcing one American to serve the purposes of another. Younger workers are forced to pay for the prescriptions of older Americans; people who are not farmers are forced to serve those who are; non-poor people are forced to serve poor people; and the general public is forced to serve corporations, college students and other special interests that have the ear of Congress...

You say, ‘Williams, don't you believe in helping your fellow man?' Yes, I do. I believe that reaching into one's own pockets to help his fellow man is both laudable and praiseworthy. Reaching into another's pockets to help his fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation. The bottom line: We love government because it enables us to accomplish things that if done privately would lead to arrest and imprisonment." —Walter Williams "Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." —Alexis de Tocqueville Ron Paul is arranging a march on DC and I will keep you updated on the logistics of that. Now he is a true patriot and one of the few with Alan Keyes who actually have read the constitution. It is obvious that morons like Bush, Clinton, Obama and their ilk have not.

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