People who have had goals of starting their own businesses with very little money and no other incomes know. It is a frightening action to take as all could be lost or, conversely, all could be gained. It takes dedication and the willingness to forego all else along with the willingness to make sacrifices, regardless of the cost.

Our forefathers knew this when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and declared the colonies separate from England, and created a viable country in and of itself. They did so with the willingness to sacrifice their lives, if necessary, to assure liberty. And many did make the ultimate sacrifice.

Our forefathers also knew it when drafting the Constitution. It took great dedication and courage for those who went against the Federalists, the rich and powerful who wanted the government to hold all the power over the people. Those who believed the strongest in the human will to be free along with the great value and necessity of the unalienable rights of the individual while limiting the central government fought for their beliefs while facing the potential of death.

And they did overcome with the result the central government established was extremely limited in its powers. The Constitution ratified by the States assured that the rights of the individual would never be infringed upon. The Constitution guaranteed it.

These great men had faced the abyss, jumped into it, and did so without any assurance of their survival. They surely lived their lives in great fear but went ahead anyway. That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is courage.

It doesn’t take courage if the outcome is known, such as a bully beating up on some little person, or a criminal pointing a gun at someone known to not be armed, or a government agency breaking into someone’s home and scaring the holy devil out of them and their families.

We, the people of this nation, meaning the 50 states and not the United States proper which is the District of Columbia (the plot of land established as the home of the federal government) now face an abyss whether most are aware of it or not.

We who are trying to make all people aware of the corruption of the federal government, who are trying to make all people aware of the abuses to the Constitution that have or are taking place by the people we have placed in government, are now on the very brink of the abyss.

No one outside of the government most noteworthy for its ‘hidden agendas’ can really be sure of what lengths the federal government will go to in order to insure its robbing us of our unalienable rights will continue. No one can be certain when speaking out against the government that actions will not be taken against them in some form or another.

The one certainty is the federal government has the will and the potential to do whatever is necessary to assure its complete control the people.

It is gaining complete control by taking little steps. Prior to the last few years, the steps were spread apart and rather timidly taken. It has been nearly four decades since driver’s licenses, as an example, became required to have pictures on them in Missouri, my state.

Then, between two and three decades later, social security numbers became 'required'. That, of course, was about three decades after the federal government hoaxed the people into believing they must have a social security number which is, to this date, absolutely false.

When I began driving in 1962, one could drive any where one wished without worrying about getting stopped unless one committed a traffic violation or suspected of committing a crime. Then, a law, unconstitutional, of course, was passed giving law enforcement the right to stop anyone they wished with a blanket search warrant, so to speak. The result is citizens are stopped for no reason and checked out.

Soon, your fingerprints will be demanded at spot checks. If you refuse the law persons demanding it, you may be imprisoned up to two years and/or heavily fined. Your fingerprints are part of your body and are protected by Constitutional guaranteed privacy, excepting, of course, fingerprints belonging to the criminal element.

Thus, when you are subjected to fingerprints, guess what - you are being treated as a common criminal without any protection of your rights. You may be thrown on the ground, beat up, belittled, humiliated, and maybe even shot (which would easily be covered up by some warped law enforcement officer planting the necessary ‘evidence’ to prove he was ‘attacked’).

Banks send private information to the government which is also unconstitutional. No person other than those you wish to know, have any right to any information about you, not your full name, your address, your coerced social security number, your date of birth, interest earnings, investments, whether you own or rent your home, where you work, and so on. All of these are privileged information protected by the Constitution; that is, until Congress raped and plundered what was written in the blood and through the souls of our forefathers.

The second amendment is in the Constitution in order that the people always have a means of defense. Defense against criminals, you might think. Not hardly. Our forefathers knew the dangers associated with putting power in the hands of a few.

They knew corruption would be probable if the people didn’t keep constant vigilance over the members of government put in office. They knew the failings of people, that power creates greed and greed creates corruption. Corruption, therefore, was certain unless the people could always defend themselves against the tyranny of a centralized government.

