Dates That Destroyed America

[moonwhim]

Dates That Destroyed America

By Chuck Baldwin

August 20, 2010

Archived link: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=2108

The decision by Congress to socialize medicine in the US ranks among
the most draconian, most egregious, most horrific actions ever taken
by the central government in Washington, D.C. This bill rocks the
principles of liberty and constitutional government to the core. It
changes fundamental foundations; it repudiates historical principle.
Oh! The same flag may fly on our flagpoles, the same monuments may
grace our landscape, and the same National Anthem may be sung during
our public ceremonies, but it is not the same America. The Congress of
the United States has now officially turned America into a socialist
state.

On March 21, 2010, Congress passed, and on March 23, 2010, President
Barack Obama signed the dreaded national health care bill into law,
and as such, these dates join a list of dates that have each inflicted
unconstitutional, socialistic, and sometimes even tyrannical action
against the States united and have, therefore, contributed to the
destruction of a free America.

April 9, 1865

This is the date when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of
Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Regardless of where one comes down on the subject of the Civil War,
one fact is undeniable: Abraham Lincoln seriously dismantled the
Jeffersonian model of federalism in America. Ever since, virtually
every battle that free men have fought for the principles of limited
government, State sovereignty, etc., has stemmed directly from
Lincoln's usurpation of power, which resulted in the subjugation and
forced union of what used to be "Free and Independent States" (the
Declaration of Independence). In fact, the philosophical battles being
waged today regarding the recent health care debacle (and every other
encroachment upon liberty and State power by the central government)
have their roots in Lincoln's tyranny.

July 9, 1868

This is the date when the 14th Amendment was ratified. This amendment
codified into law what Lincoln had forced at bayonet point. Until
then, people were only deemed citizens of their respective states. The
Constitution nowhere referred to people as "US citizens." It only
recognized "the Citizens of each State." Notice also that citizenship
was only recognized among the "several States," not among people
living in non-State territories. Until the 14th Amendment, people were
"Citizens of each State." (Article. IV. Section. 2. Paragraph. 1.) The
14th Amendment created a whole new class of persons: "citizens of the
United States." This false notion of "one nation" overturned the
Jeffersonian principle that our nation was a confederated republic, a
voluntary union of states.

February 3, 1913

This is the date when the 16th Amendment was ratified, and the direct
income tax and IRS were instituted. This was a flagrant repudiation of
freedom principles. What began as a temporary measure to support the
War of Northern Aggression became a permanent income revenue stream
for an unconstitutional--and ever-growing--central government.

April 8, 1913

This is the date when the 17th Amendment was ratified. This amendment
overturned the power of the State legislatures to elect their own
senators and replaced it with a direct, popular vote. This was another
serious blow against State sovereignty. The framers of the
Constitution desired that the influence and power in Washington, D.C.,
be kept as close to the people and states as possible. For example,
the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was to
be decided by a limited number of voters. In the original
Constitution, the ratio of "people of the several States" deciding
their House member could not exceed "one for every thirty thousand."
(Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3.) And when it came to the US
Senate, the framers also recognized the authority of each State
legislature to select its own senators, thereby keeping power and
influence from aggregating in Washington, D.C. The 17th Amendment
seriously damaged the influence and power of the states by forcing
them to elect their US senators by popular vote. The bigger the State,
the less influence the State legislature has in determining its US
senator. Senators who answered to State legislators, each answering to
a limited number of voters, were much more accountable to the
"citizens of the several States" than those who were elected by a
large number (many times numbering into the millions) of people. For
all intents and purposes (at least in the larger states), US Senators
are more like "mini-Presidents" than they are representatives of
sovereign states.

December 23, 1913

This is the date when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. This Act
placed oversight of America's financial matters into the hands of a
cabal of private international bankers, who have completely destroyed
the constitutional principles of sound money and (for the most part)
free enterprise. No longer would the marketplace (private consumption,
thrift, growth, etc.) be the determinant of the US economy (which is
what freedom is all about), but now a private, unaccountable
international banking cartel would have total power and authority to
micromanage (for their own private, parochial purposes) America's
financial sector. Virtually every recession, depression, and downturn
(including the one we are now experiencing) has been the direct result
of the Fed's manipulation (again, for its own purposes and with
Washington's cooperation) of the market.

June 26, 1945

This is the date when the United Nations Charter was signed and
America joined the push for global government. Ever since, US forces
have spilled untold amounts of blood and sacrificed thousands of lives
promoting the UN's agenda. Since the end of World War II, in virtually
every war in which US military forces have been engaged, it has been
at the behest of the UN. And it is also no accident that America has
not fought a constitutionally declared war since we entered the
UN--and neither have we won one.

Furthermore, it is America's involvement in the United Nations that
has spearheaded this draconian push for a New World Order that George
H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Walter Cronkite, et al., have
talked so much about. The United Nations is an evil institution that
has completely co-opted our US State Department and much of our
Defense Department. It is an anti-American institution that works
aggressively and constantly against the interests and principles of
the United States. But it is an institution that is ensconced in the
American political infrastructure. Like a cancer, the UN eats away at
our liberties and values, and both major political parties in
Washington, D.C., are culpable in allowing it to exert so much
influence upon our country.

