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"The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of
the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own
arms."
-Samuel Adams (Father of the American Revolution)
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The Great American Crossroads
by J.J. Johnson
Dear American,
You are losing your right to keep and bear arms. Shortly after the Oklahoma
City Bombing on April 19, 1995, many of you learned about a network of
people you wrongly thought were responsible for the deaths of 168 Americans.
As you watched in horror, you became convinced – although you supported the
Second Amendment, that many of you had to distance yourself from such types.
It became un-poplar to be labels with the various negatives that were given
to people who called themselves "militias".
For the next few months after that bombing, you had the opportunity to hear
and read all their rhetoric. You heard all of it. Some of you have continued
read their opinions via the Internet, short-wave radio, and even in some
cases, AM talk radio. Still, you choose not believe them – to write them off
as mere "kooks", and a justification to expand the power of an already
all-powerful government – the one you fear and loathe toady.
Today, you, the Second Amendment activist - you the conservative - may be
throwing up your hands in defeat. The political inertia to legislate away
the right to keep and bear arms – and your Liberty, is now on auto-pilot.
Your executive branch of government has proven to you it cares nothing about
your nation’s security, your personal security, or the laws of the nation as
a whole. You attempted to elect a legislature to keep the power of the
regime in check. Now, you have even lost faith in them. You now look at
Washington, DC as the municipal model of hypocrisy for the world.
You are now at a crossroads. You, as well as the rest of us have lost more
rights and freedom in the last 7 years, than during the entire war of
1861-1865. You now fear that by the turn of this century, you – all of us
will find ourselves against a wall, with virtually everything you believe –
everything you were taught – your entire value system of life, will made
criminal behavior, and shunned by the social power of the day.
Yet, we are Americans. And being an American once stood for something –
something that is being stamped out of existence. Some of you may now be
contemplating your own personal future – and what your next generation faces
in their future. You dare not speak it, or even think it. To do so, will
bring a terrifying vision that would bring into question every moral fiber
in your soul. You are truly at an American Crossroads that has not been
approached on this soil since 1865.
It was made public on June 15, 1995 in Washington, D.C. at a Senate
Subcommittee hearing on Domestic Terrorism. It was the following statement
that troubled many then, as will trouble many today. As you watch your
legislators at work in Washington today, remember these words:
"…The only thing standing between this type of [legislation] and armed
conflict between the citizens and this government is Time…."
It is a frightening thought. I can say from personal knowledge, that the
person who made that statement was frightened by it also. It frightens him
today. It was spoken by a person who at the time, represented in part - the
militia movement in the United States of America.
Four years later, there are many who in their minds, know they owe the
militia movement – those so-called "patriots" - those right wing crazies -
an apology. Like it or not, virtually all of their fears and predictions
have become reality in four short years. What you are seeing in Washington,
D.C. , and what is going on in your soul today, is why they were arming
themselves; training themselves; and trying to warn you. Today, many of them
are rotting in jails for mere political reasons. Some have left the country
in disgust. Others have abandoned the battle, only to stand as a witness for
the ages, and to prove to themselves that their fears had merit. They were
not criminals. They were not terrorists. They were Americans, just like you.
I personally witnessed a tragedy last night. A had to visit a successful man
in a federal jail awaiting trial for a crime he did not commit – a crime
with no victim. It is a crime for speaking his mind against government
policy - and daring to hurt no one. He is not a "militiaman". He is not a
right-wing extremist. He has never committed a crime in his life. He is not
even an American. He is European.
The man was one who loved America and the Americans he knew. He loved to
visit the Home of the Free and the Land of the Brave. He would tell his
friends and family back home about it’s beauties and treasures. A man who
remembered when Americans of his generation liberated his continent from
oppression. He was there – under the dark boot of tyranny. While going over
the details of his plight, this gray hared businessman began to cry. Not
over anything he had done, not over the predicament he was in
(incarceration), but that in his mind, America has become what it once
fought against just a generation ago. He should know – he was there. He
vowed that upon his acquittal, he will never return to U.S. soil again. I
cried with him. I am an American.
This man has seen the crossroads. He is among the many foreigners who dare
not trespass on this soil for the same reasons. They know. They were there,
too. Citizens of the world stand in awe of what the children of their
liberators have become. They tremble in fear of the awesome power of the
American military might. They wonder with impatience when it will end.
Who will be our liberators? Who dares to ignite the extinguished Torch Light
of Freedom? Who shall have the courage to balance the Scales of Justice? Who
among us shall water the Tree of Liberty? Will the liberators land on the
beaches at Normandy and Tripoli, or Lexington, and Concord?
We wait for the World’s Liberator – while the rest of the world waits for
us. We will be judged by history. Judged for the ultimate crime – the crime
of doing nothing while evil triumphed. We are being killed – long before our
hearts stop beating. We are being imprisoned – long before the cold steel
gates are slammed in our faces. We are being labeled criminals – long before
we violate any of their laws. American, we are at the Crossroads.
If you hear the hoof beats of Paul Revere’s horse, you are not deaf. Nor are
not blind if you see the storms clouds of Lexington. Nor are alone if your
soul compels you to act. The world is waiting on you, American.
Let there be no date set – nor let there be a mark on the calendar. Let each
man choose his own fate. His own time. Let our Posterity be shown with
pride, the portraits of their ancestors who sacrificed all against the
Oppressor – the Enemy on their own soil. Let us hold in Honor, those who
cared not about the law of the oppressor and laid waist the enemy who waged
War against our natural being – our beliefs – our existence.
This is the Call to Action – the Order of Battle. To arm ourselves with our
reasons for believing, living, fighting, and dying – or to simply die
without reason. The Enemy has made their choice. Now, each of us must our
Choice. To make History – or become History. This is our Fate. This is our
Destiny. This is the Great American Crossroads.
American, there is a War in progress – and waiting on you.
J.J. Johnson – [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are
in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot
enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole of the people are
armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that
can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States."
-Noah Webster
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that
we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference
between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having
them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of
having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety,
or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
-Patrick Henry
"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form
an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the
liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if
at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to
defend their rights..."
-Alexander Hamilton
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses,
and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the
LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak unto the people,
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto
battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do
not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
-Deuteronomy 20:1-4
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