Think about it. The people of the newly formed union of States had just fought a war, a war won because of the people being armed, not because of a well organized army. The people had the means to fight along with the will to win or to die instead of giving up the fight for liberties held dear by them.

Thus, the Second Amendment guarantees the people must always have the right to keep and bear arms in order to protect itself against the federal government, not criminals, which is a secondary benefit.

Of course, as our government now is, there isn’t any difference between government and criminals since the people in government are stealing from us daily and plundering the citizens of the united States of America for over eight decades.

As a point of fact, the government is the original organized crime unit the people of this nation were subjected to (yes, even before mobs). Few of us have thousands stolen every year by burglars and the like but do have it taken unconstitutionally by the federal government.

There are literally dozens of examples of governmental control that is far in excess of the power given the government by the people. Actual government control is very limited as was the intended by our forefathers. Above all else, this nation’s forefathers knew the rights of the individual must be protected. The rights are unalienable and not granted by government but, instead, by our Maker.

The government has never had, nor does it have, the power to interfere with those rights in any way. But, it has interfered; it is interfering; and it will continue to interfere until all rights of the individuals making up this nation are done away with.

Already the majority of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments, have been violated. Many, many articles in the Constitution have been and are being violated by the government. Taxation is so far off base we might as well have a monarch form of government that just comes in and takes what it wants. We do in practice but we call the monarch the Congress of the United States.

One day, Ladies and Gentlemen, we are going to have to face the Abyss and demand what is ours and not the government’s right to take. We must one day demand enforcement of the Constitution and remove all who would have it otherwise, whether it be the President, a member of Congress, or someone in the judicial system. In accomplishing this, we may have to completely replace the current government with the limited government that was intended.

Contrary to what this government is doing concerning welfare and the fraudulent social security system,, it is not your job to support those who don’t and won’t work. It is your right to trade your most valuable property (a Supreme Court ruling), the willingness to trade your labor for an equal amount of goods or money, in order to pursue your happiness. None of your money should go for anything other than that and the duties or imposts or excises placed on the goods you buy for you and your family while pursuing happiness.

You also do not have to take what the government does to your rights. We have legal recourse - it is called the Constitution of the united States of America and its purpose is to protect our rights while limiting government.

With rights, we also have an obligation, though. The obligation is that we also do what is necessary to protect the Constitution. That is our failing - we have not done so.

We have allowed elected people to government, appointed people to government, and those who are wealthy and easily corrupt the corruptible, to get by with removing rights or infringing upon those rights.

The United States is a separate entity (also from Supreme Court rulings) from the united States of America, the union of the 50 states. It is the federal government and its sole territory is the 12 square miles named the District of Columbia. Are we going to have to do as our forefathers did with England, that is, declare ourselves independent of the United States and reform the government?

I don’t know but I do know that what is occurring must be halted and it may be the only way to assure liberty. 537 PEOPLE (along with thousands of supporting people) DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT CONSTITUTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE TO DICTATE WHAT RIGHTS WE MAY EXERCISE NOR THE RIGHT TO INFRINGE UPON THOSE RIGHTS.

Our citizenship in each of our resident states making up the union are protected by the Constitution guaranteeing us we may exercise our rights in our pursuit of happiness as long as we don’t infringe upon the rights of others.

The government must be made to operate the same. It is criminal for the government to infringe upon the rights of the people since it is violating the Constitution and may even be violating criminal codes. Each and every member of Congress voting for, or supporting, any legislation that unconstitutionally affects a right MUST be treated as committing a form of treason against the union of States and the people of this nation.

Impeachment must follow instead of the corrupt political game-playing that goes on with Congress protecting its own instead of protecting the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and all we hold dear in a union designed for liberty.

This is our nation made up of individual states, countries, if you will, joined in a union to aid in the defense of our beliefs. The Union does not belong to the federal government - the federal government exists only because we allow it to exist.

