From The War in Afghanistan to the Ron Paul Revolution
Note from Elias Alias: Oath Keepers does not customarily publish testimonials in the “Featured” section of our site, but I am making an exception with this particular one. Oath Keepers received this testimonial from Adam G. House and it came to us with a link to an outstanding article published by Adam House at CVRP – Combat Veterans for Ron Paul. I have reprinted the article from CVRP below Adam’s testimonial here. Neither Adam’s testimonial nor the article at CVRP constitute a political endorsement by Oath Keepers, but rather, each is a heart-felt statement, straight and true, of wisdom registered in the heart and mind of this combat veteran. I’d like to personally thank Adam House for taking time to share this with us here.
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Adam G. House
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Testimonial: The heroes of the American Revolution were called the Sons of Liberty. The Constitution was drafted to Secure the Blessings of Liberty from potential threat of the types of government power over which the Revolution was fought. “LIBERTY!” is still the cry of the Patriot today. The Founding Fathers would be ashamed of our present form of unconstitutional and oppressive government. Thomas Jefferson thought we might have to have a revolution once about every 20 years or so just to keep the government in check.
The spirit of liberty is a wildfire which can break out all over this country at any time. It’s up to the modern day “Sons of Liberty” to be vigilant citizens. Some things are not up for grabs for our government to take from us, after such a lofty price was paid for those liberties.
It’s time Americans demand a return to the Constitution by this illegal government. After the Republican Primary debate held on Tuesday the 22nd of Nov., is there any doubt left that all the Republican Presidential candidates [except] one will expand the size, scope, and power of government in every part of our lives? We MUST stand for our God-given Natural Rights for which we fought a Revolution and drafted a Constitution. We must stand with RON PAUL 4 LIBERTY!
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http://cvrp2012.com/2011/11/22/from-the-war-in-afghanistan-to-the-ron-paul-revolution/
From The War in Afghanistan to the Ron Paul Revolution
Posted on November 22, 2011 by cvrp2012
by Adam G. House, U.S. Army (Retired Combat Veteran)
Adam G. House is a retired U.S. Army veteran. He served with the famed 2/503rd Infantry Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, including a deployment to the infamous Konar Province of Afghanistan from May 07-Aug 08.
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Combat Veterans for Ron Paul
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In May of 2007, the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team deployed to the Konar Province of Afghanistan. The 2/503rd Infantry Battalion occupied the Pesche River Valley, which is the mountainous tribal region along the Pakistani border where the Russian military was pushed out in the 1980’s. I was an active duty soldier who served there until our deployment ended in August of 2008. While we were there, ABC’s “Nightline” ran a special about one of our platoons, calling the area “the most dangerous place on Earth.” The White House and DOD (Department of Defense) publicly proclaimed that we were at the tip of the spear of the Afghanistan campaign in the “War on Terror.” During this deployment, our Unit dropped more ordnance than any other unit in any other area in Iraq or Afghanistan. Journalist Tim Hetherington of Vanity Fair covered part of our experience which led to the Oscar-nominated documentary, “Restrepo.” Tim would later be killed covering the U.S. intervention into Lybia. Many of the soldiers he covered would come home to find that they had been so affected by combat experiences, they could no longer function as average members of society. Many would go back to Afghanistan again, or to Iraq… again. Some of them had already been to both… again… and again… and again. Some would choose to take their own lives. I came home with a combat-related disability and was honorably discharged via medical retirement. American forces were pulled out of the Korengal Valley in 2010. That whole region of Afghanistan is still in chaos as of this writing.
When I joined the Army, I took an Oath; I took it seriously and I would readily take it again. Serving the Constitution has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. I believe in the Constitution, the ideas which led to its inception, and the principles for which it still reminds us to stand today. The Framers of our Republic knew the dangers of a perpetual Warfare State and advocated free trade with all and entanglements with none. They understood that war breaks down the moral fiber of a nation, which has both cultural and economic consequences. The Founding Fathers of our nation envisioned a population that would keep itself educated and vigilant about the danger of government overreach into any and all parts of individuals’ lives and affairs. If you don’t keep your rights secure, don’t be surprised when you no longer have any. Freedom is fragile, and liberty is losable. Passivity, complacency, disinterest, ignorance, and taking the Blessings of Liberty for granted are our enemies and the conditions which will sink any future for American greatness. Autodidacticism is the order of the day for conscientious citizens.
I’m supporting Ron Paul for the following reasons and many more, as well:
·Dr. Ron Paul is a pro-life obstetrician who has delivered thousands of babies.
