From: Gary Hunt at the Outpost of Freedom in Waco, Texas
Date: MARCH 23, 1993We have become complacent
with the knowledge that we are governed by
representatives of our own choosing. We have learned from
our history the need for this representation and how it
protects us from usurpation of the fundamental rights we
have come to cherish, so secure in the knowledge that we
are the People that truly are the government, the
deciders of the destiny of this great nation which we
have received as our birthright. This is the truth that
history has taught us and the constitution protected for
us.
This, then, is what we accept as truth, but, do we
truly understand how our country is run? Who is in
control? And, even if those we have elected to represent
us have the power that we assume to annually grant them?
Not too many years ago, within every level of
government, there were commissioners, selected from those
who were elected to represent us. We had Commissioners of
Police, Commissioners of Public Works, Commissioners of
Finance - each and every one of them elected by us, to
represent us and to be responsible to us for their
actions. They were our power in government, our control
over government and our lawful method of directing
government to serve us rather then itself.
Slowly the size of government grew and the demands
upon the time of those elected by us was redirected
toward endeavors aside from the direct control of
government. Planners told us through the representatives,
that it was necessary for our representatives to devote
themselves to legislative efforts and to delegate their
authority, and ours, to appointees, who, by training,
were more qualified to conduct the everyday business of
government. These appointees slowly acquired experience
and power in the conduct of their duties. They also
achieved the means to grant favors in the administration
of their duties and to receive the same from the
beneficiaries of their favors. They established a
permanence in government and an apparent expertise that
they told us was absolutely necessary to conduct
government in a manner more efficient than those who were
elected to that purpose were able to provide.
The administrators had become so entrenched that the
current stock of "elected representatives" have
satisfied themselves that this is the nature of
government. The elected have been taught that they may
pass two types of legislation. One being those laws they
feel will satisfy their own personal agendas, the other
being those laws recommended by the "experts"
for their "administration of government." The
elected representatives have never really bothered to
evaluate the affect of either form of legislation as it
relates to our established form of government, nor will
the administrators ever inform them that what they have
done is far from their Constitutional authority, for
surely these "experts" are knowledgeable in
their specific areas and are quite capable in those
determinations that were once the sacred providence of
the people through their lawful representation.
Today we have lost the concept of government by the
people. We have come to be ruled by administrative
agencies with only the funding requirements of those
agencies being met by those chosen to represent us. The
administrative agencies have been given the freedom to
perform social experimentation at the expense of the
people to whom they have no direct allegiance.
These administrative agencies have gained control of
our destiny, which, by right, should be controlled by us
through our representatives. They have decided our
morality, by laws passed, and have often overruled the
desires of the people to create their owns laws in the
name of government.
They have revised our history books to remove the
principles upon which this nation was established, and
replaced them with their own "politically
correct" versions so as to affect our morality and
beliefs. They have distorted the inherent and unalienable
rights that so much blood has been shed for throughout
our history, in favor of methods of control that are more
consistent with the methods of our enemies of the past.
They have used their administrative staffs, and our
funds, to devise ways of usurping, even more, our power
until we have come to the point of absolute submission to
this cancer that is so foreign to our historic way of
life. They have destroyed the fundamental concepts of
Freedom and Liberty that had made this the greatest
nation the world has ever known, and we have not even
noticed this decline until we see the likes of the events
that have recently become so common across the nation.
Today, here in Waco, Texas, these agencies are in the
process of establishing a degree of control over us that
is as absolute as any dictator in the history of man.
They have encamped around a church. The principle element
of the establishment of the morality of this once great
and moral nation. They have justified their actions by
the bastardization of a simple tax upon one of the
fundamental rights, which, without, this country would
have continued under British rule to this day. Their
current actions reek much of the actions of the British
back in April, 1775, as they marched into Lexington and
Concord with the purpose of securing the weapons of the
colonists which had been stockpiled against this very
form of transgression. They have ignored the protections
of government, once guaranteed and protected as the right
of free men. They have ignored the principles of the
common man in favor of a ruling elite. They have imposed
tortures upon those besieged that we might once have
considered barbaric, even if applied to an enemy. They
have denied, absolutely, the right of all free men to
communicate with others and to have the right to and
assistance of counsel. Our fellow Americans are held
hostage by the very government that was created to
protect them, and us. They have been forced to submit to
conditions dictated by agencies rather than those elected
to represent them. They have been denied humanitarian
aid, unless they submit to rules and treatment
inconsistent with their desires and beliefs, even after
the church members allowed the agency to have complete
access and control over their dead and wounded.
Just over two hundred years ago the various counties
within the colonies established militias to contend with
the threat posed by the continual tightening of
governmental authority of the British. Common to many was
the motto, "Dont Tread On Me", symbolized by a
coiled rattlesnake, which, when left peaceably, threatens
none, but when trodden upon, strikes as viciously as any
other creature on earth.
When the previously described events of April, 1775
occurred, the rattlesnake uncoiled itself in an attack
that lasted eight years and laid waste to the greatest
military force the world had ever known. The spirit of
the rag-tag army that took upon themselves this awesome
task was the same spirit which was willing to come to the
aid of those brave men who first faced the British forces
that had come to seize the weapons that were not only a
birthright, but necessary for the preservation of the
freedoms that were then being denied by the British. The
willingness to come to the aid of those first defenders
who stood against the British at Lexington was the very
heartthrob of the spirit of liberty. The willingness to
defend their neighbors as they would themselves was to
become the meaning and spirit of what would be known as
America.
Have we, in these past two hundred years, come full
circle to again challenge that spirit to determine if the
hearts of men are still desirous Liberty and Freedom? Has
Waco become the Lexington and Mount Carmel the Concord?
Is the spirit and the desire to remain free as strong as
that spirit was then? Are we still willing to make the
commitment that has always been known to be the price of
Liberty?
I need not repeat the words of Patrick Henry when he
proclaimed, on March 23, 1775, what his course would be.
It may, however, be time for each and every American to
evaluate whether this great nation and noble experiment
will continue to slide into the socialized depths of
democracy, or once again rear it's head to strike out in
the cause of Liberty and a Constitutional Republic of
free men.
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