Freedom Guard

Freedom Guard Issues of Concern

In concern for our country and children by Mike Joyner

"We are sleeping on a volcano.. A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon." "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. While democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." Alexis de Tocqueville spoke these words while addressing the French Chamber of Deputies in 1848, just prior to the outbreak of the great social revolution in Europe. Are we capable of learning from history?

Our country has a problem. Simply stated, we are losing our freedom to a socialist agenda pursued by a radical minority employing political correctness and guilt as bludgeons to cower generally conservative assemblies of lawmakers. With a promise of free and great rewards derived from the pockets of successful and hard working Americans, they have recruited other shameless minorities as well as corrupt leaders and blind followers of otherwise legitimate organizations. Their combined numbers have reached a formidable percentage of the US voting population producing an efficacy never before seen. Their voting bloc is, indeed, responsible for the placement of the present Administration and the liberal majority controlling Congress today. Key to their success is the attack vehicle, the nation's major news media. Control of the media, whether serendipitous or strategic, is their greatest strength and their greatest vulnerability.

Corrupt lawmakers are also complicit in our loss of liberties. Their self-serving actions, by design or not, have supported and reinforced the radical movement toward socialism. Their votes are for sale, whether to the Administration, peers, or to outside lobbyist, they have cost us dearly through the implementation of much legislation designed to serve their ends at the expense of the American people.

Restoration of our freedom will require tactics engaging lawmakers as well as the national media.

Although we are being stripped of our constitutional liberties at most all levels of government, today, the federal government is waging the most egregious and aggressive attack. Unless common folks can institute an initiative that will first put an end to the aggression, and commence a process of reversal, we are doomed to the fates of countries like the USSR, Russia, China, North Korea, and Castro's Cuba. Socialism has ensured that joy, happiness, creativity, innovation, and even hope are non-existent in these countries. We must not stand aside while our country descends into the miserable hole of socialism.

Our challenge is great, but people like you, our founders, and our parents before us, with blood, sweat, and tears, molded this country into a land of opportunity never before imagined. The constitution that they authored and defended allowed us to achieve unprecedented levels in a myriad of fields, and to dream of even greater things to come. However, since the early years of the twentieth century our federal government has ever so slowly, one small chip at a time, eroded away the foundational principles that afforded us the freedom to pursue and achieve our dreams of greatness.

A bloody revolution is neither desirable nor necessary, and it is, and should be, a last resort. Our power to initiate change in the government has not yet been fatally weakened. Our constitution still affords us the necessary power to accomplish our goals. In fact, our founders in the "Declaration of Independence" declared it a duty to rise against any government that attempts to deny basic "self evident rights" of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". In the "Declaration of Independence" it is written "..when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object (denial of our basic rights) evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." The slow erosion of our liberties has been in effect for at least eighty years. If we do not act soon with resolve and determination, we could lose the ability to easily engage the changes that are desperately needed.

Like many before us, we must be willing to expend extensive sweat and tears; hopefully, the blood part will be avoided. However, the present administration, congress, and the courts have upped the ante with a strong and accelerated pace skewed toward socialism. We have already recently seen minor violence and the United States is neither immune to, nor historically devoid of internal physical conflict. We must be willing to accept the burden of repair and maintenance of our democracy no matter the format. If we perform our duty to our country and to our children, history will remember us as those who stood in the face of despotism and preserved this country as "The Land of Opportunity" and the "Greatest Nation On Earth".

Congress, elected by us, for their own selfish reasons of gathering power and money, and realizing misguided ideals, has burdened us with enormous amounts of legislation that dictate allowed practices in all facets of our lives. There are actually laws that define and limit thought processes. If we are to have any chance of recovering our lost freedoms, this atrocious growth in, "political correctness", "social engineering", and federal control of our lives must be brought to an end, and the process of rescinding vast amounts of legislation must begin.

