Freedom-Fighters Forum

By William J. Dell – 16 November 2011
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

During the American Revolution there were approximately three million citizens in the thirteen colonies. Of these about one million were Americans seeking independence, about one million were Tories loyal to the Crown, and the remaining one million were “fence-sitters” waiting to see which way to jump or they just did not care about Liberty and Freedom one way or the other.

I am grateful to our Founding Fathers and their American compatriots who labored and fought so diligently to win our independence and secure our unalienable rights from our Creator to Life, Liberty, and Property. I am grateful to the American patriots who fought to preserve the Union while we were in the crucible of Civil War. I am also grateful for all Americans who have striven throughout our history to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Those who maintained a deep and abiding faith in our Constitutional Republic, our founding documents and the desire that their posterity would have a better America than they had received from their forefathers. For a greater truth has never been spoken than this, “To maintain the American way of life and pass it intact to succeeding generations is the responsibility of every true American.”

Why is it that our Founding Fathers and their compatriots were so fearlessly and determinedly American and We the People of today are not? There must be some cause, some good reason, why the Founding Fathers and their compatriots were so eager for Liberty then, and now We the People are eager for the servitude of the Welfare Socialist State?

Why are there so many divided Americans in our nation today? Why have they forgotten the essence of the expression on the Great Seal of the United States – E pluribus unum [Out of many, one]? What has happened to the once “great melting pot” that forged a great nation out of self-reliance, self-determination and the universal opportunity to try, to strive, to succeed or to fail? Why has America become the “great sectional plate” divided by class and ethnicity? Could it be that Americans have forgotten what it means to be an American?

To be an American,, one must understand that the bedrock foundation of our Constitutional Republic was forged by those seeking religious freedom. They came to America’s shores for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience. As they came, they setup governments based upon Judeo-Christian principles. Principles that were so important to them that 156 years after the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock they wrote these same Judeo-Christian principles into the Declaration of Independence and after our Independence was won, they again wrote them into our Constitution.

To be an American, one must understand that this nation is a Christian nation, a position that was upheld by the Supreme Court until 1947. It was then that progressive Jurists, without citing any judicial precedent, started dismantling our Christian heritage. You do not have to be a Christian to be an American, but you do need to be tolerant of the Christian majority. The First Amendment guarantees you the right to worship as a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Muslim; or, to not worship as an Atheist but you do not have the right to prevent the majority of Americans from worshiping their God and Jesus Christ according to the dictates of their hearts any more than Christians can prevent you in your choice of religious tradition.

To be an American, one must hold inviolate and sacred that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land as stated in Article VI. That NO law or system of laws is permitted to supplant it, neither the acts of the United Nations, International Law, the laws of any other nation nor the laws of any other group or sect, such as, Sharia Law. All these external entities and their systems of law are subordinate to our Constitution and ALL judicial action within our Constitutional Republic must be adjudicated based upon Constitutional Law and nothing else.

To be an American, one must understand that government exists at the pleasure of and within the bounds set by those governed. That We the People have established our Constitutional Republic, our government, to be the protector of our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and Property granted by God. That our government is to be the servant of We the People and not their master. That our government has a limited mandate as stated in our Constitution and has NO constitutional right to usurp powers “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” That our government is to stand in defense of We the People’s individual rights enumerated in the first ten amendments of our Constitution, our Bill of Rights.

To be an American, one must understand that the family is the basis of all society and civilization. Without families coming together for the mutual good, we would have no communities, no counties, no States and no United States of America. For this reason government needs to protect and defend the traditional family defined as one man, one woman and their posterity.

To be an American, one must understand that we live in a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy. A republic founded upon the principle of representative government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” A government designed by our Founding Fathers with both horizontal and vertical separation of powers. A government which horizontally divides power between the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary to ensure that “political power” does not become centralized in the hands of the Congress as an oligarchy or the President as a dictatorship. A horizontal separation of power so that the Supreme Court is limited to determining the constitutionality of our laws and not legislating law from the bench. A government where the vertical separation of power limits the federal government to external affairs of state needed to represent our Union to the world, to defend us from “all enemies, foreign and domestic” and to interstate, but not intrastate, commerce. A vertical separation of power that recognizes the sovereignty of each of the individual 50 states. A sovereignty granted by the Tenth Amendment of our Bill of Rights such that each individual state has power to control their own internal affairs.

