Fishing for Freedom

4/4/2020

As I sit at my computer, gazing through the window, looking at the tomato plants which were put in the ground yesterday, and the firewood, stacked in crisscrossed patterns for better drying until the first fires of Autumn will be lit, I'm thankful to Almighty God for another day of life on the 13 acres on which my family and I live in southeast Mississippi.

I'm also wondering what the next few weeks or months will hold, because these are the strangest times I've experienced in my 61 years on this earth. This will be the third consecutive Sunday of 'live-streaming' church services for the church my family and I are members of. Seriously! 'Live-streaming' church. I expressed my disapproval to the pastor, but he responded, 'Well, you heard about the governor's guidelines, right?' Yes, I did, but they were just that – guidelines, not commands. Regardless, we have to fall in line with the rest of the sheep, or risk being ostracized in the community for being 'insensitive' to the spread of the Deadly Virus Known By Many Names.

The Wayne County board of supervisors met on Monday, and declared a 9PM – 5AM curfew, unless one is going to work, or transporting someone in a medical emergency. So, I suppose if my boys and I want to drive 16 ½ miles to a 40-acre plot of land we own, (land my late father-in-law was raised on in the 1920s and 1930s), to do some wild hawg hunting between 9PM and 5AM, we risk being stopped by the local Barney Fife, who might ask 'where y'all goin? Don'tcha know there's a curfew in place? Y'all better get on back to the house!' O.k., deputy, whatever you say. I could give him a lecture about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but I'll save it for another day. Given the fact there is more than way to get to 'the ole place' as we refer to it, we'll just take an alternate route. I know there is a finite number of deputies on the clock in Wayne County at 9:30 at night. In other words, it's pretty much an unenforceable curfew. But it makes the supervisors sound as if they are 'taking charge' and 'doing something'! Makes them feel that they're earning the tax-payer dollars they live off. This reminds me of an article I must read at Mises.org, entitled 'Politicians Have Used This Crisis to Remind Us They're Mostly Wannabe Dictators.' Truer words have never been written.

Lately I've been reading 'Salvos Against the New Deal', which is a collection of essays written by Garet Garrett, which were published in The Saturday Evening Post, and is edited by Bruce Ramsey.

In an essay from January 29, 1938 titled 'The Sign Ascendant', Garrett, referring to governments all over the world wrote 'All alike, they are limiting the areas of human freedom, for no government can in any way extend its powers over people but to limit freedom' and the last paragraph of this particular essay, 'Such then is the sign that now is ascendant in the political heavens. Such is the movement that is taking place in the world. Neither the sign nor the movement is new in the world; they are new only in this country, where now, for the first time, it may be that Government will overwhelm freedom. Certainly it will if the extension of its power be not heroically resisted.'

In just a couple of hours, my boys and I are going to the Chickasawhay River to set out a catfish trap. The game warden wouldn't be pleased. However, if Daniel Boone was still around, I believe he'd say 'catch a big mess of fish, boys!'

5 Comments

Clyde Wilson

4/5/2020 07:33:55 am

Thank you, Mr. Powell, for a great contribution to good old Southern plain-speaking.

Joe Johnsosn

4/6/2020 03:52:13 am

We have pretty much already lost our rights and liberties with civil rights laws and affirmative action, LGBT rights, open borders, mass immigration, infanticide, pornography, disability laws,etc.

James P. Coffin link

4/15/2020 11:02:24 am

At the moment in Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown, two very important stores are open. The two are, liquor stores and porn. Churches are closed.

Cal

4/27/2020 08:16:07 am

No, we did NOT lose all of our rights and liberties, as there is no one who serves within our governments that have any LAWFUL authority beyond that which is DELEGATED by the US Constitution and each state's Constitution.

So if the authority is not in one of those documents then they are working from within to destroy our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. They may be doing this knowingly (and all are required by the supreme law of this land to know and take an Oath showing that they know they are required to keep those above listed documents).

So does any position/office within the US Constitution delegate emergency powers? No, but it is covered within the US Constitution because it claims the American people are the sovereigns. That means that no state Constitution can delegate emergency powers to any position or office.

Notice that the only thing listed within the Constitutions are positions and offices, because those documents are our governments, the people are put there - elected, hired, contracted, etc - there to carry out the duties found in writing within them.

Patrick Henry: “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Michael LeMieux: “The Constitution has very little to do with the American citizen. It was written to establish a Federal Government and to place the boundaries by which that government would operate. The constitution was never designed to provide or enumerate the rights of the citizens but to restrain the federal government from meddling in state and ultimately citizen affairs.”

One thing one must be aware of, state Constitutions are usually amended (the only lawful way to change them) by voting, so when one sees that one is voting on an Amendment to the state Constitution be aware that government TAKES power, does not give it away, so make sure exactly what you are voting on.

John Adams: “This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, - Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws - Rights, derived from the great Legislator [God] of the universe.”

Daniel Webster: “…There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.”

CIA Director William Casey: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false".
I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration.
The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first told Reagan that he had been astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the 'intelligence' that the analysis side of the CIA produced was based on open public sources like newspapers and magazines.
As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it. Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public. Barbara Honegger

What are some of the things being done today by those who serve within our governments that they do not have the authority to do? Tax private property yearly. Driver licenses and vehicle registration. Laws being created and implemented (which is domestic terrorism and changing our gov from within unlawfully) by agencies, other branches besides the Legislative branch, with only those who actually serve within the House of Reps & Senate having been delegated that power. Property is covered by the supreme law of our nation and no state Constitution, or any office or position within the US Constitution allows them to take any proper

Paul Bonneau

4/7/2020 03:11:31 pm

It's interesting that the name of the button for posting this message is "submit". It's almost like a subliminal message.

It would be nice to warn the parasites and their minions not to screw with us first, but we may not have the time or opportunity for that. Some people really do belong in a shallow grave in the woods.

Author

Anthony Powell is an unreconstructed Southerner, a married, home-schooling father of seven, four of whom are still at home. He and his wife own a screen-printing business. He is a life-long resident of rural Wayne County, Mississippi, who has lived on the same 20 acres his entire life. In his spare time, he hunts, fishes, enjoys Scrabble with his children, and plays bluegrass music.

Anthony Powell

Fishing for Freedom

Leave a Reply.

Author

Archives