| Let's take a look at several thousand years of | | | | any knife or illegal weapon such as nail clippers, nail |
| governmental disarmament of the populace. Of | | | | files or even tweezers. No I am not kidding.At one |
| course all the while, the rulers, their guards and | | | | time no knife longer than two inches was allowed for |
| armies remained armed.The Founders of America | | | | any reason to English or Chinese subjects. There |
| were educated in the classic written histories of our | | | | were times when all knives were forbidden to the |
| civilization. In fact President Adams and Jefferson | | | | unworthy ones below the Royalty and their |
| among others, studied in numerous languages; Latin, | | | | guards.SWORDS: In later, but still pre-Christian years |
| Greek, French, Italian, and Hebrew to name a few of | | | | -- in Egypt, Rome, Greece, England, Africa, China and |
| the dozens of languages they read in.Thomas | | | | virtually all civilized countries elsewhere -- that |
| Jefferson, the most prolific reader of books and | | | | formidable weapon the sword and even any large |
| letter writer of the Founders, kept copies of all his | | | | knife were taken from the populace and legal |
| letters to and from his correspondents. His personal | | | | ownership was reserved only for Royalty.The almost |
| library was so extensive that it is the foundation of | | | | prehistoric legend of King Arthur is bound to the |
| our Library of Congress. His letters have been | | | | symbol of the Sovereignty of the Sword -- Excalibur. |
| assembled, typed and bound into large volumes. The | | | | Something that is not well discussed anymore is that |
| result is far larger than a couple of sets of | | | | the child Arthur was not legally allowed to own a |
| encyclopedias. His letters of correspondence were | | | | sword. It was the nobility that came and tried to |
| even in several languages. The copies of his own | | | | extract the sword from the stone but none could. So |
| letters were made with a manual copy machine | | | | it was that Arthur was one of the serfs who then |
| comprised of two pens; one he wrote with and the | | | | rose to lead the English. Excalibur by the way means |
| other pen, via a unique mechanical arrangement, | | | | Ex (coming out of) the Calibur (the mold or container) |
| made an identical copy of his letter on another piece | | | | -- an interesting double meaning for the sword that |
| of paper. It is thought that as much as 80% of his | | | | came out of the stone that contained it is also Ex |
| correspondence was lost in fires and later with | | | | (without) Calibur (peer or equal). So Excalibur, perhaps |
| careless storage of his effects by others.Jefferson | | | | the worlds most universally well known individual |
| studied and wrote dictionaries for a couple of dozen | | | | weapon was a symbol of Freedom (from |
| previously unwritten and thus uncodified languages -- | | | | containment and imprisonment even by stone) and |
| especially 18 languages of the various tribes of the | | | | also a symbol of Power without peer or equal.In |
| American Indians. His fluency in other languages | | | | many nations the sword is still a powerful symbol of |
| (some say he was fluent in all written languages in | | | | sovereignty. In England, Knighthood is still bestowed |
| print at the time of his life) allowed him and | | | | by touching the person with the holy sword of the |
| interested him in the study of the non-written | | | | Queen or King. Romans were forbidden to own a |
| languages of the Amerinds. Amerind was the general | | | | sword unless in the service of the State as Citizens |
| term used to describe the American Indians by | | | | (a Roman Citizen was a person who had sworn first |
| Anthropologists until recently; the term was indeed | | | | allegiance to the Roman Emperor and thus was |
| meant to separate native American Indians from the | | | | allowed certain rights and privileges such as a knife, |
| natives of India.It was NOT unusual that those | | | | sword and staff).Non-Citizens, even lower soldiers |
| educated in this country in the 1600s and 1700s were | | | | were denied swords except when actually fighting in |
| educated in several languages. The histories, | | | | some periods of Roman and Greek history. When |
| philosophies, music, mathematics and classics of all | | | | not fighting a war with a sword the swords were |
| known cultures were not only studied but were | | | | kept in the armory away from the |
| debated over smoke and alcohol following the dinner | | | | people.CHRISTIANS WERE NOT ALLOWED |
| hour each evening in educated households. The | | | | SWORDS: Christians did not grant first allegiance to |
| discussions held in Colonial America between friends | | | | Rome, but to Christ and God. Thus they were not |
| regarding such subjects has been replaced in our | | | | citizens and not allowed swords. At the time that |
| country today by debates over sports, movie stars, | | | | Jesus the Christ told his disciple to sell his purse and |
