It's Time to Join the Resistance

"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?"-- Thomas Jefferson

Over the past few months, I've heard from many Americans who feel they've lost the power to be heard by their government. From the repeated assaults on our civil liberties to the financial ruin brought about by irresponsible corporations and government officials, Americans feel helpless and beaten down.

Faced with a government that is not heeding their demands, many are simply giving up. But we are far from helpless, and this is not the time to surrender our rights.

Too often, we forget that America began with a revolution. America was born out of the sheer grit and determination of a rebellious group of colonists. These freedom fighters stood their ground. They knew they had rights. And when those rights were systematically violated, they resisted.

Thankfully, there are a growing number of Americans--what I like to refer to as "teaspoons of resistance"--who have not given up the fight and are choosing to exercise their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and "petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

There are many examples. Let me cite a few. In more than 40 cities across the country, growing numbers of Americans have been taking to the streets and staging "tea party protests" to voice their objections to the government's out-of-control spending and its bailout of mega-corporations and bad mortgages. Although no tea is being tossed at these protests, they are gaining in popularity as a way for citizens to express their discontent with government spending gone haywire. In fact, organizers are planning a nationwide Tax-Day Tea Party protest.

Mindy McAlindon of Franklin, Tennessee, is taking a slightly different approach in voicing her discontent about the economy. She plans to bombard the White House with actual tea bags and protest notes. Protesters in other cities are planning to do the same for members of Congress.

More than 10,000 demonstrators in 100 locations across the country recently gathered at the offices of major banks whose behavior both before and since the government bailout "epitomize an era of CEO and corporate excess at the expense of broader prosperity that has weakened the economy."

Thousands will soon travel to Washington, DC, to protest the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The rally, which will take place the day after the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, will reportedly be the first national antiwar demonstration in the United States since President Barack Obama took office.

And then there is Concepcion Picciotto, a small woman in her late 60s who has carried on the longest continuous act of protest in the United States. Since 1981, Picciotto has staged a round-the-clock peace vigil across from the White House in Lafayette Park in the hopes of ending U.S. interventionist wars and banning nuclear weapons. She has thus far managed to outlast four presidents--Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush--and she's planning to outlast Barack Obama.

To fellow activists, Picciotto is a living symbol of resistance and an amazing example of grassroots democracy who understands that power is with the people. Unfortunately, her vigil has not been without its trials. Over the course of the past 28 years, Picciotto says she has been cursed at, spat on and beaten up, arrested and issued $50 citations for illegal "camping" in the park. Nevertheless, she persists in her solitary vigil.

We could use more tireless freedom fighters such as Concepcion Picciotto today. Yet she is merely one of a long and historic line of Americans to stage populist protests in the form of sleep-ins, sit-ins and marches to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change.

For example, in May of 1932, more than 43,000 people--World War I veterans and their families-- marched on Washington. Out of work, destitute and with families to feed, the veterans set up tent cities in the nation's capital and refused to leave until the government agreed to pay the bonuses they had been promised as a reward for their services. The Senate voted against paying them immediately, but the protesters didn't budge. Congress adjourned for the summer, and still the protesters remained encamped. Finally, on July 28, under orders from President Herbert Hoover, the Army descended with tanks and cavalry and drove them out, setting their makeshift camps on fire. Still, the protesters returned the following year, and eventually their efforts not only succeeded in securing payment of the bonuses but contributed to the passage of the G.I. Bill of Rights.

Thus, while protests and acts of resistance may not always achieve immediate results, they're a good place to start. Time and again throughout our nation's history, real change has come at the urging of the people. After all, governments aren't proactive, they're reactive. They only move when you urge them to move. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s is a perfect example. Just imagine how much longer it would have taken to gain equality for African-Americans without the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and so many other fearless black Americans.

Clearly, this is no time to stand silently on the sidelines. It's a time for anger and reform. Most importantly, it's a time for making ourselves heard. And there is no better time to act than the present. As Robert F. Kennedy reminded his listeners in a speech delivered at the University of Cape Town in 1966, "Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile--family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head--all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people."

What can ordinary citizens do? Instead of sitting around and waiting for someone else to change things, take charge. Never discount the part that everyday citizens play in our nation's future. You can change things, but there can be no action without education. Get educated about your rights and exercise them. Start by reading the Bill of Rights. You can do so online at www.rutherford.org. Or, if you want a copy to keep with you, email me at johnw@rutherford.org and I'll send you a free one.

