Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us. They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people. But today the United States has become an empire, fast decaying into tyranny; and we their children have become strangers and subjects in the land our fathers won. Instead of a free and just social and political order, today we are threatened by a Godless national culture and a corrupt, despotic federal government that knows no limits to its power.
We are left us with no recourse but to look to our own counsel to secure our welfare. We must “abjure the realm,” withdrawing our support from the tyrannical government and corporate institutions created for our enslavement. Then we must work to restore the power of our States, the first bulwark of freedom, self-government, and Southern identity. As our forefathers did, we must establish a new foundation for law and government by all honourable means.
I hope you all don’t dIscriminate against us Yankees. While Patrick Henry of Virginia and Chirstopher Gadsden of South Carolina were ardent members of the Sons of Liberty from the South, the majority of those who fomented the pursuit of liberty were Yankees.
I like the Southern Covenant soliloquy, but it leaves me with the same conclusion and feeling as the other pieces of similar statements in that it recognizes that we are in deep doo-doo, but fails to recognize that all the talk and statements we can and have made, has, and will do nothing to change the problems we face. It recognizes we are facing a tyrannical, out of control, un-Constitutional government; it recognizes we have had no redress or recourse to lawful courts etc., and that the present “government” needs to be replaced; but it only mentions, in a passive sort of way, if peaceable means fail to accomplish the said goals, we may have to resort to physical means to accomplish those goals.
I guess I have been caramelized by the many times I, and others I know, have been burnt in the exercise of rights by the very courts who are supposed to protect those rights; and I suppose the cynicism created by these experiences has brought me to the conclusion that paper attempts at redress, and the like, are futile attempts to garner the necessary changes and can no longer be viewed as appropriate means to accomplish the goals enumerated in the Covenant.
I also read the Missouri bill espoused by the SNC concerning gun rights, and the bill starts out fairly good but then degenerates into a morass of legal and technical qualifications for carrying concealed weapons, delineating “gun free zones,” requiring certifications, attestations, and etc., becoming just another piece of legislation, similar to the federal, that controls and regulates the keeping and carrying of weapons.
The Second Amendment is a Federal ban and by its nature is “unqualified.” This means no law can be passed which affects this unqualified right in any manner. The power of this Amendment necessarily flows down to prohibit the state governments in the same manner or the right itself can be legislated away by the state and becomes of no effect.