Killing the tyrant…
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“What was the end of killing the tyrant, but to be free from tyranny? A ridiculous motive, and empty exploit, if our slavery survive him.” Cicero, quoted in Cato’s Letters, #23, p. 169.
The quote by Cicero is part of the legacy won by the American Revolution; not because he said it, but, because the English rebel, John Elliot, authored an example of it. And, there’s hardly an American alive who knows it.
American Founders relied heavily on English rebels for direction and procedures needed to successfully win their bid for independence; the Petition of Rights of 1628, the Grand Remonstrance of 1640, the so-called Bill of Rights of 1688, among many other milestones of liberty.
One of the more significant items was the resolution introduced by John Elliot by which taxes imposed without the consent of parliament was made a capital offense. The measure was passed by the House of Commons before Charles dissolved parliament and arrested several members. Twelve years later, parliament used Elliot’s resolution as the basis to take down judges and tax collectors, a bishop and kings for asserting “the divine right of kings” and imposing taxes that had not received the assent of parliament.
No, I don’t recommend that we kill tyrants and their useful idiots; it would put them out of their misery too soon. I think it would be much better to recover the booty they took – even if we have to chase them to the ends of the earth.
And, no, we can’t rely on current forums of redress; they are dominated by bandit and useful-idiot classes who will not allow any meaningful investigation – much less, any prosecution – of themselves. When the Justice Department conceived and directed “Fast and Furious”, did you really expect them to prosecute themselves for it?
Silly season is over; we have to get serious. If there is to be any redress, we must use the only historically-proven method that has ever brought worthwhile redress: substantially the same method used by American Founders.
The trouble is there is hardly an American today that even suspects the existence of this method: he simply has no knowledge of it.
For example, Founders repeatedly declared that “no man is obligated to obey any law or pay any tax unless he has given consent to it”. Did they mean this literally? Of course they did. From the first English settlement to the Revolution this was how affairs of the colonies were managed. Every “law” and every “tax” had its origin in contracts between colonial assemblies and those who petitioned for redress of grievances. The terms of the contract were sometimes referred to as “laws” of the contract while its money payments were treated as “taxes”. And only petitioners were obligated to obey such “laws” and pay such “taxes”. When redress was completed, related “laws” and “taxes” expired.
There, in one paragraph I conveyed to you more real history than you learned in 12 years of elementary and high schools, and 4-6 years of university indoctrination. You won’t learn this and other lessons from professors, or judges, or lawyers; the first two depend on continued grievances for their pensions, the third never learned such history, or law.
This right of consent was won with the Revolution… and who knows it?
This is just one of many examples of real American history and law Americans don’t know; and that they must learn if there is to be any redress relative to a mountain range of grievances.
Until men learn these lessons of history, those who suffer from, and those who complain about, grievances must wallow in a stifling swamp of impotence: that condition where men only pretend at reason, justice, and civilization.
No, it won’t be easy and it won’t be quick. Unprecedented adventures never are.
Timely and Related
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Redress for Pedophilia: If we are to have redress regarding a very long list of grievances, we need to operate on a very large stage. And to do that, we need an issue that moves large numbers of people to outrage and readily propels them to action. The kidnapping, torture and murder of children is that issue. Even convicted felons get in on the act. It seems to be general knowledge that when a child molester is placed among convicted felons, the life expectancy of the former is 2-3 days. It is also general knowledge that no one is employed by criminal and useful-idiot classes but those who are subject to blackmail; and a sizeable fraction of them are child molesters. Here is a feast handed to the dissident community on a golden platter; for dissidents could use this issue to take down almost anyone perpetrating grievances… and dissidents do nothing with this gift. It puzzles me… until I remind myself that, fully, 90% to 95% of all dissident organizations on this planet are counter-intelligence operations. The only question is, “Are they controlled by witting cointel agents, or are they just plain dumb?” It doesn’t really matter; for, a controlled dupe can wreak more damage among dissidents than a conscious agent. You can identify a cointel operation by its refusal to allow any discussion regarding historically-proven redress among themselves or followers. It seems the only place on this planet where this information is available is this website.
Building an American Schutzstaffel… Do you have a neighbor that really irritates you? You say there’s only one position open on the faculty at college… and there are six simpering would-be professors ahead of you… and you’d like to get rid of them? Is that what’s bothering you bunky? Well despair no more. I’ll bet you thought only the CIA, FBI and Mossad were the only legal assassins… and that they worked from lists they compiled. Well, times have changed. Yes siree! The DHS is waiting for your call. Chair warmers there will take names from anyone. All you have to do is fabricate a story about how that pesky neighbor, creditor or simpering professor is plotting to damage the “national infrastructure”; deliver your lies to the DHS and, within hours, they will get rid of that pesky neighbor, or whatever, for you. Don’t worry about being called an informer: you’ll be known as a “submitting person” and your fabricated story will never be examined in court; for, you only have to give an “express statement” that your lies were “voluntarily given” and that you expected “protection from disclosure”. It’s all there, in the legislation that created the DHS. But don’t do this without first having your lawyer verify this bonanza; he might also help you fabricate the necessary fairy tale.
Yessiree Bob, the Times they are a changing. Oh… ah… we should forget that the DHS is little more than a reincarnation of the Nazi SS, the Soviet Cheka and the French Committees of Terror (1792-4) – complete with “watchers” and “listeners”, midnight “domiciliary visits”, secret, or no, trials before eliminating dissidents.
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