By Christopher Hansen
I was sent a quote by a friend that touched my heart so deeply that I had to share it with the world. It is a clear explanation of what has occurred in America to what was once a freedom loving people. It is another example of how history repeats. The Fathers of this nation and of the rebellion against tyranny, the men of Marlborough, Massachusetts unanimously declared in 1773 AD: “Death is more eligible than slavery, a free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties…”
These men of Marlborough implored, “the Ruler above the skies, that He would make bare His arm in defense of His Church and people, and let Israel go.”
Americans are no longer a freedom loving people but have become a nation of voluntary slaves that having been “nourished and reared in slavery [and] are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition [of voluntary slavery] into which they were born.”
Here is the quote:
“It is incredible how as soon as a people becomes subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say, on beholding such a situation, that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement. It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they were born. There is, however, no heir so spendthrift or indifferent that he does not sometimes scan the account books of his father in order to see if he is enjoying all the privileges of his legacy or whether, perchance, his rights and those of his predecessor have not been encroached upon. Nevertheless it is clear enough that the powerful influence of custom is in no respect more compelling than in this, namely, habituation to subjection.”
“Let us therefore learn while there is yet time, let us learn to do good. Let us raise our eyes to Heaven for the sake of our honor, for the very love of virtue, or, to speak wisely, for the love and praise of God Almighty, who is the infallible witness of our deeds and the just judge of our faults. As for me, I truly believe I am right, since there is nothing so contrary to a generous and loving God as tyranny—I believe He has reserved, in a separate spot in Hell, some very special punishment for tyrants and their accomplices.”
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne De La Boetie
Those words were written circa 1552 AD and reminded me of the words of Benjamin Franklin:
“The worship of God is a duty…Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature… I never doubted the existence of the Deity, that he made the world, and governed it by His Providence…The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit… Whoever shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world… Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
But Americans have become like the Israelites of old that ask God to make them a king so that they could stop being a people governed by themselves and by God but instead to have a ruler [Bush/Obama] over them. How very light the bondage of a king placed over Israel was in comparison to America in 2008 AD:
1st Samuel, Chapter 8 10 ¶ And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
19 ¶ Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.
22 And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
Oh how sad that Americans sold their birthright for a mess of pottage and Socialism and rejected the Creator that granted unto Americans Unalienable rights. How sad that Americans do not rebel against a tax rate that exceeds 50% of their wages when all these “voluntary” taxes [state, local and federal] are combined but instead clamor for the scraps from the table of socialism.
We are indeed a nation “nourished and reared in slavery” and have become content in that voluntary slavery as Americans voluntarily file 1040 Communist style tax forms and testify against themselves while committing perjury because they do not know they owe but only guess. Our only hope to regain that title of liberty to which the God of Nature has entitled us is for America to be crushed under the weight of its own debt to wipe away those voluntary slaves like God did by keeping the Israelites in the desert for 40 years so that those who longed for the slave pits of Egypt died off in order to keep their slave mentality from infecting the land God had prepared for a freedom loving people.
For those of you that love liberty I honestly suggest that you prepare for that 40 years and the famine that is about to sweep this nation.
May God be with you few, you happy few.
Well a few of us average folks are trying to fight it. Like you, I am in awe at the masses of people who want to be enslaved and pay tribute. What a sad state we are in when the vast majority of Americans voted for either McCain or Obama. I believe that no government is preferable to a wicked one.