Sophia Bank's Blog: Amid the Passive Acquiescence of All: The Path Toward Civil War

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing that is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made free and kept so by the exertions of better men than him. (sic)

—John Stewart Mill

I recognize the noble sacrifice of the Minutemen, the modern patriots who have upheld the sacred truths of the Declaration of Independence without benefit of recognition or gratitude. It is because of our fellow citizens that I write these words with faith and hope. They are the Minutemen who protect the United States.

Our great struggle today is not against a ruthless king, nor against a kingdom on foreign soil. Our great war is against an oppressive bureaucracy that has stifled economic growth, destroyed the basic idea of patriotism, failed to provide for the common defense, failed to establish domestic tranquility, and corrupted the self-evident truths of a Free People. A de facto government has seized power, bringing much ruin to America’s value of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

If the emancipation of a people is enough to bring about civil war in 1861, then it must be enough to justify war today. Does one group of people deserve emancipation and another not?

If freedom is enough reason to declare a war of independence in 1776, then how can we fail to answer the call for war today and forever lose the occasion to reclaim our stolen freedoms?

Is the citizen in 1776 more important than today’s citizen? When is the moment of revolution?

When does corruption become so intolerable that death’s coldness is a far better choice?

The moment of declaration—the momentous plea for revolution—calls to this generation.

We cannot sit idly by and watch the destruction of our most delicate freedoms. To go along with such unforgivable acts is wrong. Let the words of Tacitus remind us of the dangers of apathy.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of a few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

We—The Patriots of Liberty—charge this government on the below listed offences:

Laboring to remove personal responsibility

Failing to control the large-scale growth of government

Devastating traditional American values and individual liberty

Devaluing the money system of the people of the United States

Degrading the office of the Presidency of the United States

Creating governmental policy to deny citizens the right to keep and bear arms

Over taxation of the citizenry

Murdering the weakest of its people

Accomplishing the emancipation of an enslaved people through the enslavement of another people

Using skin color to divide our nation

Promoting class and cultural warfare among its people

Let us not be fearful, but stand together as one and declare our liberty.

I, as a citizen soldier, stand ready to defend my country against any force threatening its independence.

We, as a people, must pledge our futures and our lives to each other.

Let us be vigilant to safeguard our country against those who would prey upon the most innocent of our citizens in the name of big government and power.

Let us be brave and resist the yoke of oppression. Let us not be so desperate to preserve our security that we lose our freedom.

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