Introduction to Sovereignty:
Sovereignty is not something you sign up for; it is not an exclusive club you join where you get benefits, but rather, it is a way you choose to experience life. It is a state of mind. True sovereignty begins with your choice to be free, to be self-reliant, and to take responsibility for your actions. You are born sovereign, and then as you enter into various contracts and private agreements, you unknowingly give up your sovereignty, little by little, until one day you wake up and realize you are a slave. So, stop accepting government-issued benefits, or any so-called benefits that come with a hook to ensnare you into servitude and dependency, and begin to reclaim your natural rights. Strive to become financially independent. Get out of debt and stay out. Use your creative potential to make money instead of borrowing it from dishonest bankers. If it means temporarily lowering your standard of living to live within your means, it will free your mind to be more creative and eventually help you achieve a higher, more fulfilling standard. I encourage you to become self-employed. Follow your passions and express your uniqueness in the marketplace, and you'll have the potential to make more money than you ever made before and have more time to spend on more important things in life. When you have more than enough money to support yourself and your family without being a slave to an employer or a bank, you will have achieved financial sovereignty. With adequate finances at your disposal, you can be free to travel virtually anywhere on the planet if you so choose. If a war breaks out, or if a conflict occurs, or say you get stuck in a natural disaster, you move away to someplace else that is more accommodating. If you do not like the weather, with sufficient finances, you can follow your preferred seasons around the world.
For example, summer occurs in the Southern Hemisphere while winter occurs in the Northern Hemisphere. Alternatively, you can choose a variety of tropical destinations to visit year-round. The freedom to choose your weather is what I call climatic sovereignty. Learn a second language or multiple languages, get a second citizenship, expand to various nationalities and residencies, explore the world, make it your playground, and achieve global sovereignty. When you stop relying on doctors to heal you and begin to get in touch with your own body, you can learn to boost your immune system so your body can heal itself, thereby achieving health sovereignty. This may be a new concept for some people, but you do have a choice. Sickness begins as a disease of the emotional body or energy body, which exists outside the physical body as an energy distortion or blockage. If not addressed, it may eventually manifest as a physical ailment and, if still not addressed, may become a chronic or terminal condition. If you have a negative attitude toward life, poor stress management, and many unresolved emotional issues, your immune system will be more taxed, and your body is more likely to be in a state of disease. So, your health is your responsibility, and once you fully decide to make it such, you will no longer be a sucker for the pharmaceutical companies, who have no desire to cure you of anything, and why should they when it is your responsibility, to begin with.
Another critical area is energy dependency. If you are like most people, you have been led to believe that you must run your car on gasoline or diesel, buy electricity from the power company, and use heating oil, propane, or natural gas to heat your home. Once again, dependency on these fuels makes you a slave to them. Many viable alternatives already exist that you can employ to gain greater energy independence or energy sovereignty. When you stop relying on others to tell you how to have a relationship with God, when you can go directly to God by whatever means you choose, without dogma or power games, then that, my friend, is spiritual sovereignty. Overall, sovereignty can take many forms, but it is not something you achieve once and then forget about later, like hanging a college diploma on your wall to collect dust. Sovereignty is a daily practice and ongoing responsibility of the highest magnitude. Every choice you make will help you foster greater sovereignty or greater servitude. This realization will help you to be miles ahead of the game as restrictions on your liberties increase to the degree that someday you won't be able to use the toilet without first asking permission from the Europeans. So consider this: What will you do when the day comes to buy food, fuel, medicine, see a doctor, borrow money, open a bank account, enter a federal building, board an airplane, train, or cruise ship, etc., that your identity won't first have to be verified through your driver's license Federal ID, your social security account number, a retina scan, and eventually a clever little microchip that will be implanted under your skin? For convenience and easy tracking, it does not come to that if you and most others say no and become more self-reliant. Your well-being, your freedom, your sovereignty, and your very future are your responsibility, and it comes about by the choices you make starting today, not next week or next year. It must start today! On this website, you can find alternative resources to help you reclaim your sovereignty in various ways. I recommend that you look through the multiple pages, and when you feel a gut feeling about an item, an impulse, that is a message that you are on target to reclaim that aspect of your sovereignty. These resources will act as tools to assist you. However, know that only you can reclaim your sovereignty; no one else can do it for you. Keeping that in mind, I encourage you to choose the highest path for your well-being, and it's my sincere hope that one or more of the resources we offer will help you to obtain the level of sovereignty you are striving for in your physical life and thereafter.
Historical Evidence Sees What The Colonizers Use Sovereignty For: Jefferson Davis: The states' rights interpretation rang especially true during Reconstruction, when there was real tension between the national government and the Union-occupied southern states. Our friend Julius Howell from the previous chapter, the 101-year-old Confederate veteran interviewed in 1947, said they fought for states' rights because the national government imposed its will after the war. In effect, he was arguing that the South seceded in 1860 because of how they were treated after 1865, showing how time clouds memories, even for those who lived through the events. But as we also saw in Chapter 19 on Secession, before the Civil War, Confederate leaders showed no consistent adherence to states' rights except as a means to an end, a fallback position after their failed attempt to exert national Power on slavery's behalf. Before the war, Southerners opposed new states deciding whether to legalize slavery on their own out west, and Confederate states lacked the Power to legislate slavery within the Confederacy. The very people spinning the Lost Cause interpretation after 1865 clarified that they were fighting to preserve slavery in 1860-61, before it was known as slavery, so-called. At some point, either before or after the Civil War, their interpretative wires got crossed. I'm guessing after. Scholars at Vanderbilt University, known as the Agrarians, updated and refined the Lost Cause theory in the 1930s, arguing that an acquisitive, overbearing, industrializing North essentially attacked the bucolic South in a war of railroads and factories against traditional farms. Their interpretation coincided with the popularity of the book and movie Gone With the Wind. But the original ringleader of Lost Cause revisionism was Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who penned a 1,500-page tome entitled The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881 and spoke across the South throughout retirement.
Along with ex-CSA VP Alexander Stephens, author of the infamous Cornerstone Speech from March 1861, in which he explicitly equated Confederate identity with racism, Davis argued that slavery was the occasion for the war, but not the cause. Davis drew parallels between the formation of the Confederacy and that of the U.S., arguing that they stemmed from similar ethical and political frameworks, a theory that modern historians increasingly entertain. And he made the best arguments on behalf of Secession that he could, pointing out Lincoln's hypocrisy in denying the constitutionality of the Mexican War and Lincoln's view that Mexico had the right to the same self-rule that Davis argued the Confederacy should have had. Of course, Mexico wasn't in the United States, and the reverse argument could be made about Davis insofar as he didn't respect Mexican sovereignty or the right to self-rule in the 1840s, but that's another matter. More importantly, most of the arguments Davis made on behalf of states' rights as an alternative cause concerned the right of states to have slavery, lending credence to the argument he was trying to debunk. A teacher trying to make a case for slavery as foundational to the war could start by just assigning Jeff Davis' own book about how it wasn't.
