This
is basically what I have been saying. Stay out of it, let the military /
oath keeper's deal with this situation. They are very aware, much more so than we are about what is going on. Our best shot at removing ALL of the corrupt from
power first using and then finally you could force a re-distribution of the wealth
not from the middle class but the top 1%. Most of them already pay NO
tax at all. Remember our law is based on the Constitution and not the Bill Of Rights.
Familiarize yourself with the laws in your State, County and City. The rag tag unorganized protesting is never going to work. That's gotta go. An organized effort utilizing highly skilled legal and
justice officials need to grow a pair and lock them all up.
By Scott Lazarowitz
LewRockwell.com
October 4, 2011
Some people are predicting that there will be a major economic
collapse, caused by unsustainable debts and other government intrusions
into private economic matters, and by central banks’ excessive
money-printing.
In America, the Federal Reserve’s continued irresponsible and
reckless actions will result in further devaluing the currency and huge
increases in price inflation, especially in food and energy prices.
Some are predicting that there will be food shortages, looting, rioting, and civil unrest and violence in America.
There are some people who believe that such events will be followed
by President Obama imposing a nationwide martial law. Recent terrorism
drills, such as the
major drill last week in Denver, are
believed to be part of the
U.S. government’s preparation for either terrorism or false flag events, or part of preparation for planned martial law.
Obama was recently
in Denver. One hopes that what former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has
documented, a possible huge underground government or military facility at the Denver airport, and other
similar places, are not true.
But the subject of martial law needs to be discussed, because it’s
important that the people of the U.S. states have an understanding of
this
before Obama imposes martial law, which is essentially a presidential-military-rule dictatorship.
Obviously, any imposition of martial law by the U.S. government would
be not only a gross violation of state sovereignty, thus making the
states even further subservient to the authoritarian rule of the federal
government, but martial law goes against the Founders’ ideas of
inalienable rights and liberty.
Martial law includes the suspension of civil liberties, such as
freedom of speech and dissent, the right to bear arms and self-defense,
the right to freedom of movement, and the right to presumption of
innocence.
The Declaration of Independence recognizes the right of each and
every human being to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” These
are inalienable, pre-existing rights, meaning that they are natural and
inherent rights, not given to us by any government.
That means that no one, including government officials, police or
military, may violate these rights or remove them – otherwise, they
could not be considered
inalienable.
Specifically, the right of the individual to life and liberty
includes the right to own and control one’s life, and the right to be
free from the aggressions of others, including police and military.
The right of the individual to one’s life and liberty includes the
“right to be secure” in one’s person, property and effects. In America,
there are
supposed to be no intrusions into the person or
property of the individual without actual suspicion that a specific
individual has committed a specific crime against someone else’s person
or property.
Even in those cases, the people were advised by the Founders to
nevertheless question the official judgments of government agents.
Any suspension of these rights and civil liberties such as under a
martial law would thus be an act of criminality by government officials, including the president, military and police, against the people.
There have been many aspects of the post-9/11 “War on Terror,”
including the Patriot Act and new warrantless surveillance intrusions,
and due-process-free policies of apprehension and
detention of Americans by federal agents, that some people believe to have been a
back-door means for military rule in America.
As I wrote in my article,
Tea Partiers May Need the ACLU Soon,
the rights to presumption of innocence (and thus the right to be left
alone without suspicion) and due process have greatly diminished in
America since the Bush Administration exploited 9/11 to expand the
federal government’s intrusive police powers over Americans.
Putting such policies as the Patriot Act into place, and allowing for the
apprehension,
detention and
assassination
of Americans as well as foreigners, policies that remove presumption of
innocence and due process, has made the U.S. government a much bigger
threat to our liberty than terrorists ever could be.
Given Obama’s assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki
without any due process, without having been convicted or even charged
with terrorism, but by merely having been labeled a “terrorist” by
government officials, and given the preponderance of historical evidence
as to why we should not trust the judgment of government officials,
Americans need to be vigilant.
Why? Just one example is how current administration officials’
continuously label government protesters and Tea Party activists,
antiwar protesters and even anti-ObamaCare activists as
threats and “
terrorists.” The
crackdowns on peaceful protesters show more clearly how America is quickly turning into the Soviet Union.
Now, if you are a governor, and President Obama imposes martial law
and orders you as governor of your state to enforce such an order, you
are obligated by law to disobey that order, because it would be an
unlawful order.
Government officials recite an oath as they take their office, as do
police and military personnel. Part of the oath for governor of a state –
and local police officers for that matter – includes “support” of the
U.S. Constitution and respective state constitutions.
In some cases, the oath states that they will “obey and defend” the Constitution.
