We have often asked ourselves, "How can they do that?" Meaning, "How does the government pass what seems to be unconstitutional laws and get away with it in the courts?" 

After all, we've read the Organic Documents. We know we have certain Natural Rights granted to us individually by our Creator and that these Rights are not only Self-evident, but Unalienable as well; that the States were guaranteed a Republic form of government, not a Democracy.

We understand that the Bill of Rights aren't merely specific Rights retained by the People and the several States. They are, at the same time, explicit limitations placed squarely upon the federal (central) government with respect to its authority and jurisdiction over the several States, the People, their Natural Rights and respective Sovereignty.

Some of these Amendments are so unambiguous it is difficult to imagine how anyone could misinterpret them or worse, disregard them altogether. An exceptional example of this is the Second Amendment, since it is one of the more precisely worded and yet, one of the most controversial.

Bill of Rights - Article II: 

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." [Boldface added] 

So it is a "Right of the People" of any one of the several States of this Union, in their effort to maintain, "a well regulated Militia [the People] being necessary to the security of a free State." 

Equally clear, it is a "Right of the People," not the State or the federal government. The People are what is necessary to the security of a free state and Arms are the means with which the People use to insure its security. Think about it, it can't be the State. The State is just a piece of paper, how is a piece of paper going to shoot a gun? After all, the State, like the Militia, is also made up of the People. 

Further, the statement "shall not be infringed," means nothing less than what it says. "Shall not," means "WILL NOT or CAN NOT." Remember, the Bill of Rights is a direct limitation upon the federal (central) government restricting its ability to regulate certain Rights of the People and the States. In other words: 

The federal government CANNOT infringe upon the PEOPLE'S [militia's] RIGHT to keep and bear Arms, as it is necessary for the security of a free State.

What's more, this particular amendment is, at the very least, an implied limitation of the States as well, in that the Constitution is the Superior Law of the Land. In fact, the States are required to include the Bill of Rights or something akin to its wording and meaning, within their own State's Constitution. This is to conform to the U.S. Constitution, as just one of the qualifications to becoming a member of the Union of the several States, which then goes to restrict the State from any "infringement" as well. 

In our effort to know and understand these things as facts, you must; 

read it for yourself and then,
add it to the knowledge you already have,
then apply that knowledge and ask the next obvious question: "How is it that both the states and the federal government can and do pass laws apparently regulating this 'Right of the People, which is a clear contradiction to the facts?" 

So for anyone who is untrained in these matters to suggest that all of these professionals could be wrong would be all but impossible. But again, if we ask the next most obvious question, "Then could it be, they too, don't know and are being tricked and fooled as much as we are?" If so, then how is this all done and why? 

To think this, one must conclude there is a masterful conspiracy on the part of those who know, against those who don't know. Or at least, one would have to acknowledge one's own total ignorance of the facts.  It is said, there is at least a grain of truth to either side of any particular issue of debate. Not everyone is totally right and not everyone is totally wrong. Nor is either side of a debate required to even acknowledge the facts (truths) pointed out by the opposition. Each is only responsible for their own agenda for winning over the judges or the audience. 

The fact that human beings are such diverse creatures, with the ability to conceive various concepts of life, the universe and even a Creator, is more than enough evidence to show how this could be true. So it is, as this series will demonstrate, there are some people who actually do know and are a part of a real conspiracy to defraud the American People. And there are people who don't know about the conspiracy, but have taken advantage of the situation to further their own liberal agendas. These people are otherwise like the rest of us, but with a propensity to want to control the lives of others - usually out of fear or elitism or both. Moreover, there are a great many people who don't have a clue as to what is going on. Though many can and do complain; but, with little, if any, satisfaction and of course there are those who could simply care less. 

(Continued in Column 2) 

This Week's Quiz   How's your knowledge of United States history? The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. Refer to the "Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act known simply as the 'Act of 1871". What was the official title of this act?   This act caused a drastic change in the direction of the United States   Email your answer to NEFLOS@net-host.net .  The first correct answer will win a free Florida State Flag, suitable for outdoor display of your patriotism Answer to last quiz: John C. Calhoun Congratulations to Wayne Mincey of Middleburg who had the first correct answer. What would you do if the building you were in was on fire? Would you bail?  Would you get the hell out of there?  Or would you bang on doors waking people up, making sure they knew what was happening?  Well, that’s what we do. Sadly, the problem is, most people think we're the ones who started the fire.

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The truth is what you make of it,
so many people say.
Create your own reality
as your beliefs convey.

This attitude for life has been
adopted far and wide.
To be politically correct,
the truth must be denied.

With so much ambiguity,
our politicians stand
for nothing in particular,
to get their votes in hand.

Amidst this moral drought we need
a rebel with a cause,
a man who'll stand for Jesus Christ,
and do so without pause.

A leader who is not afraid
to speak the gospel truth
could bring our country back to God
and redirect its youth.

Truth is truth, you can't escape it,
though it may seem mundane.
However unacceptible,
the truth will still remain!

