Participation Beats Opposing Views

This blog ran first on a Facebook page blog for The Liberty Den, found here:  @the libertyden

A few weekends ago a conference of patriots in West Virginia called The ALL Groups National Convention in Bridgeport occurred. From the face book page (https://www.facebook.com/events/171953923535695/) we gather this statement: “This event will be held to help unify the great Patriots of this country. No mater(sic) what banner you fly or patch you wear, we are all Patriots at heart. Please join us for this event to help everyone work together to make a difference. We must start communicating and cooperating, if not the Patriot Movement will forever run in circles.”

If you’re a regular Liberty Den visitor and invest the time in reading these blogs, you’re headed in the right direction. Understanding viewpoints as expressed by the bloggers is critical to communicating within the greater community of patriots.

But here’s the thing. Too many of you will be reading this instead of going to the forum. There are many reasons why patriots like yourselves (and me) don’t go to conferences, missions, disaster relief, or political rallies. However, as Chaplain of the South Carolina Militia Coalition, I can tell you this. When it comes to a group of people of like mind, there is power. Here’s the way God sees it according to the book of Hebrews. ²⁴ And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:24, 25 NKJV)

If you see the day approaching when the Constitutional Republic will suffer, then attending a conference of like-minded souls is critical to the success of the group in general. Not so much because you’re a big wheel and have millions of contacts, but rather to stand with brothers and sisters as an encouragement to them.

We observed a phenomenon when high-schoolers across the nation seemed to jell overnight to take a walk outside of school hours in order to raise awareness and protest against gun violence. This didn’t happen overnight, just like the overnight successful people you know or heard about didn't happen in a short period. This event was planned for months and subsidized by big money, yet it took participation by the students, no matter their reason for doing so, to make a huge impact across our land.

Now you have the opportunity to create the same type of impact for your point of view, but you cannot do it by staying home or hiding in the woods when the day comes. Too many of us across the United States expect to be lone wolves with maybe a pack of wife and children to survive when the day comes. However, you must assess how long you can functionally maintain your family unit when you’re up against five or ten individuals determined to take whatever you have.

As we continue to find out, there are ways anyone with technical expertise can access virtually any information about you they desire, including the location of every piece of land you own, your income level, where your kids go to school, and how many and which type of firearms you own.

Don’t stay home when you have the opportunity to gather together so your voice can be heard. Whether you go to speak, or simply to add another face to the sweeping media camera’s lens, you’ll be contributing and encouraging and edifying those around you. Be a patriot whose dependence upon God and His word out weighs your independent ways.

Sheepdogs of the Republic

Throughout the course of history, man suffered under someone else’s dominion. Your worldview presents a perspective on whether or not America benefits from our founding father’s vision, hope, and clarity as concerns our constitution and its applicability today. Yet the problem remains. Others want to force you into subjugation. Who is protecting you?

Take, for example, the First Amendment right to free speech. Up to the date of its establishment, every citizen of other countries rarely spoke up against their government because the quick response left them dead or imprisoned. The First Amendment also guarantees your right to freedom of religion; another instance of protecting the individual’s right to worship God other than the way the government sees fit, without fear of death or imprisonment as both the English and Spanish Inquisitions attested.

In the news across our land, revolutionaries walk the streets decrying the rights of others to speak. Most notably among them are the Antifa, with the Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panthers right behind them. Opposing organizations take the stand no one should be able to say such things, especially in public, and certainly not when carrying sticks and clubs to drive off any who would prevent their free speech right.

What is not often realized, nor reported by main stream media outlets, is there’s an organization working to protect constitutional rights. They do it from the very foundation of the constitution and the Second Amendment. They are known as the constitutional militia. Here in New York State, the New York Light Foot Militia (NYLFM), and other constitution loving groups like them, perform the function of standing between these opposing groups to ensure neither party comes to injury because of the other. This activity by the NYLFM is a neutral stance. It requires the members to lay down their personal opinions and to leave them home. It takes discipline and training to do this.

In the last eight months the NYLFM participated in standing in the gap in Syracuse, NY, Boston, MA, Gettysburg, PA, Harrisburg, PA, and they are headed to Charlottesville, VA. At each of these locations the LFM of various states work hand in hand with local police, sheriffs, state police, national park police, and at times, the FBI and federal marshals. The point here is the Light Foot Militia is doing so at their own expense, at risk to themselves, for the good of the constitutional rights of Americans.

Don’t sit home and decry the violence in our streets. You have been given the voice our founding fathers intended you to have. You have the right to speak about your views of the government. You have the right to speak about how God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit give you life. If you don’t use your God-given rights, you will surely lose them by man’s predisposed actions.

It would be appropriate today to pray for the safety and well being of the NYLFM and their friends as they travel to once again stand in the gap to protect your rights, no matter which side you choose.

Carpenters' Hall and the Founders

 If there’s one thing carpenters understand, it’s the importance of a solid foundation to the longevity of a building. Not only a solid foundation, but one meant to match the purpose, details and use of said structure. Think of a nuclear power plant. How much trust would you have in the operation of said plant when you don’t know if the concrete in the foundation will withstand the pressures and heat created during the reaction? A new home is no different. Required building code inspections ensure homeowners the floors, basement walls and drywall partitions won’t crack because of a faulty foundation. If the foundation’s specifications are changed for any reason, the resulting damage to the home may be irreparable.

