The "Other" Declaration of Independence: Have You Read It? You Should!

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 ✯ Happy Texas Independence Day! ✯

“When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

The Declaration

When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.

Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.
It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.

It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.

✯ ✯ The Document the brave men who signed

 the Texas Declaration of Independence: ✯ ✯

These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.

We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.“

~March 2, 1836

A special thank you to Lone Star Junction 

As Tea Party 2nd Anniversary Approaches The Left Openly Plays by Their Own Rulebook

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The Second Anniversary of the Tea Party Movement is approaching - February 27th - when spontaneous rallies sprung up after Rick Santelli's famous rant: "The government is promoting bad behavior!... President Obama, Are You Listening?...We're thinking of having an American Tea Party.." Mr. Santelli was referring to the coming bailouts of the horrid sub-prime lending crisis.
Basically, what the Tea Party Movement in its various forms, want the following for America:

Core Values - as posted on TeaPartyPatriots.org

• Fiscal Responsibility
• Constitutionally Limited Government
• Free Markets

Seems pretty simple to me. These are not issues that bring on violence and hatred. However, as rallies became more frequent and larger, this grass-roots movement grew across the country. While the "Main Stream Media" ignored us at first, we became increasingly berated by the Left: by very left-leaning Democrats, left leaning citizens, and by - to our surprise - very active and open-practicing Socialists in our governments.  We were called "racist," "biggots," "stupid," "ignorant," "tebaggers, "crazy," "conspiracy theorists" - and far worse.  It was baffling at first.  We were just trying to wake the country up. We were scared - What on earth was happening to our country.  Admittedly, for a lot of us, it was a wake-up call. We had put trust in age-old institutions while we lived our lives.  That trust had been horrifically abused. A call to action was heard - the proverbial sleeping giant began to awaken.

What, or rather Whom, had we just put into High Office who    was surrounding himself with "Czars" wholly unconstitutional when it comes to authority but of very checkered and radical pasts.  One, who was "fired" in the middle of the night, was a self-admitted card-carrying Communist named Van Jones, author of "STORM". We were ridiculed, chided, and painted in a  very negative light. 

Our new grass-roots conservatives had some pre-required reading. It's called "Liberty & Tyranny" by Mark Levin.  Too many of us hadn't read it. 

If you still haven't read it - it's never too late!

   

So then, we learned these Leftists, who are also Statists, had a playbook called "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky. For review, here they are:

1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.2. Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time.
8. Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.  

What's presently interesting is that we can now engage in hindsight and see that all the actions the Left was accusing the Tea Party protesters of, they are now actively demonstrating in their labor-demands temper tantrums now in places like Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and other states that do not have "Right To Work" legislation. (Texas is a Right-to Work state, thank God.) The President of the United States himself has used these Alinski tactics very openly, and many examples can be cited. These tactics at their very root are evil. 

I'd like to present one particular video that demonstrates that the evil being practiced by these people.  This man, a Union protester, hits Tabitha Hale, from Freedom Works, who was filming and interviewing the Wisconsin protesters.  He hit her. He HIT her. HE HIT A WOMAN.

Here is another example of a protester who has a particular issue with someone's faith:



And from Michelle Malkin, who has phenomenally followed the corruption between the White House and the unions like SEIU, CWA and the AFL-CIO, a quote from an elected representative (with tax-payers' salary!):

A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.”“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston on Tuesday rallying in solidarity for Wisconsin union members. …This is not Capuano’s first brush with violent rhetoric. Last month Capuano said, “Politicians, I think are too bland today. I don’t know what they believe in. Nothing wrong with throwing a coffee cup at someone if you’re doing it for human rights.”

Republican Governors Association:
"The New Majority"

My point is that eventually, I am hopeful anyway, that these people will implode on themselves.  I urge the Governors of these states to stand strong in defending their spending cuts, which include these union people just putting a little more of their own money into their own future, just like the rest of us do.  Governor Walker, Governor Kasich, along with Governor Christie of New Jersey, all need the support of American conservatives everywhere to encourage them to stay the course.

These Governors, along with the rest of the country's Republican Governors who demonstrably understand fiscal responsibility all know that the game of fiscal lying is over.  They're the strong ones for the future of America.  Much stronger than the Clown-in-Chief we have now.

Who Will Be John Galt? Atlas Shrugged, The Film

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Appropriately, the film Atlas Shrugged (Part 1) debuts in theaters on April 15th. 
I can't wait! I'm not a big patron of Hollywood films as of late. I can't stand it when movies have a passive/aggressive liberal agenda built into stupid scripts.

Minor ADD Moment: I do want to take a line or two here to recommend a film that is currently available on DVD, Netflix, (and On Demand in some areas) called "Every Day", starring Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber. Please check it out. You won't be disappointed.)

Following a clip of the film, there is also great interview on BTR's The Stage Right Show with Producer Harmon Kaslow. Just click on the logo to listen.


Atlas Shrugged (Part 1), directed by Paul Johansson, is based on the novel by Ayn Rand; screenplay by John Aglialoro. The film stars Edi Gathegi, Taylor Schilling and Paul Johansson.

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