Mr. & Mrs. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia
invite you to help repeal the U.S. Constitution:

www.CSMNL.com

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it, Almighty God!

I know not what course others may take;
but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

~ Patrick Henry, March 1775

"The Honorable Gentleman who presides told us,
that to prevent abuses in our government,
we will assemble in Convention,
recall our delegated powers,
and punish our servants for abusing the trust reposed to them.

Oh, Sir, we should have fine times indeed,
if to punish tyrants,
it were only necessary to assemble the people!

Your arms wherewith you could defend yourselves are gone…

Did you ever read of any revolution in any nation,
brought about by the punishment of those in power,
inflicted by those who had no power at all?

A standing army we shall have also,
to execute the execrable commands of tyranny:
And how are you to punish them?

Will you order them to be punished?

Who shall obey these orders?"

~ Patrick Henry,
warning against the Constitution at Virginia's Ratifying Convention,
June 1788

In the light of hindsight,
now more than ever
I advocate the repeal of the U.S. Constitution.

And I do favor its replacement with the
THREE SIMPLE RULES.

Let us build our law upon a rock that clearly states:
that no person may initiate force against another.

~ Patrick Henry, June 2004

Highly Recommended:

Patrick Henry: Enemy of the State

by Ryan McMaken

    "I smell a rat."
             -- Patrick Henry, 1787, declining to participate in the Constitutional Convention.

    "My, how the rat has grown."
             -- Patrick Henry, 2004.

Greetings.  My name is Lysander Spooner.

The history books say i lived from 1808 - 1887.  Hmmpf.

I am a constitutional lawyer and a writer.

I am a staunch abolitionist and a staunch libertarian.

I also founded a private mail-delivery company, competing with the U.S. Post Office, until Congress shut me down.  Hmmpfh.

Here's what I say to them:

[T]he government, like a highwayman, says to a man: "Your money, or your life." And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a "protector," and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful "sovereign," on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.

      --  "The Constitution of No Authority" (1870).

Now, what am I doing *now* to help promote liberty?  Thanks for asking!  You can help too!

Back in 2000, I tried (unsuccessfully) to help elect Bonnie Flickinger to the California State Assembly.

Now I'm helping to repeal the U.S. Constitution!
And I like the THREE SIMPLE RULES!

Highly Recommended:

www.LysanderSpooner.org