{"id":88707,"date":"2022-12-17T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=88707"},"modified":"2022-12-17T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:11:23","slug":"to-whom-does-the-country-belong-the-people-or-the-government","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=88707","title":{"rendered":"To Whom Does The Country Belong: The People Or The Government? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

PART ONE*<\/a><\/h4>\n

AN ESSAY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FREE SPEECH AND ARMED SELF-DEFENSE IN A FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC\u2014A REPUBLIC PERCEIVED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS AS OUT-OF-STEP WITH A WORLD MARCHING TOWARD GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL UNION AND WORLD POLITICAL TYRANNY; A WORLD INTENT ON BRINGING THE UNITED STATES INTO ITS FOLD; A WORLD THAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THROUGH BOTH ITS WORDS AND DEEDS HAS SHOWN A MARKED PROCLIVITY FOR; AND IN THOSE ACTIONS, HAS DEMONSTRATED ITS COMPLICITY IN WORKING WITH OUR NATION\u2019S FOES TO MAKE IT SO.<\/p>\n

\u201cPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBut always \u2013 do not forget this, Winston \u2013 always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face \u2013 for ever.\u201d ~ two quotations from George Orwell\u2019s Dystopian Novel, \u201c1984\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Does this Country, the United States, as a free Constitutional Republic, belong to the people?<\/p>\n

Trivially, one would answer, \u201cyes, of course.\u201d That\u2019s what the Founders intended. There can be no doubt of that. And that\u2019s what they sought to achieve in fashioning the Nation\u2019s\u00a0Constitution:\u00a0<\/span>their Blueprint for a free Constitutional Republic.<\/p>\n

But, once again\u2014<\/p>\n

Does this Country, the United States, as a free Constitutional Republic, belong to the people?\u00a0<\/span>Two years under the thumb of the present Biden Administration; a seditious Press; a weak or compliant Congress; the weaponization of the Federal Bureaucracy against its own people; the flagrant miscarriage of justice, targeting innocent Americans in clear violation of their\u00a0<\/span>Fifth, Sixth, Eighth,<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Fourteenth\u00a0<\/span>Amendment<\/span>\u00a0rights; rampant and escalating violent crime; uninhibited attacks on our Nation\u2019s history, heritage, culture, and ethos; desecration of our monuments, art, and emblems; denigration of our founding fathers; the subversion and perversion of our public education system; the deliberate sabotaging of our Nation\u2019s economy and energy resources; the compromising of our electoral system\u2014all this and more, and one must wonder.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, then, DOES this Country belong to the American people?<\/p>\n

An American, reflecting on the aforesaid recitation, is now unsure, and answers with an equivocal:\u00a0\u201cwell, maybe; then again, maybe not.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 245 years, has a fervent wish, hope, and prayer of the Founders degenerated into nostalgic sentiment, bespeaking a fleeting, and misty bygone reality, dead now and buried?<\/p>\n

Well, not as long as the\u00a0Bill of Rights<\/span>\u00a0remains intact. It is still with us\u2014barely!\u00a0<\/span>And, many there are, both here and abroad, that would wish it to be dead and buried, as well, along with the rest of the\u00a0Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot so fast,\u201d say most Americans, but that, sadly, doesn\u2019t include the officials of the present Biden Administration, along with many of those in Congress, who have a lot of control\u2014too much control\u2014over our life and well-being. And, it doesn\u2019t help that the legacy Press is of one mind with the Biden Administration. And we must, unfortunately, add many more people in business, finance, and academia, to that list, who are in agreement.<\/p>\n

But even as many powerful, ruthless people would have liked long ago to dismantle the\u00a0Constitution,<\/span>\u00a0and, to eradicate, especially, the\u00a0Bill of Rights component of it,<\/span>\u00a0the Founders in their profound wisdom, made it a very difficult thing to do legally, and we can be thankful for that, even as those who hate the Country, would, understandably, take issue with the Founders for that very prescience.<\/p>\n

And, although the present Administration has\u2014with its control of the vast Administrative machinery of Government and with assistance from a mostly friendly or otherwise placid Congress, a seditious Press, and other inordinately powerful, ruthless actors, pulling the present Administration\u2019s strings, behind the scenes\u2014found it easy enough to subvert law and\u00a0Constitution\u00a0<\/span>with relative ease, they have\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0found it so easy to ignore the dictates of the\u00a0Bill of<\/span>\u00a0Rights,<\/span>\u00a0even as they have, as one must acknowledge, made considerable inroads in constraining much of it. Such is the power and arrogance wielded by the Destroyers of our Nation that had enabled them to do this and to get away with it.<\/p>\n

