Rob Risko attends the church I am privileged to serve as Pastor. Rob is a Major in the Air Force Guard having flown combat sorties in one of the Desert Nouns. Rob realizes the challenges that the current military faces and has expressed his mind on that end more than once. Rob and his wife and family confess Christ and seek to think Christ’s thoughts after Him. He is a friend.
Occupy This, or That!
By Robert Risko · Friday, October 21, 2011
Politicians “test the waters” for democratic acceptance. With calls from North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue to “suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make” Patriots should recognize the increasingly toxic waters of Socialism staging its treacherous stand against the United States Constitution.
Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Denver! Occupy Los Angeles! Occupy London!
“[A]n armed uprising is inevitable, and…the time for it is fully ripe” might be a familiar phrase to readers. (1) The original statement is not a product of the “Occupiers” but is an official Marxist justification for the Bolshevik Revolution. A careful study of these two revolutionary movements may reveal protections that preserve the United States Constitutional peace. However, many may miss the significance of parallels in history where some real but often imagined conditions of today draw on the same faulty foundations as the Russian Civil War.
We should be vigilant for the next borrowed concept: “We now have the majority behind us.” (1) Already, this reasoning is openly embraced by the “Occupy Wall Street” group: “We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends.” (2) Perhaps the only restraint on “Occupy Mobocracy” is that they generally reject the Second Amendment.
Having compared the nature of the United States through history including the Mayflower Compact (3) (the first Colonial Covenant), Declaration of Independence (4), Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (5) (the first United States Constitution), Federalist (6) and Anti-Federalist Papers (7), United States Constitution of 1789 (8,9,10,11), War Department Training Manual 2000-25 (12), PatriotPost’s Essential Liberty booklet (13), and The Truth Project (14); a comprehensive citizenship lesson on United States Worldview was assembled. (15)
So pervasive is socialist indoctrination in the United States that even our countrymen in the military are fearful of an open discussion of the United States Constitution. Presented with a concise summary of the above reputable sources and designed to effectively educate a critical component of those under solemn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” (16) military “leaders” dismissed the discussion as “too contentious.” The very individuals with a special requirement to understand and charged to maintain the United States Constitution clearly rejected an opportunity to reintroduce the “1787 Founder” thoughts into modern military discourse.
Where then shall we find bravery and courage for our present challenges? Certainly it should have been from among our “best and brightest” citizens!
Yet the military “leadership” response should not be surprising to the discerning Patriot. Clearly the high calling of military service has been abandoned or surrendered as shown by the truth-twisting of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal and redefining justice and integrity as “consent.” (17)
Further indications mark the decline of Constitution supporters and defenders within the military. Operation ODYSSEY DAWN, which aptly translates to “beginning of a long journey,” was readily prosecuted and heralded by military “leaders” as a success. However, as outlined by Mr. Glenn Greenwald in Congress vs. the President on War Powers, Libya employment was not sanctioned by the Constitutional authority for action against a sovereign nation-state in the form of a declaration of war or Congressional resolution. (8) This inaction of Congress renders the entire operation unconstitutional and thereby a grand failure of constitutional trustees. (18) Those charged with supporting and defending the Constitution should have been the most zealous for Rule of Law in accordance with their Oath of Office by denying the Presidential dictate.
Perhaps the absence of a public school or military education describing the proper responsibilities of citizenship is to blame. Or maybe a more perilous want of integrity has freed personal security to suppress “service before self” is the precipitant to wanton violation of the United States Constitution. Whatever the root cause, nothing could be more apparent than the critical need for personal responsibility rising out of a proper understanding and assent to the Foundation of the United States itself.
Sadly the problems of the United States are a national dilemma that permeates all of American society. They are the products of a larger indoctrination that has prevailed unchecked since the early 1930s and follow earlier constitutional violations of well-intentioned but imperfect men such as Lincoln. (19) The Prussian education system that we “enjoy” produces good employees and soldiers — “good” from the obtuse perspective that wealth can be created without creativity. Any autocrat simply wants obedient masses and will find in the publically-educated United States an abundance of unquestioning servants.
