Fear and Fire

The one true hindrance to tyrants.

More than twenty years ago I saw with immense clarity the path and progression of the American people into fear and subjugation, driven by ambitious and unprincipled monsters who stalked the halls of State cloaked in imagery that concealed their true nature and objectives.

As ninja it is a sacred duty and purpose to see; to ignore blandishments and lies, to penetrate such cloaks and castles and tyrants as history offers and demands.

Fear And Fire was originally written in April of 2003.

Read well, and let that prescience sink in:

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Americans possess an astonishing array of guaranteed liberties, preserved both in the founding documents of the nation and in the force of arms, and of commitment to principle, that the People display.

We have in our Bill of Rights an incredibly unique set of limitations against the power of the State to intrude into the conscience, lives, and homes of Americans. These limitations, backed by the final force of the armed citizenry, ensure that our Government never becomes our master. That it adheres to the limits within which we agree to acknowledge its authority; and to the due process we demand from our accountable representatives.

Today, that document is under assault.

Today, these rights - and guarantees - are disgustingly and deliberately infringed.

Ask any American. Whether they are a Democrat or a Republican; whether they believe in firearms ownership or absolute gun control; whether they approve of socialized medicine or faith healing alone...

...this awareness of the destruction of freedom cuts across all ideologies, and all persuasions of political stripe.

Why?

What is the source of this fear and concern that I see so endemic and pervasive amongst our people?

Is it the heavy boots and black armored uniforms of masked Federal agents, crashing into homes and deploying weapons of war against our fellow Americans?

Is it in the summary seizure and confiscation of property, of homes and cars and cash and children in the name of a twisted interpretation of public safety?

Is it the blatant and unforgivable descent of our free press into a biased and deliberate promotion of unconstitutional policies, combined with a dedication to presenting overwhelming content of violence and obscenity? And their discarding of news and information in favor of propaganda and interpretation?

Is it the brutal and torturous deaths of our fellow men at the hands of those who brook no resistance?

It is all of these things.

But one thing stands out clearly, and with an unequivocal demonstration of disrespect for the essential and critical assumptions of America. It is an attack on these assumptions. The assumptions that the entire structure and idea of our country depends upon for its simple existence:

The sovereignty of the individual, and the imperative power of human conscience.

Why do we permit this?

Why do we shrug our collective shoulders at the ashes of Waco, and say "they had it coming?"

Why do we ignore the deaths at Ruby Ridge, and say "they were different anyway?"

Why do we turn to the Government, in the aftermath of Oklahoma City, and cry out for totalitarian control?

The answer to this, unfortunately, is also clear.

We are afraid.

Jeffrey Snyder's article A Nation of Cowards is a superb discussion of the death of bravery and conscience in our country. It clearly demonstrates our failure of resolve, and our abandonment of courage, in the face of a pervasive and unacceptable rot in the fiber of our nation.

It is an unforgivable thing. America, for all its missteps and mistakes, remains yet the most powerful and the most principled nation in the world. We still have these guarantees of liberty, even if we chose to shrink from their exercise. We still maintain the arms that won our freedom, despite the strident and hysterical calls for disarmament by the ignorant. We still possess the qualities of freedom that cause millions upon millions of human beings to risk death, imprisonment, and torture in their own lands - merely for the slim opportunity to escape into a nation where the rights of Men are more important than the security of the State.

We still maintain the fire of patriotism, and the recognition that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the most precious possessions of human beings.

This eternal fire of America must be preserved.

Teach your children. Speak with your neighbors. Act in accordance with the righteousness of liberty. Demand that our Government adhere to the agreement which gave birth to the United States. Reaffirm the essential nature of this contract, so beautifully inscribed by Thomas Jefferson into the hearts and minds of men:

But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security....

It is time to wake the sleeping beast that lies within us all.

It is time to wake the People, and bring them to an understanding of what is at stake.

We - and the suffering world - can afford no less.

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The day is now far gone, and the destruction wrought by those cloaked and monstrous entities is now cascaded into open unrest, approaching non-international armed conflict, that gives rise to considerations long apprehended by those of us who have long observed.

Today we are long past simple observation.

The Company has raised the black flag of the Standard, and calls men to join the Movement with firm resolve to defend their natural rights, answer their cry of conscience, advance their freedom, and recover their trampled and desecrated dignity.

Today you bear duty of the State, men and women both, and we invite you to take part in our militant efforts and economic projects.

Find your place!

Take the free Raw Human Capital assessment.

Know your utility, and deploy it within our ranks.

What we saw twenty years ago is now here.

America is dying, and the slouching beast of fable has arrived.

You will submit, or you will fight with a vengeance.

Grand rising!