Today’s #Point2Ponder:

NBC published an article calling Sheriff’s who defend the Constitution as “radical” and equated them with “domestic terrorists” and even implied they were just a bunch of racist white guys.

The headline reads: “Constitutional Sheriffs: The Cops Who Think the Government Is Our ‘Greatest Threat'”

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Now Read the article by NBC: http://goo.gl/NWRV5S

I find that quite ironic. Why would a member of the press be mocking anyone for thinking that the “Government is our ‘greatest threat’?” The press relies on the very principles of Liberty for their industry and livelihood. Is there a greater threat Freedom of Press than government? Is there any OTHER threat to Freedom of Press than government?

Benjamin Franklin, writing as Silence Dogood, believed there was no greater threat to Freedom of Speech than the government.

“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Goverments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors.” Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 8 Jul 9, 1722.

How ironic is it that NBC, or any #MSM, would assert that defending the #Constitution makes you a potential domestic terrorist. Has our media become so ignorant that they do not understand that their industry is dependent upon a limited government that recognizes the superiority of the Rights of the people? Has our media become so fearful of government that they no longer have independent thought? If so, then as Franklin predicted, Freedom of Speech is suppressed, public Liberty is oppressed, and Wisdom is dead.

The very sad thing is that history proves the fact that government is the only enemy to freedom of press. It is how the communist revolution took hold of the people. Look at Joseph Goebbels, and his Ministry of Truth. Even Franklin ties the tyranny of Charles I to the denial of freedom of speech and George III had control of the media when our founders were trying to encourage the American Colonists to stand for Liberty.

Ignorance is not bliss…it is slavery. How can the media be so blind to history and to reality that they would allow this vicious pied piper to lead them right off the cliff into government mandated silence?

Why should we care?  If we do not have freedom of press, can we maintain freedom of speech?  If we do not have freedom of press, can we actually peacefully assemble or petition for a redress of grievances?  If the government takes complete control of the press with the permission of media, will any Liberty be secure?  Remember Franklin warned, “This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Goverments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own.”  Liberty Does Really Matter.

“For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” Samuel Adams to James Warren 1775

#Point2Ponder

Of all the things I teach there are 2 things that are always most challenging from the true Liberty perspective; guns and religion.

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You might think, teaching as I do to the audiences that I teach, that those two topics would be the most enthusiastically received.  However, when these topics are addressed from the true Liberty perspective it can be difficult to accept given the way Americans have been conditioned to think.

Guns, even in conservative circles, are controversial. According to our founders (Richard Henry Lee for one) we are supposed always carry a firearm (emphasis on always).  In Lee’s perspective, if you are not armed you are not defending Liberty.  But even more challenging than that, Lee said that we should also be training our children at a young age on how to use guns.  He called these two activities, “essential to the preservation of Liberty.”

Most red blooded patriots would have no problem with those perspectives so what’s the problem?  Actually DOING them.  Ideologies are just rhetoric until you put them to use.  We like to talk big, but the doing comes hard.  (Perhaps that’s why some politicians are so popular?)

How many conservative Americans carry ALWAYS?  How many conservative Americans train their kids to carry ALWAYS?  How many conservative Americans would feel uncomfortable doing either of those things.  Yet, according to the standards of Liberty, we should be doing them as reflex, without even a second thought.

Here is an even more challenging aspect of guns and Liberty; according to Noah Webster, the American people should always out arm their government.  Yes, according to Noah, if the government owns one, we should own two.  How many Americans would be comfortable with the though that every day citizens should posses MRAPs, drones, tanks, or even WMDs?  Not many considering that they don’t even want us to have handgun shaped PopTarts.  Now think about that fact that when we have them, we are also supposed to be training our kids how to use them.  MIND BLOWN.

Here is the thought running through some minds right now, “KrisAnne, you can’t possibly think that everyday people should have access to nuclear weapons?!?”  My response?  I have a sneaky suspicion that if government knew people could own them they wouldn’t be so quick to make them.

Here is a shocker…everyday people DO own them.  We just call them by political names.  And if you wouldn’t want Timothy next door to own one, why does that opinion all of the sudden change when we elect Timothy to office and pay him with a government paycheck?  With a true Liberty perspective, we should be thinking the exact opposite.  Timothy can have one, but when he is elected to office, we need to take it away from him.

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