Dieter Dahmen
When his
fruit offering, because it had come out of the ground that had been cursed, was
rejected, Cain became enraged and would have slain his Maker had he been able
to. But he was not! And so, fomented by jealousy, he slew his brother instead. Am
I my brothers keeper, was his blasphemous and loathsome challenge hurled at
his Redeemer, when confronted with his awesome deed - blasphemous, because it
impugned the grace of his God, and loathsome, because it injected, even though
he implied himself exempt, Kevorkian style, into the human consciousness the
notion that we should be our brothers keeper. So the first natural born member
of the human race was both a murderer and a socialist. Pure, unmitigated
depravity! A ghoulish epitaph for a fallen specie!
It is
not strange then to find these rapacious monsters juxtapose and we do well to
reflect on why this should be so. On this occasion and this occasion only did
murder precede socialism. Since then, however, the one spawns the other as
readily as the other spawns the one. And again, we must ask: Why is this so?
What is the commonality that unites these two marauding, malicious, malevolent
monsters into the same specie?
Both rob
man of his free will! The one seriatim, the other collectively! And it is this
that forms the brutal essence of their malady - the egregious and flagitious
destruction of the human kind. In a sense murder is more benign than socialism.
It robs the individual of his free will by first stealing his life, but
socialism robs him of his free will long before it steals his life. Here then
we see the monsters ferocity, its zest for carnage, for free will is the
exponent of freedom and freedom is the unencumbered expression of intent.
Prompted
by a recent conversation with a friend, I find it necessary to digress here in
order to expand the definition of freedom to include authority, i.e.,
responsibility and responsibilitys predicate: respect. Divorcing
responsibility from freedom results in freedom without authority and freedom
without authority is anarchy. Accentuating responsibility consequences in
authority without freedom and authority without freedom is tyranny. Thus
freedom is the antithesis to tyranny and anarchy including anarchys main
constituent: criminal conduct. Therefore, when coupled with authority,
responsibility is the projection of freedom and freedom then, with these
parameters in view, simply describes that condition in a society, where the
individual is free to act upon his decision without requiring his neighbors
and above all his governments permission.
This is
what the Founding Fathers had in mind. This was their vision! This was the
consummation of their struggle for which they pledged their sacred honor, their
lives, and their fortunes. That not only they, but also their progeny should
live as free men, for horror has reached its ultimate completion when
acquisition and possession are by governments permission only. Only once in
all of human history, here on these golden shores, did men of incredible
courage and wisdom understand that the combination of power lust and crusader
lust, when let and left free to rampage, would leave government no choice but
to gravitate toward total tyranny and unmitigated brutality. They understood, in
deed, the full terror of unconstraint government and instituted a form of
government designed to forestall it. The citizen, since he is governments
progenitor and, therefore, its superior, should exercise supremacy and dominion
over it. And to secure that, to make certain that the unlimited power of the
sword should always rest with him, they borrowed sovereignty from the Author
of Liberty and vested it in him.
I am
appalled anew each time I hear the same answer to the same question, What is
freedom? It is abysmally devoid of understanding and I conclude, must
conclude, that nobody knows anymore. For everyone believes permission to be the
heart and soul of freedom and safety its essence! And it is then that my heart
aches, because permission is not freedom! It is a disgrace, a debilitation and
a nightmare! No slave ever needed to ask his owner for permission to go to the
bathroom and no German ever required authorization from the Fhrer for
permission to respond to any of lifes innocuous demands. And why was asking
for permission not mandatory? Because permission was already granted and so not
having to ask for permission did not make either of them free!
This was
sum and substance of the first seventeen years of my life! Everything was
either forbidden or allowed! Whatever was not forbidden was allowed! Until then
I had never seen real light; prohibition and permission were my constant
companions in whose black shadow I dreamed of light! For I had learned about
America after I had seen Americans for the first time, at wars end, when only
nine years and nine days old. They were gracious each and every one of them,
gracious beyond description, were gracious to me even while I was yet appealing
to the holy grail to appoint me its knight and to turn me into a mighty Nazi
warrior, so that I could destroy the enemies of my fatherland. They reflected
greatness and it was this their light that lured me to America and to this day
their magnificence epitomizes for me what it means to me to be called an American.
