Welcome, my name is John Wallace and I am an un-hypenated American citizen and an OathKeeper. I believe that we, the free people of America, are in danger of losing our individual Freedoms and Liberty to an ever growing and more intrusive federal government. With the recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which authorizes the arrest and indefinite detention of American Citizens without trial or habeous corpus protections, all of our unalienable rights are now in danger. This danger to our individual freedoms and liberty, as well as our nation's sovereignty, is directly linked to passage of a large number of unconstitutional, "Intolerable Acts" by the federal government, under both Democrat and Republican administrations, that have been occuring over many, many decades. Let me show you how we are now at a similar point in history as our country's founders were in the 1770's.

On November 29, 1773, a group of angry American colonists threw several tons of British tea overboard into the Boston, Massachusetts harbor, which became known as the Boston Tea Party. The colonists took this action because the British Parliament had eliminated the taxes on tea distributed by the British owned East India Company in order to save the company from bankruptcy (think bailouts of Chrysler, GM, Wall Street firms, banks and numerous Solar companies today), which made British East India Co tea a lot less expensive than Colonial tea because the colonists were still required to pay the tax on their tea.

King George III and the British Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party with a series of laws (Intolerable Acts) that they passed in 1774 severely reducing and almost eliminating the amount of self-government permissible in the American colonies. The acts sparked outrage and led to increased resistance throughout the 13 colonies to the tyranny of King George III and the British government. When the First Continental Congress was convened on September 5, 1774 in Philadelphia, the delegates pledged to support Massachusetts in case it was attacked by the British army. Eventually, all of the colonies would become involved when the American Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord on April 18, 1775.

Throughout the history of mankind, when people were hungry, they went out and hunted for food, fished or planted crops to grow and eat. Somewhere along the line in America, these simple acts of hunting, fishing, planting crops, etc gradually became subject to the issuance of a license or required compliance with a regulation created by some government entity. There was a time in America when citizens did not need a license to hunt, to fish, to get married, to own a gun or to build a house. Now the people need licenses for all these things and much more. It should be noted that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln didn't have marriage licenses because these license requirements didn't exist when they were alive.

As our federal government (and to a lesser degree our state and local governments) began to grow and expand in the late 1800's and early 1900's, they needed more money so they passed mandatory income tax laws, introduced license fees, gasoline taxes, school taxes, sales taxes and thousands of other taxes, resulting in a significant loss of Liberty that has effectively enslaved the free people of America causing them to work a certain number of days every year just to pay for their governments, which now approaches almost six months of the year.

An increasing number of Federal, State and local government bureaucrats now determine how much liberty and freedom the American people will have when it comes to everyday things such as driving your car, farming your land, eating out, building a house, running your business, hiring employees, how much you must pay them, what kind of health benefits you must provide, how much you can inherit when a relative dies, etc. etc. etc. We sometimes do not see the true extent of the gradual loss of our Liberty and freedoms because the American people are being attacked from a hundred different directions at once by new laws, new restrictions, new regulations, new taxes and fees.

Whether the government is taxing our income, issuing fiat money, re-distributing our wealth, giving free health care and education to illegal aliens, over regulating businesses and farms, issuing deliberately false information to the American people on unemployment statistics, inflation or global warming, subsidizing ethanol production or guaranteeing loans to political cronies who have invested in phony solar companies that are going bankrupt, each one of these actions reduces our individual Liberty.

I know that some loss of individual liberty is necessary for maintaining the social order on which our other liberties depend. We need to have criminals arrested when they break the law. We need to secure our country's borders. We need to have a strong military for defense and we need to pay enough taxes to pay our police and military and to perform other constitutional functions. However, beyond what is authorized in the constitution, the loss of Liberty begins when the federal government unconstitutionally expands their functions while imposing huge costs on American citizens, without any offsetting social benefits.

Many of our state and local governments have also been attacking your Liberty and freedom of choice. The NYC Board of Health voted to adopt the nation's first city-wide outright ban on the use of trans-fats in restaurant cooking, because Mayor Bloomberg deemed it unhealthy. State and federal agencies now issue their own regulations, without state legislative or congressional approval, and have set out to criminalize the sale of raw milk and put small family farms and ranches out of business.