| sexual activities and current propaganda which we call | | | | get a sword -- that was a crime against the State... a |
| the evening news.The English were most helpful in | | | | felony in today's terms.BOW AND ARROW: The bow |
| this as were the French and Italians and MANY books | | | | and arrow were and are a symbol of power and |
| were available. Japanese, Chinese, Icelandic, Dutch, | | | | sovereignty too. In ancient Rome, Egypt, England, |
| and the several dialects of Scandinavia as well as | | | | China and other countries only Royalty and the |
| Russia were a part of evening discussions among the | | | | protectors of royalty were allowed to own or use or |
| learned of this colony.What they learned was that | | | | even touch a bow and arrow. Archery was for the |
| the entire history of government was a history of | | | | elite only.The semi-mythical story of Robin Hood was |
| tyranny -- and that that tyranny was formed and | | | | about a minor Nobleman who illegally armed the |
| fomented upon the populace as a result of a division | | | | common man of his area with bows and arrows in |
| in education. The haves and have-nots of education | | | | defiance of Royal Law. Then they had the audacity |
| are far more a problem than in the subject of | | | | to live in Sherwood Forest, owned by the king and |
| finance. It is this knowledge that led our Founders to | | | | shoot and eat the king's deer -- instead of starving |
| emphasize education for all our citizens. The masses | | | | to death. It was for this that Robin was deemed a |
| of the past were able to be more easily subjected | | | | criminal and a hoodlum, that is Robin the hood, and |
| to tyranny as a result of and due to lack of | | | | later came to act the part more fully.Robin Hood as a |
| education, lack of freedom of communication, and in | | | | symbolic and partially true story as well as the earlier |
| the final gasp, the lack of a fully armed | | | | Arthurian legend symbolized war against tyranny, |
| citizenry.Tyrants have always first disarmed the | | | | illegal personal armament and liberty for the low-man. |
| public, let us studiously notice that our Founders, all of | | | | Archery, in the time of Robin of Lockesly, was |
| whom were fond of being armed wherever they | | | | denied the serfs as was meat. Hunting the royal deer |
| went, did not mention a type of arms and certainly | | | | -- for the State owned all land and animals was a |
| not guns in the Constitution or it's attendant Bill of | | | | felony with punishment being death.It was not so |
| Individual Rights.Let's take a look at the history of | | | | much that Robin stole from the rich and gave to the |
| disarmament and the resultant tyranny.LONG STICKS: | | | | poor as it was that he fought tyranny and |
| Sticks were the predictably first weapon taken from | | | | championed liberty. He symbolized what we now |
| the people; the staff was taken from the populace | | | | know as guerrilla warfare. His "Merry Men" besting the |
| by the more powerful (and deadlier) leaders. That | | | | King's men at every turn. The bow and arrow is |
| protective stick -- the staff or the shorter scepter -- | | | | often depicted as a symbol of sovereignty in all the |
| is still a recognized symbol of sovereignty. And the | | | | ancient countries and governments in the earliest |
| staff, just a stout stick about shoulder to head high, | | | | pictures and writing. In fact in America today we see |
| is still a formidable weapon. Even the cane, a shorter | | | | the symbolic power of the arrow displayed in our |
| staff, is a good weapon and has been outlawed at | | | | national symbol. The symbol of our country is that |
| times (Ireland still outlaws canes). The ancient French | | | | "noble" hunter, scavenger, murderer -- the eagle and |
| had a formidable form of fighting based on the cane | | | | in it's claws are the arrows of sovereignty.THE |
| (and kicking) by the name of Savate -- so did the | | | | PISTOL AND THE RIFLE: These are two of the |
| Britts although those refined Britts often refrained | | | | symbols of sovereignty today. In America these |
| from kicking and often loaded that cane with a | | | | were reserved to the people first, as an individual |
| sword. Many Britts still look upon the cane and it's | | | | liberty guaranteed by the Bill of rights, by our |
| cousin a stout defensive umbrella as a symbol of the | | | | Founding Fathers who were all historians of world |
| elite. Many of the older gentry are still constantly | | | | culture.These founding scholars determined that we |
| armed with a cane or umbrella, no matter if gimpiness | | | | should have first the freedom to communicate and |
| or inclement weather cause any other need of | | | | secondly, that is the Second Amendment, the right |
| them.CLUBS: Let's go back earlier again to the time | | | | to protect that right of free and open communication |
| of the staff and stick as weapons. As our distant | | | | with the RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. As |
| and ancient ancestors congregated even more into | | | | historians the Founders were well aware that arms |
