Dear Friends,
As I languished here in
durance vile over
Declaration Day weekend,
I'm struck by the fact
that what I am now
experiencing is the very
thing from which the CtC
community works to
protect themselves,
their children and even
their blithely ignorant
and disengaged
neighbors-- the
unrestrained state,
acting on the basis that
it rightfully owns and
controls everything.
That's a pretty good
description of how
things are in a prison,
as it turns out...
It was in recognition of
how such things go if
not attended to that the
Founders did all they
could to provide us with
the tools to preserve
our liberties and
rightful supremacy as
free, sovereign
individuals by asserting
our own claims and power
over those of the state.
The only thing they were
forced to leave to
fortune was whether
future Americans would
be wise enough to
recognize the need, and
would set enough store
by their liberty and
dignity to use these
tools even in the face
of corrupt efforts to
discourage them.
Happily, it has been my
privilege and pleasure
to learn that the people
of this great country
are not wanting in
wisdom, courage, dignity
and self-respect, not to
mention mature and
loving regard for the
future well-being of
their children. Once
the truth of the danger
is made known to them,
they stand, and upon
learning of the tools
ready at hand, they
act. Even while the
corrupt enemies of the
law try to use what I am
going through to
frighten the CtC-educated
community into silence
and surrender to the
outlaws, more and more
Warriors stand and act,
and speak and bear
witness to the
liberating truth and to
the corruption behind
the efforts to suppress
that truth. To
paraphrase George S.
Patton: "God, I love
these fine men and
women!"
Anyway, I do hope
everyone will reflect
for a few moments on the
fact that letting the
runaway state have its
way in ignoring the
Constitution and in
claiming an ownership
interest in everything
is to allow an
increasingly rapid slide
to where my immediate
circumstance becomes
your and your
children's' way of
life. This is not
because you or your
children will wind up
formally imprisoned; it
is because a state
unrestrained by
competing and
jealously-guarded
widespread private
interests eventually
makes every place within
the reach of its power
into a prison, and
there's no end to the
sentence that everyone
will serve for the
crimes of apathy or
cowardice. You either
fight it now all the way
to victory, or start
living the nightmare
before very much longer.
By the way (and by way
of lightening the tone a
bit), I'm not actually
languishing, of course.
Rather, I'm vigorously
working on my appeal of
this contrived and
unjust conviction.
I ask all of you to help
as much as you can, in
the best way that you
can, which is by
ordering and
distributing copies of
CtC, 'Was Grandpa Really
a Moron?' and 'Upholding
the Law and Other
Observations', and by
sending the files you'll
find below to everybody
possible-- especially
folks in the media. If
you persist, the law
will prevail.
Best Regards,
-Pete
