TODAY IS JULY 10, 2010

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The Unique United States of America-Part One

Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in
1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of
recouping their war costs.

King George the Third was struggling with his genetically linked problems with mental illness.
There was some trepidation about being ruled by a “mad man in a dress”

They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had
become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude
compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend
Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with
the mother country. But it was the Crown's attempt to tax tea that spurred the colonists to
action and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no
obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation.

The idea that the colonists had the right to demand fairness in taxation comes from the Rights
of the Charter signed under King John the First back in the legendary days of Robin Hood:

John Lackland was the fourth child of Henry II. Short and fat, he was jealous of his dashing
brother Richard I whom he succeeded. He was cruel, self-indulgent, selfish and avaricious, and
the raising of punitive taxes united all the elements of society, clerical and lay, against him. The
Pope excommunicated him. On 15th June 1215 at Runnymede the barons compelled John to
sign Magna Carta, the Great Charter, which reinstated the rights of all his subjects. John died -
from over-eating - a fugitive from all his enemies. He has been termed "the worst English king".

The Magna Carta or Great Charter laid the groundwork for the English Parliament, which gave
the nobles of England a way of balancing the worse excesses of the Royalty. When you have
kings and queens who are prone to everything from incestuous marriages to out and out
madness, you definitely need the balance of representative government. That’s the reason why
the Americans, who considered themselves to be loyal subjects of the King and good citizens
under the Parliament were upset when they were not allowed to
have any representation. That’s where we have the chant “No
Taxation without representation.” The colonists were angry that
Britain would try to impose taxes and ignore the views of the
taxpayers on how they should spend that money.

In May of 1773 response, Parliament retracted the taxes with

the exception of a duty on tea - a demonstration of Parliament's
ability and right to tax the colonies.

DO YOU SEE THE TRAP HERE? Brits could say ,

Colonialists attack,
tar and feather
It’s a lot like a contractual payment. By paying it, you imply
a hapless tax collector
that the contract is legal. (The very argument I am using in a
client’s case right now!)

The minute that the colonists paid the tea tax, the Brits could say, well, then you acknowledge
our right to set taxes over you without asking you first. If they didn’t pay, the Brits would call
them traitors, have their goods and homes taken in forfeit and have them hung.

Parliament concocted a clever plan.

1) They gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to
America. (You might remember the East India Company as the bad guys in the Pirates
of the Carribean, Part 3-At World’s ) So this got the powerful East India Company on
the side of the Brits. This meant they would not help the colonists with the goods they
might need from abroad.

2) Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the
imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever
before. So this was set up as a bribe to get the colonists to go along with them. Do
what we say and you get cheaper tea. Tea was a staple of colonial life - it was
assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than deny themselves the
pleasure of a cup of tea.

3) However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be
acknowledging Parliament's right to tax them.

The colonists were not fooled by Parliament's ploy. When the East India Company sent
shipments of tea to Philadelphia and New York the ships were not allowed to land. In
Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a
warehouse where it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help
finance the revolution.
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British
America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they
believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.
Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies,
but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to
be returned to Britain. He apparently did not expect that the protestors would choose to
destroy the tea rather than concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not
directly represented.

The governors of the other states refused to allow the tea to land in their harbors. But
the governor of Massechusetts was a chicken and allowed the tea to stay. That led to
the citizens taking matters into their own hands.
In Boston, the arrival of three tea ships ignited a furious reaction. The crisis came to a head
on December 16, 1773 when as many as 7,000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where
the ships were docked. A mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House that morning resolved
that the tea ships should leave the harbor without payment of any duty. A committee was
selected to take this message to the Customs House to force release of the ships out of the
harbor.

In other words, the colonists said, we didn’t vote for this tax. We won’t pay this tax. Take the
tea back to England. But the Brits Tax Collector (Customs) said, No, you will pay duty (tax) on
this tea regardless of whether you drink it or not.

The Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of the duty.
Stalemate. The committee reported back to the mass meeting and a howl erupted from the
meeting hall. It was now early evening and a group of about 200 men, some disguised as
Indians, assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to
the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the
harbor waters.

Most colonists applauded the action while the reaction in London was swift and vehement. In
March 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which among other measures closed the
Port of Boston. The fuse that led directly to the explosion of American independence was lit.

WE MUST KNOW GOD’S WORD-Start learning the Word of God now by

heart. That contains the battle plan for the future and gives us clarity and
strength in Dark Times to come. That’s why all bad governments and people
HATE the Bible. As Jesus said-“People see their deeds are done in
darkness” when the Light comes. Opinions come and go. Tyrants rise and
fall but, “The Word of God endures forever.”

