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Introduction.
Our podcast today is titled, The Moral Justification for the Second American Revolution. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the Citizens Liberty Party News Network podcast for November 17, 2020.
We begin our argument for the moral justification of a second American revolution in agreement with a passage from Gordon Wood’s book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
Wood wrote,
“To be an American could not be a matter of blood; it had to be a matter of common belief and behavior. And the source of that common belief and behavior was the American Revolution: it was the revolution and only the Revolution that made them one people.”
The point Wood is making is that the first American Revolution forged a common set of national cultural and social values that bound all citizens together into a shared national mission of liberty.
A second American Revolution is justified to restore the moral philosophy of the shared national mission of liberty, obtained in the first revolution.
- Bradley Thompson, in his book, America’s Revolutionary Mind, describes the constellation of common beliefs of the Revolution, as the “American Moral Philosophy,” and cites Locke’s admonition that citizens who adhere to the American civic virtue do not undermine the liberty of other citizens.
Thompson wrote,
“Locke's fundamental law of nature (i.e., to follow right reason) issues two commands: first, each and, every man should pursue his rational, long-term self-interest; and, second, "No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."
No common set of cultural or social values currently bind the socialists into a common mission of liberty. The nation is evenly divided between citizens who desire socialism and citizens who desire freedom, and those two conceptions of America are incompatible and irreconcilable.
In the election of 2020, in order to impose socialism, the socialists transgressed Locke’s second law of nature in the code of American Civic Virtue by taking away citizen’s rights to vote, and the socialists, have, therefore, abrogated their claim of American citizenship.
Jefferson sought to keep a moral society separate and apart from government power.
In subverting the election laws, the socialists seek to subordinate all of society under the jurisdiction of a totalitarian government.
Socialists seek to replace an independent moral society with the arbitrary power of government, that they alone control, through the agencies of their vanguard socialist party.
The socialists knew, in advance, the damage their transgression would cause to the Trump voters, and proceeded anyways, to inflict that damage.
The socialists did not limit their attack to subverting the American idea of individual rights, but, in evading the election laws, they also subverted the collective American right of self-determination and self-government.
The socialists have claimed an illegitimate authority to govern, not derived from the consent of the governed.
Having engaged in an immoral act to gain political power, the Democrats, will never return to the original contract, or voluntarily adhere to America’s civic virtue.
Democrat socialists seek to elevate the attainment of raw political power of government over the natural rights of citizens.
The socialists deny the claim of individual moral responsibility and seek to replace it with the principle that only socialist elites can judge morally correct behavior.
Locke sees individual citizens as owners of their own labor.
Socialists see citizens as property of the Socialist State.
Locke sees each individual as a moral agent, able to reason, and entitled to freedom. Locke states that the moral system is based upon individualism.
Daniel Webster stated,
“Our system begins with the individual man. The public happiness is to be the aggregate of the happiness of individuals.”
Socialists seek to substitute Marxist ideology of class conflict for Locke’s reason and replace individual reason with a totalitarian obedience to the Socialist State, where citizens have no capacity for individual reason.
Locke wrote that the single most important duty of government is to protect the God-given natural rights of their citizens. Locke stated that citizens possess a moral right to revolt when government violates those natural rights for the protection of which it was created.
In return for security, Locke expected those citizens to follow the legal laws enacted by the government to translate the consent of the governed into elected representatives.
Trump voters expected socialists to follow the legal laws of the code of American civic virtue of playing by the rules, established by common moral understanding of American values, and the socialists failed to follow the laws.
This article does not seek to persuade the revolutionary leaders of the second revolution of the validity and morality of America’s common mission of liberty.
This article is aimed at persuading those Trump voters who must make a personal, moral decision, that a second revolution is justified, and to persuade them to join the revolution to restore American civic virtue.
A second revolution is morally justified to restore the original national social contract that established liberty and self-government.
When the Democrats failed to follow the laws on election, they broke the original social contract of Jefferson’s Declaration.
Trump voters now have a moral right to abolish and replace that illegitimate government. We explain that the purpose of Jefferson’s law of nature, translated into civil law, is to secure the natural rights of individuals.
The moral justification of the first American Revolution was the belief that the British authorities intended to enslave the colonists.