But, for all the damage the Biden Administration, Congress, the Press, and the private sector proxies of the Administration have done to this Country and to its people in just two years\u2014and with two more years remaining to be reckoned with before the demented fool in Office walks out on his own two feet or is otherwise wheeled out\u2014Americans may take some solace in the fact that a modicum of the Founder\u2019s wish for us still remains and, hopefully, the Republic they created will outlast any and all attempts by the Biden Administration and others to harm it further or possibly destroy it.<\/p>\n

THE NECESSITY OF OUR NATION\u2019S NATURAL LAW RIGHTS TO FORESTALL, DERAIL, OR PREVENT TYRANNY<\/h4>\n

What is required to protect a free Republic and the sovereignty of the American people from the thrall of Tyranny of Government?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the persistence of Americans\u2019<\/span>\u00a0natural law rights,\u00a0and two in particular:<\/span>\u00a0free speech and an armed citizenry.\u00a0<\/span>These are necessary conditions to keep a free Constitutional Republic alive and to keep tyranny at bay.<\/span><\/p>\n

These two Rights subsume all the others and are inextricably tied to each other.<\/p>\n

Both are integral to the functioning of and preservation of the Nation as a free Constitutional Republic.<\/p>\n

THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH<\/h4>\n

The\u00a0natural law right of free speech\u00a0entails the right to dissent.<\/p>\n

This right is essential to the sanctity and inviolability of one\u2019s Soul and it is one of two<\/span>\u00a0fundamental natural law rights\u00a0necessary to keep the tyranny of Government in check.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the exercise of it, a person expresses his individuality. But erase it, and a person becomes a Zombie, or, in archaic Judaic folklore,\u00a0a \u201cGolem<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Zombie or Golem is a creature not of God but of man\u2014a thing of mud and dirt, unfinished\u2014with the makings of a man, and seeming to be a man in rough form, but lacking\u00a0the Divine Spark, the animating breath of life and Being and Spirit, and Soul, bequeathed to man by the Divine Creator.\u00a0The Divine Spark comes only from the Divine Creator alone\u2014the source of free will, moral conscience, creative energy, drive, motivation, aesthetic sense, and self-awareness\u2014thus, the idea of Man in the Image of God.<\/p>\n

A Zombie\/Golem is not of\u00a0<\/span>God,\u00a0and, therefore, but a forlorn creature, lacking will, conscience, motivating impulse, aesthetic sense, and self-awareness, NOT a man.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is what the Biden Administration would wish to make of all of us\u2014a thing that doesn\u2019t think, but only reacts to the gospel the Biden Administration preaches, as echoed by the Administration\u2019s vast propaganda organs\u2014a formless mob that does not engage in conscious thought and reflection, and that is incapable of engaging in creative thought or exchange, but simply does as it is told.<\/p>\n

THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS<\/h4>\n

The right to keep and bear arms<\/span>\u00a0entails the right to self-defense in the broadest sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0natural law right to armed self-defense\u00a0is essential to the maintenance of a person\u2019s security and physical well-being, keeping predatory man, predatory animal, and predatory Government at bay.<\/p>\n

Through the exercise of the right to own and possess firearms, the citizen keeps his sovereignty and dominion over the Government in check, lest it degenerates into worst tyranny.<\/p>\n

THE RIGHT TO DISSENT AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS ARE BOTH NECESSARY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF A FREE STATE<\/h4>\n

These two basic rights,\u00a0Free Speech and the Bearing of Arms<\/span>\u00a0are essential fixtures of a free Constitutional Republic, inseparably linked, and fused as one.<\/p>\n

If Man has the right to dissent from the encroachment of tyranny but lacks access to firearms, he may have the will to resist but he lacks the means to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Man has access to firearms but lacks independence of thought, Man\u2019s mind is adrift. He lacks the will to preserve<\/span>\u00a0\u201cthe security of a free State.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0And his weapons come to naught.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both are required.<\/span><\/p>\n

The government thus binds a free man to its dictates; suppresses man\u2019s creative impulses and drives; insinuates itself into every aspect of man\u2019s life. And in making man\u2019s life miserable, the Government at once makes certain that man cannot fight back against that Government. Its actions become more incessant and more aggressive.<\/p>\n

Nothing remains private or sacred; nothing remains beyond Government\u2019s all-seeing eye, and nothing remains beyond the power of Government to poison and destroy all good things\u2014all to promote the \u201cGood Society,\u201d i.e., the well-ordered society, the well-behaved society, the conformist society.<\/p>\n

