THE 2012 LIBERTY LIST—1787: A GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED BY WE THE PEOPLE

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Richard Johnson

THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS UNIQUE

“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The Constitution for the United States of America stands alone as the finest governing document in all of history

 (That declaration is at variance with 5 or 6 of the 9 justices of the current United States Supreme Court)

A reader of today’s popular history knows very little about the Constitution for the United States of America, the debate that created it or the debaters who started and completed the job. These men were giants of that—or any, time—in character, faith and the readiness to lead a sovereign people, under God, establishing a limited Federal government answerable to the people. Two important resources are available:

  • A two volume Debate on the Constitution written by Bernard Bailyn in 1993.
  • The magnificent work, published in 1864 by Benjamin F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States.

Morris’ 1060 page authoritative tome ranges from, “The Hand of God in the Settlement of the American Continent” to the concluding “The Christian Element in the Civil War of the United States.” Our focus is chapter 12, “The Federal Constitution a Christian Instrument.” Marvel at these selections from the opening paragraphs:

“On the voluntary association of men in sufficient numbers to form a political community, the first step to be taken for their own security and happiness is to agree on the terms on which they are to be united and to act. They form a Constitution, or plan of government, suited to their character, their exigencies, and their future prospects. They agree that it shall be the supreme rule of obligation among them. This is the pure and genuine source of a Constitution in the Republican form.”

“The history of man does not present a more illustrious monument of human invention, sound political principles, and judicious combinations, than the Constitution of the United States. It is deemed to approach as near to perfection as any that have ever been formed.”

Selected headings from “The Federal Constitution a Christian Instrument” 

Convention Called p 295

Character of its Members p 296

The Constitution a Christian State Paper p 297

Franklin’s Christian address to the Convention p 298

Harmony of the Constitution with the Principles

and Institutes of Christianity p 312

Picture of Prosperity Under the Constitution p 319

The Virtue of the People to Preserve the Constitution P 319

“The people who ordained such a noble constitution of government, and for whom it was made, are under the highest and most solemn obligations to preserve it for themselves, their children and future generations.

“This constitution of government,” says Justice Story, “must parish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people which alone can nourish, sustain and direct all its movements. It is in vain that statesmen shall form plans of government in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built upon solid substructions and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls or crumble its masonry supporters into dust, if the assaults from without are never resisted and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of a people when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple when the watchmen sleep at their post? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor and have built the prisons or dug the graves of their own friends? This dark picture, it is to be hoped, will never be applicable to the republic of America. And yet it affords a warning, which, like all the lessons of past experience, we are not permitted to disregard. America, free, happy and enlightened as she is, must the preservation of her rights and liberties upon the virtue, independence, justice and sagacity of the people. If either fail, the republic is gone.” (Selections pp 319-320) 

The parts of the Constitution:

Preamble

Article I The Legislative Branch

Article II The Executive Branch

Article III The Judicial Branch

Article IV The States

Article V Amendment

Article VI Debt, Supremacy, Oaths

Article VII Ratification

Signatories

Amendments

The Constitution online

Get your pocket copy

Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution:

Presidential oath of office—

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. (So help me God.)

Supreme Court oath of office—

“I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

Congressional oath of office—

I _____n______ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

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THE 2012 LIBERTY LIST– THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Richard Johnson

A friend, Linda Smith, is understandably and rightly distressed. She went to a 4th of July Party in a very affluent neighborhood—live band and all. She found the others, including the band, had no interest in honoring the birth of America. Linda came face to face with a challenge of our times; too many Americans don’t know and don’t care how and why America was born—why we celebrate.

There are many great ways to explain this exceptional country. Power Line’s Scott Johnson found a profound and compelling argument. It is Abraham Lincoln’s. Scott offered it July 4th, 2004 and every July 4th since. To honor America, Abraham Lincoln and Scott Johnson, here is Scott’s post in its entirety:

THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY

On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas invited Lincoln to come join him on the balcony to watch the speech. In his speech Douglas rang the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and fall for Douglas’s Senate seat.

Douglas paid tribute to Lincoln as a “kind, amiable, and intelligent gentleman, a good citizen and an honorable opponent,” but took issue with Lincoln’s June 16 speech to the Illinois Republican convention that had named him its candidate for Douglas’s seat. In that speech Lincoln had famously asserted that the nation could not exist “half slave and half free.” According to Douglas, Lincoln’s assertion was inconsistent with the “diversity” in domestic institutions that was “the great safeguard of our liberties.” Then as now, “diversity” was a shibboleth hiding an evil institution that could not be defended on its own terms.

