Having My Say Continues


1999 Article


July 11, 1999
On liberty

The day our firearms are taken from us
will be the day our Republic dies.
Let us not allow this to happen.


Whether the majority or not know it, our Republic is at a cross-roads. One path will keep us on the road to liberty for all time while the other will subject the people who live in the united States to bow to the will of a tyrannical government.

We have gradually been losing liberties to a government bent on controlling every facet of every American citizen’s life from birth to death. It is a government as intent on control of the people as any dictatorship that has ever existed on this earth. In the final analysis, only one inalienable right can assure our separation from totalitarian governments, past and present, and protects us from being a future totalitarian country, that being the right to keep and bear arms.

If we allow this government of greedy, self-serving mongrels to continue as they have by keeping them in office, the people of the most dominating Republic of modern times will have bowed to the tyranny of a government who stole control piece by piece under the guise of doing it for 'the people’s good'.

William Pitt expressed it thusly: "'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

Now I wonder - are our people now far less aware than those who lived during our founding and early development years? Do our people know so little of our Republic that they do not recognize when it is being threatened by the very government designed to protect it? I fear this is the case.

I am sure this quote of Thomas Jefferson’s has been used many times during the government’s carrying out its plan of removing all firearms from the people. This honorable man said: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in their government."

Many other great past leaders have similar thoughts concerning the people of the free States being able to protect themselves against a centralized government. Many feared for our inalienable rights when forming our government, an organization meant to provide for the common defense of our sovereign States. They knew only an armed citizenry could prevent the leaders in government from becoming tyrants.

In 1803, St. George Tucker, in his edition of Blackstone’s commentaries, ‘1:300, stated: "Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of distruction."

Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, that is the crossroads this nation is at. Liberites of the individual are liberties whether the majority agree or not and I will not give up my Constitutional, unalienable right to keep and bear arms. To do so will subject me to slavery, of just being a number on some government roll (in the stats concerning those who died protecting the Constitution>, and I will not bow to people in government that I consider idiots, thieves, felons, and tyrants. And, sadly, most, if not all, fall into at least one or more of these categories.

They may take my life but I will die as free, or moreso, as I was the day I was born. I do not want any more of my liberties removed and I will legally fight to regain those I have lost to a government that is best described as tyrannical and felonious. And not one of those currently in the race to the presidency will do anything to change this description but will, instead, only add further proof, just as Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and the whole of Congress has done in the past 19 years.

And to you foolish, foolish people who believe giving up arms will solve the problems of violence in public education and decrease criminal activities - wake up and smell the roses. There were killings, robberies, mass annihilations and torture, etcetera, long before there were firearms. And, many, if not most, of these atrocities were carried out by the governing bodies or those persons in control of nations.

I pray the people of this nation not be sucked in by a government wanting only to choke the very life out of our Republic. The government wants our arms, our liberties, and everything we hold near and dear, our freedom as intelligent creatures. No lesser amount of power will satisfy those who now are in the federal government.

We, the people, must choose and insist on the path of liberty for all. We must protect our inalienable rights; we must force those in government to realize this is our, the people’s, union of States, that the only power it, the government, has is that given by the people of the States.

So the choice of paths is simple for me and others who love liberty - it is the path to preservation of the Constitution of the united States of America, the only path on which those rights can be forever preserved.

And damned for all eternity be those in government who would have it otherwise.




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