If modern Committees of Correspondance are "up and running" I sure haven't noticed.
And you wouldn't have noticed during the years leading up to 1774 either.
We have our freedom because of the Committees of Correspondance during the Revolution, and now we are losing that freedom at an alarming pace. We truly need active committees and "Sons" that are as intelligent and resourceful as those of the past.
I would suggest that the Committees prior to the War for American Independence were part of the success of the movement in those days. But, the major difference today is the lack of personal local involvement in a town militia. People today have gotten it in their mind that joining a militia is somehow illegal and the very act will bring the feds crashing down on their family. Yet these same folks believe that they are Free...
The First Amendment protects a Right that existed Prior to the establishment of the Constitution of a person to willingly associate with other people without governmental interference.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Likewise, the Second Amendment protects our State's Right and thus our Right to provide for our common defense via a long established English tradition, the local militia.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Here on OCDO we gather to discuss the assault on our Right to Carry. Many have stood boldly in the face of a peace officer and refused to comply with what we KNOW are illegal demands. Yet we still submit willingly to the other violence done to our Rights without a peep. Nearly every Washington State OCer has a CPL. It's "required" to drive a vehicle with a loaded handgun on your person. I thought my Right to keep and bear arms
"...shall not be infringed." by those in power??? Interesting.
Eye95 (btw Glad to see you back! You ok? I missed you dude!) would have us believe that discussing restoring this long expired republic is "armed revolt". I beg to differ.
Revolution; n. A fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed
Rebellion; n. An open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government
I look at my Constitution and I hardly even see the basic form reflected in DC. I don't remember the people rising up in a Rebellion and tearing it down or those same people replacing it with another form... Hmmm, something else must have happened.
A coup d'état is the sudden, illegal deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to depose the extant government and replace it with another body, civil or military.
I would say that this nation suffers from a bad case of Coup d'Etat and pushing back against those who already overthrew your government is far from Rebellion or even a Revolution. It's called loyalty. Or even obedience to the Oath many here took and to the Framer's words:
"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."
Over the last 150 years, the rulers of this nation have worked diligently to bring about change in the face of a clearly defined set of enumerated powers. This working on the forms of government by people within it, without the support or direction of the People themselves, is clearly an assault on our constitution and the forms of government intended by it's ratification. What do I call that? Well, based on the definitions above, it's a coup d'etat. It's clearly a betrayal by the leadership at the highest levels against the People they are supposed to be serving.
So, what shall we do? Send emails to our so-called representatives? Gripe online? Vote? Complain? Drink beer? Pray? Or prepare?
Regardless, I would ask you folks to really examine your faith placed in this system. Read your Constitution. Talk to your friends about your concerns. And pray.
Pax...
