This is the time of year when all good Americans should read the Declaration of Independence. Most people won’t. But, a few good Americans will.

It is worth reviewing why the Colonists declared their independence from England and went to war. They wanted freedom from the constraints of an over-intrusive central government -- much as many of us do again today. In fact, one clause of the Declaration of Independence is almost haunting when read in context today:

"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

Would that we had it so good today! Today’s federal government perpetrates the constraints of not four or five unconstitutional federal agencies on the people of the United States but the never ending regulatory excesses of one-hundred and thirteen independent federal agencies. Consequently, there are so many laws, rules and regulations controlling the lives of the American people that no person, in or out of government, knows even half of them.

The “Father of our Constitution,” James Madison warned us that (1):

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”

The point is, when the volume of law enacted by government far exceeds the ability of the governed to comprehend, there is, in effect, no law. The unexpected consequence, then, is what we see today: selective tyranny.

The Declaration of Independence also decries:

“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.”

This closely sums up the relationship between the so called “sovereign” States and the federal government today. State governments are directly under the beck and call of all sorts of minor bureaucrats in the various federal agencies and departments. States’ Rights were essentially abolished when FDR instituted socialism in the United States.

Another of the complaints the Colonists had with the Crown is again one of our most ominous problems today. The Declaration of Independence states:

“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.”

Today, it’s the United Nations interfering in our laws through both treaties and out and out demands for change. UNESCO constantly interferes with our private and public property through the U.S. and UNESCO Man and the Biosphere program and Heritage Sites. The World Bank, International Monitory Fund, Kayoto Protocol, NAFTA and dozens of other such “agreements” all work to redistribute our wealth overseas and adversely impact on our personal liberty.

The Founding Fathers reacted to a few spurious import and export taxes. Today, Americans are registered with the federal government at birth so government agents may track, and tax as appropriate, every activity in life. We must pay taxes if we give our children money. There is an income tax fine on marriage. All of our personal income is taxed throughout life, then the government takes half of the after-tax money we have saved when we die. Yet, few of us complain.

Federal taxes, laws, rules, and regulations considerably increase the cost of all intra and inter state products. And, the federal government even interferes in the personal and business affairs of those of us who never even leave our State or deal with businesses in another State.

Today’s federal government is comprised of over 1.8 million bureaucrats and another shadow government of over 5.5 million in the federal contracted corps. Most in this army of 7.3 million government workers (one for every 20 American taxpayers) exert control over some part of our personal freedom.

So, yes, we should all read and understand the Declaration of Independence. Because, two-hundred and twenty-five years ago our country’s Founding Fathers went to war for much less than we Americans grumble about regularly today.

We definitely need a resurgence of liberty.

1. The Federalist Papers No. 62

It appears that keeping the people disarmed hasn’t worked out very well. Not since the immigrant influx, anyway. In fact, the lack of the means of self protection has become darn right dangerous for the average folk, and the police.

And, yeah, I know, it’s not nice to poke fun at ‘em while they’re down. But, they’ve been saying all sorts of cruel things about us lately, so they deserve it. Besides, if the truth hurts, good! Let’s call it “tough love,” or something.

Anyway, according to the June 17 Sunday Times (London), they’ve got themselves into a bit of a problem over there. In a country where the people are not allowed to own guns, let alone carry a handgun, only the crooks now have guns. Oh, and the gang bangers . . . street punks and drug dealers have guns, too.

According to the Sunday Times, guns “are being carried almost as fashion accessories by young men in inner cities, creating a more volatile atmosphere.” Of the 42 murders reported in London in April and May, thirteen were by gun -- many by punks emulating Jamaican “Yardie gangsters.”

Over the last year, there were many other reports of young thugs breaking into homes almost at will. If the residents complain, they are clubbed and the punks take what they want and move on to another home. What’s to stop them?

The British, of course, do not want this information disseminated in the United States -- stiff upper lip, and that sort of thing, you know.(1) First, they would like to see the American people disarmed and this information most certainly does not support that action. And second, they are embarrassed because a lot of their crime is by “minorities.” Even hinting at the real source of the problem is very politically incorrect to the socialists over there.

We’re not politically correct on this end, though. We say street punks are street punks, no matter what their race, color, creed, or national origin. Out here in the Foothills of Appalachia we have sort of an unwritten rule: Anyone assaulting another with a gun or other deadly weapon probably needs to be shot.

Apparently, the police in and around London are realizing that now. They have also noticed that having the means of self defense on ones person can also be damn handy at times. Necessary, too. According to recent reports from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, firearms were issued to officers in 10,915 cases last year, which was nearly three times more than in 1991. Some areas now arm foot patrol officers -- which means that, for the first time, the Bobbies are carrying guns.

