The year is 2017. The idea
of "Liberty Under
God" has caught on like wildfire. Christians have
been energized to put their faith into practice in concrete ways
that are reshaping America family by family, neighborhood by
neighborhood, business by business. There has been a massively
successful movement of pro-capitalist, anti-socialist, free-market
libertarians to privatize government programs and replace their
functions with voluntary associations, corporations, charities,
and other organizations all competing against each other for the
dollars of consumers who value their products and services.
The movement was funded almost single-handedly by Mukesh
Malayalam, the inventor of the Geo-Mag® energy system, which
harnesses the earth's natural magnetic fields to produce
electricity, and drove the price
of oil to below $4.50 a barrel. Malayalam, the famous
Pakistani child prodigy, moved his world headquarters to Surprise,
Arizona, in Maricopa County, and within 5 years doubled the
population of Arizona, providing jobs and "free
energy" to millions. Malayalam's philanthropic
foundation, which quickly surpassed the assets of the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, invested billions of dollars in
television ads, movies, school curricula, and celebrities in music
to push Malayalam's pro-capitalist agenda of "more
responsibility, less government, and with God's help, a better
world." Hundreds of millions of energy consumers around
the world, grateful for plummeting energy costs, eagerly scooped
up the pro-capitalist vision, with Mel Gibson's pro-capitalist
movies shattering box-office and broadband records, and dozens of
new music artists leading aging singers in bringing libertarianism
to the top of the pop charts.
First to go was government welfare. Free energy was providing
jobs for all -- even in the collapsing oil industry -- and
dropping prices while raising real
wage rates. Churches and voluntary associations quickly moved
in to cover the needs of the few who had been left behind.
"Voluntary giving has always been greater than tax-funded
government handouts," said Franklin Graham, son of the late
evangelist and head of the "Samaritan's
Purse" charitable clearinghouse. "We've always been
confident that if government got out of the way, churches and
other private charities could meet the needs of the poor more
efficiently and more personally, adding a spiritual dimension
which government has tended to lock out."
Education was also rapidly privatized, and test scores
skyrocketed as juvenile crime plummeted. Malayalam's Geo-Mag®
industries set the trend by establishing schools for children of
employees, and these students -- if they didn't stay on with
Malayalam's growing Geo-Mag® empire -- were being snatched up by
neighboring Maricopa County hi-tech industries while similar
students on the East Coast still languished in crime-ridden public
high schools. Soon the apprenticeship model swept the West and
spread East, and traditional government schooling was quickly
recognized as the dinosaur it had long become.
One government agency after another on both the local and state
level was abolished as private-sector counterparts began adopting
Malayalam's many technological innovations and left government
agencies in the dust. After Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and
California effectively eliminated all state borders between
themselves with the adoption of the SunBelt Economic Pact (SEP),
the aging Ted Kennedy, in a move that outraged his followers and
led in 2010 to the end of his long political career, proposed a
similar unification of the Northeast. Kennedy's call was seen as
an abandonment of the nearly-anachronistic pro-government
principles of the Democrat Party, which were already experiencing
death-throes in the West. Polls indicated that more than 80% of
Americans (but only about half in the Northeast) supported
Capitalism and favored abolition of nearly all government
programs.
In a movement led by Speaker of the House Ron
Paul (R) of Houston TX, the Federal Government had been
reduced in size by nearly 75% since the Presidential Election of
2008. Now just one year away in 2018, "The Abolition
Amendment" was expected to be approved by the legislature
of the last state necessary to make it the final amendment of the
U.S. Constitution, as the Ohio and Pennsylvania legislatures raced
against each other to be the state that put it over the top,
securing the 3/4 necessary to ratify the proposed 29th Amendment
to the Constitution.
Also dubbed "The Last American Revolution," "The
Abolition Amendment" has two short sections:
(A) The Constitution of the United States is hereby declared
null and void, the federal government abolished, and all powers
of the federal government are hereby returned to the People or
to the several States, from which they were delegated.
(B) Section (A) of this Amendment shall take effect upon the
vote of the entire People of the United States on the first
Tuesday of November, 2018.
While momentum to abolish all traces of socialism was rapidly
making the proposed Amendment superfluous, Americans are starkly
divided over the Amendment itself. Many people, even among those
who support capitalism and abolition of uncompetitive government
programs, feel a sense of sentimentalism and patriotism which
won't allow the idea of abolishing the United States to take root,
even though one-fourth of the states have effectively been
abolished, and Washington D.C. has nearly been emptied of its
power, especially since the Defense Department was virtually
abolished by Malayalam's perfection of "scalar
wave" weapons in 2011. (Malayalam's victory over Defense
Department attempts to confiscate scalar wave technology and
monopolize it was the subject of Mel Gibson's blockbuster movie in
2012.)
