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John Longenecker is a former Los Angeles Paramedic, now a businessman, commentator and author. Visit his website here.


Sunday, January 15, 2006

Resolution For 2006, Part II: We Have Something They Want. Who are...They?

They loot America. Sovereignty stands in the way.

What we have that they want is easy; it’s the They people ask me about.

Last week, I’d mentioned how liberty enthusiasts need to bring the liberty message outside the liberty community because liberty needs to be protected daily by anyone sharing in it.


Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine

Liberty is our way of life.

As part of that essay, I’d mentioned that some oppose liberty on a terribly misguided social justice theory, and that such beliefs go on forever. I also mentioned that we have something they want.

What we have that they want is our Sovereignty, or our freedom to think and act as we please, as we hire executives to do our political business for us to free us to pursue our interests. As I mention in my book, Transfer of Wealth, about our sovereignty, it is not so much where it goes as where it stays.

The next question would be, "Fine, John, but who exactly are they?"

The They is not a person or persons, but a movement. It is a they because it’s alive as a collective made up of people, sure, and certainly on the move. Relentlessly, the They has its own changing of the guard, handing off duties from one crew to the next, from one generation to the next, always gaining strength without re-examination of need by those we authorize as executives to act on our behalf. The They is against you and me a hundred different ways because we have something they want – living without them – but make no mistake: they’re there, and they want to change that in the name of social justice.


"The Second Amendment isn't about protecting ourselves against criminals. It's about all of us protecting ourselves from all of you." ---Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp to Congressman Charles Schumer (D-NY), 1994

Supporting and taking full advantage of this environment of intrusion immortality is the commercial interest. Seeing an opportunity in combatting violence beside the opportunities of tracking inventory and other applications, the RFID technology intrudes and makes a strong sales pitch to officials. RFID has invested billions in selling the idea of tracking, and thus commercial and political meet.

We're not talking about clean air; nobody keeps the air polluted to sell more catalyic converters, but violent crime never seems to improve over the decades, as the sovereign are asked to make more and more adjustments to our way of life.

Benefitting from the commercial interest and political acceptance is law enforcement. Law Enforcement uses private industry as the laboratory and proving ground of intriguing new items, such as new crowd control electronics and RFID Chips. As the concept is proven, newer applications are envisioned, and since the Flea works, the thing becomes a crime-fighting tool inevitably.

The They is a movement made up of individuals who oppose our way of life for the promotion of their business interests, international interests, for soothing their personal angst or for horribly misguided personal convictions, feeding on the despair and insecurity of the sovereign, overruling what the sovereign asks, and as such, have no values system sufficiently compatible with our own.

Let me say that again: they diminish America and work within America’s system to loot America. Sovereignty stands in the way. Never underestimate this.

Eisenhower said, Beware the Military-Industrial Complex.

In 2006, we have the benefit of history’s backward-looking perspective now – insight and deeper understanding of a cooperation between powers which view us not with hate, but seeing our liberty as something to mine.

To mine it – for gain in their specialty – they each have to participate somehow in subduing it; to justify themselves in the anti-threat movement.

Much of our enemy within is not necessarily hateful of America, not always, but is unconcerned about our way of life while prospecting new technologies with newer and newer applications found all the time. A new kind of Military Industrial complex.

Or, maybe the same old one.

It all adds up to one thing: where our personal sovereignty stands in the way of their looting America, the liberty sovereignty message must be brought outside the liberty community.

Where interests undergo the fatigue of subduing our sovereignty, each of us must undergo the fatigue of supporting our sovereignty.

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John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth, available everywhere.