Douglas responded to Lincoln’s condemnation of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision — a condemnation that was the centerpiece of Lincoln’s convention speech. “I am free to say to you,” Douglas said, “that in my opinion this government of ours is founded on the white basis. It was made by the white man, for the benefit of the white man, to be administered by white men, in such manner as they should determine.”

Lincoln invited Douglas’s audience to return the next evening for his reply to Douglas’s speech. Lincoln’s speech of July 10, 1858, is one of his many great speeches, but in one respect it is uniquely great. It concludes with an explanation of the meaning of this day to Americans with matchless eloquence and insight in words that remain as relevant now as then.

Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometime about the 4th of July, for some reason or other. These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses. If you will indulge me, I will state what I suppose to be some of them.

We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty—or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country,—with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men,—we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves—we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations. But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make

themselves feel that they are part of us, but

when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. [Applause.]

Now, sirs, for the purpose of squaring things with this idea of “don’t care if slavery is voted up or voted down” [Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” position on the extension of slavery to the territories], for sustaining the Dred Scott decision [A voice—“Hit him again”], for holding that the Declaration of Independence did not mean anything at all, we have Judge Douglas giving his exposition of what the Declaration of Independence means, and we have him saying that the people of America are equal to the people of England. According to his construction, you Germans are not connected with it. Now I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form. Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow. What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent, and I hold if that course of argumentation that is made for the purpose of convincing the public mind that we should not care about this, should be granted, it does not stop with the negro. I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so bold as to do it! [Voices—“me” “no one,” &c.] If it is not true let us tear it out! [cries of “no, no,”] let us stick to it then [cheers], let us stand firmly by it then. [Applause.]

Thank you, Mr. Lincoln. Let us stick to it then. Let us stand firmly by it then. (Posted annually since 2004.)

And, thank you, Mr. Johnson (Re-posted annually since 2011.)

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THE 2012 LIBERTY LIST—CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY, JULY 4, 2012

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Richard Johnson

John Adams commenting on the adoption of the Declaration of Independence:

“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty; it ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

 

As you pause in your own celebration of Independence Day this July 4, enjoy our official American National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner sung by the combined choirs of the United States Naval Academy, the Unites States Air Force Academy, the Unites States Military Academy and the Unites States Coast Guard Academy and accompanied by the Unites States Army Herald Trumpets.  

There is no better time to become familiar with all 4 powerful verses of our National Anthem. They are all official. They will build our resolve for the difficult work ahead.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
‘T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Fantastic! Here is a short history:

In 1814, about a week after the city of Washington had been badly burned, British troops moved up to the primary port at Baltimore Harbor in Maryland. Frances Scott Key visited the British fleet in the Harbor on September 13th to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes who had been captured during the Washington raid. The two were detained on the ship so as not to warn the Americans while the Royal Navy attempted to bombard Fort McHenry. At dawn on the 14th, Key noted that the huge American flag, which now hangs in the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, was still waving and had not been removed in defeat. The sight inspired him to write a poem entitled Defense of Fort McHenry; later the poem was set to music that had been previously composed by a Mr. Smith. The song was immediately noted as an inspiring song that should be the national anthem of the United States of America. It was accepted as such by public demand for the next century or so, but became even more accepted as the national anthem during the World Series of Baseball in 1917 when it was sung in honor of the brave armed forces fighting in the Great War. The World Series performance moved everyone in attendance, and after that it was repeated for every game. Finally, on March 3, 1931, the American Congress proclaimed it as the national anthem, 116 years after it was first written.

Celebrate America with this most popular singing of our National Anthem of all time by the late Whitney Houston.

 

 

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LIKE BIG TOBACCO, WHY NOT BIG HOMOSEXISM INSTEAD OF BIG NFL?

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Richard Johnson

Why the Big NFL? Why not Big Homosexism instead? But first, the Tuesday news. Rush led off a segment of his show yesterday with the story that Liberals are going after “big NFL.”:

“Smokers and pro football players have something in common.” What do you think it is? This is an AP story from yesterday. “Smokers and pro football players have something in common: They engage in risky behavior that can be potentially harmful to their health over time. And to hear some lawyers tell it, the National Football League is the equivalent of Big Tobacco.”

I, as you know, predicted this, but I am way off in the number of years I thought this was gonna take. I thought we’d be looking at 10, 15 years down the road before people started getting serious about trying to poison people’s minds about football and being serious about banning it. But I’m telling you, we are on the road. When the NFL is equal to Big Tobacco, when the NFL is Joe Camel, I hope the people in the NFL have an understanding of what faces them. I hope they know what’s ahead of them.

