"Revolutionary Majorities" -- Part One
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MEDIA RELEASE: "Revolutionary Majorities" -- Part One
Rick Stanley, Constitutional Activist, former U.S. Senate candidate, Enemy of
the State, and self avowed extremist on the order of our forefathers of America,
presented the following media release for your use:
http://freedomsite.org/text/revolutionary_majority.html
Subject: "Revolutionary Majorities"
The following essay is distributed for educational/informational purposes only.
This posted does not necessarily endorse or advocate any proposal or idea
contained in the work below.
"Revolutionary Majorities" -- Part One
An Essay by L. R. Beam
If citizens of this country ever again enjoy the blessings of liberty
and true freedom, it will not be the result of a majority of its
citizens having risen up in righteous indignation at govenmental abuse
of themselves and their culture. If a restoration of the Constitution
of our forebearers occurs - with all that this implies - it will
probably not be because a plurality of citizens fought for it,
supported it, or cared one way or another. If lawful government is
reestablished it will come about because a revolutionary majority
makes it happen.
Within the American historical experience a revolutionary majority may
be defined as any number of citizens sufficient to initiate general
hostilities against a destructive government.
The American Revolution of 1776 defines the term, sets the precedent
and provides the example for patriots of today.
Throughout most of the Revolutionary War, those patriots who were
seeking to overthrow the government lacked support of over two-thirds
of their fellow citizens. John Adams, one of the "radicals" in favor
of the Revolution and who was later to become the second President of
the United States, stated that depending on how the war was going,
those fighting for freedom had the opposition of from a third to two
thirds of the people. Others like Pennsylvania delegate to the
Continental Congress Joseph Galloway was sure that four-fifths of the
people "were or wanted to be, loyal to the King." (Galloway eventually
sided with the Loyalists, as those who supported the King's government
were called.) Colonel London Carter, a member of the Virginia
aristocracy and a strong patriot, stated in his diary in March of 1776
(but a bare three months before the signing of the Declaration of
Independence) that an observer of events in the Northern colonies was
sure "nine-tenths of the people are violently against it"
(independence).
The exact number of "the friends of government", as the patriots
disparingly refered to those who opposed the Revolution, cannot be
stated with accuracy. As John Adams indicated, the number was in a
constant state of flux, depending on political events and who was
winning in the armed conflict. One thing is certain, however; the
American Revolution was anything but a broad-based popular uprising of
a disaffected people. Rather, it was a very unpopular rebellion of a
politically radical minority who, because they posessed a clear
understanding of the rights of man coupled with a deep concern for the
state of relative personal freedom, were able to perceive the shackles
of tyranny prior to their being presented for fastening. This
discernment of tyranny at a distance not only set them apart from
their fellow man but constrained them to rebel.
The radical political leaders of the Revolution such as John Adams,
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, and Joseph Warren,
to name but a few of the more well known, had to conduct their
struggle for freedom in the face of disapprobation and rejection by
their peers before the time of actual armed conflict, and after its
commencement to charges and cries of "incendiaries and traitors."
Indeed "the friends of government" knew little restraint when it came
to condemning the Republic's Founders. The Loyalists called
Washington, among other things; a liar, perjurer, murderer,
blasphemer, criminal, traitor, patron of villainy, and a villain's
chief. The other Founders faired little better and were variously
refered to as being dregs, illiberal (sic!) and violent men,
dispicable wretches, bandits, rude, and depraved. While thus labeled
by "respectable citizens," these men led the country toward rebellion.
Correspondingly, the Founders had an analogous movement among the
common people which, although the objective of overthrowing the
government was the same, the methods were those resorted to by people
in every age when faced with overpowering force of all-powerful
government, namely, mob action, riots, uprisings, midnight forays, and
harassment, intimidation, or terroristic acts directed against
governmental supporters. All of these and other acts came under the
single heading of patriotism so far as their perpetrators were
concerned.
After a review of non-battlefield hostilities, it becomes apparent
that the American Revolution was won more by mob action than by armed
conflict! Thus, any idea that the Revolution was won in an ordeal of
battle is out of place in view of the facts.
During the entire length of the armed conflict from 1775 to 1781, the
King's armies lost only 1,512 men killed in battle; this seven-year,
battle-death casuality rate was exceeded by Union forces at Cold
Harbor in 1864 during the first eight minutes of a single engagement.
The King's armies had previously lost far larger numbers of men in the
Seven Years War (French and Indian Wars) yet pressed on to victory. An
adequate explanation then of the patriots' final triumph over the
government must be provided by other than a military victory.
An answer, in great part, lies in the violence and vigilante action
carried on by the patriots against the government and its supporters!