Have you stopped to consider how this same principle can be applied to the United States of America? Consider the foundation on which it was built—biblical principles. For instance, in Exodus18, Moses consults with his father-in-law about how to delegate authority to handle problems. “Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.” This is the foundation of our Constitution.

We the people choose representatives at a local level, county level, state level and federal level. However, the founders also knew people would be lazy and not knowledgeable concerning federal issues. Hence, we elect members of the House of Representatives and we elect state-level legislators. The founders expected the state legislators to be wiser and more discerning relative to who qualified to be elected to the Senate. Those same founders understood common civilians would have no knowledge of or discernment of the complexities of international relations and created the Electoral College for the purpose of electing a president. These delegated election processes are the foundation of the government of the United States of America.

What we now experience concerns the crack in the foundation. Carpenters can’t fix cracks in the walls or a tipping house when the foundation is damaged. The foundation must be reconstructed, and the reason the foundation failed must be eliminated. Was there too much water undermining the footers? A proper drainage ditch must be installed before repairing the foundation. Was there new construction added to the foundation that caused the failure? The new construction must be removed in order to put the foundation back in place.

And so it is with today’s version of the Constitution of the USA. The most significant deteriorating factor of our foundation is the 17^th Amendment. This 1912 addition to our by-laws completely unbalanced the federal government. It replaced the election of senators by the legislative bodies of the states with a popular election like that of the House of Representatives. It completely removed the wisdom and knowledge of the statesmen in office and replaced them with the ignorant public. One of the ploys engaged in obtaining the change included telling the public all politicians are crooked, so how could we expect crooked politicians to elect statesmen to send to the Senate in DC? Therein lays the hinge that swung open the public vote consideration. No one spoke up and said, “What if we simply elected statesmen with the qualifications Moses demanded of his leaders?” Read Exodus 18 again. “…able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness…”

Another modern issue concerns term limits. The founders considered the options when creating the foundation. People were expected to elect statesmen. As long as a statesman did their job and made decisions based on what made America better, they’d keep their job. If a statesman made a turn and became a politician (one in government for his own good), then the people would replace him. In the meantime, those with experience, wisdom and knowledge of the workings of the government would contribute to the general welfare of the nation. It’s not term limits we need. It’s the election of statesmen in all of our representative forms of government from local school boards all the way to the House of Representatives. That’s where the foundational principles so aptly applied by our founding fathers holds up our Constitutional Republic like a building set on a solid foundation.

Awaken America!

There comes a time when it becomes necessary to expose the general public to those things that create lack of discernment in the arena of life. In particular I’d like to address the Constitution of the United States of America and how the last one hundred years has blinded the majority of everyday citizens.

Most people have at least heard the consternation voiced by child rearing parents concerning common core. What most people don’t know is that as early as 1898 John Dewey published an essay about how to influence our democratic republic toward a socialist state. In "The Primary-Education Fetich” he damns high literacy and advocates for programs in education that dumb down a child’s natural ability to learn language skills. That makes one hundred and seventeen years of negative influence in our schools and colleges; one hundred and seventeen years of teaching children socialist views; one hundred and seventeen years of influencing children to be socialists in thought and deed.

In addition to Dewey’s skewed intelligence, he also had the ears of the Rockefellers to the point where they funded education programs that would become the norm. In today’s world, the rich continue to believe that only they can be intelligent enough to run the country or make decisions about everyday life for the masses. They inhabit the universities and they publish education’s text books and they found the government offices to be places of refuge.

Well, the truth of it is that they are likely to be correct. They’ve had one hundred years to make sure that you were prohibited from learning how to learn. They’ve convinced you that they are so important that they can make better decisions for you than you can. They’ve been giving you whatever you’ve asked for, including living spaces, healthcare, transportation, food and a phone. Why would you ever consider that what they say isn’t in your best interest?

And that’s the point.

Today America sits on the verge of collapse from a runaway Federal Banking System, to lawlessness within our government, to an influx of illegal aliens focused on destroying the American Republic, to local and state governments chipping away at what were once constitutionally guaranteed rights; rights that were designed and put into place to guarantee people the opportunity to throw out the bums.

Now is the time to open your eyes and your brain. Now is the time to stand up and be counted. For if you do not take an active position in protecting the very rights on which our country was founded, your children and grandchildren will suffer great consequences after you have been removed. It is coming down to that.

Within our Republic there are forces at work to create great consternation and revolt. If the revolt gets physical, as in military battle, there will be such disconnect to our way of life that other nations will find ways to take advantage of the rebellion. You will soon see how weak and unorganized our country is. We will not be defeated by a foreign country until we have handed ourselves the defeat. Some may remember the cartoon caption, “We have met the enemy and it is us.” The only way that we can be our own worst enemy is to stand down at a time when standing in the gap is the correct formation.

People, find a way to stand in the gap, to rebuild the walls of the Republic, to keep a watch for an enemy lurking beyond the wall. They are there and they are prepared. Don’t let it happen on your watch. Get to the voting booth. Do not abdicate your right to vote. Your vote does matter; it does count. Your neighbor’s vote counts, as do your relatives’ votes. Find an official that sees life as you do and vote them in. They are out there. Remember, the “others” will try to tell you who to vote for. Don’t fall for it. Learn who speaks the truth and understands what a statesman does while in office. Throw out the politicians. Let America resume its place as an economic and powerful leader of the free world and change the way the next one hundred years will be noted by historians.