26. WHAT CAN YOU DO?
"Verba volant; scripta manent." - Latin phrase
meaning "Spoken (words) fly; written (words) remain."
Books are supremely important. Books are your friends.
Radio talk shows, TV
shows, film, and play acting, quickly escape your vision, and even remembrance.
Books can always be re-read, referred to, and can be a constant source of
joy. Buy books and read them. Give them,
study them, and love them. Read Atlas
Shrugged by Ayn Rand, a couple of times, give it to your friends, and maybe even the same
with this book. I've probably given
away a hundred copies of Atlas Shrugged.
Vote for, contribute to, and campaign for, libertarian thinking
candidates, regardless of party. It is
possible to get involved in saving America by becoming political, reading and
learning about what is happening, and then introduce your friends and neighbors
to your knowledge.
"Actions speak
louder than words." - Old saying
Did you ever stop and think what would happen to the
federal monster, and its bureaucratic and political creators and supporters, if
its sustenance were denied? Is there a
better way to stop something, than to starve it?
If funds were cut off from government, they would have to print
the money, (making it even more worthless) borrow it, or shut it down.
As a supposition, let me refer to the
previous example of Silverton Colorado, and their dump problem.
They acted like wimps, gave in, allowed the
feds to run over them, and they will pay forever.
Suppose a group of people, numbering at least a few million,
decided to suddenly claim 99 deductions on their income tax W-4 forms, publicly
stated the fact, quoted statistics in this book, plus others that detail the
utter folly, waste, and total unconstitutionality of governmental actions for
the past 65 years? Suppose they
gathered, say on the Internet, and millions decided they had enough, it was
their money, not government's, and they were going to deny the continuous siphon
to Washington and the IRS. What could
they do? Could they arrest
millions? Hardly. Could they audit
millions? No. Seize millions of homes? No. And if these millions
garnered publicity via the media, was a planned action, done suddenly and with
great fanfare, what could they do?
About all, would be to hope other millions wouldn’t follow, but they
undoubtedly would. That would be an effective revolution, without a single shot
being fired. The movement would have begun, and it is doubtful it would stop
until we descended to a fine plateau of government being where it ought to
be. That is one possibility, the only
one I can come up with, and it could happen if enough true patriots got
"on line" and organized.
We have a distinct advantage that didn't exist when the
first patriots told the British to go to hell, and that is communication. They
had horses, but we have telephones, the Internet, mail, radio, and fast
transport. We can organize and communicate instantly, whereas they couldn't.
If such an action as has been proposed above
got started, there is no way the members couldn't instantly communicate about
their own or the enemy's actions and tactics.
Remember also, the IRS recently spent $4 billion on a worthless computer
system, plus the fact that anyone working for government is usually at the
absolute bottom of the mental heap, or they wouldn’t work there.
Has there ever been a bureaucrat who could
overwhelm you with their mental alacrity?
Their power lies not in their mental ability. Could the bureaucracy
handle millions of outraged citizens cutting off their source of money, with
more joining every day? Think about the
risks the Founders took, when they signed that Declaration, and fought for
independence. They risked their "lives
and sacred honor" without the communications, electricity, fast
wheels, phone lines, and even the Constitution to back them. Can we do less?
Isn't it about time to recognize that we are worse off now than
were the over taxed, outraged subjects of the British?
Washington D.C. is indeed the current King
George, and is a prime target for a modern day revolution.
A revolution that could be completed without a single shot being fired. It is my
opinion that our chances of stopping this nonsense are about 10%, unless we
step up and say, ENOUGH! In the past,
most people get cold feet when it came time to act as a protest to the IRS, or
other bureaucracy. There is a
monumental amount of strength in huge numbers, rather than an individual
protest. It is not sedition to suggest
starving D.C. into submission, but rather, a patriotic thing to do. I do not
want to overthrow the government...only bring it back to its Constitutionally
authorized size.
On the top of the chair in which George Washington sat
during the entire Constitutional Convention, is a carved sun that appears to be
either rising or setting. Benjamin
Franklin, after the Constitution had been voted on and approved, said that
during the trying time of writing it, he had often wondered if that sun was
America rising or setting, but was glad to know it had indeed been rising.
At this time, over 200 years later, I ask
the same question. Is our American sun
rising, or is it quite possibly setting?
Time will tell, but I dearly hope we aren't seeing the twilight of the
American dream. When the Pilgrims
landed in December of 1620, only half of them survived the first winter, so
harsh were their new surroundings. Only
four women lived. Thinking Americans
must take a stand, and work for our very survival.
It won't be easy, because we are in a fix just like the Pilgrims,
only we are suffering not from a harsh winter, but a brainwashed, non-thinking,
non-reading citizenry, who hasn’t the slightest idea of what has happened to
them. Lovers of liberty and freedom are
being submerged by those who proliferate government, squash liberty, and punish
and demean success, while praising and subsidizing non-achievement and
non-effort.
I know this is extremely distasteful to most, and
understandably so, but the other alternative is to sit by and watch America
disintegrate, taking you and your family with it. If you are determined to do
that, at least act economically smart by storing your assets in gold or silver,
a home, antiques, and other tangible items, rather than pieces of paper with
ink on them. I'll broker the metals for you. (1-888-786-8822 web site
coloradogold.com) Everyone should own several unregistered guns, with lots of
ammunition to protect yourself.
Unregistered, because registered ones will be confiscated...they always
have been, and are now in California, England and Australia. I am not being
paranoid, just logical. Meantime, hope
for the best, and let me know if you have any other ideas!