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‘Pogo’ had it right.
“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
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Wow! This is impressive, it proves that history will be repeated again and again. Self servitude overrides integrity!
Independent lady.
I hope you mean independence lady as in
Declaration of…
It’s best to run life with a three strand cord as God illustrated to us in His word. The cords are you, your husband (with all his faults), and your Lord and Savior.
God bless.
Thank you for this. I look forward to the rest. Though it makes my heart ache for the understanding we have lost. It gives me hope that some still might get it.
Sorry, but this whole “Federal Government” thing is not working out…the time is coming, as Thomas Jefferson said, to water the tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants…and patriots. Prepare yourselves and pray for guidance.
As Ben Carson stated. “It’s well past due!”
Stay vigilant.
Thank you for putting this up ,,,,,,do need anything to put this in my news letter ?
Tea and chocolate ,”a good will greeting used by sea captains in the time of sail “
There are no restrictions except that you must post The Law IN FULL. You can grab it all in one chunk at the F.E.E. web site.
I am so happy to see that you have posted ‘The Law’ by Frederic Bastiat it is a book every true lover of liberty should read. Upon my return from Viet Nam I was a very disheartened and confused young man. The reading of ‘The Law’ gave me a greater understanding of the evils facing our Republic. You may never know to what extent a thought might change the course of history. Every thought is a creation of God. I thank God for the illumination presented by Frederic!
Wow! Great stuff! Can we send a copy to ALL politicians? To ALL lawmakers? To ALL….you get the idea…what a sad bunch we’ve become allowing the carnage of our Once Great Republic…
This should be required reading in ALL high schools as a part of the curriculum in history, economics, government, and civics classes…
JWR, I am sorry but I feel the cusp of the Republic was really in the 1850s, before the Civil War. Upon the first round of the Civil War the true Constitutional Republic was no more. From that point on the continual dissipation of State’s Rights and the onward march of the Federal Government power made the dream of a Constitutional Republic defunct. Of coarse that march was very closely controlled by the power elite, it is very slow and very clandestine. The greatest downfall of foreign relations was and always has been the violation of the Monroe Doctrine. We lost our sovereignty by 1913 with the acceptance of the Federal Reserve System which put us in bondage to the International Banking system and in turn to the International elite. Isn’t it interesting that within five years of our acceptance of the Federal Reserve we were in WW1… If we had not violated the Monroe Doctrine we would not have entered WW1, Germany would have more than likely won the war. Now, I don’t pretend to have a ‘crystal ball’, I have know idea how that would have changed the coarse of human events but I do know that we would not have had a WW2 has we have experienced it. Our individual thoughts and actions change things beyond our comprehension.
Haven’t read this in a while JWR, thanks for posting.
I have no faith in any form of government that has ever been tried on this planet, including the one tried after 12 of my ancestors helped overthrown the crown in 1776.
Quoting Bastiat (leaving our some words denoted by elipses):
“Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor… This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder. …men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work…neither religion nor morality can stop it. [T]he proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop…plunder. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder… But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.”
The entire problem boils down to that last sentence, “this force must be entrusted,” to politicians. They will always find workarounds for any system so they can plunder the people to line their own pockets. I hope we can agree to disagree but I pray to God our Constitutional republic is never restored, too many of Jefferson’s and George Mason’s suggestions were ignored for it ever to have worked in the first place, as history has clearly shown us. It was too easily and too quickly perverted by the very kinds of people Bastiat talks about. After the collapse and the big reset, the next constitution needs to start out with an inviolable first clause making the right of private property absolute, with a second unnecessary clause to clarify for the thick-headed future politicians that nobody has a right to initiate violence, and a third unnecessary and inviolable clause to further clarify for the thick-headed future politicians that individuals cannot elect politicians to do things which they as individuals cannot do. There are plenty of examples of small societies working without force. I’m sure humans can figure out how to make a government work without force as well.
To eam… there were monetary as well as geopolitical factors for US involvement in WW I … may I encourage you to read Anthony Sutton’s work “ Wall Street and the Rise of Adolf Hitler “ (well documented) as it goes into detail describing the financial backing given Hitler during the 1930’s and early 1940’s… today’ s events have been long in planning… now appear to be unfolding at a much more rapid pace… and the USMCA is not in the best interest of the American people…our individual and national sovereignty is being dismantled right before our eyes
Robert….I totally agree with you, what was done was done and what followed were the horrors of WW2. I am only contending that if we were to have supported the concepts of the Monroe Doctrine we would have never entered WW1 making the rise of Hitler a moot point. By 1918 we were already pawns of the International Power Elite. They are very insidious, very brilliant (in the ways of the world) and very dangerous! I know we can’t put the genie back in the bottle and I know of no way to stop it now.
Regarding violation of the Monroe Doctrine, here is a story of lie piled upon lie to rationalize breaking the Monroe Doctrine:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/
Pay special attention to the words of the military men who were there and left frustrated.
Here is one: “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015.
In war the first casualty is truth. Sigh.
Carry on
“Life Is a Gift from God. We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life—physical, intellectual, and moral life. … … Life, faculties, production–in other words, individuality, liberty, property—this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.” = Frédéric Bastiat.
Bastiat builds his ideas on the foundation that >God is the source of all things. = “Life Is a Gift from God.” Bastiat has a page on the Catholic Encyclopedia and also on Wikipedia.
The US Declaration of Independence recognizes God as the source of all things too.
……… “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ~>Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are ~~~>Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”
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In Western Civilization we refer to the Natural Law [An idea in our literature and public thinking; going back to the ancient Greeks and before. It comes from God.]
Legally, adults are presumed to understand right and wrong. … Liberals hate it, but such an understanding of Right or Wrong must come from our >God given conscience. … Liberals start ‘tap dancing’ on the idea that Right or Wrong in our conscience originates with God. Liberals want to make up >all the rules for Right or Wrong. [Our government leaders are the source for Right or Wrong.]
Wikipedia has a short article about ‘Natural Law’ for a quick read. … The Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas has spoken about ‘Natural Law’ ~> and the liberals subsequently put-on their Hobnailed Boots, and then began ‘tap dancing’ on his ideas.
Some liberals want to tell us a ‘conscience’ has its source through evolution. Of course, the liberals then believe: if your conscience differs from theirs, you must be genetically defective. = You must then be shipped off to a FEMA or concentration camp, or even ultimately a death camp.
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For >families and our society to persevere, we need God. The foundation of a Just and Good country is God. … The late-night preachers will refer to the Bible, and how God is the source for Right and Wrong.
“18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” …
“28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
[Romans 1 ~ NIV]
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People need to have Right Reason and a Well-Formed Conscience.
Frédéric Bastiat tells us that a good foundation for society starts with God. … In Western Civilization, the >death referred to in the Bible, refers to the >eternal death in Hell. In Western Countries, living sinners are >NOT placed in a big bag, and then tossed off of a tall building.