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of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it
probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”
If our liberty and nation were still under God’s protection, none of us
would be reading this book; we would be in full measure out in pursuit of our
happiness. By rejecting God’s plan for our future, we have chosen to adopt
man’s temporal plan, and we must suffer the consequences of that choice.
Many years of legal research has led me down many paths in pursuit of
truth. I didn’t receive Truth in law school or at any time during my formal
education, with the exception of a one-room schoolhouse in Kentucky. That
school didn’t receive any federal funds for education, so the subject matter the
teacher taught was not restricted. Our teacher had a remarkable understanding
of the national and state Constitution and the framers’ intent, along with
Thomas Jefferson’s negotiations with the State legislature documented in the
Kentucky Resolutions – fascinating reading then; visionary in the present
day.
In later years far removed from that one-room schoolhouse, what I
received at public schools supported by federal grant money was revisionist
history and omission of the truth in everything other than the sciences. After
all, I had an education controlled by the federal government’s money. I was
taught what the federal and state governments wanted me to learn – nothing
more, and certainly not the truth.
The old axiom that “truth is the first casualty of war” is as close to any
truth that you will ever find in your investigation of the federal government.
That being the case, we have been lied to by our government and have been
at war with our national government for a very long time, and I believe that
is the truth.
As I write, for each of us within this country, our liberty is perishing – that
liberty crushed beneath the constant growth of state and federal government
power. More than ever before, the federal, state, and local governments are
confiscating citizens’ property, trampling rights, and decimating opportunities
for any prosperous future you may have hoped for. Since 1933, a concentrated
effort has been made to impoverish the people of America. Our wealth has
been systematically stripped from us by rapacious taxation and outright theft
in the form of usury (interest) and fractional reserve banking policy.
Federal agencies publish an average of over two hundred pages of new
rulings, regulations, and proposals in the Federal Register each business
day. The expansion of the federal code is one of the most obvious measures
of the increase of administrative control over the citizen. The politicians’
effort to socially engineer society by an endless multiplication of penalties,
prohibitions, taxes and prison sentences, is a dismal failure. What has been
lost in their effort is our freedom.