Though most Americans today are familiar with the Boston Tea Party,
few know much about the secret organization that conducted it, the
Sons of Liberty. Led by Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Dr. Warren ("the
greatest incendiary of them all"), and Paul Revere, they met in
secret, dressed in disguises, and carried out vigilante actions under
the cover of darkness. This revolutionary Ku Klux Klan was as much
dreaded by "the friends of government" as its ideological offspring,
the Klan, ever was by unruly Blacks. The Sons of Liberty and other
similar groups were responsible, during the course of the conflict for
independence, for causing tens of thousands of Loyalist to flee the
country (the Klan was usually satisfied with merely running
undesirables out of the county).
The means were simple and effective. Terror and intimidation were
directed against the Loyalists. Methods used to create these twin
scourges of "the friends of government" included, but were not limited
to, whippings, coats of tar and feathers, banishment, church burnings
(if run by a Loyalist preacher or used for a Loyalist meeting place),
confiscation of property, and whereever deemed necessary - death of
any one of several reliable methods.
Other patriotic groups of a sy formed throughout the thirteen colonies
to carry on a relentless persecution of "the friends of government."
Each organization operated independently of the other though often
exchanged information on Loyalists.
Often these ad hoc associations went by the name of "Committees of
Public Safety," though the name as well as the tactics employed varied
from place to place. Thus in the colony of New York, the patriots
bluntly called themselves "the oppressors of the friends of
government" and stated proudly that they tarred and feathered
governmental supporters with the "decorum that ought to be preserved
in public punishments." Boston had its mysterious "Joyce Junior" who
led a group of Knight Riders and enforcers who saw to it that those
who did not display the necessary revolutionary mentality were
properly punished. The rebel Continental Congress established
"associations," whose purpose was to locate the Loyalists and turn
their names over to the local vigilante to be dealt within the manner
they deemed proper. In every colony, if the accusation was one of
giving information to government agents, the traitor to liberty was
hanged by the neck or dealt with in some other terminally appropriate
manner.
Even religious leaders were not exempt from the patriotic purges that
cleansed away supporters of the king. Preachers who failed to support
the cause of liberty (or who had forgotten that David slew Goliath
rather than turning the other cheek) were run out of town on a rail in
the glowing light of the flames from their quickly disappearing
church. This was considered leniency, others were forced to flee to
England or Canada in fear of their lives.
By the end of the conflict in 1781, for every government Red-Coat
killed on the battlefield, seventy Loyalists had been driven from
their homes and forced to settle in England or Canada, totaling over
one hundred thousand people.
The government and its "friends" accused the revolutionary freedom
fighters (whom they often called "the Sons of Anarchy") of "committing
the most shocking outrages" and of "daily invasions upon private
property" while led by men who were "well known incendiaries and
traitors," whose chief purpose in life was to commit "crimes against
the Constitutional authority of the State" (historically, government's
which have oppressed and abused their citizens justify their actions
based on the "law" or "Constitutional authority").
No doubt, had the effort to overthrow the government been
unsuccessful, the Founding Fathers and their citizen supporters would
have been hanged by "the friends of government," as the very worst
sort of traitors and terrorists.
In summary of the American Revolution, while Washington's determined
and skillful leadership of the army, no doubt made victory possible,
it did not assure it. The Spirit of '76 - a massive campaign of terror
directed by patriotic citizens against all those who supported the
goverment was the deciding factor that brought freedom to America.
American Constitutional liberty was born in mob pressure, fostered by
secret societies, nurtured during seven years of intimidating
violence, and institutionalized at the expense of well over a hundred
thousand people. With this American history in mind, one who is
faithful to the ideas of the Founding Fathers of this nation can have
nothing but contempt and suspicion of the motives (or ignorance) of
those people both within and without the government who would condemn
citizens of today "for taking the law into their own hands" in defense
of their rights.
Had those who desired liberty in 1776 waited until a numerical
majority of their fellow citizens were ready to "wake-up" (as the
saying is today) to fight for the overthrow of the government, or had
they hesitated in the use of "illegal" force and violence (force and
violence are never legal except when used by those in power) against
their governmintal enemies, they would have all died in their old age
as law-abiding subjects of the King - minus their freedom.
Patriots of 1775 considered the sympathies of less than a third of the
people sufficient to begin general hostilities against their
oppressors. Herein lies the historical context of the American
revolutionary majority. It has been wisely said that those who do not
know and understand history can repeat its successes.
In America today, the manacles of slavery and destruction once forged
in London by the King are now forged in Washington. Acts of tyranny
are carried out in the name of the federal government rather than in
the name of the Throne. The vicious enforcers of dictatorial policies
often call themselves F.B.I. or I.R.S. agents instead of his Royal
Majesty's troops or tax collectors of the Realm. Substituting for the
Redcoats of the British are the "bluecoats" of the bureaucrats and in
far greater numbers. Though babblings for "the divine rights" of kings
to rule have ceased, modern fools prattle of "democratic majorities"
composed of an illiterate electorate enfranchised for the purpose of
dispossessing the descendents of the Founders. While different in
nomenclature the end results are exactly the same - the dark, cold,
tight chains of slavery.