Oh how I
wish I could transform surrealism into realism, feeling into flesh and share my
ecstasy, which to this day still enraptures me, when I remember my first day in
America. I had purchased and was enjoying a scoop of ice cream, when the realization,
like hot lava, overcame me that just now, for the first time in my life, I had
acted on a decision for which I had needed no ones permission - not my
neighbors and above all not my governments - and that there was no one even
having the authority or the desire to demand it!
But
Americans of today, with rare exceptions indeed, have perfected the art of
forgetting. Indeed, I find it difficult sometimes to subdue the impression that
ignorance is desired, is viewed as an accomplishment, in fact, a contest among
gladiators locked in mortal combat, wielding pencils without tips instead of
swords, all for the glory of claiming greater ignorance than ones adversary.
Again I
must digress to express the for me incomprehensible deportment of the ladies of
our land. Just and righteous antipathy toward male chauvinism directs their
every walk of life and it is impossible not to sense it. Deep is their belief
that every male is a suspect misogynist and that too is difficult not to see.
Yet they inexplicably, blithely, and blindly permitted government to rob them
of their most prized possession: to allow and to forbid. They gave up their
judicial right to tell government what to do and what not to do, and glibly
transferred that right to a male dominated government. Such is the curse of
ignorance!
Ignorance,
the monsters child, rules supreme, because forgetfulness is its throne.
Americans in torpor, Americans asleep! Forgotten is their heritage, forgotten
is their true graciousness, and also forgotten is the source of their freedom.
The pernicious expunging of freedoms true essence has caused people to forget,
to forget gladly, and someday the obscenity of that forgetting will avenge
itself in the cruel travesty of the battlefield. For when a people can be
compelled, under the sickening belief that safety is freedoms halo, to
relinquish personal control of their private affairs, it will earn them, and
deservedly so, governments unbridled and indescribably obscene contempt and
unleash the most devastating of all lusts - crusader lust and power lust
combined, which will then leave government no choice but to expound total
tyranny and unmitigated brutality. The sure to come collision between a
predacious government and the free will of the remnant of the Sons of Liberty
will then ignite a firestorm that will obliterate the nation.
In vain
will then have been the Founding Fathers vision, struggle, sacrifice, and
pledge. Disproved will then also be Thomas Jeffersons conviction he voiced on
the day he would die, that the fiftieth anniversary of the American challenge
had laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has
not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and
spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. And for naught
will then also have been his exhortation to let the annual return of this day,
forever refresh our recollections of these rights and an undiminished devotion
to them. And confirmed will then stand Pitts axioms when he warned that Necessity
is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom and that It is the
argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave. And those who died as a
last measure of their full devotion to the preservation of freedom and now
forever mustered into the long gray line, will have died in vain!
Permit
me to dwell on the greatness of these magnificent men. Liege is what they
called themselves. Liege and in vassalage to one thing only - in vassalage to
justice. Even only a perfunctory look will show the pages of American history
to be replete with demonstrations of their magnificence. I am hard pressed
indeed to find any flaw in them and could easily conclude them to have been
immaculately conceived. If I were a church, they would be my icons and if I
were a god, they would be my saints. I know of their failings. I know of their
subterfuges. Their machinations are also known to me. Shortcomings are Adams
legacy for man and these were men and no man is barren of them. But theirs
flashed in unquestioned obedience to the tocsins stern and relentless call!
Freedom was assailed! And freedom always, especially when assailed, is immune
to the virulence of extremism! In fact, virulence metamorphoses and then
becomes the imbuing spirit, the lifeblood of the patriot.
The
British plenipotents, primitive and rude in their understanding of sovereignty,
could only see their defiance toward the crown and were convinced there was
something in the air here that made them so. The king, obtuse beyond belief,
wondered how two, he and the colonies, could be sovereign under the aegis of
the same crown? And their distinction between colonies and colonists only
exacerbated his arrogance and propelled him toward the conflict that became,
not the American Revolution, but the American War for Independence.
Independence!
That great word! The consummate expression of human fulfillment and hope; and
its epitome: magnificence, courage, graciousness, and freedom. And how often
were these tested and demonstrated to be the hallmark of a new specie of
humans? Again I am hard pressed to see how anyone could fail to see it. One
poignant demonstration will suffice.
