The Declaration of Independence -- the Founding Charter of America -- says this:
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truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed,
will dictate that
Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly
all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. |
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America's Founding Fathers used words like "tyranny" and "idolatry" to describe the British government over the American Colonies.
By every conceivable measure, by every political
standard, the current regime in Washington (the same regime we have
elsewhere called "the Bush-Clinton regime") is a more anti-Christian tyranny than the government that was overthrown in the War for Independence, 1775-1783. If America's Founding Fathers were
justified in overthrowing a mild, Christian, comparatively libertarian government such as existed in the colonies, then Americans today are remiss in their duty to overthrow the more tyrannical government we have today.
Libertarians are sometimes criticized for wanting to abolish entire agencies of government, like the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs.
Does it seem like an outrageous thing to say: "Abolish all federal programs and agencies?" This is what you would say if you were consistent with the principles of
People who are shocked by this proposal miss two important facts.
- The government created by the Founding Fathers in
the Constitution no longer exists. Constitutional scholars admit a new
form of government has been substituted in its place. Rather than a
"Constitutional Republic," we have an "Administrative State."
- The government of the United States is being
abolished, and a new government which includes Mexico, Canada, and the
U.S. is being put in its place: the "North American Union."
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finally, if we were consistent with the principles upon which the
American Revolution was fought, we too would be working to abolish the
entire federal government of the United States, just as Washington,
Jefferson, Adams and Hancock worked to abolish wholly the British
government over the
colonies.
If there were an "easy" button that would instantly
abolish the federal government, without a shot being fired, Kevin Craig
would push that button. The use of violence against tax collectors -- muskets, cannons, or new weapons -- can never be justified. Our only weapon is persuasion. We must persuade politicians to cease their acts of violence and resign. Use of
muskets and cannons is unChristian.
If we were to repeal the now-dead Constitution and abolish the Federal Government in Washington
D.C., America would not be one single nation, but 50 independent nations, just as America was 13
independent nations after July 4, 1776. Missouri would be a nation smaller than Austria or Taiwan.
See how the 50 American
Nations would rank with the rest of the nations of the world.
The question is not whether some governments should be abolished; the question is how.
From a Christian perspective, governments are not to be overthrown by violence.
In its attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein, the U.S.
Federal Government killed nearly two million innocent men, women, and
children, many of whom did not like Saddam Hussein any more than we did.
In 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote,
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man:
1. That there is one only God, and He all perfect.
2. That there is a future state of rewards and punishments.
3. That to love God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself, is the sum of religion.…
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always
as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now
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Killing two million people -- and more children than
the total number killed by the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima -- will probably
not be one of the acts that will be rewarded in a future state.
We have suggested that missionaries would have done a better job of bringing about the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
The government of the United States should be overthrown, but only non-violently, using persuasion, encouraging government officials to repent of their tyranny and abolish their office.
Submission to Tyranny: A Christian-Libertarian Framework
The Biblical prohibition against overthrowing tyrants
by force and violence is very clear and bold. Throughout His earthly
ministry, Jesus was in conflict with the Herodians (Jews who
collaborated with the Roman military occupation of Israel) and the
Zealots (Jews who wanted to resist the occupation using violence if
necessary). Jesus did not take the side of the popular uprising, though
it was clear He viewed the
occupying Empire as ethically illegitimate.
Christ's apostles spoke of the reigning empire as "the powers that be," using a word that everywhere refers to demonic forces. But the teaching of the New Testament is that we are to overcome evil with good. That means overcoming statist tyranny with good, not with violence.
Christianity prohibits us from “defending” ourselves against tyrannical governments. Proof.
We are to “witness” to government officials and allow the Holy Spirit
to convert their hearts and lead them out of government and into a
morally-legitimate calling. (Our word “witness” is a translation of the
Greek word from which we get our English word “martyr.”)
Let's compare New Testament principles with the
American Revolution. Pardon us for taking some liberties with the text,
but we think the analogy is fair:
Romans 12-13 {1} I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service.
{2} And be not conformed to the world of the Scottish Enlightenment:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
{3} For I say, through the grace given unto me,
to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly
than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath
dealt to every man the measure of faith.
{10} Be kindly affectioned one to the British with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
{11} Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
{12} Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
{13} Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitable quartering of troops.
{14} Bless the "Red Coats" which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
{16} Be of the same mind one toward another.