But perhaps the most curious source of opposition to the
Abolition Amendment is the North-LaHaye coalition.
Tim LaHaye
was the co-author of the "Left
Behind" fiction series, a best-selling series of books
and movies at the turn of the century which made him a
multi-millionaire before his [ironic event]. LaHaye had just
reached his 90th birthday. Gary
North was the author of Unholy
Spirits, a book which was as obscure in its lifetime as
LaHaye's was popular. North was the heir of the "Christian
Reconstruction" movement that secured the election of Ronald
Reagan in 1980, according to Newsweek magazine, which
dubbed the Chalcedon
Foundation the "think tank" of the Religious Right.
North's 1994 book, itself a revision of a 1976 book, None
Dare Call it Witchcraft, was revised again in 2011 after
Malayalam's rise to celebrity status. North, expanding the claims
of his earlier book, claimed the prodigy's powers were demonic.
LaHaye labeled Malayalam "an obvious candidate" for the
"antichrist." Both LaHaye and North, who for decades
jousted with each other over competing views of prophecy and the
future, together rallied conservative Christians to join the
"Romans 13 Foundation" in Pensacola Fl, which surprised
many observers and even many conservatives with its strident
opposition to the Abolition Amendment.
Romans
13:1-7
- Let every soul be
subject unto the higher powers. For
there is no power but of God: the
powers that be are ordained of God.
- Whosoever therefore
resisteth the power, resisteth the
ordinance of God: and they that
resist shall receive to themselves
damnation.
- For rulers are not
a terror to good works, but to the
evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid
of the power? do that which is good,
and thou shalt have praise of the
same:
- For he is the
minister of God to thee for good.
But if thou do that which is evil,
be afraid; for he beareth not the
sword in vain: for he is the
minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth
evil.
- Wherefore ye must
needs be subject, not only for
wrath, but also for conscience sake.
- For for this cause
pay ye tribute also: for they are
God's ministers, attending
continually upon this very thing.
- Render therefore to
all their dues: tribute to whom
tribute is due; custom to whom
custom; fear to whom fear; honour to
whom honour.
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Romans 13 is a Biblical text with a
long pedigree in Western Political thought, a heritage which
was largely forgotten until resurrected by the North-LaHaye
coalition. "The Powers that Be," an oft-heard phrase
taken as the title of a pro-capitalist DVD that went
quintuple-platinum in just the first two months of 2011, is taken
from the language of the 13th chapter of the Apostle Paul's letter
to the Romans. "They are ordained of God," said North of
"the Powers," quoting a subsequent phrase in the
Apostle's letter. "The Abolition Amendment is pure anarchy,
and will bring down the judgment of God upon America," North
warned.
Although North has a reputation as an alarmist, his warning
against "anarchism" is not unfounded. "The
Abolition Amendment" is widely seen as a referendum on the
entire concept of "the government." Pro-capitalist
forces have stressed the "non-aggression
axiom," the idea that it is always immoral to initiate
force against another. Citing the failure of socialist economies
around the world, many pro-capitalist leaders have forthrightly
called for "the
end of government as we know it," an ironic twist on a
slogan from the now-discredited Clinton Administration of the
1990's, and the short reign of Bill Clinton as Secretary-General
of the United Nations before its scandal-ridden downfall in 2012.
Capitalists say recent trends illustrate capitalist
theory by showing that socialism and government bureaucracies
simply cannot compete with the private sector in providing goods
and necessary public services, such as welfare, education, and dispute
resolution.
The phrase "The Last American Revolution," often
heard accompanying pro-Amendment discourse, hearkens back to
America's original revolution against the "Divine Right of
Kings" and replacement of British monarchy with the American
experiment, "the Consent of the Governed." Pro-Amendment
capitalists contend that the entire concept of "the
government" contradicts the principle of consent, in contrast
to businesses and voluntary associations, which must raise capital
through voluntary consent rather than coercion and confiscatory
taxation. Repudiation of the entire concept of "the
government" is seen by secular capitalists as the next leap
in human evolution, and by Christian capitalists as a bulwark of
defense against the "New World Order."
