Posted on 11/16/2001 1:22:57 PM PST by shuckmaster
H. L. Mencken once observed that "The average man doesn’t want to be free. He wants to be safe." To be "safe" these days, one must keep his mouth shut and avoid criticism of Washington’s handling of the present crisis. However, there are those who apparently value their First Amendment right to speak truth to power enough to risk being branded a "domestic terrorist" by the imperial regime. Among those few who have dared question the federal government’s actions since 11 September, there have developed at least two schools of thought. First, there is the line that says the government had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks and allowed them to happen in order to emasculate the Constitution and Bill of Rights. This group subscribes to Frederic Bastiat’s (a nineteenth-century French political economist) belief that governments seek to increase their power by "creating the poison and the antidote in the same laboratory;" thus, government either creates or exacerbates problems which then require statist "solutions." The U. S. government’s ultimate objective, according to this line of thought, is to use "terrorism" to disarm the citizenry and to empower the New World Order at the expense of American national sovereignty.
Second, there is the school that posits that the government’s actions since 9-11 reveal that the Empire, beset all around by fear and confusion, is actually crumbling before our eyes. All that it does in response to the crisis is done in a desperate attempt to hold on to its dwindling power.
I do not know which—if either—of these scenarios is accurate. However, one thing is beyond doubt, and that is the imperial regime in Washington has taken advantage of the situation to assume powers that the Founders never intended for it to possess. By forcing through Congress H. R. 3162 (the misnamed U. S. A. Patriot Act of 2001), sight unseen before the vote by our esteemed Solons, according to Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) and others, the Feds have put in place a blueprint for a police state. And remember, these folks don’t bother to pass laws that they don’t intend to enforce against someone.
All the while, the lapdog national media have provided propaganda cover for the regime’s power-grab. The great majority of the American people—including many Southerners—have succumbed to a mania of blind "patriotism" (i.e. "nationalism") as is evidenced by the millions of federal flags now adorning their vehicles and domiciles. Little do they realize that our blood-bought liberty is being sacrificed in the name of liberty’s defense.
As Southerners who advocate the rule of law, how are we to respond to this latest (and perhaps most serious) federal usurpation of our Constitutional rights? In my opinion, we must start by using our State governments (the lesser magistrates), as corrupt and supine as they are, to impose a barrier between the imperial regime’s tyrannical acts and their own citizens. To do this, we must insist that our governors, legislatures, and attorneys general employ the doctrines of Nullification and Interposition. We should demand that they fulfill their oaths of office and act immediately to adopt ordinances nullifying the operation and execution of H. R. 3162 within the borders of our sovereign States. Moreover, we must insist that our State officials resist all federal attempts to enforce its provisions via the arrest of federal agents.
We must also demand that the chief law enforcement officers in our States file suit against the federal government, challenging the unconstitutional provisions of H. R. 3162 and other usurpations of our rights. Any State officials who ignore our redress of grievances and refuse to protect their citizens against this encroaching tyranny should be subjected to recall and/or hounded mercilessly in every public venue open to us.
The Beast on the Potomac is finally revealing its true nature. We thus live in extremely dangerous times. Therefore, we can act as sheep and blindly follow the dictates of our "leaders," or we can be lions in defense of our God-given liberties. As for The League of the South, we choose to follow the latter course. We will, with God’s help, live as free men and women and will never consent to wear the chains of servitude that the illicit regime in Washington is now forging for us. As our ancestors were wont to say, "Sic Semper Tyrannis!"
Michael Hill
President
The League of the South
You have to act like a Southerner...which means resisting tyranny and historical revisionism. Plus, you have to bookmark Shuckmaster's site and memorize everything in it. LOL.
Well hey howdy the, I reckon' I fit the category well enough. :)
Sad to say, but I've always considered myself a free man, a sovereign citizen of a free nation, in control of my own destiny and answerable to nobody or nothing except the rewards or consequences of my own actions. Now I find that the nation is becoming polarized into two distinct camps, and that soon we will all have to choose sides. Sure, the FedGov will whine and moan how we should all stay unified, but what are they doing to insure this? Are they *not* turning our nation into a police state? Are they telling us all to arm ourselves and start preparing for our duty as the citizen soldiers we all are, to defend our nation and show our self reliance? No, they are telling us to depend on them, don't question their acts no matter how heinous and un-Constitutional, and to go shopping. Weee.
Since you were born in North Carolina, you're a citizen of that state no matter where you reside unless you renounce that citizenship. Therefore, you're one of us. From your post, you're obviously a Southerner. Good to cyber-meet you.
Well shuck my jive and call me corn pone! Nice to be home again. :)
I've no recollection or renouncing anything, so I suppose that I'm in. Nice to meet you as well. BTW, how is the sentiment where you live for what is happening (I assume you still reside in the South)? Just curious.
Notice how whopping many responses this thing got? Speaks volumes, huh?
Bow down and lick the boots of your masters if you like. Just don't presume to criticize those of us who walk what you only pretend to talk.
What government of the world is not mixed with the world? Jesus even said that the tares will be left to grow with the wheat until the end. There are those in government that believe deeply in Christ and are working hard to pass legislation that reflects the heart of God. Are those the tyrants? Is GW the chief of tyrants?
You claim that you have no king but Jesus, which is good. Yet God gave man civil government, and instructed us to submit to civil government. Are you saying that you are a government unto yourself and you are not obligated to follow the rules established by that civil government?
Are you telling me that a government which seeks to thwart the plans of evil doers by listening in on the conversations of those evil doers is a loss of your personal freedoms. What... Do you think they want to listen in on your conversations and document your complaining? I think not.
Lick the boots of who? Come now, was that really called for? Is that a Christ-like attitude?
EXACTLY.
(and so can the rest of the world.)
fall in line; fall in line!
"Although the Confederacy as an organization may have ceased to exist, the fundamental principles, the eternal truths, uttered when our colonies in 1776 declared their independence, on which the Confederation of 1781 and the Union of 1788 were formed, and which animated and guided the Confederacy of 1861, yet live, and in God’s appointed time and place, will prevail." –-Jefferson Davis
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