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise
in your own conceits.
{17} Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
{18} If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with the British.
{19} Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
{20} Therefore if an enemy soldier hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
{21} Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
{13:1} Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are set in place by God.
{2} Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, throwing tea into the harbor, or firing muskets upon them from behind trees, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
{3} For archist red coats are not a terror
to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the
power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
{4} For he is the minister of God to thee for
good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not
the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
{5} Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
{6} For for this cause pay ye taxes without representation: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
{7} Render therefore to all their dues: taxes
to whom taxes are due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour
to whom honour.
{8} Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
{9} For this, Thou shalt
not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou
shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
{10} Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Peter 2:11-24 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
{12} Having your conversation honest among the
Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by
your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of
visitation.
{13} Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to king George III, as supreme;
{14} Or unto parliament, as unto them that are sent by Him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
{15} For so is the will of God, that with well
doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
{16} As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
{17} Honour all the British. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
{18} Servants, be subject to your masters with
all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
{19} For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
{20} For what glory is it, if, when ye be
buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do
well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with
God.
{21} For even hereunto were ye called: because
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should
follow His steps:
{22} Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth:
{23} Who, when He was reviled, reviled not
again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him
that judgeth righteously:
{24} Who His own self bare our sins in His own
body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed.
Matthew 5:38-48 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
{39} But I say unto you, That ye resist not
evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
other also.
{40} And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
{41} And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
{42} Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
{43} Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
{44} But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for
them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
{45} That ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on
the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
{46} For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
{47} And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
{48} Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Luke 17:7-10 And
which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him
when he has come in from the field, "Come at once and sit down to eat"?
{8} But will he not rather say to him, "Prepare
something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have
eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink"?
{9} Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
{10} So likewise you, when you have done all
those things which you are commanded, say, "We are unprofitable
servants. We have done what was our duty to do."
2 Peter 2:10-12/Jude 8-10
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness,
and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not
afraid to speak evil of dignities.
{9} Yet Michael the archangel, when contending
with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring
against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
{12} But these, as natural brute beasts, made
to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand
not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Proverbs 24:21 My
son, fear the LORD and the king; Do not associate with those given to
change; for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin
those two can bring?
Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a crowd to do evil.
Now, with these passages of Scripture ringing in our ears, let's ask some probing questions about the Declaration of Independence. We'll find that the American Revolution was unChristian. No violent revolution against the State is ever justifiable.
We must speak the truth and depend upon the Holy
Spirit to bring repentance to politicians, so that they peacefully
resign and abolish the machinery of violence and injustice.
What most Americans don't realize,
is that the Constitution and the government it created is going to be
abolished whether you are involved in the process or not.
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- WHO will abolish it? or perhaps stated another way
- WHAT will replace it?
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Either THEY will abolish the U.S. on THEIR terms, for THEIR purposes,
or
WE will abolish the U.S. on OUR terms and for OUR purposes.
Who are "THEY?" Who are "WE?"
What is OUR agenda? What is THEIR agenda?
The Christmas Conspiracy!
seeks to replace the United States with a
Christian America, a land where every man can dwell peacefully under his
own "Vine & Fig Tree."
This is the vision of the Old Testament Prophet Micah.
This was the vision of America's Founding Fathers.
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The other group, far more powerful, seeks to replace the United States with a global dictatorship, in which THEY are in charge.
The "Free Trade Area of the Americas"
was to be the next step in the proposed regional government which would
include 34 nations in the Western Hemisphere. It is a new government
that is not bound down "by the chains of the Constitution." (Thomas Jefferson)
www.STOPtheFTAA.org
The FTAA was to follow the pattern of the European Union,
since both share architects of the same philosophical commitments, and
eventually the two regional governments will be merged into a global
super-state:
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul Admits Conspiracy to Create World Government
This plan has been re-packaged as the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP).
It is the continuation of policies going back for decades.
The New American - Worldwide Welfare - September 4, 1995
The New American - Sovereignty and the WTO - March 18, 1996
The New American - The UN Is NOT Your Friend - October 22, 2001
THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Who is Running America?
Americans Have a Right to Know About the Council on Foreign Relations
Pincer Strategy Behind the FTAA - The New American - May 21, 2001
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Let's face it: The Constitution has ALREADY been abolished.
