The Second Amendment

The Second Amendment

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The Second Amendment is a single sentence and a simple one at that. So, why are so many people and politicians unclear on what it says? A lot of politicians would rather you didn’t know and their useful idiot supporters are all too eager to spout off all kinds of nonsense to muddy the water. Perhaps some people really don’t know though so, here is a brief word by word breakdown of what the Second Amendment says and means.

Well Regulated: predictable, working, practiced, equipped, ready

Militia: volunteer unpaid civilians 18 year or older who equip and train themselves (not military, that is different and separately covered under article 1)

Necessary: required, something that you must have

Security: to guard, to keep safe from harm and to be ready to do so, to possess a state of being

Free State: a people not governed by force but by their own personal responsibility that is an integral part of liberty, not a police state

“,” : Very important! A comma in a sentence distinguishes two separate thoughts that are a part of a whole. In this case the comma separates the reason for the right from the declaration of the right and the protection provided for it.

Right: pre-existing condition bestowed by God

The People: everybody, not limited to police, or military, or even just the volunteer militia,

To Keep: to permanently posses, to own

Bear: to carry, to have with you on your person, to have in hand

Arms: any means of defense, Examples include but are not limited to guns, knives, swords, clubs, bows, spears, axes, etc.

Shall Not: legal imperative phrase commanding that no action be taken

Infringed: to impose upon, to violate boundary, to impair, or make difficult

Paraphrased right: Because we do not live in a police state but each have the personal responsibility to maintain our own liberty and care for ourselves and others independently, no-one is allowed to prevent us from owning, possessing, and carrying on our person any means necessary to remain alive and free.

The Second Amendment is not about hunting or any kind of sport or collectors hobby.  It is the lifeblood of liberty. Exercise your right today and keep freedom alive for tomorrow.

Self Governance

Self Governance

A little over two centuries ago, the founding fathers of the Unites States of America championed an ideal that founded the greatest nation on Earth. They dared to declare themselves not only independent from a king in a distant land, but to insist that the people would govern for themselves. The total corruption of all three branches of our government, it’s recent abandonment of our constitution, and complete lack of integrity our nation’s highest court have called that ideal back into question for some.

People absolutely are capable of self governance... within the framework of a constitutional republic which is rule by law and by a people who adhere to basic moral standards. John Adams, second president of the United States, was asked what kind of constitution we had. His reply was that, “the Constitution for the United States was written for a moral and upright people and is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other”. That is what makes self governance work. As a constitutional republic of “moral and upright people”, the United States was the world's most successful self governing nation for a couple of centuries. We managed to remain free, save large portions of the rest of the world from tyranny, achieve the highest standard of living in the world, the highest levels of technology, and we were the world’s lone economic and military superpower.

Anyone upset about the use of past tense in that last paragraph needs to stop and take a candid look around you. We are not the moral nation we once were and we are paying the price for abandoning our founding principles. The lie of democracy has taken root in the immorality of hedonism. “If it feels good do it” has translated into “if you want it vote for it” no matter whether it is wrong or unconstitutional or violates the very founding principles of our nation. That is the difference between a functioning constitutional republic and the free-for-all lawlessness of a democracy.

Under the lawlessness that is the mob mentality of a democracy, nothing long will stand. This ultimately immoral system of rule by influenced popular whims has now led to an oligarchy here. The imposing authorities push the buttons of useful idiots to sway popular opinions and thus gain excuse to impose any tyranny that the latest “crisis” is manufactured to obtain.

Economically, this has resulted in limitless government spending asked for and or allowed by a public that has traded its self sufficient heritage for dependent expectation on a government that simply isn’t capable of meeting its needs. We have witnessed an exponential explosion of debt that is 16 trillion and climbing. That is more than the annual GDP of the entire United States. Additionally, the strain to comply with the unconstitutional reach of government regulations in private business has resulted in an economic climate that is openly hostile to new businesses which are the life blood of our economy.