Most important of all, just get out there and do your part to make sure that your government officials hear you. The best way to ensure that happens is by never giving up, never backing down, and never remaining silent. To quote Dr. King, "If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl, but by all means keep moving."

It doesn't matter whether you're protesting the economy, the war, the environment or something else altogether. What matters is that you do your part. As that great revolutionary firebrand Samuel Adams pointed out, "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds."

Take some time right now and start your own brushfire for freedom. In the words of one Tea Party organizer, become "10-minute citizens. Take 10 minutes, six days a week and learn about the issues, and then call politicians, or email them, or call talk radio, or write letters to the editor and make your voice heard."

It's midnight in America right now. But the real question is, will there be a dawn? That's up to you and me. The future is in our hands.

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MUST READ! TOMORROW'S WHEAT

By Paul Cappadona

March 1, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Can you eat the yet un-harvested corn? Can we store-up tomorrow’s wheat? Can we enjoy the comfort of a chair still growing in the forest? Can we hold in our arms the yet unborn? These things belong in the future and they are beyond our reach. To obtain things from the future would be a violation of the time and space continuum or just mendacious tricks. We are led to believe we have spent our posterity’s wealth even though that wealth is unattainably in the future. The debt they claim owed is for wealth and labor beyond all present economic activity. Any reasonable mind can see that would be an illusionary accomplishment. Can we see or spend the gold or silver yet undiscovered or taste the bread from the wheat grown next year? We have been led to believe both a physical and moral impossibility. What is this spell that has tricked our minds into thinking that tomorrow’s economy is spent and how was it accomplished?

“In all honest labor there is profit. Blessed we would be if we walked in His way. For we would eat the labor of our hands: happy we would be, and it would be well with us.” Our debt is skyrocketing higher and higher while personal savings have fallen to near zero. In a true and honest Republic with free market wealth based money, that would be reversed, our savings would rise and our debts would fall. There have been crimes committed.

“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. Our public servants rule over us, and the solution is hidden that would deliver us out of their hand.” Are we guilty? We are told we are by the media and people claiming “power.” Yes we are guilty, but not for the reasons we are told. We fail when we allow deceit to dwell freely within our borders and allowing those that tell lies to remain in our employ. Isn’t it time to wake up and use the power of justice? Deceit and fraud are illegal in America making them subject to indictment.

“Deceit and fraud shall not defend, excuse or benefit any man.” Best, Evid. P469 s428;1 story, Eq Jur. S395; 3 Coke, 78; Fleta, lib. 1, c13, s15.

“The law helps persons who are deceived not those who are doing the deceiving.” Tray. Lat. Max. 149. The case of Norton Vs. Shelby County found, “An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; in imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it created no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it has never been passed.” Norton Vs. Shelby County, 118U.S. 425,442.

Do not be fooled by the problems that lie ahead. We have many, but they are not to be feared. They have been used by the wicked to keep us in line.

Problems are opportunities for achievement to those that solve them.

Problems are a means to power for those that promote them.

This whole ridiculous situation is coming to a head; there are only two things we can do short of a bloody revolution.

1. We will expose, indict and prosecute the criminal psychopaths controlling us with monetized debt. Or:
2. Continue having our real wealth expropriated until they consume most of production and we begin to starve.

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth… take it away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.” Sir Josiah Stamp the second richest man in Britain and President of the Bank of England, said at the University of Texas in 1927.

It looks to me we are already in the final stage, becoming slaves of the money creators by way of criminal politicking. Paper money, better yet monetized debt, was the tool of expropriation of our wealth and throwing a monkey wrench into the engine of economic activity. As a whole people we can not pay back more than was borrowed from a single source. When fractional reserve banking was imposed on the U.S. the interest was small and seemed payable. We were led to believe that the interest was worth paying in exchange for a flexible medium of exchange. This was a lie that we can all see by using 20/20 hind sight. Lying fraudulent debt must be cancelled, which would be to enact a grand jubilee. All other real claims on wealth must be made payable by the assets of the Federal Reserve banks and their holdings. At most all that could be paid back otherwise would be principle and that would be next to impossible seeing their money, our debt, has been spread through out the entire world.

