World governments have inappropriately licensed God’s resources to corporations who inappropriately charge the people for them. The governments are not serving the people; only the 1% and themselves. This is inconsistent with God’s natural law. On Gardening & Government, Video 3.
Now is the time to support our fellow citizen, Ted Visner. We must face down the evil before us. It is time to take our country back from the empire which has stolen it.
Independence Day should not be celebrated because we, the people, are free. Most of us cannot afford to exercise our God given natural rights. Independence Day is notable because it reminds us that personal freedom remains a goal for humankind at the dawn of the twenty-first century; notwithstanding the efforts of our economic system to put a price on liberty. As we watch the fireworks which symbolize the Revolutionary War we should remember the Declaration of Independence did not announce an intent that all people in the colonies would be equal and free. Rather lives were sacrificed so those persons who would otherwise have control of the colonies, but for the King, could exercise governmental power as equals. Women and slaves were not considered equals in the Eighteenth Century. Before this nation’s Civil War, Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was asked to speak at an Independence Day celebration. Understandably, Douglass commented in 1852 that asking him to celebrate freedom while his own people were enslaved was “sacrilegious irony.” Douglass declared that to those who are not free this nation’s Independence Day celebrations “are a sham.” Today many concerned citizens feel the same way as Frederick Douglass. Our government tells us we are a free people, but only to the extent we can afford our liberties. Politicians claim to own and control God’s gifts to humankind for the purpose of enriching themselves and indebting us to those who by virtue of their wealth are truly free. We, the people of the … Continue Reading
Gardening and Government, Part II A quick look into the forces that shaped the definition of natural rights in the days of the American Revolution. Appeal to heaven, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson’s recognition of the garden as a spiritual vehicle are used for illustration. The Founders of the United States Constitution along in their effort to write out enduring protections of the rights of the people, emerge as the visionaries whose organic document, The US Constitution, still lives today in Washington State’s Constitution. Scott Stafne, lawyer and gardener takes us through the journey of understanding the origins of our rights and how they are easily violated today.
