The Myth of American Freedom

Andrew P. Napolitano
LewRockwell.com
September 30, 2011

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What if the Constitution were written not to limit government, but to expand it? What if the Constitution didn’t fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, but betrayed it? What if the Constitution actually permitted the government to limit and constrict freedom? What if the Bill of Rights was just a paper promise, that the government could avoid whenever it claimed the need to do so? What if the same generation – in some cases the same people – that drafted the U.S. Constitution enacted laws that violated it? What if the merchants and bankers who financed the American Revolution bought their way into the new government and got it to enact laws that stifled their competition? What if the civil war that was fought in the name of freedom actually advanced the cause of tyranny?

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32 Responses to “The Myth of American Freedom”

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  2. Revolution is inevitable. I want to spill the blood of these tyrants.

    In the meantime, while they trample on the constitution and our liberty, I suggest trampling on their bogus fiat currency by writing, “END THE FED” on it.

  3. The Judge covered all the bases well and synopsized it with finesse. The answer is you would protest, non-stop and if that did not produce results, you revolt!

    Every generation needs a new revolution – Thomas Jefferson.

  4. The US Constitution was a betrayal of the Declaration of Independence. Real patriots such as Patrick Henry, George Mason and a few others saw it as a blueprint for empire and fought it. The Bill of Rights was added at their insistence as a defense against the Constitution! Big Banker whores such as Hamilton and the Federalists didn’t want any enumerated rights – they said “You must trust us and our promises to observe your rights.” Henry said, “Not good enough – we need guarantees.”

    Masons crave power and that’s what they got with their seven Articles. They fought the Ten Articles of Amendment (the Bill of Rights) right up till December, 1791. They nullified their own Constitution in 1913 with the 17th Amendment. This provided for the direct election of Senators. The Constitution was a contract between the States and the People, the former represented by Senators appointed by State legislatures and the latter by Representatives elected popularly. When Senators became elected popularly, too, the States were no longer represented and the Constitution was rendered null and void. We have been under a sham government ever since.

    The Constitution is a fraud on the people and should be abandoned. It has not protected us from civil or foreign wars, from inflation and federal corruption. It is in fact the engine of all these crimes, authorizing such racketeering as the private Federal Reserve Corporation and its collection agency, the IRS. The Bill of Rights was our great champion for many years but it, too, has collapsed because it is in conflict with the first Seven Articles of the US Constitution. The Supreme Court protects the Constitution but it does not protect the Bill of Rights.

    The Freemasons wanted a central bank which must have a central government to enforce it. Henry Clausen, the head of Freemasonry in the ’60s and ’70s, said this in his book, Masons Who Helped Shape Our Nation (pp 14-16):

    “Second only to Washington and Franklin in this movement were Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton. Often called ‘The Banker of the Revolution,’ Brother Morris, like Hamilton, realized that a national fiscal and economic system was necessary to hold the States together. First steps were made toward this when Morris, who had received a Masonic apron from Washington himself in 1778, was named Superintendent of Finance in 1781 and when the Bank of North America was opened in 1782. [sic] Original stockholders were Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe and Jay. The Bank clothed Washington’s army and supplied enough confidence in the new Nation to win America international recognition. Hamilton – aide-de-camp to Washington in the Revolution, member of the Continental Congress, and first US Secretary of the Treasury – supported Morris, proposed extending the Bank into The First Bank of the United States and, with Washington’s strong support, succeeded in this endeavor to establish America on a sound monetary basis.”

    And now we can understand why. Hamilton’s father’s name was Levy, by the way. The central bank was the entire purpose of the Revolution from the Masons’ position. It would not become the true dictatorial power with total control of interest and credit until 1913 because of intelligent resistance based on an understanding of money and credit by our true patriots up until that significant year.

  5. The Constitution is toilet paper to the federal government. We don’t live in a nation that believes in democracy, it’s hypocrisy. We claim to do one thing publicly and privately the government does whatever the heck it wants with no oversight. This is the problem. As for freedom, everyone’s disappeared after the 2008 election. Don’t believe me? Judge for yourself. Google PalinsDirtyLittleSecret and learn what the media CANNOT report on.

  6. The Myth of American freedom…it doesn’t exist

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  7. What if I fart and the fart police show up to arrest me. What if I always stay alone, without people around me. I guess the government can do whatever it wants anyhow. Called no witnesses. If I what if everything, them I’m just side tracked from reality, or the truth.

