United Liberty

The following was written by Jorge Gonzalez, founder of the 1776 Project, as sort of a new Declaration of Independence. Please read through it carefully and repost if so inclined.

Our nation has seen many grim days from the hopelessness of blood stained snow at Valley Forge to the tarnishing mark of slavery. We have suffered a war between states and endured a foreign power’s brutal attack on December 7, 1941. We have seen towers crash down on our own people on a sunny September morning.

These events and others like them have been causes for mobilization and action. Events that vibrated our collective core and brought forward a mass movement of individuals to rectify the wrongs perpetrated on us by either a foreign power’s incursion or by our own regrettable and pitiful choices as a result of either bad science, bad religion, bad politics or a concoction of the three into a vile and poisonous brew. And while these events have been momentous it is nevertheless true that today we are all witness to a kind of audacity of negligence to the letter of our Constitution and to the rights of free people from a President with a penchant for high minded speech. A President who strokes our backs with a soft, soothing touch with one hand, while with the other hand devising programs, schemes and alliances the likes of which we have never seen in our young republic’s life. And though this President is not exclusively to blame for all the messes we find ourselves in he is nevertheless the one who fans the flames of discontent by taking political advantage of the “crises” at hand. Moreover, this President has the nearly unanimous support of a Congress that is more than happy to pass his and their own schemes with little or no respect to rights of the perceived minority, nor for the rights guaranteed the people by our Constitution. That same minority lacks leadership, vision, and a clear purpose to unite the people of this country against a tide of unilateral disarmament of our rights to economic liberty, social harmony and moral justice.

While you and I struggle to make ends meet, to plan for our families’ futures, to work at our jobs and run our small businesses, while we act like responsible free individuals, our elected representatives in Washington, secure power, wealth and prestige for themselves by selling out our future generations and burdening our children and our children’s children with unprecedented amounts of debt. They sit on capitol hill and lecture us about the dire consequences of not acting now; they force feed us lines about crisis and catastrophe; and they pass legislation that does nothing to address the crisis that they themselves generated. Rather, they use our hard earned dollars, the wealth and security that you and I have generated from acting freely and responsibly, to bail out irresponsible corporate fat cats, and to create a welfare state of a new slavery thereby ensuring their future power through the sive of state dependency.

All the while, you and I are expected to sit idly by watching our daytime soaps and evening game shows while our free nation becomes a slave state of top-down governance and the god-state of socialism.

Thomas Jefferson said of government that “a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…” And so the cause of our first revolution was a band of free thinking and free willed individuals sick and tired of taxation without representation, of a government that took from them the fruits of their labor and of a despotic government who ruled by shear fiat with concern neither for the will of the people nor for the letter of the law. Let me ask you this, are things much different now?

