The Federal Observer

September 6, 2009 - If you close your eyes, tune out the world and listen closely, you may be able to hear it. I know I can. Try it for just a second. Do you hear it, the tick…tick….tick of the clock, as time quickly winds down on the United States of America?

The game clock began running in 1789 when our federal government took its first breath. Our system of government was established primarily to preserve the rights of the individual with the secondary purpose of creating a government to manage the general affairs of the Union.

But, as Thomas Jefferson said, in a letter to E. Carrington, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Jefferson is also quoted as saying, “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.”

Two hundred and twenty years after the Constitution established our system of government, the cycle Jefferson spoke of is nearly complete. Just around the same time that our Declaration of Independence was being written, Alexander Fraser Tyler wrote something entitled the Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic. From it I quote, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average life of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.”

The average life cycle of the great civilizations of the world has been 200 years. Each of these great civilizations has followed the following sequence of events; From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

Where do you place us now in that cycle? Something George Washington said over two hundred years ago, once again comes into play for those of us alive in 2009. That being, “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

For far too long Americans have trusted their government to do what is right, and what is in the best interests of the people. We immerse ourselves in our own lives while expecting our elected representatives to live up to their oaths to uphold the Constitution. Our complacency has allowed our government to amass an enormous amount of power that was never theirs to assume. At the same time they have been whittling away at our rights and our freedom. All the while they tell us that these things are for the greater public good. Wasn’t it Adolf Hitler who once said, “Society’s needs come before the individual’s needs?”

When people, in their complete ignorance of what is really wrong with this country, have gotten fed up with the shenanigans of one political party, they have merely changed out the political party of those in power and let the other side run rampant for awhile.

George Washington made an interesting comment regarding political parties, one which we all would do well to consider, “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Now we have in office a man who campaigned on the promise of change. I can’t recall how many times he said that an Obama administration was to be one of openness and transparency.

From the White House webpage we read, “Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use.”

This comes from a man who we know very little about. His records have been sealed and it appears that he has no intention of allowing us to view them.

Yet, did not John Adams once say, “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

Obama made all sorts of promises on the campaign trail, he played to everyone’s emotions with just the right words. Yet there were some, myself included, who did not buy into his charming smile and faux concern for our well being.

You see, there are some who still remember the principles upon which this country was founded, and what Obama was preaching does not reflect those principles. Obama, although he campaigned on change, is nothing but a reworked, repackaged Democrat, whose goal is to replace our constitutional republic with a socialistic state.

As Norman Thomas once said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

That is what we are faced with now. We have to remember, as Thomas Jefferson once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”

You may not agree with everything I say. You may not agree with my belief that I have the right to speak out against my government. You may not even like me as a person.

Whether any of these apply to you, there is one thing you must consider, “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.” Thomas Jefferson

You may find me radical in my thinking, but remember this, it is people such as myself, and others, who are all that stand between you and your government, defending what remain of your rights. If our government is successful in silencing us, who then will be left to fight for your rights?

Anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller once said,

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

So it stands in America. To put it in terms that sports followers can understand, we’re at the two minute warning of the fourth quarter and we’re down by two touchdowns and a field goal. If we want to win, we’re going to have to do something, and do it quick.

There are those who still believe that we can change things through the current system, that by voting out all incumbents, and replacing them with ‘fresh meat’ we can bring about a return to Constitutionally run government.

I am not one of those. There are those who feel that a return to a conservative, i.e. Republican administration, we can begin to restore our once great republic. There is already talk of a Sean Hannity/Sarah Palin GOP ticket in 2012.

From an article posted on the Patriot Update, Jay Taylor writes, “Everyone who follows Sean Hannity knows that he is a diehard conservative. He has been a faithful supporter of our troops—both with his time and money. Sean doesn’t mind being critical of politicians on either side of the political aisle. Principle comes first. And he is an avid defender of our unborn children, which is the cornerstone of a true conservative platform.”

Sean Hannity is far from conservative in my view. He is nothing but a mouthpiece, a hack for the Republican Party platform. To see how he insulted Ron Paul during the past GOP debates is enough to show me that Hannity has no understanding of what is wrong in this country, and therefore is unfit to become President.

There are also those who feel that we have a chance if we can convince our states to stand up for their 10th Amendment rights to nullify any and all laws that infringe upon states rights.

While that plan has a slightly better chance of succeeding than to work at electing true conservatives to Congress, I still see it as being doomed to failure. The idea sounds good on paper, but what will happen when the federal government unleashes its might upon the states? What will happen if they cut off all federal funding to all the programs that states have become so addicted to? If you ask me, the states will cave and things will go back to normal- and very quickly.

There is hope, but it is based upon the premise that people will get so fed up that they will say that they no longer will obey these unconstitutional laws and infringements upon our liberties.

Yes, this will mean that we will become criminals in they eyes of our government. But who in fact are the criminals, we the people for fighting to uphold the rule of law, or the government who will fight against us so that they can continue to violate the law?

Sure, we will be outgunned, and outnumbered. But there is something that I once heard that gives me some glimmer of hope. I was once told that for every letter a person writes to their elected official, there are 20,000 others who are of a like mind who do not write.

If that be the case, then the number of those who feel that it is time to stand up to our government is far greater than they have considered. There just may be enough of us who, the moment we see our fellow patriots come under attack, will fight back. We may not be enough to turn things around in this country. But we would rather die fighting, than to live under what our nation is quickly becoming.

As I said, the clock is ticking, and if our government continues to push, we will have no recourse but to push back. Then we will see what we will see, won’t we? For, as Thomas Jefferson once warned, “And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Time may in fact may be running out, but when the clock stops ticking, the end will not come peacefully, of that I am certain.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?“

~ The Author ~
Neal Ross can be reached for comments at bonsai@syix.com. Visit Neal’s Blog at http://www.zombie-slayer.com/neal

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