The True State Of The Union — Eli Stone

The True State of the Union

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” – Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791

“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.” – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

A dissertation on the true State of the Union by Steve:

            A rigid belief is not a fundamental truth and in the absence of operational principles, we could well confuse convictions for a solid foundation. The consequence of this is, as a people we risk being manipulated by our own perceptions.

            So the questions for those of us who have a conscience are; how did the public servant become the tyrannical master? How do we push past the minions who stand in defense of tyranny? How do we capture the hearts and minds of the multitude not yet radicalized by disillusionment and betrayal? What are the tools at our disposal?

            We call first upon our experience, but our experience soon fails us. That which comes too easy is often times disrespected or not worth having and the convictions born of such experience act to disable critical thinking skills with necessities for awkward re-enactments along unfamiliar paths of reasoning, always dead ending us with a presumption of futility.

            So we look to history for answers. We are soon able to identify our history as infected (redacted and rewritten by the political correct revisionist) and of no use to us. Our history is concealed from us behind a barrier of puzzles, imaginings, and invocations (of secrecy or not being “in the public interest”). Our own history proves to be as inaccessible as the truth.

            So we look to each other and find ourselves at the beginning asking ourselves the same questions, equipped only with contempt, disgust, and horror inspired by our pathological (government) institutions and their pragmatic system of (corrupt) governance. This is the paradox of our oppression; enlightenment makes us feeble, responsibility feeds upon us, understanding isolates us, and responsiveness makes us a target.

            For those of us not content with the inevitabilities of such circular reasoning, we must look to the natural rights of man and seek out the source of our empowerment. New questions emerge; of what value is free will if a man may only do what he is told? Are we a people who would abandon our rights to protect ourselves thus endangering the rights of all men? Are we a people who would surrender our Republic to an overly wealthy oligarchy (and all governments are oligarchies) jaded and disgusted with our existence, equipping the oligarchy with not only the means of their own demise, but with the opportunity to destroy all within their influence.

“…a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides , time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine

            Thank you, Steve. We don’t need to look far to find that it seems Thomas Paine may have thought we would live happily ever after in his quote “The times that tried men’s souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.” – The American Crisis, No. 13, 1783

            That belief escaped Thomas Jefferson who had a profound understanding of government. Jefferson had this to say about the tree of liberty…

“…. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s 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. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite (bird of prey) to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.” – Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787

            I ask you good readers to go back to last week’s article. Remember what Steve said “A person has rights until such time as those rights prove to be cumbersome or inconvenient to the government. One man is easily broken and his family, friends, and colleagues will rationalize his destruction, never suspecting the actual danger to themselves’ or the real injustice inflicted upon all of us and our posterity.”

            Now, think about Craig Bondo who was shot and killed by a police officer in Woodland Park, think about Christopher Dorner the cop gone rogue in California. They both did bad things, both paid the ultimate price of their lives. They were minimized, their rapid destruction rationalized, and the cases closed. Now that is one way to speed up the justice system in these united States. It would be so laughable if not for the lying of the law enforcement in so many cases that only leads us to believe that something may not be kosher in these parts.

            So Bondo took a stab at an officer with his vehicle. So was Bondo backing up to hit the officer, when he told his mother he was going to run? Or did the officer disobey protocol and place themselves’  in danger in front of Bondos car on a felony stop? We will probably never know, the official report and the truth are probably two separate sets of details. Rumors abounded, because the truth wasn’t put out there for examination.

            Dorner’s case? Well, Dorner was declared a domestic terrorist so that made things easier.  The law “awfulsirs” brought in an armored vehicle, knocked down all the walls and then they fired “pyrotechnic” tear gas rounds into a building with no walls….wow….that makes sense. The law enforcement spokesperson said they didn’t burn the place down on purpose. Even though the papers reported that it was heard over the scanner, “They’re bringing in the burners”, “We’re gonna burn the motherf**ker!” Obviously a misunderstanding in communications or people didn’t clearly understand what was being said. Whatever!

            So we have to ask ourselves, how much more can the people stand? A government that condones torture around the world, a government that condones the expeditious execution of perpetrators, and the demonization of anyone the government disdains. Remember, when a president orders the execution of a terrorist and kids get killed it is just collateral damage in the name of national security. When Timothy McVeigh bombs a government building (if he did) in retaliation for the government actions at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas those children killed in Oklahoma City were murdered. When a cop shoots a fleeing suspect it is just all in a day’s work. When you or I shoot a fleeing burglar you can bet it is a minimum of manslaughter.

            The world has gone topsy-turvy and the public servants run amok and act like masters and petty tyrants. As long as we allow the police and government to investigate themselves we can almost always guess the outcome. It involves a “thin blue lie” because the “thin blue line” will always protect its own until such time as the minions and guardians of tyranny are rendered irrelevant by their own kind. Like “Night of the Long Knives” in Nazi Germany when the brown shirts were no longer needed (the Brown Shirts were all rounded up and exectuted). You can bet your last dollar that as the federal government gets more out of control, some local governments will follow suit in an attempt to survive that which will destroy them.

            So the answer is simple to me Steve. I once helped the federal government export revolution and prop up sympathetic governments. The true state of the union is that we are on the verge of severe tyranny and/or open rebellion. So will the government impose worse tyranny before the rebellion? Probably. Have the people had enough? Probably. The people are after all voting with their wallets at the gun stores. The union is in the psychological preparation phase of a revolution/civil war/insurgency or just plain old economic collapse. The Department of Homeland security has now purchased over 2 billion bullets. Why? So they can conduct firearms training for the estimated 120,000 to 145,000 federal “law enforcement” officers. Well that comes to 13,973 bullets per agent or enough bullets to conduct weapons qualification for 145,000 soldiers for 172 years, or to conduct the war in Iraq, at its fiercest, for 24 years. So we can only guess when and where it will begin and just how “civil” this war will be conducted.

            Till next time this is Mad Dog Murf and Eli Stone….sniffing out the dirt and giving our take on the BS that stinks. WOOF!