June 25, 1962, and June 17, 1963

These are the dates when the US Supreme Court removed prayer ('62)
and Bible reading ('63) from public schools. At this point, these two
Supreme Court decisions were the most serious affront to the First
Amendment in US history. Think of it: from before a union of states
was established in 1787, children had been free to pray and read the
Scriptures in school. We're talking about a period of more than 300
years! Of course, the various State legislatures--and myriad city and
county governmental meetings--still open their sessions in prayer, as
do the US House and Senate, and even the US Supreme Court. But this
same liberty is denied the children of America. There is no question
that America has not recovered from these two horrific Supreme Court
decisions. In effect, the federal government has expelled God not only
from our public schools, but also from our public life. And America
has not been the same since.

October 22, 1968

This is the date when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Gun
Control Act of 1968. Before this Act, the 2nd Amendment was alive and
well in the United States. The Gun Control Act of 1968 turned a right
into a privilege and forever forced the American people to bow at the
altar of government when seeking to arm themselves. Interestingly
enough, this Gun Control Act mirrored Nazi Germany's Gun Control Act
of 1938. In fact, the Gun Control Act of 1968 is almost a verbatim
copy of Hitler's Gun Control Act of 1938.

Our Founding Fathers could never have imagined that governments
within the "several States" would ever be allowed to deny the people's
right to keep and bear arms. In fact, it was the attempted
confiscation of the firearms stored at Concord, Massachusetts, that
triggered the War of Independence in 1775. That the people of
Massachusetts would be denied their right to keep and bear arms, as
they are today, could not have been foreseen--and would never have
been tolerated--by America's founders.

Yet, most of the hundreds of draconian gun control laws that have
been inflicted upon the American people have all come about as a
result of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

January 22, 1973

This is the date when the US Supreme Court issued the Roe v. Wade and
Doe v. Bolton decisions, which, in effect, legalized
abortion-on-demand. These two decisions expunged the Jeffersonian
principle that all men are endowed by their Creator with the
unalienable right to life (Declaration). Since then, more than 50
million unborn babies have been legally murdered in their mothers'
wombs. Abortion is, without a doubt, America's national holocaust. It
has opened the door to a host of Big Government programs and policies
that have resulted in the wanton destruction of human life both in the
United States and overseas. It has created an entire industry whose
express purpose for existing is the destruction of human life. It has
desensitized the conscience and soul of America. Furthermore, it has
forced men of decency and good will to finance--with their tax
dollars--the unconscionable act of killing unborn children.

And once again, another Jeffersonian principle was eviscerated. He
said, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the
propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical." The Roe and Doe decisions violate this principle in the
most egregious manner possible.

October 26, 2001

This is the date when President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot
Act, and the federal government's war against individual liberty began
in earnest. Most of the unconstitutional eavesdropping, snooping,
wiretapping, phone call intercepting, email reading, prying, financial
records tracking, travel watching, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, by
federal police agencies began with the implementation of the Patriot
Act. The Department of Homeland Security and the "war on terrorism,"
which have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent
people worldwide, and the usurpation of federal power at home, have
all come about as an outgrowth of the Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act
has forever shifted the focus of American law and jurisprudence
against constitutional government and individual liberty, toward a
police-state mentality. The Patriot Act is even attempting to turn our
local and State law enforcement agencies into military-style
"Jackboots," where police officers see themselves not necessarily as
guardians of the citizenry, but, as often as not, as adversaries,
where citizens are deemed to be the "enemy."

October 17, 2006, and October 9, 2009

These are the dates when President G.W. Bush signed and President
Barack Obama re-signed the Military Commissions Act. This Act is the
outgrowth of the Patriot Act but has, in effect, terminated the
fundamental protections of individual liberty, which are found in the
US Constitution and Bill of Rights. For all intents and purposes, the
Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act eviscerated the 4th and 5th
Amendments, and do serious injury to several others. The Military
Commissions Act also expunges the constitutional right of Habeas
Corpus.

March 21 and 23, 2010

These are the dates when Congress passed and President Obama signed
into law the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," the
so-called "health care reform" bill that we spoke about at the
beginning of this column. While Social Security and various Welfare
programs have toyed with socialism in the United States, this bill is
the largest and most expansive endorsement of socialism in American
history. This bill socializes some 18% of the US economy by
socializing the health care industry in America. The fallout and
ramifications of this bill are going to be horrific.

When future historians review the demise of our once-great republic,
they will observe that the above dates were the dates that destroyed
America. The American people have been far too tolerant for far too
long.

People concerned about the future of freedom and prosperity in
America should line up quickly and demand that their respective State
legislatures and governors resist this new health care bill, even to
the point of refusing to implement it in their states. More than 30
states are threatening to take the health care bill to court. But
states must do more than that. They must pass legislation refusing to
comply with it. Yes, I'm saying it: it is time for another State
rebellion! If states do not stand up and draw their lines in the sand
now, it will be forever too late.

[larsenb]

Moonwhim, thanks for posting. I just received Chuck's email with this information, not appreciating your post until I did. A good synopsis of major events that have been put in place in this country,effectively destroying the Republic. One I hadn't thought about before was the passage of the 14th Amendment which created the U.S. Citizen, where before we were apparenyty only defined as citizens of respective States.