"Of Tea Parties, Tea Bags, Grand Juries and the 10th Amendment"

"Of Tea Parties, Tea Bags, Grand Juries and the 10th Amendment"

By Ron Ewart, President

National Association of Rural Landowners

© Copyright April 1, 2009 - All Rights Reserved

Is there a revolt going on in America today? The answer is an unequivocal YES! In every rural enclave, hamlet, town, city and state in America, an uprising is brewing and the pot is heading for a boil. Some uprisings are small, but many are growing larger. Most protests don’t have a specific action in mind, but are just a show of rising frustration with a government that has lost its direction, if not its collective mind. Cries for solutions to government excesses and abuses, abound.

Bailouts for banks, businesses and every Tom, Dick and Mary with a sob story, are angering those who work hard for what they have and are responsible and self-reliant, but forced by government to pay trillions of dollars for the failure of others. Constant and increasing power grabs by government, in answer to a financial crisis the government created in the first place, is sending millions of Americans into a subdued rage.

Suddenly, the U. S. Constitution is beginning to take on a greater meaning and a rising crescendo of voices is mandating that government return to the principles of that constitution. The stilled voices of the long-dead Founding Fathers are on the lips of a growing population of concerned citizens, who now realize just how wise they were. Old quotes are being dredged up from the colonial-period archives and re-printed everywhere, in a rebirth of that wisdom.

States are beginning to declare their sovereignty under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution and are passing resolutions, telling the Federal Government where to get off. It remains to be seen if the states will put their money where their mouth is. Nevertheless, the rhetoric coming out of state legislatures reeks of acrimony and distrust. Still, one must ask, where were those states when President Wilson, Herbert Hoover and FDR came along in answer to similar crises and expanded the Federal Government’s power with each executive order, each new piece of legislation signed into law and each unconstitutional decision by a “packed” U. S. Supreme Court? Where were these states when the federal government adopted the 16th Amendment, created the IRS and established the Federal Reserve? Purportedly, 75% of the states signed on to the 16th Amendment, but even that has been a subject of heated debate and calls for the Amendment's repeal.

Irrespective of what state legislatures are doing, the people are rising up in waves across the country. A new tea party event is occurring in multiple locations, almost every day now. Millions of Americans will be, or already have, sent tea bags to their senators and congressmen and women.

The power of the grand jury to root out crime and government corruption is being re-born again, after federal prosecutors and judges in the mid 1940's, emasculated the grand jury process with a bunch of rules that violated the proper role of the grand jury, as described in the very first line of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.

New organizations with “freedom” or “liberty” somewhere in their name, are springing up in urban and rural areas, throughout every state in the Union. They are challenging the unconstitutional local, state and federal laws that have been passed while they were sleeping. At last, they are questioning the propaganda, hype, distortions and lies coming out of the government … at every level ... as well as special interest groups, but especially the United Nations. None of these institutions can be trusted any more to publish the truth, or act in the best interests of a free people.

A new science paper comes out almost every week, unraveling the fraud that is man-caused global warming. New voices of reason are taking issue with economy-busting government CO2 emission limits and cap and trade policies. Strong opposition to one-world-order “fixes”, that would dilute our freedoms and strip America of its sovereignty, are being pumped into cyberspace daily, while the main stream media pretends the opposition isn't there.

The rising tide against illegal immigration threatens to shake the stability of our entire nation. If Congress passes amnesty for these illegal aliens, no matter in what form, instability will grow exponentially and acts of violence against illegals and maybe even the government, will become more frequent.

But no matter how much money we raise, how many states declare their sovereignty, how many court cases we win, how many grand juries we convene, how many illegal aliens we catch and deport, or how many politicians we can send to the scrap heap, it will still take the strength, courage and commitment of tens of millions of Americans who have finally had enough of creeping socialism, radical environmentalism, international money changers and power brokers, to rise up and say enough is enough and then take directed action to save our Republic.

Is a revolt of the American people growing in this great land of liberty? You bet it is and it is a refreshing and encouraging sight to behold!

In the final analysis, we are the last greatest hope for the entire world. If America's wealth and resources are pillaged and plundered, if its cherished constitution is rendered extinct, world-wide anarchy will fill the void.

Long live America and its freedom and liberty! Long live the courageous blood of patriots and down with the unconstitutional power-grab of arrogant tyrants, who would tear our freedom and liberty asunder and make us serfs under the thumb of an all-powerful, arrogant, tyrannical government.

Ron Ewart, President

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS

P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027

425 222-4742 or 1 800 682-7848

(Fax No. 425 222-4743)

Website: www.narlo.org