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Why Our Government Fears an Armed Population Date: 12/21/2000 1:25:00 AM Written By: Tim Case Why Our Government Fears an Armed Population by Tim Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] “If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed… But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannical aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining asylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.” Between September 1787 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, which took effect in March 1789, a debate raged among the citizens of the 13 colonies. This debate was over the limits or lack thereof, that should be placed on the proposed federal government. Those that supported a strong central government were known as the Federalists and were championed by men like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Opposing a centralized federal government and arguing the need for strong state government and limited or no centralized federal power were the Anti-Federalists. The best known supporter of the Anti-Federalists position was Patrick Henry. The argument raged in town halls, newspapers, back yards and the legislatures of all 13 states. In New York State there arose a voice only known as Brutus who published his fears of a federal system and how it would result in the loss of liberty. No one knows the true identity of Brutus but there was no doubt that during the debate for ratification of the Constitution of the United States, Brutus stood as a staunch Anti-Federalist. Although history has still not yielded the identity of Brutus, within 74 years after his concerns were set in print the prophetic nature of his words along with those of many Anti-Federalists were beginning to be realized in the person of Abraham Lincoln. “If it (the Constitution) has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority.” April 1861 would see the Federal government, under the control of Abraham Lincoln, set the Constitution aside for almost 5 years. Charles Adams in his latest book entitled When in the Course of Human Events, explains: “After the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln assumed dictatorial powers. He circumvented his constitutional duty to call Congress in times of emergency by delaying the meeting for almost three months. In the meantime, he made decisions, which, according to the Constitution, the Congress should have made.” The dictatorial powers assumed by Lincoln in violation of the Constitution started with his calling to service the militia from each of the 24 states in defiance of Article 1, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. This was done within a week after the South fired on Fort Sumter. Then, as an act of war and in circumventing the Constitution and Congress, he ordered the blockade of Southern ports. Charles Adams goes on to say: “On April 21, he (Lincoln) ordered the navy to buy five warships, an appropriations act requiring congressional approval. On April 27, he started suspending the privilege of habeas corpus, in effect just about nullifying every civil liberty of every citizen. Soon thereafter he started shutting down newspapers that were not supportive of the war on the South. On May 3, he called for more troops, this time for three years, again a prerogative of the Congress.” “He directed the Treasury Department, at this time, to pay $2,000,000 to a private firm in New York to start buying military equipment, also an appropriations act that required Congressional approval—before the fact.” It is outside the scope of this work to go into the causes for these extraordinary actions taken by Lincoln and his cabinet, so I will concede that argument to another work and other scholars. My intent is threefold: First, to show through history how our government has come to be the enemy of our freedoms. Second, what has happened that allows the Federal government to assume powers that are not delegated in the supreme law of the land. Third, to show the results of these historical events in relation to the freedoms of the American people. The results of these actions by a President of the United States are best summed up by the following conclusions: “When Congress convened in July (1861), it went along with all Lincoln had done: the time for any debate had passed, and any expressions of doubt about all these extraconstitutional acts would have put one in danger of being arrested by a military officer, tried for treasonable speech, and then locked up for who knows how long. Unquestionably, the Congress was scared to death about what the Lincoln administration would do to them if they did not support his acts of war. The Constitution was hanging by a thread, if that.” Not only was the Supreme Law of the land in jeopardy, but these acts by a president resulted in the murder of 26,576 (numbers published by Lincoln’s cabinet) Northern and Southern non-combatants, the arrest of approx. 20,000 political opponents who spoke out against the injustice; along with a signed arrest warrant for a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and the shutting down of over 300 Northern newspapers along with the threat and/or murder of the owners and their employees. Northern State legislatures were arrested rather than allow even the debate of secession to occur. It also resulted in calls for the wholesale genocide of all southern citizens, regardless of race, gender or age, who supported the Southern cause, not to mention the sacrifice of thousands of young men from both sides who died in battle because of the ambitions of a small group of men who defied the rights of men and presumed to know what was best for the country. If that wasn’t enough when his reelection was in doubt in 1864 Lincoln resorted to corrupting the voting process to secure his second term, (most serious historians who have studied the Lincoln Presidency will confirm this). July 1st through the 3rd of 1863 saw the battle of Gettysburg take place just outside of the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is important because the southern forces lost this battle between the Armies of the North and Lee’s Army of the South. It effectively broke the back of the South’s ability to resist the invasions from the North and spelled the eventual end to the Confederate cause. Because of the importance of this battle, President Lincoln on the 19th of November 1863 traveled to Gettysburg and gave his now infamous speech entitled the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg took less than 5 minutes to deliver and begins and ends with these words. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure… [W]e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” As Lincoln finished his address there was a stunned silence that settled over the crowd gathered that November day in 1863. The silence was so long that Lincoln thought people hated what he had said. Historians have speculated that the quietness of the crowd was due to the magnitude and simplicity of the stirring words Lincoln had just spoken. We may never know for sure, but I wonder if the protracted silence of the crowd that day wasn’t due to the realization that indeed the “nation conceived in liberty”, those principles of freedom expressed by Jefferson, Washington, and Adams, wasn’t dead and gone forever. In the previous two years freedom had been abolished in all but the Confederate States. Could that silence have been due to broken hearts and their realization that like Cicero when faced with the loss of his Republic to the military dictator, Julius Caesar, in 49 BC, were crying “Our beloved Republic is gone forever”!? Could this deep sorrow have elicited an urgent prayer expressing a plea for a “new birth of freedom” that indeed a “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth”? Regardless of the cause for the silence of that day we do know the following: 1. The limited government envisioned by the founding fathers was gone, never to return and was being replaced by the newly born behemoth we deal with today. 2. The European world saw clearly that the American experiment of individual personal freedom and limited government had failed and said so in their daily newspapers. 3. Our freedoms would cease to be a “natural right” in the American experience and became a “privilege” offered by a domineering centralized Federal government. 4. There no longer exists any mystery as to why after John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln and while jumping to the stage floor at Ford’s Theater is reported to have shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (Latin for “Thus always to tyrants”). 5. The first fear of Brutus’s 1787 article had matured into an uncontrollable reality as stated below. “This (Federal) government is to possess absolute and uncontroulable power, legislative, executive and judicial, with respect to every object to which it extends… It appears from these articles that there is no need of any intervention of the state governments, between the Congress and the people, to execute any one power vested in the general government, and that the constitution and laws of every state are nullified and declared void, so far as they are or shall be inconsistent with this constitution, or the laws made in pursuance of it, or with treaties made under the authority of the United States. — “The government then, so far as it extends, is a complete one, and not a confederation…! It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government… It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given.” With the close of the War Between the States the Federal government had changed into the supreme law of the land. It no longer was answerable to the people of the United States but had by conquest set itself in the position to literally affect the lives, liberty and property of every citizen of the United States. This can be clearly understood by studying the military occupation of the former Confederate States by the U.S. military, during the Reconstruction period of 1866 to the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the treatment suffered by the American Indian under the new federal system during the latter 19th century. The results of any such study will immediately show the mode of operation the Federal government was to take in dealing with its citizens in the near and distant future. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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