We have the right to do anything and everything. That is
the law of nature. We have the right to kill anybody anytime we want. Note:
I did not say it would be the moral thing to do. I did not say it would be
legal. But we have the power, and therefore the right, to do it.
Those brave men who wrote the United States Declaration
of Independence knew this. Those brave men that wrote the Texas Declaration
of Independence knew it also. It was not legal for them to shoot the Tories.
It was not legal for the Texans to shoot at Santa Anna and his troops. But
they knew they had the right to do so. Which side was had moral authority to
shoot the other was, and is, a matter of perspective.
Both the US Constitution and the Texas Constitution
expanded on the Magna Carta. These documents "codified" SOME of our
Rights. That is; they put them in writing and put them above the King
and above the government. The government cannot, LAWFULLY, take away our
"codified" rights. Only we can do that. And only by Constitutional
Amendments or by Abolishing the Constitution all together. But; having
Codified Rights does not mean government will not try to take them away. Not
only have they tried; but they did. Those entrusted with the power of
government routinely ignore our rights and they do it more and more and more
every day. They have done so to the point that none of us have any ability
to enforce any of our rights. We are responsible because we have let them
get away with it for so long they now think it is their right to disregard
our rights. We have allowed them to become ignorant and arrogant. A deadly
combination.
We still have rights. They are there in our Constitutions
and codified. But we can no longer enforce even the most basic of these
rights. We are told we have to - "first be responsible", or that we "first
must know them". We delegated powers to government for that purpose. We set
up 3 separate branches to be a check on the others and required our servants
to take an oath to make sure they knew it was them that had to be
responsible before they could demand any responsibility from any of us. We
did this to make sure they would know our rights that we insisted, by force
of arms, be above any other laws.
The Constitutions of Both the Nation and our State made
clear that they preserved some Rights as above the powers of any person with
a title. I particularly like the way it is put in the Texas Constitution.
The Bill of Rights comes as Article I. This article then ended with a very
clear statement. Section 29: It is titled "Provisions of the Bill of
Rights Excepted from Powers of Government; to Forever Remain Inviolate.
To guard against transgressions of the high powers herein delegated we
declare that everything in this "Bill of Rights" is excepted out of the
general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate, and all
laws contrary thereto, or to the following provisions, shall be void."
Rights are not the real issue. It is not a question of
knowing our rights or being responsible in the exercise of our rights.
It is a question of enforcement. We, the people,
established government and wrote laws so that we could enforce our rights.
Including our right to protect ourselves from those that would take away all
of our rights including to one that is most important to each of us. The
right to live! We the People exercised our right to establish a government
to protect our rights from those that would abuse them. We exercised
our right to, through government, create laws and enforce laws to prevent
others from offensive behavior. Behavior we may consider immoral. If
offensive to the Rights enumerated in the Constitution these laws are of
void and of no effect, regardless of popular sentiment, without a
Constitutional Amendment or without the actual abolishment of the
Constitution by we the people. Do we want to risk abolishing our
Constitutions?
Those in Government act on behalf of the mandate given to
them by the Constitution. Government employees, including the elected ones,
have NO rights. They have titles that were given to them by delegation from
the Constitution. These Titles come with duties and responsibilities. First
of which is to know our codified rights and honor our codified rights.
Anything else is treason against we, the people, as the sovereigns.
They have turned the tables on us. They claim that we,
who do not have titles, have duties and responsibilities. For what? For
being alive? For being, by their grace, allowed to remain alive?
