Sons of Liberty
No 20
September 6, 1995
IF
IT WAS POSSIBLE for men who exercise their reason to
believe that the Divine Author of our existence intended
a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in
and an unbounded power over others, marked out by His
infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal
domination never rightfully resistible, however severe
and oppressive, the inhabitants of these colonies might
at least require from the [US government] some evidence
that this dreadful authority over them has been granted
to that body. But a reverence for our great Creator,
principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense
must convince all those who reflect upon the subject that
government was instituted to promote the welfare of
mankind and ought to be administered for the attainment
of that end. ***
Our forefathers, inhabitants of
the island of Great Britain, left their native land to
seek on these shores a residence for civil and religious
freedom. At the expense of their blood, at the hazard of
their fortunes, ...
...By one statute it is declared that [government] can
"of right make laws to bind us in all cases
whatsoever." What is to defend us against so
enormous, so unlimited a power? ...We saw the misery to
which such despotism would reduce us. We for ten years
incessantly and ineffectually besieged the [government]
as supplicants; we reasoned, we remonstrated with
Parliament, in the most mild and decent language.
...We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an
unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated
[bureaucrats], or resistance by force.
The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of
this contest and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary
slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to
surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant
ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right
to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt
of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness
which inevitably awaits them. if we basely entail
hereditary bondage upon them. ***
In our own native land, in defense
of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever
enjoyed till the late violation of it, for the protection
of our property acquired solely by the honest industry of
our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually
offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down
when hostilities shall cease on the part of the
aggressors and all danger of their being renewed shall be
removed, and not before. ***
A
Declaration . . . Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity
of Their Taking Up Arms
Second Continental Congress, July 6, 1775
Each of us must act in accord with his own thoughts and beliefs to determine when, and where, he will join the battle to restore the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, and to recognize the intent of government as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
- For Anna May Aquash, Joe Stunts and Leonard Peltier it began when the FBI created conflict and division on the Oglala Sioux reservation in 1975.
- For Gordon and Yorie Kahl it began when the US Marshals set up a roadblock in 1983.
- For Donald Scott it began in 1992 when the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department decided that it was ‘legal’ to manufacture evidence in the hopes of obtaining Scott’s property.
- For Kevin Harris and the Randy Weaver family it began in 1992 as the government mounted an enormous and expensive surveillance over misdemeanor charges.
- For David Koresh and the Davidians it began in 1993 when the BATF, outside of their jurisdiction, sought to serve a search warrant, and collect a tax -- at the point of a gun.
- For Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols it began just a few months ago when they took the first offensive action of the Second American Revolution.
When will it begin for you?
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