Domestic Enemies
Find them and deal with them.
Today domestic enemies are rampant, disgusting, and widespread.
I find this essay even more apt today, where the governing State over the American people has become a hostile and oppositional force that gaslights, lies, distorts, plunders, and wages medical genocide against its own citizenry.
Domestic Enemies was originally written in June of 2003.
Read carefully and consider what twenty years have wrought:
When one joins our military forces, or takes public office in our nation - there is a clear and specific oath associated with it.
That oath contains a phrase familiar to millions of Americans:
...to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Let us examine the meaning of this more closely.
What legislation would you, as a sworn officeholder and a representative of the People, find to be inconsistent with your oath?
What orders would you, as a sworn officer or enlistee in our military, find to be inconsistent with your oath?
What actions would you, as a private citizen, find to be injurious to your Constitution? Harmful to the supreme law of our land? Damaging to the protection afforded us by the Bill of Rights?
At what point does the identification of a domestic enemy become clear and unmistakable?
Americans have, rightfully, a distaste for the accusation of treason. Treason is undoubtedly a serious and devastating crime, one with the potential to utterly destroy the nation - and to create the incandescent massacre of two hundred million Americans through nuclear devastation.
We have put fellow Americans to death for creating exactly that risk.
Today, there are many who charge our elected officials with this crime, based on their disregard for, or attempts to subvert, the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. While their anger and concern is proper, the accusation is not.
The charge is inaccurate.
Treason has a clear and unequivocal definition in Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution:
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
To levy the charge of treason without adhering to its definition, does damage to both the seriousness of real treason; and to the cause of those who would defend our Constitution and our Bill of Rights against shallow, disgusting, and senseless political attacks.
There is a far better charge, and a far more accurate one.
Domestic enemy.
There is not, to my knowledge, an official definition of "domestic enemy" in either the Constitution or the United States Code. As such, it begs a resemblance to both pornography and Art - "you know it when you see it."
Where do we see it today?
I see it in the words of those who claim that the Bill of Rights is obsolete and in need of abrogation.
Preserve...
I see it in the actions of those who violate the Bill of Rights with overwhelming police violence against those Americans with different ideas, skin color, or religion.
Protect...
I see it in foolish and hysterical legislation spawned from an ignorant and servile Congress, aimed at reducing our protected liberties and enabling the seeds of tyranny to grow.
and defend...
The Constitution of the United States is a clear and compelling contract between the focused brutality of the State and the overwhelming power of an aroused and armed citizenry. Those who would alter that contract for their own temporary ideological or sociopolitical advantage most assuredly deserve the appellation of "domestic enemy".
They deserve the discomfort that accompanies the light of public exposure.
They deserve the contempt and concern of those Americans who have voluntarily sworn to defend the law of our land and the freedoms of our people.
They deserve your attention, and your challenge - for our blessed liberties are only protected if they are defended.
Apathy is the downfall of empires. If America falls, the entire realm of mankind will suffer for it.
Let such a fate never fall upon the suffering shoulders of the world. Do the one thing that you, as an American, have always within your power. Do it without flinching, and with recognition of its necessity.
Do your duty.
My position is unchanged.
I was correct then, and I am correct now.
And while the American empire is clearly rotted and in the throes of fatal collapse, nonetheless the Constitution is still the formal military contract under which government of, by, and for the People is conducted.
Militants and revolutionaries will say that the Constitution is so far abrogated and disregarded as to be useless; one does not play by the rules of a game where the adversary does not abide by any restriction at all.
And that objection is correct on all counts.
Nevertheless, domestic enemies are still real.
They are liabilities, and must be dealt with.
If you have sworn oath, I exhort you to follow your conscience.
Get up and walk, and get started.
Grand rising!