COMMON SENSE; Revisited
The True Significance of the Declaration of Independence (Indigenous vs. Surrogate Power)
July 06, 2009 at 08:48 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedUnderstanding the nature of power is the key to understanding all relationships between humans and their institutions. To understand this, it is necessary to understand what Jefferson called the “laws of our being.” Human beings are created with unique characteristics. They have free will. They have the capacity to grow and evolve and appreciate the infinite nature of their being. They have the power to create their own reality—humans are creators.
The Founders saw the truth of this as “self-evident.” In other words, for any rational thinking being, it is just plain common sense to conclude that they are unique among the inhabitants of the planet because they have free will and the ability to manifest thoughts into concrete form. Since each individual human has this power it follows that the only true source of power is the individual. Since that power originates and occurs naturally within each individual it is called “indigenous” power. The other type of power is that which human beings delegate to others which could be called “surrogate” power. Surrogate activities, duties, and limitations are usually laid out in a written agreement. These types of agreements are called contracts, partnership agreements, corporate charters, constitutions, labor union agreements, or any other kind of agreement between the individuals who are creating the specific surrogate and those who will be managing that surrogate...
The governments, companies, unions, and all other organizations we form are surrogates. There is nothing wrong with surrogates as long as the people we put in charge of our surrogates follow the contracts we create with them. The problems occur when those who are running the surrogate begin to think that they have the power. When this happens the surrogate can become less effective at achieving its goals, or even become a danger to those who created it in the first place.
The solution to an out of control surrogate is always the same. The individuals who are impacted by the surrogate’s behavior must declare their indigenous power and regain control of the surrogate or eliminate it and start over again with a new surrogate institution. The important point is that since only individuals have surrogate power, once they declare it the game is over for the surrogate. There is infinite power in the act of declaration!
In the 1700s, the leaders of the American freedom movement knew that they had to reclaim their indigenous power. They also knew they had to declare, in a clearly written document, their authority to create their own government. This is what they did in the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
The founders had a very clear understanding of indigenous power and surrogate power. The document they created, which is one of the most powerful spiritual/political documents in the history of the human race, clearly states who has the power and who does not:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”
Understanding the difference between surrogate power and indigenous power is the key to liberation from any surrogate that is out of control. Surrogates can use force and deception to create the illusion that they have power; however the only true source of power is the individual. The declaration of indigenous power is the first step to recapturing the power that has been usurped by any surrogate. That is what happened with the American colonists, it is what happened with Gandhi and the people of India, and it is what happened more recently in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
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Richard L. Wilde said: "Domestic Enemies guarding the US Constitution"
writen on September 14, 2009 at 08:29 pmby Richard L. Wilde
Patriotism is not blind subservience to government, nor loyalty to a particular leader or party. Patriotism is vigilance in protecting and preserving the US Constitution from all who would pervert or overthrow it, or in any way diminish our many rights, liberties, or sovereignties.
For decades, guardians of the Constitution have successfully manipulated our laws to: Violate the Founder’s intent; Remove their Safeguards; Upset the balance of powers; Usurp power; Advance tyranny; Operate above or outside the law; Bring the people under an insurmountable national debt through fiscal irresponsibility; Minimize or threaten the principles of freedom, independence, and sovereignty; Minimize the power or control of the people over government; Ignore, distort, chip away at, or infringe upon the God-given and unalienable rights of the people; Legalize and promote principles of Socialism, Marxism, Communism and Secular Humanism; Avoid defending our borders from foreign invasion; Discredit, dismantle, disregard, circumvent, or suspend the US Constitution.
The fact that attacks upon the Constitution have continued unimpeded for many decades implies that we cannot look to the federal government for self-correction. Although blatantly unconstitutional, the advancement of tyranny and the loss of our rights are exactly what they want us to have.
These attacks have had unimpeded success for one primary reason … there is no official definition of what it means to be a domestic enemy as referred to in Oaths of Citizenship, Military Oaths and Oaths of Office. (And, Congress will neither create nor officially approve such a definition due to self-incrimination, fear of job loss, or threats of retaliation from the puppet masters behind the scenes.)
Yet within the Oath lies the greatest key to our defense: Oaths (to defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic) are aimed not at enemies in general, but are aimed specifically at enemies of the Constitution itself. The Oath basically implies: "If you attempt to distort, subvert or in any way threaten the US Constitution, or violate the Founders’ intent, you are the enemy." Who are in a better position to threaten or destroy it than its elected or appointed guardians? … Clearly, no one else has access to it.
From that perspective comes the second and most valuable definition: Domestic Enemies are guardians of the Constitution (regardless of status or position, past or present) who fail to preserve, protect, honor or defend it; or, whose manipulation of the law threatens the function, scope, application or impact of the Constitution, or in any way violates the Founders’ intent for it.
The federal government will not adopt it, but every State and every Patriot ought to, personally and legally as the Key for defeating enemies within. America, and all the hope she stands for, will not survive much longer if domestic enemies of the Constitution are allowed to gain full control of government.
They know the Second Amendment is our strongest deterrent against government tyranny. Therefore, to advance tyranny, in the near future our enemies will pass laws to make possession of firearms illegal or ammo difficult to obtain. Please note: Every sponsor and supporter of such unconstitutional laws have by that very deed (and by this definition) identified themselves as domestic enemies, and should be prosecuted as such.
As Thomas Jefferson said, "The people … are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." So what can we the people do? Get as many Patriots as possible promoting the above concepts and definitions; Promote a nation-wide outcry for a thorough purging of domestic enemies until they are all identified, investigated, prosecuted and defeated (the incriminating evidence exists); Press hard enough that we get media support; Pressure each Governor to conduct Senate Investigations of federal representatives from their respective states which have violated their Oaths of Office (with the reminder that the Governors themselves took an Oath to defend against all enemies of the Constitution, regardless of rank or jurisdiction … so any failure to now defend it constitutes aiding and abetting the enemy, and violates their own Oath).
Some treasonous guardians will claim immunity. But that is empty manipulation, since their new anti-Constitution laws are not somehow superior to the Supreme Law of the Land. No one, especially enemies of the Constitution, can ever be above the law.
Let every Patriot and every State get involved. Let every Oath be honored. Let our nation adopt an attitude of "Zero tolerance for domestic enemies". Let the purging of domestic enemies begin, and continue unimpeded until our Constitutional Republic is fully restored! Together we can do it!
God Bless America, and our combined efforts to keep her free.