To The Slaves

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Be warned, my fellow Westerners, living in the luxury of modern life and enjoying democratic government and the notion of wonderful freedom.  You are slaves.  You have been cunningly enslaved by those you trusted to protect you.  So I write this summary to expose your situation so you can decide what you will do about your enslavement.

Your Lost Freedoms

You were born with God-given freedoms and rights, known as inalienable rights because they cannot ever be separated from who and what you are.

Those rights and freedoms have been defined from ancient time and you find them in the Holy Bible, in ancient English common law, in the Imperial Acts of the monarchs of England, in the Coronation Oath of the British monarchs, in the Bill of Rights 1688 and in the Constitutions that establish nations.

Simply stated, in western democracies, the men and women of the society pool their personal sovereignty to form government for their society.  They are sovereign and their will is supreme over their own lives.

They elect “representatives” to stand in proxy for the sovereign men and women and to serve the will of those men and women.  That is why elected officials and those they appoint are known as “public servants”.  They are to serve the will of the public.

We are not slaves to the will of the Emperor, or the will of the government, or the will of anyone else.  We are the sovereigns and we participate in society by our individual choice to do so.  We are governed only so far as we agree to be governed, and we may withdraw our agreement at any time, because we are the sovereigns.  Any other model makes us SLAVES to the will of others who are denying us our God-given inalienable rights and freedoms.

You are either a sovereign or you are a slave.  You either have the right and power to live your life or you don’t.  If you don’t, then you are not free, but you are enslaved.

Moral Responsibility

Note, however, that our personal rights and freedoms do not extend to committing crimes.  We are each morally responsible before God, from whom we draw our rights and freedoms.

The simple summary of our moral responsibilities toward our fellow man is that we must not harm anyone or their property, and we must keep our word to them.  The Bible summarised our responsibility toward our fellow man as “Love your neighbour as yourself”, and Jesus Christ summarised it as “Do to others what you want them to do to you”.

We are not free to abuse, steal, lie, cheat, harm or otherwise impose upon others.

Mankind is responsible before God to hold each other accountable for crimes against person and property and for keeping our word.

Freedom Today

Our real standing is that we are each a personal sovereign whose will is meant to be represented in the social decision making process of government.  Governments are created by us and for us, so all expressions of the government, including all the various departments, officials, processes, etc, are there as our public servants.  Compare that with what takes place today.

A cold look at what happens today suggests that our elected representatives and the appointed officials do not see themselves as there to serve us at all.  Instead they serve corporate agendas, money making for the government or corporation, and other objectives which not only ignore our wishes but impose things on us against our will.  Even those who are diligent about their position and responsibilities end up only serving the tasks assigned them in their role, which tasks are essentially designed for the good of that corporation, not delivery of the underlying rights and freedoms of the sovereign people.

Even where the majority of the public clearly oppose certain decisions the politicians will pass something into law and force it on the people.  This is not ‘representative government’ or ‘democracy’.  It is enslavement.  You are made a slave every time your elected government or some government department or corporation takes action against the public will.

Are You a Slave or Are you Free?

In view of what I have just outlined, are you a slave or are you free?

Do your elected representatives ask you for your instructions and then do what you tell them?

Do the government departments and officials listen to your instructions or complaints and then serve you effectively?

Or does the government push its own agendas?

Do governments pass laws that the people object to and then force compliance from the general public?

Have your rights and freedoms expanded over the past decades or have they been eroded?

More Serious Questions

Since your true rights and freedoms have been defined for hundreds of years, we can measure whether you are a slave or free based on how today’s government and society measures up against the ancient benchmarks.

A well known ancient benchmark defining personal freedom is found in Magna Carta which was first prescribed in 1215 and then reiterated in 1297.

The first version of Magna Carta in 1215 included this promise: “To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”  That Promise was repeated in Magna Carta 1297 as “We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.”

So the evidence of a free society is that every member of the society is guaranteed justice and their rights.  In fact the delivery of justice and their rights will never be denied and will not even be delayed.

Are justice and people’s rights speedily delivered to all in your society?

I set up the website http://Justice-and-Right.com to give focus to this most basic foundation of our rights and freedoms.  You will find various articles there discussing related matters.

Modern Government

In practice today’s western governments provide the impression of representing the democratic will of the people, but actually have their own agendas in mind.  Those governments have no regard for Magna Carta and the rights and freedoms of the people, except to keep up appearances and appease the people.

Western governments are increasingly intent on making their constituents slaves to debts incurred by those governments.  And it is likely that most governments are bound to serve masters apart from the people who elected them, such as international financiers and international power brokers.

The net result of this is that you are a slave.  You are being pushed around and expoited by the very government you might be proud of and have voted for.  That government and all the officials are far less interested in your will than their own.  They do not seek to ‘represent’ you, but to enslave you.

Sold Out

You have been progressively sold out by those who were entrusted with authority by you.  They can’t admit they have done this and they keep up appearances of all being in order as it has always been.

Your elected officials and those appointed to responsibility have sold you out for personal gain, or for ideological motivations, or because of secret agreements and bonds they are party to, or to feather their own nest in some way or similar reasons.

