I’m not generally a “shot across the bows” kinda guy, but I felt that this message was important enough to be given in the form of a ‘fair warning’. If you agree, please attach your name or alias, post it, and pass it on.
FAILURE TO TAKE HEED AND ACT ACCORDINGLY FROM THIS POINT FORWARD IS UNDERTAKEN AT YOUR PERIL.
THE RECLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE
WHEN IN THE GENERATIONS SUCCEEDING the one that pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to usher in the birth of the world’s only truly free nation, Liberty’s Progeny incrementally ceded their birthright to the government conceived and designed to serve a free people, and not be its servant, this generation is awakening to the terrible mistake that we, and our ancestors allowed to happen. Charged with the terrible knowledge that comes with opened eyes, we now take up the long abdicated duty to rouse our fellow citizens and actively wrest the power and the liberties that have been progressively talked, cajoled, threatened, wheedled, and extorted from us, not only by those who ostensibly served us, but by their supporters and enablers who, by accident or design, saw fit to usurp and disdain such freedoms, that they might be withheld, and where impossible to withhold, might be condemned, until a corrosive contempt for these liberties, wrapped in velvet gloves, might so suffocate the circulation of them that this nation, conceived in liberty and the providence of a wise and benevolent creator, might indeed perish from the earth, plunging the rightful heirs of a proud and noble heritage in the the darkened waters of chaos, despair, and evil that surround them, a dank deluge that even today, other human beings actively seek to escape from in the inspiring embrace of this blessed and free country.
We, the awakened and aware, freely accept the charge that the architects of this republic passed on to us over two centuries before, in the hope that all who partook in the blessings made possible by nation they created would somberly undertake the duties of citizens, and so appropriately train themselves in virtue, and educate themselves in the workings of the precepts and ideals set forth in their foundational documents that they would possess enough wisdom to recognize that not all threats to our freedom would come from without our ranks, the knowledge to recognize that not every chain and shackle menacing us will immediately appear to be what it actually is, and the humilitynot to assume that the ingenuity and innovation that has been the hallmark of American success has been the product of man alone.
To this end, we hereby identify and reclaim our independence from the tools used to slowly enslave a free people and usurp the freedoms that we could not be persuaded to freely give up, or voluntarily suppress the free exercise of on our own:
1. We reclaim our independence from the tyranny of ‘Political Correctness’.
The Constitution does not now, nor has it ever guaranteed a right to be free from being offended. Early successes in causing the disruption of free speech by insisting on the use of words or terms stripped of their meaning or altered by redefinition and deliberate use of ephemism, in order to avoid offending more delicate sensibilities lead to its use to deliberately avoid, delay, or prevent the free exchange and communication of ideas because we allowed ourselves to be more afraid of offending someone or being branded with a label chosen to imply that there was a problem with the offending speaker, rather than the intended recipient.
No more.
Words have meaning and names have power. But truth overcomes, when it is given the opportunity to exist unfettered by the artificial restraints that those who fear it would place upon it. The Founding Fathers knew this, which is why they favored the “marketplace of ideas” approach. And we now ratify and affirm this concept, having borne witness to the damage and impaired decision making that results when we remain silent and let others avoid any real discussion of topics, events, and ideas out of the fear that we might offend someone.
2. We reclaim our independence from your victimhood.
For too long, we have stood by silently, and allowed some to increasingly balkanize this country with sob stories of how one thing or another makes them a victim, and therefore they deserve some special deference, special preference, and recognition that they are special. We watched for too long, with growing alarm, as the hyphenated-Americans increasingly failed to take it upon themselves to overcome their victim status, yet continually expect to be rewarded for it as they brandished their victimhood like a cudgel, ready to bludgeon any who dared to question their entitlements and almost rapacious appetites to expand them.
No more.