The government even deadens a person\u2019s instinct for self-preservation: there is no \u201cSelf\u201d left to preserve.<\/p>\n

A person thus comes to view himself as merely an insignificant, lifeless cog, in a lifeless, cold, remorseless machine.<\/p>\n

AQ has previously pointed out that\u00a0the natural law right of speech, i.e., independence of thoughts, and the natural law right of self-defense, which logically entails armed self-defense, are inextricably linked.\u00a0See\u00a0our article, titled,\u00a0\u201cThe Right To Dissent And The Right To Bear Arms Are A Bulwark Against Tyranny,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0posted on this website, on November 21, 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In pertinent part, we wrote,<\/p>\n

\u201c. . . if one is prevented from exercising one\u2019s freedom of speech\u2014the freedom to dissent, the freedom to exercise independence of thought\u2014one\u2019s mind, spirit, and soul is damaged.<\/p>\n

And, if one is prevented from exercising his freedom to bear arms\u2014one\u2019s right of defense against a predatory beast, predatory man, or predatory government\u2014then the safety and well-being of one\u2019s physical Self are imperiled.<\/p>\n

The two most basic rights\u2014the right of self-protection and\u00a0independence of thought\u2014go together. To lose the one is to lose the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Autonomy of Selfhood is impossible where the individual is helpless\u2014physically, psychically, mentally, intellectually, and spiritually.<\/p>\n

But, many would resist and would have the means to do so, as long as one is armed. But our Country is not like those of the EU, or of the British Commonwealth. Our citizenry is armed.<\/p>\n

But suppose the Government allowed man a modicum of expression, freedom from relentless scrutiny in exchange for paying homage to it. And suppose the cost for that was the loss of his firearms\u2014the thing that can bring down tyranny.<\/p>\n

Suppose Government could \u201ctease\u201d those who resist mass confiscation of their firearms into surrendering them if the Government promised to them from harassment and the ire of their fellow compliant, docile compatriots.<\/p>\n

If successful, Government\u2019s tentacles would wrap around the last vestiges of freedom. Nothing would remain to stop the plunge of the Country into totalitarianism. Law, as such, would devolve into ad hoc pronouncements, and edicts of the Tyrant and his minions, that could change at the Tyrant\u2019s whim, without prior notice. The Tyrant would constantly keep the populace confounded, off-balance, and in a state of abject fear, without the means and wherewithal to object. And those few that could still reason at all would rebel against Tyranny if they could, but they cannot because they lack the means, firearms, to do so.<\/p>\n

Man, lacking the means to ensure his freedom would become wholly dependent on the Government to satisfy his basic needs, his physical survival. His life would be reduced to mere subsistence. And, for those few who stood in the Tyrant\u2019s grace, their life would be carefree, and pleasant enough, but would be purposeless, meaningless, and inane. Each day would be marked by pursuing one pleasure after another, living life in a slothful, languid manner. And, as ever required now and then, showering the Tyrant with flattery, and slavish devotion, for this modern-day courtier could never know when he might fall out of the Tyrant\u2019s grace. One would have to look to the life of serfs and that of the nobility and royalty in the Middle Ages to find a useful comparison for what is in store for mankind in a neo-feudalistic world empire that is in the making.<\/p>\n

In the absence of the armed citizenry, the tyranny of Government is not only possible. It is inevitable!<\/span><\/p>\n

THERE IS A REASON\u00a0 THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, LIKE ITS PREDECESSOR, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, IS APOPLECTIC OVER GUNS AND THE NATION\u2019S THE ARMED CITIZENRY, AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CONCERN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.<\/h4>\n

Make no mistake:\u00a0The government, THIS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, is coming after Americans\u2019 weaponry, doing so, incrementally, in dribs and drabs. Any setback leads immediately to another effort. The Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress won\u2019t stop until they have de facto erased\u00a0<\/span>the right of the people to keep and bear arms, codified in the Second Amendment,<\/span>\u00a0and have confiscated millions of firearms from the civilian citizenry. The campaign of confiscation will continue, indefinitely under the dictatorship that this Country is moving toward by leaps and bounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Government usurpers are in deathly fear of the armed citizen. That explains their stubborn, all-consuming drive to erase\u00a0the Second Amendment.<\/span>\u00a0But they cannot acknowledge this. They can never acknowledge this. They cannot so much as suggest this.<\/p>\n

To do so would be to admit their fear and weakness. And it would draw attention to their unlawful acts of usurpation of the citizenry\u2019s sovereignty over them.<\/p>\n

It would cast light on their unlawful attempts to erase Americans\u2019 natural law rights. The armed citizenry is the one remaining failsafe to keep tyranny from the final triumph over Nation,\u00a0Constitution,\u00a0<\/span>and People.<\/p>\n