  8. What if the American people woke up and voted all of the criminals out? Oh wait, they are too busy watching DWTS, sitting on their fat arses, eating Cheetos, and being obedient little slaves to the Illuminati. Always believing what their MSM handlers tell them. Arghhh!

    • Its impossible to VOTE all the criminals out when the 2 parties in charge
      only allow CRIMINALS on the ballot!

      This is what is happening before our eyes with Ron Paul. The hypocrisy is so
      blatant it beggars description. It is obvious to all except totally brainwashed
      borgs that the MSM is being paid to IGNORE THE FRONT RUNNER CANDIDATE
      WHO IS HONEST.

      To quote “The Mask” from the popular movie:

      “HOLD ONTO YOUR LUG NUTS, ITS TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL!”

  9. What if the American people used their firearms to shoot all government officials, and then all government employees?
    And this is the reason for the second amendment.
    Government, think long and hard before going any farther.
    If the American people get started it won’t be easy to stop us.

  10. “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1816

    Well, he gave it his best shot. It is up to us to finish it.

  11. I hope Judge Napolitano becomes part of Dr. Ron Paul’s cabinet in 2012.

    • I agree. He should hold the post of Attorney General until a spot opens on the Supreme Court.

  12. There is some hope, if Judge Napolitano can tell the truth on the Presstitute media. I am surprised that they allowed it, I’m sure that many of you know that you are censored on cites that require you to use Facebook and Yahoo log ins just for saying the same things that the Judge said.

    True, we’re not Judges, but we at least had the delusion of the First Amendment, and I just read a story today about a guy who was being required by local law enforcemnet to lose his Second Amendment, turn in his guns, for speaking of a woman who might suffer a “spritual death”. She comlained of his “free speech” and he lost his Second Amendment right, if he really ever had it at all.

    I believe that everything Napolitano said in that clip is true, we have only been living an illusion of freedom. It is becoming more and more clear to me, in my personal experiences lately on line and elsewhere, that the people who fostered that illusion have decided to take it away from us. Sometimes a dose of reality is what people need, TPTB would say, and I say I agree, as long as the right people get that dose of reality. We are coming to a time when very strong organized action will be necessary to inform TPTB that it is THEY who suffer the delusion, not us.
    Perhaps, if they are not too delusional themselves, they’ll accept our demanding the freedoms so that they won’t have to lose theirs or worse, go the way of tyrants throughout history and suffer the lawful punishment for treason and crimes against humanity.

  13. The Judge is great. If you follow what he is saying, the American dream was never ours. It was never our government. You can not change something to be in your favor if it was never meant to work that way. They trick us and used us to give us what we have today!

    • Even as a high-schooler when I’d hear some idiot mention “The American Dream”
      I was like “AMERICAN WET DREAM MORE LIKE IT!”

      That American dream bullsh*t has just been a propaganda HOOK elites put thru
      the nose of their SLAVES to keep them PRODUCING FOR THE BANKERS.

      Far as I remember the American Wet Dream is supposed to be a good job, 2 new
      cars in the garage of a house, all of which they are paying off to the banksters.

      First time I got a look at an Amortization Table, (breakdown of how much banks
      receive in interest as compared to principle paid on mortgages), I was like:

      OH HELL NO! HELLLL NO! You sign up with those LOAN SHARKS on their criminal
      mortgage for a $100,000 house YOU END UP PAYING BACK $300,000!

      The entire CROOKED FLIM FLAM known as the “American Banking System”
      needs to be RETIRED and local lenders substituted that are run HONESTLY.

      The criminal banks have ROBBED LOOTED this whole nation from the word GO.
      We can at least TRY to get Ron Paul in office, watch he and his family 24-7, and
      START DISMANTLING THE ILLEGAL BANKING CARTELS, beginning with the FED.

  14. Something is missing in what we hear from others as they post, write, or speak about defeating the NWO. What is missing can doom us to extinction.

    What is missing is their ideas for the future once we put the tyrants to rout. It’s as though people are screaming put out the fire! But no one is asking where is the fire hose.

    It is not enough to drive Obama and the neocons off a cliff. Whatever conditions led to their coming to power still exist. This is where our focus should be. Priority One is having a plan, during our pre-revolutionary planning and post-revolutionary reconstruction, that clearly sets forth our vision for the future. We don’t have one yet!

