WILL YOU TAKE THE PLEDGE OF INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY? COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS!

I woke up this morning feeling a need to articulate these thoughts. A sense of urgency stirred within me. Too many people are waiting for someone else to save them. They look to an elected president, believing that salvation will come from a leader, that a new administration will undo the damage and restore what was lost. This is a dangerous illusion. The cavalry is not coming. Freedom is not something given by a ruler or a government. When people place their hope in another to grant them sovereignty, they forfeit their own power. They give away the very thing they expect someone else to protect.

Individual sovereignty. Autonomy. Legal United Non-Compliance. These are not just words. They are principles that define a free people. They are the foundation of resistance against tyranny. They are the forces that have shaped history and will shape the future.

It was this sentiment that led Adrian C. Spitters and me to write It Starts With Gold, which will be released on the fifth anniversary of the global COVID 19 lockdowns. That moment in history exposed a hard truth. Freedom is not given, it is taken. Rights are not granted, they are exercised. Those years revealed how quickly governments, institutions, and corporations could strip away the autonomy of individuals under the guise of safety. They also revealed something else. When even a small group of people refuse to comply, the machinery of oppression begins to break.

Remember this. At the start of the American Revolution in 1776, only three percent of the colonists were done with tyranny. Three percent were willing to stand against a government that no longer represented the people. That is all it takes. That is all it has ever taken.

Recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

Tyranny ends when good people refuse to comply. It ends when men and women of conscience stand and say.

I will not acquiesce to hate. I will not acquiesce to evil. I will not acquiesce to illegitimate authority. I will not acquiesce to unjust laws and mandates. I will not acquiesce to anything that is anti-life or anti-human.

History has proven this time and time again. Sovereign individuals who refuse to participate in evil bring an end to it.

Tyrants need their prisoners to enforce tyranny. When we refuse, they fall. Your one act of Legal United Non-Compliance can set in motion a wave that will free us and future generations from this darkness.

Through my own journey of awakening, I have learned that people fall into four groups.

Those who read about history. Those who write about history. Those who live history. Those who make history.

Fearing God is the foundation of a good life. It shapes how I walk through this world. Regardless of faith, the truth remains. Each of us will answer for our choices.

I once received a profound insight. Hell is standing before God and seeing the life you could have lived, the paths you could have taken. That moment of reckoning is a reminder that we must act now.

Will you take this pledge. Will you stand in Legal United Non-Compliance and refuse to bow to the repetition of evil. Will you make history.

Today, we tell those in power through legal and non-violent means that they work for us. They do not dictate our lives. We are the many. We are the ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine percent.

The future is watching. Our children are watching. This is our time. Let us rise.

Peter J. Merrick, TEP