The usurpers of our sovereignty assiduously avoid acknowledging or even intimating their own dread of the armed citizenry. They do so by cleverly deflecting attention away from themselves, from their own fear, and directing public attention on those Americans who abhor firearms and who shun those who exercise their\u00a0God-given right to keep and bear them.<\/p>\n

Thus, the Government creates the myth that it is the armed American citizen who induces fear in all other Americans, and that public safety and order demands that Americans relinquish their firearms. It is all nonsense, of course. The criminal element and homicidal maniac will not be affected, nor deterred by this\u2014not by any of it.<\/p>\n

Note that the Biden Administration and anti-Second Amendment groups\u2019 efforts are always\u00a0directed\u00a0at creating laws targeting the average American citizen, with no mention of the criminal element and little to no mention of the mentally incompetent.<\/p>\n

This little fact should give discerning Americans pause, as it undercuts the Biden Administration\u2019s contention that its arms control policies to end\u00a0Gun Violence\u2014their present go-to catchall phrase\u2014are directed at promoting public safety and public order for the benefit of Americans.<\/p>\n

Given the lack of any coherent Government policy to tackle rampant violent crime, whether criminals use firearms or any other implement at their disposal, the inference that one must draw from this is that the\u00a0<\/span>Biden Administration<\/a>,\u00a0along with a captive, seditious Press, and Anti-Second Amendment groups, such as<\/span>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>Brady antigun group<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Everytown for Gun Safety<\/a>,\u00a0isn\u2019t interested in dealing effectively with violent crime\u2014and never was interested in that. The Administration\u2019s interest and that of the Press and Anti-Second Amendment groups is and always was, on eliminating the armed citizenry. That explains why the focus of their efforts was and is directed almost entirely on going after gun manufacturers, and retail gun dealers, ammunition suppliers and manufacturers, and weaponry in the hands of the average citizen. The aim is to destroy the fact of and the very notion of an armed citizenry as the mainstay\u00a0<\/span>to protect the security of a free State.<\/span>\u00a0A Tyranny has no use for either a free State or a free people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curbing instances of violent crime, especially in our Nation\u2019s major urban areas, is rarely if ever mentioned. One only hears the expression\u00a0<\/span>Gun Violence\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span>Assault weapon\u00a0mentioned and those phrases are only<\/span>\u00a0mentioned in the context of the average, rational, responsible gun owner, not in the context of the psychopathic criminal element or the drug-addled raving lunatic that is, alone, responsible for violent crime. But, then, these criminal and lunatic elements are serving a purpose, if unconsciously. They are serving the Government by demoralizing and disorienting the public, and by destabilizing society.\u00a0<\/span>Defunding police departments, handcuffing their ability thereby hampering their ability to fight crime and to protect their respective communities; banning the popular semiautomatic weapon in common use, that is utilized for self-defense; restricting the public\u2019s use of firearms through the enactment of a multitude of mind-numbing federal and State laws that negatively impact a person\u2019s ability to defend him or herself in a life-threatening situation, criminalizing\u00a0<\/span>the right of the people to keep and bear arms\u2014<\/span>all for the purpose of providing for and promoting public safety<\/span>\u2014this is difficult to fathom. Claiming a desire to protect the public by leaving it defenseless beggars credulity. How does this work? It operates in this way<\/span>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

The Government, presenting itself as a Guardian of public safety and order pretends to protect the unarmed John Q. Public\u2014not from the criminal element or the homicidal maniac\u2014but from the armed John Q. Public citizen. This is the unstated but constant and consistent\u00a0theme<\/a>\u00a0running throughout Biden\u2019s attack on gun possession and ownership. There are too many guns, i.e., there are too many guns in the hands of too many average Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Government and its propagandists do this\u00a0<\/span>by positing that the armed John Q. Public, is, a danger to the public by dint of his desire to exercise his<\/span>\u00a0natural law right of armed self-defense,\u00a0and, so, the claim is that a person who wishes to exercise his God-given right of armed self-defense is,\u00a0<\/span>by definition,<\/span>\u00a0a violent aggressor and inherent danger to the public by virtue of hi<\/span>s\u00a0keeping and bearing arms;<\/span>\u00a0ergo,\u00a0he is a transgressor of public order and harmony, and of societal norms; that he is<\/span>\u00a0\u201cunmutual<\/a>\u201d and must undergo social conditioning to correct his abnormal behavior and abnormal thought processes.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, what is really going on here is Government Tyranny imposing its will on those who will not accept the imposition of Tyranny upon the Country. But the Government is taking pains to hide that fact. So, by a feat of legerdemain, the Tyrannical Government doesn\u2019t refer to itself as stepping on the head of the American citizen\u2014who seeks only to be left alone and to exercise his God-given rights, free from coercion and harassment.<\/span>\u00a0Rather, the Government, THIS Federal Government, i.e., THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, points its finger at those individuals\u2014who happen to be tens of millions of us\u2014 who rightfully refuse to conform their thoughts and behavior, their individuality, to unlawful Government edicts and dictates. The Biden Administration claims that it is these Americans who are stepping on \u201cthe rights\u201d of their neighbors, namely those people who have abjectly surrendered their Soul, Spirit, and Selfhood to the Government.<\/span><\/p>\n