• They do not listen to our will, but pass legislation without so much as even reading what they vote for,
• They do not heed our concerns about runaway spending, instead they lecture us about the common good,
• They do not follow the letter of the Constitution that our founders fought and bled for, instead they make overtures to our forebear’s vision and yet they have no intention of restoring our nation’s founding vision,
• They involve us in foreign wars without doing their due diligence as to what strategy will minimize the loss of young American blood while maximizing the efficiency of our forces,
• They involve us in treaties and alliances that neither serve us nor follow the provisions set out in our Constitution,
  • The Supreme Court has taken to justifying decisions by appeals to foreign law when in fact it is our the law, our Constitution by which their decisions should be governed,
• They do not secure our borders, but instead allow an unending flood of immigrants to access our social programs thus decreasing the availability to our own citizens, the ones who these programs are meant to uplift,
  • They allow, by way of 527 organizations and non-profit agencies aligned with politicians, illegal immigrants to vote in our national elections because they do not allow us to pass laws that would require state issued identification as proof of citizenship and then label those of us who would like to see our elections conducted in a free and fair manner by way of these forms of identification as racists and bigots of the worst sort,
• They fund and shore up a hidden holocaust of the unborn with our tax dollars both here and abroad and in so doing make us all culpable for what is at worst the violation of civil rights and murder of the most weak and fragile among us and at best a gross misallocation and misuse of taxpayer dollars,
• They allocate and spend more money per child on education than any other industrialized nation and we get nothing short of mediocre results, government indoctrination and a populous wholly unprepared to live as free and productive citizens,
  • They refuse to allow the citizens of this country a choice in whether to send their children to private schools or parochial schools by using public funds (the same public funds that force us to send our children to these failing schools) in order to keep the support of unionized teachers. All the while these same politicians, our President included, use their power, prestige and monies gained therefrom to send their children to the same schools that the rest of the general population has little, limited or no access to because of money - money the general population would otherwise have if the politicians would just but allow us to have a voucher program,
• They force us to pay into a retirement program that is not only the most vile and vicious of ponzi schemes ever perpetrated on us but it is a program who’s benefits are not guaranteed to current generations now footing the bill,
• They force us to pay into a medical program that is an abject failure, costs more than its private counterparts and brings little relief to the elderly who need it most,
• They use powers neither granted them by us nor by the Constitution to reward their constituencies with treasure seized from other more unimportant constituencies in exchange for votes, re-election and thus more power,
• They promise us change and only give us more of the same political pap,
• They pass legislation that limits our freedom of speech during the most important time in our political process — election season — in order to increase the chances that incumbents will hold their seats,
• They demonize our businessmen for making a profit all the while they run up record deficits and in-debt us to foreign powers for generations to come,
  • They take over private corporations at the expense of tax payers in order to keep their unionized constituencies employed and thus guaranteeing themselves donations, election time volunteers, votes and more power.
  • They force shareholders and lenders to release the politician’s favorite corporations from their debts in order to curry favor with their union constituencies and they then demonize some of those firms for refusing to release that corporation from secured debt and from the contracts that business entered into.
  • They create unfair competitive environments by shoring up failed corporations with tax payer dollars and so would force consumers to purchase items they neither want or need because comparable items made by private, non-government held companies, are too expensive because those companies cannot operate at the level the government operates at. After all, our federal government operates everything at a grotesque loss, why would they run their new found pet corporations any differently?
• They create a tax code that favors the most unproductive among us while penalizing those of us who have used what freedom we have to be prosperous and enhance not only our lives but the lives of our families and communities as well,
• They now want to force us into a health plan mandated and run by them - an archipelago of medical gulags - therefore blatantly violating the 4th amendment of our Constitution while also interjecting themselves into one of the most private relationships a citizen can have: a patient and there doctor,
• They pass laws and new programs that have far reaching effects without first going through the process of adding amendments to our Constitution because they know that most of their pet projects would not get the support necessary to amend our Constitution. In so doing they not only quash our voice as members of our individual states but they violate the 10th amendment of the Constitution in a brazen act of defiance of the provisions set forth therein,
• They claim to fight for the rights of the little guy and the poor and so offer these segments of our society a never ending torrent of government programs and money; money that is seized from the private sector - the only sector that is capable of producing real wealth and lifting the impoverished out of their current states - and then distribute that among a population hungry to make ends meet, and yet such redistribution has little effect on the people it is intended to help. Instead, these Americans languish and are left in a whirlpool of social injustice at the behest of the government and not private industry,
• They pass legislation that puts undue stress on private industry via carbon offsets all in the name of fighting climate change. A program that amounts to nothing more than government held indulgences for corporations much the same as the Catholic Church did in Medieval times only rather than buying indulgences to sin against God we now buy indulgences to sin against the environment. It is a piece of legislation that will raise the cost of energy for those of us who do not qualify for the handouts that will inevitably be a result of such a monstrous piece of political maneuvering. All the while these politicians know that such legislation does nothing to fight their concocted crises of climate but only serves as yet another way to:
  • receive more tax revenue as a result of carbon offset purchasing and trading
  • it provides another redistributionist program to bolster their power with their constituents.

Our elected officials have learned that they need not fear us. They have come to believe that we are weak minded, malleable and easily mollified. They know the power they wield over the electorate and so, they do not fear us. Come election season all they need do is damn the Constitution and its provisions and simply promise to take treasure from one class of citizens and give it to another and so they ensure their continued stay as slave masters while the rest of us work the plantation to make sure the politician has the tax dollars to make good on his promises.