As early as 1765, John Adams raised the alarm in his 'Dissertation on the Feudal Law," in response to the Stamp Art. (C. Bradley Thompson, America’s Revolutionary Mind).
Adams wrote,
"Nothing less than this seems to have been meditated for us, by somebody in Great Britain. There seems to be direct and formal design on foot, to enslave all America."'
In 1767, in response to the Townshend Acts, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania pursued the revolutionary logic in his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
He wrote,
“Some person may think this act of no consequence, because the duties are so small. A fatal error. That is the very circumstance most alarming to me. For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never have obtained an act to raise so trifling a sum.... In short, if they have a right to levy a tax of one penny upon us, then they have a right to levy a million upon us.”
Jefferson wrote in 1774,
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period, and pursued, unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”
Patrick Henry wrote,
“There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come… Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
The socialists now seek to enslave Trump voters in a socialist tyranny. The avoidance of socialist slavery, imposed upon Trump voters by an illegitimate authority, justifies revolution today, just as it did in 1775.
It is not the goal of this second revolution to impose individualist Lockean principles of government upon the socialists in order to force them to return to the original social contract.
It is not the goal of this revolution to take control over the socialist national territory.
It is not the goal of this revolution to employ lethal force against the socialists to eradicate them from the territory of the new nation.
The goal of this revolution is a peaceful, civil dissolution of a currently irreconcilably divided nation into two new nations, one that restores the principles of liberty stated by Jefferson in the Declaration, and the other that seeks to subordinate the free will of citizens to the socialist will of the State.
This podcast is the audio introduction of a much longer article, available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com.
The other sections of the longer podcast are
Section 1. The Moral Philosophy of Revolution.
Section 2. The Restoration of American Moral Philosophy.
Section 3. The Restoration of Jefferson’s American Mind.
Section 4. Correcting Madison’s Constitutional Flaws.
Section 5. The Indictment of the Democrat Party’s Crime to Destroy Liberty.
Conclusion: Is Life So Dear, or Peace So Sweet, As To Be Purchased At The Price of Chains and Socialist Slavery?
I am Laurie Thomas Vass. This is the CLP News Network podcast for November 17, 2020.
Please distribute widely.
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Introduction.
Our podcast today is titled, The Moral Justification for the Second American Revolution. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the Citizens Liberty Party News Network podcast for November 17, 2020.
We begin our argument for the moral justification of a second American revolution in agreement with a passage from Gordon Wood’s book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
Wood wrote,
“To be an American could not be a matter of blood; it had to be a matter of common belief and behavior. And the source of that common belief and behavior was the American Revolution: it was the revolution and only the Revolution that made them one people.”
The point Wood is making is that the first American Revolution forged a common set of national cultural and social values that bound all citizens together into a shared national mission of liberty.
A second American Revolution is justified to restore the moral philosophy of the shared national mission of liberty, obtained in the first revolution.
- Bradley Thompson, in his book, America’s Revolutionary Mind, describes the constellation of common beliefs of the Revolution, as the “American Moral Philosophy,” and cites Locke’s admonition that citizens who adhere to the American civic virtue do not undermine the liberty of other citizens.
Thompson wrote,
“Locke's fundamental law of nature (i.e., to follow right reason) issues two commands: first, each and, every man should pursue his rational, long-term self-interest; and, second, "No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."
No common set of cultural or social values currently bind the socialists into a common mission of liberty. The nation is evenly divided between citizens who desire socialism and citizens who desire freedom, and those two conceptions of America are incompatible and irreconcilable.
In the election of 2020, in order to impose socialism, the socialists transgressed Locke’s second law of nature in the code of American Civic Virtue by taking away citizen’s rights to vote, and the socialists, have, therefore, abrogated their claim of American citizenship.
Jefferson sought to keep a moral society separate and apart from government power.
In subverting the election laws, the socialists seek to subordinate all of society under the jurisdiction of a totalitarian government.
Socialists seek to replace an independent moral society with the arbitrary power of government, that they alone control, through the agencies of their vanguard socialist party.
The socialists knew, in advance, the damage their transgression would cause to the Trump voters, and proceeded anyways, to inflict that damage.
The socialists did not limit their attack to subverting the American idea of individual rights, but, in evading the election laws, they also subverted the collective American right of self-determination and self-government.
