We must not forget what we came together for on April 15, 2009. We must come together again and again. Liberty, freedom, and America will survive, because we are strong. Enjoy the video.
Month: June 2009
Pledge Your Life, Fortune, and Sacred Honor?
Are You Ready to Pledge your Life, Fortune, and Sacred Honor?
When the signers of the Declaration of Indepence pledged their lives, forturne and sacred honor, it was not just a symbolic, but also a literal gesture. If caught by the British, they would be killed. By the end of the Revolutionary war, many of them were bamkrupt because they gave all to the cause of freedom. They valued freedom over material posession. Sacred Honor, is a term that has no equal or meaning in today’s world. We live in a society where self preservation and self gain are the goal and any means to that end is justified. Ethics and morals have become situational rather than enduring principles to found a life on.
Abraham Clark was a signer of the Declaration of Independence whose life demonstrates his willingness to give his life, fortune and keep his sacred honor. His sons were taken prisoner during the Revolutionary war. When the British discovered that they had the sons of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, they knew they had a great bargaining chip. They wrote to Abraham saying we will not feed your sons until you denounce your signing of the Declaration of Independence and come out in support of the king. Abraham Clark sent word that he would give the British all he had if they would let his sons go. The British did not accept this offer and again sent word that his sons would not be fed until he denounced his singing of the Declaration of Indepencence. This time, Clark responded by offering his own life for that of his sons. Again, the British did not accept and demanded his denunciation of the revolutinary cause. Abraham Clark knew that if he denounced all he stood for, so that his sons might live, he would in reality give them a legacy of dishonor worse than death. Broken hearted, Abraham Clark wrote back that he would not denounce his signing of the Declaration of Independence. In so doing, he thought that he had signed his sons’ death warrant. Providentially, he did not. His sons were freed in a final prisoner exchange. Abraham Clark showed us what sacred honor truly is. Today more that ever, we need a society filled with people who are willing to live by their sacred honor. Is it your mission to be one of these people and inspire others to do likewise? We need a country filled with sacred honor in order for liberty to survive.
What about fortune? Without sufficient funds, our Founding Fathers could not have pulled off the cause of liberty. The currency printed by the Americans during the revolution became worthless and inflated. Were it not for Robert Morris, William Williams, signers of the Declaration of Independence and others like them, who stepped forward and gave their money and resources for the cause of liberty, the Revolutionary War would not have been successful. In 1779, Williams exchanged $2,000 in specie of his own money for the worthless Continental money so that the army would have the supplies they needed. He lost almost all his money. The army got the supplies needed. Morris borrowed money on his own credit for General Washington and the Continental army when there was dire need of funds. Thomas Nelson another signer, raised $2 million dollars for the revolution. He used his own estates as collateral. When the notes came due, congress refused to honor them. He died in poverty at age 50. He gave all he had for liberty.
According to Dr. Oliver DeMille, in order for freedom to win today, in the United States we will need about 3% of our population ( 7 million) sucessful, entrepreneurs, innovators or initiators to create what he calls mini-factories. A mini-factory is a small business that does something as good or better than Big Business and is successful at it. Why would this matter? Small businesses create about 80% of the wealth generated in the United States today. If most of the nation’s resources and wealth reamain in the hands of small businesses run by freedom loving individuals, it will give liberty the resources to again thrive in the United States. Is it your mission to start a mini-factory? Is it your mission to keep free enterprise alive and well in America?
Take action. See the article on what books are great for setting up your mini-factory here.
Video on your 2nd Ammendment Rights
Part 1, 2, & 3 of Your Second Ammendment Rights
posted by Jacqueline Smith
If you do not understand your rights, your rights they can be taken. Please educate yourself. Read, study, discuss. FREEDOM CAN WIN!
What Can You Do to Restore Liberty?
What Can You Do to Restore Liberty? Is Freedom Part of your Life Mission?
