The Second Amendment or Is Our Liberty secure!

If one wants truth then as an individual you must be willing to risk exposure to the unseen and/or unspoken. This is often not so easy as it requires breaking through your own filters, emotional and intellectual, and seeking that which many are eager to hide.

US Senator Nelson of Florida recently made comment to the media that one does not require an AR-15 for hunting. This is of course a red herring and attempt to preemptively close the argument—and I assure you he knows better but doesn’t want you to know. Shame on you Senator Nelson. I saw a Florida state Senator attempt to make the same argument only in a different way; he suggested that the Second Amendment was written when men had only single shot muskets and was not intended to protect anything more. I’m not so sure this individual knows better.

So, take a little critical thought journey with me if you dare. Many of you may not like my perspective but I assure you it is the perspective of 10-20-30 million other Americans, some born in America others who have managed to gain citizenship through naturalization, who value their Liberty more than anything else and certainly more than most.

First, lets just speak the unspeakable, the Second Amendment was not about protecting the citizens right to hunt, no its intent was of much greater weight, such that many refuse to even consider the possibility and reject any notion that it could be relevant today. The Second Amendment provides for the means by which the citizenry would protect itself from the tyranny of its own government and yes through violent means if necessary. Now the hope was that simply by having an armed citizenry the government would never go so far as to tyrannize its own citizens but if they did things could be put right by those same citizens. There, it is said, that’s not a regular talking point from your “news” sources now is it. It’s a difficult thing to wrap your head around, the idea that those with authority over you, particularly a democratically elected government, could become the source of your misery and a real threat to your life. Consider though that there are many throughout the course of history in virtually every geography (including the American geography) who would tell you otherwise.

You are possibly wondering what does any of this have to do with the AR-15 as a weapon in the hands of the citizen. With all due respect to the Florida State senator who feels that the Second Amendment is about protecting our “muskets” I’ll point out that our military and local police forces are armed to the teeth with weapons of war—and not just single shot AR-15 type rifles but fully automatic multi-shot weapons that could take out hundreds of citizens easily with very little effort. I realize it is hard to contemplate that they would ever do such a thing. Myself, I can’t help but wonder about the Liberty lovers in Venezuela who now in starvation and deprivation might wish “if only we'd had a Second Amendment to secure our rights to gun ownership. Then again, many such citizens may have made it out of the country before the worst; some I’m sure are here and hopeful that Americans won’t give up this right.

Now let’s consider the unseen. We are assured that our country is free, a free market, capitalist in its orientation, there is no reason to be concerned for our Liberty. But not so fast. You may be familiar with the name Benito Mussolini, a journalist, a politician, the leader of Italy’s National Fascist Party, supporter of Hitler, a real scoundrel, who ultimately met his demise at the hands of the Italian people. One of his more notable quotes was, “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”.

There is much more unseen then seen in this world. Obfuscation is the first talent of the politician and those who support them. Consider that neither Hitler nor Mussolini could have gained what they did without the help of the Corporate world. Now consider in our own country federal reserve economic activism (globalism), sending so much of our manufacturing to China (globalism), mass illegal immigration and open borders (globalism) and ceding power to the UN (globalism) benefits first and foremost the large cross-border Corporations including banks and financial firms. Do you ever wonder why it seems often that your representatives in Congress are not representing your interests?

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t see conspiracy here I just simply see the pursuit of profit and return by large corporations and to this end they’ve worked hard to coop the state and our representatives with good old fashion American dollars. As a result too many of our representatives have aligned with the Corporatists to the detriment of the citizenry. Now Senators and Representatives have got their own rationalizations as to why what is good for the Corporatist is also good for the citizens but reality eventually takes hold and it becomes clear that it might not be that good for the citizens. But this is where things can go badly wrong since when those who seek power are faced with impediments they will often do anything to overcome them. Particularly when there is lots of money involved.

I believe that it is fair to say that an effort to remove a rightfully elected President through any means easily falls into the category of things “going badly wrong”. The numbers of politicians, governmental institutions (DOJ, FBI and State Department among others) and businesses including the Media complex cooperating with one another to have their way and to hell with 50 million citizens and their families falls into the category of “going badly wrong”. I cannot think of a more overt and obvious merging of state and corporate power and one that likely would be unseen had Trump not won the election. If you are not worried about your government you are just not paying attention or believe you will or actually are benefiting and just don’t care.

I for one am worried and not eager to see more legislation directed at reducing our second amendment rights. It seems to me that there is plenty that could be done that would address the threat presented by those intent on evil in our society. In my opinion the first focus should be on the local authorities. Despite the pleadings of government boosters, it is not in my opinion a matter of too few resources rather as with most government in America today mission creep has overextended virtually all government resource. For instance, if the local police are spending their time bolstering the cities treasury with traffic fines you might want to consider redeployment to higher and better use like monitoring the troubled and protecting schools. As to the FBI it is seeming pretty clear that there are major systemic issues in this agency that require serious and immediate attention. I’m not sure existing management can fix it. I could go on but I won’t.

This is a complex issue and it deserves careful reasoned consideration not emotional hysteria. Further, caution is advised as there are many with agendas who prefer to keep them obfuscated. This puts the onus on you to have a deep understanding of the issues and to look beyond the present to an unknown future. Most importantly do not give short shrift to knowing history.

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