A Re-Declaration of Independence | Eastern North Carolina Now

    2002-04: Murat Kurnaz denied Habeas Corpus

    (e) "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

    2011: Sacketts v. EPA

    2014: Civil forfeiture laws

    Violations of Amendment VI

    (a) "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law,"

    1857: Dred Scott case

    1863: Ex Parte Vallandigham

    1942: Ex Parte Quirin

    2005-07: Jose Padilla

    2006: Military Commissions Act

    2011-present: NDAA

    (b) "and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor,"

    2002: Rasul v. Bush


    2002-07: Military Commissions

    2013: al-Nashiri case

    (c) "and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense."

    2002-05: Jose Padilla

    2004: Yaser el-Hamdi

    Violations of Amendment VII

    1996: EPA v. Condor Land

    2008: Texas Tolls

    2012: Entin v. Provident Life

    2013: Baldauf v. Florida DOR

    2013: Chevron v. Donziger

    Violations of Amendment VIII

    (a) "Excessive bail shall n>ot be required,"

    2004: Robert Durst

    2004-08: Michigan judge

    2012: Activist bail

    (b) "nor excessive fines imposed,"

    2012: EPA fines

    2013: FERC fines

    (c) "nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

    2002: Khalid El-Masri

    2002-03: Maher Arar

    2002-05: Murat Kurnaz

    2003: Omar Deghayes -- Video has been terminated on YouTube

    2003-05: Waterboarding

    2003-07: Binyam Muhammad

    2012: Abu Omar


    Violations of Amendment IX

    2010-present: Right to anonymous political speech

    2014: Freedom not to associate

    2014: Right to know government actions

    2014: Freedom from identity cards

    Violations of Amendment X

    2014: Unconstitutional federal agencies

    CONCLUDING REMARKS ON GOVERNMENT -

    What is the role and status of the federal government in your life and livelihood? Is it the limited government promised by our Founders in the Constitution? Is its primary function to protect your "life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness? Or has it become abusive, overbearing, corrupt, a cabal of ambitious politicians and political elites, and destructive of your rights and liberties? Our current federal government is a bloated ambitious leviathan. It can be amply described by a quote from Pierre-Joseph Proudham from the mid-1800's: "To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government...."

    We must always keep in mind the essential truths and dire warnings given to us by two of our greatest and most passionate Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.

    Who can forget what Patrick Henry decried to the members of the Virginia convention on March 23, 1775 at the time the British redcoats, under orders from King George, were seeking out and seizing the colonists' firearms and destroying their stockpiles of ammunition: "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

    And Thomas Jefferson warned: "I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."


    We need to get back to the rightful purpose of government and divest the current federal government of all the rest of its illusory powers and especially its control over us as individuals and productive members of society.

    BACK TO THE "BLUEPRINT" -

    Our Founders concluded the Declaration of Independence with these words: "With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." They chose these words because they faced severe retribution (most probably death) by the King of England for sedition. I choose to conclude by echoing some of Jefferson's words..... I appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for the intention of this article and this project - that the good and decent and patriotic People of this country re-declare their full freedoms and their independence from an aggressive and ambitious government. Unless the government deconstructs, sheds all the unconstitutional offices and agencies, acknowledges that it has abused its powers and consolidated its branches so as to create a monopoly regarding its powers, abolishes the notion of "precedent" in the federal judiciary, and agrees to re-set itself and exercise only those powers expressly delegated to it in the US Constitution, then of right we ought to be free as we were meant to be and absolved from all allegiance to this tyrannical federal government.

    As I outlined above, and it is not even nearly a complete accounting, one is clearly able to see that the federal government has abused and violated almost every aspect of the Constitution over the many years. It is barely recognizable as the central government our Founders envisioned and embodied in form in the Constitution, and which was then ratified by all of the States. Most offensively and most dangerously, its three branches (or four, if you believe the mainstream media has morphed into a fourth branch of government) have created a monopoly on the meaning, scope, and intent of the Constitution. In other words, it has created a monopoly on what powers the government has and how intimately it can insert itself into our lives, our businesses, and into our pursuits of happiness. So, what do we do? That is the question. Well, there is one thing that I know to be true. Talk is cheap. We can talk, complain, protest, march, petition, pray, and watch Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram and Don Bongino and Mark Levin all day long, but NONE OF THAT is going to matter or make one bit of difference. These conservative talk show hosts and pundits preach primarily to the choir. The left is shutting down our speech and not only ignoring our protests, but using them as opportunities to mock and ridicule us. Remember, we are "domestic terrorists" now. And because we are a danger to the progressive agenda of the government, we must somehow be disarmed or at least highly frustrated and burdened in our ability to keep and bear arms. God forbid we should take them up against those in government.