In no rational sense can we be said to be governed by the Constitution as intended by its Framers. The Constitution is dead meat. It is only emotion and sentimentalism that leads anyone to conclude that the Constitution has not already been abolished.
US Government Abdicates, by Jim Davidson
If you think the Constitution is functioning in any meaningful sense, PLEASE, read that link above. Here it is again: The Constitution is Dead Meat.
Since the Constitution has de facto been abolished, we must now work to abolish it de jure.
The Constitution has been abolished, but people don't know about it; we must make sure everyone realizes it.
Since the Constitution has been abolished, those who have abolished it have replaced it with something else. None of the Framers of the Constitution would recognize our current government as being anything close to what they intended to create. It doesn't matter what you call our present system -- soviet socialism, "The Administrative State,"
"mixed economy," etc. -- it is not the system created by
the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. As long as people believe the
Constitution has not been abolished, they will continue to believe that
what exists is constitutional. And as long as people believe the
Constitution is in force, those who have abolished it and are
establishing their own form of government will continue to move us along
the path that takes
US where THEY want to go.
But can't we RESTORE the Constitution? Can't we use
the Constitution to return to the kind of limited government envisioned
by its Framers?
No. See Peter B. McCutchen, Mistakes, Precedent, and the Rise of the Administrative State: Toward a Constitutional Theory of the Second Best, 80 Cornell L. Rev. 1 (1994).
But suppose we could. If we could restore America to
the way things were in 1787, what would keep America from returning to
the state we're in today? Obviously the Constitution did not prevent the abolition of the Constitution in the name of the Constitution.
What was it that allowed the Constitution to be abolished?
What was it that allowed America to be abolished?
What was it that could destroy the idea of every man living peacefully under his "Vine & Fig Tree?"
The answer is: socialism.
The answer is: belief in the idea that it's OK to take from others by force.
The answer is: the widespread belief in the moral
legitimacy of an institution called "the State." The idea of "the State"
-- that an elite group can wield the power of violence against their
fellow man -- is more powerful than any Constitution, as history and the nature of fallen man proves. We must abolish this
whole idea if we want to preserve America.
This is the purpose of The Christmas
Conspiracy!
We join America's Founding Fathers in pursuing the vision of the Prophet Micah, working for a day when all Americans will live safely and peacefully under their Vine & Fig Tree. But to accomplish this goal we believe we must reject two of the
Founders' strategies:
- We reject armed revolution;
- We reject every constitution that creates a violent confiscatory socialist institution such as "the State."
James Madison initially opposed The Bill of Rights
because he believed the Constitution was strong enough to protect those
rights. It was a document of "delegated powers," he said, and it
delegated no powers to "the general government" in those areas addressed
by the Bill of Rights. But neither the idea of limited authority nor
the Bill of Rights
prevented the federal government from vastly exceeding
the limits established by the Founding Fathers.
If -- and it's a big "if" -- we could return
government to the size it had in 1789, there is nothing in the
Constitution or Bill of Rights to prevent history from repeating itself.
This is because every Constitution is self-contradictory. Every
Constitution legitimizes the right of some people to live at the expense
of others. Every Constitution gives its moral approval to theft and
murder.
The reason why returning government to the size and
function intended by the Framers is such a big IF is that so many people
are now accustomed to living at the expense of others. There are so
many "entitlements" and government programs that threaten one group of
citizens with violence in order to confiscate their wealth and give it
to others, and so many people have become dependent on these programs,
and
consider them a "constitutional right," that it is
utterly futile and useless to tell them that these programs are
"unconstitutional" -- contrary to the "original intent" of the Founding
Fathers. The Founding Fathers are all dead. Nobody cares about them.
Nobody cares about their Constitution.
But God is not dead.
What we need to do is convince Americans that theft is against the Law of God.
All theft. All the time.
And that means an end to all constitutions.
This is the purpose of The Christmas
Conspiracy!
We are trying to convince Americans that King Jesus prohibits ALL theft, all the time.
We are trying to convince America that "the government shall be upon HIS shoulders" (Isaiah 9:6).
This is the most radical agenda in the world.
UPDATE! President
Bush has entered into an agreement with Mexican President Vicente Fox
to merge the United States and Mexico into a new government, possibly
called "The North American Union" or "The United States of North
America." The Agreement is called "The Security and Prosperity
Partnership." Read the incredible details here:
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The United States WILL be Abolished
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