It's All Up to You
The date is now November 1, 2018. The election, which, despite
the claims of the last four Presidential elections, can
legitimately lay claim to being "the most important election
in our generation," is days away. Polls have been ubiquitous.
Some have suggested that the Internet has made it possible to poll
literally every American, instead of merely thousands, and it can
be safely said that exactly 50% of Americans are prepared to vote for
the Amendment, while exactly 50% are committed to voting against
it. You will be the deciding vote. Your one
vote will determine whether we abolish "the
government" in America.
How will you vote?
You may be thinking, "Has America gone nuts?!
Abolish the government??"
This is an understandable reaction. Many would have agreed with
you a few years ago, but they've changed their minds. Not only
have they not gone nuts, but they firmly believe that if the
Americans who signed our Constitution were to travel through time
into the 21st century, they would think we were
nuts. "Why do you tolerate these abuses?" they would
demand:
We risked "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred
Honor" to fight taxes which were only 3-5%, and you pay ten
times as much, to finance atheistic education and give foreign
aid to muslim dictators! Has America gone nuts?
Many Americans now think we're nuts to tolerate "the
government." They want to share with you the ideas that
changed their minds. They think you'll be better off studying what
they studied that brought them to the conclusion that we would be
better off without "the government." America in 2018 has
studied the Bible, and they have studied pro-capitalist,
pro-American thinkers. Can you go wrong by studying the Bible and
learning more about capitalism? Then please let this website be
your tour guide into the future. Prepare yourself for "the
Last American Revolution."
The rest of this website is not a fictional account of this
future election. It is a manifesto and a handbook, designed to
prepare you for such a future election. It is designed to equip
you to vote "yes" if given the opportunity to abolish
"the government." Until that election is held, you will
be faced with millions of opportunities to replace socialism with
capitalism, step by step. You must be prepared to take advantage
of those opportunities.
What is your label?
Many people are uncomfortable reading new ideas unless they
have the idea labeled by an official labeler. "I'm a
Democrat, so I only read ideas which have been labeled 'Democrat'
by official Democrat organizations." As many Republicans
think the same way. The Founding Fathers would be disappointed
with both political parties. We have a new label for our idea, a
new way to look at "Liberty Under God":
Anarcho-Theocracy
When we say "Liberty" we mean "Anarchy."
When we say "Under God" we mean "Theocracy."
"Anarchy" and "Theocracy"
are usually understood to be exact opposites:
"Anarchy" is
non-Christian |
"Theocracy" is
Christian |
"Anarchy" means no
government |
"Theocracy" means total
government |
"Anarcho-Theocracy"
would thus appear to be a complete contradiction in terms. It is,
however, the logical maximization of "Liberty
Under God," and it is the technically precise
description of the system advocated on this website.
When we say "Anarchy"
we mean pure
Laissez-faire Capitalism. We don't mean chaos
and lawlessness, we mean the complete absence of governmental
restrictions on individual Liberty. We believe such a repeal
of governmental restrictions on Liberty will help eliminate
chaos and lawlessness. Maybe we're wrong, but at least you
better understand what we mean by "anarchy" or
"Liberty" -- no politicians, no bureaucrats, no
"government," as in "THE
government." Stripped of their non-rational emotional
connotations, "Liberty
Under God" and "Anarchy
Under God" are
equivalent (obviously, "anarchy" and "UnderGod"
are almost never paired together). |
When we say "Theocracy"
we obviously don't mean government-imposed religion,
because we just got rid of "THE
Government" in the paragraph at left! (Knee-jerk
reactions cannot be substituted for thoughtful analysis.) By
"Theocracy" we mean a nation "Under
God." We mean a society that generally recognizes
that the existence of God is a "self-evident truth."
A society which is generally committed to obeying "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." In this "utopia"
there will always be a few who will not obey God's
Commandments, but the rest of society will be committed to
dealing with such people in
a Christlike manner. |
- America's Founding Fathers said "We the People"
have two duties:
• A duty to
abolish any government that tramples on God-given
rights
• A duty to
acknowledge God and worship Him.
This is a duty human beings have even
when they hold political office.
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- "Liberty
Under God" cannot exist under traditional
forms of government, such as
- a monarchy
an aristocracy
a democracy,
a republic
or any other similar form of government. These forms of
government are all contaminated by The
Big Lie, and inevitably degenerate into "Tyranny
under Man." "Liberty
Under God" can only exist in a society which might
be labeled an "Anarcho-Theocracy."