On
November 24, 1943, 15000 United States Marines, under the aegis of Ol Glory,
after less than four days of bloody fighting, often muzzle to muzzle inside
fortified bunkers, took the atoll TARAWA, so heavily fortified by the Japanese
that they believed a million men in a hundred years could not take it. In the
stillness of the aftermath of battle, Generals Howlin Mad Smith and Julian
Smith surveyed the Japanese defenses and overcome by sheer admiration for what
the American fighting men had wrought, exclaimed: How did they do it? Then
came the answer, from the sea. For there, in the soft surfing of the waves,
among the floating bodies of some 300 Marines, was one only partially claimed
by the sea. His upper body had clung to land and his outstretched right hand
was near a small red and blue flag. A beach marker he had planted so that those
who would follow ashore would know the way. Planting it had required his last
measure of full devotion and had entered him forever into the long gray line.
Seeing that pure dedication to duty for the preservation of freedom, the two
voiced the answer to their own question. How can such men be defeated? It was
not a question of uncertainty, but one of affirmation and my answer is of equal
affirmation, They cant!
America!
Graciousness, greatness, magnificence, splendor! All these had painted
mountains purple here to match her golden shores. A great light shone forth and
because of it, Mars, many times since, harnessed his war steeds here, seeking
to extinguish it. He is no stranger to Americas palaces, for he came many
times and each time he came, he came by day save for the last time! Then, a
scant generation ago, he came by night and he came disguised! He also came
accompanied by Cerberus, watchdog at hells entrance, and the gates of hell
came wide open!
How
could such magnificence be forgotten? How could so much greatness, so much
splendor, possessed by so many, be destroyed by so few with so little effort in
such a short time? The answer lies in understanding the nature and strength of
the monster now devouring our national identity. Illusion is its nature and
deception its strength! It comes malevolently camouflaged in the halcyon guise
of prosperity, fiendishly replacing freedom with safety and its strength lies
in the legerdemain to equate freedom with permission. Euphemisms are the
seeding ground of the former and brutal usurpation of power is the magician of
the latter.
Permit
me to demonstrate the insidious obscenity of permission when it is the exponent
of government first. Suppose you owned a sack of marbles, 1000 marbles all of
different colors where 10 of them are red!
Suppose that I, with some pretext, demonstrate these 10 to pose a danger
and, having made that demonstration, propose to ban them, what then will have
become of the remaining 990, if you do not challenge me? Most would admit banning
the rest will only be a matter of time. True, but no one can tell me why! Is it
not clear that, if the prerogative to ban, i.e. forbid, belongs to you, you
then will have transferred that prerogative to me? And since forbidding goes
hand in hand with allowing, because you cannot forbid a portion of a whole
without permitting the remainder, you will now have transferred your
sovereignty to me.
Remember
he who allows is the sovereign and he who is allowed is the servant! And in
this country allowing is the birthright and the jurisdiction of the people, for
they are the rightful master of their government! The status of sovereignty,
supremacy, rulership, or domination, therefore, does not nor did it ever belong
to government. Governments status was always intended to be that of a servant.
But now it has brutally usurped power belonging to the people and their insane
belief permission to be the same as freedom has paved the way to carnage.
Government is become the hotbed for Jacobins! Hubris has replaced respect! The
servant has slain the master and the Nation is hemorrhaging! The lifeblood of
her patriots is ebbing to quench the monsters blood thirst!
Let us
not overlook the fact that the usurpation of power never occurs of itself, it
does not have a hermaphroditic origin. It always is preceded by illusion -
illusion that safety is the most essential part of life and should, therefore,
replace freedom. The Nation is now teeming with millions who once needed to see
to believe, but have now succumbed to the illusion that freedom and safety have
a common root. Forgotten is the age-old truth that freedom and safety cannot
have the same source, that each must have a different origin and for neither
can that be government! If government were a person and freedom and safety a
crime, any perfunctory test would immediately and irrevocably exonerate it.
Freedom
is a right antecedent to all earthly governments. It existed long before
governments came into existence. It has no beginning, because freedom is an
attribute of the character of the Author of Liberty and He has no beginning.
