Causing Our Own Suffering

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Owing to two funerals in April of this year, I filed an extension with the IRS and only filed my taxes today. Although I'm getting a refund, as I clicked submit, I scowled because they kept some of my money. Last week, the Supreme Court handed down some rulings with which I vehemently disagree and which I intend to protest by getting behind the Article V Movement completely. Why should they have the last word? Why should I pay for, endorse, and support things I find morally reprehensible? To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

In his groundbreaking work, Common Sense, Thomas Paine outlined how government is the source of our suffering. He writes:

"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer (emphasis in original)".

Here we are, as if we live in a nation without law and without order, experiencing the same lawlessness that permeated the middle ages. Men live in fear of one another; the strong prey on the weak. A few mortal, imperfect men (and a few bitter, angry women), clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood, reject the precedence of American society and "fundamentally transform it" so that it sustains what they believe. They reject government of the people and continually overturn things decided by common consent in the ballot box. If everything comes down to a single vote in the Supreme Court, then that's the only vote that counts. Who in Hoboken is Anthony Kennedy to presume the arrogant stance that he has the final word on all matters of law in America? None of us voted for him.

Far too many people confuse society with government. Society existed before government, and it persists even when and if governments change. While there is society without government, there is no government without society, because in order for government to rise there must be people. Most of our politicians (and my dean) don't seem to understand that. They insist that although they can persist without us, we cannot exist without them. Without people, what need is there for professors, policemen, or politicians? How can rights come from government if people can exist and even thrive without it? How can I have a right to life if and only if I accept and bow to a government? Tell that to the gypsies, homeless, and feral.

Government is a necessary evil. We find ourselves furthermore spending a portion of our substance to furnish protection for the rest. Then, they take that portion and use it in ways and means that we would otherwise protest. This they do by FORCE, by fiat, by threat of the IRS. Every April, we renew our familiarity with that signature page that invites us to ask if we are being honest, and if we're not, the IRS may send armed agents to your door to take MORE. I feel more and more the anger shared by Samuel Adams. As we watch America lose every advantage ever in the war against terror and tyranny, his words lend our cause a terrible aspect:

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say "what should be the reward of such sacrifices?" Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

Why should I subsidize the efforts of men who would hunt me from the face of the earth? There is an all out war on Christians in this country, as if the white barbarians of the North are the source of all villainy on earth ever. These people love money, they would rather have their portion now and go waste their substance in riotous living. Then they come, with arrogance, and DEMAND to be taken back as the prodigals. There was a time when people came to America to contribute and now they come in order to see what they can take from us. We don't want them to be destitute; they desire that for us. They are not tolerant. They want to force us to conform to them.

We pay for our own suffering because we do not ask what is right. We do not stand for what is right, and we do not try to make ourselves right before Nature's God. If we want Him to protect us, then we need to repent. We need to stand fast for truth and right. As I posted to my Twitter yesterday, People who like Trump feel about him as Lincoln felt about Grant. "I like this man. He fights." Who else is fighting for us? If we want God to fight for us, we need to be humble in order to invite His presence. We need to be virtuous so that He can stay in our midst. We need to be submissive to accept that there may not be a Princeton early on and that the Valley Forges may be frequent and heavy. We need to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. Money is not enough. Giving money is easy. As it cost Christ at Golgotha, the process of freedom will cause blood and sweat and tears to roll, and it may result in our death. Days like Independence Day invite us to consider what sacrifice we are willing to set on the altar of freedom. Today, 239 years ago, they read the Declaration of Independence on the square in Philadelphia and called for public display on the 4th. Will you suffer or sacrifice? Only the latter secures the blessings of freedom for ourselves and our posterity.

I pledge my life, my fortune, and my sacred honour to this cause. I would rather dash myself against the rocks trying to establish a beachhead on the shores of tyranny than live in a world without the America in which I believe.