To be an American, one must understand that the federal government has no power from We the People to enact legislation designed to destroy equal-justice in the name of social-justice, to destroy liberty through entitlement, or to destroy ownership through redistribution. Every right thinking person will agree that no one has the right to steal from another person depriving him of his property, the fruits of his labors. To do so because of covetousness and/or a desire to benefit from another’s labors without personal effort is contrary to the unalienable rights of man. It is, therefore, just as wrong for government to steal from its productive citizens to give [redistribute] to other less-productive or unproductive citizens. “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.” Charity may never be forced and government can only distribute to citizens what it first takes [steals] from other citizens.

To be an American, one must understand that our Founding Fathers gave us a government of equal opportunity not equal things. It is this principle of equal opportunity to better ones self through grit, self-reliance, and sheer dogged individual determination that drove the pioneers along the trails of our western expansion. It is this principle of equal opportunity which has throughout our history enabled an entrepreneur to invent, to build a company from the ground up and to enjoy the fruits of his or her labors. “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”

To be an American, one must understand that with Freedom comes individual responsibility. We the People cannot abdicate our individual responsibility for our “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Or more simply stated, We the People cannot have an attitude of “let George do it.” As an American, we must be individually involved in the preservation of our Freedom or by acquiescence we become partners with those who would destroy our Freedom and our Constitutional Republic in favor of a Welfare Socialist State. [See http://www.freedom-fightersforum.org/a-patriot%e2%80%99s-responsibility/ ]

To be an American, one must understand that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” as guaranteed by the Second Amendment is not about “hunting” to put food on the table. It is about We the People’s last bastion of defense against a tyrannical government determined to destroy rather than preserve our unalienable rights from our Creator to Life, Liberty and Property.

To be an American, one must have a love of country and of Liberty greater than life itself. One must understand and believe that there are things worth dying for and that God, Family, Country and Liberty are some of these. Our Founding Fathers pledged their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor to the cause of Liberty. The patriots of 1776 resoundingly said with Patrick Henry, “Give me Liberty or give me Death.” They did this as Americans to win our Liberty from England and establish this great nation. If you desire to be an American, you can do NO less in the fight to preserve our Constitutional Republic and our Liberty from tyranny from within and without.

To be an American, one must understand that it comes not alone by being born as a citizen within one of the 50 States or even choosing to be a naturalized citizen after emigrating from a distant land as defined in the Fourteenth Amendment. To be an American is to have the Light of Liberty radiating within your soul because the Fire of Freedom is burning in your heart not just for yourself but for all men everywhere. There are many who have been born throughout this great land who will never be Americans, just as the Tories and “fence-sitters” during our struggle for independence were never Americans. There are also many around the world who although they will never see this “land of the free,” they will live and die as “Americans” because the Light of Liberty radiates within their souls as the Fire of Freedom burns fiercely in their hearts.

To be an American, one must have and express a deep and abiding gratitude to God for our unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and Property, for the sacrifice of our Founding Fathers, for our founding documents and for the privilege of being an American. One must forever hear, feel and reverence deep within their soul all that has been or ever will be expressed by freedom loving patriots in defense of Liberty. Lastly, one must see and feel deep within their soul the truth of all that has been written here and which is symbolized in our flag as it passes by or flutters on the breeze.

I started this article with, “During the American Revolution there were approximately three million citizens in the thirteen colonies.” Our Constitutional Republic now has approximately 300 Million citizens within its 50 States. When we were thirteen colonies about one million sought for and obtained America’s independence. Today, by extension, one-third of our nation would be 100 Million. Are you willing to be one of the 100 Million Americans needed to preserve our Constitutional Republic? Does the Light of Liberty radiate within your soul? Does the Fire of Freedom burn fearlessly and determinedly within your heart? Will you answer the call of Liberty and Freedom? Will you answer the call to be an American?

WANTED [NEEDED] Citizens, who with a firm reliance on Almighty God, to lead us back from the dark night of tyranny and slavery that We the People, individually and as a nation, are facing into the day light of Liberty and Freedom which our forefathers enjoyed and bequeath to us. WANTED [NEEDED] Citizens willing to pledge their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor to the restoration of the Judeo-Christian principles and the ideals written and expressed in our founding documents that made our Constitutional Republic the greatest nation the world has known. WANTED [NEEDED] Citizens to rekindle the Fire of Freedom within their hearts so that the Light of Liberty might radiate within their souls. WANTED [NEEDED] Citizens to mutually assist each other in maintaining our Constitutional Republic as a beacon of hope in a world of darkness. WANTED [NEEDED] Citizens desirous of securing “the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

WANTED [NEEDED] CITIZENS TO BE AMERICANS!
WILL YOU ANSWER THE CALL?

May God Bless and Save the United States of America.
Our Constitutional Republic !