As this Federal Government, this Biden Administration dismantles our Free Constitutional Republic, some Americans accept this. Some even laud it. But many others realize the danger this Government poses to the well-being of the Republic and to the sanctity and inviolability of their individual Being. And they will have no part of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The theme presented by the Government\u2019s propagandists is\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

New Age Remodelers of America, \u201cthe Sensible Americans\u201d vs. Old Age Preservers of the Republic, \u201cthe Irrational Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drilled down to its basics, what the perspicacious observer sees is the age-old battle now come back to haunt us, Americans:<\/p>\n

Tyranny versus Liberty.<\/p>\n

It is really that simple. And with each passing day, the dynamic playing out throughout the Land is ever clearer.<\/p>\n

Which shall it be? The \u201cvote\u201d is out on this.<\/p>\n

THE GOAL OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS THE GOAL OF THE UN POLICY THINK TANKS, AND OF BOTH THE EU AND OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH NATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY HALFWAY THERE: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN NATION-STATE\u2014ALL OF THEM, AND WHAT REMAINS OF EACH OF THEM ARE TO BE MERGED INTO A ONE-WORLD TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. THAT IS THE AGENDA. THAT IS THE PLAN. THEY ARE ALL OPERATING OUT OF THE SAME PLAYBOOK, AND IT IS ALL TIED TO THE UN\u00a0ARMS CONTROL PROTOCOL<\/a>,\u00a0TIED TO INTERNATIONAL IDEAS ABOUT GUN OWNERSHIP AND POSSESSION<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

The goal is this:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Immersion of all western nation-states, including, and especially, the\u00a0 United States, into a neo-feudalistic world order. This is to replace all independent sovereign nation-states and, of salient importance, this requires the inclusion of the United States for the postulated tyrannical empire to be successful. The inclusion of the United States into a grand world Totalitarian scheme is required, not only because of its nuclear power capabilities but because of the Nation\u2019s unique Bill of Rights,<\/span>\u00a0the only truly free Constitutional Republic in existence since the dawn of civilization. It won\u2019t do for the United States to continue to exist as the one independent sovereign western nation-state holdout, with its free and sovereign citizenry in a world that is ruled by a small tyrannical cadre of royalty and nobility, oppressing humanity through a massive police, military, intelligence, surveillance presence.<\/p>\n

Waves of oppressed people would attempt to enter the United States, illegally, as they do now, but this would not be in accordance with the present\u00a0UN agenda to destroy the integrity of a nation\u2019s geographic borders<\/a>, the unstated goal of which is to pave the way for a tyrannical neo-feudalistic empire, encompassing much of the world. No.<\/p>\n

This new wave of would-be transplants would try to circumvent the Globalist agenda of a one-world government, resulting in growing unrest among billions of people throughout the world. Such massive unrest would be exceedingly difficult to contain, absent a bloodbath such as the world has never before seen.<\/p>\n

But, the result of such a bloodbath would lead to further upheaval in the world empire. And that upheaval could not be contained. Fissures would open up throughout the empire, and the empire would collapse from the unsustainable weight of itself, no longer kept in reasonable check through its brutal class of military, para-military police, and intelligence overseers. Consider\u00a0the problem that CCP China is having<\/a>\u00a0with its own disgruntled oppressed population.<\/p>\n

As large as China is both in landmass and in population, it is nothing on the order of a world empire. Can Xi Jinping\u2019s Government contain the unrest? It would seem so. After all, the Chinese people do not have access to firearms. They cannot easily defy the tyranny they have lived under for so long, especially, in the years of the CCP Coronavirus pandemic, which they still live under. But, fractures are in this tightly controlled society. But, without firearms, a revolution cannot succeed. Thousands of people may be killed, and tens of thousands more could wind up in detention camps. Possession of firearms in CCP China is strictly controlled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Law of the People\u2019s Republic of China on Control of Guns,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>is lengthy and makes clear that obtaining Government approval to possess a gun legally for the average citizen is highly unlikely and would hardly be worth the effort, even if a person were able legally to obtain one. The Gun Law of CCP China provides in part,<\/p>\n