A numerical majority of today's citizens cannot read these footprints
of tyranny nor understand where they lead. In this they are no
different than their counterparts of 200 years ago. Modern governments
have mass communications to subtly guide the thinking of their
subjects; thus is seen the phenomenon of today's citizen rushing forth
to place the cuffs of bondage upon his own wrist by irrationally
clamoring (as he has been indoctrinated) for more laws and government
to solve problems created by an excess of both. This mental inversion,
whereby the citizen willfully aids in efforts to subjugate himself, is
of no small import for those who treasure their liberty. The
implications are many, but the consequences could be singular: a
governmentally programed democratic majority may, as they dance along
to mental tunes played by an electronic band of orchestrated
communication, gleefully drag down (with their self-fastened chains)
everyone else in the black hole of oblivion.
Only one thing seems capable of closing the yawning mouth of the pit
and that is the formation of a new revolutionary majority coupled with
resurrection of the Spirit of '76. Anything short of this seems
certain to pass on to today's children an increasingly difficult task
of freeing themselves from transistorized chains of governmental
control. Such a legacy is the bequeathal of cowards, not free men.
The first American Revolutionists accused those who ruled them of
excessive taxation, interference with property rights, illegal search
and seizure, not protecting the citizens from incursions by several
thousand Indians, policies destructive of the general welfare, and
"altering fundamentally the form of our government," among other
things.
Today the federal government taxes its subjects for forty percent of
their income, instead of the three percent (less than a dollar twenty
a year) tax of the King; interferes with the ownership and use of
virtually every description of property; authorizes everything from
game wardens to I.R.S. agents to search, arrest, or seize property
without a warrant. It allows fifteen million aliens to illegally cross
its borders in less than a ten-year period; and conducts a policy of
systematic extermination of its young men through no-win wars, and
subjects the Founders' children to enforced equality. Each of the
acts, individually amounts to altering fundamentally the form and
purpose for which the federal government was created. Taken as a
whole, they are a cry for - nay - a demand for, a new campaign of
terror conducted against the government and its friends in the great
American tradition of 1776.
"Revolutionary Majorities" -- Part Two
An examination of the depth and magnitude of policies fostered by
federal rulers detrimental to the people of present day America make
the abuses of the English King's government pale into insignificance.
One thing is clear; comparison of the criminal acts of the two
governments makes those who value their liberty and freedom long for
the bitter days of English despotism.
While there are many similarities between the first American
Revolution and the second (coming soon at a place near you), there are
also significant differences.
The first and paramount dissimilarity is that while our heroic
Forefathers fought to overthrow their legally constituted government
and were thus revolutionaries in the truest sense of the word, those
who seek to break the quickly tightening bands of servitude today war
against an illegal government that imposes itself upon the people
under the color of the law. By the Washington regime's disobedience to
and violation of the bonds of the Constitution, established by the
Founders of this country, it has made of itself an unlawful body with
no more right to govern the American people than has the present Queen
of England. That the government survives despite the crimes it has
committed is explainable only because the atrocities it systematically
imposes are papered over with a veneer of legality. Propaganda that
numbs the mind keeps people from rising against those who abuse them.
There is no law in this country - other than power, which currently
rests with the Pirates of the Potomac, who pose as our lawful
government while using over powering force to quell those who resist
their destructive policies. The Constitutional Revolutionist of today
is actually fighting for a transfer of power from those who can make
no legitimate claim to power, to those who inherently hold it as a
natural right - the lawful citizens of this country.
Another salient difference between the first American Revolution and
the second is the contrast between the quality of the people of then
and now. Our ancestors were strong men, who stated often that they
were resolved "to die as free men rather than live as slaves." They
were conditioned to doing their own thinking while at the same time
ever holding before themselves the guiding lights of honor and duty.
Today, raised in the lap of luxury, many people gladly exchange their
freedom for the right to accumulate material possessions. Not one
person in fifty can truthfully state that his opinions are the result
of independent research rather than the mindless acquisition of
pre-programmed "opinions" obtained by indulging in endless hours of
obeisant T.V. watching (that modern day golden calf of those lost in
the mental wilderness). Further, most Americans do not know the
meanings nor values of honor and duty, the two great concepts of
higher man.
It is quite clear that the virtue of the present generation has
declined to such a miserable degree that most people will never
voluntarily help to make themselves free. Consequently they will have
to be made to make themselves free.
