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Taking it to the chin

By Ed Lewis

I have never before responded publicly to criticisms or emails sent to me but have always responded privately.  However, I received two - I don’t know what article(s) they were in response to – that clearly show that there isn’t any need to use the fastest communication tool we have available to help educate those who are uninformed.  Or, to possibly use the Internet to put a different slant on things which should matter to every American. 

According to the critic, it would seem that I, and many others like me, have wasted our time.  The critic, who did not sign his name, gave me the solution to all our problems. 

“Comments: So, Mr. Lewis, when was the last time you stuck a gun in a bureaucrat's face and told him to "back off!" or else.

Or are you waiting for someone else to do it first?”

Why is it that one always thinks of the best responses after one initially responds?

Anyway, I simply sent back the statement “About the same time you did” presuming, of course, that the person writing this had never stuck a gun in some bureaucrat’s face and told him to back off, that he is waiting for someone else to do it for him.

Then, I realized this person had the solution to all the problems that exist in government. 

It would seem by the person’s questions that the only action we need to do when we live in some little obscure town (mine is about 5000 in population), any time an official infringes upon a right, is march right down to wherever the official is, stick a gun in his face, and then demand that he back off.

Of course, the official will respond as we wish and the incident will make the national news.  After several weeks of the individual using this solution to tyranny by government, all the American people will know the solution.  The mainstream media will make sure of it.  Thus, in short order, our Republic would be re-established with all the tyrants removed from government.

“Short order” is stated, because all people will realize public officials making and ordering unconstitutional laws are in violation of the Constitution.  They will know because mainstream media always tells the truth.  Because of this obligation to the people, the media will pass on to those who have been wronged by a government official that they can simply walk up to the official – whether in City Hall, a local business, a court of the government or the police station – with the loaded firearm he is free to carry openly throughout the nation, pull it out, and demand the official “back off”.

I realize now that the thousands of hours spent studying and researching, along with learning how to write somewhat effectively, that the thousands of articles sent out first by snail and then via the Internet in getting published the first time, and then the hundreds of articles written since that have been published by various Internet magazines, journals, liberty websites, and others has been a waste of my time. 

According to the person, all I had to do was confront every official, stick a loaded gun in his face, and demand he back off.  After doing this with dozens of officials, I would not have had to write even one article, as the honest folks of mainstream media would have let everyone know how well my solution was working. 

What a hero!  I could have single handedly made every member of Congress, the Executive and Judicial Branches of the US Government, state legislatures, city governments, county governments, and all judges, prosecutors, and law enforcers get back into the limitations placed on government without all the time and effort I had expended.  I could have restored our Republic by being “first” to stick a loaded gun into some official’s face and then using the same action against official after official.

The only problem might have been finding out where Bush and Cheney are, since both spend so much time out of the office, Bush at his ranch and other places, and – as far as Cheney is concerned – I would likely have had to penetrate US Government covert operations to find out where he is since the majority of time none but a select few know. 

But, hey, no problem.  All I have to do is stick a gun in their face and tell them to cough up the information I need.

Yeah, right.

Then, I got this email (again, cut and pasted to avoid any mistakes or pulling phrases out of context): 

“Dear Mr. Ed. Lewis,

The Germans, according to Mrs. Adele Fleming in our 1953 private school class in southern California, were the best of the educated Europeans in 1936.  And yet they too were seduced by their various governments into believing the illusions of Mr. Adolph Hitler. The Germans did not have democratic traditions and one of the traditions they did have was societal obedience. As long as they obeyed they felt safe. Safe. Safety first. Safety above all things. Just like us. If you truely want to do something for your country, why not try to organize the people in, say, your State, because one of the
reasons why some parts of our government want to exercise extreme control over our populations or simply is incompetant is becuause we are not organized to combat
it. They think they are in control and they, the government are generally correct. And stop whining about it!

Michael A. Bender”

Again, why is it one thinks of what to say after the first response?  Apparently, these comments caused some degree of turmoil within me even though I dismissed them after responding by asking how he knows what I do within my state. 

I didn’t realize I was “whining”.  I thought I was presenting facts in a straightforward manner in order to help people realize the importance of uniting and doing away with the divisions the federal government and its controllers depend on and doing as much as I could in passing along the information I found through research.

Never mind that most people have never learned the intent and meaning of the Constitution and that the Christian concepts it is based on must be taught.  Never mind the years of government controlled education and the falsehoods that have been ingrained in most Americans' minds.  Never mind the propaganda spewing forth from disinformationists, even though it must be overcome to fully understand the Republic form of government. 