Are you old enough to remember when smoking was the mark of sophistication? That cigarette between Humphrey Bogart’s lips automatically made him cool. The same with Edward R. Murrow and Johnny Carson; they were cool.

The campaign against smoking began in the 1970s. Smoking was said to be dangerous to your health. Smoking was shortening the lives of those who smoked. Second hand smoke was said to be life shortening for non-smoking victims. The pressure was on smokers. The law suits went after the money from big tobacco.

My home State, Minnesota was a leader in corralling Big Tobacco money—more than $6 billion in 1998. I am a typical example of former Minnesota smokers. (I quit puffing in 1983 after 31 years of a pack-a-day of Camels.) Like the rest, I never saw a cent. It was predictably different for Mike Ciresi, the lead lawyer for Minnesota. He and his firm reportedly took in more than $500 million paid in two annual installments. The self-righteous anti-tobacco campaign was always about money and control. (Control? See Mayor Bloomberg.)

The same is true for the mounting campaign against “Big NFL.” But, why is Big NFL being shaken down and not, for example, the very wealthy Big Homosexism? Maybe it is because, as a class of people, NFL football is more dangerous and life shortening than the homosexual lifestyle. I looked it up. Former NFL players actually have a higher than average life expectancy. Let me say that again. On average, former NFL players outlive the rest of us.

That leads us directly to the clear observation: the self-righteous do-gooders should attack Big Homosexism “spreading” vast amounts of money around and reliving the homosexual victims from greatly shortened lives. Big Homosexism has big money—billions just waiting to be spread around. Homosexual businessmen and women are of course the wealthiest but go here for the 2012 top 10 list of homosexual celebrities.

Homosexism Shortens Life For the Homosexuals more than 20%

The compelling point, you do-gooders, is the homosexual life and lifestyle (Mary Cheney and her happy family notwithstanding) shortens the lifespan of America’s homosexuals by more than 25%.

The message is clear, do-gooders: leave the game of football alone; go after Homosexism!

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THE 2012 LIBERTY LIST—DEFENDING THE DECLARATION

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Richard Johnson

Those looking for a secular Declaration of Independence are about to have their world, if not their worldview, shattered. By the end of this Post you will know the powerful truth about the Christian character of the Declaration of Independence and of the men who adopted it.

Benjamin F. Morris wrote his 1060 page book, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States in 1864. The Second Continental Congress is a prime example. The Declaration is informed by the Holy Bible, Natural Law and the political philosophy of John Locke.

You will be thrilled as you see the Declaration in its three sections and understand its 9 key concepts. Don’t be surprised if you watch a second time.

Gary T. Amos, J.D., is the living authority on the Biblical basis of Declaration of independence. Those led to study beyond this post will do no better than reading his book, Defending the Declaration: How the Bible and Christianity Influenced the Writing of the Declaration of Independence. Here are the basics in this delightful video: God as Supreme Judge—Defending the Declaration of Independence.

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THE 2012 LIBERTY LIST—A DECLARATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Richard Johnson

July 2, 1776 The Declaration of Independence Was Adopted by the 13 “States.” This American Declaration of Independence Was and Still Remains the Foundation of the United States of America

June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selected Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence. As they discussed their task, Adams asked Jefferson to write the document.

As he was completing what is now known as the first draft, Jefferson counseled with Franklin and Adams. Jefferson had written, “. . . that among these [rights] are Life, Liberty and the individual ownership of property. Adams strongly urged that the pursuit of virtue be added. Jefferson, knowing that something special was on his parchment, adamantly insisted the enumerated rights must be the three—in that order. Franklin, demonstrating his value to our emerging nation, counseled they could accomplish both goals by simply covering virtue and property with the phrase, pursuit of happiness. It was agreed. Jefferson then presented his first draft to the full committee. One charge against the tyrant was struck from the document. (that of condemning him for introducing the slave trade into the colonies.)

Jefferson’s final draft was presented to the Congress for action. It was read and adopted July 2, 1776. Here is the dramatization of the adoption from the HBO miniseries, John Adams.

The adopted Declaration of Independence was printed and distributed at a public reading July 4, 1776 with much fanfare. The signing of the original document was completed August 2, 1776.

Today, as part of the continuing determined effort to “fundamentally transform” America, the Declaration of Independence is alternately ignored, attacked and denigrated.  We must be equipped and motivated to successfully defend this gift to the entire world but especially to America. Tomorrow, July 3, 2012, the Liberty List post will fill that need.

