by Russell D. Longcore, DumpDC.com.
In the 6th Century BC, Chinese warrior Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War.” It has been the definitive treatise on waging war for 26 centuries now. Only thirteen chapters, it was translated first in 1782 when a French Jesuit priest living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. Subsequent translations have honed the text into English...
...The general concept that I want you to take away from these verses is that in order to win many battles, you must keep your enemy off balance, deceived and confused about your strategies and tactics. If you can attack him at many weak points, he will have to respond, and therefore, you control both the location and the tempo of the battle. This will be important in the thoughts and questions below.
I’ve been writing lately about secession and the well-regulated militia, and how they should be inextricably tied to one another. From the reactions I’m receiving from readers, this concept seems to be somewhat new to them.
Specifically, I and other writers have referred to the truest meaning of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states: “A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
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Good post. The Second Amendment, according to the precise wording, and the words of Jefferson and others, was to guarantee to all the sovereign states and their citizens, to retain the right to protect themselves from federal government abuse, and protection from other states as well. An armed citizen was also able to protect himself from miscreants who would do him or his family harm.
ReplyDeleteIn order to properly understand this, we much realize fully that the states considered themselves sovereign and they created a federal government to be their collective agent in several mutual areas, i.e., postal collection and delivery, protection from foreign nations (with the aid of state militias), and treaties with other nations, and other miscellaneous actions.
In conclusion, the sovereign states created the federal government as an agent of the states, not vice versa.