The economic mentor of this madness was Lord Maynard Keynes and when logic exposed his flawed theories as economic suicide his answer was “In the long run we’re all dead men.” Keynesian economics has fraudulently placed us in bondage through debt and has afforded greed and money (debt notes) to keep the sham alive. Follow the money; follow the money, follow the funny money, all things that lead to our demise is well funded, and in many cases is put on our debt tab just for kicks. Why is this so, and is not this criminal? Patriotic groups can hardly rub two nickels together. Most of the patriotic groups are striking at air, not even close to the target. They are either misinformed or funded sham resistance. They ask for the last few cents we have to keep on swinging when they are not even in the same room with our enemies. The room where justice can work its blessing is the court room. We must target our local Court House, which is where our branch of power resides.

It is the people’s job to indict as well as convict. It is the people that create jurisdiction by way of the grand juries. Reason with your group; get them to do something that can make a difference or get out. We must force our elected DA to impanel a special FREE grand jury to investigate the corruption and fraud that has gone un-indicted. It is our job to investigate crimes; it is not the job of the foxes that guard the hen house. We have left this power in the street for too long... it must be reclaimed. We have the right to peacefully assemble in front of the DA’s office and pressure him or her to do their job. There is no time left, at the present time we have a right and a duty to investigate crimes both corporate and governmental. When the United States of America is fundamentally changed and the final takeover is complete, our power will be lost. Get to it.

© 2009 - Paul Cappadona - All Rights Reserved

Paul Cappadona is the Author of Taking Back America, The Party’s Over

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MUST READ! AMERICA IN CRITICAL CONDITION

By CJ Graham
February 28, 2009
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"If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..." --Thomas Jefferson

The Illness

America has virulent cancer.

She suffers a malignant malevolent tumor, a heartless soulless abomination to her humanity; the cancer of globalism. This flawed ideology, communistic in nature, is hell bent on invading and destroying the heart, mind and soul of our beloved nation. Where freedom and hope, ingenuity and motivation now stand hobbled by corrupting influences, globalists, like ravenous locusts, conspire to leave behind desolation and devastation.

To the globally focused elite, our citizens, the unwashed masses, mere peasants, are nothing more than cattle to be bought, manipulated to toil, spend, and fund. To the Gods of Globalism, nations are a marketplace and people are the slaves; with the predictable outcome, tyranny.

There is no human dignity in being a people without a nation, freedom, or self determination. Humans cannot thrive without an identity or community. We cannot flourish without the hope of something greater for our progeny then for ourselves.

There are no human rights in being used as a unit of labor, worked into senility, plundered, ravaged and cast aside for the next replacement, one with less demands and fewer complications. The elites are the framers and benefactors of globalism. The citizens subjected to this ideology; the victims.

Americans are currently living under the illusion of ‘representation,’ by such globalists. Let me be very clear, globalists are not Americans. To embrace a loss of sovereignty, an end to nation states, and the beloved work of our Founding Fathers, is disloyal and treasonous.

You cannot be an American and live the American idea if you are espousing globalist rhetoric; these two ideologies are in direct conflict one with another.

Americans still pining for change can expect no redress from the current batch of politicians. They appear both incapable of and unwilling to think America first. How can they be expected to represent Americans justly and constitutionally when their every consideration, idea, and action is global-results oriented? They have sworn a new allegiance and answer to another power.

It would seem the globalists are willing to sacrifice a few Americans (collateral damage) for this new global realignment. After all, what are a few homeless American children and senior citizens in the grand scheme of things? The Gods of Globalism have higher ideas, you see.

Americans and their silly Constitution, which they cling to and recite religiously, are outdated and hopelessly unsophisticated to the elite who have it all figured out. It is a shame that they will be left behind in the new global order. There are always victims of change and change is always progress and progress is always good, right? Unless we all begin to understand that this is the mindset of the global elite, we will never understand how to survive them.

Like cockroaches, globalists have infiltrated every aspect of the American experience from government to education, entertainment, media, social programs, health care and finance. They have come into our collective psyche with outstretched hands, promising change and social responsibility and bringing nothing more than third world slavery, inferior products, poverty, homelessness, racial tensions, divisiveness and distrust. This strategy is being played out across the globe and the resultant chaos is clear.

