The Second Revolution

By

Michelle Hohmeier

"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people
fear the government there is tyranny." – Thomas Jefferson

The American people now stand at a crossroads. If we truly believe we have had
enough of our liberties being swept away by our federal government, then what is
the next plan of action? There are many differed beliefs in what that step should be.
Some think we should simply stop paying our taxes. Some think we should elect a
new regime of men and women to represent us. Others still believe nothing will
change without an all out rebellion. Who among us is willing to lose everything for
the cause of preserving our Constitution and saving our Republic?

"Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been

sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America
are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad
alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?" – George
Washington

When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, each one of those men
knew exactly what they were doing and the probability of what was to be lost. They
were signing an act of treason.

In the case that stands before us, the federal government has convinced most of
the people of this great nation that if we are to resist them, we are also committing
an act of treason. That is not so. They have distorted the Constitution to include
powers that were never meant to belong to the federal government and have
therefore committed treason against their own people. Who will stand against these
treasonous acts?

Let’s look at the document that began the first revolution for this country and see
what our role is in this time of history.

When 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. – Declaration of
Independence

Our representatives in Washington have gradually, but continually swept away the
rights and liberties given to us by God and the Constitution. Like boiling a frog, the
federal government put the people in the pot long ago and has been slowly turning
up the heat for decades.

Why should the American people finally resist the current government in place? The
Founders spelled out their causes and so must we.

1. Entitlement Programs such as Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare and Healthcare

As with many laws, the morality behind these programs was of good
intentions. But none the less, they were created by emotion. In order to
preserve the liberty of one without destroying the liberty of another, a person
needs to look at the situation with an unbiased eye, taking out emotion,
which is difficult. But caring for the needy should not be forced on anyone.

Grover Cleveland said: The friendliness and charity of our countrymen

can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in
misfortune … Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation
of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the
sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the
indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct
which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

2. The Patriot Act

The federal government has given itself the right to spy on its own citizens.
The civil liberties of all Americans have never been more subjugated than
they have with this single piece of legislation.
http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

3. Second Amendment Restrictions

George Mason of Virginia explained it best - When the resolution of

enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British
Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of
Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most
effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly,
but weaken them, and let them sink gradually...I ask, who are the
militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public
officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If
that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future
day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor...
4. Government controlled private industry

The Founders determined a free market society was the best system for
economic freedom. Adam Smith’s book, Wealth of Nations, was their
benchmark. They agreed that “the greatest threat to economic prosperity is
the arbitrary intervention of the government into the economic affairs of
private business and the buying public.” (The 5000 Year Leap, W. Cleon
Skousen)

There were however, four areas in which the government should intercede.
Those were Illegal Force (to compel the sale of products – healthcare), Fraud,
Monopolies (utilities throughout the country) and Debauchery (pornography,
commercial gambling). Out of those four, the federal government has
loosened its grip to where it is involved in only preventing fraud.

But in today’s economy, these ideals go even further. Increasingly

overbearing regulations and restrictions throughout the last fifty plus years,
and more recently as Cap and Trade, have burdened industry with costly
upgrades. The necessity of which are still being debated by environmental
professionals. This is where the American people should have the right to
decide which products they will buy. They have the power to put corporations
and industries out of business simply by the power of their dollars spent.

We have seen a downturn in our economy due to the simple fact that the
federal government has intervened in the free market system. The same
system that had, by 1905, made the United States the richest industrial
nation on the earth. At that time, we had only 5% of the earth’s land area and
just 6% of the world’s population. The American people were generating over
half of all products in the world.

5. Government controlled schools

It was never the intention of the Founding Fathers to have the federal
government in the business of teaching our children. But that is not to say
they did not believe the colonists should not be educated. Quite the contrary.

In 1647, Massachusetts instituted a law that every community of fifty

households were to set up a free grammar school. The difference in schools
then and now were the subjects. They were to each reading,
writing,ciphering, history, geography and Bible. Bible. Imagine that. The bible
being taught in a free community school. Later after the colonies became
independent, the fundamentals of the Constitution were also taught.

Daniel Webster said of Americans – It is not to be doubted, that to the

free and universal reading of the Bible, in that age, men were much
indebted for right views of civil liberty. The Bible is a book of faith,
 and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion,
of especial revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches
man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his
equality with his fellow man.

Our right to read the Bible openly in the public schools has been stripped
away. Is it not odd that the federal government has taken that away from the
American people? The Founders would be appalled.

6. Sovereignty of the United States of America

Once standing as a beacon of light to the oppressed, the United States is in

jeopardy of acquiescing to a New World Order under the control of the United
Nations.

NAFTA is a pact by the federal government, in which the American people

were sold out. The United States was supposed to help bring Mexico to a
greater status in the world, but yet it is much easier for someone lying on the
floor to bring someone from a stool down than visa versa.