Just as spies are moved by various motivations to use their position against the country they live in, your leaders over past generations and today have progressively sold out your rights and freedoms for their own reasons.

However it happened, your sovereignty has been subverted, your freedoms removed, your rights destroyed and justice denied you and you have been made into a slave.

Try Bucking the System

If you still doubt that you are a slave then try bucking the system.  Just try calling your elected representatives to account, challenging some government rule that offends you and your rights, or calling for justice and your rights.

You will not get what you ask for.  Your sovereign will is ignored.  That is because your sovereignty has been subverted and sold out.  Your will is no longer represented by those you elect, but ignored and suberted by them.  They think this is the way it is supposed to be.

Ignoring the Slaves

Because you are a slave the social system of politicians, officials, courts and corporations will ignore you.  It will initially do so politely, so as not to arouse your suspicion about your enslavement, but you will get nowhere trying to have your voice heard.

If you press the point you will get various forms of polite obfuscation.  Rather than address your concerns as a sovereign man or woman calling your representatives or public servants to account, those in positions of authority will fob you off in various ways.

If you phone them you will get passed from person to person.  If you write, you might get a polite reply from an underling advising that the person or department you are calling into question is doing exactly what it is supposed to do according to such and such a law or Act of government.

If you press the point harder you will be ignored, or told you are a trouble maker, or given a fresh justification for the actions you object to from someone higher up the tree.

However they respond the net result is that you are left without the answer or outcome you sought according to your will.  Your WILL, the most significant element of your freedom, is ignored and trampled upon, albeit politely.  And that is because you are a slave.  Your slave masters don’t need to obey the will of a slave.

Doing My Job

One of the answers you will get when you challenge the system is a reply from someone saying in effect, “I am just doing my job”.  They will advise you that according to such and such a rule, or regulation, or the like, they are supposed to do what they are doing.

If you challenge them and point out that by them “doing their job” they are violating your rights, denying you justice, making you a slave, or the like, they will shrug their shoulders and try to get away from responsibility by saying, “I’m just doing my job”, “This is what I am supposed to do”, “I have a wife and kids to support, so don’t blame me if you don’t like it.  I’m just doing what I have to do.  You’d do the same in my place.”

Everyone Is Accountable

The stand that “it’s out of my control and I’m just doing my small part” quickly fails close scrutiny.

A man who drives the getaway car for a bank robbery, or who locks someone in a room so another person can attack them is an Accomplice.  They are fully accountable for their actions and responsible for their part in the abuse that takes place.  They are an undisputed party to the crime.

In the same way every official, in politics, courts, government departments, corporations, or the like who contributes to the abuse of your rights, justice and freedoms is an Accomplice.  They are an undisputed party to crimes against humanity and to your enslavement.

They are all fully accountable, even if a politician has promised them protection by passing laws to protect them.  Abuse is abuse, violence is violence and enslavement is enslavement, no matter what supposed laws are in place to protect those who commit the crimes.

What to Do

Do you know what to do about your enslavement?

If you don’t know what to do then you are in a pretty sorry situation.  You are a slave and you don’t know how to change it.  What hope is there for you and your children?

You will notice that the freedoms enjoyed just a few decades ago have been reduced since then.  Your freedoms are not being expanded, but eroded.  You are increasingly enslaved with each passing year.

So what will things be like in another fifty years?  What are you leaving for your children and grandchildren to live under?  What are you going to do to protect their freedoms and ensure they are not even more enslaved than you are?

Each of us must answer such questions for ourselves.  These are personal matters.  You may want to be a slave and want your descendents trapped in slavery.  You might have decided that this is the way it is meant to be.  It is not up to me to tell you how to live your life.  What you leave for your children is your business.

However, what I think is wise is that we stand up for what is ours and what belongs to our descendents.  I would like to see many of us effectively call to account those involved in injustice, treason and slavery.  I pray that at least some of you sense the same convictions.

Inalienable Rights

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Protection of human rights has been a popular theme in western countries. Activists agitate for the protection of their privacy. Legislators discuss how to craft appropriate documents enshrining human rights. The UN Charter and various pieces of legislation the world over give various forms to the discussion of rights.

Our human rights have been described in some quarters as “inalienable”.

Thomas Jefferson and Inalienable Rights

Thomas Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence describes human rights as “inalienable“. Jefferson claimed there that inalienable rights were the foundation of all government. Since the Declaration of Independence was, in and of itself, a declaration of defiance against British Rule over the colonies, Jefferson appealed to the existence of inalienable rights as the basis on which the American colonies could resist the British claim to authority over them.

Jefferson argued that a person’s rights are intrinsic in the individual and only have to be “declared” to be effective.

Most people today do not understand Jefferson’s view of rights nor do they really understand what is “inalienable” about their rights. People in authority like to have those under their control thinking that rights are granted to them by some human authority. That way the subjects are kept under the power of those who have denied them the full use of their rights.

Rights Explored

What made the rights declared by Thomas Jefferson to be ‘inalienable’? By what authority are any rights able to be asserted or possessed? Are they inalienable because nature has bestowed them upon us? Are they inalienable because they make sense in some special way? Are they inalienable because the body of citizens deem them so to be?

