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Paradox of Destruction– Tyranny’s Warnings Unheeded

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in JMM articles / by / on February 5, 2013 at 10:02 am

Today, there has been more written, shared, read, and thought about liberty and free-market economics and the history of same, accessible to the broadest number of people by a factor of possibly hundreds, than at any other time in history.

Yet, regardless this widespread, unprecedented availability of common sense and factual proof-points supporting the case of our founding principles, liberty is more threatened today in America — the bastion of liberty and justice for all — than at any other time in Her history.

This simply demonstrates the fact that regardless the availability of truth, a people must also have the capacity to receive and understand it, or it will fall on deaf ears. Those destined for slavery will simply allow themselves to be enslaved. Those who will not accept anything but liberty will simply not allow themselves to be enslaved.

I believe this defines macro-America today. One group is made up of those looking to achieve tyrannical power or willing to be subsumed by it– not so much as raising an eyebrow as they are led into the virtual trains of collectivism (collectivists and willing serfs). And a second group are those unwilling to give an inch of their American birthright away, who understand what awaits future generations if we fail to maintain this birthright, and who are digging in their heels, saying, “Don’t Tread on Me!” (anti-collectivists).

As I was reading a bit of history today, a statement by Polybius, the Greek historian (203 – 120 BC) regarding the Roman constitution, stood out. I thought I would share his wisdom with you. It is important to keep in mind that our founders were great students of history. And, as such, they were aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of forms of government that preceded the colonies and the American revolution. They more than likely had studied Polybius and his historical analysis of Rome and other experiments in liberty.

Polybius wrote, “Now the first of these to come into being is monarchy, its growth being natural and unaided; and next arises kingship derived from monarchy by the aid of art and by the collection of defects. Monarchy first changes into its vicious allied form, tyranny; and next, the abolishment of both gives birth to aristocracy. Aristocracy by its very nature degenerates into oligarchy; and when the commons inflamed by anger take vengeance on this government for its unjust rule, democracy comes into being; and in due course the license and lawlessness of this form of government produces mob-rule to complete the series.”

This is what befell Rome, starting with Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and ending with Julius Caesar and the emperors. It is through the study of history and the natural evolution of kingships to tyranny to democracy and fall, that our founders were able to innovate and develop the genius that is the U.S. Constitution and its inherent “balance of powers”.

In “The Path to Tyranny”, my reading for the day, Michael Newton notes that the “key, therefore, to maintaining peace, prosperity, freedom, and stable government is to create a system balancing monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, each with checks of the other two.” Hence, our checks and balances.

And, where we stand today, however, is on the precipice of mob rule and of the ushering in as a result, a new tyranny. Exactly what our founders predicted would someday befall America, “A Republic, if you can keep it”, said Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

Polybius sounded this warning nearly 2,000 years ago, as follows, and yet it has gone unheeded, “And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch.”

This cycle Polybius spoke of is here today. Our founders designed a government to yield the blessing of prosperity only as long as the American people were so deserving. They foresaw its limitation, as did Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America”, as that of the American people’s own mores and standards. Should they be consumed by approbation lust and allow theft from others to achieve their ends, they will inherit the whirlwind of tyranny.

I pray the strength of the second group — of those digging in their heels noted earlier — is such that mob rule does not lead America to the junk heap of history. I pray there is a strong enough remnant of those willing to take individual responsibility and to hold our leaders to the fire of their oaths to uphold our Constitution.

To which group do you belong? Those willing to be led into tyranny, or those willing to risk all to maintain our birthright of American liberty and freedom? I will ride with he latter.

D.M. Chaney (C) 2013 “Notes on Liberty”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/david.chaney David Chaney

    Jan, thanks for publishing. Here is a quick correction and comment:

    Correction: The last sentence should read: “I will ride with the latter”.