NAFTA eliminated tariffs that would otherwise kept the price of American
goods more competitive in a world where wage consideration is not a
consideration. Countries such as Mexico and China, pay their workers pennies
on the dollar compared to American wages and can, therefore, produce the
same goods cheaper. With our tariffs taken away, we don’t stand a chance to
continue our economic prosperity.

The American people have been continually sold out by their own
government, who has made agreements with foreign nations as to the
restrictions and regulations placed on United States businesses. Diplomats
and presidents have bowed and conceded to be ruled by others without a
shred of regard to the Constitution, more less the wishes of the people.

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. – Declaration of
Indepence

It is time to reclaim our Rights. It is time to remind those in Washington they derive
their powers from us, the people governed.

Life, Liberty and Property are the natural rights of every human. Those were given
to us by God and cannot be taken away. These rights can only be secured by the
Law, not by the capriciousness of men. Emotions must be set aside and the
pureness of Law should rule. Simply stated, Law is the force that defends human
rights. But for Law to work within its nature, men must accept responsibility for
himself and not require others to care for him.

When a group wishing to be cared for or to forcibly require all to care for others
imposes such notions upon the Law, it is so contrary to the nature of law that it
perverts the force of Law to enable a sense of “false philanthropy”. When this
perversion is equated with a moral obligation, the people are confused into
believing they are being immoral should they not go along with the Law. Little do
they realize, their liberty has just been imposed upon and their rights have been
usurped.

Such is the crime of the federal government. They have lulled the American people
into a sense of this “false philanthropy” so that they do not see the problem with
giving the government their money in order to take care of those less fortunate. The
fact is – it is not the government’s place to take from one to give to another. That
should be left to an individual to give his money where he believes it will be used
for the greater good.

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 the
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. – Declaration of Independence

The American people have grown way too comfortable in the evils being
perpetrated around them. We have become complacent, thinking “it’s not really
that bad”, and that “we like the way things are”. The problem with that line of
thought is that as the evils against us continue to mount, it will become increasingly
more difficult to overcome them when that final straw is finally laid. The time is act
is now. We must return our nation to the roots of its foundation. To a time where the
life, liberty and property of individuals was respected by neighbors, as well as the
government.

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. – Declaration of
Independence
So here it is. The time for truth. According to the Founders, it is our right and duty to
throw off an oppressive government. We have been oppressed long enough. From
Abraham Lincoln stomping on State’s rights to Franklin Roosevelt’s false
philanthropy culminating with Barack Obama’s forced healthcare, Washington has
eked its way into the lives of every American for generations.

In opposition to what was going on in 1776, we do not need to change our former
system of government. The system is strong if practiced properly. Congress,
however, has not been adhering to the Constitution for some time. But we
continued to allow them to stray further and further from the truth and take more
and more of our liberties.

It is time to stand on what we believe to be our inalienable Rights. It is time for the
courts to uphold justice and the Law. It is time for Congress to adhere to the
Constitution and protect our liberties.

The federal government has forced the hand that feeds them. It is time to replace
the old guard with a new guard that will stand for liberty and justice.

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, our sacred Honor. – Declaration of Independence

These are the words of the fifty-six men that signed the Declaration of
Independence over two hundred years ago. They were willing to die for what they
believed to be the truth.

Today, people who speak out against the government are considered domestic
terrorist. Right-wing radicals. Citizens are being monitored by their own
government. The government that was instituted to protect the rights of their
citizens to free speech, to practice their religion openly, to arm themselves and to
work to make a profit and keep it, now limits its citizens to only the rights they
judge practical for their way of thinking.

Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the
dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is
more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire
for safety and security. – Ron Paul

It is time for the American people to become patriotic. But the question remains.
Will the American people stand united? Will they fight for what is rightfully theirs?
Or will they continue to indulge the impulses of Congress?

This will take more than flag waving and tea partying. In order for us to change the
guard we must be diligent in who we elect in November. The status quo has shown
they are not interested in upholding the Constitution. Third party candidates are
springing forth with accelerated zeal across the country. These men and women are
willing to go to the state capitals and Washington as statesmen with one principle in
mind, to prevail against tyranny and persist in their faithfulness for the freedoms
and liberties of the American people.

People may say a third party candidate only takes away from the conservatives.
That is simply not true. Long ago, there was a man who ran for president under a
third party. His name was Abraham Lincoln. He won by gathering under 40% of the
popular vote. In that election, there were president and vice-president nominees
from four separate parties.

According to CBS, 75% of Americans are open to voting for a third party candidate.
They are truly a feasible alternative in this upcoming election. The Constitution
Party stands out from all the others. Their candidates are firm believers in following
the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. They are put
through an extensive vetting process by the party leaders. They will represent
every American citizen’s liberties and will not be bought by special interest groups.

Two hundred and thirty-six years later, it is time for the federal government to fear
the people. We want our property returned! We want are freedoms restored! We
want our liberties reinstated!

There is no better way to close this argument than with the words of Ronald
Reagan.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We

didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will
spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children
what it was once like in the United States where men were free.