\u201cArticle 1 This Law is enacted for the purpose of tightening control over guns, preserving public security and order and ensuring public safety.<\/span><\/p>\n

Article 2 This Law applies to control of guns within the territory of the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cArticle 3 The State establishes strict control over guns. All units and individuals are prohibited to possess, manufacture (alter and assemble included), trade in, transport, lease or loan guns in violation of the provisions of laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

The State shall severely punish any criminal act committed in violation of the control of guns. Every unit and individual has the obligation to inform against any violations against the control of guns. The State shall protect the informant and reward the persons who have rendered meritorious service by informing against criminal acts committed<\/span>\u00a0against the control of guns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Article 4 The public security department under the State Council shall be in charge of control of guns throughout the country. Public security organs of the people\u2019s governments at or above the county level shall be in charge of the control of guns in their administrative regions respectively. The public security organs of the people\u2019s governments at higher levels shall exercise supervision over the control of guns by the public security organs of the people\u2019s governments at lower levels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DOESN\u2019T HAVE AN EASY JOB OF IT TRYING TO CONVINCE AMERICANS THAT GUN POSSESSION IS TO BE CONSIDERED ARCHAIC, OUT OF VOGUE, AND INCONSISTENT WITH MODERN-DAY INTERNATIONAL NORMS OF THOUGHT AND CONDUCT\u2014AS IF AMERICANS SHOULD GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE TYRANNY PREVALENT IN THE EU OR IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH NATIONS ANYWAY, OR THAT NATURAL LAW RIGHTS THAT ARE, OF THEIR NATURE, GOD-GIVEN, AND, SO, FUNDAMENTAL, UNALIENABLE, ILLIMITABLE, IMMUTABLE, UNMODIFIABLE, AND ETERNAL ARE THE SORTS OF THINGS THAT CAN EVER BE CONSIDERED OUT OF FASHION.<\/h4>\n

The Biden Administration, much of Congress, and many Americans, as well, are completely out of touch with the basic precepts, principles, and tenets of the\u00a0U.S. Constitution,<\/span>\u00a0upon which our Nation, a free Republic was founded and upon which it is grounded. Attempting to discuss this matter at all with them is doomed to failure at the outset.<\/p>\n

There is no common ground upon which a dialog could commence. To try to do so would be like attempting to carry on a conversation with an alien species. There is nothing decipherable between us and them. Neither of us could begin to translate the other\u2019s language. That explains why this Nation is at loggerheads.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s remarks at his inauguration, if one can even accept the propriety of calling it an inauguration, where he talks about unifying the Nation, he was probably being insincere at best.<\/p>\n

But, even if Biden were, at the time at least, being honest, his attempt at bringing the Nation together was\u00a0impossible at the get-go.<\/p>\n

Both he and his Administration operate on a set of postulates nakedly inconsistent with the\u00a0U.S. Constitution.<\/span>\u00a0So, where could an American citizen who cherishes\u00a0the Constitution,\u00a0<\/span>and who cherishes our history, heritage, culture, Judeo-Christian ethic, and Nation\u2019s ethos, even begin a conversation, on any matter with him or with any of the people that serve in his Administration?<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s speech to the Nation, on\u00a0September 1, 2022<\/a>, was beyond the pale. To make sense of it at all, one must infer that he has declared war on half the Nation. There is nothing else to make of it. There\u2019s not so much as a hint of\u00a0rapprochement either in the content or tone of that speech, let alone a suggestion of national unity in it. In truth, the speech was nothing more than a harangue, and the backdrop only accentuated that fact.<\/p>\n

It is not surprising that Biden would be dead-set against Americans\u2019 exercise of their right of armed self-defense. One does not proffer arms to a perceived enemy. One confiscates arms from that enemy. And, so Biden attacks the armed citizenry, incessantly, mercilessly.<\/p>\n

Aided by a seditious Press, the Biden Administration claims that\u00a0 Americans who \u201cflaunt\u201d their exercise of\u00a0t<\/span>he right to keep and bear arms\u00a0<\/span>jeopardize all Americans, even as it is really, and only, the Government itself that registers agitation, hatred and dreaded fear of the armed citizenry.<\/p>\n

In the Sunday,\u00a0November 26, 2022, NY Times<\/a>, the author of the piece, Mike, McIntire, exclaims,<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense \u2014 increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one\u2019s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else\u2019s. . . .<\/p>\n

