Independence Day 2007 – Commentary by Steve Scroggins
Independence Day for far too many of us is merely a day off work---work being that place
where we spend half our
day earning money to pay our masters
in the county courthouse, in Atlanta and in Washington, D.C. The rest of the day
we labor to earn money for our other masters...the mortgage, the automobiles, the consumerism that the Madison Avenue
wizards convince us we must have and must want if we're "normal." Mammon takes many forms and he extracts homage even
from those who think they know better.
Law enforcement officers will tell you that for too many, holidays like July 4th are
simply an excuse to get drunk and commit mayhem on the highways. The media gives us thirty to sixty seconds a year on
this subject while comparing the State Patrol's highway death prediction to the actual death toll.
For the hospitality and merchant class, they are of course happy that people don't dwell too
much on the dangers of holiday travel. For them, July 4th brings hope for profits to carry them over
until the next scheduled period for specified consumerism and travel (Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.).
For those in power, they are happy to see that the vast majority doesn't dwell too much on
the original purpose and animating principles of Independence Day because a realization of what has been lost might generate the desire to change the
status quo.
Then there are those of us who spend just a little more time reflecting on long-ago
events, comparing them to the "long train" of echoing recent events...and what they mean to us now.
July 4th was significant in the second war for American independence (specifically
Southern independence). Major battles took place which many believe sealed
the doom of the Southern states' efforts to gain independence. Gettysburg in the east and Vickburg in the west were
major blows to the Southern cause delivered in early July of 1863. Vicksburg, according to writer Rolan Mann,
did not celebrate July 4th for 80 years after 1863.
The failure of the South to secure its independence marked the beginning of the end to our
Constitutional government in practice, and set us on the path to a situation that would make our Founding Fathers recoil in horror. The
"centralizers" won that war ending in 1865, but it's the American people as a whole who lost the Founders' gift of a true "federal" republic in
which the States were the supreme entities and the central government was their voluntary agent.
The Founders would not be surprised so much that tyrrany progressed so far because they
were steeped in world history and understood human nature very well. What would surprise and disappoint them most, I
think, is the ease with which the tyrants and enemies of liberty have taken our liberties one by one
and the scarcity of recognition and effective resistance here in "the home of the brave."
It's interesting to note---as a sidebar---that the particular King who inspired the complaints expressed
in the Declaration was named "George." Now we struggle with new King Georges...George "Dubya" Bush and George
"Sonny" Perdue.
"The History of the present King of Great Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and
Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this,
let Facts be submitted to a candid World."
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance... he has utterly neglected to attend
to them."
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
Visualize King George Dubya endorsing his "guest worker" (Amnesty) proposal to covertly invite millions more
illegal immigrants while ignoring the pleas and cries for help from American citizens and the States whose taxpayers
are threatened by overwhelming disease, crime, healthcare, education and public assistance burdens. When States
have tried to protect themselves, their peoples and their taxpayer treasures with legislation, the federal courts have struck down those efforts
saying they violate the questionable 14th amendment (any excuse would do--they could have made one up).
King Dubya, along with his Amnesty Amigos
and the New Slave Traders,
have failed to enforce existing laws knowing full well that that failure (actually "refusal" would be more accurate)
poses an immediate threat to the security of our people.
And when the people had the audacity to voice their disagreement with King Dubya's decree
(aided and abetted by other Amnesty Amigos),
that the Senate's Scamnesty Plan was desirable, he pitched a hissie
and called the opponents (mostly conservatives) hateful racists and worse.
Despite his tantrum, the people saw right through the Lies, Damn Lies and Amnesty Lies of
the king and his court.
Visualize King George Perdue doing the Amnesty shuffle with Bush and supporting his open
borders policies despite the damage they're doing to Georgia's health and welfare. King Sonny, as a
New Slave Trader,
needs the support of Atlanta special interests
who want to continue the flow of cheap labor to Atlanta---and costs to the taxpayers be damned. Grady Memorial Hospital, delivering
the babies of illegals, teeters on the brink of economic collapse and Atlanta squeals for another state treasury
bailout. My home town of Warner Robins now has a number of restaurants and eateries with Spanish menus. How long before
the taxpayers have to buy street signs duplicated in Spanish, King Sonny?
President Bush has deployed our American military on a "world-wide war on terror" yet he does
nothing to stop the invasion of our own country by illegals (many of whom claim that we "gringos" are the invaders), not to mention the open gate through which all manner of
terrorists can enter our country for the purpose of planning and executing mass murder on our citizens. How can King
Dubya ignore this grave threat to our people and refuse to respond? How can he expect us to take the "war on terror"
seriously while our borders are wide open?
While leaving the borders wide open to terrorists, criminals and enemies of all flavors, King Dubya
does not lack for the gall to impose the PATRIOT ACT (the name alone is an insult to our intelligence) on American citizens.
