Independence, 2009.

July 4, 8:42 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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When we talk of Independence, we are speaking about freedom from our very own servants. We are talking about coming to realize how our servants have assumed powers never granted them and an abuse of those powers to the point in time when it will be impossible to reverse them. The hope has been that the next election will bring a sweeping by the republicans who might unwind and reverse these, but this is just more of a centralization and not Independence of the electorate. It has to come from us such that whoever is in office respects our authority over them.

What the founders defeated in our Independence was an immensely centralized sovereign; our founders fixed that but good by declaring that we are the sovereign and the government is our servant. The centralization of real power rests with us, not the servants.

I have been writing this for years, and the message changes a little in response to emphasizing how we are finding more and more object lessons every day of our country morphing into dependency on the state. Not news, but every new case-study adds to the preponderance of evidence. It’s going too far.

Where this fits in to gun control is in the idea that pro-gun ought to be changed to being pro-independence from our servants. Our servants insist on depending on them for safety, and are willing to deteriorate conditions to sway the public in that direction. Armed citizens – citizens are the genuine authority in this country – discredit anti-violence polices in those states where armed citizens are commonplace. Not everyone is office is a self-appointed nanny. Still, gun control is the vanguard for all of the national policies Americans are now experiencing, crime-related or not. This includes National ID Cards, banking scandals, everyday crime, assault weapons bans, silencing talkradio, and other programs seemingly unrelated to crime. They’re related, believe me.

In order for ambitious officials to preside over crisis, crisis needs to be immortal. Crisis doesn’t work to obtain cooperation when it’s solved easily; officials have to foul things up to keep the crisis going. In this, they appear to be clumsy, stupid, mistaken, misinformed and untalented, but make no mistake: this is spelled out in the writings of known German Philosophers such as Hegel and others as clearly as it is blueprinted for Leftists by the likes of Saul Alinsky. Put another way, those German Philosophers teach that excessive governance doesn’t work right unless it fails.

The liberty purists who urge the armed citizen say that the gun rights movement is pro-gun, but it is more; it is about the realization that you are ultimately on your own, and preferring it in all things. This is Independence. Being free from the insistence of our servants is Independence. Oh sure, we need paved roads, street lighting, meat inspection, safe aircraft, a great Space Program and other things we do not do for ourselves, but when it comes to things only we can do best, the crisis-addicted insist on taking our place, thereby undermining optimal safeguards, making things worse, thereby compelling dependency which we see in every institution now in 2009.

When we say officials are Socialist or Marxist, we mean that they have studied those German Philosophers who first laid it all out, and can employ some of those suggestions for their own gain. Colleges not only employ leftist professors, they also offer classes in leftism, whole courses on leftism. Course outlines are available online at some college websites in the online catalogs. There’s a lot of community organizing ideas there.

Independence from our very own servants this year and next election is critical to the survival of the country, and invigorating the electorate is key.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s resignation yesterday could signal a whole new movement as she seeks more maneuvering room without a target painted on her back. She does not wish to drag her beautiful frontier state into the crosshairs of the ugly left who attack children but hold up their collective hand when anyone so much much as mentions theirs. Things are changing, and there will be millions waiting to hear Sarah Palin’s views on how to get out from under bigger government.

Veteran reporter and watchdog of government Helen Thomas growled yesterday at White House Press Secretary Roberta Gibbs who could only giggle girlishly and ineptly deflect perhaps the most pressing question he’s ever fielded by a mainstream reporter this year. What a disgrace. Or is it a Watergate break-in moment of awakening? An encouraging fact was that Ms. Thomas wasn’t alone; she was backed by CBS News Reporter Chip Reid. [Check out Sean O'Donnell's report here.]

The mainstream press might have gone along with the Administration forever, but after decades of reading America’s fourth estate, I think I can say that whatever they like or dislike, they don’t like being tricked. If they get the feeling they’ve been tricked, look out below.

Governor Sarah Palin ought to be covered and heard instead of being hounded.

The Town Hall concept ought to be investigated along with voter registration fraud.

The fact that many industries are returning bailout money to the feds needs to be followed. Did you ever get the idea that the banks never needed bailout money?

Pro-gun ought to be changed to be pro-independence, and anti-gun as a term ought to moved from the anti-liberty file to the anti-independence file.

All of these will be integral to the survival of the nation in independence from our servants.

The people are the sovereign in Independence from their servants in this country, and the only centralization of power ought to be with the electorate.

Happy Independence Day.

Liberty.

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John Longenecker is author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns available worldwide. Don't forget to subscribe to e-mail notification of every new article.