    Comment: Also, please add as * footnote, to “American birthright” with the following:

    * “American birthright”, for anyone who has not read my notes and articles before or is unfamiliar, means: our Constitution, Republic and founding principles, which institutionalized the protection of, not the granting of, our natural, God-given liberties from the State and from tyranny. This “birthright” existed before America’s founding. Yet, America was the first nation that acknowledged this fact in its formation. America was formed by the people to defend the people from the State, itself, and from any enemies of the people, foreign or domestic. So when we defend our “birthright”, we protect that which protects our individual, natural rights. We do not defend usurping, tyrannical regimes that have hijacked our government’s offices.”

  • wvbh17

    I will die to help insure my children and grand children their freedom I have enjoyed in my youth as well as majority

    • coastx

      It won’t matter if you don’t know who the enemy is.

    • http://twitter.com/AlRoberts3 Al Roberts

      When you hear a knock on the door and it is the Department of Homeland Security and a Swat team, you will know th it is time. The came last week to a house in Albuquerque and the man did not fight back. They came in, stole 1500 guns and left without filing a single charge.
      Folks, this is the pattern you can expect. And if ANYONE should fighht back, and they will certainly die, the news will declare that a DOMESTIC TERRORIST had been killed in a stand off. That is right. You are a terrorist if you RESIST the confiscation of your guns.
      PS. That man will NEVER get his guns back. He was a collector and a FFL dealer. Just like the other dealer who with members of his family are STILL in jail. Their offense is that they turned in a Mexican woman who appeared to be trying to buy guns for the drug cartel. BATFE turned her and went after the dealer who had TURNED HER IN.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Hart/1718962778 John Hart

        I’m no statesman I’m no general. I’m no kid I’ll never be
        It’s the RULES not the soldiers that are the real enemy.
        Bob Seger 2+2

        The Republic failed because the Constitution was flawed. The
        Principles it was derived from came from God and there still is time to
        fix it but our leaders are not up to the task.

        Forget about the Potus’s gun grab propaganda and think about how to fix the system. Taxes are the key and Congress controls them. What Deathocrats have done is put a poison pill in entitlements, the only way out is to honor them, the good news is long term it won’t cost a penny.

        Returning freedom to the markets and no taxes will stimulate real job growth and we’ll build assets to supply their needs, by giving them back what they’re paying in HIDDEN TAXES. Taxes, no matter what they’re on, place the heaviest burden on the poor.

        Wealth is a contract enforced by government that wealth’s holders
        need to pay government to maintain but the majority of things needing to
        be done to maintain the value of wealth can’t be done by government
        without creating power that will ultimately destroy the Nation.

        Over the last 80+ years Democrats have been implementing socialism
        and Republicans have be acting like a ratchet, kluging the mess
        Democrats made to keep it working as the corrupt system slowly squeezed
        freedom and liberty out of our lives, and almost never reversing or
        coming up with something Principled to replace it.

        Someone needs to take a bold step. Come up with a different way to
        solve problems that Democrats “fixed” in an unprincipled way.
        Republicans talk about free markets then let large corporate interests
        trample them.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Hart/1718962778 John Hart

          Expose Democrat’s for the murdering sociopaths they are and the imposter will have the creditability of a gnat. Abortion is the greatest EVIL man has ever done, democrats promote it and are now forcing you to pay for it, be complicit in the killing!

  • reggiec

    Indeed our Founding Fathers were very learned men perhaps due to the absence of “public education”. This has become very clear just by examining the economic ideology of those “attempting” to run our country presently.
    F. A. Hayek stated this very succinctly in his Nobel Prize lecture from 1974, “The Pretense of Knowledge.”
    “To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. . . The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson in humility, which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men’s fatal striving to control society—a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.”

    • http://www.facebook.com/david.chaney David Chaney

      Good to see Hayek quoted, Reggie. Thank you.

      • reggiec

        I have been self studying economics for about a year as research for a book I am writing. I find it amazing that the wisdom and just common sense is being ignored.

  • Vrahnos

    I’m with Jan and am one who digs in their heels.Does anyone remember civics classes that use to be part of out high school classes to graguate?I do.If more people had taken that kind of course they would have an idea how government works and would be able to see and understand what is happening now with the disregard to out rights.