Please do not neglect that link. It's not a marketable name at
present, but history, logic, and law - especially the Law of God -
show "Anarcho-Theocracy"
to be the only alternative, and the only foundation for "Liberty
Under God."
Let's Talk About "Extremism"
We like Barry Goldwater's line from the 1964 Republican
National Convention:
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice;
moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Jesus Christ said if you are not an extremist, you are not a
Christian.
In fact, if you are not an extremist, you make Jesus puke:
"I
know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I
could wish you were cold or hot. {16}
So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor
hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth."
Revelation 3:15-16 |
Can you be a half-way follower of Christ?
No. If Jesus is not 100% your Lord and Master, He is not lord at
all and you deceive yourself.
If you reserve even a whit of autonomy
for yourself, you are in fact claiming complete sovereignty. Even
if you choose to follow Jesus 99%
of the time, it is still YOU who are choosing, you who
approve of 99% of Jesus' commands, you who put yourself in
the place of God and judge
some of what Christ said to be wrong,
you who are acting as lord of your life. You view
religion as a Smorgasbord. You pick and choose depending on what
YOU like, but do not view the Word of God as an absolutely binding
package deal. Everybody agrees with something
Jesus said, even some real sickos. A Christian is someone who
believes everything Jesus said. Nothing less than full
submission counts for anything.
If you disagree with this, then you want to be at point
"M" on the chart below:
Extreme |
Middle of the Road |
Extreme |
A B
C D E F G H I J K L |
M |
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
Tyranny |
Apathy |
Anarchy |
Atheism |
Lukewarm |
Theocracy |
Hate |
Indifference |
Love |
If you are not an extremist in defense of "Liberty
Under God," what is the guiding principle that
keeps you from being a defender of tyranny, atheism and hate? Is
"moderation" the Grand Principle that you believe
will keep America from collapsing into chaos and lawlessness? When
Jesus said "Love your neighbor," was He really just
telling us not to hate our neighbor, to avoid
extremes, and have an attitude of "moderation" toward
our neighbor? Can Lukewarm Indifference ever be Christlike?
Even if our goal were no more than "moderation," if
you are at point "A," we must advocate "Z" in
order to get you to point "M," because A + M only
brings you to point "G."
We advocate "Z" on the scale above. We're trying to
get you to adopt "Z" as your position as well. If we
move you toward "Z" to any degree, we've succeeded. For
now.
The goal of this website is to prove that we cannot have too
much "Liberty
Under God." If someone attributes a social problem
to "Liberty
Under God," it's actually because there either is
- not enough Liberty (too many bureaucrats, too much
money being extorted from taxpayers, too many people being
locked up with sociopaths in federal prisons, too much
government interference with the
laws of economics), or
- not enough obedience to God. NO social problem is ever
a case of politicians needing more power or society needing
more violence.
A Nation Under Which God?
On March
6, 1799, President John Adams issued an
official Presidential Proclamation urging (but not compelling)
Americans to join "as a society" in "a day of
solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer," to
- call to mind our numerous offenses against the Most
High God, confess them before Him with the sincerest
penitence,
- implore His pardoning mercy, through the Great
Mediator and Redeemer, for our past transgressions,
- and that through the grace of His Holy Spirit
we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more suitable
obedience to His righteous requisitions in time to come;
President Adams wanted this prayer to be declared officially
and observed publicly, "giving to it the character of a national
act." America, a nation "under God," was not under
just any god, but the God of the Bible. [more]
200 years ago America's Founding Fathers
fought for a nation of "Liberty Under
God," the God described in the column on the left; the
U.S. government of today fought for a nation under the god
described in the column on the right:
John
Locke,
Two Treatises on Government, Bk II sec 135.
[T]he Law of Nature stands as an eternal rule to all men,
legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for
other men's actions must . . . be conformable to the
Law of Nature, i.e., to the will of God. [L]aws human
must be made according to the general laws of Nature, and without
contradiction to any positive law of Scripture,
otherwise they are ill made.
