Turning Point...

... a  touchstone to the future!

The Nationmakers is a touchstone, a birthplace, from which we Americans can grow peacefully into a brighter future of our own conscious and independent choosing.

It is hoped that thoughtful individuals and concerned groups throughout the nation will, in this new millennia before us, begin to participate in the creation of a blueprint for a new nation, for our survival as people.

New and innovative ideas are the best currency we have in our present socio-economic state, and true freedom and independence are what we should be seeking to purchase with it.

With this aim in mind, the Nationmakers is providing FREE exposure to those who already are , or who wish to join in the undertaking of peacefully transforming our country into what it ought to be.  Let's get America back on track!

 

AMERICA is yours...  The Nationmakers  Web-site is yours...  Use it as a template, as a forum, as a COUNTER- FORCE, to help shape the future you would wish to reside in.  Those of you who wish to participate and take an active part in developing this future will receive a FREE copy of   "BEYOND OUR CONSENT" , by Robert Harris Brevig, by Email attachment.

This is my "currency"...

Show me yours !

 

RHB - Dec. 1999

 

NOTE:  A quick tour around this site will give any red- blooded AMERICAN, any normal human-being, ample reason to get involved in planning their own destiny.

DR. CARL SAGAN, a scientist of some repute, in his very popular book DRAGONS OF EDEN, had the following to say about our state of affairs:

 

"As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working well.   We do not live in traditional and static societies, but our governments, in resisting change, act as if we did.  Unless we destroy ourselves utterly, the future belongs to those societies that, while not ignoring the reptilian and mammalian parts of our being, enable the characteristically human components of our nature to flourish; to those societies willing to invest resources in a variety of social, political, economic and cultural experiments, and prepared to sacrifice short term advantage for long term benefit; to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, our sixteenth US President, in his first inaugural address commenting on the tribulations of his time had this to say:

 

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, a Nineteenth Century naturist, poet and writer, left these memorable words in his classic essay on CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE:

"I heartily accept the motto - that government is best which governs least."

" This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity."

"It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves; and if ever they should use it in earnest as a real one against each other, surely it will split.  But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.  Governments show, thus, how easily men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage."

"How does it become a man to behave toward his American government today?  I answer that he cannot, without disgrace, be associated with it."

"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is the right refuse allegiance to and to resist the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable."

"Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?  Men, generally under a government such as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.   They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil.   It makes it worse.  Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform?  Why does it not cherish its wise minority?  Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt?  Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?"

"The authority of government even such as I am willing to submit to - for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well - is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.   It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it."

"There will never be a really free and enlightened state, until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.  I please myself with imagining a state at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose, if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellowmen.  A state which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious state, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."

THE GOVERNMENT, OR THE PEOPLE?

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