King Dubya fails to see the Big Elephant in the room while he chases the little flies around. He sends off American soldiers
to "defend freedom" in Iraq and Afghanistan while cracking down on Americans at home and creating new federal police powers.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Most Americans don't imagine that they could be arrested, transported across the
seas to a foreign land, and held by our government without trial. But recent revelations
(AP story) by an Army Officer suggest
that evidence against the Guantánamo Bay "detainees" and so-called "enemy combatants" may be wholly contrived
or non-existent. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed (depite lobbying by the King's men) to hear arguments this fall about
the definitions of "enemy combatants" and what rights they have. If Americans don't defend the Bill of Rights, it won't apply to American
citizens much longer. Who says they won't define you and me as "enemy combatants" tomorrow? I have challenged the King's authority in writing
and you have read the heresy. Once labeled as enemies, we essentially cease to have any rights under King Dubya's rule.
With respect to new police powers, King Dubya's men have done much more than detain suspected terrorists captured in
foreign lands. There has been wholesale illegal spying (NSA warrantless wiretaps, Google, etc.) on American citizens on American soil. King Dubya, frustrated by anyone who challenged his authority
to do anything he wants, has according to witnesses referred to the Constitution (that he swore to preserve, protect and defend) as "just a g**-damned piece of paper." He
expects complete loyalty and submission from his subjects.
Author Paul Craig Roberts, in his essay entitled
"From Conservatism to Brownshirtism," uses "Fuhrer Principle" and the phrase
"Our Leader Uber Alles" (Our Leader Above All Else) to describe the partisan Republicans who blindly lash out at anyone, conservatives included,
who dare to challenge the legality and morality of the king's police state actions. Former Congressman Bob Barr was their hero for impeaching Clinton, but he's
now deemed their enemy for being consistent and insisting that no president, including King Dubya, is above the law. Barr is right. Our loyalty must be
to the U.S. Constitution above any individual president.
James Madison wrote, "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home
is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." History has proven the truth of Madison's words.
From Lincoln to Bush, 'war'
has often been the pretext for crushing the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, Americans in time of war tend to be too trusting of their presidents.
We need to remember the words of Patrick Henry:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel." Folks, if King Dubya has the jewel in his
hand stuffed down in his pocket....that may not prove that he intends to steal it, but it is past time for us to challenge him and
demand that he replace the jewel to its rightful place.
"He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their
Substance."
Actually, previous Democratic Congresses perfected this practice over the decades
since it was established by Republican parasites in the 1870s. Unelected bureaucrats who
bury us with mountains of new regulations each year (as documented in the Federal Register) have continued to grow the
federal leviathan.
Bush promised to help with excessive government and wasteful spending, but the
previous Republican Congressional majority (in power when he was elected) delivered more of the
same...and they've won fame for spending taxpayer money "like drunken sailors" (with apologies to drunken
sailors everywhere) and setting new records for government spending.
Dirty Dubya
outspent the liberal punk Democrats by a long shot. Power is intoxicating and our Republican 'leaders' guzzled with
gusto. The Republican base (conservatives) grew so angry and disgusted with their lies and hypocrisy that it
handed a majority back to the Democrats in 2006. Yes, the deceptive sales job to justify an
invasion of Iraq was part of it but not the whole story.
The National Park Service swarms with liberals who yearn to rewrite
American history and form it to prevent Americans from understanding the liberties their ancestors won and then slowly
lost to new tyrants. The truth is too dangerous, better instead to focus on the in vogue Politically Correct
focus of the day. Unless things change, they'll one day teach visitors to National Parks how Cinco de Mayo is more important than the
old gringo holiday, the 4th of July. We can only imagine how they'll present the Alamo in 2050 once Hispanics have achieved majority status in
the U.S. [See the Immigration by the Numbers video below.]
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent."
King George "Sonny" Perdue gained legislative support for a tobacco tax no one wanted by trading for
a Flag Vote, a Fair Vote Perdue promised the people of Georgia. He needed that tax to pretend to balance Georgia's
budget while his
handlers had determined that Georgia voters would not remember his deceptions on the flag vote four
years later. So King Sonny held a hoax referendum offering
no choice and then declared the issue resolved. King Sonny thereby inspired the official Georgia State sign.
But alas, the Democratic candidate was equally unappealing and Georgians reelected the evil they (thought they) knew.
Both King Georges pretend to be fiscal conservatives while they impose
the CRIME TAX, the HEALTHCARE
tax, the EDUCATION TAX and other stealth taxes imposed on the people by virtue of uncontrolled illegal immigration and
the resulting burdens illegal immigrants place on already over-burdened local governments.
"He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation."
Not only King George Dubya, but his predecessors, too, have combined to outsource American
sovereignty to the United Nations and other globalist bodies hostile to American interests...all they want from us is our
money if we'll hand it over without a fight. King Dubya needs these parasites to legitimize his efforts to keep the
American empire a global one. As
Frank Conner suggests,
the king is merely a tool of the globalist elites. His Oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" is
worthless. Stories continue to come out about planning for and implementation of a North American Union.
FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases
whatsoever."
King Dubya has continued to grab legislative powers not righfully his to execute foreign
commerce treaties and prosecute undeclared wars and the legislature has allowed him to get away with it. Yes, most
presidents since FDR have usurped powers not authorized by the Constitution. King Sonny uses his veto pen to punish
his opponents in the state legislature and thus usurp legislative power beyond the intent of the state Constitution.
