As a soldier-historian I have been watching, with
considerably more than passing interest, the very document I have sworn to
defend against both foreign and domestic enemies, the Constitution of the
United States, sink deeper and deeper into a socialist cesspool; a
cesspool constantly fed by the sewer of compromise.
On 19 April 1775, a handful of men in Lexington
Massachusetts took up arms in defense of their peers at Concord to oppose a
force sent to confiscate their means to resist tyranny. This confiscatory force
was not a foreign invader, nor an army of occupation; it was the army of their
government. Our ancestors resisted, and won.
Modern Americans are content to grovel at the
feet of their government, compromising at every turn, whimpering insipid
platitudes of subservient thanks when their Constitutional rights, assured by
the original ten Amendments to the Constitution, are granted to them anew as
privileges. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are limitations on
government -- not the individual.
Bear in mind that the original ten Amendments to
the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, were not the product of those who wrote
the Constitution, the Federalists, but to those who opposed it, the
Anti-Federalists. The Anti-Federalists recognized the potential for tyranny in
the Constitution and insisted on guarantees of inalienable rights that could not
be abrogated by the government. They recognized that all government is, by
definition, tyrannical.
Socialists believe words are fuzzy, indefinable
constructs that assume whatever meaning they want under whatever whim context
they invent at the time. Socialists hate the 18th century language of the
Constitution because the words used actually had specific meaning in the context
in which they were used. Thus the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
states in full:
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.
In context, the term "...regulated Militia," meant the whole
citizenry, independently armed, practiced and drilled in the use of their arms,
prepared to take up those arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and
their rights as freemen. In context, the phrase "...free State," meant
not only defense against foreign aggression, but more explicitly, defense
against domestic tyranny. Note the elegance and exclusivity of the closing to
this keystone of the Bill of Rights, "...shall not be infringed." In
context this means: No organization, government or non-government, by design,
neglect or whim, through legislation or regulation, for reasons specific or
implied, shall restrict this right in any way, form, or condition.
Socialists believe the Second Amendment refers only to State government, or
even more terrifying, to the Federal Government. Their shopworn bromide that the
term "...the people..." in the Second Amendment applies only to the
National Guard, Reserves, standing army, and police, but not to individuals, is
a base lie. "...(T)he people..." means all individuals. Period.
The National Guard is an instrument of force of a state government. The
Reserves are an instrument of force of the Federal Government. Both
organizations are, in 18th century terms, a Select Militia. It was in
wise opposition to a government monopoly of armed force by a Select Militia in
general and a standing army in particular, that the individual's right to keep
and bear arms was guaranteed! No wonder our socialist government and their
despicable altruist cheerleaders despise the Second Amendment.
Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment have affirmed that the Second
Amendment applies only to individuals, not to armed gangs on federal or state
payrolls. Indeed, the Supreme Court has ruled that the right of individuals to
bear arms appropriate to (select) Militia use is unquestioned. This means: If
the National Guard, Reserves, standing army, and innumerable armed gangs of
local, state, and unconstitutional Federal police have, for example, M-16
rifles, it is not only the right of individuals to possess and openly bear the
same weapons, it is contrary to the preservation of their liberty not to.
Political socialists in the U.S. Congress, as well as police state socialists
in the unconstitutional Justice and Treasury Departments are using the typical
stalking horses of government tyranny, public safety, and some undefined mob of
irrelevancies called "the children," to creep up on and abolish the
sole guaranty of personal liberty in the Constitution - the Second
Amendment. By "public safety" the Federal government means greatly
expanding the powers of their own armed gangs of badge wielding thugs. By those
amorphous abstractions they call "children" they are referring to 15 -
24 year-old minority street garbage killing each other over drug and extortion
turf.
Socialists are constantly calling for compromise on Second Amendment issues
which they themselves fabricate. Compromise, as any intelligent person knows, is
unmitigated evil. Only the inept, irrational, and intellectually corrupt ask for
compromise and only they win when compromise is conceded by the able, rational,
and intelligent out of some fear of being labeled "extremist."
Socialists revile those who stand on principle, those who distinguish right
from wrong, and those who can differentiate between truth and lies. Whenever
socialists fling accusations of extremism you can rest assured that their
opponents have the truth of their side. Simply put, in any compromise between
poison and food, only death wins. Regarding the Second Amendment, the victor in
the compromise between the right to keep and bear arms equivalent to those of
the Select Militia, and government legislation against them, is slavery. The men
who stood armed against their government at Lexington knew that their only
choice was liberty or serfdom. They did not compromise.
Two-hundred years ago Randy Weaver and David Koresh would have been heroes
for resisting government whimsy. Today they are vilified for having defended
their liberty by force of arms. The unconstitutional Federal police, as always,
demonstrated groveling cowardice in their investigation, execution, and cover-up
of these outrages. The media, as always, whined, simpered, and adopted the
greasy socialist party line like the practiced second-handers they are.
Adopting the bald eagle as the national symbol was a mistake. It should have
been the rattlesnake. Philosophically, the only flag in our history that
reflects the cause of the American Revolution, resistance to government
tyranny, is the coiled rattlesnake over the words: "DON'T TREAD ON
ME." No one can look upon that flag and misunderstand its meaning.
Under the Constitution the only Federal crime is treason. Subverting the
Constitution can only be construed as such. Those in government, Federal state,
or local, who by action or inaction would legislate away the only individual
guaranty against tyrannical government, the right to keep and bear arms, and
those who support such legislation, are traitors to the Constitution. As a
soldier of the standing army I am sworn to defend the Constitution against these
domestic enemies of the Constitution. I will, and I am
not alone!
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