One of the many unique blessings that this country has to offer is the presence of second and third and fourth chances. Others know this, and rather than think that the good things available to those who work for them were something that they were simply entitled to by virtue of their sob story, real or imagined, they decided to man up, and overcome. That doesn’t happen through accepting help and deciding to continually demand more. We are a generous people, but there are limits. Decide of your own accord to know the satisfaction of making your own destiny, rather than subsistence on the labor of others. You might be surprised at what you accomplish, or how that might come to benefit your fellow citizen in ways that you cannot even imagine.
3. We reclaim our independence from the myth of a compelling interest in diversity at the cost of excellence.
The latest affront to the ‘American Exceptionalism’ that our current President feels the need to apologize for in foreign capitols is the recent notion of a “compelling interest in diversity in our government, our institutions, and our culture”. This is the bastard child of Political Correctness and victimhood, which would not have been possible without the misapprehension of the concept of equality as enshrined in our law, the correct interpretation being that citizens of this country have equality of opportunity and equality in stature in the eyes of the laws that govern us. Once the “right” of offense took hold and started keeping company with victimhood, those benefiting from the employment of both decided that equality really meant that everyone had a right to be to be surrounded in all walks of life by people who looked just like them, whether those people were qualified to fulfill those roles or not.
No more.
Americans rose to prominence in the world in no small part due to the idea of merit and the pursuit of excellence. This was embodied in our government and institutions as much as in the private sector. Civil Service exams for public sector jobs ensured not only that people could do the work required of them, but that the best qualified were hired to do the job. Now, the standard in many fire departments, police departments, government agencies, and university staffs is not excellence, but the color of skin, gender, or sexual preference. The identity has eclipsed ability and we are all the poorer for it. Prepare for a change.
4. We reclaim our independence from the contempt of our citizenship.
For too long, we have silently permitted others to use the appeal of emotion to exact our acquiescence in their actively allowing people who have violated our laws to come here to live and work among us without asking permission to do so, or obeying our laws in doing so. We have allowed others to cajole us into allowing these persons to use our resources, and take benefits intended for citizens, without them being required to become citizens or apply for residence. We have been too long silent as others continually advocate for the application of the protections that are conferred upon us as our birthright to those who are not citizens and have tried to kill citizens, or have expressed a deep-seated desire to do so.
No more.
No sane person so despises something of value that is theirs by virtue of “the accident of birth” that they simply would give it away to others who want it and yet show contempt for those who have it by stealing it from them. Likewise, no sane person so dishonors a gift purchased with the blood of others that they will give it to those who only desire to kill or enslave them. No longer will we be silent as others confer all the benefits and protections of citizenship upon those who disrespect it, or would steal such benefits and protections without assuming the responsibility to pay for them, or worse yet, murder us because we have them.
5. We reclaim our independence from the “Freedom from religion” that has erroneously been read into the Constitution.
From the institution of Thanksgiving, to the architecture of our public buildings and monuments, the opening of government proceedings, down to the acknowledgement on our currency, this country has very deep and undeniable judeo-christian roots, and has been governed by leaders who unashamedly proclaimed their according personal beliefs while in office. It has influenced our laws and been the bedrock of every ideal that has allowed this nation to grow and prosper. This heritage has been the target of a decades long campaign to shove God out of the public square and exile him from congress with our elected officials by people who have refused the notion of a higher authority, because their own beliefs and desires are in contravention to those expressed by that higher authority.
No more.
Assaulting our national heritage with such dubious legal notions such as a separation of church and state that forbids any mention of God or expression of religion on or in state-owned property, and dismantling existing law with the fallacious statement “You can’t legislate morality” does violence to our history and demonstrates weak logic and understanding of what law is. The Founding Fathers’ intent with the Establishment Clause was the prevention of any one church gaining the favor and sanction of the Federal Government. A ban on ANY expression of religion or belief in God was never their intention, and the evidence of that is still surrounding us to this day. The current state of the law is based on a false premise that can be easily dismissed by a simple walk around the monuments and buildings in the District of Columbia, and taking out you wallet to pay for an ice cream cone. As for the “You can’t legislate morality” canard, this is also false. The law is, in its most simple essence, an expression of morality, codified. The question that then arises is whose morality should be expressed in the law? Those of people who can point to no particular belief system that has certain valuable virtues at its core, or those that can?
