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Show The Paper That Dares To ce A April 8, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 9 Stand READERS The thesis that our servants in government hold a monopoly on the use of force is believed by most people in our society today. The truth of the matter is that our servants in government do not hold a monopoly on the use of force. Moreover the only type of force that may be used by our servants is - defensive force. God is the source of our rights. Our rights consist of the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to own and control private property and the right to defend the first three. The right to defend is called defensive force. Solzhenitsyn said it and like the crumbling of a dam as the first crack appears, the water burst forth until, with a mighty roar it was heard all over the world. It is basic. It is the struggle of good cocktail-drinkin- g mother, versus evil. And to have to hear why didnt you teach your this from a man from Russia. I use son about God instead of the term Russia in preference to the handing him a cigarette, and Soviet Union because he seemed to a dance program? Get to prefer it that way. your knees and ask God to He doesn't seem to hold out. forgive your sins. And then much hope for either he or us. He pray foj the army. Pray, doesn't believe we have what it pray, pray! And you takes to save ourselves. Not from preachers! Why didnt you Russia but from the Soviet Union teach the' people to pray? which, personifies evil through Only repentance for sins can communism. stop the shelling, the killing, But. as he says, we arc the ones and the murdering. who created and developed the "I could go on, but I am monster and every time the evil so tired, so weary. But so we rushed started to happy to see them coming madly to its side with emergency' to God one by one. So tell aid. them to keep on praying. None of us is good nor. I supAnd when you send things pose, are we bad. Evil comes in to your boys, send Bibles; various sizes, and sometimes the They want Bibles. doses of evil are worse than others. Your loving brother, One thing, though after it gets the Lieutenant upper hand, there is very little good left, and that only in small doses. Now it's no longer personal nor is it ANGOLA FINALE national. It is international! It is worldwide! It is organized and it is National Review Vol 28, No 9 raging Jikc a forest fire out of conIt remains to be said that U.S. trol! At this point in space and in Angola' achieved the t ime if you fight it you must fight it policy alone because there is ho organized worst possible result. The U.S. resistance . nor do I believe there might have stayed out of Angola w ill be. When you light against this altogether, thus cutting its losses. evil you must ultimately lose, Alternatively, the U.S. might have intervened with sufficient weight to barring the Second Coming. As Solzhenitsvn says the forestall the MPLA vicwheels that have been put in tory though this would have remotion cannot be stopped even quired adequate political with the unanimous approval of preparation of U.S. public Instead the Adthe Politbureau. The Soviet Union opinion. ministration -- secretly is going full blast on a war footing provided while we are disarming and enough support to assure conretreating as fast as possible. Satan tinuing MPLA hostility but too litside is having his da v and we are no tle to do the majeh for hins. Only the Lord can much good. It was entirely predictable that this covert aid would be save us now. But remember the lord discovered, and that there would Our helps him who helps himself. Thos follow the usual uproar. of us who just sit and do nothing ineffective covert aid, in addition, .lust made it certain that we would be wijl be found wanting. remember that faith w ithout works implicated in the defeat of the is dead. If it's a battle of good forces, and suffer the versus evil, then it is the Lord's bat- inevitable political damage and, tle. Which side' have mwi neen beyond that, end up in a disad- bridge playing, -- self-destru- ct Whenever any of our rights is attacked the kind of force that is used is aggressive force. God gave none of us the right to attack anyone. It is, therefore, impossible to delegate to our servants in government the authority to attack another country or an individual in our own country. The only use of force which the individual may employ is the use of force to defend his rights if they are attacked. The authority to use defensive force may be delegated to a bodyguard by an individual. A group of. individuals, when creating a government, may delegate this same authority to a servant or group of servants. However, it is sheer nonsense to believe that this delegation deprives the individual of his God-give- n right to defend himself or his neighbor. Practically no one is ever attacked when a policeman is in sight. Our servants are simply an. aid or deterrent to help us protect our rights. Anyone foolish enough to tell his bodyguard that he, himself, gives up his right to defend himself may almost immediately expect his bodyguard to become his master. Today, our servants have assumed that they are our masters. So long as we permit this assumption to continue, just so long will it continue. Two hundred years ago 56 brave men rebelled against their It is time that we signed our own Declaration of Independence against our servants who evince a design to reduce us under absolute Despotism." Most pf our servants in Washington and elsewhere- are traitors to the Constitution which they swear to uphold. They are required to take an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution which they violate with practically every law they pass. It is our right, it is our duty, to throw off such Government, and to position for provide new Guards for our future vantageous negotiating some sort of relation security. Such has been the patient sufferance of this people; and such with the winning MPLA faction. Already France, Britain, Italy, and is now the necessity which other European nations are es- constrains us to alter our present tablishing diplomatic connections Systems of Government. The hiswith the Luanda regime (and castory of the past several administrations is a history of ting an eye at economic opportunities), though the Soviet in- repeated injuries and usurpations, fluence of- course remains all having in direct object the esof' an absolute paramount. If the tacticians in the tablishment State Department had tried to Tyranny over this people. devise a game plan to achieve the (Paraphrased from the worst possible result, they could Declaration of Independence) The not have invented a more