Safety, in contrast, is and must be provided for by each individual himself,
because he is the author of his own destiny. It is he, who knows his needs best
and, therefore, only he can address them. And this he can do, if he is free, if
he is able to do so without governments interference.
The
illusion itself is both spawned and strengthened by confusion: not
understanding the difference between good and evil. In the legend, King Arthur
asks of Merlin: Where is the evil in my kingdom. It is always nearby, you
will always find it near good, the two are never far apart, was Merlins
answer. He was almost right. The two, however, are much more than just near
each other, for there is no difference between them; they are the same, the
same, because good begets evil. Good is its womb, madness its midwife, and
illusion its lifeblood! It is camouflaged, it is hidden in a sea of euphemisms
and that is why it is so successful in its devastating destruction, for almost
no one senses its suffocating strangle hold, not even when it is too late. And
those that do, rarely, if at all, know what has strangled them. But when
unfrocked, its tinseling removed, we uncover Cains legacy, the ancient
monster, and this time it is pregnant - pregnant with catastrophe! Catastrophe,
because now freedom itself has become an illusion!
Euphemisms
have become a main staple food for intellectual consumption. So everyone
supposes. But in reality it is only pabulum, the food of abecedarians. One of
my neighbors steps into a voting booth every opportunity offered her and
removes a chad from her ballot where none should be removed. Armed with raw
arrogance, she has determined that I am in possession of my funds only at her
discretion and that I possess them in more than sufficient quantities. So she
robs me of them at every opportunity to complete her sick vision, looks to
heaven as though to inform God of her greatness, calls it democracy and then
pronounces it good. Imagine the unmitigated gall to make such a supposition:
you have enough! Even if true, how can she deny me the right to exercise my
choice on how to spend my excess funds? Once, when I confronted her with her
destructive influence on my life, she told me, I should not feel this way. Can
anyone define her hubris? Not only does she arrogate to herself the right to
exercise discretion over my funds, but also to give direction to my feelings!
Thus she stands there, naked in Cains nimbus radiating Iscariots greed.
When I
first knew her, she was normal. But then something happened. She either felt
lonely or unfulfilled and either in her loneliness or unfulfilment she turned
to crusader lust and became intoxicated with it. Socialism then, or as I like
to call it Seelenkrebs (German, meaning soulcancer or cancer of the soul), is
the most corrosive form of cancer, because unlike its eponym murder, it not
only kills, it is also contagious. This then is now the natural effusion and
the dark effulgence of altruism since distorting into a religion what at one
time was a natural outgrowth of American greatness: giving your neighbor a
helping hand.
What
then is the monsters tinsel clothing? What does it look like, when standing in
the light, when stripped of its tinsel clothing? A generation ago only four
faces gave vent to its ferocity, but euphemism has now added two more. Nazism,
communism, fascism, and democracy, yes democracy, were the first four and now
liberals and moderates have expanded the monsters reach. Americans now glibly
talk about all six as though they were six separate and distinct political
concepts, when in reality they are only six different, atrociously repugnant
manifestations of the same horror.
I know
this horror, for I know its author! A monster I know only to well! It is the
ancient monster! Cains patronymic! I have smelled its foul breath! I have
heard its awesome roar! I have felt its clammy touch! The world is replete with
the exuviae of nations, where this monster left its feces, places where people
lived, raised their children, and dreamed their dreams of a better life to be.
But they succumbed to the illusion that safety could replace freedom and then
paid the price of destruction deservedly due them. There were places where the
monster could not tread, but only briefly so, because people there were wards
of their government and, therefore, their defenses crumbled quickly. Nowhere,
however, did its struggle to subdue a people require more violence than here,
in America, for here, because of the vision of incredibly courageous men, the
people had dominion over their government. Not quite two centuries it strove to
overcome the defenses our Founding Fathers had erected here. And now, because
of the deceptive persuasion that safety is an efficacious substitute for
freedom, it has succeeded and, since the early 1960s, is lairing on our
shores, firmly ensconced in all of our institutions and that, sadly, includes
our churches! Sadly, because it was Americas churches, where once the Author
of Liberty was glorified for His wondrous graciousness, that formed the abatis
behind which freedom appeared unassailable.