Armed Americans, often pushing a right-wing agenda, are increasingly using open-carry laws to intimidate opponents and shut down debate. . . . Today, in some parts of the country with permissive gun laws, it is not unusual to see people with handguns or military-style rifles at all types of protests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note the author\u2019s recognition of the close nexus between the\u00a0First Amendment, \u201cFreedom of Speech,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0Second Amendment, \u201cright of the people to keep and bear arms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, in that entire Op-Ed essay, posing as a news account, there is not a word mentioned of actual violence occurring by these well-armed Americans protesting the Government; nor is there any mention of fear of violence felt by one American that another American happens to carry a firearm.<\/p>\n

Apparently, violence is taken as a given, i.e., as axiomatic, without the need for proof. Merely TO BE armed is enough to scare the Tyrant.\u00a0As well the Tyrant should be frightened. As well all Tyrants should take note of the Tyranny they imposed on their people.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it is both the right and the duty of the American citizen, to point out to the Tyrant that it is the Tyrant\u2019s behavior that promotes violence directed at the Tyrant. That violence does not emanate from the armed without good reason.<\/p>\n

The Federal Government has nothing to fear from the armed citizenry as long as it acts in accordance with the\u00a0U.S. Constitution\u00a0<\/span>and serves the interests of the American people.<\/p>\n

THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE! AND IT IS AS THE FRAMERS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION INTENDED! Sad it was that Americans once were compelled to take up arms against a Tyrant.\u00a0<\/span>And that Tyrant, George III, and the Rothschild Bankers resided across the sea. Worse it is when one\u2019s own Government imposes tyranny on its own people.<\/span><\/p>\n

But invoking fear and anger in the masses is necessary to rationalize restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, for Tyranny cannot prevail in the midst of an omnipresent armed citizenry, and where one Branch of Government, the U.S. Supreme Court, stands guard over the\u00a0<\/span>Bill of Rights,\u00a0<\/span>as is presently the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of the Times article, supra, was compelled to recognize the seminal\u00a0Second Amendment\u00a0<\/span>Heller<\/span>\u00a0case, but since it doesn\u2019t serve the Tyrant Government\u2019s agenda, with whom the Times newspaper is in alliance, the author deliberately misrepresents the import of the case, distorting it to serve the Government Tyrant\u2019s\u00a0cause.<\/p>\n

Slithering around the import of\u00a0Heller,<\/span>\u00a0McIntire says that\u00a0Heller<\/span>\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201c. . . made clear that gun rights were\u00a0not unlimited<\/a>, and that its ruling did not invalidate laws prohibiting \u2018the carrying of firearms in sensitive places.\u2019 That caveat was reiterated in a concurring opinion in the New York case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news reporter latches onto the phrase\u00a0\u201cgun rights were not unlimited.\u201d\u00a0But that phrase is dicta. It isn\u2019t the law. The phrase has nothing to do with the\u00a0Heller<\/span>\u00a0holdings. So, why is it in\u00a0Heller<\/span>\u00a0at all?<\/p>\n

Ever mindful of his words, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who penned the majority opinion, would have preferred not to use it. He inserted the phrase into the opinion likely to appease both Chief Justice, John Roberts, and retired Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy to obtain their votes.<\/p>\n

The phrase was not meant to give carte blanche to States to run roughshod over the Right. But the phrase seems to suggest that the States can do just that, and many States have in fact done just that, which is why the Court was compelled to take up Bruen.<\/p>\n

What Justice Scalia meant by the phrase,\u00a0\u201cgun rights were not unlimited\u201d\u00a0<\/span>is this, as set forth in the Majority Opinion:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court\u2019s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Scalia alluded to the Federal Statute,\u00a018 U.S.C. \u00a7 922(g)<\/span>\u00a0that precludes certain categories of individuals from possessing firearms.<\/p>\n

In that paragraph, cited supra, Justice Scalia also refers to\u00a0\u201csensitive places\u201d<\/span>\u00a0but this is merely an observation. Scalia simply mentions the places where, historically, individuals were prohibited from carrying a firearm. But this doesn\u2019t mean a State can designate\u00a0\u201csensitive places\u201d<\/span>\u00a0willy-nilly.<\/p>\n

The phrase,\u00a0\u201csensitive places\u201d\u00a0wrongly inspires wrong-headed thinking about the application of the Right. The failure of many jurisdictions to heed the rulings of\u00a0Heller\u00a0<\/span>explains why\u00a0Bruen<\/span>\u00a0came along, thereafter.<\/p>\n

