Pro Libertate<\/a>
July 4, 2013
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe sobering truth is that, due to the cultivated docility of the American populace, Jefferson\u2019s document, much like the Constitution created eleven years later, poses no threat to the designs of our rulers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It has often been said that if voting actually changed things, it would be illegal. In much the same sense it could be said that if the genuine meaning of the event commemorated on the Fourth of July were to become widely known, our rulers would respond by criminalizing the celebration and the document that should be at its center.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t a hypothetical proposition. Around the turn of the 20th Century it was common for \u201cWobblies\u201d \u2013 radical activists belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World, a schismatic socialist sect \u2013 to be arrested for reading the Declaration of Independence in public<\/a>.<\/p>\n The inflammatory, seditious content of that document was largely unknown to the public even then, and when tranquil middle-class Americans were confronted with unsettling assertions like the claim that governments derive \u201ctheir just powers from the consent of the governed\u201d and that \u201cwhenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,\u201d many of them assumed their ears were being assaulted by the rhetoric of foreign subversives.<\/p>\n A few years later, after the regime of the unutterably evil Woodrow Wilson had maneuvered the United States into a European war on the side of Great Britain \u2013 still regarded with understandable suspicion by the Middle Americans expected to provide the coffin-stuffers for the conflict \u2013 public recital of the Declaration was ruled a violation of the Espionage Act. At least one man was sent to prison for the supposed crime of reading aloud from Jefferson\u2019s document.<\/a><\/p>\n In his war message to Congress on April 2, 1917<\/a>, the detestable Wilson demanded of Americans nothing less than complete and perfect uniformity of opinion and behavior. He also deputized Americans to assist the state in \u201crebuking and restraining the few who may be of a different mind and purpose\u201d than that ordained by his government.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there should be disloyalty,\u201d Wilson promised, \u201cit will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few.\u201d<\/p>\n Less than a century and a half had elapsed since a \u201clawless and malignant few\u201d had gathered in Philadelphia to certify their disloyalty to the King of England \u2013 or, more properly put, a small group of principled men who understood government\u2019s subordinate role in human affairs assembled to withdraw their consent to be governed by that man and his minions.<\/p>\n The Declaration articulated some indispensable truths. The first is the understanding that individual liberty is a gift of God, and the powers of government are contingent and revocable. A man can live without government, but he cannot live, as a man, without liberty. Second, the single greatest enemy to individual liberty is the government claiming the right to rule that individual.<\/p>\n The third, and most troublesome, of those truths is this: There is an inherent right to rebel against the supposed authority of any government that becomes \u201cdestructive\u201d of the rights invested in the individual by God. That right, like all others, inheres in the individual. But it can be exercised collectively in the form of principled, violent insurrection when such action is justified. Most of the rest of the Declaration consists of a legal brief justifying the insurrection already underway in the British Colonies, and the decision to sever the political connection between those polities and the British Empire.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hardly surprising that the Wilson regime effectively criminalized the Declaration: Like collectivists of all ages, Wilson assumed that man, who was created for the state, should be pitifully grateful for whatever transient \u201cliberties\u201d he was given by the state, and should be prepared to sacrifice everything on behalf of the state.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not an army we must shape and train for war, it is a nation,\u201d Wilson declared, as he centralized the economy, orchestrated a frenzy of war hatred against Germany, and moved to impose conscription. His Vice President, Thomas Marshall, urged that citizenship be formally revoked for anyone found to be \u201cnot heartily in support of the Government in this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n Bernard Baruch, chairman of the War Industries Board and de facto commissar of the economy, explained the logic of Wilson\u2019s war regime in admirably frank terms: \u201cEvery man\u2019s life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man\u2019s property\u2026. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is his only as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and possessions at the call of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n Just as every man\u2019s life was considered property of the state, so were every man\u2019s offspring. This was made clear by the demented Theodore Roosevelt: \u201cAny man who says, `I didn\u2019t raise my son to be a soldier\u2019 isn\u2019t fit for citizenship. That statement is on the same moral level with saying, `I didn\u2019t raise my girl to be a mother.