NEITHER SLAVERY NOR INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE….

 

John Scott of FOX News aired a show titled “Enemies of the State” in which four case studies detailed the war being waged by the Federal Government against private U. S. citizens. The show followed closely on the heels of a breaking news story about the EPA flexing its new regulatory muscle against a Wyoming man who dared to build a fully state permitted pond on his own land. The penalties brought against the property owner include $75,000 per day in fines. The new EPA regulations profess to give complete authority to the EPA over any flowing water that may have a downstream effect on navigable water. If one takes a moment to consider the ramifications of the last sentence you will quickly realize that the agency has just taken water rights authority away from the individual States who have possessed that authority since the country began. The founders of our nation set down a charter of negative rights proscribed to the Federal Government so that the Government would remain; of, for, and by the people. This charter is the document we call the Constitution and it is under assault as never before by the progressive left and their lap dog media. Citizens are increasingly forced to defend their rights in expensive court battles against a foe funded by their own tax dollars. The courts have been stacked with progressive leaning judges and the Department of Justice under Holder is nothing more than the political enforcement wing of the executive branch. If you throw in the startlingly egregious violations of civil rights by the IRS of late it paints a gloomy picture of America’s future. This country was founded on the notion of people having God given inalienable rights and that we have sole ownership over our personal property and our own work product. Sadly the one great lapse in judgment codified into our founding document by the framers was the exclusion of blacks and women from the equal rights protections. The thirteenth and fifteenth amendments corrected the issue of rights based on race and later the nineteenth amendment did the same for women. Every day’s headlines include new stories of gross violations of some citizens Constitutional rights by this administration and their Federal agency thugs. The ATF is a serial offender as is the EPA and the BLM. Today’s example is another attack by the BLM on a Nevada rancher named Cliven Bundy; the stated reason behind the raid and confiscation of the Bundy’s cattle is the protection of the endangered desert tortoise whose numbers in recent months have dwindled due to a BLM euthanizing program. That is correct the BLM has been killing hundreds of the very same species that the round-up on Saturday is claimed to be to protect. In fact like most of the environmental enforcements this one is actually about money. It seems that protecting the poor tortoises is not nearly as important to the BLM if ranchers pay the newly imposed tortoise protection grazing rights fees. So there you have it, the tortoises are too valuable to risk losing unless you kick in enough money for the Feds to look the other way. When protestors flocked to the Bundy ranch the Federal swat team roped off an area and labeled it as the “first amendment zone.” Protestors dispersed over the whole area after first posting a sign of their own inside the roped off area which read “the first amendment is not an area.”

We are forced by the most feared wing of the Federal Government to work for free in involuntary servitude every fourth day as American citizens. The IRS raids personal financial accounts and commandeers paychecks enforcing their, guilty until proven innocent, tactics while the entire burden of proof falls to the tax payer. We are forced to fund our own legal costs and our oppressors who are secure in their exact knowledge of the meager resources available to us for our own defense. Companies withhold payroll taxes from paychecks which we are allowed to try to recover any over payments from at the end of the year. We have a new burden to carry with our involuntary servitude this year, the healthcare costs of anyone the administration thinks is needy or who might possibly vote Democratic. The revolution is coming and the progressives understand that Admiral Yamamoto was right when he said that no military could defeat the armed American citizens. Is it any wonder why they attack the second amendment above all others.