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