Do you ever look around you, look at what is happening in our country and in the world, and wish there were something you could do? Do you ever feel hopeless or helpless as you watch liberty and moral values crumble around you? I believe that God sent the Founding Fathers of our country at that time to fulfill a mission that would bring liberty to this land. God sent you to earth at this time and place. He has given you talents and abilities. He has a plan for you and your life just as He had a plan and work for the founders to do. It was not chance, but Providence, that brought two men, Henry Knox and Nathanael Greene, together. The two became friends and had placed in their hearts a burning desire to read all that they could about military arts and strategy. This was a very unlikely subject for the Quaker raised Nathanael Greene to want to study. It was also very convenient that Henry Knox owned a prosperous bookstore that allowed them access to the kinds of books they would need to study. The two poured over books on military arts for hours. These two men played a major part in helping George Washington to win the war. They were inspired to learn and were ready when needed to fulfill a purpose.
If each us is put here at this time and place to fulfill a mission, what can we do to be ready? What can we learn from history? This series of articles will explore what it will take for liberty to win in this Fourth Turning. It will also hopefully inspire you to find out what your personal mission is and help you to start on the path that you need to take.
What can we learn from the past?
Cincinnatus was a consul in the ancient Roman Republic. He was very well educated and wise. After his term as consul, he retired to his farm. He was so respected and loved by the Roman people, that they often came to his farm for advice. During this time, a barbarian army gathered with an aim to take Rome. They burned and plundered every village in their path on their march to Rome. The Roman senate and consuls gathered their army and sent it to stop the barbarians. Some time later, a small, rag-tag group of blood stained survivors returned telling how the Roman army had been trapped on all sides in a mountain pass and defeated by the barbarians. The Romans now had no army and the barbarians were on their way. Someone in the senate cried, “we need Cincinnatus!” An envoy was sent to Cincinnatus’ farm asking him to save Rome. They promised that if he saved them, he would be king. Cincinnatus gathered an army mostly made up of inexperienced young men because that was all there was left. Calling upon his education and leadership skills, Cincinnatus was able to use military strategy and lead his army to victory. Upon his victorius return, Cincinnatus was, as promised, given the offer to be king. Cincinnatus replied, “I give the power back to the senate, it is their job to make the laws”. He then returned to his farm.
In a time much later in Roman history, Julius Caesar started his power play to take over the Roman Republic. Cicero and others in the senate called for a Cincinnatus. No Cincinnatus stepped forward. There was none to be found. After Julius Casar was assassinated, his nephew Octavius (later called Augustus) took up where Julius had left off. He formed a triumverate, that killed anyone with power to stand in his way. Mark Antony, part of Octavius’ triumverate, celebrated with glee when he learned that his arch enemy, the statesman and senator Cicero had been killed by the triumverate’s death squad. Cicero was well educated and very vocal in trying to save the rupublic. With his death, and the deaths of others like minded, the republic failed.
What does the story of Cincinnatus and of Cicero have to do with you today? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers were the Cincinnatuses of America. They fought for liberty from Britan. Instead of taking power for themselves, they studied government and human nature and then wrote a constitution that gave us a republic and left the power in the hands of the people. Today, our American Republic and the Constituiton are in jeopardy. We need to study what liberty looks like. We need to have the education to be the Ciceroes and Cincinnatuses of our time. “But,” you say, “I am no Cicero or Cincinnatus or George Washington. I am just a regular man or woman. I am not great like them.” Perhaps that is what those men thought of themselves. That is probably what made them great. The difference, is that they had the education to give them the ability to do what they did. Again you say, “but I don’t have that kind of education.” Many of the founding fathers and people of that time were self-educated, look at the example of Henry Knox and Nathanael Greene. It is not too late. Start now. One of the best places to start is The Five Thousand Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen.
Dr. Oliver DeMille states that in order for freedom to win in the United States, we need 30% of the population which is about 70 million people who have the kind of education and thinking and reasoning skills that we have been discussing. Perhaps your mission is to be one of those 70 million people that ensure freedom wins. If there are enough Ciceroes, freedom wins!
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