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Subject: "Your Country" by Larken Rose 1/30/05

I don't pretend to know any magic words that will make
the government obey its own laws. It's dangerous to be
right when the government is wrong.

The reason this country exists is because a whole lot
of people decided that their own fear and risk were
less important than the PRINCIPLE of freedom. Unfortunately, that attitude is very rare these days.

I got an e-mail recently that just said something
along the lines of: "Your ideas just got my coworker
arrested. Nice work." I'm not sure how an idea
arrests someone, but whatever really happened,
consider that attitude for a moment.

How about this, a few decades ago... "Your 'blacks
should have equal rights' rhetoric just got my
[black]cousin arrested for sitting at the front of the
bus. Nice work."

Or maybe this, in 1940 Germany... "Your 'Jews are
people too' talk just got my uncle arrested by the SS.
Nice work."

Let me be clear about this: knowing the truth, telling
the truth, and acting on the truth, CAN GET YOU IN
TROUBLE. (Did anyone NOT already know that?) But
once upon a time this country had lots of people who
believed that whatever truth and justice supported
should be done, even if there is risk involved.

What scares me is not the lawless and tyrannical
nature of our government. Just about EVERY government
does those things. The deciding factor is not what the
tyrants do, but what their VICTIMS do. In the Soviet
Union, people kept quiet to keep themselves out of
trouble. And we know what that led to. In Nazi
Germany, people "minded their own business," and
didn't want to make waves. And we know what that led
to. Pick any injustice in history, big or small, and
you'll find the same pattern. All that is necessary
for evil to triumph is for good people to do NOTHING.
And frankly, I'm ashamed at the spinelessness of many
Americans. (

Don't get me wrong. My goal is not martyrdom, and one
shouldn't blindly blunder into danger if the possible
benefit is not worth the cost. Each person has to
decide for themselves whether to take such a risk. I'm not asking or expecting anyone to "fall on the
sword" for the cause. The only person I have the
right to demand that of is me.

But for all those who have seen the truth, but won't
even MENTION it, not even to close friends, in
whispers in dark rooms... well, I'm pretty dang
ashamed to be an American if that's what Americans are
these days.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude better than the animating contest of
freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your
counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand
that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you
and may posterity forget that you were our
countrymen." [Samuel Adams]

So, setting aside whatever fear or reservations you
have, there are some questions that I hope you will
ask yourselves:

1) Do you WANT to know the truth? If 100,000,000
Americans really are being lied to, do you WANT to
know?

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful
truth... Are we disposed to be of the number of those
who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not,
the things which so nearly concern their temporal
salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it
may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to
know the worst, and to provide for it." [Patrick Henry
(from his "give me liberty or give me death" speech)]

2) If you find that we HAVE been defrauded, do you
intend to do ANYTHING about it? I'm not asking you to
dive into the fray, both barrels blazing. I'm asking
whether you intend to do ANYTHING, or whether you can
be proud never mentioning the injustice you know
about. Speaking up takes courage, not only if you're
afraid of the government, but if you're afraid of
others thinking you're wacky.

"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce
man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause
succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs
nothing to be a patriot." [Mark Twain]

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident." [Arthur
Schopenhauer]

3) Do you hesitate to speak up, because you fear your
own government?

"When governments fear the people there is liberty.
When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
[Thomas Jefferson]

4) And finally, do you intend to leave this problem
for your kids to solve?

"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my
child may have peace." [Thomas Paine]

Your country will be whatever you let it be. If you
choose to remain quiet, and not make waves, the
following words from a former slave are just for you:

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you
have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong
which will be imposed upon them; and these will
continue until they are resisted with either words or
blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed
by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
[Frederick Douglass]

Sincerely,
Larken Rose
larken@taxableincome.net
http://www.861.info