http://www.barnhardt.biz/On The Declaration & Our Duty To Resist Tyranny 1Posted by Ann Barnhardt - July 2, AD 2011 9:13 PM MSTThis weekend we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, and never before in this nation’s 235 year-long history has the Declaration and the concepts codified therein been as important, urgent and thoroughly modern as they are today. Our government has been usurped by non-state, non-uniformed belligerents, namely Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) and the regime behind him. The Obama regime deems itself to be the source of Law and Rights, submitting itself neither to federal law, the Constitution or God.
The Obama regime continues to illegally impose “laws”, edicts and executive fiats that are in direct violation of the Constitution and of fundamental human rights, and they have declared their intention to impose more of these intrinsically invalid laws, such as disarmament laws. And it isn’t just the Obama regime. These sorts of tyrannical “laws” are being passed all throughout the land. Valedictorians are forbidden from praying or mentioning God in their speeches. A National Cemetery has forbidden the utterance of the word “God” during FUNERALS. The good people of Chicago are forbidden from arming and protecting themselves and their families. A police chief has been fired for refusing to attend a musloid “worship service”. A bank is forced by regulators to remove all Christmas decorations. The federal government through “Obamacare” intends to tax human beings on their EXISTENCE by demanding that they either buy a specific service commodity or pay a penalty tax.
I don’t marvel at the actions of these Marxist usurpers. They are entirely predictable. What I marvel at is the unending parade of Americans who simply roll over and comply with these violations of their human rights. People, you don’t have to comply with laws that are intrinsically in violation of your human rights. I don’t care what the superintendant says, if you want to give glory to God and witness to His love and His centrality in your life in your graduation speech, then Kid, YOU DO IT. And if they cut your mike, well then you just SHOUT IT AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS. Make them physically drag you off the stage if that is what they want to do, and then put it on YouTube. If you want your Dad to have a Christian burial at the National Cemetery, then YOU DO IT. Make them arrest you, your family and the clergyman for daring to utter the word, “God”. If the bank regulators threaten to close your bank if you don’t take down the Christmas decorations, then you grab a video camera, call the local newspaper and stand outside the front door of the bank and declare before God and everyone (via YouTube) that the only way the Christmas decorations come down is if the regulators seize and confiscate the bank.
The point Jefferson is making in the opening of the Declaration is not only that moral people are not obliged to follow unjust laws that violate their human dignity and God-given freedoms, but that they SHOULD NOT comply with unjust laws. Here is the key sentence:
“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.”Do you hear that? It is our DUTY to resist and throw off tyranny. Why? Because to permit or cooperate with tyranny is to debase OURSELVES and our own human dignity, and thus by extension we also debase the humanity of our neighbor and our descendants. We are not animals. We are not objects. We are not economic units. We are HUMAN BEINGS, each and every one created specifically by God and endowed by God with the right to our life from the moment of our conception (and the right to protect our lives), the right to our liberty as sovereign individuals, the right to freely choose, think, speak and gather, and the right to own property and be secure in that property. Any so-called “law”, edict or fiat that infringes on these fundamental God-given rights is by its very nature invalid, and thus compliance is not only not required, but a crime against humanity itself.
On The Declaration & Our Duty To Resist Tyranny 2Posted by Ann Barnhardt - July 2, AD 2011 9:12 PM MSTI have a current personal anecdote related directly to this question. The homeowners’ association of the neighborhood I live in sent me a letter last week demanding that I remove the chalk* Epiphany Blessing from the frame of my front door. Apparently they didn’t notice the same blessing above both my garage door and my deck door, which kinda blows their whole argument that it is an egregious eyesore. Snorf. And apparently they have NO CLUE who they’re dealing with. Double snorf. I pick fights with 1400 year old satanic political systems as a means of passing time on lazy Sunday afternoons. HOA’s don’t exactly intimidate me. Triple snorf.
