Everyone is entitled to MY own opinion
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the “general welfare of the people.” Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
This did not have a “share” button, so I had to cut & paste;
New preamble to the constitution .
This has been attributed to Lewis Napper, a Jackson, Mississippi computer programmer. He didn’t expect his essay — a tart 10-point list of “rights” Americans don’t have — to become an Internet legend.
‘We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.’
ARTICLE I:
You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth.. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.
ARTICLE II:
You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone — not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of dummies, and probably always will be.
ARTICLE III:
You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.
ARTICLE IV:
You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.
ARTICLE V:
You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we’re just not interested in public health care.
ARTICLE VI:
You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don’t be surprised if the rest of us want to see you get the blue juice.
ARTICLE VII:
You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don’t be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won’t have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure..
ARTICLE VIII:
You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.
ARTICLE IX:
You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an overabundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.
ARTICLE X:
This is an English speaking country. We don’t care where you came from, English is our language. Learn it!
Lastly
ARTICLE XI:
You do not have the right to change our country’s history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, sorry if you are uncomfortable with it.
If you agree, share this with a friend. No, you don’t have to, and nothing tragic will befall you if you don’t. I just think it’s about time common sense is allowed to flourish. Sensible people of the United States must speak out because if you do not, who will?
Look around and all you see is failure.
A bunch of kids are being murdered by some semi-human, so what do you do? Draw your weapon and put him down or die trying? Or do you sit there, doing nothing?
The same government we’re supposed to give up our guns to because they have it all under control chose Option B. It chose failure.
Tell me more about how the real problem is that we have the capacity to defend ourselves.
But the real problem, to our enemies, is not that murderers murder. The real problem, to our enemies, is the very fact that we can defend ourselves. The objective of our trash elite is not to have a country that runs well, where people are secure, and where rights are respected. The objective is to rule. And if a bunch of kids die for that, they’re fine with it.
They can live with failure, but not accountability.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/05/30/the-new-normal-is-failure-n2607940
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Biden just signed an executive order limiting the equipment that local law enforcement may acquire from the Federal government surplus.
What you are about to read you may not remember, however I remember it like it was yesterday because the rank& file police were still carrying revolvers. The LAPD officers involved in this shoot out had to go to gun shops and physically take better firearms, not that the shop owners minded, to end this threat.
How soon people forget:
The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, United States on February 28, 1997.
Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight civilians were injured, and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police.
At 9:16 a.m., Phillips and Mătăsăreanu entered and robbed Bank of America’s North Hollywood branch. The two robbers were confronted by LAPD officers when they exited the bank and a shootout between the officers and robbers ensued. The robbers attempted to flee the scene, Phillips on foot and Mătăsăreanu in their getaway vehicle, while continuing to exchange fire with the officers.
The shootout continued onto a residential street adjacent to the bank until Phillips, mortally wounded, succumbed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound; Mătăsăreanu was incapacitated by officers three blocks away and subsequently bled to death before the arrival of paramedics more than an hour later.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu are believed to have robbed at least two other banks using similar methods for entry past “bullet-proof” security doors, taking control of the entire bank, and firing weapons illegally modified to enable fully-automatic fire. They were also suspects in two armored car robberies.
Standard issue sidearms carried by most local patrol officers at the time were 9mm pistols or .38 Special revolvers; some patrol cars were also equipped with a 12-gauge shotgun.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu carried Norinco Type 56 rifles (a Chinese AK-47 variant), a Bushmaster XM-15 Dissipator with a 100-round drum magazine, and a Heckler & Koch HK91 rifle, all of which had been illegally modified to be select-fire capable, as well as a Beretta 92FS pistol.
The robbers wore homemade body armor which successfully protected them from handgun rounds and shotgun pellets fired by the responding officers. A law enforcement SWAT team eventually arrived with higher-caliber weapons, but they had little effect on the heavy body armor used by the two perpetrators. The SWAT team also commandeered an armored car to evacuate the wounded.
Several officers additionally equipped themselves with AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles from a nearby firearms dealer.
The incident sparked debate on the need for patrol officers to upgrade their firepower in preparation for similar situations in the future.
