Once upon a time, there was a group of small, struggling, newly-freed nations that decided their wartime alliance should be made stronger and closer, and more enduring.

They created an organization to be, in essence, the small nation’s employee to coordinate and help them do together what would be very difficult to do separately.  A bit more than two centuries later, that organization has become a monster, one-by-one stealing the liberties, the freedoms, the very identity of those first few nations and the many others that joined them.  One by one, while paying lip service to those liberties, it steals them away, turning the nations which it was supposed to serve and protect into its own arms of oppression and tyranny, and turning their citizens into slaves.  Slaves having the appearance of free men and women, but constantly robbed, monitored, regulated, controlled, and treated like felons, whose every move is increasingly watched and limited for their own ‘good’ and ‘freedom.’

This quote was one sent in a regular subscription, for today, 8 May 2013:

“[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms …. And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard.”
— Daniel D. Polsby (1945-) Dean of the Law School and Professor of Law at George Mason University (Source: Treating the Second Amendment Like Normal Constitutional Law, REASON, March 1996, at 36.)

He wrote these words in 1996, apparently never dreaming that less than a generation later, an American administrator would be openly stating that free exercise of religion (such as telling someone else in uniform about your faith) would be considered an “act of terrorism” and a form of “mental rape,” which should be prevented or punished by court-martial.  Nor that in true Soviet-style, mental health treatments and evaluations, unsupported by second opinions or any other control, would be grounds for stealing weapons from law-abiding and peaceful people who had (mistakenly, it seems) served their nation to protect those very freedoms.

A recent editorial in a European newspaper asked why the good people of Spain did not revolt, with six million of them unemployed, with taxes and spending and borrowing by their supposed “democratic” government climbing higher and higher, with the rest of Europe demanding more and more to punish the people, whose greatest crime seems to be that they let their government run amuck, for the evils that government committed against those very people.

My question, which I ask more and more, is why the good people of those fifty small nations which once banded together to voluntarily cooperate and make liberty and prosperity a reality for the people of those nations, why THEY do not revolt.  Not just against the rogue employee of the small nations, but against the petty and daily tyranny of their individual governments and the governments in those fifty states.  Is it not time to admit that a ghastly mistake was made and that enough is enough, that the system has failed after 226 years, and that it must be either restored (completely and in one move, and not “reformed” a part at a time) or put in its grave and replaced by a new system protecting the liberties of the people and the freedom of their societies and economies – recognizing that government, like those other institutions such as slavery and state churches (and human sacrifice and absolute monarchies and empires), that are so evil in their ends AND means as to be repugnant to all civilized peoples.

But instead of rebellion, we get horror.  None of these ancient evils have been done away with.  Slavery exists even in our own land: not just the slavery of taxation and prison industries and government-run education, but actual slavery in the harem and the home and workshop – ignored by government.  Absolute monarchies still rule much of the world: some hereditary but most elective.  Empires, in effect if not title, still exercise their power: whether the “Russian Republic” or the “People’s Republic of China” or the “French Community” or the “European Union” or the far-flung “defense forces” of the United States.  State churches now promote the doctrines of humanism and evolution and political correctness, failure to accept such punished as vigorously as theological heresy once was.  And human sacrifice continues and even grows; in our land alone more than one in every three hundred people is killed in bizarre ritual every year.

Yet not even one in three Americans is willing (according to polls) to say that rebellion or revolution may be necessary.  Only a minority of Americans are armed – and far fewer are willing to take up those arms in the cause of liberty for themselves and others.  And too many have been sucked into the trap that military service for the greatest empire in world history is “defending our liberty.”

Is it not time to simply say, “No, I won’t” and when someone TRIES to make you do it, take up your weapon to defend your family, your business, your employees, your livelihood and even your own life against those who do not themselves carry weapons (or other tools of tyranny) but still threaten you with those things and will gladly deploy petty or not so petty criminals in the guise of servants of the law and the people WITH weapons to force you to submit to MORE chains of slavery?

Until the time is right and defense – armed defense – is upon us, we must pray to Almighty God for His blessings of liberty to be restored to this land, and prepare ourselves to take advantage of the opportunity which He WILL provide.