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Meditations on the Declaration

We recently stood on the steps of our courthouse, on the 4th of July to be precise, and as a family did something we do each year — we read the Declaration of Independence out loud. We didn’t have a band, we didn’t have a crowd, but we should have. Maybe next year.

Each year, as I read that document, a different phrase will hit my ears, and I’ll cogitate on it for days to come, sometimes weeks. The words that are still ringing in my ears today are, “…{I]t is the right of the People to alter or abolish it.”

“To alter or abolish it.” If you haven’t read it recently, I exhort you to go back and read that second paragraph of the Declaration, and then meditate on it for a few days.

There may be someone who reads this little essay and is not aware, or does not agree that the Republic known as the United States of America is dead. The country that we grew up in, unless you are too young to vote, is not the country we see around us today. I honestly do not recognize this country — even though it looks much the same. Something has changed so fundamentally that it’s like some grade B sci-fi movie where some guy gets a brain transplant, and his wife sees him, but doesn’t know who he is any more.

Not only is it dead, but I believe it cannot be revived.

If grassroots political activity could change this country, it would have already happened. For the past sixty years, informed and patriotic constitutionalists have been trying to do just that. They’ve tried reforming both the major political parties. They’ve tried third parties. They’ve tried running as Independents. They have rocked the boat nicely, but the leeches who run this country, without a thought in their heads for constitutional liberty, with every thought for maintaining and increasing their political power base, are not going to let go of power sweetly. Conservatives, for example, have captured the platform committees in many states, and rewritten those platforms into marvelous documents that sound like the Founding Fathers themselves wrote them. Toward what end? Toward the end that the self-gratifying leeches in expensive suits have adapted new language in their electioneering rhetoric, and just keep right on voting for unconstitutional legislation as if no platform existed. That’s because the platform committees are a bone for malcontents to chew on, while the Party Elites who wield the real power can carry on with their regimes.

One alternative is to pray. You hear that all the time. It’s not that I don’t believe in miracles, or in answers to prayers, such as the famous Bible verse, “If my People, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and repent of their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” I don’t doubt that such a thing COULD happen, but I don’t see enough people in this country interested in doing that for it to come to pass.

What other alternative do we have? We could resort to arms and attempt to overthrow the government. But with the caliber of men (and women!) whom we have elected today, what makes us think that enough God-fearing, righteous people with any understanding of sound principles of Liberty, and with any comprehension of the root causes of our failure, could be found to replace them? These weevils are so nefarious that, as soon as the revolution begins to look successful, most of them will change sides and claim, “I was with you from the beginning.” Those guys need to hand from lamp posts in every city, but we don’t have what it takes to do something like that. That alternative is simply not viable. Yet.

(And, as a corollary to that scenario, we need to remember that a popular revolution without a legitimate plan to replace the tyranny with constitutional liberty, can easily degenerate into another French Revolution. Allors! The current tyrants may need killing, but the Committees of Public Safety are not likely to be any better!)

What else might we try? I’m done with writing letters to my Congressman. I’m done with the political process, although some charismatic leader may come along and sweep the field yet. We can pray toward that end. I’m not yet ready to take up arms, even though it appeals deeply.

If it is my right to alter or to abolish this government, how do we go about it? You satisfactorily answer that question, and I’ll not only make it worth your time, I’ll follow you in your efforts to make it happen.

If you are blessed and trained with a military mind, the Objective is to return to a free and sovereign Republic, under constitutional law, very limited in its powers, with the People being largely free to pursue their Lives, their Liberties, and their Happiness.

For now, just:

  • think about the phrase, It is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it
  • read and study the Declaration,
  • read and study your Bible,
  • and tell me what you come up with.

From the Objective, we move to a Strategy. That is what the American People are beginning to want in large numbers. From the Strategy, many Tactics will develop spontaneously, believe me.

© Daniel D. New, Permission to copy, with credits, is hereby granted.-

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