The Bill of Rights is not negotiable - SHARE this urgent declaration
“Disarmament
of the populace is always the first step to depriving them of their
civil rights and human rights…many African-Americans and women are
actively assaulting the very document that first secured their own
freedom... if you do not believe in the Bill of Rights, then you are
not, at heart, an American.”
Thursday, December 27, 2012
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
"To
announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
(NaturalNews)
There
is a destructive, delusional meme spreading like a virus among many
misguided Americans. It pushes the idea that government can pick and
choose which rights codified in the Bill of Rights it wishes to
recognize or discard on any given day.
This delusion is
predicated on the concept that if a popular majority can be emotionally
whipped into a frenzy over one particular right, then that right can
simply be discarded and stricken from the Bill of Rights.
But no
such power exists to discard any portion of the Bill of Rights, at least
not without proper ratification by three-fourths of the fifty states.
There is no such power found solely in the federal government. There is
no such power placed solely in the executive branch, nor in Congress,
nor in the White House.
The Bill of Rights describes a set of individual rights and liberties which are not granted by government, but recognized as DIVINE rights
given to use by our Creator. Because government never granted the
rights in the first place, it has no authority to take them away.
"The
Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights.
Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from
infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting." - William J Brennan Jr.
The
individual liberties described in the Bill of Rights cannot be
infringed, nor deleted, nor overridden by popular opinion... not even
loudly screamed opinion. America is not a nation ruled by the tyranny of
the mob. It isn't even a democracy -- it's a republic, where certain
inalienable rights describe the protection of each individual, even if
that individual is the lone voice of sanity in a majority gone mad. The
Bill of Rights protects individuals from the tyranny of mob rule
-- a phenomenon that routinely rears its head in any society where
historical illiteracy is rampant and the masses are lulled into a state
of complacency by charismatic but dishonest leaders.
It was the
extended amendments attached to the Bill of Rights that outlawed
slavery, guaranteeing individual freedom to those of African descent
even in a time and place when the majority of voting citizens believed
slavery was socially acceptable. And it was the Second Amendment that
put firearms into the hands of those recently-freed slaves, ensuring
that they could defend themselves against attackers of any color through
the powerful expression of armed defense (aided by the laws of physics
and certain materials from the table of elements, notably lead).
Another amendment beyond the Bill of Rights granted women equal voting rights in
an age when the majority believed women should not be allowed to vote.
It was the Bill of Rights that decriminalized prohibition, ending a dark
era of mass criminalization of everyday citizens who suffered under the
oppression of government law enforcement gone bad.
Yet
today, incredibly, many African-Americans and women are actively
assaulting the very document that first secured their own freedoms. They now wish to take their freedom and power and use it to enslave someone else by revoking other people's rights under the Bill of Rights. This is the ultimate social betrayal, and it is a powerful demonstration of the principle that those who do not respect freedom for others do not deserve it for themselves.
The Second Amendment is not negotiable
The
Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- much like the Right of Free Speech -- is
not negotiable. Its protections are not subject to the whims of
majority opinion, nor the screaming demands of hyperventilating media
personalities. All the social media trolls and opinion writers in the
world can comment all they want on the Second Amendment, yet the
individual right to keep and bear arms remains immutable.
Just like the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment is not negotiable.
No Governor, Senator or President has any power whatsoever to banish
the Second Amendment, and any who attempt to oppose it only brand
themselves as criminal traitors to the United States of America. Any
active effort to eradicate the Second Amendment outside of law --
without going through the proper process of state ratification for
Constitutional amendments -- is, by definition, an act of sedition against the United States of America and its people.
Ironically,
many who viciously attack the Second Amendment do so by invoking their
free speech protections under the First Amendment. Yet they seem blind
to the realization that the First Amendment itself is only made possible
by the Second Amendment which balances power between the People and the
government, ensuring that the individual right to bear arms serves as a
check and balance against the monopoly of violence every government
inherently seeks.
Disarmament of the populace is always the first step to depriving them of their civil rights and human rights.
Without the right to bear arms, there is no right to free speech, no
right to due process, no right to trial by jury and certainly no right
to be secured against unreasonable search and seizure. A government with
a monopoly of force is a government that respects no boundaries and
honors no limits.
Grasping this point requires competent
thinking, which is why so many who now flourish in America on the
popularity of pop culture idiocy fail to understand it. It is
intellectually lazy to blame gun rights for violence, requiring no depth
of thought or reason. Only someone of higher awareness and possessing
the aptitude for multi-layered thinking can realize the critical
importance of distributed firepower in stopping government violence against the People. As Ron Paul recently said, "Government security is just another kind of violence."
Ron
Paul gets it. He understands that an imbalance of power in the hands of
government inevitably leads to mass violence waged against the People.
Those who are currently screaming for the population to be disarmed do
not realize that in seeking to prevent one kind of violence (school
shootings), they are unleashing a far more disastrous and horrifying
violence by allowing the government to monopolize physical power over
the citizens. This is a mistake that has been repeated throughout
history, often at the cost of tens of millions of destroyed lives. Click here to watch my short video documentary that lays out these facts in more detail.