But
Christians now, and I mean true Christians, hate God! Christians in hate with
their God! Imagine that! It is beyond understanding! Too ashamed and too afraid
to duplicate the ancient pagans practice of manufacturing gods according to
their perceptions, Christians now manufacture their own way to worship Him even
though He revealed in clear and unduplicitous words how He wishes to be
worshipped. Superimposing liturgy over revelation, again because of ignorance,
the monsters child. So they unleashed the monster and opened the way for the
destruction of the Nation, ultimate Divine discipline, the ancient and natural
consequence, when those called by His Name choose to ignore Him. And so the
monster of old now stands unleashed on our soil with his sword unsheathed, his
rage unchecked, ready, as always, to suffocate freedom with his shadow -
socialism - and thus wreak destruction on our Nation, the just and due payment
for forgetting greatness.
Permit
me to show you its faces. When socialism engulfs a single people, it is called
Nazism, derived from the first two syllables of the way Germans pronounce their
word national. When socialism expands to engulf more than one people, it is
called communism. A hybrid of these two results in fascism and when socialism
is mixed with altruism, we have its most insidious version - democracy, now
with its two attending courtezans: liberals and moderates. The Founding
Fathers, otherwise fearless, were afraid of this word. They hated it and sought
desperately to expunge it from the American dictionary, albeit without success,
and finally resigned themselves to it, believing they had at least cleaned it
up a bit. But they had not, because now, almost two centuries later, it is
wreaking havoc with our Nation.
Of the
four - it bears repeating - democracy is by far the most virulent version of
socialism. Nazism and fascism were but brief experiments in a violent attempt
to destroy mankind. Fortunately, they were tried when blindness had not yet
become all-pervasive and the world rallied to destroy them. Communism fared
better. Its approach centered on the use of incrementalism and dialectics, but
inverting truth and error for the latter, beguiling millions, thus securing for
it its longevity. But now, even it is on the wane. Its most significant and
powerful proponent is dismantled, many of its minor adherents are rendered effete,
and its last great exporter is encircled and beginning to weaken. It is only a
question of time until it too will crumble and democracy take its place. Then
globalism will finally be firmly entrenched, but, because illusion is its
foundation, it too will eventually disintegrate and then spawn the most massive
carnage ever seen. Here in America, after sovereignty, both ours and our Nations,
has finally been revoked, our societal structure will disintegrate. We will
break into our various ethnic groups, and then devour each other. And a deluded
nation will then finally have become suitable for the ambitious purposes of the
government.
To those
who still have doubts as to democracys incredible virulence only a cursory
look at some of its adherents should give more than ample proof of its
unbelievable viciousness. Old infractions and recent proposals will bring into
even deeper focus its unbridled contempt of the people, and also, oddly enough,
its fear of them.
The 1856
Congress had seated two Georgia apologists: Toombs in the Senate and Stephens
in the House. Combining and slightly paraphrasing their beliefs, these two
malignant predators voiced their conviction about freedom as it then related to
the Negro. The Negros inferiority to the superior white race is based on a
great and moral truth, they said, his subordination to the superior race is
his natural condition and must, therefore, be fixed, controlled, and protected
by law. Propelled by this madness these creatures, undoubtedly not the only
ones, infected millions with their madness and were willing to plunge the
Nation into war. And this they did! To this day this madness is still the focal
point of democratic belief and I remain undaunted in my conviction that those
clinging to democracy are also clinging to the old madness - slavery, the heart
and soul of democracy. Given the opportunity, votives of this predacious system
would gladly enslave the Negro again and in fact have. They made him a ward of
the state and are now fully dedicated to the effort of joining all Americans to
his lot. And why? To procure the maximum good for the greatest number of slaves.
But the
debauchery of our national fabric does not stop here. A recent article in the
Sacramento Bee alludes to an unbelievable infraction of Californias
government. It told of an audaciously flagitious sale of stocks not belonging
to government. Aided by an ad hoc law, legislators subsumed ownership of blue
chip stamp stocks belonging to perhaps hundreds of small business owners and
sold them at a considerable loss. And why? To defray a revenue shortfall! I can
speak two languages, but I cannot find in either of them, separately or
collectively, words that could adequately define the obscene contempt displayed
here by Californias elected officials toward the people of this State. Suppose
the State suffers another shortfall, as is very likely to happen, and by a
quick change of the law takes your funds, e. g. your retirement fund,
liquidates them to defray its shortfall? Would that substantiate my charge?