On the moral front, this means nothing less than the loss of our most cherished freedoms. Chaplains in the military are being barred from public prayer in violation of the first amendment’s protection against any such prohibition. Groups of people must gain approval and even pay for permission to exercise their first amendment right to “peaceably assemble to petition their government for a redress of grievances” in the nation’s capitol. Gun owners are vilified by the attorney general and his boss the Marxist in chief who both swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend not just the second amendment, but the entire Constitution for the United States. The TSA and DHS, America’s version of the Nazi Gestapo and SS, violate people’s fourth amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure and that without a warrant on a daily basis. The latest National Defense Authorization act contains a provision that violates rights to legal counsel, trial by jury, and excessive bail. Now, the government that used to be “of the people” is employing military grade drones to spy on us from the sky.

Freedom has quietly died.

To be self governing you first have to have and adhere to moral and upright principles. Sadly, most people just don’t have those any more. It isn’t the practice of self governance that has failed. It is the abandonment of the principles of that system that has failed.

Go back and read the history of how kings, dictators, and tyrants have subjugated whole nations of people and killed millions. Maybe you weren’t taught that kind of vitally important history in school. The government has stripped so much of what we once were from our education system. Do it on your own. No one else can learn it for you. Read again about the United States own humble beginnings, our Declaration of Independence based on the firm reliance on the divine providence of our Creator God, the Constitution for the United States, and the Bill of Rights. Read the Bible. Grow a spine and stand for what is right. It is the only way self governance works.

Happy Depend… “Independence” Day

Happy Depend… “Independence” Day

from the Department of Homeland Security

236 years ago right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., a few disloyal colonist declared their independence from the crown. It took a couple of centuries, but the people living in the land formerly known as the land of the free and the home of the brave are once again compliant subjects of distant, unelected, unlimited, unrepresentative authority!

Think I’m kidding? Read the government’s own report. Here is a PDF of a DHS study done just this year in January 2012. http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf

In case you don’t feel like downloading it right now, just take a few seconds to read a couple of quick quotes from the report here that detail who the DHS considers a suspected terrorist.

“Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism-United States report compiled by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism”

“Extreme Right-Wing: groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”

The report also list definitions for “Extreme Left-Wing”, “Religious, Ethno-Nationalist/Separatists”, and “Single Issue” groups. Go check out the report if you think any of those might apply to you.

Here is the real kicker. Look back up at that quote above. The word they used to describe what that group does was “believe”. “Believe”, not “commit” or “act” or any other word that would convey action. A belief is just a thought! You don’t have to do anything now to be considered a terrorist. Bottom line is that the federal government sees you not as a citizen who is innocent until proven guilty, but as a potential terrorist and they treat you like that too. If you doubt that, just try taking a leisurely stroll through an airport terminal without submitting to having your 4th amendment right not to be searched or seized without reasonable cause violated. They don’t care about your constitutional rights.

Can you imagine Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or George Washington letting a TSA agent grab their crotch and demand that they sit there and take while they are searched without consent even though they did nothing wrong? Hell no! They were the DHS definition of “Extreme Right-Wing Terrorist”.

But wait there’s more! Last week the Supreme Court created an excuse for the federal government to force you to do anything they want and make you pay for it to boot. All they have to do is use the magic word “tax” when they really mean “mandate. So says the great and all powerful Chief Justice Judas Roberts. See my last post below for more on that bit of lawless tyranny.

Today, the federal government does not have to enforce or bother to even give feigning respect for your constitutional rights and they can force you to do pretty much anything they want you to do as long as they call it a “tax”. Are you a little overweight? A new gym tax could be in your future. Like a beer with you pizza? You may just qualify for a new HHS alcohol consumption tax. Want to exercise your first amendment right to freedom of religion or speech? TO BAD! Doing so makes you a suspected terrorist. Oh and smile when you look up next time, all that independent thinking just might require a surveillance drone to keep an eye on you.

This is not your grandpa’s America anymore. Just thinking it is makes you a suspected terrorist. Be careful today. Celebrating Independence Day by doing anything more than watching properly licensed fireworks from an officially regulated safe distance at a state sanctioned event is now a terrorist activity.

Happy Independence Day comrades.