6. We reclaim independence from the cynical attempts to use shame to stop us from speaking out.
We have all felt this. The accusations that we are poor Christians because we refuse to give the government power not granted to it in the Constitution and go along with the currently contemplated healthcare reform bill. The charges that we hate the Earth and our children, because we oppose the highest single tax increase ever, combined with the deleterious effect on American jobs that would result in the passage of the Cap and Tax bill, which owes its existence to the myth of man-made global warming and the fact that it feeds the Federal Government its two favorite entrees: money and power. The charges that we are bad, greedy, selfish people for not supporting the idea that government and welfare entitlements are the way to improve the lives of Americans who are struggling, whatever the reason. The charges of “Racism” whenever we raise a provocative question or level a criticism at a person, policy, or idea that might happen to involve a person or persons who are not Caucasian.
No more.
Charges like “racist” and “racism” made without objective, quantitative support, and only the subjective justification of emotion will be ignored. The race card is maxed out, and the bank is no longer willing to extend the credit line. As for attacking our faith, or our practice thereof, we will no longer be held to account by people who do not understand the faith they would use as a weapon against believers, when the wielder subscribes to no belief system at all. Those who rely only on themselves for the regulation of their conduct and ethics no longer get to condemn those who answer to a higher authority. Not any more. We reclaim control of the shame that you have opted out of, and we will no longer allow you to use it to make us answer to you.
7. We reclaim independence from the notion that the Federal Government is the solution to every problem and the answer to every question.
For too long, we stood by and allowed debate and action on all matters, predicated upon on a destructive and dangerous idea: That the Federal Government is the only way to meet a need, fix a problem, or prevent a problem. In time it became a security blanket, and we became a nation of thumbsuckers, eager to give the federal Government more power and more money, if only it would keep us safe from life and the living of it as free people, until we no longer looked to it for protection from others who would have our liberties or destroy them; we looked to it for protection from the consequences of our own actions.
No more.
We were so fixated in seeking the federal government’s assistance with every aspect of our daily lives, no one within or without the Federal Government ever exercised restraint and said “No. The Consitution does not give the Federal Government the authority to do that.” And now that people are alert to the fact that the Federal Government is poised on the cusp of the largest power grab it has ever made with the healh care bill, some of us are finally saying “No. You do not have the authority.” The stakes have never been more obvious. Met with the anger of constituents who are actually paying attention, elected officials are employing various means to intimidate these citizens who are expressing their disgust and anger that a government that serves them would ever feel so entitled to our money and our data in the passage of something so clearly opposed by those who wold have to live under it, these servants have resorted to insulting their constituents, calling them shills in the pay of their political opponents, calling them stupid and saying that they simply did not understand the printed words on the pages of the bill, brazenly lying to them outright about what they have proposed and are considering, and filling audiences at public meetings with rent-a-mobs from the SEIU, ACORN, and others, so that they will face a friendly audience that is also hostile to the voters opposed to this latest demonstration of government off its leash. The days of promising good governance but delivering graft, corruption, and self serving sinecures are over. We do not care about your party; both have proven themselves reckless and dishonest. We demand that you act responsibly, that you do the people’s business, not your own, and we demand that you act within the confines of the Constitution. No more will we simply accept legislation that exceeds the authority strictly enumerated in the Constitution. No more will we accept interpretations of the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause that are so tortured and stretched beyond reason or recognition as to be unrecognizable to anyone who has read the Constitution. No longer will we accept legislation from the bench that relies not on interpretation of the Constitution, but mystical divination of mysterious penumbras that only a few ‘right-minded’ jurists can see. Those days are over, and you can return usurped powers to the states and the individual citizens in whom the Constitution rightfully places them, or you can have them stripped from you.
We, those who have come together in virtual congress to reclaim our independence from those who have by various means obtained it from us, realize that this probably wasn’t the HOPE! and CHANGE! that those persons had in mind, but nevertheless, the time has come.