Would you then comprehend the horror of languishing in this monsters shadow?
Or would you silently and cowardly acquiesce?
And the
worst is yet to be! The nations top military authorities, also according to a
recent Sacramento Bee article, have asked for the appointment of a four-star
commander to coordinate federal troops to be used for homeland defense. A
standing army! Nothing evoked greater resolve among the Founding Fathers than
the preventing of a standing army on Americas soil. A standing army - the bane
of a free people, the ready tool of every tyrant known to history for imposing
his will upon the people. The Founding Fathers were determined that such should
not be Americas fate. So they declared the citizen to be Caesar and, to ensure
his supremacy over government, encoded his God-given right to keep and bear
arms into our Constitution. No would-be tyrant, no matter how great his lust
for power, would ever dare raise his arm against an armed people. If we do not
challenge it, if we meekly consent, all of Americas institutions will then be
eviscerated and the Nation will join the exuviae of other nations gone and
become part of the midden at the monsters lair. A vulgar resume of what once
was the greatest nation on earth.
What
then can we do to stem the crimson tide? What must we do to reclaim Caesars
crown? One thing is certain; if we are to recover our dominance, we have to
understand how we came to lose it. And that must begin by recognizing that all
elected politicians of today are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be
guided by our Constitution. The fact that they understand it only exacerbates
their treachery and makes clear their lust for power and their intent to take
it from the people. And we must begin to insist that the Constitution, to be
worth anything, must be held sacred and rigidly observed in all its provisions.
But even if we allowed for honesty among politicians, we should never allow
ourselves to be beguiled into diminishing our guard over our precious
Constitution. For after all are they not (wo)men? And (wo)men are the
expositors of Cains dilemma and that renders them proclivitous toward tyranny.
We should, therefore, forever remain cautious of the (wo)man who wields power
and misinterprets it (the Constitution), for (s)he is the more dangerous the
more honest (s)he is.
That
finally brings us back to our original questions: What is freedom? Who gave
it? How does it manifest itself? How is it to be defended? Who destroys
it and how? And the answer to any of these will give the answer to the others.
We now
know who the adversary of our freedom is and how he assails it! He is no
stranger to the ring, violence is his orgasm, and destruction his ecstasy! It
is Cains legacy, his profligacy, the monster of old! If we look with open
eyes, we see Americas destruction resting on two cornerstones: the monster and
its shadow. Both require appeal and the Founding Fathers had planted large red,
white, and blue flags so that we, who must follow, should know the way to
follow the colors. And what is the way? An appeal to Heaven and an appeal to
arms! It must be both and in that order! It cannot be only the one or just the
other, for the first must sanctify the second.
The
appeal to Heaven lies within every Christians domain. He must first determine
for himself if and how he stands on hallowed ground. A simple query to Him will
reveal it. Then firmly rooted in and guided by Divine opinion, we will and can
rescind the monsters parole and reimprison it. That is all that can be done.
Its genealogy has shown it to be immortal. We cannot kill it. We cannot alter
it. We cannot persuade it. All we can do is recage it where it is found and
hope that its recidivous attack on our heritage will remain arrested.
The
appeal to arms must be to those that thundered long ago. Now it must restrict
itself only to fully exploiting our First Amendment right. Although besieged,
it is still intact and its potency undimmed. No violence must be allowed to
soil its righteousness. And it does not have to be, for the battle was fought
and won long ago. Let us then exploit our victory. Sovereignty is our fortress.
A clear and present understanding of that sacred word will be all we need to
reclaim the Republic and to restore the American way of life. Short of it
nothing will succeed and nothing will be worth it. And if we do succeed, the
monsters suzerainty will be broken and confined to the far side of the river
Styx.
With
this as our ensign let us then begin by understanding a most important and
irrevocable truth: the Second Amendment did not make us free, it was never
intended to make us free, because it cannot make us free. What then did it do?