    Have you noticed that leaders and politicians NEVER mention what we must do to change the failed status quo? As though everything was ideal except we need someone different in office! This deception by the NWO maintains the status quo—their demonic control of our lives.

    Lacking a vision, our future will revert to the past. All the things we are doing now, our life styles, our expectations, our attachments, our ideas about God, our false notions of reality…..these are the conditions that invite tyranny after tyranny.

    To doubt this is to ignore centuries of tyranny, religious as well as governmental, and to blind ourselves to our own failed ethics. The big tyranny simply mirrors our little tyrannies. Why should we revolt against the evil in the banksters but not against the evil in ourselves?

    We are not personally exempted! Reality is manifested by our thoughts and anticipations. Our first step to victory is inward. Who are we, what do we really want, and why do we believe what we believe?

    It would be healthy to type your answers in NotePad, and pick at them mercilessly, making improvements through revision and revision until it crystalizes in your mind. Do it again, day after day. The idea, announced long ago, is that the unexamined life is not worth the living. Writing is many things, but it is also self-examination.

    It would be unhealthy to sit there, a cigarette in one hand and a glass of Scotch in the other, pondering your self-induced victim status and how to get revenge.

    Victory begins in our hearts. Victory belongs to those whose consciousness is equal to the task. And what is consciousness? Consciousness is the awareness of the true nature of reality that we bring to solving life’s challenges.

    The New World Order think tanks have succeeded in driving American consciousness below the level needed for our survival. Survey the postings in Infowars. What do you mostly see? Pathetic narcissism, depraved and foul mouths, hopelessness, rancor, squabbling over bible verses, insecurity, arrogance, and incomprehensible, mindless dribblings from diarrhea mouths. That’s in addition to obvious trollwork!

    To fill in what is missing, copy the following into your collections, as many are now doing with our postings, as it will serve us well in making a plan, and a vision, for the future:

    Reality, not someone’s idea of truth, is the only foundation for an advanced civilization. The masses have little knowledge of reality other than that it is a word in the dictionary, and lexicographers with religious leanings define reality as truth. In fact, the two are totally opposite. Reality is a perpetually unfinished book because it is written by each of us, eternally dreaming our personal realities. Reality is nothing but dreamers and dreams, and though our life dreams come and go, our true selves as dreamers go on forever, always learning more about love, always moving closer to God.

    Therefore, to fill in the gap in knowledge that guides us to a brighter future………

    Judge civilization by its consciousness.
    Judge consciousness by its truths.
    Judge truth by reality.

    As soon as we accept this,

    We change civilization by changing its consciousness.
    We change consciousness by changing its truths.
    We change truth as we discover the nature of reality.

    • The revolution was guided by the ones who put this system in place. But, it was won by the soldiers in the field. This time, the soldiers in the field (us) will hopefully keep our control and not just return to our farms after victory. The idiots in Washington need constant supervision to keep them from returning to tyranny. Each of us is responsible for our own morality and we need to learn to act morally. We must stand for what’s right always!

    • Ummm…”we can change truth as we discover the nature of reality?”. Well, I’d just like to point out, that if you can change truth, then it wasn’t true to begin with. And let’s not get started on relative truth vs absolute truth. Either it is true or it is not. Truth is absolute by definition.

      It is an Antichrist idea (lie) for truth not to exist. For if truth exists, then we are beholden to it. And if your agenda or lifestyle s contrary to truth, then truth is offensive to you.

      God s true. Jesus, the Son of God is true. The Word of God, the Bible is true.

      Alex Jones is not true. All this economic and social chaos, while very much real, is not true. It is all fabricated to set you up to yearn for the paradigm shift to a new and greater humanity, which Satan has been carefully scheming.

      Alex’s job is to lead you down that path. He is like a carnival barker selling to the titillated masses. I would not trust Napalitano, Ventura and I’d be very skeptical about Ron Paul and Bob Chapman.

      Wake up all you who believe in this far reaching conspiracies. They have been part of Satan’s master plan for centuries, bringing us to this point, always changing actors, costumes and scenes, but ever pushing forward to the climax.

      There s a Sovereign Creator, who is the embodiment of truth. You may deny reality to suit your lifestyle (men loved darkness rather than light), but you cannot escape the consequences. God shall judge all the works of men, which are expressions of man’s heart, hs consciousness. But God so loved the world that He gave hs only Son as a payment for your sins. God is the only source of life and freedom. Repent, for you do not know what tomorrow ay bring.

