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specifically the politics of the loss of our second amendment
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 * Originally By: RIC DUNCAN
 * Originally To: ALL
 * Originally Re: Thoughts from Kemp
 * Original Date: 25 Jun 96  00:01
 * Original Area: PN_MILITIA
 * Forwarded by : Blue Wave/386 v2.30
this guy thinks like I do!
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Date sent: 24 Jun 96 16:33:30 EDT
From: Mike Johnson 
   Comments by Mike Kemp on just what this country is coming to. Well
worth reading.
- Mike/North Central Florida Regional Militia

To all:
        As I look at fifty, breaking over the horizon yonder, I am
forced to ponder the events of the last forty or so years, those being
the ones of which I have firm memory.
        Those of you mathematically inclined understand the effects of
a square function, a logarithmic curve approaching infinity. My
childhood and adolescence was in the middle fifties to middle sixties.
The effects of the follies of the nineteen teen's 1930's were felt,
with a secret police which keept files on Americans (FBI), a fearsome
though chained beast by which you must walk every day and feed to
distract (IRS), and a *you can't fight city hall* attitude- but, then
again, you hardly needed to.
        You couldn't have automatic weapons or gold, but who in their
right mind wants their life savings tied up in inanimate metal, and who
can afford ammunition for anything other than a .22, anyway? I reload
mine one at a time, and derned if I would want anything that shot two
weeks worth of work in about forty-five seconds. Every forty-five
seconds.
        I cut grass and bought a shotgun, at a hardware store. Nobody
wanted any paper. I could own a pistol, particularly if Dad could be
persuaded to go along and smile benignly while the deal was struck,
assuring the seller that the teenager knew guns and would shoot
responsibly.
        You had to have a license and tags to drive, but other
licensing was minimal and none of it was particularly intrusive.
Taxation was obvious but minimal.
        We were still in the flat part of the curve. Today, we are *up*
on the curve, way up, and the slope, the day to day increase of applied
power by government is increasing. Do we become more and more alienated
by this taking of our Liberty, of our country, our resources, our
children, and withdraw from the system? Do we shut up and stop voting,
much less expressing an opinion to an elected public official? Do we
stop asserting our sovereignty? The attitudes of the fifties, work to
get ahead and ignore the government, other than to feed it, has become
the nineties, where you must work double just to keep a breathing tube,
a schnorkel, above water.
        The kids, dumbed down by school, brainswashed by the tube, aare
left rudderless as the parents both work, probably divorced under the
strain, no stable job and therefore stable roots anyplace, high density
living... and taxation at am acknowledged 40%.
        Who pays taxes for the corporation that manufactures, ships,
and sells you a widget? Why, you do, of course. It is an integral part
of the price at every stage of the journey from raw material to end
user.
        Why does so much go to government? To fulfill the obligations
which our government has supposedly done in our names. We have ceded
responsibility, and therefore ceded our rights, abdicated as
sovereigns, on a million and one items along the way.
        *We can't stop (them) drinking!* became Prohibition. After the
predictable warfare over sales territories (Capone and co.), automatic
weapons and silencers were outlawed to *protect us.*
        *Stabilize our currency* became the fed reserve. *Save our
bacon* became the alphabet soup bureaucracy that grew from the thirties
and Roosevelt. *The Great Society* is the horror story of battle zones
in the cities and government running without the governors, running to
serve itself. Does anyone remember Viet Nam, and Robert McNamara's
(architect of the war) confession of knowing that the whole thing was a
mistake, but doing it anyway?
        *War on the Drugs* has become an excuse for the public to
accept gangs of blacked out, armored and armed thugs kicking down doors
with, if at all, shaky warrants. GUNS are seen as the enemy; juries are
not to be trusted (by government-thus Ruby Ridge? Waco?). Parents are
threatened with jail for exercising their parental (that is, God given)
rights.
        If I have a store, which is successful, and it grows to a chain
of stores, I need managers for those stores, being unable to occupy
multiple coordinates of space at the same time. I probably will need
one manager to look after it all, while I go out on my boat, named for
the business: *Beans and Bullets.*
        If I go to Jamaica on an herb run, come back and find my bank
accounts drained, the business gone to rot, and my manager surly and
threatening me, what am I to do? After pistol whipping the manager,
that is? Call the sheriff and get warrants or whatever, and cure the
problem. However, when you find the sheriff sitting behind what was
formerly YOUR desk, and the judge is a brother in law of the manager,
you begin to get the idea of the situation we are now in.
        Government operates by delegated powers. Period. Thus the basis
of the common law. If you drag me before the *bar of justice,* you
better have a real good reason, an injury or a compelling interest to
enter my life in any such fashion.
        I can drag you into court if you have damaged me, endangered
me, killed me, or otherwise intruded into my life. The authority to
right a wrong is the only power which can be delegated. Power
(authority) from the individual to government to exercise in his stead.
There is no other premise for this Constitutional republic. If I do not
possess a right, I can hardly cede that right to government to
exercise.
        Perhaps this is the key to the, to me, otherwise unexplainable
silence and passivity of the American people. They realize that they
have ceded their individual rights to government, and really don't have
a leg to stand on. Until government finally comes around and actually
does kick the legs out from under them, individually, when they stumble
or (Gasp!) get out of line. Then by George, you got a pi***ed off
American, eh?
        Frankly, I'm hoping that these puddles all over- and I do mean
ALL over- the place correspond to the number of beforesaid Americans.
How far up us will we let that big dog at the gate lift his leg as we
feed him? Must we let him piss in our faces before we get mad enough
and use a stun gun on him where it does the most good? William Michael
Kemp
In Liberty,
Mike Kemp
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