Independence Day. The day The founders of our nation told the king of England that we had a higher standard for our national identity than what his monarchy provided. The day that a declaration of our independence from England was read to the, soon to be, Citizens of this land mass known as the United States of America. A declaration that espoused what all of mankind was entitled to by it’s Creator in the form of rights due to mankind’s very existence.
All men are created equal: Although true that all men start out equal, some excel in life and their endeavors. Some are content with status quo. Finally, some are miserable failures because they can’t get out of their lazy, socially entitled, mindset of mental victimhood.
Life: You have the Right to exist and survive through your own efforts. No person or government has the right to end your existence without clear proof that you violated Malum In Se law. Any government that tries to inhibit your ability to own and use effective and efficient means that aid in that survival is in the same “sinking boat” the King of England was a couple centuries ago.
Liberty; The freedom to do what you want, when you want, without fear of a person or government entity telling you that you are prohibited from it is a primary directive in the Declaration of Independence. The caveat is that it cannot interfere with another individual’s freedom or property, without their consent, in the process.
Pursuit of Happiness: What gives your life meaning and makes you happy? As long as those activities don’t interfere with another person’s freedom, liberty and property, it is supposed to be OK.
You cannot read the Declaration of Independence shown below without realizing the Founding Fathers believed in a Creator (Nature’s God) and that the Creator expected and encouraged human beings to be responsible for their own actions in all things. When you believe there is an expectation of certain responsibilities from a Higher Power, not of this earth, it changes your perspective greatly. The “Ends justify the means” and “Eat, drink and be merry because nothing matters” goes out the window if you have that belief.
Although our Nation has made many mistakes, it is still the freest and most opportunity-centric nation on earth. If you believe that it needs overthrown, my question is, “By whom and what are you replacing it with?”. “By whom”: What country will your support come from? Go ahead, tell me a nation that has the capability requirements and will support that endeavor, but then give you the freedom you desire after the act is complete. Doesn’t exist.
“What are you replacing it with?”: I’ve heard from many people that have trained with MDT or interacted with me, through MDT, concerning “Revolution this” and “Civil War that”. The dark humor I find in saying, “Then what?” to those guys is probably greater than it should be. They have no plan. Their end goal is “NoGov” with all the issues that includes. It’s a “Squad Assault” after you’ve reach the “Limit of Advance” (LOA), without acting on the follow on requirements “post assault”.
When I mention that not only would their fantasy (It’s a fantasy because they neither have the ability to carry it out, nor the will to follow it through) taking place opens a pandora’s box of invasions by other nations bent of having what we’ve built and possess. It would create a plethora of unintended consequences that would decimate the population of our nation through disease and starvation, just to mention a few issues.
Best case in that scenario is an organized secession and balkanization of this country with all regions keeping a decisive ability to defend themselves. THAT, unfortunately, is a pipe dream. The only way those balkanized American regions would survive is if the chaos that initiated our situation here was due to a world wide cataclysm which would obviously vie for the attention of every nation’s leadership, and point it inwardly.
Answers? I don’t necessarily have an answer for what YOU should do, I can only tell you what I am doing.
- Find the positive things that make this the greatest nation on earth, AND APPRECIATE THEM AND THOSE THAT HAVE SACRIFICED TO EARN THEM. All the while, remembering our history, both good and bad. It is prerequisite to forging a good, positive future.
- Find the positive things in your life and identifying things you’d like to change to make it more productive and enjoyable.
- Don’t let the fearmongers put your life on hold because…..APOCALYPSE! I can show you videos and articles from TV I watched as a child and magazines I read as a teenager (still have them) that said things were “Ending in the 80’s”, “Ending in the 90’s” and “Ending in 2000”. They were complete BS.
- PREPARE. Prepare for general survival concerns, as this can cover you if you lose your job. Prepare for specific survival concerns you’ve researched and believe could happen. Learn as much as you can about survival under different circumstances.
- Speak out about what you think is wrong in our Nation, and don’t let some vocal minority keep you from voicing your opinion. If you want to have a say in what the government does, either become the elected official you’d like to see, or just continue to participate in the voting process. If you don’t vote, you have no realistic standing to criticize those who get elected by the ones that did.
Below I’ve posted what was written so many centuries ago. Are we to that point again? In some aspects, yes. Do I think it’s enough to do what they did? No. As much as I have a problem with a number of the firearms laws and other legal and regulatory nightmares that exist on the books. I don’t believe it’s time for a fight. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m not ready for one if it is thrust upon us.
The rampant socialist and communist influence in this country, and the overt presence of it in Congress and government positions can’t be denied. Will the day come when the “Kill a Commie for Mommy” T-shirt I owned and wore as a teenager will come true for me in this country? I pray to God “No”! Will I take up arms in defense of our Nation from a communist takeover? YES! I planned on fighting communists when I joined the military in 1988 anyway, but I never planned on it being here (unless “Red Dawn” because…..”RED DAWN”!).