The socialists have claimed an illegitimate authority to govern, not derived from the consent of the governed.
Having engaged in an immoral act to gain political power, the Democrats, will never return to the original contract, or voluntarily adhere to America’s civic virtue.
Democrat socialists seek to elevate the attainment of raw political power of government over the natural rights of citizens.
The socialists deny the claim of individual moral responsibility and seek to replace it with the principle that only socialist elites can judge morally correct behavior.
Locke sees individual citizens as owners of their own labor.
Socialists see citizens as property of the Socialist State.
Locke sees each individual as a moral agent, able to reason, and entitled to freedom. Locke states that the moral system is based upon individualism.
Daniel Webster stated,
“Our system begins with the individual man. The public happiness is to be the aggregate of the happiness of individuals.”
Socialists seek to substitute Marxist ideology of class conflict for Locke’s reason and replace individual reason with a totalitarian obedience to the Socialist State, where citizens have no capacity for individual reason.
Locke wrote that the single most important duty of government is to protect the God-given natural rights of their citizens. Locke stated that citizens possess a moral right to revolt when government violates those natural rights for the protection of which it was created.
In return for security, Locke expected those citizens to follow the legal laws enacted by the government to translate the consent of the governed into elected representatives.
Trump voters expected socialists to follow the legal laws of the code of American civic virtue of playing by the rules, established by common moral understanding of American values, and the socialists failed to follow the laws.
This article does not seek to persuade the revolutionary leaders of the second revolution of the validity and morality of America’s common mission of liberty.
This article is aimed at persuading those Trump voters who must make a personal, moral decision, that a second revolution is justified, and to persuade them to join the revolution to restore American civic virtue.
A second revolution is morally justified to restore the original national social contract that established liberty and self-government.
When the Democrats failed to follow the laws on election, they broke the original social contract of Jefferson’s Declaration.
Trump voters now have a moral right to abolish and replace that illegitimate government. We explain that the purpose of Jefferson’s law of nature, translated into civil law, is to secure the natural rights of individuals.
The moral justification of the first American Revolution was the belief that the British authorities intended to enslave the colonists.
As early as 1765, John Adams raised the alarm in his 'Dissertation on the Feudal Law," in response to the Stamp Art. (C. Bradley Thompson, America’s Revolutionary Mind).
Adams wrote,
"Nothing less than this seems to have been meditated for us, by somebody in Great Britain. There seems to be direct and formal design on foot, to enslave all America."'
In 1767, in response to the Townshend Acts, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania pursued the revolutionary logic in his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
He wrote,
“Some person may think this act of no consequence, because the duties are so small. A fatal error. That is the very circumstance most alarming to me. For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never have obtained an act to raise so trifling a sum.... In short, if they have a right to levy a tax of one penny upon us, then they have a right to levy a million upon us.”
Jefferson wrote in 1774,
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished period, and pursued, unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”
Patrick Henry wrote,
“There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come… Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
The socialists now seek to enslave Trump voters in a socialist tyranny. The avoidance of socialist slavery, imposed upon Trump voters by an illegitimate authority, justifies revolution today, just as it did in 1775.
It is not the goal of this second revolution to impose individualist Lockean principles of government upon the socialists in order to force them to return to the original social contract.
It is not the goal of this revolution to take control over the socialist national territory.
It is not the goal of this revolution to employ lethal force against the socialists to eradicate them from the territory of the new nation.
The goal of this revolution is a peaceful, civil dissolution of a currently irreconcilably divided nation into two new nations, one that restores the principles of liberty stated by Jefferson in the Declaration, and the other that seeks to subordinate the free will of citizens to the socialist will of the State.
This podcast is the audio introduction of a much longer article, available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com.
The other sections of the longer podcast are
Section 1. The Moral Philosophy of Revolution.
Section 2. The Restoration of American Moral Philosophy.
Section 3. The Restoration of Jefferson’s American Mind.
Section 4. Correcting Madison’s Constitutional Flaws.
Section 5. The Indictment of the Democrat Party’s Crime to Destroy Liberty.
Conclusion: Is Life So Dear, or Peace So Sweet, As To Be Purchased At The Price of Chains and Socialist Slavery?
I am Laurie Thomas Vass. This is the CLP News Network podcast for November 17, 2020.
Please distribute widely.