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Killing and dying on behalf of the state \u2013 the congealed essence of lethal violence \u2013 was thus defined as a moral exercise as exalted as bringing life into the world. Or, as Bill Kauffman observes in his invaluable new book Ain\u2019t My America, to WWI-era collectivists like Wilson and Roosevelt, \u201cMothers were brood sows. Sons were herded into the abattoir.\u201d<\/p>\n Vaulting over the blood-stained decades that followed Wilson\u2019s administration, we find that today\u2019s adherents of the cult of the nation-state aren\u2019t content to send just their sons to the slaughterhouse; many of them are dispatching their daughters as well.<\/p>\n This was memorably dramatized during a recent \u201cMilitary Appreciation Sunday\u201d service at the Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Florida<\/a> (a video of which was very generously provided to me by a friend).<\/p>\n The service featured Lt. Col. Steve Russell, who commanded the troops who extracted quondam subcontractor for Washington Saddam Hussein from his \u201cspider hole.\u201d The proceedings began with brief remarks \u2013 laden with pious poses and orotund vowels \u2013 by the late Pastor Forrest Pollock<\/a>, in which he gave a detailed recital of the evils perpetrated by Saddam while he was on Washington\u2019s payroll \u2013 a remarkable exercise in mote-obsession and beam-ignoring. He then urged attendees to pay heed to a nauseating video presentation offered by Russell\u2019s GOP-jingo PAC, Veterans for Victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n The video first depicts a father in his 30s rising early in the morning to kiss his wife and son, then depart, clothed in the habiliments of the Empire\u2019s contract killers, to murder people in a distant land who have done our country no harm. Wretched as that spectacle is \u2013 almost unbearably so, given that it is set to the \u201ctune\u201d of a soul-less corporate simulacrum of country pop \u2013 it is the second vignette that is genuinely abhorrent.<\/p>\n The scene begins with a middle-aged couple walking out of their home, each of them flanking a daughter dressed in a BDU. Their little girl, obviously, wasn\u2019t raised to be a \u201cbrood sow\u201d; she\u2019s a fully realized member of the killer caste.<\/p>\n \u201cSomewhere a man and woman \u2026 are waving their girl goodbye; for gone are the days of pigtails and curls and candle-light lullabies,\u201d keens the \u201csinger\u201d in the video\u2019s soundtrack as the couple and daughter hold hands in prayer. \u201cIf they had their way, she\u2019d stay young forever and never be far from home. But freedom has drawn her heart to danger\u2019s shore \u2013 and for freedom they\u2019ll let her go.\u201d<\/p>\n Ah, yes: \u201cFreedom\u201d \u2013 defined here as a gift conferred by the Almighty State on some, through the expropriation and death of others.<\/p>\n The video ends with the wife and son being visited by a Marine chaplain who confers on them a folded piece of cloth in exchange for their living, breathing, irreplaceable husband and father. His life was extinguished carrying out what George W. Bush, in a voice-over, describes as \u201cthe highest calling of history\u201d \u2013 that is, enforcing the divine will of the State through lethal violence.<\/p>\n Mr. Bush, no stranger to blasphemy, insists that their mission resonates with \u201cthe words of the prophet Isaiah,\u201d as recorded in chapter 61:1 (\u201cThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me \u2026 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound\u201d).<\/p>\n Christians who genuinely understand that passage recognize that it foretold how Jesus Christ would liberate from the captivity of sin those who accept Him as Savior. As the High Priest of Washington\u2019s murderous Civil Religion, Bush follows in the jackboot-steps of Lincoln, Wilson, and their damnable ilk in depicting the State as savior.<\/p>\n Throughout the United States today, Americans will celebrate the sanguinary majesty of that State and its pitiless apparatus of mass murder and repression. We should instead be celebrating the divine gift of individual liberty that was the focus of the \u201clawless and malignant\u201d insurrectionists who gathered in Philadelphia \u2013 disreputable men like Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and Hancock \u2013 to shout their defiance at a previous globe-straddling empire.<\/p>\n How different would our society be today if, instead of the Pledge of Allegiance, schoolchildren (in private or home schools, of course) were required, each day, to read or recite this paragraph from the Declaration of Independence:<\/p>\n \u201cWe 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. \u2013 That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, \u2013 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.\u201d<\/p>\n What if, instead of starting every day being marinated in the language of submission (to pledge \u201callegiance,\u201d after all, is to proclaim one\u2019s status as a vassal bound in service to a feudal lord, or \u201cliege\u201d<\/a>), youngsters were taught, on a daily basis, the principles of self-responsibility, individual liberty, and principled rebellion? As I stated earlier, if this kind of thing were to become common, our rulers would simply criminalize the Declaration. They\u2019ve done it before, and they would be more than happy to do so permanently.<\/p>\n The sobering truth is that, due to the cultivated docility of the American populace, Jefferson\u2019s document, much like the Constitution created eleven years later, poses no threat to the designs of our rulers.<\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 11:33 am<\/p>\n
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