Proclamation of February 28, 1795 by Samuel Adams,
issued while he was Massachusetts Governor:
THE supreme Ruler of the Universe, having been pleased,
in the course of his Providence, to establish the
Independence of the United States of America, and to cause
them to assume their rank, among the nations of the Earth,
and bless them with Liberty, Peace and Plenty; we ought to
be led by Religious feelings of Gratitude; and to walk
before Him, in all Humility, according to his most Holy
Law.-But, as the depravity of our Hearts has, in so many
instances drawn us aside from the path of duty, so that we
have frequently offended our Divine and Merciful Benefactor;
it is therefore highly incumbent on us, according to the
ancient and laudable practice of our pious Ancestors, to
open the year by a public and solemn Fast.-That with true
repentance and contrition of Heart, we may unitedly implore
the forgiveness of our Sins, through the merits of Jesus
Christ, and humbly supplicate our Heavenly Father, to
grant us the aids of his Grace, for the amendment of our
Hearts and Lives, and vouchsafe his smiles upon our temporal
concerns:
I HAVE therefore thought fit to appoint, and with the
advice and consent of the Council, I do hereby appoint
Thursday, the Second Day of April next, to be observed as a
Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer throughout
this Commonwealth.... |
LAW OF ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE STATE OF IRAQ
FOR THE TRANSITIONAL
PERIOD
8 March 2004
CHAPTER ONE –
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Article 7.
A) Islam is the
official religion of the State and is to be considered a
source of legislation. No
law that contradicts the universally agreed tenets of Islam,
the principles of democracy, or the rights cited in Chapter
Two of this Law may
be enacted during the transitional period. This
Law respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the
Iraqi people and guarantees the full religious rights of all
individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice.
Coalition
Provisional Authority
[A new Iraqi Constitution is due August 15, 2005]
For a view of
Sam Adams' original proclamation, click
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Here are the key issues in the debate over abolishing "the
government."
- 1. Capitalism
and Pacifism
- Can you define "capitalism?" Most people think
America is a "capitalist" nation, but that is no
longer the case. "Capitalism" is persuasion rather
than coercion. It means refusing to initiate force or violence
against another in order to get your way. Understanding
"capitalism" in this way changes everything.
- 2. Capitalism
and Theocracy
- People today generally have a negative reaction to the words
"pacifism" and "theocracy." Both of those
words lead to "capitalism" and a peaceful,
prosperous, and orderly society.
- Now you're ready for the links below.
Here is where more detailed study begins:
- This website is produced by a non-profit
tax-exempt organization called "Vine
& Fig Tree" (VFTonline.org).
Because we no longer have freedom of speech in
America, we are required by law to disclose that
we do not endorse the candidacy of Kevin
Craig for U.S. Congress. Kevin Craig links to
this website in his campaign materials because he
agrees with the idea of "Liberty
Under God."
But non-profit organizations are not allowed to
speak out on behalf of political candidates, so
even though he endorses us, we cannot endorse him
without the risk
of losing our tax-exempt status. If you came
to this website looking for information about
Kevin Craig, you should click on one of these
websites:
- www.KevinCraig.US
www.Is
It a SIN to Vote for Roy Blunt.com
www.STOPtheSPP.US
- If you want information about his opponent, you
should click here,
here
or here.
- The
American Revolution began
in churches. The Boston Tea Party was plotted
in a church. The ratifying conventions of several
states were held in churches. What would America's
Founding Fathers think about a government that
told churches they could not say anything about
Parliament or King George III, and told courts of
law they cannot
display copies of the Ten Commandments. The
Pastors of early America's churches would rise up
and call for the abolition
of such a tyranny.
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P.S. - Back to the Future
Before the
election of 2018 takes place, a significant
anniversary is observed.
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his
"95 Theses" to the door of the church and challenged the
churchmen to a debate, a debate which was ultimately won by the
Reformers.
2017 will mark the
500th anniversary of that momentous
event.
Luther's 95 Theses challenged the
Church's claim that it could sell Justification. Luther claimed
that Justification
was a gift that could not be earned or bought, but could only be
accepted by faith.
The Protestant
Reformation is over. The Protestant doctrine of Justification
by Faith transformed Western Civilization, but is now dead,
having been replaced by the doctrine of justification
by easy believism. Calvin's doctrine of the sovereignty of
God gave
birth to America, but the U.S. Supreme Court has infallibly
declared the
sovereignty of man.
The time has come for a new 95 Theses.
Socialism, communism, fascism,
imperialism, and "democracy"
have enslaved more people than the medieval church. It is arguably
darker now than it was in "the dark ages." LIBERTY
UNDER GOD can only be
restored by a "paradigm
shift." That momentous shift in thinking, which we hope
might be reflected in the momentous election of 2018, may be
precipitated by a new 95 Theses:
Ninety-Five
Theses on "The State"
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