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THE 2012 LIBERTY LIST—AMERICA IS A COUNTRY THAT WAS BORN

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Richard Johnson

The American patriots of the fourth quarter of the eighteenth are called founders in history and

in common parlance today. But Lincoln saw another dimension. Hear him as He begins the Gettysburg Address:

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty . . .”

Did you hear him? Listen! Did you hear? These “fathers” were not founders, they were mid-wives! Notice it is not, “conceived in liberty;” it is, “conceived in Liberty!” Liberty is from God. Actually, it is more than that. Liberty is a quality of God. That capitalization is not used casually. Liberty was born from above!

Just two weeks ago I wrote: “A clear reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the United States of America shows that, from the beginning, Americans have acted with the confidence that We the People have a sovereignty under God and the government together with the officers of that government (at any level) are subject to We the People. That American reality is called into question today by the secular forces at large and, too often, from Christian pastors and leaders.”

But for the American revolutionaries (and us), rights are gifts from our Sovereign God. Government cannot give what it does not have. Governments can only take.

On the other hand, for the French revolutionaries, and, in our time, the left and Islam, rights are made up by an all-powerful government. Rights are parceled out to the supplicants. What they always do, however, is impose restrictions and penalties and taxes and regulations that choke and smother Liberty.

Let us commit to turn our country back to her birthright and her promise. Now, enjoy with me the 266 words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

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LIBERTY LIST 2012 —THE UNIQUE AMERICAN PATRIOT THEN AND NOW

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Richard Johnson

A typical definition for patriot is, “A patriot is someone whom feels or voices expressions of support for their country.” This works for every patriot around the world and across history except the American patriot. Every other country was founded

on tribe or land or both. America was and is an idea—individual God given liberty. The patriot of every nation can sing, “My country tis of thee,” but only the American patriot can sing, “Sweet land of liberty.”

But events this week have demonstrated more clearly than ever before our generation of patriots may be required to walk in the footsteps of those Revolutionary patriots. As we approach this 236th anniversary of our American Independence Day, let us remember the morning of April 19, 1775, British Major Pitcairn shouted to an assembled regiment of Minutemen at Lexington; “Disperse, ye villains, lay down your arms in the name of George the Sovereign King of England.” The immediate response of regiment commander Reverend Jonas Clarke was: “We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus.” That battle cry soon rang throughout the colonies. The American revolutionaries of the late 18th Century faced tyranny. And we face tyranny. Our “sweet land of liberty” is at risk and our house is as divided as Lincoln found it in 1860.  Our time requires patriots such as Samuel Adams of Massachusetts and Patrick Henry of Virginia.

 

None in America are more important that the men and women who become the 2012 Liberty List. Whether you are a 21st Century Patrick Henry or a minuteman of our time, you are just as indispensable. Get ready and be inspired now by the closing arguments of Patrick Henry’s speech in the St John’s Church in Richmond Virginia nearly a month before the battle of Lexington and Concord:

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable²and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace²but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

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LIBERTY LIST 2012: THE COMMENCEMENT

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Richard Johnson

Our Journey to Locate and Elect the Patriots of the 2012 Liberty List Begins Today.

It is only 129 days until the 2012 General election. This seems the last chance Americans have to rescue Liberty without the price of much blood. We each must do what we can—Contribute; communicate; work; pray. November 6, 20102 is the 112th biennial Federal election under the Constitution for the United States of America. A COMMENCEMENT? Success will mark the beginning of:

  1. The reclamation of the Constitutional order and Constitutional law.
  2. The rescue of liberty—God given Liberty—from under the heal of the tyrant’s boot.
  3. The rescue of free enterprise from the stranglehold of bureaucratic regulation.
  4. The rebirth of America as the world leader in production of cheap, clean energy. Hello ANWR, offshore and Western federal lands; goodbye world oppressors.
  5. The reduction of government spending, taxes and debt at all levels.
  6. The restoration of our National Sovereignty at the border, at the United Nations, and across the World.
  7. The full and complete repeal of Obamacare (The so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act).
  8. A government that supports rather than suppress Christian and Jewish religious expression.
  9. A government that values and protects God given human life at every stage.

Add your own.

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THE RALLYING CALL TO STOP THIS “BIG BROTHER ON STEROIDS”

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Richard Johnson

Republican Mitt Romney: “What the court failed to do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day (If I am elected) as President. That is repeal Obamacare.”

House Majority leader Eric Cantor: “Vote for total repeal” of Obamacare legislation is “Scheduled for July 11th.”

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: “Each of you must bring another 12 people to the polls; if you can’t do 12, a minimum of 5 because the other side will cheat if they have to.”

@NewtGingrich: Court has guaranteed this November most important election since 1860.

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