"We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion:

the stage where government is free to do anything it pleases,

while the citizens may act only by permission;

which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history,

the stage of rule by brute force."

Ayn Rand, The Nature of Government

I have spent my adult years studying and fighting for freedom.  I will not give up now in the waning seconds of the fourth quarter.

There are lot of groups in America purporting to be promoting freedom; but what is freedom?  Is freedom dissent, the mere opposition to the status quo? I say no, it must go much further.

Restraint of any kind is the antithesis of freedom. What restrains us? If one is physically bound, one is not free.  If one is in jail, one is not free.  Debt is bondage, a borrower is servant to a lender.  But what of my mind? If my body is bound, can I still be free? Who or what am I that I long for freedom? Am I bound by my mind? Does my mind hold the key to my freedom?  It is my experience than in order to free ourselves from bondage we must free our minds from delusion.

The first epoch of my activist years was in the nineties. I traveled to Waco Texas, responding to the attack on the Davidian church.  I knew nothing about the Davidians and David Koresh, but went there to subvert the travesty before it happened.  I was prompted to defend the church under the vow I had made to 152 other men at Estes Park following the government massacre of Randy Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge-a vow only a hand full of us acted on. Few know about the Estes Park conference, likely because many who were there would be disgraced by it. After nearly a week long conference discussing strategy and tactics, we closed by pledging our lives, fortunes and sacred honor to each other, vowing to respond when the government threatened another American family. We stood in agreement that we would answer the call by inserting ourselves, nonviolently, between the government and the family being attacked, and suffer whatever consequences would follow. My faith in the patriot/militia movement died that April day in Waco when only a handful responded to the assault on an American church. I wept for America on April 19 that year, concluding that the time for talk was over. That was the day I became a revolutionary.

I pieced together a personal declaration if independence and gave notice to the world of my separation.  I slapped a white license plate on my car with the word "Heaven" scrolled in blue across the bottom.  The plate was issued by a church, as was the license and car registration in my wallet.  These tools were my physical witness to the world of my inward liberation, the renewing of my mind.  The subsequent years brought familiarity with courtroom procedure and the inside of a jail cell.  My paralegal skills were honed to a fine point.

To the jury I would argue that though I had once been a U.S. citizen, for cause I had "thrown off the government," having withdrawn my consent pursuant to my duty as an American as expressed by the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Colorado Constitution. But my argument did not stop there. I opined that I had expatriated, having pledged my allegiance to another King, the king of Heaven and Earth, and his kingdom, and was now sojourning on Earth representing the heavenly kingdom as an Ambassador to the Sovereign People of the United States of America. That it was a radical position is an understatement, particularly during a time of such perceived financial prosperity.

Yes I was a bit out there and so got my share of eye rolls.  Neither my dad nor my in-laws ever wrapped their mind around the insanity of my plight.  My list of friends dwindled, my marriage suffered to the brink of destruction. I barely knew my four boys.  Locals distanced themselves from me. I was a disgrace to the community and an embarrassment to the local churches. I was summarily dismissed as the lunatic on the hill north of Gunnison.

I chose citizenship in the kingdom of Heaven as I reasoned it unwise to abolish or overthrow a government before instituting a new one.  If you do, you will live in a state of anarchy in between; that is assuming you make it to the second one. History teaches that anarchy is that state of lawlessness seized by the power hungry elite to cause people to grovel and readily accept any new regime offered to them-even if that regime is absolute despotism.  I figured that since Christ established a kingdom, I would be relieved of the necessity to invent my own if I adopted his.  Problem solved. It was during this time I came to fully realize that this nation was founded on this principle, and that this understanding may well be the most critical element of freedom.

The founders held it to be a self-evident truth that the people have a right to abolish the government, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  Nature abhors a vacuum.  It is one thing to tear down, another to build up.  The former must not happen without the latter.  Mere dissent is not enough.  Amidst the dissent against what is being done to the American people, what is being presented as the solution? The alternative?

Many will protest recent government crimes at "Tea Parties" tomorrow, April 15, 2009, the expression of which is dissent. After the protest most will deposit their tax return in the mail and return to the relative normalcy of their lives. Not knowing what to do next and having no alternative plan outside the status quo, most will put a movie in the DVD player and continue as to live their lives vicariously through their actors and movies.  It is easy to dissent as it costs nothing.  Should not the same zeal inherent in being disgruntled be channeled into productive consideration of something new, something to supplant the problem? Is it wise to merely dissent without considering he possibility of something better?

America is being torn asunder because her people are thinking within the confines of the box.  Those who are subverting freedom for personal security and private gain are depending on this confinement while playing us for fools.  Elitist social engineers are using our negative dissent as a tool against us. The time to discuss new government is being brought to a head by those who control, the same traitors who oppose the principles of a free republic. The American people are not even in the conversation as they have excluded themselves, inebriated by the opiate of their religion, and leaving it to the politicians to decide America's  fate.

We the People Congress of Colorado is aware of the problem and need not rehash the issues.  We have long since concluded that the American government has become destructive to the end it was established to secure.  We have proven through the petitioning process that a long train of abuses and usurpations has evinced a design to reduce the people under absolute despotism.  Discussion about the United States government's allegiance to treasonous foreign interests is old, their failure to represent the American People, common knowledge.  We need not be persuaded of this.

This weekend, Sunday April 19, 2009, from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm the People's Congress will not be on the bandwagon regurgitating the songs of defeat, but explaining the notes of freedom.  The mass movement we are interested in is not about playing into the hands of the enemy, but rather into the hands of our posterity.

The first hour will be led by David Justice who will initiate the unfolding of the day's events by opening the conference with a worship service in the genre of the Christ.  Thereafter a battery of speakers discussing topics pertaining to good government will ensue.

To alleviate any concern that the day may be filled with religious innuendo, it will not.  Past experiences are not my present icons. Rather, truth will be spoken here. Only those interested in truth need join us.

To the degree a nation divided against itself will fall, America has fallen.  To prevent falling beyond recognition, It is the position of the We the People Congress of Colorado that the people of the many communities of Colorado must take immediate action to come together as one.  We the People are the Sovereign, the E Pluribus Unum.  The buck stops with us. We are the source of strength of our unification, the remedy to our ailment.