-Caveat Lector-
Monday, August 20, 2001
Recapturing the revolutionary spirit
By Joseph Farah
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
If we're ever going to make the U.S. government responsive to the
will of the people, it's going to take a revolution.
I don't necessarily mean a violent, armed clash between patriots who
still believe in self-government and the forces of the U.S. Defense
Department. But I do mean a real revolution. Nothing short of that can save
us from tyranny, despotism and slavery. It's just a matter of time.
Thomas Jefferson understood that we'd need a revolution every 20
years or so to keep government in check.
Even 100 years later, President Theodore Roosevelt saw what was
happening to America - how it was sliding down what is a familiar road to
students of history.
"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or
Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a
republic at all," he said. "When the sturdy Roman plebian, who lived by his
own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and
who with his fellows joined in war the terrible Roman legion, had been
changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the
gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state,
and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then
the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws
were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed,
and so the laws counted for nothing."
Does that sound familiar?
Does it sound like America in the year 2001?
The Constitution is today little more than a historical relic. The
basis for the rule of law in America has been twisted and perverted beyond
recognition. The document once understood by farmers, ranchers and other
ordinary people is now interpreted by lawyers and judges to mean, in many
cases, just the opposite of what it says.
Too many of the American people have been bought off - by comfort, by
complacency, by busyness, by disinformation, by manipulation and by a
process of deliberate dumbing down in a government-run educational system
and by a semi-official corporate media establishment.
Nothing short of revolution can save us now.
What do I mean by revolution?
I mean people must take control of their government, once again - not
beginning with their elected representatives in Washington, but right in
their own backyard. The focus needs to be on town councils, school boards,
county commissions, planning boards, zoning boards, etc.
That's where the next great rebellion must start. If self-governing
citizens cannot demand accountability at that level, there is little hope
of expecting it from members of Congress. And there is little hope of
greater victories that would fundamentally redefine the scope of
Washington's authority over our lives.
Such a rebellion is under way in a few places in America - including
one rather unlikely community. Tomorrow, the next phase of this rebellion
takes place in Klamath Falls, Ore., a sleepy rural area on the border of
two states known for their advanced stages of socialism and top-down style
of "we know better than you" government.
I'm talking about what is being called the "Convoy of Tears" - in
which thousands of freedom-loving people travel from three different states
to bring supplies and donations to beleaguered farmers in the Klamath Basin
on the California-Oregon state line. A "Freedom Day" rally is being held
tomorrow when these convoys converge.
The organizers recognize they are in a war - a war of ideas, a war of
lifestyles, a war of philosophy, a war of world visions, a war of spiritual
dimensions, and a war every bit as real and important as the War for
Independence launched in 1776.
It's a war that won't be won if we try to wage it only through
letters to congressmen. It's a war that won't be won by electing the right
officials in Washington. It's a war that won't be won only by complaining.
But it is a war that can be won if people recognize the problem and begin
acting at the local level - as the heroes of Klamath Falls are doing.
It's time for people to awaken to the grave threats to our liberties.
They understand in Klamath Falls. And maybe - just maybe - they can help
rekindle the torch of freedom for all Americans. Maybe they can help us all
to understand, again. Maybe they represent the vanguard of the next
American revolution.
Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of
WorldNetDaily.com and writes a daily column.
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