The answer to these questions significantly impacts the type of rights you have and how secure you and your children can be in those rights.

Natural Rights

If rights come from nature, then is it not reasonable that anyone with superiority of nature, such as strength or cunning, has an equally implicit right to abuse all others? If nature is our final court of appeal then those who are best endowed by nature have no recourse for their use of that advantage.

The Theory of Evolution, with its “survival of the fittest“, taught that we are all just the product of nature and that some are more evolved than others. On that basis Australian aborigines and natives across the globe were killed as if they were animals. Their bones and skulls were sent to museums in England and America as specimens. I have heard testimony of Australians who shot Aborigines without any sense of remorse, seeing them as much like a kangaroo or other animal.

If nature gives us our rights then it follows that people who are better endowed by nature have power over the less endowed. Evolution thus means that the more evolved creatures have an automatic right to dominate, use and destroy those who are less evolved.

Since those earlier days of the slaughter of natives we have been able to prove by genetic research that the Theory of Evolution is wrong. Natives in “primitive” lifestyles are not less evolved, but have just as much natural endowment as educated westerners. They had been reduced to primitive technology, but they are not primitive creatures biologically.

Hitler and Natural Rights

Hitler asserted that the Aryans were a superior race and so they had the right to assert themselves over other races of people. He was influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution and found it to be a friend to his ideas of domination.

So, natural rights is not a good place to anchor our inalienable rights. We could argue that everyone who is disabled, blind, or physically limited can be abused and dominated by all those who can exercise power over them.

The resultant battle would reduce society to a jungle of competing predators. Survival of the fittest is the prescription for anarchy, warfare, fear and terror. Praise God our rights come from a higher source than nature.

Nature is not the source of our inalienable rights, since nature does not bestow equally upon all the same potential to enjoy equal experience of life.

Logical Rights

Are human rights inalienable because they make sense in some special way? If that is the case, then anyone without sufficient sense to appreciate them or with superior sense, so as to be able to see past them, can abuse those rights with impunity.

If rights are based on human sense and logic then anyone who can beguile, confuse or out argue others can assert themselves over others. Simple people can be exploited. Those who have been educated to think that their rights are subject to their university professor, their government or their place in society’s caste system, will be talked out of their rights.

Logic is not the source of our inalienable rights. Logic has been used to justify the abuse of those rights, applying such theories as the Theory of Evolution as justification for abuse, cruelty and murder.

Social Rights

Are rights inalienable because the body of citizens deem them so to be? If that is the case then any other body of citizens can then contest them, if they so wish, and violate them, if their society sees that a different set of rights should apply.

If society is the basis for our rights, then what happens when some new pop-culture idea invades our society and causes people to change their idea of human rights? Societies change and through history many societies have become unhappy places to live. Women have been abused in societies. Life is cheap in some societies. The poor have been treated shamefully in some societies. Disabled or unproductive people have suffered greatly in some societies. Cruelty, superstition, slavery, warfare, domination and the like are clear elements of different societies through human history.

Society is not the source of our inalienable rights. Society does not have the moral anchor to make anything consistent and unchangeable.

Bequeathed Rights

The only way we can have ‘inalienable’ rights is if they are bequeathed upon us by a superior force to which we owe some moral obligation. God, as separate from creation and ruling over it as its creator and owner, is perfectly able to grant us ‘inalienable’ rights. Outside of His presence and role in the process it is hard to conceive of any real validity for Jefferson’s assertion of inalienable rights.

Moral Rights or Declared Rights

Jefferson’s assertion that rights only have to be ‘declared’ to be effective is interesting. He places great stock in the sovereignty of each citizen to arbitrate his or her own entitlements. He presents a type of natural law, that people have, by virtue of their existence, a right to assert their own personal validity, and to claim rights attendant to that existence.

How does Jefferson expect that the individual assertion of personal rights will be upheld, especially if all others deny that asserting individual the rights to which they lay claim?

Fighting For Rights

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence led to war. The American War of Independence was not a matter of a declaration of rights, but a battle to repel another who declared their right to control the American Colonies.

Here we see the natural struggle of existing entities, each asserting their place, but having to accept the place which they can successfully claim in practice. The assertion is of little real worth, except to focus the resolve of the person making it. In practice, the self-asserted rights can only exist with the cooperation of all others in the society, who agree to approve the rights in a social contract of mutual benefit.

The only social order that can be achieved by man is so achieved only by subjugation of some, or cooperation of the many.

Moral Rights

Moral Rights, on the other hand, do not come from subjugation of others, nor from the cooperation of others. They are not based on democracy, western culture, education, literacy, economic prosperity, industrialisation, globalisation, assertiveness training, power of self-defence, elitism, force or any other human endeavour.

Moral Rights spring from God as our moral creator, who placed us, as moral beings, into His moral universe. He then, as Almighty God, has the power to grant us what we cannot get for ourselves. He also has the power to defend us against those who have greater might than we do.

The inalienable rights which we have are the gift of Almighty God to each of us.