Without the states, the government is nothing. It constitutionally has no other functions other than protecting the Constitution that protects the people, to provide for the common defense, and to assure that all citizens of the states has their rights to liberty protected, their general welfare not interfered with by a Big Brother type totalitarian government.

Be afraid of it (the government) but have the courage to stand up for your rights and jump into the Abyss. Otherwise, resign yourself to living in Nazi America.

Many times have I tried to get articles published concerning what other nations must think of us. Here is a comment to one of my articles read in England. “Generally, you are in serious trouble in America. Unlike us, you have a written constitution, so you don’t have the horror that we face of watching your country turn into a police state without peaceful means of resistance. Even so, your Constitution is being eroded, and unless people like you make a stand, you will not end up any better than we shall.” (Dr. Sean Gabb) Yes, England has many of the same problems as do all supposedly free countries being taken over by their own governments in the endeavor of developing what might be considered a government, maybe even world-wide, enforced by armed agencies, a totalitarian police state (or planet). Hmm, what if the Third Anti-Christ is not an individual but, instead, a group of people?

Be that as it may, right at this moment, we do have a constitution that we might be able to use but the day is not far off that the Constitution will not provide any protection as the government arms its agencies to a greater and greater extent while de-arming the population to a greater and greater extent. The potential of peaceful resolution will soon be gone as dissenters against government expansion will be swatted down like flies should a protest of any nature be made.

As I write, the government is probably monitoring me even though I am essentially a nobody. But, I have written members of Congress many times and usually not in complimentary terms. The government does so regularly to people who write against them.

Now, in order to be more efficient at monitoring home computer users, the government is trying to pass legislation that will allow them to break into your home, go through your computer, put a chip in it, with the result that even allows monitoring of encrypted personal files.

Of course, this is supposedly to tap in on illegal activities but, if the truth be known, the illegal activity the government is concerned with isn’t individuals conducting illegal activities; its concern will be to pinpoint those who may act against the government. It goes along with the government wanting to know who has what weapons, where they go, what they spend their money on, who they correspond with, and so on.

In other words, it is allowing some government spook to violate your home while you aren’t there and do whatever they want in order to monitor your activities. Cameras, computer taps, phone taps, the whole ball of wax because you will never convince me that once government agents are in your home, they will not load it up so as to enable every form of surveillance possible.

Excuse me, but damn it all to hell, it really makes me mad and, if it were in my power, every SOB in Congress who has had even an iota of involvement in any legislation removing or affecting our liberties would be out on the streets on his ass before I get this edited.

I didn’t volunteer for the military to protect crap like the government is shoveling out all over us. Nor do I think the thousands upon thousands who have died in the name of freedom fought to create and/or protected a government intent on totally oppressing the people.

These despicable human beings destroying our rights should be deprived of incomes (why do we have to pay for their retirements when people working hard to make their livings have to provide for their own, especially since government people (Congress) become quite wealthy while serving the needs of their special interest groups?) and of citizenship, meaning the right to vote or have any future involvement in any manner with governing of the people.

They should be tracked for the remainder of their lives with warnings given to any community they happened to live in, sort of along the lines sex offenders are now subjected to.

As far as I am concerned, the very first time any member of Congress did anything to adversely affect the rights of the people, they denounced their citizenship. So, their rights are, from that point on, non-existent, including civil rights and the unalienable rights we know are God-given (at least in this country they raped and marauded) because, surely, their maker also recognizes them for what they are.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please stand up for your constitutional rights in the peaceful fashion alluded to by Dr. Gabb. Don’t allow this nation to get to the point that millions of us must jump into the Abyss not knowing whether we will live in order to re-establish this nation as it was originally intended.

For God’s sake and your own, don’t allow it to get to the point that millions will have to die in order to keep unalienable rights and to prove to the government once and for all time that those liberties must be preserved if Mankind is to progress as a self-actualizing society.

Is that too much to ask or would you rather live as an oppressed peoples whose only function in life is to lend to the wealth of a totalitarian government while serving its every whim?

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