In the process of time we have observed the liberation of what would generally be defined as the European peoples, beginning essentially with the signing and publication of the Magna Carta, which enumerated the limits and obligations of the sovereign, and was subsequently signed under duress by King John in 1215, thereby fundamentally creating a venue of redress for the barons to air their grievances concerning the basic natural law of human expression. That document is seminal to basically every liberty we enjoy today. However, it must be understood that right of redress then, as now, was not as ubiquitous as we might suppose.

Firstly, with the authority of the Magna Carta, the nobles of that time used force to bring the concept into being, and maintained force to assure its integrity. It is not unreasonable to realize that those who were instrumental in the establishment of this new concept of liberty would have the primary advantage of its application. The nobles were responsible for maintaining the viability of their Sovereign before the Magna Carta was issued, even more so were they obligated to assure the position of their king after the fact, that they might exercise political influence in the name of the state.

For the most part, the masses were illiterate, subservient to a paradigm of class distinction. The hoi polloi had little reckoning of the machinations of government, and even less interest in them. When humanity is caught in a desperate struggle for survival, there is generally little appeal for the intricacies of legal sophistication. Therefore, the commoners realized only the implications of this new concept at the level which would benefit their Lords. The rights and relationships concerning the liberties were detailed and exact, and couched in language which the commoner had no understanding of. Only those who understood their rights, and were able to clearly articulate and define their positions within the parameter of the law, had standing in the court.

Even so, is it evermore true concerning the legal construct of our so-called free society. We, as a people, have been taught that we have a constitution which guarantees our rights, and that all are equal under the law. It enumerates our liberties in detail and furnishes a format of redress for our grievances. It defines certain inalienable rights, yet those rights are not guaranteed without a clear and concise understanding of them, and the ability to communicate with intelligence exactly what we hold to be true according to that which is defined in the constitution. We live in a place and time, and in an economy, where many people prosper. Those people who have learned to use those liberties, people who have learned how the system works and how to work the system, succeed, both financially and socially.

Those people who come to a more perfect understanding of the form of society in which they live flourish in good times, as well as in bad times. They work with the tools they have been given. They have made a concerted effort to teach their children from generation to generation how to conduct their affairs, in order to secure their future as well as that of their heirs, and that not by unethical or immoral practices which surely eventually engender demise. Those who create and maintain fortunes become partners with reasonable responsible persons who have become learned in law and economy. Law and economy are predicated upon a fundamental and logical disposition toward persons who desire to become a benefit to humanity as a whole, those who can see beyond the pale of class, sect, race and nationality.

We can only benefit others when and after we have exercised those liberties which are granted to us to firstly benefit ourselves. Then only are we in a situation where we can lift our fellows up from their blind bondage. I'm not suggesting we need to be rich, or powerful, or even formally educated. It is absurdly simple in the time we live to access all the information we need to construct the tools necessary to approach our government representatives in a clear, concise, articulate manner compatible with the language and protocols of the system. The power of knowledge will broaden our horizons and sharpen our mental acuity. There is still a window of opportunity for the common man to access unlimited resources, that is, knowledge, on the world wide web (Internet). However, that medium of information may not always be free of censure. There are forces which even today are hard at work creating roadblocks to the access of certain web-sites. Those sites we are free to peruse today will soon have a price on the new www2 (web2).

To whom much is given much is required.

We have been given ready access to the richest treasure mankind has ever known. We now possess the fabled philosopher’s stone, the known history of the world (culture, science, law, biology, etc.). The web is replete with the complete works of the great literary giants of the past, and the ever evolving, exponentiating understanding of those great learned ones among us today. Twenty years ago common man could not have conceived the dimensions of reality which were the exclusive property of the elite. Today, if we are ignorant of what is happening to us and around us, it is willful ignorance, an abrogation of responsibility to ourselves, humanity, and our creator. The Magna Carta meant nothing to the commoner except for the liberties that their Lords inferred upon them. So it has become with the Constitution of the United States, and the constitutions of the several states, in that those of us who willingly drink from the cup of darkness and slavery, which is a admixture of facts and fallacies, have lost our resolve to redress our Lords (public servants). We can expect nothing less than that which is logically determined by simple Newtonian physics. An object which is in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object which is static, tends to remain static. The motion of government tends to more government, and the static condition of society tends to become subservient to, and overwhelmed by government.