The Feds are Sniffing
At Our Heels
By Ron Ewart
Take a hard look at this picture.
It is a photograph from the late 1980s of a lone Chinaman standing in front of a row of tanks in Tiananmen Square, during a very brief uprising. The picture was flashed all over the world as a symbol of the struggle for freedom in China. The poor Chinaman was later captured, tortured, then killed. In other words, he was martyred. So much for freedom of dissent in China.
(See http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tiananmen.html)
Just today we read in the local newspaper that the Chinese government is installing 20,000 cameras throughout Chinese cities. The cameras have the capability of face recognition. Your mugshot goes into a computer database and if there is a match, you're "got." In support of the camera program, each Chinaman will be required to have, on their person, a government card. The card bears a microchip with all the information about the Chinaman stored on the chip, that can be read by scanners everywhere. If you think it can't happen in America, you are naive. It already is. American companies are making the camera and chip equipment for China.
(See Hi-tech surveillance to eye Chinese)
In any event, we must be doing something right. It seems that NARLO has attracted the attention of America's equivalent of China's "row of tanks." We have just learned that the U.S. Government, in the form of the Department of Defense (DOD), is very interested in NARLO and its website. It seems that the DOD spent quite a bit of time on our website and hit every page. Now why would the DOD be interested in our little old website? Could it be because we use words like liberty, or freedom, or property rights, or Heaven forbid, the Constitution? Are those words a threat to National Security? Hardly! Nevertheless, our government is investigating us.
America has become a police state, and quite unlike the lone Chinaman, we do not intend to take on the government, federal, state, or local, all by ourselves. We have no intention of subjecting our extended family and our assets to whatever the government would choose to do with or to us, unless and only unless, we have thousands of supporters. Only in strength of numbers do we have any chance of effecting change. The government, our government, has ways of making it very difficult for those who oppose them. Thousands of Americans who have stood up against government tyranny, have been subjected to so-called legalized coercion, threats and blackmail from the judicial system or law enforcement to shut them up, strip them of their wealth, or worse, imprison them. It is a daily occurrence.
Our e-mail messages of freedom go out to almost a thousand people, with forwarding. Our articles appear in many national venues. We get verbal encouragement from many quarters of America. Out of that thousand of e-mails, plus the other thousands that read our articles from around the country, only a handful think our efforts are worthy of financial support. We sincerely thank those few for that support, because we wouldn't still be here without it. But the hard truth is, we will not pit our frail bodies up against the almighty government as martyrs, without a lot more support from those who read our messages and believe in our "words" of freedom and liberty.
As much as we believe that what we are doing is right, we will not throw ourselves on our own sword, while others stand in the shadows, out of range. If we are to continue, under the threat of government sanction or investigation for mentioning words like freedom, liberty, property rights, and the Constitution, it will only happen because enough of you will support what we and others are doing, with your own checkbooks.
We face the extreme power and influence of the government. We face well-financed, highly-organized social, and radical environmental groups that lobby government for their agendas, and get them. Either America and its freedom are worth fighting and "paying" for, or it will go the way of all other Republics that toyed with the experiment of "liberty," and failed. If you are truly "blind," none of our words will open your eyes. But in your blindness, you forsake freedom in exchange for security, and seek comfort, in exchange for enslavement.
We must ask, why would any real American succumb to slavery over freedom? Is it fear, cowardice, apathy, ignorance, or naivete? Whatever it is, the America of the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, and the U. S. Constitution is dying. Its death throes are evident everywhere. How can we stand by and do nothing, while our country lies bleeding in the hot, scalding desert that is infested with the robbers of freedom and liberty, the purveyors of socialism, radical environmentalism, and the one-world-order? How indeed! Join with us in this quest for freedom, it being the noblest of all causes.
Ron Ewart is the President of
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS
P. O. Box 1031
Issaquah, WA 98027
Phone: 425-222-4742 or 1-800-682-7848
Fax: 425-222-4743
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