Playing their hands quietly, patiently, and meticulously, the Gods of Globalism plot each step and wait for the uproar of an outraged people. When it does not come, they advance, incrementally, unobtrusively, so as not to be threatening; allowing the innocent time to become accustomed to them and to adjust their thinking and tolerance levels.

The global elites do not wish to co-exist with us; they want to dominate and control every aspect of our lives and our humanity. Little by little, while we were working, raising children, living our American dream, and paying taxes, they were laying the ground work against our sovereignty.

As of this past election cycle, it would appear, nothing has changed. One only has to witness the awestruck faces at any Obama gathering to understand that Americans are beguiled by ideas taught since grade school, ideas that destroy liberty, personal responsibility and accountability. Ideas taught that different is always better, change can never be negative, shame and guilt should replace pride and achievement, and protectionism is a negative, in a world without boundaries, cultures, traditions or religions.

The Symptoms

Americans were open hearted and generous and welcomed immigrants who wished for the American dream. Over time, the quality and purpose of immigrants changed. When our instincts warned us of danger, most ignored them and chided themselves or others for being selfish and intolerant.

When jobs became tight, resources limited, cities overcrowded, and services depleted, our ‘representatives’ continued to dilute our citizenry with illegal aliens having no regard for our nation, history or people.

(Imagine how the Native Americans felt when the white Europeans came and did the same to them! Let us not forget.)

Change was subtle and caught our citizens unaware. Rather then add to the fabric of our brilliant American tapestry, new hoards of illegals and ‘Visa overstays’ overtook our nation and our cultural identity, changing forever the complexity of our nation. Borders, not respected, were breached and are now in danger of becoming erased. Those who tried to warn America for decades were ridiculed and labeled racists, nationalists and protectionists.

As Americans now cry out for relief, our ‘representatives’ remain deaf to our pleadings. They no longer recognize us as the rightful owners of this nation. The American citizen, replaced and marginalized, is voiceless, endangered and unrepresented.

Our children, undereducated in the basics, have had their minds and survival instincts turned to mush by socialist ideologies. While other nations teach math and science, our children are taught diversity and tolerance in a utopian inspired world.

They have not been taught history, so when the wolf knocked at the door, they did not know enough to barricade it. We have left them defenseless and naïve in a dangerous world that would destroy them. Meanwhile, our babies sucked on toys laced with brain deadening lead. Our pets were killed by toxic pet foods, and our seniors died from contaminated peanut butter.

The plan for global governance has now become obvious and arrogant. Criminals are rewarded while innocents pay the price. Social engineers applaud greed and mock simplicity and tradition. Children, beset with cynicism from an onslaught of corruption and moral equivalency, question everything but believe in nothing. Our children are awash in drugs, crime, the cynical materialism of globalism, and are almost lost to us.

What do we tell our children now? Do we tell them that we are sorry we were asleep while our nation was being disassembled? Do we deny seeing our borders breached, the marches in our streets, communist flags waving above upended American flags, in the hands of hateful rhetoric spewing illegal aliens?

How will we explain to our children that we have indebted them to the Communist Chinese and Saudi Arabians and that their new masters detest our Constitution and our way of life?

How will we explain that we didn’t bother to learn that the Federal Reserve is not a government entity, but a globalist banking institution, robbing them of their national treasure without accountability?

Will our children ever know national pride and the blessings of liberty? Will they embrace the satisfaction of belonging to a people, culture, tradition and idea? Will they have the stability of owning their own soil to grow food, build a home, and raise a family? Will they understand what it is to love something enough to fight and die for it? Will they know that being an American is an honor and a gift that carries with it an implicit obligation to pass it to our future generations intact?

Are our children already destined to be born into servitude to bankers, power brokers and the global elite?

For our children, I am ashamed for every politician, corrupt and filthy drunk with power, that was ever re-elected and never held accountable for his misdeeds.

Having been the richly rewarded benefactors of our ancestor’s deep patriotism and their willingness to guard, with their lives, the treasure of being an American citizen, will we be the generation that left nothing for our children but poverty and enslavement?

The Cure

National Pride is the only cure for what besets the soul of our nation.

America is at a cross roads. One path leads to renewed freedom, sovereignty and prosperity; the other to domination, poverty, tyranny and destruction.

One thing stands in the way of the Gods of Globalism realizing their dream;

A True Hearted American Patriot.

Do not underestimate that power.