Are we really a free and independent people? Or tax slaves working for our masters in
Washington/Atlanta? That was a rhetorical question, folks; there's no question that we are
tax slaves. Yet,
we continue to celebrate "Independence Day" without giving serious thought to the risks and sacrifices the Signers of
the Declaration endured.
The short list of grievances above, together with others unmentioned, more than
top the list presented in the Declaration of Independence. Are Americans motivated enough to take action as
they did in 1776?
How do we, the People, re-declare our independence?
The signers of the Declaration of Independence risked their "lives, fortunes and
sacred honor" in order to break away from a corrupted system dominated by tyrants. They knew they didn't have the
entire support of all the people; there were many "loyalists" who didn't want to risk everything in what Samuel Adams
called "the animating contest for freedom." The signers and Jefferson knew
there would be reluctant loyalists favoring the status quo, and they appealed to their sense of right and duty to justify
the risks to be taken in the Declaration:
"
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security."
--Declaration of Independence
"
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us
in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down
and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon
you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."---Samuel Adams
But there is a key difference between 1776 and now. The signers of the Declaration
were seceding from the most powerful empire on earth. We, on the other hand, are seeking to take back our
inheritance ( a government Limited to powers authorized by the Consent of the Governed; a government that serves to
protect our unalienable rights). The Constitution is already written; all we have to do (easier said than done) is shut down every
government function that's not authorized by that Constitution and then amend or repeal certain perversions that
have infected the charter document since 1865. The 14th, 16th and 17th amendments all need attention to restore state powers
to effectively check the central government. Other perversions are not in the text, but have become de facto practice.
We'll address, in another commentary, more details on HOW we need to undo the perversions
that have infected our system. Grass roots activism by a small group of committed patriots will be the key. We must
unlock the chains (limited choices) placed on the people by the major political parties and the moneyed interests
who control them. We must
overcome the protections erected for incumbent politicians and dig those bloodsucking ticks out. We need to turnover
the compost in the Senate, throwing out one third of them every two years along with more than half the House members
every two years (100% turnover would be better). We can't do it overnight, but we can do it.
And when we have the elected politicians answering to their constituents (the voters)
instead of the money men and special interests, THEN we can reclaim liberty by reducing government to its rightful
LIMITED place.
Obviously, if we are to effect such a "radical" resurgence, we must awaken the electorate
and get more participation than we have now. Mike Crane and the Southern Party of Georgia
documents over and over the
dismal figures, low turnouts (10 percent expected for June 19th) and
lack of opposition for entrenched parasites, better known as "incumbents."
Thomas Jefferson and the other Founders saw these changes coming, these perversions
of the Founder's intent, he
predicted them based on study of previous human history. The so-called experts today struggle to convince us that
American history (before last week) is irrelevant to current events or the course American government should take in the
future. Those fools are so wrong.
"Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of
Government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by
slow operation, perverted it into tyranny" --Thomas Jefferson
Independence Day is a reminder of hard-won freedoms----freedoms we have slowly forfeited
to new tyrants....and freedoms we need to restore. The Patriots of 1776 struggled for eight long years to win their
independence from Britain. Americans were, with a brief interval of peace, still fighting the British 30 years later.
If we can win back our freedoms from the American and globalist tyrants who enslave us now, the struggle to keep those
freedoms will go on, for as Jefferson said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Steve Scroggins
is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and he's the creative (if somewhat deranged) force behind
the X-Files.
"Let the Fourth of July always be a
reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man
is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience
created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those
voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great
truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July." ---Ronald Reagan
"In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a
spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but spiritual
conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man---these
are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have
their source and their roots in religious convictions. They belong to the
unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious
convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We
cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause. If all
men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable
rights, that is final. If governments derive their just power from the
consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made
beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth and their
soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not
forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights
of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that
direction cannot lay claim to progress." ---Calvin Coolidge
"As congressmen prepare to embark on their weeklong Independence Day recess,
there will be no vacation at the beach for the 177,000 U.S. troops in Iraq
or Afghanistan. While the rest of their countrymen are carping about $3 per
gallon gasoline and whining about long lines at airports, young Americans
deployed along the Tigris and Euphrates will don 50-pound flak jackets and
Kevlar helmets and do battle against suicidal Islamic radicals in 130-degree
heat. But no matter how effective our troops are, it's unlikely to make its way
to the front page of your newspaper or the evening news." ---Oliver North
Article I, Section 1: "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which
shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives" who generally delegate said
powers to the President and various un-elected bureaucrats. When exercised, however, issued laws are often overruled
and replaced with the personal preferences of the federal judiciary.
Article II, Section 1, the President's Oath of Office: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office
of the President of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States" ---except the parts I dislike, like the 2nd Amendment, the 9th
and the 10th Amendments, and any others that might get in my way or harm commerce, open borders or Republican party
power.
Amendment XVI: "The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived,
without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration"
and without regard for common sense or brevity. The laws shall be constructed with such
labyrinthine complexity and ambiguity so as to baffle their enforcers (the IRS) and to enslave citizens and
confiscate a third to a half of their incomes.
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