    • Makes me wonder who died and made that “4victory” poster god to where
      he/she can outline to us all “what we have to do to make a brighter future”.

      We already HAVE prime examples from our past to use as templates to
      RETURN America to a semblance of “The Land Of The Free”. In my 7
      decades of traveling working in this country I have learned this:

      America is a land of builders, designers, engineers entrepeneurs. It is
      also chock full of artists, free thinkers, philosophers educators. Our
      nation is like a gigantic steam locomotive with the coal being the planners
      and the steam being the workers who bring the plans to reality.

      We already have THAT, along with our faith of choice, as our Rock-Solid
      foundation. GET THIS BUNCH OF GOV’T THIEVES, PSYCHOS HIJACKERS
      OUT OF OUR WAY and America will WORK itself out of our DEPRESSION
      TROUBLE in a very few years’ time.

      Just think, we already have a virtually unlimited supply of our own cheap
      CRUDE OIL that, with the CROOKS out the way, can be pumped AND
      refined to where our gasoline could cost 50 CENTS PER GALLON again!

      Want to see America RISE UP SHINE? Start by giving its people industry
      CHEAP ENERGY UNENCUMBERED BY THE WORLD BANK!

  15. I love the Judge but I wish he would use his knowledge and understanding of the law to file suites to the Courts to get some of this overturned. If he, a former Judge, can’t get cases through the courts, then what are we waiting for? There is no more intellectual battle to fight, it must get physical.

  16. I nominate Andrew Napolitano for U.S. Attorney General.

    • I SECOND THE NOMINATION!

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  18. the playground has groomed the masses to think all this tyranny is freedom..hah another
    sick joke. those bastards

  19. The irony is that Mr. Napolitano poses these questions as hypotheticals, yet understanding that this is and has been the reality of some people in the United States and may be the reality for many more people. But they will try to adjust your psychology before hand to make is seem normal. The government has been come the scapegoat, a receptacle for all of the people’s complaints . But it is not ‘just’ the government, or the criminals who have accessed positions of power within government, it is the people. The Bill of Rights is the people’s document and ‘they’ have said that it is nothing but a piece of paper with utopian, wishful thinking inscribed on it. Of course, all of those wonderful utopian dreams should apply for the benefit of them…for others…well who cares.

    • If the gov’t wants all the control and all the power and wants to run our lives, then YES the gov’t inherits responsibility by default…….DUH! And YES they will be the scapegoat and “receptacle for all the peoples complaints”.

      If you think ordinary people get into gov’t and actually make BIG things happen you’re on glue. Jesse Ventura blindsided the establishment as governor of Minnesota and spent hours surrounded by the CIA in the bowels of our nations capitol under interrogation. FACT!

      The Constitution and Bill of Rights can be as true as we want it. But we have to fight for it continuously and indefinitely! Are we the people prepared?

      • I think you failed to appreciate the point. There is a problem of government certainly, but it exists because ‘you’ the people are a greater problem, but don’t want to deal with that….just blame and point fingers to a faceless government. As far as Jesse Ventura, well, so many people of the political class connected to Harvard. Thanks for reiterating my point over the Bill of Rights.

        • THANK YOU JIMMY CARTER.

          Remember he blamed “A Malaise of the American People”

          for HIS OWN INEPT IMPOTENCE LACK OF LEADERSHIP?

          SOCIOPATHS IN GOV’T ALWAYS BLAME “THE PEOPLE” FOR

          THEIR BUMBLING IDIOCY WE KNOW WHO THE FACES ARE!

  20. The creation of a new government agency that will be dedicated to job creation, will only create more government jobs.

    What a joke! The government can’t create jobs. Our only hope is to support small businesses, which create the majority of new jobs.

    And you need to take control of your finances by getting financial education. The market is rigged against you. Your IRA and 401K are in danger of becoming worthless.

    Learn how to leverage the financial crisis to create wealth and protect your family.

  21. The Judge is a great American. A great ticket would be Paul/Napolitano.

    • I second that with Ventura as the Secretary of state or Defense whichever is third in line for the president. That would ensure no one kills Ron Paul because the ones behind him would be even worse for the people in power. Ron Paul’s VP nomination is going to be huge one because of his age and two because of what I see as the very real threat of someone killing him.

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