by Corcceigh Green
Welcome Back To The Independent American
by
Corcceigh Green
Hopefully, this is your second visit with us. If it is, we are glad to have you again. If this is your first visit, you are in for a treat. We, at The Independent American are especially proud of the lay out and information that we presented in our last issue. We are convinced that we are presenting the best magazine on survival/self sufficiency/freedom on the market.
Since the last issue was our first issue and we are inexperienced in the publication business, (Though most of us have been authors for many years.), there were some mistakes due mainly to communications. We intended to bring you our column; Info Line, which is intended to present personalities and information outlets in the survival/self sufficiency/freedom field. We are sorry that this column was omitted last issue. We are presenting it to you with this issue. We are certain that you will find the interview with Johnny Rowland interesting and informative.
Another column inadvertently omitted was Firearms In Our Culture. This column presents firearms as a part of the American way of life. It will discuss the role of firearms in our lives and society, as well as firearm history, handloading and all things firearms. This issue's column is devoted to the .22 rimfire cartridges and the fond memories of the author of owning and shooting firearms chambered for them.
Our last omission was an important article by Douglas Paul Bell. A Beginner's Guide To Survival Guns helps the reader to consider the various firearms on today's market in their quest to build for themselves a survival battery. Firearms are, indeed, a most important component in the lives of Independent Americans. They were the tools used in the founding of our great country and are the tools of last resort by which Americans are to keep their freedoms. As such, we, at The Independent American, believe in the important role of firearms in our lives and pledge to bring you relevant articles on liberty's tools, their use, the tactics to achieve victory, their function, various models and types.
The Independent American also presents to you new material in our regular columns for this issue. Uses For Plants describes how to plan a lazy man's garden for those who just can't seem to find the energy for regular or daily gardening chores. Projects For Home And Life describes how to build a forge for working metal and some of the tools you will need. Pug Mahone joins us officially with his Kiss Off Commentaries detailing news and views that the main stream press won't print. Hopefully, we will also have included Wildflower's Salvage Notes with more instruction in turning junk into useful items. Hari Heath is still free and we are including his column, The Brushfire News.
We have a gob of survival/self reliant/freedom oriented articles for you this issue. We are including another Douglas Paul Bell pearl on Survival Reloading. Information that you need to know about obtaining and reloading ammunition for your firearms. We also have a little gem for those who are most concerned about the invasion of the privacy of your own home. Blinding Prying Eyes details new “law enforcement” equipment that can peep through walls and fix your location within your home. This article also details what to do to defeat this equipment should it, like much of government's equipment, be abused.
Working With Potassium presents to the reader information on the creation of chemical compounds of potassium that is highly important to the survivalist and self sufficient homesteader.
We have had a small response from some readers and some who are not readers. We have included some of these in the letters column. To have your response printed in the letters column, e mail us at: thestaff@theindependentamerican.freeyellow.com or write us at:
The Independent Americans
P.O. Box 21
Fernwood, Idaho
non-domestic [83830]
We still have no responses for our resurrection of The Survivalist Directory. For anyone interested in contacting others of like mind, send a $1.00 money order with message to be printed to:
The Independent American
P.O. Box 1894
Iowa City, Iowa
non-domestic [52244]
Some of our responses from our last issue indicated that a lot of readers thought our presentation was “a bit radicalish”. Despite our clarification that our nation's true government is defined by our Constitution for these United States of America, and that the criticism of government and it's agents that violate our Constitution is not anti-government, some of you believed that to uphold our true form of government is radical.
I can only conclude that some readers fall into the camp that believes our Constitution to be a “radical” document giving a “radical” amount of freedom to the individual and that sometimes government must act to limit that freedom. (These were words spoken by the communitarian William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.)
Allow me to state the beliefs of our forefathers. Our Constitution grants no rights or freedoms to any individual. Our Constitution enumerates, or lists, some of the rights that are endowed upon all people. Our Constitution enumerates these rights so as to educate Americans that these rights are theirs and that government shall not infringe upon or in any way violate them.
Our Constitution lays out and describes what functions government is to perform and how it is to go about performing it's functions. It is to do no more and no less. Anything outside of the bounds that our Constitution sets forth is a usurpation of power. To violate our Constitution is a true act of anti-government radicalism and many of the politicos now in power are guilty of this.
It is up to you, an Independent American, to read and know our founding documents, The Declaration Of Independence, our Constitution, the federalist papers and the anti-federalist papers. These documents lay out and define the ideas and principles that founded our great nation. If you do not know what these say, you are ignorant of the principles of which your country operates, or is supposed to operate. You can change that. Ignorance does not have to be stupidity. Pick up these documents and read them. Educate yourself as to what our nation is all about. The main stream press and government supported schools are not going to do it for you.
Speaking of our founding documents, The Independent American is proud to present in it's pages, The Declaration Of Independence: The Document And It's History. You can begin your education with this article. There is a brief history of the events that led to The Declaration Of Independence and the text itself. Read this. Most Americans are lacking in this knowledge.
It has come to my attention that some publications have been making statements as, “[The Declaration Of Independence] was not a legal document in the sense that it was a blueprint document that governs this country.”
In the modern vernacular, The Declaration Of Independence may not be counted as a “legal” document, but it was certainly counted as a lawful document. It proclaimed not only to England and it's king that the former American colonies were justly assuming their rightful sovereign status as an independent group of States, but it proclaimed that fact to the world and by what reasons a people must do this. As such, it is the lawful document that establishes America's independence and sovereignty and the lawful document detailing by what course a populace must take up arms to separate themselves from an unlawful government.
The Declaration Of Independence is as relevant today as a founding document as it was when it was written. It is not a blueprint of how governments are to function, but it is a blueprint detailing why governments are established and that they are established with the consent of the governed. It is a blueprint of what governments are not to do and a list of grievances that governments shall not commit. It may be read and considered by the American People as government steps further out of the constraints of our Constitution and it's list of grievances continues to grow.
We hope that our publication has already been of some use to you and will continue to be of use to you in the future. May you never need the information herein, but may it prosper you and see you through any situation.
Thank you.