Due to the large number of injuries and rounds fired, equipment used by the robbers, and overall length of the shootout, it is regarded as one of the most intense and significant gun battles in U.S. police history. Combined, the two men had fired approximately 1,100 rounds in total, while approximately 650 rounds were fired by police. Another estimate is that a total of nearly 2,000 rounds were fired collectively.
Sent to me by a friend. Long, but well worth the read;
The foundation of any government is the consent of the governed.Democracies and republics are founded on the consent of the governed earned via representational or direct democracy: those who have a say and a stake in the system will give their consent to the government, even if an opposing view is in the majority because their opinion is part of the governance structure.
Even totalitarian states ultimately depend on the consent of the governed, as repressive states that lose legitimacy cannot imprison or kill a majority of their populaces, or restore legitimacy via coercion once the populace has nothing left to lose and the organs of state oppression realize the regime is doomed.
It feels like the consent of the governed is slipping away in the U.S. The reason is so obvious we dare not acknowledge it or discuss it: those in power–elected and unelected–only give lip-service to “serving the public interest and common good.” Beneath this flimsy facade of PR, every action serves the interests of a wealthy, politically potent elite or the self-interests of those in power.
Commoners have no real say in governance. We are consenting to rule by self-interested elites under the guise of being represented by an elite who governs at the behest and expense of hyper-wealthy individuals, families, corporations, cartels and monopolies.
Consider the issue of legalizing cannabis. Poll after poll shows the majority of the American citizenry favor legalizing cannabis, yet our federal representatives and regulators insist on ignoring the public will, public interest and the common good by continuing to classify cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug, as addictive and dangerous as heroin and fentanyl.
This is patently false and absurd. Hundreds of thousands of American die from alcohol and opioids every year, while deaths attributed solely to cannabis use are near-zero. Yet the federal government and our elected representatives refuse to accept the reality that cannabis isn’t equivalent to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids which continue to kill thousands every year.
Why? It’s the money, honey, greasing their palms and paychecks. Big Pharma views cannabis as a competitor so it lavishes billions of dollars on campaigns, lobbying and shaping the media narrative to serve their agenda of maximizing profits by any means available.
The War on Drugs Gulag of private prisons, law enforcement and the judiciary also skim billions of dollars as a result of cannabis being Schedule 1 (i.e. just as deadly as fentanyl). These powerful elites would lose billions in funding if the will of the people actually counted for something.
The realization that we’re not actually being represented at the federal level has eroded the consent of the governed for the national government, and pushed the electorate to seek legitimate representation at the state and local level. In response, states are openly flouting federal statutes (for example, the Schedule 1 absurdity of federal cannabis regulations) and claiming sovereign rights on issues such as currency (declaring gold coins as legal tender in the state, etc.) and cryptocurrency.
We can anticipate a cross-migration as residents who disagree with the majority views in their state move to states where the majority-approved policies align with their own preferences. This cross-migration will strengthen existing majorities into super-majorities, further accelerating cross-migration as policies that were considered extreme are normalized within states.
Within states, this relocalization of the consent of the governed is trickling down to counties, which are increasingly under pressure from the citizenry to ignore (or leave unenforced) state mandates which the residents disagree with.
Capital also manifests the consent of the governed. Capital will migrate away from states where it’s treated poorly, science-based enterprises will migrate away from states which restrict or starve research and development and manufacturing will migrate to states with willing, educated workforces and attractive infrastructure and tax structures.
States and counties whose policies are detrimental to capital will become poorer as capital chooses to locate to places where it has a say in governance, just as individuals want to live in a place where they have a say.
As the consent of the governed unravels, citizens may increasingly decide which statutes they’re going to obey and which ones they’ll ignore. Locales with strong community values will rely less on statutes and enforcement and more on social norms and community standards to maintain social order, while locales without any coherent community standards and shared values will have to rely on enforcement to avoid social disorder or meltdown.
Choose your community wisely. Thousands of pages of regulations won’t preserve the social order if the the consent of the governed and the social contract both unravel.
The Omnibus spending bill passed by Congress; The package boosts domestic spending by $46 billion, a nearly 7% hike. But it gives US Customs and Border Protection just $14.8 billion, a $428 million decrease from fiscal year 2021. (Factor in inflation, and the cuts are even deeper.)
The Biden administration — with Congress’ recently approved 40 billion — has approved in total 58 BILLION dollars to Ukraine since March. That’s just 5 billion away from Russia’s YEARLY military budget.
