Kearney, NE "public servants" nervously stomp on Constitution

Dear Friends,

I just sent the letter below via email to members of state and local government in every county. The title above was the title of the email.

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Dear Friends,

The mayor and city council of Kearney Nebraska recently affirmed, via "Resolution," their disregard for the "inherent and inalienable rights" of We the People.

You can find that Resolution here: 2023-149 (pgs 6-8).

In betrayal of their oath, the mayor and city council do not want law-abiding residents of (and visitors to) Kearney to be able to exercise their "inherent and inalienable" right to self-defense while on "city property," should it become necessary. (Nevermind who pays for city property or the on-going maintenance thereof. Also, nevermind that citizens openly carry in our statehouse, i.e., our Capitol building.)

Need I remind anyone of the lawless riots that took place across our country in the summer of 2020, much of it on "government" property?

Who is the mayor and city council protecting? 

It isn't law-abiding citizens. 

So then it must be the criminally-minded, who don't care about laws, and can always find a gun if they want one. (I'm not suggesting this is necessarily their intent. But it certainly is the outcome.)

Where does this lawless Resolution leave law-abiding citizens, should they decide to obey it, and afterward find themselves met by someone on city property intent on inflicting harm?

—I'll tell you where it leaves them—a sitting duck, that's where. The mayor and city council want you to be a sitting duck, or stay off city property. Period. 

How does that make you feel?

Perhaps the mayor and city council aren't concerned with the criminal element at all. After all, they usually have armed security close by. Perhaps what they're afraid of are angry law-abiding citizens, because they themselves are not law-abiding. Breaking one's oath is not exactly law-abiding. And the initial version of this Resolution did suffer a public backlash. It has since been revised, but it still retains the tyrannical substance of the first.

Frame of Government
Let's review Nebraska's frame of government so everyone knows without a doubt that Kearney's mayor and city council are breaking the law and betraying their oath. 

Nebraska State Constitution Preamble

We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, do ordain and establish the following declaration of rights and frame of government, as the Constitution of the State of Nebraska.

Nebraska State Constitution Article I-1 Statement of rights.

All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to keep and bear arms for security or defense of self, family, home, and others .... and such rights shall not be denied or infringed by the state or any subdivision thereof. To secure these rights, and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

I repeat: "...the right to keep and bear arms for security...shall not be denied or infringed by the state or any subdivision thereof." 

What is the purpose of government, per our Constitution? "To secure these rights..." (not to take them away).

What is the purpose of government, per the Declaration?

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Clearly then, governments, in a Constitutional Republic, are instituted by We the People for the express purpose of securing our "inherent and inalienable rights." 

Clearly then, in a Constitutional Republic, public servants are not the rightful sovereigns, but rather We the People are the rightful sovereigns. And We the People delegate limited power to a lesser authority that we call "government," in order that such government may keep our rights secure. If and when that government ceases to do that, if and when that government corrupts itself, We the People have the right to replace it by whatever means necessary.

The Declaration affirms this: 

"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (the securing of our Rights), it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Our Constitution is the Supreme Law of Nebraska
There is no higher law in Nebraska than our Constitution (federal power is state-delegated power.) There is no state statute that supersedes our state Constitution. All such statutes that attempt to do so are null and void. Legislators don't always legislate with an eye to our Constitution. In fact, rarely is that the case anymore. Too many are motivated by the love of money and personal power, rather than genuine public service.

Here is the oath the mayor and city council took:

"I, ......................, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely and without mental reservation or for purpose of evasion; and that I will faithfully and impartially perform the duties of the office of ........................, according to law, and to the best of my ability. ... So help me God." Nebraska Revised Statute 11-101

Notice: The oath was not to the Legislature. Or to the Executive Branch. Or to the Judicial Branch. They can all be wrong. It was to our Constitution. So then, all local laws, ordinances, resolutions, etc that the mayor and city council might construct must align with (not violate) our Constitution, or they are void.

It is clear that Kearney's top "public servants" are in violation of their oath.
They have therefore ceased to be law-abiding in their capacity as "public servants." They are now public servants in-name-only, and they deserve the ire of Kearney residents. It doesn't matter what Lincoln and Omaha are doing. Doing something because someone else is doing it is a terrible argument.

Thomas Jefferson would call the mayor and city council tyrants and despots.

And what would Jefferson advise residents to do?

Defy such an unlawful infringement. As a matter of duty.

We have no obligation whatsoever to obey unconstitutional mandates/infringements of any sort. Doing so only invites more infringements and more tyranny. Obeying infringements is a slippery slope into slavery.

All citizens have the right to protect themselves from criminals and criminal activity, in the normal course of life, regardless of the location. (There are exceptions, but these exceptions don't leave them without immediate protection.)

Watchfulness
Power tends to corrupt. 
For that reason, we should never trust "public servants." 
Rather, we must diligently watch them.
The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen," not trust.
This principle is engraved in stone over the front door of our Capitol.   
Watchfulness secures government of, by and for the People.
We assume the worst from "public servants," until proven otherwise, and even then, we must continue to watch them. 
No honest person would mind this watchfulness.

Civility
Civility in our interaction with "public servants" is not an obligation, not when they violate their oath. 

In closing...
I encourage you to listen to this Biblical admonition about how to respond to government malpractice. It's very short and enlightening.

It is the duty of both higher and lower magistrates to respond to tyranny. In the case above with the mayor and council of Kearney, the People of Kearney are the higher magistrate and the mayor and council the lower.

I also encourage visiting this page: http://defytyrants.com . Resistance to/defiance of tyranny and evil is a movement that is quickly growing, because People are finally getting fed up.  

Have no fear in your Watchfulness [and public speaking. God is with you.] God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. He takes the side of the oppressed, not the oppressors.

Robert J. Borer
P.S. 
We are not advocating violence, unless violence is perpetrated against us. We advocate organizing with like-minded people to take a stand, to speak out, to speak the truth, and to do so loudly and firmly. 

The biggest place where "public servants" are currently infringing upon and denying us our rights is at the ballot box, where votes are counted in secret.

Thomas Paine, one our revolutionaries, wrote the following in a Dissertation on First Principles of [Representative] Government:
Quoting: 

The true and only true basis of representative government is EQUALITY of rights. ...
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery. 

He goes on to say:

"the strength and permanent security of government is in proportion to the number of people interested in supporting it. The true policy therefore is to interest the WHOLE by an EQUALITY of rights, for the danger arises from exclusions. It is possible to exclude men from the right of voting, but it is impossible to exclude them from the right of rebelling against that exclusion; and when all other rights are taken away the right of rebellion is made perfect."

As it stands right now, status quo "public servants" are facing a rebellion. More and more people every day are becoming fed up with supporting what is wrongly called "government."
Our so-called "public servants" have excluded the People of their counties from the right of voting, in as much as they have excluded them from the right of EQUALLY exercising the elective franchise.
They have allowed a very small group of People to decide that they can take our votes and count them in secret.
This is NOT an EQUALITY OF RIGHTS in the exercise of our elective franchise. 
Moreover, it produces no evidence whatsoever that our representatives are actually being elected by We the People, and not SELected by those few who are counting our votes in secret. 
If we are not equal when it comes to exercising our elective franchise, we are not equal anywhere.

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That’s it. Verbatim, except for the small part at the end in brackets. I just added that.

I’ve been working on it for a couple days. It’s so easy to get too wordy. I despise that. I want clarity and punch.

May God’s will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,

Robert J. Borer