Some police officers’ oaths state that they will “obey the orders of
superior officers” on the force. And the oath for enlistment in the U.S.
Armed Forces does include
mention of obeying the orders of the President of the United States.
However, when a superior officer or president gives an unlawful
order, such as one that violates an individual’s right to due process or
right to free speech or dissent, then the soldier or officer is
obligated to disobey that order.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of
Oath Keepers, explains
here in this video why such unlawful orders must be disobeyed. The Oath Keepers organization notes that
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of
currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers,
fire-fighters, and veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the
Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic … and meant it.
We won’t “just follow orders.”
The Oath Keepers organization views the soldier, military officer or
police officer’s primary obligation of service as being to the people,
not the president, and that their loyalty is to the Constitution,
including the Bill of Rights.
If the President of the United States orders governors, National
Guardsmen, military soldiers, police officers, to enforce federal
martial law, the purpose of which is to remove civil liberties and
rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, then such an order, therefore,
is an unlawful order, and government personnel are obligated to disobey
such orders.
Here is the Oath Keepers’
list of orders they would not obey,
particularly because, as the Oath Keepers themselves note, such orders
are “unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral violations of the
natural rights of the people.
Such orders would be acts of war against the American people by their
own government, and thus acts of treason. We will not make war against
our own people. We will not commit treason.”
- We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people
- We
will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American
people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects – such as warrantless
house-to house searches for weapons or persons.
- We
will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy
combatants” or to subject them to trial by military tribunal.
- We
will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on
a state, or to enter with force into a state, without the express
consent and invitation of that state’s legislature and governor.
- We
will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its
sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of
the compact by which that state entered the Union.
- We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
- We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
- We
will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops
on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to
“maintain control” during any emergency, or under any other pretext. We
will consider such use of foreign troops against our people to be an
invasion and an act of war.
- We
will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American
people, including food and other essential supplies, under any emergency
pretext whatsoever.
- We
will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to
free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for
a redress of grievances.
I never thought that in my lifetime I would see such a strong
possibility of economic collapse, food shortages, civil unrest and
martial law in America. But all of this is completely avoidable.
How are economic collapse, food shortages, civil unrest and martial
law avoidable? First, get rid of the causes of food price inflation.
That means ending the Federal Reserve, ending
central planning in money and banking, and allowing for free, competitive banking and competing currencies.
Encourage the people to use gold, silver or something else of value
as their medium of exchange, or a currency that is at least backed by
something of value. Get the government out of money and banking, period.
Second, end the federal government’s intrusions into, restrictions on
and subsidization of food production and distribution. Decentralize the
entire food industry, and make the federal government stop infringing
on the rights of local farmers and food producers, food distributors,
retailers and grocers.
Those local producers and traders – not
government central planners
– are the ones who know best how to handle their businesses, and what
the consumers want and how much food should cost. No more police S.W.A.T
raids on raw milk producers and other food producers.
We just can’t allow America to descend into the third world
police state dictatorship that it seems to be becoming (and that is being
reinforced in the schools).
One step in the right direction would be to end all restrictions on
civilians’ right to self-defense, and protect their right to own,
conceal or openly carry weapons. That is what really prevents crime.
And communities need to consider de-monopolizing local policing and
security. There’s no good reason for government to monopolize those
functions. Let voluntary groups and private, competitive firms handle
those things – that is what will end the current police-thug phenomenon.
Also, the federal government needs to end its counter-productive
aggressions overseas and
War on Drugs.
Finally, besides invoking the 10
th Amendment and
nullifying federal food, monetary and banking restrictions, and
nullifying federal gun laws, if Obama orders martial law, then U.S.
state governors must also
nullify that, too.
If Obama and federal agents and military insist on forcing martial
law in the states against the authority of the states’ leaders, then the
states’ governors may have to order state and local officials to arrest
federal agents acting in violation of the states’ sovereignty and the
people’s rights.
No, the way to deal with economic collapse, civil unrest and looting
is not with a federal martial law presidential-military dictatorship.
The way to deal with or prevent such a crisis is by going
the other way:
through decentralization and de-monopolization, and undoing all the
governmental interventions that will have caused the crisis in the first
place.
In April 2011, Mr. Obama released a copy of what he says is an original copy of his long form birth certificate. The release came after the state of Hawaii had been saying for months they could not release a copy, even to the President.
Former director of Hawaii’s health department, Dr. Chiyome Fukimo, claimed she had actually seen the Obama’s birth certificate and it was half typed and half hand-written. The document released by Obama was all typed.
Since its release, several document experts have come forward stating the document was altered and could be a forgery. No experts have stated publicly that the document has not been altered in any way.