Forget the war of crime and drugs, the food police in San Francisco have banned Happy Meals and in North Carolina recently, a 5 year old girl wasn't allowed by a government health bureaucrat to eat a nutritious lunch prepared by her mother. Instead, she was given Chicken nuggets to eat. The total amount of water that flushes in your toilet and even the ordinary light bulb, have now come under the firm control of federal government bureaucrats. Your right to buy a simple light bulb, buy a toilet for your bathroom, prepare your child's lunch or eat certain foods in a restaurant has been taken from us. Our progressive, socialist tyrants in various government bureaucracies always thought they knew what was better for you than you did, only now they have given themselves the power to make you do what they want you to do. These actions are all unconstitutional and they all have gradually chipped away at our Liberty.

The passage of Obama-inspired health care reform bill took, from all Americans, another huge chunk of Liberty and has provided very little in return. With one stroke of a pen, for the first time in history, American citizens were mandated to buy a specific product - health insurance - or face a fine or worse. Of course, many private and public sector unions, teacher unions and other politically connected institutions that support big government received waivers. The rest of us must conform, or else face the consequences.

Most recently, our federal government has passed laws that are easily as dangerous to our Liberty and freedoms as any of the 'Intolerable Acts' passed by the British government in the 1770's that caused our founding fathers to take up arms and reassert their Liberty. The latest of these is the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA). President Barack Obama signed the NDAA into law on New Year's Eve 2011, granting himself absolute power to deploy the armed forces of the United States against American citizens. The new law allows the federal government to "indefinitely detain" American citizens suspected (by the federal government) of being "terrorists" (not defined) without the guaranteed rights of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Amendments of the United States Constitution. No right to an attorney, no right to bail, no right to trial, no phone call, no right to confront your accusers, no rights at all. It is totally unconstitutional, yet it came from our elected representatives and was signed by our president who ignored the unconstitutional nature of the bill. You must remember that this type of legislation is something that dictators, tyrants and communist governments need in place to justify their power and to control the people.

President Obama has also recently issued a mandate to the Catholic Church and other religious groups that they must provide certain birth control and abortion drugs to their employees free of charge even it is against their religious beliefs, which of course is a violation of the First Amendment of the constitution. President Obama's mandates and executive orders are beginning to sound a lot like the mandates of King George III, back in 1774. The U.S. federal government, for many decades, has been encroaching on and trampling on our constitutional guaranteed rights much the same as King George III and the British parliament did in the 1770's. It is now perfectly clear to many Americans that our federal government, rather than protecting our rights as is required in a Republic, has clearly declared war on the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the American people.

My fellow American citizens, when Presidents of the United States issue unconstitutional and illegal executive orders, when federal judges unconstitutionally and illegally make law from their benches and when our elected representatives in congress pass laws that are unconstitutional and illegal attacks on our Liberty and Freedoms, should not these orders and laws also be considered 'Intolerable Acts' against the free people of America?

If your answer to that question is yes, then I have a second question for you.

What are you going to do about it?

Our Founders repeatedly warned us of the dangers that a free America would face in the future and that the most serious danger to our Liberty would come from the enemy within our own country. They also told us that it is not only an honor and a privilege to defend our Liberty, but that it is also our sacred duty to do so, not just for ourselves but for our children and our children's children.

This is a critical time in our country's history because our Liberty is once again in mortal danger, only this time it is not coming from some foreign power, but from attacks by our own government. Just as those brave generations of Americans have done before us, our fight for Liberty must be defended again, this time in 2012. We are the generation that must act NOW! This is Our Time to Stand Up and be counted! This is Our Time to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and this is Our Time to join together as one united force and reclaim our precious Liberty in America!

ARE YOU WITH ME?

If you are, there is a nationwide plan to overturn these "Intolerable Acts" state-by-state and restore Liberty in America. I have volunteered to coordinate this plan for the State of New York and we intend to push our Liberty Agenda in every county, city, village and town in New York. We will formally demand that our elected officials at all levels of government support a resolution that will put the federal government on notice that the people of the State of New York have deemed sections of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 unconstitutional and those sections will not be enforced in this State.

For Liberty,

John Wallace

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