    • http://www.facebook.com/david.chaney David Chaney

      Good to have a “heel digger”, Vrahnos. The challenge is any classes today — unless in a private institution and even then many are suspect — are driven by the State, Department of Education and by the National Education Association. Therein lies the rub… as to why our education is turning out happy collectivists today, vs. knowledgeable patriots.

    • reggiec

      Kids fo “heel diggers” have to be careful in public school today. Speak up and try to voice the truth instead of PC crapola and they get disciplined.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Veselenak/100001118018542 David Veselenak

    It is too late to right the ship with PC BS, there are despots entrenched in power and thay will do anything to keep it! It is up to “US” to do anything that it requires to take it! 1776…1776…1776!

    • http://twitter.com/AlRoberts3 Al Roberts

      God promises to heal the nation. In the book of Chronicles. But do you know what it takes? Do you know who is at fault and the reason we are suffering under judgement now? It is there ——–Chronicles.

  • USMCVeteran

    “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine

    • http://www.facebook.com/david.chaney David Chaney

      This is an excellent quote, USMC, that I’ve always appreciated. Thank you for your service and comment.

    • coastx

      Hey, how’d they change your tag to guest above? You in the moderator’s seat?

  • coastx

    @ David Chaney

    I will try to reach you, but this may only serve to confirm that even you are caught up in this macabre enterprise.

    The individuals you talk about all traverse and were aware of the Dioscuri, the oldest SSO on the planet, and the managers, as it were, of the degenerative cascade of which you speak.

    It’s a controlled implosion model, plain and simple, and is primarily a function of occult propaganda precipitated on the lie. This is what it looks like in plain open sight:

    1 Lie,
    2 double cross,
    3 trauma bond precipitated on shock and awe sorties, and
    4 rendition.

    I know you are already arguing with this, but it’s a nation breaker nonetheless, and long as people are entertained by and do nothing about the lie this mechanism runs wild over whatever destruction it is put to use to for. It is Castores theater. People are fascinated by it, and it is also the negative core of the black mass sacrifice.

    Accountability on the lie puts a stop to it, hence the 2nd Amendment protocol.

    I am going to show you who Obama’s handler is. I’m going to prove this to you, but again this presents so contrastingly with what you understand about national politics you are going to fight this information tooth and nail, because promoting or acknowledging this will destroy the marketing function of your media. Although you understand what’s needed to change these circumstances, you too will run from the organization that is currently promoting our capitulation.

    Thomas Monson is Obama’s handler.

    Obama, The Mormon Church and Occult Propaganda

    1 the lie… he is a person identified with the DCBR
    2 the double cross… he’s actually a product of the Mormon church
    3 trauma bond via shock and awe… smiles and giggles when his drones kill children
    4 rendition… repatriation

    Brief Analysis of the Book of Mormon

    export first letters: BAOTBOM
    export letters needed to formulate name: OBAM
    export remaining letters BOT

    BOT letter/number correspondence in the English alphabet is 2, 15 and 20, or additive sum 1, hence BOT= 1= A and last letter in Obama’s name. OBAM+ A= OBAMA, which is right out of the Brief analysis of the Book of Mormon.

    Worst still, the Brief analysis of the Book of Mormon is laced with Druid Mysticism and occult preoccupation with the black mass sacrifice. They do this for entertainment.

    You can’t expect people to understand this in one day, but two may just do the trick. People have been taught to deny and laugh at this, so they are not going to just stand up and fight. They can’t. It’s too overwhelming and only further serves of capitulation mitigated by shock and awe.

    Deeper still, and Americans outright deny this, but the Mormon church is actually a British repatriation project in perpetuity and is very dangerous to our constitutional republic, obviously, yet people will do nothing to stop this. They are fascinated by Mormon Mysticism, which is lie.

    Deeper still, and Americans outright deny this, but the Mormon church is actually a British repatriation project in perpetuity, a manifestation of which is Barack Obama.

    You are now on the North Face. Watch your step!

    You are now on the North Face. Watch your step!

