Visiting America Series

17 February 2025

Perhaps it would be the first day in American history, that a country celebrated a day generated to honor the great leaders of the nation but no elected official held the office by regulations, standards and governing precedents maintaining American ideals, principles and freedoms that is coming to pass in the year 2025. The President of the United States has been a figurehead for the Free World, embracing personal choice, liberties and responsibilities over any other government style that would seek to control Free Will, Free Expression, Free Belief, Free Speech, Freedom of Protection and Sustainability, all of which are outlined in the foundational documents of the country, beginning with the Declaration of Independence. The America of today is much different than the one set forth by the founders, the one divided in Civil War over oppression and even the one our grandparents fought to defend in World War II, that embraced equal opportunity for all to live a free life regardless of class or familial ties. Civics education has depleted to nearly nil in public education over the past 45 years, replaced by general social studies programs primarily focused on history and geography with very little exploration of government operations or sciences at any level. The world faces perilous challenges today, as it always has, but to a greater level of confusion and ignorance with threats that are foreign and domestic denying access to information, media, interpersonal relationships, government institutions and resources of all nature. The only way to fight these divisions is to unite the people in knowledge and embrace principles of self governance, self reliance and sustainability, self importance to the good of all and recognition that the United States must be a government of, for and by the People or there is no Union and it is just the State, lawless and unregulated in opposition to the People.

Power is currently and actively being usurped at the Executive Branch level from denial of both the Legislative and Judicial Branches. This calamity (hostile government takeover– see video) was foreseen as possible and probable to come to fruition by the founders of the United States. This type of tyranny of autocratic and oligarchic control is what drove separation of the colonies from Great Britain to found a government regulated by and for the interest of the People, but the supporters of the old system were not excluded from the new one and continue to push old interest. To maintain the freedoms and rights of individuals over the interest of the State, a trinity of co-equal governing branches were instilled to oversee the promises of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. The Constitution embodies the regulatory processes to fulfill the promises to the People made in the Declaration of Independence, reflecting political understandings and assumptions of the current time and the power to adjust political understanding through time by reason through the courts and justice systems with Precedent to uphold the values inherent in the United States and adapt to developing understanding through time and experience. It was an unprecedented venture in European Colonization to revert authority to the people from those who would control them and their access to resources, for protection or otherwise, and embarked upon with an understanding of fragility and need for adaptation but never to sacrifice the interest of the People that make up the fabric of society but rather deny elite classist control when and where it became discovered in awareness. The system was too established to break down in one fell swoop and would need continued support of People and their interest to maintain.

The Revolutionary period developed into the Civil War Era as the powers of classist control conflicted with Individual interest and Free Will. Slavery was widespread and a class that encompassed people of all races but could entrap those who were visibly different from birth, like Native Aboriginals and Africans, as they were easily seen as non-citizens without power to own land. Citizens were only considered by the standards of the time and to vote and pay taxes, one must own land. After the Civil War, birthright citizenship was granted to those of any race and economic background by Constitutional Amendment. Slavery was not ended as a result of the Civil War but ownership of slaves was transferred to State control and assignment to the private sector, also by Constitutional Amendment. With this move, power began to shift away from serving the needs of People to the needs of the State.

Foundational education of American systems is crucial to understanding the moment we are facing today, both in America and globally. The elite are usurping power and resources from the People in hostile government takeovers, wars that are started both inside and externally, and mass collection of wealth and natural resources. This world is for the People who live here, not the elite that demand control of Free Will. We are all rational beings inherent with the power to self govern and self regulate and to operate within societal interest that supports individual freedoms that cause no harm to others through intent or neglect. We are all innate with power of Reasoned Choice regulated by Moral Compass. The most basic shared communal and societal understanding across the globe and time is that Word is Bond. Oaths are a well established practice to demonstrate this and an oath to office is required for all public officials in the United States. Refusal to take or uphold oath is denial of responsibility and of office, at any level. No person can ever be above the law.

-OATH- An external pledge or assertation, made in verification of statements made or to be made, coupled with an appeal to a sacred or venerated object, in evidence of the serious and reverent state of mind of independent party, or with an invocation to a supreme being (deity) to witness the words of the party and to visit him with punishment if they be false. See O’Reilly v. People, 86 N. Y. 154, 40 Am. Rep. 525; Atwood v. Welton, 7 Conn. 70; Clinton v. State, 33 Ohio St. 32; Brock v. Milligan, 10 Ohio, 123; Blocker Burness, 2 Ala. 354

The swearing of an oath doesn’t require belief in the sacred text, but it must be on a sacred object to show promise to those that do believe and all are held to vow, belief is not required, just integrity. A person is offered the option to swear on their own personal sacred text to demonstrate sincerity and swearing to personal faith, again, belief of others is not required as long as someone does believe it sacred, the bond is tied. This is American Free Will as documented in the papers of foundation.

We at Life With Jaco are civic minded and want a free society that embraces all life and all people as not just necessary but integral to wholeness and quality of being. There are ample resources to allow all of those who want to live past survival and thrive to do so. We have invited journalist participation from across America and the world to share highlights of American history and American ideals and will be showcasing them in the weeks to come. Now is the time to understand, come together and unite in cause for all to have the ability to live harmoniously and fruitfully. Embrace the moment and know that everything that has ever come to pass has both brought forth this moment and has been preparation for the opportunities. We wish peace, harmony, strength, joy and resilience to all. If we embrace our freedoms, we must embrace the responsibility to uphold them.

We must remain aware that in a global system, with global access, the Whole World is Watching. Elected officials are seen as an extension of the People and their Will. It is not acceptable to standby while tyranny rises, claiming hands to be bound, unless we are submitting to our deaths. If we do not band together we will be ripped apart. Worse than wolves are coming.

In 1937, England and the World, were facing threats of global oppression and this poem arose:

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Dylan Thomas

1914 –1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp. Used with permission as Fair Use.

The visible atrocities of the Holocaust of World War II, only one of the great genocides that took place in that war era, brought the speeches of the prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller