The Puzzle: A HISTORY LESSON
By Wesley W. Hoyt
Can you watch current events unfold without thinking “this is theater”? Are we in the midst of history in the making with lots of drama on all sides? Do you wonder if these things have been played out on another stage, possibly in a
different time? Do you ask yourself if we are in the last days of the earth as described in ancient writings?
History is a wonderful teacher, if the student is willing to learn. As we reflect on how this nation came to be, we are reminded that some very powerful forces were in play in order for America to come into being. How unlikely is it that a rag-tag bunch of colonists could defeat the most powerful army in the world? When the Declaration of Independence was being signed and the U.S. Constitution was being ratified, a completely new chapter in world history was being written, but did those who signed their names fully understand what they were doing?
In my last article I mentioned that we would explore passageways open to us as citizens to protect freedoms earned by our forefathers. Just as then, the goal now should be to unify so that we can repair the damage caused by elected officials and government bureaucrats who seem bent on destroying the freedoms that were so carefully crafted. The first step to unity is to make sure we are all on the same page. Therefore, I will offer a bit of history that shows how the thread of freedom has been woven by an unseen hand into the a tapestry of world history.
History is not devoid of politics, which is also a thread in this tapestry. There are dark chapters which indicate that those who have power often seek to control or even eliminate others for reasons of person gain. Take Gulf War I for instance, it is a little known fact that George Bush I, used his vast array of contacts in the CIA to disarm the farmers and ranchers of Northern Kuwait. The so-called CIA advisors worked with the police or security forces of Kuwait in a door-to-door campaign taking weapons from the locals. Once the means of self protection had been striped from them, invading Iraqis were able to murder the families of Northern Kuwait and take over their property. A few Kuwaits escaped to tell of this great injustice, otherwise the world would never have known; but, the mainstream American media deliberately did not report on these events because they did not want you to know the truth.
What was left in Kuwait was a country occupied by a foreign people and President Bush became a “White Knight” who saved Kuwait from the invaders, after creating the conditions favorable to their invasion. Is this not like a fireman lighting his neighbor’s house on fire then returning with a fire truck?
Do you remember the Watts riots? Did you notice that law enforcement was ordered to “stand down” and not interfere with the looters? The only ones arrested were the shop owners who pulled their guns to protect their property. What was that all about?
There is a bill in Congress to require each of us to register our guns as we file income tax returns. What do you suppose the purpose of this registration might be? There is a movement to disarm the American people. What purpose would it serve to take away the means of self protection from our fellow citizens? As you know, the international bankers have plans to delete the boarders between Mexico, Canada and the US and create a “North American Union” (this will also delete the US Constitution as obsolete and unnecessary). Large numbers of illegal aliens have already come into America, some say they are the size of an invading army making provisions for the next wave of invaders. Congress has been actively moving to strip the American people of their Constitutional rights by adopting the Patriot Acts and the Military Commissions Act, etc., not to mention the power to invade the homes of those who did not take the flu shot and to arrest those who do not purchase health insurance. The government, in the name of the environment, is rapidly destroying the American economy (witness the elimination of the food supply from California growers this past summer). Do any of these dots begin to connect? If so, what do you suppose this in store for us in the future? Those who fail to study history are bound to repeat its mistakes.
One of the passageways to freedom may well be for each of us to keep and bear our own arms. The case is simply this: if law enforcement can be ordered to “stand down” in the face of civil disobedience and allow rioters to take or destroy the property of innocent citizens, then who, other than the citizens themselves, will protect the individual, his family and property in these perilous times?
History is a wonderful teacher, if the student is willing to learn. As we reflect on how this nation came to be, we are reminded that some very powerful forces were in play in order for America to come into being. How unlikely is it that a rag-tag bunch of colonists could defeat the most powerful army in the world? When the Declaration of Independence was being signed and the U.S. Constitution was being ratified, a completely new chapter in world history was being written, but did those who signed their names fully understand what they were doing?
In my last article I mentioned that we would explore passageways open to us as citizens to protect freedoms earned by our forefathers. Just as then, the goal now should be to unify so that we can repair the damage caused by elected officials and government bureaucrats who seem bent on destroying the freedoms that were so carefully crafted. The first step to unity is to make sure we are all on the same page. Therefore, I will offer a bit of history that shows how the thread of freedom has been woven by an unseen hand into the a tapestry of world history.
