Freedom Is Not Free

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.……corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, And the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. –Abraham Lincoln, November 21, 1864

The Fourth of July. Old Glory. The Constitution. Founding Fathers. Republic. Freedom.

Americanism.

Nice words, right?

What do they mean? More importantly, what do they mean to you?

Unless they mean something, to you, they are as meaningless as your life probably is.

Words, without meaning, are just hollow noise. You can repeat them as much as you like, say in the Pledge of Allegiance (to the Flag, of the United States of America…..), but you are no better than a bad actor tossing out line after line in a play no one wants to pay to see anymore.

What has happened to this country? How can things have deteriorated so fast?

You happened.

If you have read parts one and two of Article One in this series, you know your feelings are not my concern. I write these word with the express purpose of shaking you up, so you will open your eyes to the world around you, so you can start being a part of the bigger picture solution, instead of being the perennial problem the rest of us have to clean-up after.

Because those opening words above don’t have any deeper meaning to you, you are personally responsible for dragging this once great nation into first, a social collapse, soon to be followed by combined economic and military collapse.

Then, from chaos, Order will arise.

Those opening words, along with others of equally great importance, will then truly cease to have any meaning for all of us, for a very long time to come. All because you and others like you, were too damn busy doing nothing important, to help stop it from happening in the first place.

You have put beer, sports, socializing and careers ahead of everything else, because you do not think you have any obligation to protect the future from reverting to the past. Yet there is not one of you who have not heard the saying, “History repeats itself,” or perhaps this version of the same thought, “Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it.”

Est ist sehr gut deine fater ist nich zu veile “lazy,” uber du wilst leisen meine scbreiben heir und da Deutche Wehrmacht wilst haben “won WWII.”

I don’t really speak German and my butchering of that language above should prove it, but I present that point, in that way above, to make this point:

If your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers had been as lazy then as you are now, this country would have lost World War Two and German Nazi’s would be running things and you would be reading this article in German, most likely printed on a hand-cranked printing press hidden away in some basement. Anyone caught with this type “subversive” information in their possession could expect to be shot on the spot.

But not to worry, your efforts are paying off. You are single handedly making sure that homegrown Nazi’s will be running this country soon. From chaos……Order.

Freedom is not free! It never has been.

It exists because there were brave people willing to pay the price, in blood if necessary, to secure it. Thomas Jefferson warned us early on that the “tree of Liberty will need to be watered with the blood of tyrants” from time to time. Of course he was presuming we would continue to care about that Liberty tree enough to water it at all.

To the point.

I am a politician. A reluctant one to be sure, but one none the less. I am risking not only my unimportant career by talking to you this way, I am risking my life as well. The folks running the show these days will humor an occasional elected individual who actually tries to make things better, at least for a while. But when someone who has actually won an elective office, at a State or local level, dares to speak-out, the vast machine goes to work.

First, you are approached by other State or local “leaders” who “talk to you.” The message they deliver is clear, “Don’t rock the boat” and you can keep playing the game and keep getting your perks and/or paycheck.

Next, if you really are a true believer in “Truth, Justice and the American way” and fail to curb your enthusiasm for applying those beliefs in you daily work effort, the media will “discover” you and take an “interest.” The more you speak out about what is really going on, the worse your image will be dragged through the mud by that media.

Finally, once you have been deemed “irredeemable,” the taxman “commeth” and you loose everything.

If that does not shut you up, well there is only one thing left to do and that is clean up the mess after your car’s breaks “fail” or write the media press release about the tragedy of the out-spoken elected official who was killed by a “mugger” or who “for some unknown reason” committed suicide.

I tell you there are games within games, in all levels of government in this country today. The most important game at work is the one meant to keep you distracted from what your government is doing, day-in, day-out, to strip you of what few Rights and Freedoms are left with any real meaning.

I don’t care where you live, you are seeing more and more government intrusion into your personal and professional lives. If you can be convinced you need it, then you are easy prey for these predatory efforts to rob you of your birthright.

Land use planning, business licensing, tax collection and reporting, gun control, “hate crime laws,” and on and on and on.

Don’t you get it?! In just those few words I listed in that last sentence above, you’ve lost your Right to own real property, make a living, protect yourself from criminals (both in and out of government), and your freedom of speech. Furthermore, your churches are so completely compromised by the IRS, they will not dare risk their tax exempt status to speak out. So much for religious freedom.

Television, sports, taxes, 24/7 news programming, talk radio, the internet, and yes, even politics, has all been used to keep you from paying attention to the “man behind the curtain.” Most of you don’t even know any of this is happening, right? It is happening, but instead of even considering the possibility of believing me, you are probably thinking I’m a nut. I’m not (see Part One).

The political interests who want to relieve you of your Rights and Freedom are playing for keeps.

The Game they are playing is the Game of Political Power.

They want it. All of it.

You had it, before you gave it away. If you want it back, you’ll now have to fight for it.

That will take real character and that also means you’ll need to reacquaint yourself with the concept of personal courage. It will take a certain amount of that courage for you to even accept what I’m telling you is real. With everything I write, I encourage you to check-out what I tell you is true. My job is to lay out the facts, as best I can, to give you a logical path to explore. I can’t give you courage or build your character. That is a personal job only you can do. I can only help, once you’ve decided to act on your own.

A free person is a terrible threat to those power interests who hate freedom. They can not compete with the concept of freedom. They can only try to crush it in the hope of erasing the very concept from the minds of those they seek to rule. >>More HERE

These series of articles by J.O.E. American are written by a current elected official in a fairly high position. Person’s name and state in which this person is currently serving is withheld for fear of retribution. Joe American was honorably discharged from the US armed forces, and served as a law enforcement officer.

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