In 1993 I took my very first baby steps of learning the truth; undoing all the lies and propaganda I had been spoon fed for the previous thirty-five years. This journey began with me writing letters to my elected representatives over the issues of illegal immigration and gun control. It wasn’t until I heard the term North American Union on the Lou Dobbs show that I began to learn the real truth…a process which continues to this day.

Many of you may have heard the word plateau used to describe points in a process in which you hit a wall and make no further progress. Weightlifters use it, as do people trying to lose weight. I remember one time when I was taking Kenpo Karate classes in the Air Force. I just could not stretch my legs far enough to do the splits. One day my instructor came up and said that I had hit a plateau, that I needed something to help me progress further; he said that my inability to do the splits was not a physical limitation so much as a mental one. As soon as he said that he kicked my rear leg out from under me and I went all the way down into the splits. Was he taking a chance that I may have been hurt, or did he realize that I needed to break through a mental barrier that was prohibiting me from progressing?

I tell you this story because unless you are willing to overcome certain mental barriers you will never learn the full truth about the nature of the evil which has been perpetrated against you by your government.

As with all plateaus, once you break past them you find you are capable of making progress again in whatever your endeavor. Often, breaking through these plateaus also become major turning points in your life.

In late 2004 I had hit a mental plateau and I felt I was stagnating. Then in 2005 I read an article on News With Views dot com that really opened my eyes and helped me break through a mental plateau I had hit. I had always been a huge fan of the film The Matrix, but one day I stumbled across this article entitled The Real Matrix, by Steven Yates. Not only did this article help me break past my plateau, it was also a major turning point which opened up my eyes things I had never even considered before.

In 2008 I actually began to have some hope when rumors of a certain Texas Congressman named Ron Paul began circulating on the internet. He was said to be a firm supporter of the Constitution, an enemy of the Federal Reserve, and did not support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; all things I too felt strongly about. Now it is 2012 and Ron Paul is back, with even more support than before.
However, in the four years between his 2008 bid for president and now, much has happened; and that is what I would like to discuss now. First of all we have seen the growth of the Tea Party Movement, and a general awakening of the people in regards to the abuses of power by those elected to represent the people and safeguard their rights.

Secondly, we have seen, and I don’t care if you believe me or not, as the evidence is all there to support the truth, an illegal usurper sitting as president of the United States. Now this is one sticking point I have with Ron Paul, and it is a major thorn in my side when it comes to supporting him. If he is such a firm adherer to the Constitution, why has he not championed the cause of bringing the truth out about Barack Obama’s eligibility to hold the office he holds? When the history books are written the election of this illegal usurper to the office of president will go down in history right next to the Civil War as one of the most egregious blows to the Constitution…yet Ron Paul remains silent on this important issue. I leave you to form your own opinions on the matter, but it has caused me to question my support for him to the point I still don’t know if I will even bother voting in the next presidential election.

What else has happened in the past four years? Oh yeah, we had Obamacare shoved down our throats, the full effects of which won’t go into effect for years to come. We recently had the NDAA passed, which contains provisions grant a sitting president to indefinitely detain anyone they consider a terrorist. Coming from a Democrat, this alone sounds awfully familiar to the tyrannical language and intent of the Patriot Act if you ask me. We also saw the United States lead a coalition to overthrow the legitimate leader of Libya. This illegal use of military force against a sovereign nation, led by a President and Secretary of State who both campaigned on no more wars and military interventions. On top of all this, our national debt has gone up to over $15 trillion.

Does this sound like CHANGE to you or does it sound like four more years of the same old shit? How much more of this crap are you people going to put up with before you realize that there isn’t a damn bit of difference between the Republicans and Democrats. Sure they’ll campaign on smaller issues with a degree of difference but we still intervene in the affairs of other nations, our government continues to spend way beyond its means, and in the process shoves more unconstitutional laws down our throats.

