Most of our Nation’s citizens have become desensitized to the multiple ways we are hemorrhaging our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. This has not just occurred in the last two and a half years, but our FREEDOM and LIBERTY has been bleeding out for decades, and most of us have not a clue because it has happened so slowly over such a long period of time. We would like to wind the clock back several decades to see what life was like not so long ago.
Let’s take a historical trip back to the old west. Most of us can recall movies depicting life during the days of old. Maybe you have even seen pictures from that era. In order to see how far our FREEDOM and LIBERTY have slid away, we want to ask you a few simple questions. We’ll set the stage for our questions by allowing your imagination to take a trip back in time to the old west. You are viewing a scene where there is lots of open space, occupied only by some scattered sage brush, with nothing but a lot of dry dirt and revealing only what appears to be two parallel tracks on the ground about four feet apart. As you scan forward, this is what you see on those tracks.
An old wagon is headed west ahead of you. On the left rear quarter panel is a small wooden plank with some numbers and letters burned into it. This plank indicates where the wagon is from and shows the year and month proving the legality of this wagon to operate on those dirt tracks. The plank is proof that the wagon is properly owned, titled, registered, and of course that the appropriate fees have been tendered to the various government agencies authorizing the driver of the wagon to operate within his current area. Do you remember seeing in your movies, or pictures you may have viewed, these wooden planks on all wagons, coaches, stages or Conestogas? Probably not. Have you ever wondered why?
Still in your imagination, you see a man riding on a horse quickly approaching the wagon from the side. You know instantly that this must be a horse used by law enforcement. You know this because the horse has painted numbers and letters on the horse’s rear indicating it is an official horse. Being a method of transportation, the horse obviously has been properly titled, registered, and insured, naturally having paid the appropriate fees to the governmental agencies mandating such compliance. Insurance is required since there is always a chance two horses and riders could collide and significant injury or damage could result. As you draw near to the wagon, now stopped at the horse rider’s command, you notice the rider on the horse is actually a local sheriff. You know this because he is bearing a silver star on his breast pocket. The silver star assures you that he is the duly authorized authority, having completed and passed all course work in law enforcement at a prestigious college. He has a paper document hanging on his wall back at the jail, indicating he has paid all appropriate fees required by the higher governmental authorities who set those standards for becoming authorized to wear the silver star and conduct activities associated with law enforcement. Is what we have described so far been what you have customarily assumed when viewing what life was like back in the old west? Probably not. Do you wonder why?
You continue to observe the actions transpiring before you. The sheriff gets off his horse and struts over to the now stopped wagon. You notice the sheriff has a leather belt around his waist and suspended from it is clearly visible a shiny revolver. Your first thought is that he has been properly trained and certified, having passed his Concealed Carry course in case he has to wear his long coat covering his weapon during bad weather. Of course, he has paid the appropriate fees for his permit and has had his character image scratched into the documents at the government controlling agency. You also notice he has 10 bullets on his belt because he can carry no more than that at any one time. The regional authority has dictated that policy. Naturally, all of this makes sense to you because that is how it has always been. Right?
Still observing the interaction of the sheriff with the wagon driver, you notice the conversation becomes rather heated. It seems, from what you can hear, that the man on the wagon is carrying goods from a store that has not been properly obtained. The store in the city from which the goods were obtained failed to collect the prescribed city, county and state taxes. The wagon driver is attempting to explain to the sheriff that he traded his farm produce for the goods he is now carrying in his wagon. The sheriff draws his weapon and demands the wagon driver to disembark. The sheriff demands that the taxes be paid immediately, or he will be taken to jail. Those taxes are what keep the local and regional authorities flush with cash so that they can maintain a staff to administer all of the regulations. How else can mayors, commissioners and governors, along with their staffs, function unless the tax is collected to pay all of their salaries, fund all of their programs, and pay for the ongoing deliberations for additional governmental expansion? There is no doubt in your mind that this is entirely normal and expected, or is it?
We’ll take a respite from our story to consider for a moment what else you might witness in this old west from our Nation’s history. Do you think schools required shots and masks for admission? Do you think they paid for the water they drank? Do you think the oil for their lamps at work and at home were regulated to ensure each paid the appropriate amount so that no one could use more than was authorized or directed by the higher authorities? Do you think each person needed a special document in order to travel long distance from one place to another using the available, but highly regulated and controlled transportation? Do you think attendance at the annual barn dance needed a special document in order to enter, and that each person had to be searched? Do you think General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s forces were defeated at the Alamo in 1836, and that the drive of Mexicans into Texas and beyond were halted? Do you realize that our Nation was secured by the Foreign Benevolent Institution (FBI), the Cultural Interaction Administration (CIA), and the Dual Operation of Justice (DOJ), so that WE THE PEOPLE had limited power and control over our National affairs? If you thought, believed, and realized all of the above, then you are nuts!
Of course, none of the above story was ever widespread, or even contemplated, in the old west. On nearly every fictious part of the above story, we have over the years allowed our FREEDOM and LIBERTY to be slowly and persistently drained from the initial plan laid out by our Founding Fathers. Most of our current Nation’s citizenry have been so desensitized to the erosion of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY that they hardly notice at all what has taken place. This cancer eating away at our FREEDOM and LIBERTY must be stopped and eradicated. Will you get a ROUND TO IT, or will you rely on SOMEBODY ELSE to do the work? Review our blog posted July 23, 2023.
