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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Essay 1-10-2013
From The Federalist Patriot
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Assault on the Second Amendment
'I Will Not Comply'
By Mark Alexander
January 10, 2013
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." --Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Patriots, I call on you to pledge1: "We, the People, affirm that we will support and defend Liberty as "endowed by our Creator," enshrined in our Constitution and empowered by its Second Amendment, against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Though tens of millions2 of American Patriots have already said it, the time has come for one of us to go to the mountaintop and shout it so the whole world can hear it.
I hereby make this public declaration: I will "support and defend" Liberty as "endowed by our Creator" and enshrined in our Constitution, "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Accordingly, I will NOT comply with any executive order, legislative action or judicial diktat, which violates our innate right to self defense and the defense of Liberty assured and empowered by "the right of the People to keep and bear arms."
What does this mean?
I will neither register with, nor surrender to the government, any weapon in my possession. I further declare that I am not in possession of any weapon, weapon component or ammunition that has not been lawfully acquired for lawful purposes, including defense of self and family, home and property, and most importantly, defense of Liberty in accordance with the Second Amendment3.
I have spoken with my family and our Patriot Team about the potential consequences of this public declaration, both for our families and for our company. They fully understand the implications of my very public declaration of civil disobedience in defense of Liberty and Rule of Law. They understand that I have and will abide, first and foremost, by my oath to support and defend4 our Constitution -- the very oath that Barack Obama and his NeoCom cadres5 have solemnly sworn, but stand in abject violation of same.
Since publishing the first issue of The Patriot Post more than 16 years ago, I have made clear that one constitutional prohibition on the central government trumps all others, and that is the proscription against federal infringement of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms."
Indeed, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story wrote, in his eminent "Commentaries on the Constitution," "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties6 of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
Story was James Madison's appointee to the High Court, and Madison himself wrote in Federalist No. 46, "The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. ... The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition."
Just after Obama's re-election, I warned that he would attempt to render neutral7 the only substantive obstacle between Liberty and his avowed political agenda8 of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America" -- the Second Amendment.
I noted that, per their standard political playbook9, the socialists and their Leftmedia promoters would wait on some tragic murder spree, and, in keeping with Obama's game plan to "never let a serious crisis go to waste," use that event as fodder to seize guns.
A month after writing those words, a mentally deranged sociopath used a firearm to kill children and adults in a Connecticut elementary school. Before the bodies of murdered children had even been removed from Sandy Hook Elementary, Obama was, shamefully, stacking their coffins10 to use as a soapbox for his latest and greatest assault on the Second Amendment -- a renewed effort to not only ban the future sale of many defensive weapons, but register them in order to eventually confiscate them.
Obama has framed this debate as a contest between "public safety" and the NRA, and insists that the Second Amendment is to protect hunting and sport shooting.
Obama claims, "We're a nation that believes in the Second Amendment, and I believe in the Second Amendment. We've got a long tradition of hunting..." If by "hunting" he means hunting down those who offend Liberty, then he is correct. |
