At what point, due to what circumstance do you pick up arms and resist the government? This question goes through my mind often. Historically speaking, it is a question that every citizen should ask themselves. We have seen time and again when a sitting government falls far and away from the principle which that government was formed or blatantly moves in manners only to secure power for the leaders et al. The list is extensive, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam, Kim, and many, many others. We (the American People) seem to live in a fantasy world that it can not happen here.
Truly on several occasions several past Presidents exceeded their authority, many seem to default to the last president but this list would also include FDR, Lincoln, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Adams, and even Jefferson. Each one of these men exceeded their authority on more than one occasion. One got impeached, two assassinated (not for what they did ... directly) and two where founding fathers. But these men worked from their position in their actions. What if they had help from members of Congress? Would one dare to call that a conspiracy? Let's look at the definition.
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Truly on several occasions several past Presidents exceeded their authority, many seem to default to the last president but this list would also include FDR, Lincoln, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Adams, and even Jefferson. Each one of these men exceeded their authority on more than one occasion. One got impeached, two assassinated (not for what they did ... directly) and two where founding fathers. But these men worked from their position in their actions. What if they had help from members of Congress? Would one dare to call that a conspiracy? Let's look at the definition.
con·spir·a·cy (k
n-spîr-s)n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
When an official is not held to a standard that is on par or above a common citizen then we need to question. Is there a conspiracy? We need to question. Is there favor being given? Look at the actions to quickly forgive and then promote those in our current government for breaking laws that they are now sworn to uphold and for policies that they are now tasked to writing and administer.
We need to question the motives and actions of our sitting officials. When we do not agree with them we need to state this as so. Join, organize, protest and at the end of the day be determined to resist at every level even unto armed revolt to protect the foundations of our Constitutional Government. The danger of blindly being self absorbed is that singularly a person is just that a single undefended, unaffiliated item to be placed where authority sees fit.
The photo in this post is of people (mostly Jews) at a WW2 German Death Camp, the process in the photo was known as the Life/Death sorting where the lucky went into the camp to work as forced labor, to be slowly starved to death while providing goods for the state. The others went directly to gas chambers to be eradicated and then the "lucky" where forced to take the bodies on to the ovens to be burned. This photo should serve as a reminder to all that a few men in power, made the law and the rest of the citizens merely obeyed those laws while no one objected.
Blind obedience to the law of a siting government and not to the moral center, the foundational doctrine that has served us so brilliantly these past 200 plus years is dangerous, extremely dangerous. One must also remember that it was due to economic crisis that brought the Nazi regime into power and that they acted quickly to establish their outline for a future country which at the end brought them all great ruin. We are headed down a similar path. As it was said at the end of the Nazi Regime, "It was not the Army that gave Hitler his power, it was the clerks." When people merely shrug their shoulders and continue to do nothing then those who serve their own wants over the peoples only grow more emboldened and excessive. Not a single senior member of the Nazi party ever visited a Death camp, administered one, or even decided who would go to the gas chamber or to labor. They stayed in the capitol, promoting an image of strength, moral rightness, while touting the improvements made under their rule. It was the clerks, and the common citizen that did their bidding. "I was only following orders" was the most commonly heard defense at the Nuremberg trials. Do you follow orders or do you take up arms? and if you take up arms... when?
When an official is not held to a standard that is on par or above a common citizen then we need to question. Is there a conspiracy? We need to question. Is there favor being given? Look at the actions to quickly forgive and then promote those in our current government for breaking laws that they are now sworn to uphold and for policies that they are now tasked to writing and administer.
We need to question the motives and actions of our sitting officials. When we do not agree with them we need to state this as so. Join, organize, protest and at the end of the day be determined to resist at every level even unto armed revolt to protect the foundations of our Constitutional Government. The danger of blindly being self absorbed is that singularly a person is just that a single undefended, unaffiliated item to be placed where authority sees fit.
The photo in this post is of people (mostly Jews) at a WW2 German Death Camp, the process in the photo was known as the Life/Death sorting where the lucky went into the camp to work as forced labor, to be slowly starved to death while providing goods for the state. The others went directly to gas chambers to be eradicated and then the "lucky" where forced to take the bodies on to the ovens to be burned. This photo should serve as a reminder to all that a few men in power, made the law and the rest of the citizens merely obeyed those laws while no one objected.
Blind obedience to the law of a siting government and not to the moral center, the foundational doctrine that has served us so brilliantly these past 200 plus years is dangerous, extremely dangerous. One must also remember that it was due to economic crisis that brought the Nazi regime into power and that they acted quickly to establish their outline for a future country which at the end brought them all great ruin. We are headed down a similar path. As it was said at the end of the Nazi Regime, "It was not the Army that gave Hitler his power, it was the clerks." When people merely shrug their shoulders and continue to do nothing then those who serve their own wants over the peoples only grow more emboldened and excessive. Not a single senior member of the Nazi party ever visited a Death camp, administered one, or even decided who would go to the gas chamber or to labor. They stayed in the capitol, promoting an image of strength, moral rightness, while touting the improvements made under their rule. It was the clerks, and the common citizen that did their bidding. "I was only following orders" was the most commonly heard defense at the Nuremberg trials. Do you follow orders or do you take up arms? and if you take up arms... when?
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