·Texas Libertarian Republican Ron Paul is solidly behind the 2nd Amendment & the Rights it ensures.
·Vietnam era Veteran Air Force Flight Surgeon Dr. Ron Paul wants to finally end the wars & bring our troops home.
·Monetary Policy expert Ron Paul wants a full and transparent audit of the Federal Reserve Bank for an accounting of how the secret manipulation of taxpayers’ money was handled around TARP & the other bailouts.
·Limited government champion Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate advocating the elimination of five cabinet level departments of the federal government.
·Fiscal responsibility advocate Ron Paul has promised to balance the federal budget again before his 1st term in office expires.
·Rep. Ron Paul has a roughly thirty year record of being the most consistent vote in Congress regarding fidelity to the Constitution and the Rights, Freedoms, & Liberties it represents.
·Austrian Economics expert Ron Paul has the right capitalist vision for unleashing the free market engine of opportunity and potential for our posterity.
·Civil Liberties advocate Ron Paul would restrain the government’s policing power from asserting itself into non-violent private actions of peaceful people in their own homes.
As a concerned taxpaying American, a combat veteran who still fights for the Constitution, and a deeply convicted believer in individual human Liberty as a Natural (God-given) Right, I’m wholeheartedly supporting Ron Paul for President of the United States in 2012 and would sincerely implore you to do the same. I would appreciate if you would join me in VOTING FOR RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT in 2012!♠
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November 28th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Those are all great reasons to support Ron Paul.
Thanks to Adam House for this article.
November 28th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
i’m trying to be desrespect here but aren’t we apolitical? has the mission changed?
November 28th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Howdy Sgt. Rutledge;
Good to see you posting here. About your question, recall what I posted atop the article please -
“Neither Adam’s testimonial nor the article at CVRP constitute a political endorsement by Oath Keepers, but rather, each is a heart-felt statement, straight and true, of wisdom registered in the heart and mind of this combat veteran.”
Oath Keepers is non-partisan, not “apolitical”. We do not commit to any faction, nor do we endorse any faction. Our focus is strictly upon the Constitution, which itself exists on a more lofty plane than any subsequent factions (or political parties). Not to be confusing for you, but there is a difference between suggesting, as we do to all members, that any Oath Keeper should want to be politically active according to his/her perception of the political experience in today’s governance, and telling any Oath Keeper what political party or candidate he/she should support.
Adam House simply sent in his testimonial and expressed his personal views. In reporting that here as we do with testimonials, we are not endorsing any candidate or political party – we are instead endorsing the freedom of all cops and soldiers and firefighters to hold political and philosophical viewpoints in their subjective perceptions. We do want our membership to be politically active, but we do not require that, nor do we seek to direct that. Like law enforcement and the military, we are establishing a tradition of Constitutionality, not partisanship. As such, we abide on a higher level than factions. What do the political parties/factions do? They seek to bend the force and power of government offices and departments to favorable activity, favoring private-sector interests. That is where the corruption sneaks in, methinketh.
As part of a personal testimonial, Adam’s writing does not imply an Oath Keepers endorsement.
Hope I did not confuse you, good Brother.
Salute!
Elias
November 28th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Dear Adam House, oath keepers, & other friends of liberty,
Thank you very much for posting this testimonial from Adam House. I have found it to be inspirational and I have placed it on my twitter account. Those were all excellent reasons to support Ron Paul and I must say this issue means alot to me because I lost a good friend to the war in Iraq. He was like my brother – brave, fast, and strong. I am glad to say that I support your organization and the 2nd amendment. Keep up the good work.
Yours in liberty,
StAnger561to770
I will not take a salary higher than the median income of all Americans, which is $39,000. – Ron Paul ‘11
November 29th, 2011 at 4:33 am
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, … when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their DUTY, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
thanks for the info elias, i was reading the trifolder and it had mentioned apolitical in it and i needed clarafication on that being that i’m a member of the constitution party, because like you said, it is about the constitution, chuck baldwin for president!!!!!!!!!!
December 3rd, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Those who enlist to protect this country are the most precious resource this country has. To put these men and women in harms way to fight endless wars as political tools is unconscionable. I find some comfort that there is a group such as Oath Keepers who clearly take American liberties far more seriously than those in the Senate. You are the American people’s true ally and protectors and as a very concerned civilian I hope we can work together as true patriots to hold accountable the “leaders” who are working to hijack this country. Please help us this country needs you and the troops to uphold the oath to protect the constitution now more than ever.