- Starting in the 1100s, translators of ancient scripts, such as John Wycliffe, were put to death because they wanted the freedom to reveal ancient truths which were unpopular with those in power;
- In 1215, at Runnymede, the nobles of England secured freedom to themselves from the tyrannical rule of King John with Magna Carta Libertatum or the Great Charter of Freedom recognizing that man had basic God-given rights and adopted a “social contract” between the ruler and the governed;
- In 1455 the Gutenberg Bible was first published on a printing press with newly invented moveable type, making multiple copies of the ancient scripts available without scribing them by hand and advancing the cause of freedom by enabling man to publish ideas;
- America was discovered by Columbus in 1492 as a land where pilgrims could congregate and take refuge from the oppression of the old world and seek the truth;
- Martin Luther inaugurated the Reformation of Christian doctrine in 1517 when he nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany followed by his translation of the New Testament into the common language of the people, making the Words of Christ and his followers available to the common man for the first time in history, which set in motion a social movement recognizing the value of each individual;
- The King James Version of the Bible was published after it was translated into English and approved by the Council of Trent in 1610;
- The Enlightenment, which started in Europe with John Calvin and John Wesley, lead to the Declaration of Independence in 1776 by a group of 13 colonies united in the cause of freedom from the oppression of King George III of England;
- Then came the U.S. Constitution in 1787, another social contract, containing the framework for good government, with ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights guarantying religious freedom in America, as adopted in Congress in 1791; since then, over 100 other nations have used the U.S. Constitution as a model for their constitution to, in some measure, grant freedom to their people.
- The stage having been set by these events, and for the first time in history, there was a government on the earth which adopted religious tolerance and individual freedom as its official policy.
History is not devoid of politics, which is also a thread in this tapestry. There are dark chapters which indicate that those who have power often seek to control or even eliminate others for reasons of person gain. Take Gulf War I for instance, it is a little known fact that George Bush I, used his vast array of contacts in the CIA to disarm the farmers and ranchers of Northern Kuwait. The so-called CIA advisors worked with the police or security forces of Kuwait in a door-to-door campaign taking weapons from the locals. Once the means of self protection had been striped from them, invading Iraqis were able to murder the families of Northern Kuwait and take over their property. A few Kuwaits escaped to tell of this great injustice, otherwise the world would never have known; but, the mainstream American media deliberately did not report on these events because they did not want you to know the truth.
What was left in Kuwait was a country occupied by a foreign people and President Bush became a “White Knight” who saved Kuwait from the invaders, after creating the conditions favorable to their invasion. Is this not like a fireman lighting his neighbor’s house on fire then returning with a fire truck?
Do you remember the Watts riots? Did you notice that law enforcement was ordered to “stand down” and not interfere with the looters? The only ones arrested were the shop owners who pulled their guns to protect their property. What was that all about?
There is a bill in Congress to require each of us to register our guns as we file income tax returns. What do you suppose the purpose of this registration might be? There is a movement to disarm the American people. What purpose would it serve to take away the means of self protection from our fellow citizens? As you know, the international bankers have plans to delete the boarders between Mexico, Canada and the US and create a “North American Union” (this will also delete the US Constitution as obsolete and unnecessary). Large numbers of illegal aliens have already come into America, some say they are the size of an invading army making provisions for the next wave of invaders. Congress has been actively moving to strip the American people of their Constitutional rights by adopting the Patriot Acts and the Military Commissions Act, etc., not to mention the power to invade the homes of those who did not take the flu shot and to arrest those who do not purchase health insurance. The government, in the name of the environment, is rapidly destroying the American economy (witness the elimination of the food supply from California growers this past summer). Do any of these dots begin to connect? If so, what do you suppose this in store for us in the future? Those who fail to study history are bound to repeat its mistakes.
One of the passageways to freedom may well be for each of us to keep and bear our own arms. The case is simply this: if law enforcement can be ordered to “stand down” in the face of civil disobedience and allow rioters to take or destroy the property of innocent citizens, then who, other than the citizens themselves, will protect the individual, his family and property in these perilous times?