The “News” tells us that China has allied with Russia on Ukraine. They also tell us that Russian military units are moving toward the Ukraine border and that the Ukraine military has been gifted weaponry by the Biden administration. The countdown to hostilities has begun.
We’ll know when it starts.
The Russians are masters of deception and blitzkrieg and along with the Chicoms who have softened the world with their bioweapons and filled our electronic devices with fail chips will bring down the hammer quickly and decisively.
The internet will go dead when the remote mines kill the underwater cables.
Satellites will fail when the chips installed get a signal and self-destruct.
The sleeper agents who have streamed across the border and prepositioned themselves will decapitate the government and the military.
The grid will go down across the world as energy nexus are sabotaged.
The boomers will disappear as the nuclear torpedoes home in and destroy them.
The navy will explode and disappear beneath the waves under a barrage of hypersonic ship killers.
Planes will fall out of the sky as comms, controls, and navigation are jammed.
Normal life will be gone in about 20 minutes. Cities will go hunger games. Country folk will sit back and watch the show.
Prep, lock, load and Pray for our deliverance.
Despots are about power, not principle. They only use principle as a stage prop.
A creed in the nation of the Free People of America:
I pledge to live free and responsibly, and to respect the freedom of my fellow citizens.
That’s it. But those sixteen words encompass a universe of truth.
The word I is the first person pronoun, and this nation is about the people, the I’s that make up the nation. The United States of America is apparently about some coagulation of political and regulatory entities, with scant concern for the people who give it life. Without respect for the I’s, the US has sickened, and suffers its last death throes. The nation of the Free People of America is a nation of, by, and for the people, not the government. You have heard that there was another nation based on that principle, but it soon went astray.
The word pledge implies that person is making a commitment. In the US today, the concept of commitment is antiquated, where marital commitment is obsolete, commitment to the country is offensive, and commitment to ideals and particularly morality is gauche. But we in the Free People of America have personal fiber strong for commitment, and the fortitude to keep our commitments in the face of opposition.
The verb live free contains an understanding of the effort, work, and treasure required to not only live free but preserve that freedom, at all costs. Living free is not easy, and never has been. Despots see free people as prey, and our living free is a mortal threat to them. Our creed is poison to them. The nation which we overlay is threatened and scared by our freedom, and that nation is acting as our slave master.
The word responsibly is the other side of the coin of rights. Too often in the US we demand our rights, while abdicating our responsibilities. I need not provide examples; you can provide numerous ones from your own experience with irresponsible people who demand their rights.
Responsibility prompts the question, Responsible to what? Or whom? Our creed does not mention God any more than it mentions gravity or Euclid’s Elements or the basic truths of science, but these are assumed and valued, not taken for granted. Our responsibility incorporates the principles of Godly human interaction, including the Golden Rule, respect for others’ lives and property, telling the truth tenaciously, and living out virtue, courage, and honor. Our responsibility stretches from returning a lost wallet, to raising our children right, to risking our life for our neighbor as their home burns.
Responsibility also extends to the defense of freedom. We all know, or have been, members of the military whose lives are on the line to protect our freedom.
Respecting the freedom of our fellow citizens outlines those things we will not do. For example, we will not demand a day’s pay without working. We will also not stand idly by while our injured or sick neighbor who cannot work starves. We will not enslave our neighbor. We will not falsely accuse our neighbor. We will not spread gossip or lies. We will not steal. We will not support governmental systems which put our neighbor into economic or physical or medical bondage. And we will not manipulate the systems we create to oppress our neighbors simply because we disagree with their course of action or specific beliefs, or we want their wealth.
The word freedom does not mean freedom to do just anything, of course, but the freedom to be a whole, contributing member of our society, enjoying its benefits. You are not free to be a moron. Freedom empowers rich life, but is not free and comes at a cost, sometimes a great cost.
Last, the term fellow citizens implies that we have brothers and sisters of all colors and creeds who are living free. It also implies there are others who are not fellow citizens. There are always evil people in the world who would enslave and use us. Those people are not our fellow citizens. They must be fought and defeated, else we would in the end become their slaves. As an example, consider the United States of America, which is full of would-be slave masters, many of whom are highly successful at enslavement.