December 6th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
I would like to join,
December 9th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
The Marxist have taken over the White house. Even the Republicans support their agenda!
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:14 am
A Manifesto Civis
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” ~The Declaration of Independence. }
The Guilford Covenant
We whose names are here underwritten, intending by God’s gracious permission to plant ourselves in New England, and if it may be, in the southerly part about Quinnipiack, do faithfully promise each, for ourselves and our families and those that belong to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, sit down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation, and be helpful each to the other in any common work, according to every man’s ability, and as need shall require, and we promise not to desert or leave each other or the plantation, but with the consent of the rest, or the greater part of the company who have entered into this engagement. As to our gathering together in a church way and the choice of officers and members to be joined in that way, we do refer ourselves, until such time as it please God to settle us in our plantation. In witness whereof we subscribe our names, this first of June 1639.
MAXIMUS HOMO
Defines… new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form … “~The Declaration of Independence.
As our Founding Fathers envisioned it!
When we speak of a form of government; no one thinks of any external or visible shape, but of the nature and adjustment of the various parts composing the government, and by means of which it is administered. A person, who reads and understands our constitution or organic law of the State, sees therein its form of government. We speak, also, of the form of society in a particular nation; and by this is meant the nature and relation of the several parts composing such society, the nature and arrangement of its social, industrial, commercial, educational, artistic, moral, and religious elements. Again, we speak of the form of a government; and by this we mean the character, connection, order, subordination, etc., of its various functionaries, the mode of their appointment, and their respective duties. When it is said, therefore, that our government is in the human form, the meaning is that it is in human order; that all its parts, or all the innumerable societies of which it consists, are so arranged and adjusted as to express most perfectly the truly human principles which constitute the essential spirit of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.. In other words, the relation, mutual dependence, and intercommunication of the societies composing the whole, and the uses they respectively perform, correspond to those existing among the various organs of the human body and their respective uses. One is a perfect type or representative image of the other body. It should appoint its wisest and best men to preside over its interests, because every one is aiming to subject himself to the government of the highest good and truth. And so the form or order of that community becomes more and more human. All its corporate acts express more and more faithfully the human thoughts and feelings with which the minds of its individual members are imbued. Such community is in the human form, therefore, just so far as the individual minds composing it are human. The moment one ceases to do its work, or appropriates more that its share of the juices elaborated, or more than it needs to fit it for the performance of its appointed use, that moment comes disease to itself and disease to all the rest. And if it perseveres in this abnormal course, sooner or later death inevitably ensues. Notwithstanding there exists authority and obedience, there is nothing like tyranny on the one hand or slavishness on the other.
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There are persons? who are addicted to acquiring Power and Wealth, and they receive a satisfaction equal to a shot of Cocaine when they do acquire, and when they can exert power.
With Unlimited Campaign Contributions; these people may dominate the 2012 election and, no doubt, establish a Tyrannical administration; worse than the Bush-Cheney administration.
These people can not control their addiction and, worst yet, they believe that they are saved and justified.
The ambiguity in the 12th amendment has been used to justify and foster the Opiate of a democratic instead of a republican form of government., because they believe, rightly so, that the people can be duped, with the Opiate of the right to Vote, and likewise bought, as has been the case with Congress and even the Supreme Court.
There is no such thing as an honest election!
‘The Republic will degenerate into a democracy with the politicians promising largess and the people voting their own self-interest,’ quipped Madison.
‘The lawyers will get into Congress to manage the Constitution, license paper money and pillage the treasury,’ remarked Amos Singletary.
‘The Supreme Court judges, ignorant of its historical setting, will be unable to interpret the Constitution and the original intent of its provisions; and there will arise a two-party system, divided along economic interests, leading to deadlock as the public good is disregarded in the conflict of rival parties,” opined Madison. Re: The Federalist Papers, en essentia.
The Electoral College was intended by our Founding Fathers to preserve the ancient Precedent established by the Israelites on the Plains of Encampment
when Levi was in the Midst: also when the thirteen Chieftains of the lost tribes who had settled in Scandinavia held a TING to elect their King; likewise when the Pope is chosen: and this is the reason that when George Washington was likewise elected he was given the title of ~Mr. Precedent.
[With ambiguous placement, a modifier is confusing to a reader because it can refer to two or more words in a sentence.] ~(c) 1999 Prentice-Hall, Inc.
“The Electors…one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves…
. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.” ~Amendment XII.