For those of you who don’t know, it is an ancient Catholic sacramental tradition for the head of every household to make an inscription above every outside door at Epiphany. This inscription is small and subtle, and marking the door frame harkens back to the Passover in Egypt wherein Israel marked their doors with the blood of the Passover lamb. You would have to consciously look at the top of the door frame to see it. It is all but invisible to anyone walking by. Here is the text of the instructions and prayer that I received and used in January:
“The blessed chalk is taken home and then the father or senior member of the family says the following prayer once at the main entrance of the house, and that door is marked as follows. Then the family members should accompany the father as he goes from outside entrance to outside entrance and marks this over each door:
Hear us, O Holy Lord, Father Almighty, Eternal God, and send Thy Holy Angel from heaven to watch over, cherish, protect, be with, and defend all who live in my house. I call upon Thy Saints Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar to protect my family and my home from every harm and danger, and I place the marks of their holy names over the doors of my home to remain there as a constant reminder to us and to all who enter here that my house is truly a house of the Lord. O God, make the door of my house the gateway to Thy Eternal Kingdom. I ask these things in the Name of Jesus Christ Thy Son. Amen. 20 + G + M + B + 11”
Given the fact that I have baited 1.5 billion worshippers of allah/satan and thus satan himself to come and kill me, the Epiphany Blessing of my home ain’t going anywhere. But I wouldn’t remove it regardless, because to do so is a violation of my fundamental human right to practice my religion. If the HOA comes and removes it or paints over it, I’ll put it right back up. If they want to litigate, we’ll litigate. The bottom line is this: the only way it goes is if I go, and that will require the HOA to physically seize my home and then enjoin a SWAT Team to physically remove me. And I’m not kidding. Enough is enough. I will not be dehumanized, nor will I encourage or perpetuate the dehumanization of other people by allowing this precedent to be set on me. A failure to stand in defiance of tyranny would be a sin in and of itself. I. WILL. NOT. ROLL. OVER. And neither should you.
Finally, here is a wonderful piece by Fr. Robert Barron explaining why the recent pattern of removing “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance is so utterly critical and evil. Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Atheist – all need to watch this because the concept of how government relates to the people is universal and transcendent. The concept ties directly back to the Declaration itself.
Fr. Barron comments on A Nation Under God; A Nation that Keeps the Sabbath*Epiphany Blessing of Chalk and of HomesTibi dixit cor meum, quaesivi vultum tuum, vultum tuum, Domine, requiram: ne avertas faciem tuam a me. **Ps 26:8–9
Epiphany Inscription Over the Doorway of the Home
20 + C + M + B + 08
The letters have two meanings. They are the initials of the traditional names of the Three Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. They also abbreviate the Latin words “Christus mansionem benedicat.” “May Christ bless the house.” The letters recall the day on which the inscription is made, as well as the purpose of blessing.
The crosses represent the protection of the Precious Blood of Christ, whom we invoke, and the holiness of the Three Magi sanctified by their adoration of the Infant Christ. The inscription is made above the front door, so that all who enter and depart this year may enjoy God’s blessing. The month of January still bears the name of the Roman god Janus, the doorkeeper of heaven and protector of the beginning and end of things. This blessing “christens” the ancient Roman observance of the first month. The inscription is made of chalk, a product of clay, which recalls the human nature taken by the Adorable and Eternal Word of God in the womb of the Virgin Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
To bless your home this Epiphany, read the Prologue of Saint John’s Gospel, followed by the Our Father, and the Collect of the Epiphany; then write the inscription for this year above your front door with blessed chalk.
I will bless chalk at the end of Holy Mass on the Epiphany, after the Postcommunion and before the Dismissal, using the traditional text as translated by Father Weller:
Blessing of Chalk
V. Our help is the name of the Lord.
R. Who made heaven and earth.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with your spirit.
Let us pray.
Bless, O Lord God, this creature chalk
to render it helpful to your people.
Grant that they who use it in faith
and with it inscribe upon the doors of their homes
the names of your saints, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar,
may through their merits and intercession
enjoy health of body and protection of soul.
Through Christ our Lord.
And the chalk is sprinkled with Holy Water.
**Psalm 26A Psalm of David.
1 Vindicate me, O LORD,
For I have walked in my integrity.
I have also trusted in the LORD;
I shall not slip.
2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me;
Try my mind and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes,
And I have walked in Your truth.
4 I have not sat with idolatrous mortals,
Nor will I go in with hypocrites.
5 I have hated the assembly of evildoers,
And will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence;
So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,
7 That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,
And tell of all Your wondrous works.
8
LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house,
And the place where Your glory dwells. 9
Do not gather my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with bloodthirsty men, 10 In whose hands is a sinister scheme,
And whose right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;
Redeem me and be merciful to me.
12 My foot stands in an even place;
In the congregations I will bless the LORD.
