Over 200 years ago a group of men came together and formally recognized what was wrong with the country they were living in; put their thoughts to paper; and formalized action against an oppressive government. This act of rebellion and what amounted to treason had begun over a year earlier. The Royal Government had passed an act known as the Intolerable Acts. Four of the five of these acts were in direct response to the Boston Tea Party. One of the most egregious of these acts was The Massachusetts Government Act. The act took away the right of the people to elect who they wanted to their executive council and forbade town meetings without the express consent of the Governor. Lord North explained to the British Parliament that the purpose of the act was “to take the executive power from the hands of the democratic part of government”.
There is a deliberate and methodical attack on everyone’s liberty in these united States today. No one is attempting to quarter troops in your house, but they are attempting to prohibit your right to assemble. In general people aren’t strung up in the stockades if they speak out against the government, but they are libeled and have their character and reputation assaulted as bigots and racists when they do. People aren’t arrested for worshiping how they choose, but that very worship in public is admonished and disdained in defense of an illusionary right entitled Freedom from Religion, instead of the actual Freedom of Religion.
This continued erosion of your liberty happens every time you buy a can of food at the grocery store, sit in your car and stare at the air bag light as you wait for it to go out, and every hour that you toil away at work and you have 20-40 percent of your salary confiscated by the government as a means of securing your liberty. You can revolt against this tyranny with simple acts of peaceful rebellion.
- Grow some of your own food. Every radish, carrot, tomato, or apple you grown on your own is one less opportunity for the government to tax you. This simple step of independence scares world governments so much that bills are introduced regularly, federal regulations proposed, and additional bureaucratic burdens placed upon a simple and self-evident act like producing your own food.
- Speak your mind. Don’t succumb to the myth of confidentiality when you disagree with an organization or government. Of course offer that organization the opportunity to correct the problem, but should they refuse after your reasonable case is pleaded, rally the like minded and represent the case again as a group of 10. When that fails, come back again with a group of 100 individuals ready and willing to peacefully argue their point.
- Find ways to become less dependent upon the government. All governments seek to grow the dependency of the governed. It is this dependency that they exploit to steal you liberty. They extort additional funds from you with threats of cutting programs like police and fire protection. They recognize that everyone wants those. They never threaten to cut programs like building inspectors or zoning boards. The governments realize the response would be a unanimous cheer of Please Do!
Your Right of Revolution is a well understood and documented right. Some claim it is even a duty. This isn’t a revolution with guns and bombs, but a revolution of skills and ideas. Plant those seeds of independance today in your family, friends, and neighbors. Show them that the Right of Revolution begins as an individual right and grows into a collective juggernaut. Fight the peaceful battle and preserve liberty for your children and their children. Lest we all forget the words of John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
