"Papers, please." In America? Yes. But, you DO NOT have to comply.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been erecting and manning dozens of illegal Nazi Gestapo-like checkpoints throughout the United States in recent months. Why do I say they are illegal? Because that is what the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution, and innumerable Supreme Court rulings and officially-recognized legal declarations say they are.
Before we get any further, watch this video:
Some well-meaning people may say that these drivers are being problematic or rebellious, or that they would just comply with the officials, unless they "had something to hide." Some may say that it's to keep out the illegals.
If that were true, then why did the DHS last week release more than 2,000 illegal immigrants who may have been convicted of serious crimes, due to budget cuts? If the checkpoints are in fact to keep out the illegal immigrants, then why do government documents show the Obama administration planned to release roughly 5,000 of them by the end of March? If it were true, then why did the field offices of the agency empowered with the enforcement of America's domestic security report that more than 2,000 immigrants were released in February before intense criticism led to a temporary shutdown of the plan?
Why do people of good intent still repeat the false mantra that it is "for our safety"? Because that is what we are expected to think by the very institutions spreading this fallacy. It has been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The same checkpoints were enforced by Joseph Stalin, the de facto leader of the oppressive communist Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
The same checkpoints were garrisoned by East Germany's Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies in the world, from 1950-1989. “Checkpoint Charlie” was the name given by the Western Allies to the well-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
The same checkpoints are manned by the Ejército Mexicano (Mexican Army) throughout Mexico. It is often said, "If you want to see what a police state looks like, travel through Mexico."
The same checkpoints currently overlook the allied positions blocking all access routes into and out of the Demilitarized Zone in the North Korean dictatorship.
The same checkpoints are presently manned by military men armed with automatic weapons winding through the late Hugo Chávez's despotic Venezuela.
Those who don't know history really are doomed to repeat it.
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. Search and seizure (including arrest), according to the Fourth Amendment, should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it. The Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Similarly, The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution, protects against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure.
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
And as an added bonus, the dotting of the "i" and the crossing of the "t" of Liberty, our founders saw fit to enumerate the ultimate authority of state governments and We the People, to check or resist the tyrannical proclivities of the federal government. The Tenth Amendment embodies the wisdom of checks and balances and makes explicit the idea that the federal government is limited only to the powers granted to it in the Constitution.
Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In his speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention on June 5, 1778, Patrick Henry admonished his colleagues to, “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
Lets clear up another common misconception. It is not the Constitution that gives us our rights. No, as the framers of the Constitution unanimously declared, it enumerates what our natural rights are as granted by our creator God. The Bill of Rights and Constitution underscore our rights, highlight them, point them out and effectively add a great big exclamation point after them.
The Constitution is the permanent reminder to the federal government of the citizens' unalienable rights of which they cannot rightly infringe upon. As John Adams so poignantly enunciated, “You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Lesigislator of the Universe.”
Regarding these unconstitutional checkpoints, you DO NOT have to comply with their question's or demands. You DO NOT have to submit to their tyranny.
I have written my elected representatives in my home state of Florida to let them know that the I will not comply with the unconstitutional and illegitimate revenue-generating highway checkpoints announced last month by the Florida Highway Patrol. I also let them know that the checkpoints are illegal and repugnant to the Constitution, and are there null and void. Read about it at my blog here.
Before you go spouting off the current accepted talking point that "it's for our safety," remember what Benjamin Franklin warned all who fall for this deceptive subversion, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Here are a few other affecting quotations on the matter of preserving liberty, by astute minds:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.” ― Daniel Webster
“When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.” ― Gary Lloyd
Lest you absent-mindedly fall for the illusion of the collaborator media that "we're doing just fine," the United States is now recognized globally as one of the most oppressive police states on earth. These illegitimate checkpoints going up around the country are but one of the latest examples of the sickening depths to which our once-free Republic has fallen. The military industrial complex, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about in his January 17, 1961 farewell address, is transforming our once free nation into a giant prison camp, a police state control grid constructed in the engineered crisis of fighting the never-ending "war on terror".
How did it come to this? How did our once-free America turn into a Gestapo of would-be slaves acquiescing to despotism? Why do free men submit to having the private parts of their wives and children groped by uniformed strangers while standing in a line waiting to travel about the country? Why do we allow enforcers of the law, who were once called "peace officers", to unreasonably search and seize our persons, houses, papers and effects without a warrant, and without any reasonable suspicion that we may have committed a crime? Why do we cower and grovel to a government that no longer serves the best interests of the people they represent, and that no longer derives its just powers from the consent of the governed? Why do we pay such a sum of our earnings to a bloated institution that taxes us without representation, and that spends our money with reckless abandon on a system that enslaves us with each passing day? Why do we willingly serve a shadow system that has, as the Declaration of Independence decried, "...erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance"?
The answer:
The people don't know their rights!
Nor are the people as a majority willing to stand and fight for their rights.
Nor do the majority of them believe that the Constitution is being incrementally eviscerated, and that their rights are assuredly under siege.
When one does not know and understand what the blessings of liberty promise, then how can one hold onto them when they are being stripped away? How can we defend the line when we haven't even drawn our line in the sand that shall not be crossed?
The late Bill Cooper, investigative journalists, researcher, radio broadcaster and author, said of our rights when asked in an interview where they are, "They're wherever we're willing to draw a line and say 'you cannot come across this line or I'll kill you.' That's where our rights are. If you don't understand that, folks, then it's beyond my capability to explain it to you. They will get away with whatever you let them get away with. And until you draw the line and you're willing to die for what you believe in, they will keep taking and taking and taking and taking, until there is no more left to take. Then, it's all gone, and you're a slave." Bill Cooper was killed on November 5th, 2001 in a S.W.A.T. raid on his ranch in Arizona.
The great orator Samuel Adams said, “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
If We the People are not even willing to assert our authority granted by our divine creator and resist tyranny, then how will we ever make it as a free people? How will our children and children's children ever know and understand the blessing of liberty?
We must not comply. We must resist at all costs, because to comply will make us willing conspirators of our own demise.
For all my fellow Bible-believing Christians who defer to Romans 13 in the concerted effort of blind submission to authority, I have also read it. According to the Romans 13 that I've read, a Christian's duty to civil government affirms that submission is altogether limited and that the obey-government-no-matter-what and the divine-right-of-kings arguments are false. These arguments have been used by virtually every tyrant since the ministry of Jesus, including Adolf Hitler, who cited Romans 13 as his favorite Bible passage and used it as an example for the German evangelicals to stand down. This false doctrine is doing more to bring America and the rest of the world into slavery than perhaps any other thing. Holders of this doctrine are creating self-fulfilling prophecies of America's destruction. For more on the true nature of a Christian's duty in submitting to a just authority, read ROMANS 13: The True Meaning of Submission by Timothy Baldwin, J.D. and Dr. Chuck Baldwin.
The noted American social reformer and leader of the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass, said of acquiescing to tyranny, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
What are we quietly willing to submit to? What is the exact measure of injustice and wrong which we will allow to be imposed upon us? What is the level of our endurance against those who oppress us?
I like what Thomas Jefferson had to say:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man... Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Will you submit, or will you resist?
I refer you to the document which was enshrined for all future generations of Americans, the Declaration of Independence, which was written as a result of a tyrannical form of government that increasingly became destructive of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, the unalienable Rights endowed by their Creator, and the necessity of the people to dissolve the political bands which connected them to it:
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776: But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Where are you willing to draw a line and say, "you cannot come across this line or I'll kill you"? That line is where your rights are. If you don't understand that, then it is beyond my capability to explain it to you.
If you don't understand that, then you and your children are already slaves.
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