By Douglas V. Gibbs
I am one to constantly talk about big government, and the dangers of big government. So did Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, and a few others you may have heard of. They were called radicals, extremists, and traitors. Many times their writings were under pseudonyms, like Bruno, or Publius, in order to protect them from being arrested.
The Founding Fathers spoke out against big government as often as they could.
And so did a young man named Cicero. Less than a hundred years before Christ, Cicero preached about honest government, challenging the bureaucrats and politicians to turn away from their dishonest ways, so that Rome could become a republic, again. The power structure turned away from Cicero, literally turning their backs on him as he spoke, and eventually they exiled him for calling for honest government that abides by the limitations set forth the rule of law. They sent him away, out of Rome, for daring to speak in opposition to their greedy lust for big government.
The Saxons later transformed the overpowering monarchy in England into a government based on the idea that Englishmen are freemen, and that nobody is above the law. . . including the king. Their endeavors to ensure that the government remained individual-centric led to the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and the English Bill of Rights. But even with a history that demanded honest government, eventually the British fell back into the trap of big government, and became tyrannical against thirteen individual colonies in the New World as a result of their willingness to do as they pleased from a parliamentary point of view, regardless of representation.
Montesquieu, a French political philosopher saw the wisdom in the individual-centric system devised by the Saxons, and the Roman Republic, and wrote in favor of systems that guarded individual rights, and liberty. He called out for a mixed constitution, that divided the powers of aristocracy, in order to create a republic, with a separation of powers divided between three compartments of government. He was disliked in his mother country of France, for daring to speak out against authoritarianism, and big government.
We see it throughout history. Time and time again there are stories in history about citizens standing up to big government, and being investigated, jailed, exiled, or killed because they dared to question the tyrannical authority of the ruling elite. Dictatorships have risen and fallen, and have destroyed societies in their wake. The Caesars. Hitler. Stalin. Communists, socialists, and progressives, alike.
Many countries have a shining moment in their history where their system was individual-centric, and the government was limited to the rule of law, and governed by the representative consent of the people. And each of these mighty civilizations fell when the prosperity, which emerged as a result of a free system, lured tyrants to lead the government, who then fundamentally transformed those countries into big government led systems with policies that aimed to trample upon the rights of the citizens, and enslave them under the iron fist of big government. It happened to the Greek States, it happened to Rome, it happened to Sweden after their domination in the 1500s. Now, it is happening to the United States.
In a free country, free political speech is an important right. In a tyranny, opposition is silenced, be it through media, political correctness, or laws and judicial rulings aimed at forcing the people to accept a particular issue in the manner the ruling elite expects. In a tyranny, religious freedom is destroyed, either by the politicization of social issues, or by establishing a dominant church, such as Islam in Muslim countries, or secularism in communist countries. The people are mandated to follow the dictates of the ruling elite, in the name of the common good, or be detained by the body politic. Dissent is discouraged. Tolerance is given only to those that agree with the ruling class. Those that dare to voice opposition are investigated, and ultimately removed from the picture. Individuality, sovereignty, and discontent towards the government will not be tolerated.
Recently, in San Diego County, the federal government raided a gun shop, seizing the store's customer list, using the excuse that Ares Armor was selling an illegal plastic gun part (illegal based on the license held by the store).
Recently, in Nevada, a rancher's cattle was being seized, despite his family's use of the land since 1870, and the Bureau of Land Management federal agency used the excuse that the action was to save a tortoise. . . an animal the federal officials themselves have been killing to control the overpopulation of the animal. There has been some evidence to emerge that the whole thing was over allowing the federal government, through Senator Harry Reid's son, to give China the land to use as a solar farm.
In both cases the law of the land did not matter to the federal government. The words "Shall Not Infringe" in the 2nd Amendment did nothing to sway the federal government from storming Ares Armor. Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 requiring State legislative approval, payment, and for the land to be for "needful buildings" did not stop the federal government from claiming they have jurisdiction over the land, and that the State, and the individuals on the land, has no way to stop them.
The ruling elite has decided they are above the law, and that this is no longer an individual-centric system.
Resistance is futile.
Now, according to a report, in South Carolina, the FBI is visiting gun shops to investigate those that dare oppose big government.
[In Columbia, South Carolina] an FBI agent entered the store on Monday, showed his credentials, before proceeding to ask a series of stunning questions.
Telling the gun store worker he was tasked with visiting all the firearms outlets in the local area to check on “suspicious purchases” for counterterrorism purposes, the agent then began discussing what in actual fact were “completely normal transactions,” such as, “paying with cash, purchasing long guns, and other similarly innocuous behavior.”
The FBI agent then reportedly made a shocking remark that almost seems too chilling to believe.
“If you see some Middle Eastern guy come in, you don’t have to be so worried about that. What we’re really looking for are people talking about being sovereign such as sovereign citizens or people talking about big government,” the agent reportedly stated.
Before the agent left the store, he handed the employee a flyer which lists paying with cash, buying in bulk, along with other seemingly innocuous behavior as suspicious activity.
In response to this report, I would like to make it official (as if they didn't already know this about me):
- I believe I am a sovereign citizen, an individual, with natural rights the federal government has no legal authority to take away from me. My rights have been entitled to me by Nature's God, and they are unalienable.
- I believe the States are sovereign, voluntary members of the union, and if the federal government is deemed to have breached the provisions of the social contract known as the United States Constitution, they have a right to secede.
- I believe it is our duty, and our right, when government becomes destructive and tyrannical, for "the people to alter or 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" . . . as it states in the Declaration of Independence.
- I believe the U.S. Constitution gives the people five primary tools for dealing with a tyranny such as the one we are faced with in today's federal government. Peaceful revolution, nullification, convention, secession, and a bloody revolution. The people are supposed to be armed with firearms specifically to stand against a tyrannical federal government, should one rise, as per the 2nd Amendment. The federal government, in turn, has no authority to infringe upon my right to gain access to the arms I believe are necessary to fight them off with, should the system become tyrannical.
- I believe that big government is dangerous, and to be the cause of the fall of all great civilizations in history. This government, under President Obama, is assassinating our American System, murdering liberty, and slaughtering the free market. The way to stop it is for the people to stand up and oppose the federal government, as they did near the Nevada cattle ranch.
In the last week my email has been truncated, my Facebook censored, and I have been followed as I drove to Corona to visit my mother . . . but understand that that kind of jackbooted tyranny will not stop me, or any patriotic American who is willing to defend our freedom. This nation was founded on principles designed to limit the powers of the federal government, not let it runaway with self-appointed powers, or be no different than the authoritarian systems in other countries. Our liberty is an exceptional thing, and it will not be taken away.
We are ready, and we oppose big government.
It is time to remove the cancer, and replace the ruling elite with statesmen that understand what Americanism is all about.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Report: FBI Visiting Gun Shops to Investigate "People Talking about Big Government" - Info Wars
San Diego County Sheriff Gore's Dereliction of Constitutional Duties - Political Pistachio
Losing the Ranch, By Federal Gunpoint - Political Pistachio
Nevada Rancher Bundy and the Constitution - Political Pistachio
Nevada Cattle Rancher Bundy Gets Support - Political Pistachio
Bundy Ranch: More on the Reid Connection - Political Pistachio
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