So here we are in 2012 with Ron Paul making good showings in the early primaries. It is still a long way to the Oval Office with many traps along the way. He has to get through the primaries and into the convention unscathed. Then he has the arduous task of getting enough delegates to nominate HIM to be the GOP candidate. If he is the Constitutionalist every one claims he is, do you honestly think the Neo-Con led GOP is going to allow that to happen?

What I would now like for you to ask yourself is what if Ron Paul comes up short, a close, but no cigar scenario…what are YOU going to do for the next four years? In the past four years, although I was sad that Ron Paul had not been elected, I DID NOT stop learning, nor stop writing. In fact, what I have learned has led me to a point that many have commented on due to my recent commentaries…a point in which I seem to have lost all hope and given up.

Au contraire my friends, I have not given up the fight for freedom, not at all. I have however, lost all hope in solving our nation’s problems at the voting booth. Freedom is as much a state of mind as it is a state of reality. I have come to realize that until people have this burning desire to be free, free of all government shackles and interference in their lives; that not a damn thing is going to change in this country.

For years I wrote about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, citing quotation after quotation, trying to get my point across…to only fall upon deaf ears and minds unwilling to see the truth. I had hit another plateau, was stuck in a rut seemingly with nowhere else to go. I even considered giving up, just preparing myself for the eventual downfall of this once great nation.

Then a door was cracked and I got a glimpse of another truth, only a glimpse, but it was enough to rekindle my desire to learn more. Unfortunately the information it lead me to was so complicated, so unbelievable, that I myself doubted it. I knew that I questioned it then my readers would certainly question it, as well as my sanity for even considering it to be true.

A short time back Jeff Bennett, who publishes the Federal Observer, among other things, introduced a book written by Roger Sayles, entitled From Sovereign to Serf, which is available for purchase.

My copy arrived this week and it has clarified and simplified the information that I had only gotten a glimpse of earlier. This book is another major turning point in my life, as I will never look at things the same way again.

There are people in varying stages if illumination in this country. Some are still sound asleep at the wheel, insulated from even the slightest glimmer of truth, held in captive state by whatever they see and hear on their TV’s. Others realize something is wrong, but have no clue as to what IT is. Still others understand the danger to our way of life posed by the FED and the groups who actually control things in Washington D.C.

The first group of people probably wouldn’t get past the first chapter in this book without putting it down because it had no pictures. The second group would probably read a bit further, but put it down because it was too complicated. It is for the third group that this book should be read. They are the ones who care enough anyway to have gotten this far in their own personal education process to read, and comprehend, the material contained in this book.

All I know is that I have not given up the fight for freedom, and I never will until the day I die. I have come to realize that it is a personal fight and that electing some champion of the Constitution IS NOT going to solve a damn thing. Freedom will start when each person makes the personal decision that they no longer wish to be a slave to an oppressive master. On person can be silence, two or three squashed like bugs. A couple hundred here or there and they utilize those provisions in the NDAA and we are never seen or heard from again.

But think if you’ve ever seen the movie V for Vendetta, think about the last five minutes of that film, when people, in numbers large enough to make a difference, grow a set of balls and make a stand, united together, for their rights and their freedom; then, and ONLY THEN, will things change in this country. I can write until my face turns blue and my fingers fall off, but until people make the choice to be free, the will continue to be slaves.

You have a choice to make, continue believing that you can change things at the voting booth, and come up empty handed time and time again, or you can proceed to Plan B and take action yourselves to free yourself from oppression.

I may continue to write, I may not…at least not as frequent as I now do. I am just one person, and if I have failed to motivate people into stop believing in the left/right, liberal/conservative nonsense, then what good will I serve trying to get people off their couches and into a book that could free them if they applied what they learned in it?

I think those who wish to be free will either have found the means to do so, or will read this book and make the choice themselves. I cannot do it for them, and I have no intention of carrying their slack any more.

Whatever their choice will be, this country is going to fall, and soon if people don’t make a decision about whether they will stand up for their freedom, or sit back and hope that their benevolent government will care for them when the shit hits the fan. All I can say is, if you are among those in that second category, stay away from my house when all hell breaks loose, I will have my scope trained on people like you.

~ The Author ~
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