In striking down the\u00a0\u201cproper cause\u201d\u00a0requirement of New York, Justice Thomas, writing for the majority, clearly also warned the New York Government about the misuse of\u00a0\u201csensitive place\u201d\u00a0restrictions. New York Governor Hochul ignored the warning.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s contemptuous attitude toward the High Court, illustrated in a plethora of amendments to the State\u2019s Gun Law, has led to several legal challenges, pending in Federal District Courts of New York and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.<\/p>\n

It is in the nature of Government that it inevitably fosters ill-well in the polity it is supposed to serve. In the process, it gives itself expansive powers beyond what Statute and Constitution allow.<\/p>\n

And what is Government, anyway? It is a creation of man,\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0a creation of\u00a0God.\u00a0It is an artificial construct.<\/p>\n

Unlike the\u00a0Divine Creator, perfect and eternal,\u00a0Government is imperfect and impermanent; flawed and transitory, and dangerous to freedom and liberty.<\/p>\n

The poet and essayist, Henry David Thoreau, stated, and oft-recited to this day:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat Government is best which governs least.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of all our Presidents, from the late 20th<\/sup>\u00a0Century onward, Ronald Reagan,\u00a0our 40th<\/sup>\u00a0President, knew this best, and his Administration sought to place brakes on the Administrative State to prevent it from doing harm to the public. The website,\u00a0reagan.com<\/a>, sets forth,<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone curious about the views of Ronald Reagan on big government can consider what he thought were the nine most terrifying words in the English language: \u2018I\u2019m from the government, and I\u2019m here to help.\u2019 Reagan\u00a0stated many times<\/a>\u00a0the danger of this seemingly mundane claim, and it came to define many aspects of his presidency, as well as his legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 45th<\/sup>\u00a0President, Donald Trump, to his credit also knew of the danger of \u201cBig Government,\u201d and he emulated Reagan in recognizing this and doing his best to rein Government in. See the\u00a0msnbc.com<\/a>\u00a0article, comparing Trump and Reagan.<\/p>\n

Americans who wish to preserve the Nation in pristine condition, consistent with the precepts of\u00a0the Constitution<\/span>\u00a0as understood by the framers of it, and those who seek to dismantle the whole of it,\u00a0both<\/span>\u00a0acknowledge and agree with the comparison, although the former laud the sentiment expressed, while the latter condemn it. See msnbc article:<\/p>\n

Now juxtapose Reagan\u2019s greatest fear for the Country with this from Biden, as mentioned in a\u00a0Forbes article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn off-the-cuff remarks at a recent meeting of the Business Roundtable, President Biden said, \u2018There\u2019s going to be a new world order out there, and we\u2019ve got to lead it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The meaning of the remark made at the end of March 2022, when viewed from all that Biden\u2019s Administration has wrought\u2014from the time Biden set foot in the Oval Office, up to the present time\u2014exemplifies Reagan\u2019s worst fears of Government overreach and usurpation of the sovereignty of the American people over Government and the loss of a free Constitutional Republic.<\/p>\n

Reagan\u2019s fear bespeaks the quandary that the framers felt in constructing a Government for the nascent Country. For, Government suppresses man\u2019s freedom and liberty and oppresses his dignity. That\u2019s the way things are.<\/p>\n

The seeds of tyranny exist in all governments despite their myriad forms. The culmination of Tyranny, writ large, is that of a world government, which all western nations are moving inexorably and, it appears, irrevocably toward.<\/p>\n

The citizenry must judge the extent and scope of tyranny and ascertain that point it would no longer abide by tyranny.<\/p>\n

The framers of this Nation\u2019s Federal Government knew that Government inevitably, invariably turns toward tyranny if left to its own devices, and, so, to slow the inevitable slide toward tyranny, they imposed restraints on the powers the Government can lawfully wield. And they further demarcated Government\u2019s limited powers among three coequal Branches.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the framers also knew that, even with the checks and balances in place, as set down in the<\/span>\u00a0Articles of the Constitution,<\/span>\u00a0this would not prevent the onset of tyranny.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, to check the inexorable and inevitable march of the Federal Government toward tyranny, they delineated and codified, in the Constitution,\u00a0the Divine Rights of the people,\u00a0against which Government cannot lawfully tread.<\/p>\n

Yet, tyranny in the Federal Government is now fully upon us. It cannot be reasonably denied. And it came about due to the inattentiveness of the electorate and to the secretive, ruthless enterprises of powerful and wealthy people, both inside the Federal Government and outside it. And, this tyranny of Government will only worsen, and with rapidity.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are a few of the major outward signs of Tyranny:<\/span><\/p>\n