America’s Destiny Still in the Hands of the
People
By JB
Williams
For more than a decade before the outbreak of American
violence, tensions had been building between citizens of all races, creeds and
color, and their federal authorities. Attempts by the federal government to
raise revenue to pay for their mindless over-spending by legalizing illegal
immigration, seizing control of all major private industry sectors and
demonizing all dissenters as “potential terrorists,” threatening national
sovereignty and security, met with heated protests among many citizens, who
resented their lack of representation in Washington DC.
They demanded the same inalienable rights guaranteed them
in their US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Despite many efforts to avoid
violence by challenging the unconstitutional acts of the federal government in a
corrupted judiciary and congress, citizen resistance eventually turned to
violence, when federal troops opened fire on a mob of angry citizens, killing
five protesters.
Although I adapted the above story to meet today’s
circumstances, I originally copied most of the story from the historical account
of the lead up to the first American Revolution. I did so to demonstrate that we have been here before…
in the years 1775-1783, our Founding Fathers seized control of America’s
destiny.
In 1775, it was the British government which had become
tyrannical towards American citizens. Today, it is our own federal government
which acts against the American people, beyond constitutional authority. Then,
it was largely over taxation without representation. Today, the federal acts
against freedom, liberty and all inalienable rights are far more egregious.
Yet, the future will once again be decided by the people,
not the tyrants.
After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians
boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an
outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or
Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts. The
British were coming…They intended to use superior military might to enforce
their agenda.
But the British had greatly underestimated our
forefathers determination to live free from tyranny.
Not much has changed since 1775. Once again we face
tyrannical rulers. Once again, they clearly intend to use military might to
force their anti-American agenda upon the citizens of the United States, and
once again, they have grossly underestimated the will of the American people to
live peacefully in freedom.
No, this is not the first time Americans have faced
government tyranny on our own soil. It is in the nature of all forms of
government to eventually grow to a point at which it believes it has total
autonomy and immunity from the people they are sworn to serve. History does
indeed repeat itself, over and over again.
As Thomas Jefferson warned – “A government big enough to give you
everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you
have.” Such is the case in America circa 2013. Our government of, by and for
the people, is ignoring the people, even claiming that no citizen even has the
standing to dare question the legitimacy or authority of a government allegedly
of, by and for the people.
As our Founders stated in the Declaration of
Independence – “We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and
Happiness.”
The only difference between 1775 and 2013 is that there
was no Declaration of
Independence yet, no US Constitution and no Bill of Rights in 1775. These documents combined, our Charters of Freedom, are the foundation of the government formed of the
people, by the people and for the people of the United
States.
“whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect
their Safety and Happiness.”
We do not need to reinvent the foundations for freedom
and liberty. We simply need to restore our government to these foundations to
secure the proper destiny for America. Our task is much easier than that of our
forefathers. We don’t need to create anything. It was created for us a long time
ago and it was created so that we, many generations later, would know the road
home from a dark place in history in which the American people must once again,
demand freedom and accept no less.
The Founders knew that this moment would come, that good
and decent citizens would use force as a last resort, only when left with no
other alternative.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed.”
Yet, a day would come… a moment would
arrive.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security.”
No… The future of America is not in the hands of a few
despotic politicians who have forgotten from which all government authority is
derived, the people. Our destiny is in our hands… just as it was in the hands of
our forefathers not all that long ago.
Though many may feel helpless, they are not. Though many
may feel the battle is futile, it is not. Though many may fear the odds, the
odds are with the people, who outnumber the tyrants 300 million to less than a
thousand.
To be certain, America is in its worst condition since
1775, in every respect. But we have been here before. We know what to do. The
road home was paved by those who came before us. There is no guess work here.
The way home, to freedom and liberty, was given to us over two-hundred years
ago. All we have to do is follow the path forged for just this moment in
history.
America’s future will be determined by the American
people. That’s the good news… The bad news is that this means, the buck stops
with us. If America does not realize its constitutional destiny, it will not be
the fault of a few corrupt politicians, it will be our
fault.
Our forefathers had the will, the determination and the
courage to live free at any cost. Do we?
Thanks to those forefathers and all who have sacrificed
for freedom and liberty since, we need not abolish anything. We need only alter
our current form of government, removing from it the despots who have turned
away from our constitutional republican form to a despotic democracy in which
they believe that 51% of the voters have the right and authority to run
roughshod over the other 49%.
Article IV – Section IV of the US Constitution reads in
part – “The United States shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect
each of them against Invasion;”
Yet today, our federal government thinks it is a despotic
democracy, free to invade the states and infringe upon both states and
individual rights at will. This alone is a direct violation of the US
Constitution and the form of government guaranteed to every state and every
citizen.
As our federal government received all power from the
people, it has no authority to act at odds with the people and every legal
American citizen has the legal standing to call them out on it, according to the
constitution.
There can be no doubt about what the American people must
do. Only two questions remain…
1.
How will they do
it?
2.
Will they have the courage to do
it?
If the judicial branch no longer operates under its
constitutional authority, it must come down. If the executive branch no longer
operates within its constitutional authority, it must come down. If the
legislative branch no longer provides constitutional oversight of the other two
branches, it too must come down.
Because our forefathers did it right, we can do this
peacefully, if only we have the good sense and courage to do so. If we do not,
eventually, our government will force us to internal war. They will fire the
first shot.
America’s future will be decided by the American people.
How long will they wait, what are they willing to endure, before they make that
decision?
Evil can prevail only when good people do nothing to stop
it. We must simply act constitutionally, peacefully and united. If we do, then
the evil we face today is no match. If we don’t, then we will be responsible for
forfeiting our destiny. It’s all up to us!
As I write this piece, the US Supreme Court has issued a
wholly unconstitutional ruling against DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) in favor
of a homosexual’s right to alter the definition of marriage which dates back to
biblical times. They refused to even weigh in on a statewide mandate of, by and
for the people outlawing homosexual marriage in California. In other words, they
acted as a despotic nine member oligarchy of unaccountable rulers, rather than a
high court guided by constitutional law.
Where does the US Constitution give nine unelected and
unaccountable political tools of the Oval Office such massive power? The court
has no such power.
Co-Founder
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JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics
with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a
decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women
who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented
real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a
father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He is co-founder of action
organizations The
United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The
Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The
North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and
activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles.
Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