Thanks to Glenda Stoneback for the inspiration

( Continued from Column 1) 

Today is much the same as it was during the American Revolution. Now, as then, there are a certain number of people willing to do whatever it takes to fight to preserve our Natural Rights (about 2%), those who want them, but aren't willing to get personally involved, for whatever reason (about 14%), those who actually like things the just way they are (about 40%). The balance are those who don't get involved in anything, they simply accept whatever happens and are generally persuaded by nothing more than their emotions and/or fears rather than knowledge and experience. That is, until they perceive a direct assault upon their personal Rights, Liberties and Freedoms. Then, as has occurred some fifteen thousand times over the course of recorded history, the oppressed rise up in rebellion. If we again fail, to recognize these facts then we are doomed to repeat history yet again. 

It should be agreed that we are all limited to our understanding of any issue based upon our own personal knowledge and experiences. The more we know, the more difficult it is to become oppressed, the more difficult it is for anyone, especially our own government, to usurp our Unalienable, Individual and Natural Rights. In this sense, YOUR OWN ignorance is the true enemy to your Natural Rights. hence the saying; 

   "If you don't know your Rights, you don't have any." 

The goal here is to demonstrate how those in the know have conspired against the American People by misleading and manipulating them into a parallel system, which offers not Natural Rights, but mere "immunities and privileges." Also, how they have used our federal (central) government as their vehicle to usher us into this web of deceit and then claim direct jurisdiction over the People and the States under its codes and statutes. All of which are Constitutional and legal in every way, yet totally outside the very Constitutional guarantees designed to protect and defend our Individual Natural Rights. It is a co-existing system which we enter into as a matter of "Political Choice," as Freemen, not as a Natural Right. 

In an effort to be accurate and concise, references will be made to certain legal terms. Black's (6th edition) Law Dictionary's definitions are being used as the primary source for understanding these terms. Black's is, un-arguably, the most widely used and stipulated to reference book of legally acceptable definitions available today. It is, in essence, an abbreviated form for the interpretation of these terms as defined by various and numerous court decisions. After all, it is the exclusive duty of the judicial system to interpret the law.  We've been taught, "it is the letter of the law that counts;" however, in reality, it is the court's interpretation of the law that counts. Then it becomes a matter of the higher court's interpretation, which determines the final decision and thus becomes the "precedent in law" to which we are to refer. 

Black's Law Dictionary is a compilation of these decisions. The terms, which have been decided in this manner, have a reference to the actual court case(s) involved in the court's decision. Those terms without a case reference, are predefined as legally acceptable definitions and are accepted by the legal community, as opposed to some general definition as might be found in other dictionaries. You shall see, there are startling differences in the definitions of certain terms then you might have otherwise expected. It is essential for anyone investigating this information to obtain a copy of Black's Law Dictionary . 

It must be understood, the function of the courts is to interpret the law. They do not make decisions with regards to one's POLITICAL CHOICES. They in fact HONOR those choices, but more importantly, they FORCE YOU TO HONOR them as well. For example, let's say you travel to France. In doing so, is it not true you have just accepted its Political System of governance and thus, you have then become subject to its jurisdiction, under the laws governing it, simply by being there? Of course it is. You have no U.S. Constitutional Rights while you're in France (or any other foreign country), you only have whatever rights or privileges their system offers its citizens or residents (aliens - more on this later). 

As you continue reading, you will find that it is this very situation you have unwittingly subjected yourself to and have consequently come under the jurisdiction of a system which is totally outside the protections of your Natural Rights, even though this system is itself constitutional. 

It does sounds contradictory. But, as you will read, this is the first step in how it seems as though you have NO ACCESS to your Natural Rights.

In The Next Issue: How It All Began.  Stay Tuned

Did You Know?

One hundred forty years ago this year, two armies thrust north through western Maryland's rich farmlands and faced off in a battle so savage that its one-day death toll is unsurpassed in American history.
 
On Sept. 17, 1862, invading Confederate forces fighting for freedom in the South and Union pursuers defending their own vision of America in the North collided in rolling sheets of fire at Antietam Creek, a shallow ribbon of water ambling through orchards and cornfields not far from the upper stretches of the Potomac River.
 
The battle near the dusty crossroads of Sharpsburg ended the first Confederate invasion of the North. It raised the stakes of the War Between the States for America and the world. Despite last year's horrendous losses in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the one-day casualty toll at Antietam remains unequaled.

Historian James M. McPherson notes in a new book that the 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded at Antietam were more than twice the 3,044 fatalities, including the 19 hijackers, suffered in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
 
"Another 15,000 men wounded in the Battle of Antietam would recover, but many of them would never again walk on two legs or work with two arms," McPherson writes in "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War," published by Oxford University Press.
 
The casualties at Antietam were four times greater than
Americans killed or wounded at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. They were also greater than the combined casualties of all of the nation's 19th century wars, excepting that War itself.

Let us never forget those heros of yesteryear.  After almost 90 years of existence, America had changed dramatically.  Can we say 140 years later this change was for the better?  Search for the truth and decide for yourself. 

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