Collapse is Imminent

By Robert John Stevens, CEO of WriteExpress Corporation, and Patriot

January 27, 2010

If a neighborhood treasurer racked up enormous debt on your credit cards while ignoring your demands to cease and desist, wouldn't you terminate his or her appointment?

Since Congress not only ignores our requests, but now wants to increase the U.S. debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion, they have proven incapable of fiscal responsibility and must be replaced.

Governors have no choice but to take drastic measures. It is their duty. Unless out-of-control government spending is stopped, economic collapse is imminent. Congressman Ron Paul outlined likely future events in his bold State of the Republic Address. Failure to deviate from the current course suggests we must expect and plan for the worst.

Was the mortgage bubble engineered or not?
If the mortgage bubble was engineered to wreck the economy and give criminals enough time to enact legislation to expand their powers, as we have witnessed, those behind it should immediately be prosecuted.

If the mortgage bubble was an unforeseen event, those in positions of responsibility should be fired immediately for lack of insight to avert a major crisis, and must be replaced by the most virtuous men and women who will serve without compensation—a precedent set by General and later President George Washington.

But we know that money and power corrupts, and the Federal Reserve earned $45 billion in 2009 alone at the expense of taxpayers. Without a thorough audit, we can only guess their valuation since they came into power in 1913. Surely Congressman Ron Paul is justified to say we must end the Fed.

Just 66,000 mortgages saved
3.5 million households risk foreclosure this year alone, up from 2.8 million in 2009. MSNBC reported on January 26, 2010:

When first announced last year, Treasury officials said they hoped to stop as many as 4 million foreclosures...By the end of December [2009] just 66,000 homeowners had been issued permanent loan modifications...Because the Treasury has kept the formula a secret, homeowners who have been rejected for modification can't check the lender's math...

Delaying bill collection delays a revolution
Infowars reported on January 18, 2010 that the national debt was at 12.3 trillion, which increases substantially by the second according to this U.S. National Debt Clock. That’s almost than $40,000 for every man, woman and child, or just under $113,000 per taxpayer.

But that does not include entitlements. As David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General wrote in 2008:

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), noting that the federal balance sheet does not reflect the government's huge unfunded promises in our nation's social-insurance programs, estimated last year that the unfunded obligations for Medicare and Social Security alone totaled almost $41 trillion. That sum, equivalent to $352,000 per U.S. household, is the present-value shortfall between the growing cost of entitlements and the dedicated revenues intended to pay for them over the next 75 years.

Mr. Walker wrote on January 25, 2010, the "federal government already had over $38 trillion in unfunded promises relating to Medicare alone!"

No wonder opponents of health care fear government will deny medical care to the elderly. No wonder citizens are not mailed bills for their portion of the national debt. Forced payments would certainty bankrupt most citizens and start a revolution.

Congress has surrendered its power
The multi trillion-dollar bailout was never intended to help citizens. Low-budget government entities and publicity stunts are created to fool the public, while the big money remains accounted for. When Congress did not arrest Bernake when he refused to reveal who received 2.2 trillion of taxpayer's money, it became obvious that Congress has surrounded its power, and is incapable of good government.

Economic or dollar collapse can be used as an excuse to confiscate guns
As Congressman Ron Paul suggests, the upcoming economic crisis will give government the excuse to further tread on our rights, probably in response to highly-publicized news events over a few citizens begging for protection against local violence.

When hyperinflation drives more than 300 million Americans to acts of desperation, and the government responds by offering expanded protection, would citizens be naive to believe they would not try to confiscate guns?

Said Thomas Jefferson:

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

The collapse can also mobilize determined groups of citizens to prevail over tyranny
Millions of citizens are armed and ready to mobilize if a conflict begins. But what American wouldn’t rather work to pay the debt today than to trade his rights, liberty and national sovereignty to a world government controlled by bankers?

The final takeover plan is unproven
The supposition that the American people will succumb to secret societies conspiring to replace the Constitution with one godless world government is risky. It has no certainty of success. It cannot be compared to Hitler’s call to unify the German people, which failed. Fascism, corporatism, or socialism may not prevail over a nation of free citizens who still believe they are free. But history is clear that once liberties are finally lost, only blood will bring them back.

The fallacy of immunity
The fallacy of immunity is that the guilty will be protected even when they are no longer needed. The larger misconception is that their families and descendants will also be protected. Those who are the first to turn against the perpetrators will be hailed by the masses as patriots exposing high crime, while reclaiming their self dignity. Those who delay will be treated as war criminals.

Criminals cannot be guaranteed safety against millions of armed citizens, committed to defend their Constitutional rights and to not go down without a fight. Criminals have no certainty of protection against a nation once rebellion begins. No earthly or heavenly tribunal will protect those guilty of treason.

The power to restore constitutional government exists at every level
Those who are behind the systematic takeover of the United States of America have no precedence in the annals of history to predict the final outcome—that a free people dedicated to the cause of liberty, and who have been ignorant to the unconstitutional laws enacted against them, will submit to tyranny and global governance.

The power to assemble and organize at any level to restore the Constitution was purposely granted to us by the Founding Fathers.

The power to return to constitutional government has always existed within us. The right for nullification exists at every level in the American Republic. Towns, cities and counties can nullify state laws. States can nullify federal laws. It only takes one defiant governor to start a domino effect. As Sheriff Richard Mack (Ret.) writes, States Can Tell Feds to Shove It.

Governors have the right to announce succession. They can ban together to dissolve the three branches of government. With single-digit approval for Congress, what American wouldn’t support them?

What force can stop mobilized citizens?
No enemy now or in the future will have sufficient power or influence to cause the American people to give up their liberties. Once one body unites to fight back, there is no stopping a determined citizenry.

This article was commenced on January 26, 2010. Last update: January 27, 2010.