| herds and clans, the stronger took dominion even | | | | change and nowhere in the Constitution of America |
| more over the weak, the sick and the old. Those | | | | are guns mentioned for good reason; weapons and |
| strong ones took on a more official leadership role -- | | | | symbols of sovereignty change.The people of |
| another one of the first acts of disarmament was to | | | | America by our Constitution are deemed the |
| take the shorter CLUBS away from the populace. | | | | Sovereigns here and the government our dangerous |
| This club -- the scepter -- remains as a symbol of | | | | and unreliable servant. However lack of education in |
| sovereignty (supreme rule and power). A big headed | | | | classic literature, lack of education in social history, |
| club was a formidable weapon even against the staff | | | | miseducation in our schools and press as well as a |
| and thus the populace had to be disarmed of both. | | | | lack of education in how to think -- have left us with |
| Even today many Sovereigns hold the STAFF AND | | | | an uninformed and unthinking populace that is being |
| SCEPTER of RULE as a symbol of power.SYMBOLS | | | | slowly disarmed from the weapons of our Founders |
| OF SOVEREIGNTY: Weapons have always been | | | | -- the pistol and the rifle.Our government and our |
| symbols of sovereignty, power, and personal choice, | | | | people both have forgotten history and ignored it; |
| of personal defense and personal responsibility for | | | | thus each are destined to repeat it. Our people will be |
| ones own condition. Serfs, peons, slaves and the | | | | enslaved gradually by a tyrannical government as has |
| bovine populace of modern America; some call them | | | | always been the case -- none of us know how long |
| "sheeple" are not allowed to be self-determined nor | | | | it will take, but there have been no exceptions in the |
| to keep and bear arms -- in all of history this is the | | | | history of this world.And later those in government |
| practice. In America we formed a country based on | | | | will be removed -- quite likely in a deadly and bloody |
| personal sovereignty -- that is the right to rule | | | | manner by those slaves of the state when one or a |
| oneself; a unique idea in all the world and in all of | | | | few rise up as leaders. As Thomas Jefferson advised |
| history. Thus although we are creeping ever down | | | | us... Liberty must be frequently fertilized by the blood |
| into a tyranny similar to what we fought against in | | | | of tyrants and the people who would defy them or |
| the late 1700's -- with the citizenry being disarmed in | | | | it dies.Pistols and Guns are a symbol of personal |
| every way possible -- we do not allow our "leaders" | | | | sovereignty in America as nowhere else in the world. |
| to carry a staff or scepter as a symbol of that | | | | We should be looking to even more modern |
| "leadership".KNIVES were man's most basic tool that | | | | weaponry if we could afford it. However the best |
| elevated him from other animals. Even monkeys use | | | | disarmament of the populace that has ever been |
| sticks and clubs -- but not knives. Knives, especially | | | | done is here in America where only the government |
| the double edged dagger or the larger short sword | | | | can afford the most powerful of the modern |
| were and are also symbols of sovereignty. In the | | | | weapons of war... tanks, rockets, bombs, planes and |
| ancient texts, even in some of the later cave | | | | all the computerized intelligence and record keeping to |
| pictographs and the earliest Egyptian depictions -- | | | | keep the people down.In our Founders time the |
| knives of many sizes and short swords symbolized | | | | individually sovereign citizen had better weapons than |
| the Kings and Sovereigns who determined and | | | | the governments armies and that was the way they |
| directed the lives and livelihood of the lower populace | | | | planned our country to continue... with the populace |
| according to the Sovereign's will.Weapons have | | | | heavily armed against tyrants within and without our |
| always been a symbol of sovereignty and those | | | | nation. It was always the intention that Sovereign |
| without weapons are always the subjects, the serfs | | | | individuals would be armed with the latest and the |
| and the vassals of those with the arms and power | | | | best of arms and that the army, in time of war, |
| over them. In feudal England there were numerous | | | | would gather what they could of men and weapons |
| laws about the length of knife that a serf might own. | | | | to defend our nation when need be.Civilization has |
| At one time the longest blade allowed was less than | | | | never been tame nor safe; however as observed |
| four inches at times even shorter. In most of | | | | over time, a well armed citizenry, where everyone is |
| America today there is a law against a knife of four | | | | suspect of being always armed and dangerous -- that |
| inches or more. In our schools there is a law against | | | | society is certainly a far more polite society. |