The accelerated take over of private industry and property and the manipulation of our fiscal status and monetary system is a distinct arrow pointing toward a national crisis. History tells us that "national crisis" has always been the rationale employed to defend the actions of a government set on controlling and enslaving its citizens. It has been used around the world and throughout history, particularly in Europe. We have, very recently, seen the "pending crisis" excuse used to expand government control, and indeed ownership, of banks, financial houses, the automotive industry, the housing and mortgage industry, and, most recently, the health care system. It is important to note that decades of federal legislation set on controlling these industries, for the purpose of buying congressional votes, failed miserably thus providing individual stepping stones to the "pending crisis". Energy and education are now being primed and are next on the agenda. We are already seeing the "social" indoctrination of elementary school children, and "social justice" ideologies are plethoric in our colleges and universities. Depending upon the outcome of this year's mid term congressional elections, we are facing a possible contrived collapse of US currency within two years. We are precariously close to completing the "crisis" circuit, providing the necessary catalyst for a federal government seizure of property and rights far-reaching in scope and nature.

US politicians, and especially the US Congress, have over time molded their job description into a title that is only a crown short of royalty. This observation is not party specific. Even though far above the average working American, their salaries, on the surface, appear reasonable, but are actually a small portion of their total compensation. Perks, expense accounts, and campaign chests stuffed with cash often go unnoticed and are certainly and purposely dimmed in the light of public scrutiny. Congress has assumed the combined authority to write their own job description, set their own compensation, enact laws that govern the election process, and tax the people at will. Utilizing this power they have endowed themselves with the unique ability to use your tax dollars to buy votes that maintain their pseudo-royal throne in Congress. This, of course, is done through underhanded dealings with special interest groups and lobbyists using the promise of influence, and "set-asides" and "earmarks" attached to unrelated legislation. The politician's purported ideals and our concerns are lost in a quest of personal gratification, wealth, and power.

Although this personal greed is unbecoming and undesirable, it is ubiquitous and unavoidable in all capitalistic systems. Unchecked greed is one of the principle socialist arguments for the re-distribution of wealth. The argument, however, is always framed as a moral issue and applied to industry and lay citizens, never to politicians. But, greed is fundamental in any governmental system founded on individual liberty. Wielded by men of good morals, greed spawns creativity, innovation, and wide spread wealth; wielded by immoral men, greed begets despots and tyranny. Painful as it may be to admit, our folly lies in the fact that, through our political apathy, we have allowed, and even abetted, the continual election and re-election of immoral representatives. The onus is now upon us to implement a remedy.

At this time in our struggle, dictating to politicians, and using our election process to remove and replace those who refuse to represent our will is the prescribed and preferred method of accomplishing our goals. If we, the aggrieved citizens, are to be successful in our endeavor of restoring our liberties, we must set aside at least some of our business, family, and recreational activities and focus first on restoring our freedoms. Our collective apathy and inattention has brought us to this precarious precipice. We, as a whole, have been derelict in communicating our wishes and dictating required performance. Because we were busy with our lives, Congress assumed that constantly creating new law was the only activity necessary to earn our approval. Rescinding old law is never considered, except in application to tax-cutting legislation. We reinforced and rewarded Congress's undesirable behavior by remaining silent and re-electing them. The time has come for us to accept our role as the employer of our elected public servants and force them to revisit decades of old law that are only stepping-stones to our demise. The path to socialism lies amidst and congruent with a long trail of insidious legislation that must be destroyed if we are to avoid the slippery slope of socialism.

Political activism is now, and always has been, a requirement for a democratic society to efficiently evolve with changing times and, indeed, it is necessary for survival. However, we must be cautious. Often citizens, with the best of intentions, get involved in supporting their party and candidates and forget that their goal and duty is to dictate that politicians do the collective will of the people. They instead become minions of the politicians, praising them and becoming nothing more than conduits for cash. Politicians are often treated more like celebrities to be idolized than the servants of the people they actually are. It is through this inexpedient adoration that politicians find justification for their narcissistic self-promotion to a higher caste. We must also be vigilant in questioning our own intentions. If we use our association and familiarity with politicians to further our own personal agendas without regard to the greater good of the country, we are no better than the despots we rail against.