It gave evidence that the American people were a sovereign people. And this it
accomplished through its euphoric implication that the right to keep and bear
arms was God-, not man-given. It is this single most important distinction,
which removed digression on this wonderful provision from human participation
and elevated it to the level of a natural condition. Let me say it again, the
Second Amendment did not make us free, it affirmed us to be a sovereign people
and it was that sovereignty which made us free.
Everything
in the world is cause and effect and in that world causes cannot be secured by
garrisoning their effects. Doing so inverts their relationship and in time will
destroy both. Light causes shadow, but shadow does not cause light. You,
therefore, cannot protect shadows cause by standing guard over shadow. So you
cannot protect freedoms cause by protecting freedom and freedoms cause is not
the Second Amendment, but our Sovereignty. Failing to see this irrevocable
truth has brought failure to our cause. The incessant insisting on having a Constitutional right to keep and
bear arms not only has failed it has succeeded in accomplishing the opposite.
Here, in California, government has subsumed all our freedoms and the rest of
the nation will soon share our fate. All it has achieved is to define pure
insanity: the constant expectation of achieving a different result through the
incessant use of the same method. By concentrating on our freedoms, every
anti-gun-control advocate brought the Second Amendment into focus thus
bypassing its true purpose: which is to affirm and to enforce our sovereignty.
I know,
by any definition of certitude, that had we remained focused on the Second
Amendments true purpose, millions of Americans, who chose not to own firearms,
would never have been deleted from this crucial debate. They would have
remained drawn to the vision of our Founding Fathers, which had entered them
into elitism, and would never have forgotten the heritage bequeathed to them by
the spirit of their greatness.
Even
Timothy McVeigh, I am convinced, had he known of his legitimate sovereignty,
would not have resorted to the madness that pronounced him anathema, but would
have channeled his anguish in the only direction allowed him by his
Constitution: his First Amendment. And it is this we must do. Appeal to the
First Amendment and reinvolve our fellow Americans who chose not to own
firearms. Reacquaint them with the euphoria of sovereignty. Forty years of
trying, forty years of ceaseless, uninterrupted losses of our freedoms is
poignant and sufficient proof that alone, though standing on truth, we cannot
succeed.
Liberty
is not a harvestable crop. It does not grow on some nebular tree, ready to
yield its fruit upon demand in any quantity demanded. It is a transient fruit
when neglected, for its endurance depends on courage, uncommon courage, a breed
of bravery resident only in the breasts of those whose spirit is the progeny of
them who were the Sons of Liberty.
At every
opportunity then let us make sovereignty the focal point of all our talks, all
our complaints, all our arguments, and all our presentations. There are said to
be 80 million gun owners in the Nation and, therefore, some 200 million
Americans who do not own firearms. Without them we cannot win, alone we are
doomed. And if we win, if we restore the soul of our Republic, joy would be
beyond describing, wealth beyond counting, safety beyond sensing, power beyond
expressing, and pride beyond defining. Justice would prevail again, treasure
would count again, we would determine our own fate again, respect would be ours
again, and all this because government would obey again. Taking a little time
to expound glory is all that is needed. No sacrifice, no inconvenience, and no
cost. All that is needed is to spread the gospel of SOVEREINGTY.
In
conclusion let me summarize. The Second Amendment did not make us free. It was
not even intended to make us free. It conferred and affirmed our sovereignty
over our government. It is our sovereignty that makes us free and protecting
sovereignty cannot be secured by standing guard over freedom, you must stand
guard over sovereignty. But how can I insist, in the concept of cause and
effect, that protecting freedom requires standing guard over sovereignty, its
cause, if sovereignty, although freedoms cause, is itself an effect, an effect
of the Second Amendment? The key to understanding that is to realize the Second
Amendment has two effects: sovereignty and gun ownership.
Sovereignty
is difficult to assail. It is gun ownership, which is the Second Amendments
Achilles heel. If we reflect on the analogy of the 1000 marbles, we should
understand in most perspicuous terms how a free people can be reduced to ruin
and servitude. It is ignorance, the ancient monsters rapacious offspring,
sowing good and reaping evil, and it is harvest time. The gates of hell are
wide open; government has discovered it acquired the power to forbid!
Dieter H.
Dahmen,
Body
and Soul American