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In 2000, there were seven countries without a Rothschild owned central bank.  They were: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Lybia, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.  The only countries left are Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.

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We are not a nation of laws.  No law stood up for women’s right to vote.  No law stood up and gave blacks the right to vote.  No law stood up and ended segregation.  No law stood up to end slavery.  No law is standing up for equal rights for gays. 

It was the government’s law and violent enforcement that allowed for slavery in the South.  It was US soldiers from the North who rounded up the slaves when the slaves ran away.  It was the law and the government’s “law enforcement officers” (storm troopers) who enforced segregation.  It was the government and the law that ripped suffragettes from their family, threw them in cages, and force fed them.  It was the law and government who created organized crime through prohibition.  It was the storm troopers who ripped dads from their families and threw them in cages for having a beer during prohibition.  It was the government who would not let blacks vote.  It is the government who, via the tax code, dictates to gays how they dispose of their property, time, labor, and income based on whom they love.

We are NOT a nation of laws.  We are a nation founded on principle.   The principle is that we are each created sovereign with rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  It was individuals who stood up against the law in the face of violent threats from the State who helped to secured equal rights for our mothers, daughters, and sisters—individuals like Madeline Breckinridge, Carrie Chapman Catt, Matilda Gage, Sojourner Truth, and Victoria Woodhull.  It was abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Child, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown who stood up in the face of government violence to end slavery.  It was people like George Cassiday who stood up in the face of government and spoke out against the injustice of prohibition.  It was people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcom X, James Farmer, John Lewis, and Whitney Young who fought against the law and the state to end segregation and grant blacks the right to vote.  Men and women like Harvey Milk, Stephen Donaldson, Matt Foreman, and Barbara Gittings have stood up against the bigotry and violence of the State to bring equal rights to the LBT community.   

For the sake of brevity only a few of the injustices committed by the State were mentioned here.  I did not mention the Japanese internment camps or the atrocities committed against the Native Americans.  Additionally, I only named a few of the individuals who helped fight for and protect your rights.  There are millions more unsung heroes today and throughout history who decided that ‘that which is not just, is not law.’  Even in the face of threats of violence from the State, these heroes stood up for what was right even when they sometimes stood alone.  Please don’t dishonor their sacrifice with mantras and platitudes like, “We are a nation of laws.”

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