It does not take much intelligence to read about the conflict which the thirteen colonies had with Great Britain and relate their situation to ours. It does take a desire to govern and lead with dignity and within the limits of a respect for unalienable, God-given rights of the individual. To relate our situation with that of our colonial ancestors takes only a moment to open your eyes and ears.

The third sentence from the Declaration of the causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms adopted by the Second Continental Congress:

The legislature of Great-Britain, however, stimulated by an inordinate passion for a power not only unjustifiable, but which they know to be peculiarly reprobated by the very constitution of that kingdom, and desparate of success in any mode of contest, where regard should be had to truth, law, or right, have at length, deserting those, attempted to effect their cruel and impolitic purpose of enslaving these colonies by violence, and have thereby rendered it necessary for us to close with their last appeal from reason to arms.

Men are sinful by nature and will revert to a sinful manipulations to obtain their desires. In the body politic there are two driving forces: power and money. The obtaining of one usually helps provide the other. The manipulations to gain power (or maintain it) will happen in city and local governments as quickly as it will in state and international settings. Churches, clubs and volunteer organizations are all susceptible as well.

The sinful yearnings of men are restrained individually by the Holy Spirit. In the body politic, men must be restrained first by their oath of loyalty to their governing constitution and secondly, by a regard for “truth, law or right.” Our founding fathers understood that.

One of the great failings of today's politicians is that they neither know nor understand our constitutions. Many have never even read them.

Our founding fathers saw that the King and Parliament had decided to do what they wished regardless of constitution or truth. Emperor Obama and the Congress of the Columbian Empire are repeating the desperate actions of Great Britain in the 1770s. The Emperor and his minions have the “cruel and impolitic purpose of enslaving” us all.

They are moving toward a last appeal to reason. The cry for secession is now audible. It will soon grow to a chorus of such multitude that it will sound as the thundering roar of a tumbling rapids.

Give me a free Tennessee Nation.

From Solitude,
David O Jones