    • coastx

      CORRECTION

      Deeper still, and Americans outright deny this, but the Mormon church is actually a British repatriation project in perpetuity and is very dangerous to our constitutional republic, obviously, yet people will do nothing to stop this. They are fascinated by Mormon Mysticism, which is lie.

      You are now on the North Face. Watch your step!

    • Lloyd

      I understand the cryptographical concept, but was unaware of most of the other info. Will consider this thanx
      Lloyd

    • http://twitter.com/AlRoberts3 Al Roberts

      What? You are posting in the irrational. Are you off of your meds?

      • http://twitter.com/AlRoberts3 Al Roberts

        Trust God. His promise is not of this life but of eternity. Your eyes seem to be crossed and fixed on ……….?

    • Wayne Finehout

      If you actually read and understand the Book of Mormon, you will find many warnings to the American people about secret combinations, set about to destroy our freedom. (Read in the Book of Mormon, Ether chapter 8 to see for yourself.) Covert organizations such as exist today in the form of the various secret banking cartels that have perverted our monetary system and republican form of government.

      The LDS Church views the constitution as an inspired document of God made to preserve the freedom of His people and allow the spread of His kingdom over the earth. All you need to do is read the many publications put out through that church to clearly see this.

      You provide a very twisted and convoluted logic to link the Book of Mormon to Obama and the church to a “British repatriation project.” (What in hell is that anyway?)

      The real “nation breaker” as you call it, is our denial as a people of the sound precepts that God laid before us by which we should order our lives. The nation in denial of God is the real “nation breaker.” Our founding fathers knew that moral degeneracy in our country would be the “nation breaker” as stated by John Adams:

      “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . .
      Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
      wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

      The simple truth is this: We reject God as a nation and He will reject us. As a result of this rejection, we are damned to many evils perpetuated by the very hands of those who hold the reigns of secret and public power (and all the FOOLS who follow them).

      Attacking those Godly principles – such as your nonsensical tirade against the Book of Mormon and LDS Church is just another chiseling away of those principles that protect us as a nation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Hart/1718962778 John Hart

    I’m no statesman I’m no general. I’m no kid I’ll never be

    It’s the RULES not the soldiers that are the real enemy.
    Bob Seger 2+2

    The Republic failed because the Constitution was flawed. The Principles it was derived from came from God and there still is time to fix it but our leaders are not up to the task.

    Wealth is a contract enforced by government that wealth’s holders need to pay government to maintain but the majority of things needing to be done to maintain the value of wealth can’t be done by government without creating power that will ultimately destroy the Nation.

    Over the last 80+ years Democrats have been implementing socialism and Republicans have be acting like a ratchet, kluging the mess Democrats made to keep it working as the corrupt system slowly squeezed freedom and liberty out of our lives, and almost never reversing or coming up with something Principled to replace it.

    Someone needs to take a bold step. Come up with a different way do solve problems that Democrats “fixed” in an unprincipled way. Republicans talk about how free markets are the solution then let large corporate interests destroy them.

  • jenniewalsh

    This is a wonderful article. There is an Satanic secret organized crime syndicate determined to rule the world. SEE: Yuri Bezminov KGB U Tube to see what the Satanic tyrants do to their “useful idiots” who put them into power.

  • Concerned Patriot

    It is the most traumatic of childhood memories that are never forgotten, so I remember what I’m about to say as if it were only yesterday. I grew up in the post-Korea, cold-war, patriotic fanaticism era more commonly known as the era of McCarthy-ism. Those days when we had the air raid drills in public schools, and our daily issue of preaching from our teachers that the US is the only country on Earth were we have civil, human and due-process “rights”. I was an 11 year old 5th grader on Nov.22, 1963 when I watched a rifle bullet enter President John Kennedy’s right temple, and his entire body snap back as the left rear of his head exploded and sprayed his wife Jackie’s face with blood and brains. I also saw the secret service agent at the left rear of the lincoln wipe the blood and brains from his face. All the while the mainstream news media were telling me that the bullet came from behind. That was when it really started to puzzle me how we supposedly have the civil, human, and due-process rights our government insists we have. What happened to the media’s first and fifth amendment rights to either tell us the truth about what happened that day, or just shut their lying mouths and let us draw our own inferences from what we saw? As for who am I to say such a thing, who I am isn’t important. Who I was is what’s important. I was a child under fourteen when the government forcefully propagandized me with all those lies that American citizens have civil rights when they live in this country. I never asked to hear any of those lies because I never wanted to hear them. The government forcefully created a position of special trust, and did so with the pre-meditated intent to violate that trust. The penal code assigns a word to that course of action; it’s called molestation. Take away our guns, and who will protect us from the seething, foaming-at-the-mouth, baby-raping child molester known as the United States Government?