It is intrinsic in the American psyche to admire and embrace our nation, heritage and rule of law. Our pride in this beautiful American experience is the hope of future generations.

We are citizens of the greatest nation in the world. We are neither customers nor slaves. We are Americans. We must stand and light the way to freedom, beginning with our own. For if we truly care about the people of the world, what better can we do for them, than to do for our own, and lead by example?

Globalists loathe national pride. It is the proverbial stake in the vampire’s heart. People cannot be forever oppressed. They will long for freedom and identity. They want to protect their homes, families and nation. It is an undeniable human instinct, a message of self determination.

This is why the Gods of Globalism hate the patriot, and why we must be proud to be one. The more globalists mock and ridicule, the more we must push forth, for they are showing their fear and fearful entities make mistakes.

They are not invulnerable. They do not have truth and faith and love of nation on their side, thus they cannot win.

There are American patriots currently serving in our government. Call on them now to step forward, not meekly, but forcefully, loudly, and publicly decry the blasphemy of globalism now occurring in DC and our state and local government. They must speak out and raise the understanding of our population to alert and educate them. They are obligated by their oath to do so.

Great American minds built the manufacturing base, from which this nation once prospered. They must speak out. Business is not a corrupt institution. The people entering business are corrupt. The globalists have overtaken the system and are bent on destroying it. Stand up against them and stand for the American worker.

The American people need a benefactor, one with power, money and prestige. They need CEOs with integrity, honor, decency and patriotism to come forward and chastise the globalists for being the greedy sell outs they have exposed themselves to be. It must come from within their own ranks to be effective.

Those of honor in the media know the travesty the profession has become. Cast off the shackles of political correctness and the corporate media monster and tell the American people the truth. Rally your journalistic integrity and do the research yourself instead of reading the talking points that are put before you. You will feel much more proud when you look in the mirror and will be amazed at how well you will sleep at night. Do not worry about being called the ‘lunatic fringe’, in time you will take great pride in the label and the American people will recognize the truth when they hear it.

Educators must stand up for truth and not allow children to be indoctrinated with the socialist globalist view of the world. You know the truth and have the most solemn responsibility to enrich our youngest citizens with the facts they need to survive in a dangerous world.

The point of no return is within viewing distance. Globalists are licking their chops. The wolf is at the door. But perhaps they have underestimated the human spirit and the conviction to be free. Perhaps the wolf now regrets his posturing and arrogance.

Globalists can scoff at the simple idea of patriotism. They can mock and laugh at our tattered belongings, but unlike restless globalists, we can sleep at night knowing we love our nation without reservation.

I am deeply grateful for the work of heroes, long into this battle, those armed with the truth, courage and great stores of knowledge. Someday, the people of this nation will recognize that we owe a great debt of gratitude to people like Devvy Kidd, Frosty Wooldridge, Michael Cutler, Chuck Baldwin, Ron Paul, Andrew Wallace, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck and the publishers of NewsWithViews and other like-minded publications, who worked diligently to spread truth, never gaining personal benefit, and often ridiculed by Americans, too comfortable and well fed, to listen carefully.

Though I am a late comer in this battle to save our Republic, I am so much better for the work of those who have come before and paved the way. I am filled with regret for every article I did not publish, every call I did not make, every stranger I did not tell, every opportunity I missed by error or complacency.

Cancer is not always fatal. Many times, survivors come back from the brink, better for having survived and endured, renewed enough to appreciate the blessings bestowed upon them. America has virulent cancer but national pride is the cure.

© 2009 CJ Graham - All Rights Reserved

"CJ" Graham is a Veteran and the proud wife of a retired USAF Veteran. She is a dedicated mother, activist, conservative, independent, who's allegiance is to her country and not to a particular political party. She is a firm believer in the power of the Citizen of the United States of America to whom she writes with a empowering and encouraging spirit. She knows that the Citizen of the USA can make a difference through peaceful, focused, knowledge empowered, activism working within the system and with media and legislators to effect change. As an author, she writes from the heart but backs up her work with facts.

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Military Joining The American Resistance To Protect The Constitution

...where I have to choose between obeying orders or supporting the Constitution and the American people.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” ~ Winston Churchill

Conviction is worthless unless converted into conduct.~ Thomas Carlyle

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~ James Madison

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.

Do you know what started the first American Revolution???