Since the beginning of our country the news media has been a requirement for our country's success. Indeed, the First Amendment to the Constitution, the leading amendment in our "Bill of Rights", addresses freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In the early years the word "press" referred to print media. Today, technology has expanded the word "press" to cover print, radio, television, and even the now the internet. Over the years national news organizations grew to be our trusted source for information regarding the actions of our governments, local and national. We knew that some news organizations leaned toward one political ideology or the other, but we believed that the truth was always there in the articles and stories and that "opinion" was always clearly labeled as such. Today, we know that finding truth in the news media is like prospecting for gold. The effort is arduous and we are often rewarded with nothing more than pyrite. It is no accident that the majority of our news media has decayed into a cesspool of politically biased reporters espousing dishonest agendas and spewing tainted political chronicles. Zealots and radical socialists have infiltrated the ranks of the reporters, editors, directors, and more importantly the corporate offices and boardrooms of the controlling parent corporations.

This is the second front of our challenge in the war against socialism. It is the armored vehicle behind which socialist troops march. Its purpose is to spread disinformation and encourage minority groups to bind together to form a cohesive majority. The bad news is, it is working, as is evidenced by the election of the most liberal and socialist Administration and Congress in the history of the nation. These disingenuous media news outlets must be cleansed of the radicals, silenced and/or destroyed. Our country is still a capitalist nation and these organizations cannot survive without money. For the most part they derive their income from the traditional sale of advertising. If we can deprive them of income they will capitulate and change or they will wither and die. Our objective should be to identify the offending media news outlets, identify those who fund them through advertising, and then refuse to purchase their products and/or services if they continue to feed these offensive organizations. It may sound simplistic and mundane, but money drives the system. Our toughest challenge will be organizing supporting and sympathetic masses so that our threat is substantial. Silencing the socialist liberal media is paramount in achieving our goals.

Although our situation is dire and somewhat frightening, the solution is fairly simple, fast, peaceful, and effective. Individual citizens must:

· Form local action groups to educate ourselves and others on political procedures and organize and define demands
· Become active in communicating our demands to existing and aspiring representatives
· Remind politicians of their oath of office and hold them to it
· Actively support the party and candidate of our choice
· Remind others and ourselves that politicians are not celebrities but public servants
· Persuade and convince other citizens to join in political activism
· Use the power of our vote to replace representatives that waiver or compromise on our demands and edicts
And most importantly..
· Seek out, recruit, support, and elect new representatives that understand and share our beliefs
· Communicate our intention to destroy the incomes of parent and subsidiary companies that support the socialist movement through advertising in the corrupt new media.

In summary:
The legislation that brought us to this intolerable state of affairs was written and enacted by a congress that we elected. Although, they have a million reasons for failure, and easily excuse themselves with the difficulties of changing and rescinding existing legislation, we know that they have the power but are lacking the will and motivation. We are exactly where congress wants us to be. Otherwise they would have done things differently. Their rhetoric is deafening, their actions are pitiful and disgraceful. Our response to their failures cannot be modest. We must send a loud and chorused message so there is no mistaking our intentions.

The liberal socialist news media is a huge weapon and is being affectively wielded by the socialist movement. Because their oxygen is advertising income, we must be prepared to choke off the supply and suffocate the monster. It may sound simplistic but isolation and diminished communications wreaks havoc in any organized insurrection. The socialist movement needs the corrupt news media to provide cohesion and preserve the numerical integrity of the agenda. We must deny them use of their media vehicle.

Our primary instrument for success is to find and recruit fresh candidates possessing the determination, guts, and morals to work the will of the people and reverse this fatal trajectory toward socialism. We can then tell the career politicians who have delivered us to this disquieting predicament "Go home, for we have found honorable men of true integrity and values to replace you". Our heavy lifting will be done, our goals realized, and we will be left with the simple task of remaining vigilant in maintaining our recovered liberties.

If we can find the will and energy to accomplish these things, we will deliver to our children a country that will inspire the same dreams of greatness that our founders envisioned over two hundred years ago, when they declared this United States of America free and independent with liberty and justice for all.