Blackiswhite, Imperial Consigliere
Free Citizen of the United States of America,
August 29, 2009
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I like it!
You have no power. Neener, neener. 🙂
Hey dickface, if we are soooooo out of power, how have you and you flaming fisters of fury been unable to pass O-care yet?
Oh, and fuck you upside down with the rotting carcass of a chimp’s nutsack.
By the way, I loved this BiW.
Excellent post BiW,
I agree completely BiW, and will pass this around far and wide. The ideas contained herin have my support 100%!
Amen! You Sir, are a true wordsmith.
P.S. I am so stealing this.
crunchie,
I WANT people to steal it. That was why I planted it there! Misha gave you keys…all I can do is link!
Done and done Sir. With much awe.
http://nicedoggie.net/index.php/archives/2755
Crunch, can you go back and fix the two mistakes in paragraph 6 that I just fixed here? Thanks.
I think I may purloin this puppy as well. VERY well done sir!!!
Sure thing buddy.
Well, that reply was meant for BiW. Don’t make much sense replying to Guy’s comment. That’s what I get for still being awake at this unholy hour.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
This is going on on Anger Central. I think I may post this on both the main rant site as well as the blog site.
Borrowed it also. Extremely well worded.
This is an absolutely incredible post. I’m copying it to my site, and asking it to go viral!
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You wanted it swiped, it’s off and running to the Jerry Doyle website.
BiW,
Bloody well done!
I’m going to put out a Special Edition of my now infrequent newsletter, and it will be the subject along with a counterpoint of Decree 10-289 [with Obama ARRA header].
May I have permission to put an addition urging those who see this to circulate and to sign themselves either in ink or in pectore? The addition will be noted as mine and not yours.
Subotai Bahadur
Permission given.
I’d like it to become as ubiquitous as the Obama Joker.
And why is it I am not on the mailing list of the newsletter?
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Hi BiW I just posted it and tweeted it. Its wonderful.
LC Ted
AMEN. AMEN. AMEN. (and its about time!)
forw’d to my various secure blogs. thank u BiW!
…we do not appreciate our freedoms until…
we lose them.
BiW – Very well done, sir. Thoughtful, profound, inspiring and soon to be ubiquitous.
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This is truly excellent, but it is too bad all the grammar/typing errors were not corrected before going viral. Such as the very last sentence in paragraph 5 or the spelling of the word “wold” (should that not have been “would”?) and others that the reader would possibly read correctly w/o realizing the error. Congratulations on expressing the opinions of many, many true Americans!!! Wonder if the O-team will be contacting you anytime soon.
Are you serious? I’m worried about your slow descent into self-righteousness. I appreciate the sentiment behind it but surely the points can be made with less volume and drama. I really don’t think the “O-team” gives a rat’s ass about a blogger’s “Reclamation of Independence.” As I said, things like, “At your own peril,” is more dime store novel drama than a political writing.
So what are you goals? Your plans? Armed insurrection? Or merely to prose on without any real action taken. It’s very easy for all of us to say a bunch of words that the government isn’t listening to and another to formulate a plan.
BiW, I love you like a brother but get a hobby. I can’t even read all of this because it’s so melodramatic. The people you are trying to reach (the masses, I presume): A) Wouldn’t understand half of the words you use and B) Would stop reading after the second paragraph.
Sorry to be so harsh but I felt the need to finally chime in.
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ready to fight.
Enoch_Root
Bravo…
Beautiful, just beautiful. I’ve linked to it and I’ll pass it around everywhere I can.
Have a link to it on my facebook site. Don’t know how many have read it, but haven’t noticed any appreciable drop in my “friends list”, so perhaps it hasn’t been either looked at, or not looked at unfavorably.
We are on the cusp of a new chapter in this nation’s history. Whether it will be the final chapter of this country as we know it, a rebirth based on those ideals and precepts on which we were founded, or some sort of great division, is yet to be determined. Which ever or what ever it may be, is well with in our reach , be it as individuals or as part of a larger whole. Do we stand with the new status quo, or do we aim to misbehave?
well done! Exactly what we need, Glenn Beck needs to read this. I will try and get it to him.
posting to everyone I know.