The German people may have been the best educated in comparison to other people in Europe, but they were still stupid enough to give up their firearms and remove their means of defense against Hitler.  So, regardless of “book learning”, the educational system failed them.  Just as the educational system here apparently failed Bender.

Whether Germany was a democracy before Hitler, I don’t know and am not going to take my time finding out.   What I do know is that this union of Republics is NOT supposed to be a “democracy” – it is a Republic form of government, which means the individual sovereign’s unalienable rights are the focus, not what the majority or any minority might believe is best.

However, through deceit and armed force, we far more resemble a democracy than a Republic.  And the parallels to Germany are clear, even down to using close to the same terminology, such as “fatherland” being changed to “homeland”.  All democracies – as an added note – have and will fail because sooner or later those who do not want to be oppressed by minorities will rise up against this form of government.

Currently, we have the 535 members of Congress, Bush (Cheney doesn’t count for anything as he hasn’t any real duties except for breaking a tie in a Senate vote), the 9 Supreme Court justices, and the 12 owners of the Federal Reserve Bank for a total of 557 people controlling.  This is definitely a minority. 

Of course, there are thousands of other officials from municipalities to state governments – including political subdivisions – that follow the lead of these people, along with tens of thousands of law enforcers who deny their primary duty daily – that duty being to protect the rights of the individual by upholding the Constitution.  In fact, most of these categories of officials do not know and therefore cannot take the Constitution and unalienable rights into consideration.  They operate solely on the Gestapo/Monarch/Dictator premise of plenary control over the people. 

One could go further than this and make the statement that the majority of people do not know this is a Republic, not a democracy.  But, I can travel to every populated area all over the country and soon straighten them out.  And, the mainstream media will help me by printing the truth as I expound it.  Sure enough – let me get at it.

As to this:

“The Germans did not have democratic traditions and one of the traditions they did have was societal obedience. As long as they obeyed they felt safe. Safe. Safety first. Safety above all things. Just like us.”  (Above – Bender’s email)

Hmm, does this mean that millions of Germans weren’t slaughtered and that the 50 million (mostly civilians) who died during the manufactured World War II were “safe” because they had put “safety first” by obeying edicts from tyrannical government? 

Sorry, Mr. Bender, rolling over to the tyrants is what has been done for the past 150 years.  If the educational process I have undertaken is whining, then the proper action for me is to discontinue putting the tremendous effort it has taken to learn the truth, making my thoughts available to as many people as possible, and urging that the people get united by putting aside their petty differences.  

To sum up, the proposal by the idiot above asking when was the last time that I held a gun in an official’s face is ludicrous as a solution.   One gives up any feelings concerning personal safety when one initiates his first actions against any level of government, but one man holding one official at gunpoint would absolutely serve no useful purpose.  All such an asinine act would accomplish is an American (in every sense of the word) getting his head blown off with most people never knowing why.

And, wouldn’t it be rather dumb NOT to use the fastest and most effective means of communication we have available to us in attempting to get people to organize?

You know, it is interesting and most informative that many people, including family and friends, expressed great fear for me when City Hall was taken on.  And, it is just a small town’s government. 

People continue giving me warnings as articles about the treasonous Bush mob, the utter treason of courts, law enforcers, and not only about Congress but also to Congress, are written.   Such warnings reflect the fear people have of government, one of the main reasons for this American’s continued giving up of time and expending great effort. 

Anyway, any writer takes it on the chin occasionally or quits writing.  Most, of course, prefer taking it on the chin through intelligent commentary backed by facts, not ludicrous thinking and ignorant comparisons based possibly on hearsay rather than fact.

But, these two did give me pause to think – am I whining and wasting my time and effort?  Would it be better to confine myself locally as Bender seems to think or to not do anything other than stick a gun in some official’s face as “anonymous” seems to think?

And, so I think.

P.S. Thankfully, while considering whether my efforts have been wasted, several emails were received from people who wanted additional information based on articles I have written, to pass on information about what they are doing, and/or to join forces.  Between those and the hundreds of others responded to in the past three years, a force to be reckoned with is developing.

Probably 99 percent of the people writing are people who have – or are overcoming – their fear of government.  At least, the fear has been sufficiently suppressed so that they can take action.  They are getting things done against tyranny without sticking a firearm in anyone’s face and are beginning to work together to right the many wrongs rather than bending over for “safety’s sake”.

That is the America and the Americans I love and will, if necessitated, die for.     

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