A great objective of revolutionary majorities is that of thrusting
freedom upon those who are too weak to make themselves free while
providing its blessings for the stronger, more noble elements of the
race. This is done in the firm belief that under sound government,
future generations will be naturally healthy in mind and spirit. The
revolutionary patriot benignantly grants freedon to others while
establishing framework that will allow posterity to be both free and
strong. Other than the "great commission" of the Lord, no calling is
as exalted or as honorable. These two significant differences - one of
law, one of character - between the first struggle for freedom and the
present one is deserving of substantial thought and analysis by those
capable of so doing. Consider what type of self-preserving behavior
can be expected from a government that already wades to its knees in
the blood of young men deliberately sacrificed to the false god of
Internationalism. Were the government really intent on opposing
Communism, it would start a war in Washington and work its way to
Vietnam. What behaviour can be expected from a people who willingly
pass their sons through the fire to be consumed? Each of these
concepts deserve most careful examination.
Opposing the federal purveyors of mass murder and the "the friends of
government" who make such perfidy possible are men who trace their
political lineage to times of Magna Carta, and who are mental as well
as physical descendents of the Founding Fathers. They believe, as did
their forebearers, that government is a social contract entered into
by people of a similar mind for their mutual benefit. This agency
created by the people can only, legitimately, be their servant - never
their master. Further, it cannot possess lawful authority to deprive
those who create it (or their heirs) of natural rights. In normal
times men who arrayed themselves against the criminal acts of
government would be called Constitutionalists, but "these are the
times that try mens souls" as well as test their courage. Thus
contemporary patriots become known as Constitutional Revolutionists
determined to overthrow every vestige of unlawful government doing so
with a firm belief that honor demands and duty requires the
reestablishment of the law of their fathers.
It can be realized then, that those who remain guilty of loyalty to
the present illegal government in the District of Columbia are
chargeable with treason to the Constitution of the United States and
deserving the same fate of their historical predecessors who, in the
name of the King, trampled upon sacred rights of Englishmen in 1776.
It should be stated in their defense, however, that most of those who
are participants in this odious transgression against the good of our
noble forebearers do so in complete ignorance of the law. Having
obtained ninety-five percent of their misinformation from government
licensed T.V. and the remaining five percent from conversations with
others who are also completely maladroit at obtaining facts on their
own, they are victims of methodical thought control which began during
their childhood and has been continued at a subliminal level
throughout their lives.
Though no doubt the maxim "ignorance of the law is no excuse for its
violation" makes these people criminals, the mitigating circumstances
of their lawlessness should be considered by those who are seeking to
reestablish lawful rule in this country.
A period of grace, commensurable with what the struggle will allow, is
in order, thus providing the present supporters of unlawful government
an opportunity to defect as they became cognizant of the law.
By this fraternal act to the erring members of our race we serve not
only the interest of justice but, at whatever point in time the grace
period is of necessity terminiated, all excuse for collaboration with
the enemy will have been removed. Having held long aloft the olive
branch of peace and forgiveness, no just complaint can be made by
those who failed to avail themselves of it, when with the other hand,
the terrible swift sword of vindication falls upon their necks.
Even after the patriots of today have invoked "the Sprit of '76," and
have successfully dammed the Mississippi with rotting corpses of the
lying politicians, criminal bureaucrats, racial tratiors, communists,
assorted degenerates, cultural distorters, and those who resist the
implementation of lawful Constitutional government, these patriots
will have exhibited far more restraint and benevolence than the
present government of the United States. For while Constitutionalists
of today war against those guilty of the most heinous crimes upon our
people, usurpers in Washington destroy in mind and wherever possible
the bodies of those guilty of nothing more than having white skin.
Coalescing within America today is a second revolutionary majority
whose members in the spirit of their forebearers are resolved to die
as free men rather than to live as slaves. Like their noble ancestors,
today's revolutionary majority must fight for the children of carping
critics just as fiercely as for their own families. Emulating its
predecessor, obedience is given only to the dictates of the code of
natural law. For once again the enemies of liberty use the law of the
nation as their shield - yea - even their justification for destroying
freedom of the people. A government exceeding the power granted by
their fathers - they are not bound to obey but bound to resist.
John Adams said, that "freedon is a counter balance for poverty,
discord, and war," and that if the revolutionary struggle failed, it
would be because moderates tried to find a "middle ground" and to
conduct "half a war," for freedom. Likewise, today's tired voices are
heard calling for politics as usual - moderation as always. Such
thinking has allowed generations to die in chains in former times and
will so again if adhered to.
The age of the conservative like that of the dinosaur, has ended. Now
begins a new age, destiny calls for her great men who by their iron
will alter the pages of history from that of a tale of shame,
cowardice, and decline, to a saga of glory, bravery, and rebirth.
Soon, very soon, we will have a revolutionary majority...
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