WE MUST UNDERSTAND GOD’S PLAN-We must grasp our history as a

church, a Faith, a community and a nation.
1) What is our calling as a branch of the Body of Christ? We were
formed to bring reconciliation, recovery, restoration and healing
 through the Christian Recovery Steps to people who are caught up in
addictions, craziness and abuse. As we have grown that has come to
mean bringing the Power of Heaven into the Strongholds of Hell that
is often expressed in idolatry, racism, abortion/abuse of children,
sexism and greed. That’s our mission statement.
2) What is our Faith? That is expressed in the Apsotles’ Creed. We must
know what we believe and why as a church and as Christians in a
world that is filled with darklness. While we love people from every
faith and thoguth, we do NOT love every belief system as coming
from the Light of Christ. Look for good in every group, but stick to
the one Good that is incarnated in Jesus Christ-God in the Flesh,
Emmanuel. No compromises with that statement. God all the way
expressed in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit-the Eternal
Family of God.
3) What is Our Community? We are a community that embraces all
races and both sexes with conservative compassion. Don’t judge
anyone but don’t bless everything. Things that violate the Ten
Commandments or the Two Great Commandments of Christ are
wrong. We stick to the morality of the Word of God and Natural Law.
But we will help anyone who needs it with forgiveness and
compassion, speaking the Truth in Love with humility and balance.
4) What is our Nation? The United States of America is the Columbia or
Dove of God. We are Eagles before the Nations and Doves in the
sight of the Lord. We are unique in that every group that came here of
their own free will came to escape oppression or seek a better life.
And those of us whose ancestors were brought here in chains now
have a future because we have a law that demanded freedom even if
Blood had to purchase it. We are the REFUGE COUNTRY and the
day will come, God willing when we shall shelter those fleeing from
the greatest evil the Unoiverse has ever known-the Antichrist.
Since we are called to be a church of recovery through Faith in Christ
expressed in the Creed and the Sacraments, in a place that is called to heal
and embrace everyone broken and hurting in a Nation that is supposed to
shelter those longing to be free wemust equip ourselves in this our 15th year
of existence to become the church, Faith, cimmunity and nation that God
created us to be.

Let us start with learning the Constitution of the United States of America’s
preamble:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.

In that Preamble we can understand all four callings and then some.

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APPLICATION TODAY

1) The colonists were upset by the blockade of Boston harbor and the
Boston massacure. But it took an attck on their pocketbooks to get
them to DO something. QUESTION-what’s your “line in the sand”?
What would you resist the government on and why?
2) The Bible talks about protecting property, ( see Exodus 20). How
would you explain destroying the tea as a Christian act?
3) The governors of several states refused to allow the tea into their
states. That was then. Over twenty states are refusing to allow the
Federal government to tax their citizens for health care that they did
not vote for or support. This is now. Here is a list of these states: Here
is what they have said about the Obama Care Tax: If they refuse to
allow this tax, the Federal government has said they will sue the states
and make them pay it anyway. Citizens and governors are already
saying that they will find a way to “dump”” the tax, much like the
Boston Tea Party dumped the tea. Idaho is one of those states.
4) If the Federal government sues the state, that could mean a blockade
of services. We could be left on our own if we don’t comply as a state.
5) If the Federal government imposes a mandatory health care tax on
every taxpayer, it could give the Federal government the right to place
tax liens on everyone who can’t or won’t pay the health tax. What
would you do if that is allowed and the Feds confiscate and sell your
property, such as your car, house, goods, etc? Don’t laugh, that’s what
a Sheriff’s Sale for Taxes is all about!! Thousands of people lose their
homes every year because they can’t pay their taxes. WHAT IF
THAT HAPPENED TO YOU?
6) The Government could also deduct that tax from your Earned Income
Credit. This would bring in millions of dollars in taxes the hard way.
That was the idea behind the tea tax-get your money from a fund that
everyone uses or receives.
 7) They could also get the same results from putting larger taxes on
milk, baby food, soda or juice. That’s what tea tax was to the
colonists-a tax on a necessity. We think of tea as an extra now. But in
those days, water was often dirty or bad tasting. Tea is boiled-ie-
CLEAN water with a nice taste to it. Taxing tea was like taxing
bottled water in a place where the well water is polluted or just plain
nasty. How would you feel if there was a boil alert on the water and
the government then slapped a dollar extra on every bottle of water?
That would piss anyone off! Now you know how the colonists felt.
And now you know how the Tea Party founders felt!

WHAT IS THE RECOURSE?

The government now has the power to confiscate your property for taxes if
they want to do so. It’s called the IRS. If the current law says a tax is legal,
then the government has the right to collect it. Period. If you resist, you can
be jailed. Just ask Wesley Snipes.

We must understand that the IRS has police powers. You can be jailed, shot
and bankrupted by the government, if they choose to do so. They can take
your house, your car, your land-any and every property-WITHOUT DUE
PROCESS. They do not have to go to court. You do not have to have a trial.
You can lose anything and everything without the process that is due you as
an Ameircan citizen.

You CAN go to court, yes. But that is not an automatic right for a tax case.
It is also not your right for a gun violation. If the Alcohol Tobacco and
Firearm people decide that you have violated the Federal regulations
concerning guns, smokes or booze, they can come in and grab your guns,
smokes and booze, confiscate your assets and freeze them to prevent you
hiding them in the future and hold you without a warrant as a danger. All
they have to do is to label you a terrorist or a drug dealer.

Even though the Constitution says:

Yes! They have to show probable cause for getting you-but only after a
certain time period. In that time period they could “find” all sorts of things
that make you an enemy of the State. If you have a good leader who fears
God, then he or she won’t use his or her power against the people that awy.
But if you have someone who is no good, well, then you had better have a
knowledge of your rights and the means to back it up or you are royally
blued, screwed and tattooed.

That is why this church and all the other churches MUST know their rights
as United States Citizens and guardians of Liberty. This is not some slogan
on a cereal box. This is for real, folks, Think about how you will feel if some
jack booted idiot kicks in your door, sprays you with tear gas, handcuffs you
and then takes your home, goods, car or even your kids away because you
are a dissident?

IT’S COMING

And we must be ready.