Who Does the Patriot Fight For?

Persecution of Robert Beecher: "No bended knee for me"

Who Does the Patriot Fight For?

Almost every patriot I have met, when asked, “What are you willing to fight for?”, will answer, my family - my children and grandchildren.  The Founders chose the word “Posterity” to explain their objective in both fighting and establishing a new government comprised of member States.  What they did, they did for us, their posterity.

So, what happened when that government established upon those principles, as well as others, becomes the enemy of that very protection that they were, and we are, willing to fight for?

In 1997, Jennifer McVeigh was threatened with a charge of treason and the possibility of the death penalty (McVeigh’s Sister Tells Why She Aided U.S. Case Against Him) if she refused to testify against her brother.  As tough at is it was, she opted to testify against her sibling.

Robert Beecher recently faced a similar situation.  His daughter, Jessica, had owned two .22 caliber rifles that were found on the property that Beecher lived on, and one of which was included in the Indictment.  She had also bought her father a .30-30 rifle for his birthday.  This, too, was included in the Indictment and a picture of Robert holding the 30-30, pasted in Facebook, was instrumental in the government filing a Criminal Complaint, and securing search and arrest warrants for the property and Beecher.

During the initial interrogation of Beecher, FBI Special Agent Slater, having already ascertained that Jessica had purchased the firearms, suggested, “Maybe we should arrest her, instead”.  Though the applicability of federal law is, and ought to be, questioned, 18 U. S. Code §922 (d)(1) does make it criminal to transfer a weapon to a know felon, regardless of state law (See “Felon in Possession of a Firearm” is Not Legal or Lawful).

With the possibility of Jessica serving ten years in prison for giving a birthday present, Robert had the unfortunate necessity of making one of the most difficult decisions of his life.  It was whether he, or Jessica, or both, would spend ten years in prison.

Serving ten years in prison for giving a birthday present

The only decision that could be more severe than what Robert faced would be whether he would give his life for her.  Now the latter decision, I think we all would agree, has only one proper answer.  So, we must consider that the former also has only one answer.

Some questions arise as to whether the threat to go after Jessica would be carried out.  Would it have gotten Robert off on his charges?  Would the government even stoop so low as to make such a threat—to coerce someone into pleading guilty to what should not even be a crime, unless there was criminal intent in the activity?

We have been taught that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of men.  So, just what laws are we a nation of?

In 1982, the Justice Department tried to determine how many federal criminal laws there were.  Their answer was that there were over 3,000 criminal laws (however, many of those laws have multiple conditions that may be met, increasing the actual crimes to considerably more) contained within the 23,000 (currently 27,000) pages of U. S. Code.

When there are that many laws, we are not a nation of law; rather, we are a nation subject to the will of the men that administer those laws.

This brings to mind a quote from James Madison in Federalist #63:

It poisons the blessing of liberty itself.  It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow.  Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

In Robert’s first letter to me, he said, “No bended knee for me”.  Against what Robert was faced with, he stood firm to the principles that guide true patriots.  He refused to bend a knee, though the force was overwhelming, and he had no choice but to succumb to that force.  He was willing to sacrifice a portion of his life—for his Posterity.

His plea agreement, which he entered into to protect his family, especially his daughter, Jessica, committed him to 10 years in prison and 5 years supervised release.  The government has promised (if any weight can be attributed to a government promise) to file for a sentence reduction within 360 days.  Only time will tell if, and what, that will be.

In the meantime, we must all understand that those who speak out will find that the government will pull out all of the stops to put us in prison, if they can find just one violation of those 3,000 laws.  This will continue to be true UNTIL such time as we find the need to replace the government that has deviated so far from what the Founders intended.

 By Gary Hunt

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