Now is not a time for the feint of heart. Our work has only just begun.

[Annette Akerman]

I have had to take a day to digest this sickening turn of events and here is what I have suggest.  It is also suggested to all of you to get a copy of the book I recommend at the end, and try to implement this in your states.  Or at lease within your area if your area was red state.  There were far more areas of red than blue when you see the map broken down.  I am sharing this in private emails only, so feel free to copy and share it via emails with your friends and family members who are not on SH.  If you want to reach me, use this email please:  [e-mail] - Annette
TO MY FELLOW PATRIOTS:

My step-mom had a saying that she always used to use when something went wrong, or times got tough and that was:  "When the going gets tough, the tough get going!"  
She would then finish it off with,  "So pull yourself up by the bootstraps, get off your feel-sorry ass, and get moving!  There's work to be done."  And in every instance she was right.   

She is even more right today!  We have a fight to finish.  One that involves our very lives, our freedoms, and our commitment to what our forefathers worked for, prayed for, and constituted with blood, sweat and tears - so folks - it is NOT all over but the crying - the crying is over and the battle has just begun.

I know the usurper has it in mind to override us with rules and regulations; confiscate our guns; enslave us and bring this country down to the third-world level he came from - but many of yours and my ancestors fought selflessly and indefatigably to ensure this did not and does not happen to us EVER!  

John Adams said: "[The Constitution] is...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen."

Washington stated: "[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it."

Benjamin Franklin: "I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution]...should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being."

Madison:  "The happy union of these states is a wonder; their Constitution is a miracle; their example the hope of liberty throughout the world.  Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either!"

Have we so quickly misunderstood the words of our Founding Fathers?  We are not a broken nation until we allow ourselves to be broken.  If there ever was a Beulah Land, it is America, and God has seen fit to bless her time and time again.  

So what has happened now?  Let's take a closer look around us.  Churches have dwindled in number and that is partially due to broken homes, babies raising babies, single parent homes, lies and distortions of history written into our educational books and taught by teachers who are just as uneducated as those they are teaching.

How else can one account for believing that because we are 16 trillion dollars in debt that we can gleefully and blithe-fully expect to have happy times ahead of us by the biggest spender in 254 years to ever come along; and this atrocity is labeled "President"?

Have we also forgotten that we are each, individually, a part of a State?  That that State was given rights and sovereignty under our Constitution.?  Those who live in the blue States can rest there and be happy with their choices, but for those of us who live in the Red states (or even in communities, townships, counties, cities that worked diligently to maintain the rule of law) it is to them that we take our appeals and our petitions.
There is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH we can still do and MUST do to stop this encroachment of big and lawless government upon us.  

How would Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson look upon America today, do you think?  I think they would see us as a shameful people professing to uphold liberty and freedom, yet seeing we bow down to the overwhelming burdens of a government gone wild with power. -- the same liberty and freedom they fought so hard to achieve.  Why:  (Borrowing from a book I am currently reading)

1.We have not followed the admonition of our Founding Fathers.
"A people must from time to time, refresh themselves at the well-spring of their origin, lest they perish." (an adage)

2. We have not assigned the maintaining of our Freedom a high priority.  "A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the constitution, and a constant adherence to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantage of liberty, and to maintain a free government."  (Massachusetts Bill ofRights, 1780)

3. We have allowed the moral enemies of freedom to dominate the debate.  "Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes." (G. Washington, Letter to Lafayette, 1788)

4. We have elected some of the most undersirable persons to high office.  "Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them."  (The Federalist, No. 28, Alexander Hamilton)

5.  We have evicted "Providence" from our counsels, schools, courts, and assemblies, "From the day of the Declaration... they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the gospel, which they nearly all acknowledged as the rules of their conduct."  (John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, Oration celebrating July 4th 1821)

"The choice before us is plain, Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.  I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens.  The time has come , it now is, when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship.  American's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government."  (Peter Marshall, TheRebirth of America, page 205, 1986, Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation)

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."  (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Chas. Yancey, 1816)

Patrick Henry said, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience.  I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."  Recent experience should be a serious warning that we have lost our way and need to drink from the well of knowledge provided by the Founders.  
The foregoing by:  Ronald M. Mann, Deputy Director
Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution


So I submit to you that the mourning must stop and it is time to roll up our shirt sleeves and get to work on our legislators -leave DC out of it - it is not up to them: it is up to US!!  Begin right where you are!  Begin your petitions, talk to your neighbors, get people involved, lead and have your demonstrations, and let your State government officials know that you will accept nothing less then sovereignty and shelter, and if necessary seceding FROM a governmental hand and dominance that would drown us in debt, rob us of freedom of speech, the right to free enterprise, and a myriad of other unconstitutional and poorly written laws that leave our lives in tatters and shambles.  

The fiat laws enacted under Executive Orders that have been written to date are NOT in accord with what our forefathers handed us when they ratified the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights in 1776.  So let's get it done, my friends, because the crying is over with and the real work has just begun.

Our Founding Fathers were able to defeat the largest and mightiest army in the world at the time.  They came together as reasonable men seeking a government that would suit a people needing rules of conduct in which to frame their actions and behaviors with freedom, liberty, and enterprise.  These men, with foresight and lack of ambition and personal gain, humbled themselves amongst themselves and before God and establish a system of government that was beneficial to all men; a system that has worked for over 250 yrs.   I submit to you that with God's guidance, and with our perseverance and dedication to humility, honor, and righteousness:  We can do the same thing still today.

To aid you in this endeavor, I recommend you obtain a copy of the book  The 5000 Year Leap  A Miracle that changed the World,  Principles of Freedom 101 -  

The work is arduous,  it is a long and ofttimes seems to be a thankless endeavor, but nonetheless, a necessary undertaking if we are to return our lives back to our origins and live as our Constitution advocates and has allowed us to live for two and a half centuries as free men,  SO -  LET'S GET TO WORK!

[Rich P]

Amen, thank you.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Thank you Annette.

[Annette Akerman]

Thank you, Paul, and I fully agree.  My next post may present some good news if it is followed through.

[Paul Arnold Browning]

I haven't quit working, and will not as long as God gives me life. Lets keep going.