  • http://www.facebook.com/sarge43 Charles McVey

    In 1960 I took an Oath, To support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America Against all Enemy’s foreign and domestic, there is no expatriation date assigned to that oath. And those who seek to abrogate, usurp or destroy the Constitution or any of the Amenbdments thereto are in my view Domestic Enemy;s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rocky.vnvmc Rocky Vnvmc

    “…as for me, Give me Liberty, or give me Death”. Patrick Henry

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NLORN6B3ZNGCAJTFHWWFUUEY4Q jong

    Another such paradox was expressed by the founding fathers that they expected the kind of behavior that King Barry is exhibiting. From time to time it will be necessary to water the tree of liberty with the blood of Patriots.

  • Vrahnos

    Coastx,we have a constitution and the bill of Rights.These are natural rights in writing for every American and all of us should have an understanding.The liberal progressive commie democrat has been trying to take our rights away for some time now.Ya,I fight with my keyboard to let people know what is going and how I feel about things.If push comes to shove and there is no other choise left then I will take up arms and fight or die trying.In the mean time I use a “pen”to fight with.Wile you might be right about the Morman church I don’t buy that argument.It hasn’t been a “church”that is causing us to lose our freedoms a little at a time,It’s been who we elect to office.

  • Vrahnos

    Well yep to some extant some elections are rigged.D.C.is a city-state with Obama in the head office.I don’t pretend to be a patriot,I am one.As far as mob rule goes,there may be a time that might happen and if it does it will be put down by the governments,both state and federal.There bis much deception out there and the polititions know how to use it.Now with what you say I wonder if you may by an Islamist?you sound like one.That is if you think of me as a satanist and trying to further that cause.

  • coastx

    I don’t see you as a satanist. I think people generally are acculturated to this. I did this a while ago, and I think it bears repeating here.

    You’re a person of conscience. It’s difficult for you to imagine why people would lack this, but some just don’t have it. Those that DO have it often sell it for power and lots of money. This is what makes occult propaganda a nation breaker. They operate entirely on the lie. Politicians are recruited to this via special interests that once they commit, the agenda issues automatically double cross, trauma bond via shock and awe sorties, and rendition. They seduce the public on the same agenda, just the application of the lie is seduction via the entertainment industry, the money people spend on this redirected to special interests. See how that works? People are stupid. The reason I say this is they will NOT confront the lie. They “tolerate” it and in so doing acknowledge the ensuing degenerative cascade. IF people can’t see or address the lie, they are Satanized, yes. That’s the nature of it. Can’t do this and walk off identified with the truth.

  • Vrahnos

    Yes the people will believe a lie cause they afrade it may be true or think is true.The media and the left work to spread the lies.When one compares what they say to the constitution it can be seen by those who aren’t lulled into what the left is saying that the governments lie to us all the time about things.Governments think they can “fix” things.The problem they make things worse by doing so.The e.p.a.has become quiet powerful and tell us what to do and we had better like it or else.The government lets them get away with it and pats them on the head and tells them good boy.The D.O.T. same thing.So now they want to take away out guns.They have already shone their compantnce with the T.S.A.and the D.H.S.Now I say are we going to put up with this anymore or should we fight back?

  • coastx

    There’s no leadership for a fight. IP25/occult propaganda are nation breakers. The lie rules in the land of Oz, because people can’t tell the difference between a lie and the truth!