A Message to the Nation

A Message to the Nation, from The Resistance:

When individuals, steeped in the traditions of their patriot fathers, witness the ebb of liberty and the sunset of that corps of rights once christened indivisible, and their humanity stirs their souls to pursue an honorable course to reclaim those self-same principles of freedom, it is incumbent on them to lay bare the injustices they have endured.

We hold with firm conviction that the individual is the supreme sovereign, that no just law can separate him from his life, liberty, and property without his consent, that when the express limits of government are usurped it is the right of the individual to disobey and to cast off each unjust and unlawful convention that violates his individual welfare and happiness. But when the custodians of our Constitution seek the edification of a despotic empire, it is our individual right, it is our individual duty, to nullify those decrees which violate our conscience.

The serenity of our citizenry in the face of such abuses is testament of the virtue of the American man, the self-same virtue that now compels him to refuse submission, conformity, and obedience to the illicit demands of tyranny.

We, The Resistance, recognize that the eternal disposition of the despot is to employ coercion, terrorism and violence in the subjugation of mankind. Each American citizen has endured violations designed to subjugate the individual under an evolving form of tyranny. It matters not which party rules; both require the sacrifice of subjects to the god of power.

The laws of nature compel us to accept that any unjust law, consistently applied as a boot to the throat of the sovereign, is unfit in the cannon of liberal jurisprudence and therefor null from the perspective of the individual. For too long, we as individuals have embraced the soft seductions of apathetic separation from our greatest of duties: the application of sovereignty. For too long we have accepted the role of the government of the noble oppressor. For too long we too have stood idly by in a state of willing ignorance.

As individuals we proclaim once again that every man is his own sovereign, to be judged according to his own obedience to principles of freedom, responsibility and tolerance, and that it is not the nature of man to be reformed by government, it is the nature of government to be reformed by man.

Every man is hereby absolved from the moral conflict restraining him from throwing off the shackles of unjust, immoral, and unconstitutional law. In so doing, the political connection between him and his nation is magnified and made living the furnace of disobedience. No longer will we live with blood stained souls in willing ignorance of the carnality that our sweat stained dollars have endorsed. We make our stand here. We make our stand now. We each proclaim, in no uncertain terms, that no more shall the downtrodden remain nameless. No more shall the government fain reason and eloquence, for it is brute force and our hearts are sounding, our minds are firm. We choose to disobey.

We join history’s historic objectors, that we too may find the courage of character to face the bludgeon, the gun, and the gavel; that we too may be remembered by our friends and our beloved families; that we too may be memorialized, not by the waves we made but by the principles we refused to abandon.

You are witnessing the rise of The Resistance. We are your neighbors, your students, your sons and daughters and our ranks are swelling. You see us and you know us not but for the smiles we carry, for we are at peace with our principles. In the days that come you will come to understand that we seek not for power but to pull it down. We employ no violence in our methods. We have no general, no organization, no weapons; but we are an army. Our members carry conviction in their hearts as they live by the motto: “I do not consent. I am The Resistance.”

Let Freedom Ring,

The Resistance

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