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