Freedom-Fighters Forum

By William J. Dell – October 2008

We are engaged in a major battle for the hearts and minds of the American People. The choice is whether we, as a nation, will survive by remembering our Judeo-Christian Heritage and choose freedom OR forget the ideal of America and choose the “chains of slavery” in the form of an oppressive federal government. There are “gadianton robbers” in the halls of congress and in their behind-the-scenes power-brokers who are bent on usurping power from “We the People.” They are minions of Lucifer and seek to garner control of our lives and will use any crisis or any means to accomplish their purposes. They want us, “We the People,” to be dependent upon them for every facet of our lives. They seek to destroy the God given agency of man. So will you be a freedom-fighter or a fighter-of-freedom?

There is PLENTY of blame to go around. For TWELVE YEARS the Democratic controlled Congress has had responsibility for the oversight of the financial markets. They failed in their fiduciary responsibility. For EIGHT YEARS the Republican Administration also failed to provide us the needed executive leadership. They, our watchmen on the tower, gave an “uncertain sound” concerning the present crisis and NO ONE “prepared himself to the battle.” Truly our federal government is broken because it is filled with egocentric, self-serving, self-absorbed POLITICIANS instead of STATESMEN. Now “We the People,” as a nation, will pay for their sins. We need men and women of CHARACTER in office for as you will read later “When the wicked rule, the people morn.” Each of us needs to remember, “The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men [women] to do nothing.” With Joshua of old I say “CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY” to be a freedom-fighter, for by doing nothing, you will become a fighter-of-freedom!

Many of our elected Members of Congress seem to have forgotten that they took an oath to defend our Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. In many instances since the market collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression, it would seem that they, the Congress, have become our greatest “domestic enemy.”

The current oath was enacted in 1884:

I 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.

Yet what is being touted as “Democratic Change?” It is nothing more than a continuation of the policies and programs established by FDR in the 1930′s and the furthering of the Great Society policies of LBJ in the 1960′s. These policies were then and are now designed to move our nation to a socialistic state which is unacceptable to this writer. On the other hand, what is being touted as “Republican Reform?” Destruction of the wall that should exist between the government and private sectors. Regulatory Law that leaves “Main Street” at the mercy of “Fat Cats” and predator marketers. These policies too are in opposition to our God given Constitution and unacceptable to this writer. What we really need is not change or reform but Constitutional Restoration!” In 1787 at the close of the Constitutional Convention, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got – a Republic or a Monarchy?” He is quoted as saying, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” We need to do all that is in our power to return to that Republic spoken of by Benjamin Franklin and established by the Constitutional Convention. We need to return to the ideals of our Founding Fathers and the Judeo-Christian based government they gave us.

They, our elected Members of Congress and the President, are required by their oath to defend our freedoms and our way of life granted by the Constitution no matter however long and hard the road. To do less than this is to renege on their oath and instead of being a Freedom-Fighters they become Fighters-of-Freedom.

So what must we as a nation do? “We the People,” must:

1. First and foremost, get and stay involved in the political process because it is our civic responsibility and we neglect it at our peril.
2. Ensure that we only elect Statesmen to office, men and women of character who have “We the People” as their only priority.
3. Choose each and every day to be a Freedom-Fighter or by default we become a fighter-of-freedom. There is no neutral ground in the fight for the hearts and minds of the American People.
4. Find and maintain the fortitude our parents exhibited in the fight against the Axis Powers of World War II. When we have their resolve and fortitude, we will then be able to restore our Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founding Fathers.

There are things worth dying for! God, Family and Country are three of these. So let us all always remember, “The only thing it takes for evil to triumph is for good men [women] to do nothing.”

In December 1776, Thomas Paine wrote in The Crisis [2008 emphasis substituted]:

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain [the U.S. Congress and the President], with an army to enforce her [their] tyranny, has [have] declared that she has [they have] a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

The Colonists in 1776 had King George III and the oppressive English Parliament which enacted the following over 10 years: Sugar Act of 1764, Stamp Act of 1765, Declaratory Act of 1766, Townshend Act of 1767, Revenue Act of 1767, Tea Act of 1773, and Intolerable Acts of 1774

“We the People” in 2008 have President George II and the oppressive U. S. Congress which have enacted the following over 10 months in 2008:

• Economic Stimulus Package – Feb – $152 Billion
• Bear Stearns – Mar – JP Morgan Chase purchased for $236 Million and Federal Reserve gave a Line-of-Credit for $30 Billion
• Housing Bill – Jul – $300 Billion in FHA Insurance
• Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac – Sep – Sub-prime Mortgage debacle started by President Clinton and the Democratic controlled Congress caused the seizure of these corporations by the Federal government - $200 Billion
• AIG – Sep – Federal government seized control – $85 Billion Bailout
• Auto Industry (GM, Ford & Chrysler) – Sep – $25 Billion in loans
• Troubled Asset Relief Program – Oct – $700 Billion Bailout
• AIG – Oct – another $37.8 Billion

AN NOW PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC
CONTROLLED CONGRESS
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – $787 Billion
• $410 Billion Omnibus Spending Bill with 9000 Earmarks (60% Democrat and $40 % Republican)
• $3.6 Trillion Federal Budget

ALL WITH + INTEREST
THE TOTAL: $6.33 Trillion AND GROWING!!

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776                   To CONGRESS, March 2009,
The unanimous Declaration of                    The unanimous Declaration of
the thirteen united States of America         “We the People of the United States”

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies [We the People]; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [Federal Government] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

The Colonists fought our FIRST CIVIL WAR to establish this nation from 1775-1783. It took until 1887 to complete the framework of our Constitutional Republic. We fought our SECOND CIVIL WAR to preserve our Constitutional Republic and abolish slavery from 1862-1865.

I pray that we NEVER need a THIRD CIVIL WAR to preserve our Constitutional Republic and the God given principles upon which it was established. I here paraphrase and echo the words of Patrick Henry: “We the People,” Three Hundred Million strong, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that 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 elections; and, “We the People” should not retire from the conquest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard in the Houses of Congress! The struggle is inevitable – and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

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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There must be some cause, some good reason, why the Colonist were so eager for liberty then, and now “We the People” are eager for the ‘chains of slavery.’

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