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Patrick Henry would never endorse A “One-World Harmonious Governing Body,” so why should we?
04 July 2009: Give me Liberty or Give me Death
“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry, Give me Liberty or Give me Death, March 23, 1775
When I read Patrick Henry’s speech given on March 23, 1775, I am in awe of the enormous size of the task that rose before our Founding Fathers. I’m struck by their forward vision, their ability to understand that there are things in this life worth dieing for, and liberty was one of them. Can you and I say the same as to our own resolve toward freedom and liberty?
Patrick asked his fellow countrymen a simple question that would be good to ask everyone in America today: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
You see, the “powers that be” of that time, just as in ours, offered the trade, peace and security in exchange for high taxation and limited freedom. Patrick’s thought on this matter was simple and to the point: “Forbid it, Almighty God!” And hence his most famous quote that resounds today with great meaning and hope, not only for those of us living at this time, but for those yet to come: “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Give me liberty or give me death was one of hundreds of wonderful quotes taught to past generations of Americans. English books (the old english readers) had in them wonderful stories of our nation’s past–our nation’s heros.
Patriotism & National Pride Often Omitted
I dare say that our children and grandchildren are not afforded the same luxury of hearing those patriotic, awe-inspiring sayings that you and I were allowed. Why? To what purpose have they been denied? Perhaps it’s not so far removed that “people” with questionable motives have sought to suppress the concept of nationanlism and patriotism, and hence we’ve been taught that there is nothing worth dieing for.
To what purpose would any group work toward the elimination of both nationalism and a willingness to die for a just cause? Perhaps because they intend to create a single, harmonious, one-world governing body where each nation state (country) becomes but an extension of the center core, in this case the United Nations.
I ask you, did you vote on the issue of the United States Gov’t becoming an extension of a one-world gov’t? Did we miss a national vote on the harmonization of laws with that of Europe? When we voted for “change” in the last national election, did we realize that the changes that this president intended involved the creation of a socialist state?
Patrick Henry and all the Founding Fathers of this nation would never go along with any of this, so why do you and I? The question is, how do we effectively stop it without causing a modern day armed insurrection? The one thing our Founding Fathers did was to provide us with an out. Yes, they foresaw the time when our gov’t would become hostile to its people (you and I) and they provided for our right as a people to remove that gov’t in order to institute one that will obey our Constitution and Bill of Rights, rather than twist and distort it, which is exactly what has happened.
Our forefathers were a passionate and brave people. You can tell that in their writings. The courts may twist and distort their writings as they wish, but we who care and who read their words know that they were patriotic and that they provided the means whereby we should be able to protect ourselves, and that is through the Bill of Rights.
Read the following Declaration of Indepenence, written before this nation became the United States of America. You could almost apply their complaints and reasons for revolution into what’s happening today. Let’s hope we can resolve this problem before it comes to a clash of arms.
The Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object 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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
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