The Quiet Surrender of Liberty An Historical Record Knowledge UPDATE and No Cost Downloads for further private research and inquiry.
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Flaubert DaySpring Gatherings Network Gabriel Paul January 12, 2008 DaySpring Library Upload Updates Blog RSS Feed here: http://dayspringgatheringscircle.org/blog/?p=86 <http://dayspringgatheringscircle.org/blog/?p=86> Truth the Greatest Disinfectant like Light against Disinformation, Lies and Spin There are rights older than elections, for the protection of which elections are held, which they cannot destroy or dare not invade. Older and more sacred than constitutions, these rights constitute the essential elements of our humanity; without which we are mere beasts of burden to be driven by the whip of the master-machines, directed by external forces-idiots, lunatics and imbeciles, who tamely yield to the will of their keeper. These rights can only be suspended by the fiat of the Creator, who may hinder our speech, bewilder our understanding, suspend our powers of thought, or divest us of those sparking fires of His own intelligence stamped in His image on our being; or they may be surrendered, by our imbecility and pusilanimity, or by our crimes forfeited to society whose equal rights we invade. These rights are sacred as our person:- as the brain which conceives, and the heart which feeds them with elemental life- are indefeasible. Neither legislatures, courts nor kings can justly divest us of our life, liberty, property or pursuit of happiness, without due process of law, or in punishment of crimes. These rights are unalienable, and may no more be sold or bartered to tyrants, than our arm or legs may be amputated and sold to the surgeon, or our living bodies be delivered to the dissecting room, for the purposes of anatomy. These rights are indefeasible. No claim of violence or force can be valid against them. Conquest is armed robbery; government by conquest is usurpation. Usurpation is the most enormous crime which can be perpetrated against society. It is robbery in its most offensive form. Other robbers take the property, and suffer the victim to pursue his regular vocation: the usurper absorbs the fountains of life as the sponge drinks up water, and by one well-directed blow, lays prostrate the power of the people, that he may enslave talent, and quench the fires of genius in their opening flame. The usurper crushes out liberty with all the noblest elements of a great people who are forced to see through his eyes, hear with his ears, and breathe through his nostrils. Drunken with power, the usurper becomes more degraded than his willing victims. It is the trick of usurpers to confound usurpation with government, that he may conciliate resistance, and appease the law-abiding. Government is a contract ratified by the people. Usurpation is a forcible entry and detainer upon their rights of government. The people of every country are under obligation to obey its laws, but are under the same obligation to resist usurpation. The mere violation of law by a criminal while endangering the public security, need not impair its majesty, which retains the power to enforce its mandates. But usurpation strikes down the law, destroys that house of refuge, without which, society is left to the wanton inroads of desperate men, and the passionate violence of the reckless fanatics, who may choose to forage upon their fields, and prey upon their substance. The ordinary law-breaker gratifies some morbid appetite, unbridles some furious passion, or indulges in some viscious habit: the usurper destroys all security of the people and becomes the enemy of society, which is imperiled by its existence, and can appeal to no law to protect him. When a people have good grounds to believe that their rights will be invaded under the cover of the forms of law, and resist the initiatory steps of aggression, the lawful authorities may conduct themselves in such a manner, as to justify the people in prosecuting a rebellion, which in the beginning was unjustifiable. For resistance to law, every government has ample power to punish offenders, for usurpation, governments have provided no adequate remedy. Usurpation is a crime that must be repelled rather than punished. When by common consent, anyone is deemed a tyrant or usurper, and resists the ordinary modes or redress obtainable by law, or corrupts the fountains of justice, that the people may have no adequate security in their courts, than the people have an undoubted right to repel him as they would a thief in the night, a burglar at their door, or an assassin at their throat. The usurper is an thief, burglar and assassin combined, whose compound felonies against society are alike dangerous to all individuals. This law of force is the last terrible horrific remedy against usurpation. Resistance to usurpers is just. The usurper has no claims to the protection of law, because his powers are derived from the suspension of law. He holds his power by force and cannot complain if force overpowers him. The right to dethrone tyrants and usurpers and destroy them, when they cannot be otherwise removed, has had the sanction of liberal and just men of all times and countries. The chief heroes of history are rebels, who have resisted unlawful assumptions of power, Washington, Henry and Jefferson: those who have slain the oppressors of their kinsmen, as did Moses; those who have avenged their personal wrongs in the blood of their tyrants, as Charlotte Corday, who slew Marat. It is the business of the usurper to concentrate power, employ mercenary armies and wring taxes from the people to pay for the usurpation of their government and the crushing out of Liberty. The only safety is to resist every encroachment against Liberty. The defense of personal rights is a duty tantamount to the preservation of life itself. The quiet surrender of liberty is a crime for which cowardice can offer no satisfactory apology, an enormity that admits of no palliation. The crime is multiplied in the father, who compromises his children in the transmission of his slavery. Such is the depravity of tyrants, that failing to apologize for the wrongs perpetrated upon society, they imagine the public intelligence has undergone the same changes that their crimes have wrought upon themselves, and exercise usurpation as a matter of right. The questions of personal liberty admit of no argument, they are self-evident. 1868 Smitheson In Service, Peace be with you Gabriel Paul http://www.dayspringgatheringscircle.org <http://www.dayspringgatheringscircle.org/dayspring_library.html> Fear knocked at the door.....Faith Answered........There was no one there. Truth cannot be bought and sold, only temporarily obfuscated by falsehood.Yet all falsehood and illusion will themselves ultimately be crucified upon the cross of the omnipotent Sword of Truth when it pierces the heart in purification. There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. Nikola Tesla I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. "History is nothing but a procession of false absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the improbable." "War is the best way to remold society. War! Shatter society to bits. Break it apart. Then we can remold it nearer to the heart's desire. And what is our heart's desire? Collectivism." Men with great knowledge are easily enslaved if they do nothing to defend their freedom. Knowledge by itself is not power, but it holds the potential for power if we have the courage to use it as such, and therein lies our hope for the future. 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