A poor or oppressed person reaching our shores penniless but ready to work can certainly be a fellow citizen, as has been the case in the past even in the United States. A person seeking the welfare state can not.
The creed incorporates so many virtuous ideas that have been poisoned by the economic slavery and political power greed we see in the US. For example, environmentalism has been co-opted by the liberals as a vehicle of economic suppression and political control. But the basic notions of clean air and water, good stewardship of the land in agriculture, and not poisoning the country in which we live are all right and proper. A responsible person farming their land responsibly in the nation of the Free People of America will take care of the land because they know it supports their life. They love the land. The left despises the concept of land ownership, but only when each acre has a ‘lover’ as a land owner does it thrive. The free areas are beautiful because they are loved by their responsible owners. Thus, stewardship of the environment reaches full adulthood through a free people, without the burden of greedy politicians or government regulations.
Our banking system in the US is corrupt, being easily manipulated by those in government. For example, why are interest rates near zero percent for individuals and businesses who would put money on deposit? It’s because the banks are receiving free fiat money from the government, through the Federal Reserve. If they receive free money, why should they pay you interest for yours? This is a crime and a distortion of the marketplace. Economic responsibility extends even to those who would be bankers in the nation of the Free People of America, so that they would never participate in such a criminal scam to debase and inflate their own currency.
Isn’t this simple?
What happens when 90% of the media is controlled/owned by (6) corporations?
What happens when those same corporations are operated and controlled by a political ideology?
What happens when the news is no longer free from bias?
What happens when the news is no longer reliable and independent?
What happens when the news is no longer trustworthy?
What happens when the news simply becomes an extension/arm of a political party?
Fact becomes fiction?
Fiction becomes fact?
When does news become propaganda?
Identity creation?
How does the average person, who is under constant financial stress (by design), find time to research and discern fact v fiction?
Majority of people more prone to believe someone in power sitting behind a big brand ‘news’ name?
Do people [human psyche] tend to follow the ‘majority/mainstream viewpoint’ in fear of being isolated and/or shunned?
‘Mainstream’ is used for a reason [dominate trend in opinion].
[If majority of people believe ‘x’ then ‘x’ must be validated / true]
Why do ‘mainstream’ media heads, within different orgs, always use the same keywords and/or catch phrases?
Coordinated? By who? Outside entity providing instructions?
Do they count on the fact that people [human psyche] are more prone to believe something if heard over-and-over again by different ‘trusted’ sources?
Do ‘echo chamber’ tactics provide validation / credibility to the topic/point being discussed?
Threat to intellectual freedom?
Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
Read again – digest.
Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
Logical thinking.
Why, after the election of 2016, did [D]’s and media corps jumpstart a [coordinated & planned] divisive blitz intended to create falsehoods re: illegitimacy of election, character assassination of POTUS through sexism, racism, every other ‘ism’?
Pre/post 2016 election?
Why were violent [masked] terror orgs such as Antifa immediately created/funded?
Why were these orgs tasked w/ immediate intimidation/shut down of any pro-POTUS rally and/or events?
Why were marches immediately organized to counter and silence pro-POTUS rally and/or events?
Why were marches immediately organized which divided people into sex/gender, race, [ism]?
When you control the levers of news dissemination, you control the narrative.
Control of the narrative = power
When you are blind, what do you see?
They want you divided.
Divided by religion.
Divided by sex.
Divided by political affiliation.
Divided by class.
When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those ‘different’ from you, not those responsible [controllers].
Divided you are weak.
Divided you pose no threat to their control.
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or stable [livestock kept – sheep].
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
“Free thought” is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
It’s not a conspiracy theory if it is truth!
The “Support of the Political Prisoners” rally in Washington, DC was made to be the classic “false flag.”
Most MAGA humans were forewarned. I expect most intelligent and aware ones stayed away on that account.
And even with ZERO attendees of the MAGA/Trump crowd, there was still seen to be THOUSANDS of errant destructive, illegal, even brazen protesters – and – then – someone got shot, and died.
Those in Washington WANT you to be to blame for their problems. It’s called OPTICS.
They have the MEDIA – they can make it say anything they want.
And they want you dead.
And making you to blame is where that process starts.
“Demonize” your enemy.
It didn’t work with the Rittenhouse jury. Be aware of a false flag for Thanksgiving.