And so, as independent Americans, we must declare not just by writing letters to the same politicians who would change positions to assuage their compatriots in their respective houses or executive quarters, nor just by showing up at the ballot box to cast our votes but through action. Action that puts us at risk of arrest and prosecution. Social disobedience is right and proper when those who lord over us change the laws at a whim to satisfy their constituencies and triangulate their positions with votes and non-votes to garner support with whoever has the money and donations to keep them in power. Our founders put everything on the line; their lives, families, fortunes to disobey despots and to bring about real change and real revolution. Why are we so unwilling to follow suit? While calling on the spirit of the founders we seek to bolster our arguments with their authority and careful thoughts on our system of government, and yet, when the time comes to stop merely voting and start acting we shrink in the face of our convictions because we have become complacent and comfortable. In Iran we recently saw thousands take to the streets and demand their right to a free and fair election and they did so without permits to protest and in the face of a violent regime that used the power of the bullet to quell the gathered protesters. In our country we have similar restrictions on protest. We cannot gather, whether peacefully or otherwise, to protest the actions of a few individuals whose votes have multi-generational effects without first having permits. As independent men and women our first act of disobedience should be to gather without first seeking their permission and we should gather in places near and dear to the hearts of these thieves and manipulators. Tyranny is not stifled and eliminated through the ballot box alone for the tyrants themselves can manipulate those outcomes to fall in their favor. No, tyranny and despotism are dealt with directly, and together we must cease making excuses and righteous overtures to our “system” and act like those in Iran have acted and continue to act, act like those who took part in the Velvet Revolution of 1989, act like those who stood in Tiananmen Square in opposition to the one party rule of the Communist state, act like those who fought and died at the Bay of Pigs, act like those who have, through the centuries, forsaken their comfort and become the freest of men and woman through their protest, resistance and revolution, and to act like those men in 1776 who defied the world’s most powerful empire and became vessels of real change.

The Declaration of Independence said that “…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 abolish it, and to institute a new Government.” It is my belief that the government we have today has grossly overstepped its bounds. In his first inaugural address Thomas Jefferson spoke about the role of Government in protecting the rights of the minority now out of power: “…that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” We are clearly in the voting minority and yet our rights are trampled, our Constitutional guarantees are ignored, our right to live as free men and women - unburdened by the chains of serfdom that would inevitably be our lot - are dismissed because our numbers are perceived as insignificant to the ruling class and so our votes are not necessary to their re-election. This is oppression of the worst sort - it is not one of direct persecution and internment but it is one that is akin to death by a thousand cuts. Little by little they take more and more from us. They do this through slight of hand and through silver tongued promises of change, hope, belief and other vaporous notions that appeal to the populist whims of the masses; masses so blinded by the cult of personality that they are incapable of seeing their freedoms to will, to act, to produce being shattered right in front of them even as they receive their dwindling paychecks on Friday afternoons or get their diploma of graduation after taking tens of thousands of dollars in federal loans whose payments must be made lest the bureaucrats garnish our wages and enter our workforce already at a disadvantage and that disadvantage is worsened by state mandated taxes, regulations and impositions. It is our young people who unknowingly bear the brunt of this political pollution. No, our rights as the alleged minority are stifled even in the most direct ways by our President who when presented with ideas and policies from the opposition party that would lessen the burdens of his far reaching and Un-Constitutional agenda he simply responded “I won” and so damned our rights with his perception of political power and capital and threw out any semblance of reasonability and partisan temperance.

While we may be called reactionaries by those on the left let us be clear and steadfast. We are the revolutionaries and patriots of this country. We seek not to transform our nation into a reflection of our European counterparts but instead to keep the yoke of European political influence and tradition from affecting us with its gentle despotism through the manufacture of a complacent populace. We seek to retain the spirit of a revolution that brought the world its greatest hope, its last hope and to retain that spirit in the face of an insurgency from individuals who are neither patriots and nor,dare I say, American. For there is nothing American about remaking this nation in the image of any ideology that is completely inconsistent with anything our founders portended or becoming only a fragment of ourselves in order to fit into what the rest of the world, with its despots, tyrants and populist agitators would like us to be. And so I ask you, each of you who see liberty, independence and freedom as the highest of moral values to help organize this revolution. To join together and be as one united voice in the face of this new tyranny, soft as it may be but tyranny nonetheless and march on Washington, to clog the very arteries of political industry and shut down this new pollution with our locked arms and massive numbers, to let them know we we are not malleable, we are not easily mollified and we do not fear them, to show them we are silent no more, to let them know in no uncertain terms that we will not be their slaves, that we will not spend our limited time on this earth producing and laboring for them, and that we refuse to stand by while they wreck our lives, our liberty and our country. There comes a time in every generation when it becomes necessary to throw off systems imposed on us by men and women of power and prestige, whereby we make for ourselves a future that does not reek of their vile machinations and schemes but one where we really do have the power and where the guardians of our freedoms stand as loyal and righteous sentries over those things which are most precious to us.

If there is any among you who would be willing to help organize and to carry on the spirit of our founders and of freedom, please let it be known here and by joining the revolution at www.the1776project.com.