conpresent government under which we suffer is a summate failure. conglomeration of socialism, comfascism and Roman Civil Why should taxpayers be munism, law. It is time that we returned to expected to pay illegar and immoral taxes when'soldiers are not the original Constitution and those few amendments which do not expected to obey illegal and imviolate the spirit of freedom which moral orders? is guaranteed by that document. pro-Weste- fighting on? THE TAX AND INFLATION depression Before unemployment can come down, production must increase. And for production to increase, sales must increase. But how can sales increase when the people have decreasing spendable incomes; increases in pay being more than cancelled out by taxes and inflation increases? Taxes now take about half of our earned incomes, inflation takes some more, and until these are reduced we cannot have enough left to support ourselves or to sup- port employment economy. and the slave-maste- rs. rn pro-Weste- But tourists didn't get near the action. Family ownership made its grounds a convenient meeting place with privacy under full control. Attendees included Senators Fulbright, Pat Yourself, on the Back rn Jackson and Javits, Dean by Russrll C. Mann WASHINGTON. D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service) Readers of this column sent to 300 publications nationwide have recently played a part in an international phenomenon. But they surely arent yet aware of it. We refer to the recently-announc- ed cancellation of I976s Bilderberg meeting. That will mean nothing to the novice, who if Bilderberg is mentioned, assumes it is the latest creation d of a franchiser under some golden arches. Long-terreaders of this column know better. It is the name of a hotel in Oosterbeek, The Netherfast-foo- m lands. At that historic location, was held the first of 24 meetings which changed history not only for the U.S. but for the world. None were held again in Hol- land. Nations later "honored'' were England. France, Germany, . Switzerland, Denmark. Sweden, Belgium.and Turkey; two meetings were in Canada and three in the U.S. These many meetings had remained obscure. But the persons attending had long been famous at home; many were famous internationally. That's an obvious clue that their meetings deserved the world's attention, but they didnt get it. Youve heard of David Rockefeller? Nearly everyone has, and many identify him as a banker (Chairman of Chase Manhattan of New York, with world-wid- e affiliates.) Any rewho has tried to follow porter him around can testify how busy he is with banking and family enterprises. Yet he spent March 20-2- 2, at Wi- 1964, lliamsburg, Va. Ah, but that's a Acheson, Christian Herter and John McCloy. Those simply weren't obscure people who do things of no consequence. Also attending were an obscure con-gressm- an from Michigan named Geiald Ford and an equally anonymous professor with a thick accent named Henry Kissinger. Equally significant are the counterparts to the above men from many western nations; 96 such men gathered here. Three days among such prestigious personages is apt to bloat any invitees ego. Worse, he becomes forever beholden to. those inviting him. This years meeting, scheduled for April 4 at the Homestead Hotel, Hot Springs, Va.. was suddenly canceled. The immediate reason appears to be unsavory publicity given the chairman of those 24 meetings: Bernhard, Prince of Holland and husband of Queen richest woman in the Juliana world. Briefly, there arc allegations of accepting and paying bribes! 22-2- This whole, decades-lon- g charade cannot operate without secrecy and deception. Caught in the glare of unexpected publicity. it scurries for cover. Lib- erty Lobbys reporters got close to 1971s meeting in Woodstock. Vt., 1974 in France, and were too close for comfort last year in Cesme. Turkey. I .ast summer we published 64 of documentation. Spotpages light on the HilJcrhergers. Its fascinating reading. Regularly S5. any reader may have one by sending S4, name and address, and this page identifying your newspaper to; I iberty l obby. 300 Independence Dept. Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 6, 20003. Whats Good In U.S.A. Today? While public schools erode, Christian schools have escalated; tens of thousands of students are leaving public schools. liberal seminaries struggle, while Once-promine- nt Bible schools and colleges thrive. secular campuses evangelical On Christian . movements flourish (Campus Crusade, etc.) Many - - - Rockefellers. True, By Larry IVilcox thrusting God out of their hearts and countries. And tell them to send Bibles, and more Bibles.- A Bible gives a soldier confidence that God is with him. "I'd like to have this letter broadcast over every radio in America. Try to get it on the air and printed in the papers. Make copies of it. Send it from coast to coast. Tell them the army wants prayers and Bibles. And you complacent, Sailer ity as a Colonial village by the INDEPENDENCE 1976 OUTIOOK By Boh ' tourist show place. you say, splendidly restored for poster- DECLARATION OF and college professional athletes come to know Christ. Darwins theory evolution is have of being challenged. While apostate churches are withering, evangelical churches are growing; some have mammoth bus ministries. There is mass evangelism, such as Institute on Basic Youth Conflicts, etc. Evangelical have book sales flourished, some becoming best sellers. Super markets and big stores now sell evangelical books. The public press treats fundamental Christians with more fairness and respect than in thie past. Thousands of Bible study groups have sprung up in neighborhoods, among office workers, airline businessmen, workers. An astronaut upon returning went from the moon into f ull-tim- e evangelism. Many key government figures speak openly of theii personal faith in Jesus Christ. About 20 of U.S. Senators and another 50 representatives meet in weekly, prayer groups. At least 17 groups meet weekly in the Pentagon for Bible study and grayer; scores of such groups exist all major Bible study throughout agencies. Many groups have been organized among congressmens wives. It was through one of these groups that Julie Eisenhower in her words, received Christ as Saviour. Christian Freedom Foundation has launched a nation-wid- e campaign to put Christians, with testimony of conversion, in public office. An estimated 30,000 American -- evangelical missionaries are on foreign fields. Todays missionary effort has shifted to training native evangelists to reach their own people. There is mounting evidence that a revival such as those which shook our nation in times past could occur again at almost any time. -- The Voice Of Liberty . |