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August 17th, 2010
The secret to winning the War for Independence was that we wanted to be free more than the Crown wanted to rule. The secret to being free from any state is that the people want to be free more than the state wants whatever it is it wants.
-- JL
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Greetings!
Personal independence discredits big government buraucracy. Personal independence shows no need for big government, no need. It is the best kept secret around the world. It is why freedom must be discouraged. By erasure, by punishment, by force of the state. Whenever the word 'compete' is used in 'service' to the people, it means survival, survival of the state, which is in fact what the state is competing with you for.
David Codrea's analysis shows once again how transparent gun control programs. Everywhere.
Michelle Malkin notes a wholesale taking fiat: land.
I like this one from Nancy Morgan at CANADA FREE PRESS. I think you will, too.
I select my liberty lineup for their case studies or invigoration of self-rule. Dennis Prager's essay today is perfect for this.
Mike Brownfield from The Heritage Foundation spots another one.
Thanks for being with me.
Liberty,
John Longenecker
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John Longenecker Safer Streets
The lethality of Independence
 For years, I have been writing about the lethality of the citizenry in protecting our sovereignty. ..And how diminishing this is at the core of all big government efforts.
When we support and defend our personal independence from our very own servants, we work not only for ourselves but for all Americans now and in the future. This is the solemnity of a love of independence from our public servants.
For the State - the immensity of our public servants out of control - there are two kinds of lethality: an armed citizenry - one which impeaches the state's efforts to ever take your place on the most fundamental, as in personal self-defense - and a citizenry who is also armed with powers of critical analysis - being armed with knowledge, which the state interrupts. Sovereignty of the citizen over servants is a given.
To be armed with sovereign authority, with lethal force and critical thought is an ubeatable combination. This is not hate of government - it is refusal to tolerate abuses from servants who hate. And it is we who have the say-so in this, not them. This is why the state always tries to diminish all three: guns, knowledge, and voice.
Critical analysis is not carping in hostility and it isn't hate to have a love of personal independence - any moron can carp and it takes a statist to believe that self-interest of freedom is somehow hate. Critical analysis is the ability to analyze inconsistencies or even clues of betrayal which surface, and investigate further in protecting your self-interests. You have to begin with a suspicion of servants by dint of their having any powers at all, assigned or not. The moment they begin to assume powers not granted, you have a clue. It is not hatred of servants to supervise them, it is love of freedom.
It is also follow-up and follow-through. This is a weapon in the hands of the sovereign in liberty and independence in self-rule. As with personal self-defense, nobody else is going to do it for you. All servants need to be supervised.
The weakness of our system is this: too many believe that independence and sovereignty are self-perpetuating, as if servants will look out for our interests by their oath of office and some sort of loyalty to constituents. Not gonna happen.
Independence is lethal to the state. Independence shows no need for the state as an immense bureaucracy. In order to meet the definition of what is 'the state', it must first become immense and somehow elude the authority and powers of the people. Smaller government is ideal: it is small enough to serve and be supervised. 'The state' does not exist as a reasonably operating public service entity of government. It comes into existence only when it crosses a threshold to take on a life of its own to the exclusion of the citizen.
As it comes to life as a leviathan, it sees the citizen as foe. And it sees independence of personal safety, sovereign authority and independent thought as lethal.
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David Codrea Second Amendment
Why is Obama administration blocking import of surplus rifles?
[..] And the bad guy excuse could be used to object to the sale of all guns everywhere. Meanwhile, they're denying an opportunity to good guys--you know, the ones the Founders deemed "necessary to the security of a free State"... [..] More . . ________________________________________________________ |
Michelle Malkin Our Sovereignty
How Obama is locking up our land.
 Have you heard of the "Great Outdoors Initiative"? Chances are, you haven't. But across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It's another stealthy power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life. More . . .
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Canada Free Press Our Sovereignty
Real men have an innate sense of self that is not dependent on group approval. They have not succumbed to the sanitized, homogenized, and feminized version of manhood that the academic, media, and political elite have adopted. Instead, they have the courage to form their own opinions, relying on independent thinking instead of political correctness.
Liberal males, on the other hand . . . More . _________________________________________________________ |
Dennis Prager Self-rule
Same-Sex Marriage and the Insignificance of Men and Women
 Marriage is the building block of society. Changing its nature will therefore change society. Among other things, same-sex marriage means that because sex (now called "gender") no longer matters for society's most important institution, it no longer matters in general. More.
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The Heritage Foundation Our Sovereignty
Death, taxes and the failure of Obamanomics
by Mike Brownfield
 Benjamin Franklin famously said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." With America's stagnant-as-a-swamp economy still stuck at 9.5% unemployment, an unexpected 484,000 new jobless claims, and reports of a slowed recovery, it might be time for old Ben to pull out his quill and add another certainty to his list: the continuing failure of Obamanomics. Judging by the words of one of President Barack Obama's economic advisors, it doesn't look like the Administration is going to change course anytime soon. More . . _________________________________________________
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