I k now some people going to the march on DC sept 12.. I cant go, but someone will get it there for me.
The bird.
If Glenn Beck even reads this, I’ll kiss your ass…
I guarantee there won’t be any ass kissing going on any time soon.
best thing to do is to “organize” in very small groups. 3-5 at most. remain “under the radar” until such a time as it makes sense. The left may believe that the so-called militias are growing in ranks – they are. but the real story is the advent of much smaller groups of people who are constitutionalists. not at all given the white-supremacist BS. A different and distinct brand of people – patriots who don’t care about democrap or republicant, but love the constitution and the ideals it so beautifully sets forth.
God willing, we will not have to see these small groups coalesce into larger groups at all. but some of us see it as sadly unavoidable.
and btw.. HOFFMAN! no power? Are you stupid or what.. IN OR OUT 2010! Either the present government agrees to the above or they are out. WE put them IN, WE can take them OUT.
so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
May I offer related comments on how desperate our situation has become? http://bit.ly/185RD6 Thanks!
Posted on my site and forwarded to my e-mail list.
Thank you for putting into words what a lot of us have felt for a long time.
And FOLLY?, it may seem “melodramatic” to you, but ask yourself, what would/did the average man have thought of the original at the time of it’s proclamation?
The original average man was willing to die for his freedom. Are you? How about you, BiW?
I’m betting the answer is a resounding “Hell no!” because y’all don’t want to miss an episode of Survivor.
Hence Folly’s assertion that BiW is being melodramatic in the extreme.
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Just fer gets-and-shiggles, I ran the title through Google a few minutes ago. 51,700 results. I think your desire to go viral is working.
Thanks, BisW. I’ve sent copies to everyone whose survival I really give a flying damn about.
To shamelessly steal and plagiarize a term from the Bush administration — “BiW, you magnificent bastard!”
FAILURE TO TAKE HEED AND ACT ACCORDINGLY FROM THIS POINT FORWARD IS UNDERTAKEN AT YOUR PERIL.
What are you going to do? Throw a ham sandwich at Obama?
Come on, BiW, unless you intend to take up arms and go on a shooting spree, that is the single most ridiculous thing you’ve said so far.
grigoryrasputin, are you the dedicated douchebag for this forum? If so, good job! Maybe you could whine and cry some more for effect.
Management! Remember the village that called looking for their idiot? I think we found him.
A bit wordy, but I expect no less from a lawyer.
Seems good.
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Great post. I just twittered it and will link it from my blog.
http://willnevergiveup.wordpress.com
Hey, Steve, LICK MY BALLS.
Perfect. I’m linking from my blog as well. Thank you sir. Well done!
Linked, credited (saw it on Gunslinger’s site) and now signed with my name, also.
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Exemplary work! Thank you for this, and yes, I hope that permission is tacit approval across the board, as I will be quoting this, if not copying entirely, and of course will credit and link back to you…. I have to read more from you, as this impresses me and I hope that you are as motivated on the issue of taking back our role as master of the government, as a people. As I like to say… the lawmakers are supposed to be us… the old people in those seats on the Hill are supposed to be OUR REPRESENTATIVES… they’ve forgotten that.
Perfect!
Nice. Posted and linked.
Hey good stuff…keep up the good work! 🙂
“The original average man was willing to die for his freedom. Are you?”
grigoryrasputin, I wrote a “blank check” to the defense of the Constitution and the freedoms it provides on November 11, 1973, by giving my binding oath when I joined the U.S. Army.
That check was written “up to and including my death”, and I consider that oath as binding today as I did then. So yes, I AM willing to die defending my freedom from ANY enemy, whether he be foreign or DOMESTIC.
Are YOU?
Cool site, love the info.
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Amen. Until constitutional malfeasance is make a capital offense these snakes will continue to run rough shot over our freedoms and liberties.
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