The good news brought about by the PatriotPost and the more recent Tea Party movement is a “questioning spirit” among the once quiet citizenry. It is to be emphasized that this questioning is distinct from anarchy! Upon finding a valid principle, anarchy will attempt to overthrow Civil Liberty so that self-imposed rules are the only remaining determinant of right and wrong (Total Liberty). In contrast, the discerning Patriot-citizen will affirm and defend a tested truth once questioning has found consummation. In these true citizens we find a great hope for this nation! Testing these foundations of our beliefs is crucial to understanding and defending them. Testing these foundations is also crucial to correcting fissures and deterioration that weaken the whole.
As we think on the current perceptions and historic definitions of “Occupy [this or that],” the concerns spelled out by Mr. Alexander in Obama’s Red October Uprising (20) should not be discounted but amplified. Today, concerns mount that the United States military in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya are “occupiers.” Numerous public relations statements are pursued to maintain the understanding that United States presence in foreign nations is at the request of the host government and presence persists only so long as such assistance is required for a stable region.
While the general conclusions made by Mr. Alexander on the dangers of the “Occupy” movement are agreeable, the true nature of the “occupiers” is left undefined. This complete understanding is critical for Patriots as additional affronts to Rule of Law are intensified.
By definition, legal occupiers claim property or ascendancy where no previous claim exists. (21) Where a previous claim is enforceable, occupiers are given another name. The “Occupy” mobocracy claiming legitimacy over a preexisting claim (the U.S. Constitution) is an enemy occupation at best, and blatantly treasonous at worst! This statement is evident, including the International Occupy movements, where the very Constitutions granting rights to assemble and private property ownership are the same Constitutional forms of government and economy that the “Occupy” movement would have overthrown thus canceling constitutional rights themselves even the right to assemble. This is the logic of insanity!
The distorted views taught by public education’s socialist elite have set the stage for an unquestioned claim that these “occupiers” are our countrymen and equal partakers of the privileges of our Constitution. (22) They are not! We might have a responsibility for helping these misguided souls discover reality, but common assent to established Rule of Law and a common mind toward harmonious ideologies mark the true fellow-citizens of a nation, an understanding clearly understood by Senator Joseph McCarthy. (23)
Our countrymen are vigilant adherents to Rule of Law as revealed in our unadulterated national history, honest, discerners of truth by testing, hard-working contributors, personally responsible for their actions and those under their charge, charitable self-sacrificing givers, community-minded servants, and principled decision-makers based on a solid Foundation of the Religion of Jesus Christ as handed down by our Founders; including Christopher Columbus (23) and the Christian Pilgrims of the Mayflower. (3)
We should engage, entreat, and pray that those set against the Truth will yet be won over to it. In the final analysis, our devotion must remain fixed on the Truth and unencumbered by false notions of brotherhood with the insane — even to the peril of our earthly lives.
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1. http://www.marxist.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/10a.htm
2. http://occupywallst.org
3. http://patriotpost.us/document/the-mayflower-compact/
4. http://patriotpost.us/document/the-declaration-of-independence/
5. http://patriotpost.us/document/the-articles-of-confederation/
6. http://patriotpost.us/document/the-federalist-papers/
7. http://www.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/constitutional/antifederalist/antifed.htm
8. http://patriotpost.us/document/the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/
9. http://patriotpost.us/document/bill-of-rights-preamble/
10. http://patriotpost.us/document/the-first-ten-amendments-as-ratified/
11. http://patriotpost.us/document/amendments-11-27-to-the-constitution-of-the-united-states/
12. http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html
13. https://patriotpostshop.com/products/124
14. http://www.thetruthproject.org/
15. https://www.filesanywhere.com/FS/v.aspx?v=8a6d6a8a616676a76e9e
16. http://www.history.army.mil/html/faq/oaths.html
17. http://patriotpost.us/commentary/2011/03/18/a-nation-adrift-economy-and-liberty-and-leftist-incrementalism/
18. http://www.salon.com/2011/06/25/libya_12/
19. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2009/02/13/lincolns-legacy-at-200/
20. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/10/13/obamas-red-october-uprising/
21. http://www.webster1828.com/
22. http://patriotpost.us/opinion/walter-e-williams/2011/10/19/pitting-us-against-each-other/
23. http://www.senatormccarthy.com/
24. Federer, W. J. (2000). America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotation (pp. 305-306). St. Louis, MO: AMERISEARCH, Inc.