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable 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 effect their Safety and Happiness. 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. 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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Enjoy the day. Appreciate what it took to earn the freedoms we have and what the men who signed the above document put on the line for us. Prepare for a better tomorrow by teaching our youth what it means to be an American using our history.
JCD
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WOLVERINESSSSS! I refuse to watch the new Red Dawn because the old one is such a classic.
Excellent observations as always, brother. I particularly like: “Don’t let the fearmongers put your life on hold because…..APOCALYPSE!”
I think that the vast majority of people who have that “PREPPREPPREP foot on the throttle” attitude cannot sustain it for a very long time. Now, there are a few I think can – particularly in the blogosphere – but everyone needs to also remember to enjoy life. You could spend every waking minute preparing for TEOTWAWKI, foregoing good times and memories in the present, and end up catching a bullet to the dome in your first fight.
That is not to say that you should stop or even slack off your preparations. You need to find that balance. You can make preparedness fun for the family and, through prepping, make great memories with you and your tribe. All I am saying is be wary of your mental health thrpugh it all.
God Bless and be safe all.
We are indeed in big trouble. Having gone to school in Europe with red hot communist professors lecturing in the late 70’s, I understand commies quite well. IMHO, they are attempting a full on Commie Revolution. We have a narrow time frame to put this down, starting now ,and possibly ending after the elections in 2020. It is time to pull out the stops and raise hell to avoid a worst case scenario. We did this during Trump’s campaign and won. Here is some content, my post this morning on Matt Bracken’s Gab that is more a free style blog, but it will hopefully encourage participation on this, or anyother platform. Because we all have a limited amount of time to participate, and to be efficient and effective, like Bracken, I am an old internet warrior from the 90’s. We use to post the same material across platforms, be it a bulletin board, an email list, or a web site. Please consider this an experiment, and learning opportunity, and spit out the bones and chew the meat. Our sense of where the country is at can be different, yet the spirit is the same. This content may also be posted at Survivalblog.com. I will shoot and move, and let the editor decide :
Tunnel Rabbit wrote:
Unless Trump is moving forward, we are loosing. We like his talk, and the promise, but we need action. The conference on July 11 can raise awareness, and the political backing needed to support aggressive action, but I am not counting on it. We cannot allow them to continue to silence us. All is lost if the censorship continues. How would Trump convince Big Tech to reverse itself? He can’t. They are going for broke in a serious attempt at a full on radical revolution. Force has to be involved. Alternative platforms are like taking the back seat. Trump will loose the election if we do not have access to the mainstream who will continue stay where they are at.
If the conference on Big Tech censorship is not productive, then it is time to get serious. In some way, any way, even if might be the wrong move at the right time, or not, Trump needs to pull the trigger while he is still in. We cannot allow them to silence us. We cannot allow subversives to undermine with the intent of overthrowing our Republic. Are we talking about the Insurrection Act? I hope so. Trump needs to take the most aggressive action available to him immediately, to see what will work, or not, so he has time in office to try any and all means to put this revolution down, and move to the next logical step. As it is, Trump is headed for the slaughter house, and so is the Republic. Once broken, it will not be fixed.
We need to put the maximum pressure on Trump to act. Thanks for listening. @Matt_Bracken
For all their propensity to trumpet history, the aspiring tyrants tend to mistake continued civility as meaning that it will always be so. The entreaties made over an extended period – unattended by old Georgie – may have lulled him & his Court into thinking that civil outrage would be the extent. Mistake on his part. Similarly, the antebellum pleadings of the southern states that were repeated attempts to avoid the horror of what became the War of Northern Aggression, as in “leave us alone”, were largely ignored by those self-appointed deities living along the Potomac. In neither of these cases did the civility negate the eventual “going kinetic.” (In fact, at the DoI signing we’d already been “at war” for over a year.)
The wanna-be despots currently in vogue would do well to reflect on that because, when push does come to shove, for the oppressed there will be no way out but through, and someone who has nothing to lose can be a most formidable adversary.
The thought that we could replace the Declaration of Independence with something better is a mistake, where it fell apart, and where any fixes will fall short is the the implementation (also know as the Constitution). It was written by idealists who never envisioned that anyone in their right mind, would want to spend their life governing or working for the government. While we could rewrite (or even amend) the Constitution to address the current failings, I would guess that 200 years on, evil men would have once again found the loopholes and exploited them to renew their control of the lives of the governed. Just as Mr. Jefferson was correct in his creation of a foundation for a nation to manage it’s self, he was also correct in his in his assertion that “what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure.”