It gets better, though. The Sunday Times reports that, “police forces have quietly armed their officers with a new high-powered armour-piercing assault rifle in an attempt to retain the upper hand in an arms race with criminals.”

Besides handguns, police are now getting the Heckler & Koch G36K, a high-velocity military assault rifle used by some special forces. Special ammunition, too. And, lots and lots of body armor.

But, the bad guys over there have body armor, too. So, the Bobbie’s new guns will use bullets that are “narrower and longer than the standard 9mm” and contain more gunpowder to make them effective over greater distances. Of course, they’ll have the laser sights, too.

So, in effect, the Brits are setting up many, many SWAT teams around their country. You see, over there guns are illegal for the normal people so only crooks and street punks have guns. The police and the crooks are in an arms war. The people are caught in the middle. Unarmed.

However, there’s even more to this story. The British police are also having the same problem with their SWAT teams as we have here: You cannot put a squad-fire team out on the street all psyched up and armed with all sorts of fancy weapons and not expect them to start looking for someone to shoot. They are trained to kill people -- shoot first and ask questions later -- rather and be a peace officer. And, kill people they do. Unarmed people, too.

There is already alarm in England over the innocent people killed by these squad-fire teams. So, some Bobbies may soon find their firepower cut back to glue guns, tasers, beanbag guns, and “green lasers” that can be used to blind people.

That’s “Third Way” socialism. The bad guys will still have guns and the people will remain sitting targets.

1. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/html/cjusew96/crvs.htm

One usually unspoken truth is that liberalism is little more than a tool for concealing the truth. They can’t let their useful idiots in the proletariat know that, of course. Instead, they gussy up all the far-left programs and present them as being necessary to help the poor and “promote diversity” -- or their new mantra: “for the children.”

The far-left groups have been working on their methods for nearly a century and have gotten very proficient. Today, they are so good at the propaganda that even major political leaders fail to realize that it’s all just a scam; a means of dividing so as to conquer and control.

In the United States, we fall into their ploys by allowing them to continue causing racial tensions, spout environmental lies as truth and promote an ever-expanding central government’s control of everything. Freedom of speech means they may lie as much as they wish, no matter how much civil strife they cause throughout the country. Control of the Democratic Party gives them a platform with which to use to trash our Constitutional form of government. And, their friends in the national media outlets allow their devious propaganda messages to be presented as truth.

Their plan worked smoothly for the past 70 years. Even many Republicans in government capitulate and vote to approve socialist programs. The truth is, we have been totally indoctrinated and nearly two-thirds of us now accept some quite unconstitutional socialist federal programs as “normal” government -- medical programs, welfare, gun control, education, etc.

So, one would think, the schemers controlling the far-left would be happy and celebrating their success. But, one would be wrong. Because, there’s an itsy-bitsy little clog in the gears of the socialist machine that could soon kill their whole program completely.

Besides the fact that socialism, in any form, does not work and any country that has tried it for any length of time has gone belly-up, there’s a much more immediate problem looming. That is, the American people are starting to catch on to what’s happening. And, they are not at all pleased.

Yeah sure, most Americans don’t quite know “exactly” what is happening. But, what they are starting to realize is that few politicians can be believed. People are starting to see that politicians are either actually creating crises or claiming there is one just to put in place more socialistic programs as a fix. For instance, the decline of our inner cities is a direct result of the LBJ “Great Society” programs and the medical insurance problem and the energy crisis in California are the result of governments’ interference in the free market.

The American people have not started taking the politicians to task yet, but that’s right around the corner. All that is needed is a popular national leader with the ability to “explain” the problem properly. When that happens, many political heads will roll.

Meanwhile, numerous American people are quietly disregarding the propaganda arm of the socialist trinity: the national media. Americans from coast to coast are realizing that the national media are very, very biased in favor of socialism. Those in the national media showed their true colors during the Clinton administration when they started coming out against our Constitution and the Founding Fathers. That caught the collective attention of millions of Americans and tended to cause them to start looking at media bias across the board.

Not knowing exactly what to do about this strong media bias, Americans started using a very old, and proven, method for correction: shunning them. The result was slow, but palpable nonetheless.

Many newspapers began losing revenue and quite a few required new capital and major lay-offs to stay afloat. We look for two or three of the major liberal newspapers to go bankrupt within the next couple years. Yet, the conservative publications are doing quiet well.

On the Internet, the very left Salon Media Group, Inc. went from a healthy stock to actually being kicked off the Nasdaq when their stock fell to just pennies. Last January, the TV networks started laying off. NBC trimmed its staff by 600, CNN fired over 1,000 and the others are following suit.

Advertisers are starting to learn that Americans are totally fed up with the socialist bias in the news. In fact, many Americans have joined together to make sure advertisers know. Take a close look at the new group, Citizens Coalition For Responsible Media(1), and check their results. Then, consider helping.

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1. http://www.fairpress.org/

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