The
Second Amendment was put in place precisely for the purpose of making
sure that future Americans would not fall for the same mistake yet
again. That's why it is the second highest amendment, right after the
right of free speech, indicating its crucial priority in the
enumeration of sacred rights that must be protected at all costs.
The Bill of Rights does not require your endorsement
The
validity of the Bill of Rights does not require your endorsement. In
fact, it encourages tolerance of those with whom you disagree.
If you do not believe in the freedom of speech for those with whom you disagree, then you do not believe in it at all (a derivation of a quote from Noam Chomsky). If
you do not believe in freedom of speech, then you do not believe in the
Bill of Rights. And if you do not believe in the Bill of Rights, then
you are not, at heart, an American. You are something else,
something less evolved. Something archaic and outmoded. The Bill of
Rights is the single most important milestone in the history of
civilized society because it lays out, with near perfection, the divine
principle of INDIVIDUAL rights and liberties that come directly from the
Creator rather than from a "King" -- also known as a dictator.
"To
announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
Ratified
in 1791, the Bill of Rights lifted human civilization out of the tar
sands of tyranny and into the enlightenment of liberty. It was divinely
inspired and stands eternal as the key milestone of human compassion,
justice and equality. To oppose the Bill of Rights is to oppose human
progress. That's why the Bill of Rights is the single most progressive
document that has ever been recognized by any nation.
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
Why the Bill of Rights extends through all time and innovation
Importantly, the rights described in the Bill of Rights extend through all time and cover all innovations and technological advances. It was not written to cover only those things that existed in 1791, but rather to serve as a template of liberty
encompassing innovation, advancement and all future expressions of
those rights, regardless of what devices or technologies may come into
existence.
The Right to Free Speech, for example, does not merely
protect speech written on scrolls or rolled out of a Gutenberg press.
It covers all expressions of free speech, including speech
expressed through devices that did not exist in the late 1700's:
e-books, websites, blogs, television programs, bumper stickers and more.
This very website, Natural News
is a pure expression of the First Amendment. It would seem foolish and
wrongheaded to argue that the First Amendment only applied to the
printing press of the day and not to modern-day websites or e-books, yet
that is exactly what many misguided people argue today when they say
the Second Amendment only applies to "Muskets and bayonets."
The Second Amendment guarantees your right to keep and bear the firearms of your time.
What are the firearms of our time? AR-15 rifles. 308 sniper rifles. 50
caliber Barretts. 12-gauge shotguns. Handguns with night sights and
high-capacity magazines. Your right to own, carry, buy, sell and
transfer these items is as solidly safeguarded as your right to free
speech. The Bill of Rights is not negotiable.
Those who oppose the Bill of Rights are enemies of America
Some
misguided, if not treasonous, U.S. Senators, lawmakers and public
servants in the executive branch of government currently suffer under
the dangerous misconception that the Bill of Rights only exists because they allow it to.
They foolishly believe that they can selectively pick and choose which
rights to nullify via new legislation or by the stroke of an executive
pen. This delusion is not merely wrong-headed and arrogant, it poses a
grave threat to the Republic and all its future generations.
Enemies of the Bill of Rights are enemies of America.
Whether those enemies be found in the media, in Congress, in the Oval
Office or on the streets of America, they are unworthy of being called
"Americans" at all. Those who despise liberty do not deserve liberty.
Those who deliberately and maliciously attack the Bill of Rights do not
deserve the protections of the Bill of Rights. Those who despise the
Constitution and its Bill of Rights are publicly indicating they would
prefer to live as subjects, not Citizens.
I propose that any who
attempt to denounce Bill of Rights protections for others must first
surrender their own rights and freedoms. Do not speak of taking away my
Second Amendment rights while you enjoy the protections of the First
Amendment. Surrender all your rights and freedoms first, because
only then have you achieved the necessary moral consistency from which
you can demand others be deprived of their rights.
Relocate to
North Korea, in other words, and become a subject of Kim Jong-un and
then continue your assaults of the Bill of Rights as a Korean gulag
blogger. Because only then will you know how much you have lost, and how
much you should have valued the liberties you so carelessly abandoned.
The Bill of Rights is not negotiable. If you oppose it, you betray not only yourself, but all Americans.
Please SHARE this urgent declaration. You have permission to re-post, with proper attribution.
P.S.
I will be hosting the Alex Jones Show this coming Friday, December
28th, during which I will discuss this topic in more detail. Tune in at www.Infowars.com
It
took some 22 hours for American help to arrive in Benghazi after all
the t’s had been crossed and the i’s had been dotted, and the body of
America’s ambassador to Libya had been dragged through the streets by
“rescuers” stopping along the way to pose for cell phone pictures with
his corpse.
I
personally abhor the term “gun control” because, like so many other
idioms advanced by political operatives, it frames the discussion in
peremptory language which maintains a presupposition; here, that
controlling guns is necessary, further, that it is something the
government is legitimately empowered to do. Political operatives have
necessarily become experts in this word play, like the left using terms
such as “homophobia” to place the onus of presumed dysfunction upon the
“homophobe” rather than the homosexual.
Introduction:
After a lengthy, self-imposed informational black-out, my high-level
DHS contact known as “Rosebud” emerged with new, non-public information
about plans being discussed and prepared for implementation by the
Department of 
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
