Sam Adams' Legacy

From the day on which an accommodation takes place between England and America, on any other terms than as independent States, I shall date the ruin of this country. A politic minister will study to lull us into security by granting us the full extent of our petitions. The warm sunshine of influence would melt down the virtue which the violence of the storm rendered more firm and unyielding. In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny. Ye abandoned minions of an infatuated ministry, if peradventure any should yet remain among us, remember that a Warren and Montgomery are numbered among the dead. Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say,
What should be the reward of such sacrifices?
Bid us and our posterity

bow the knee,
supplicate the friendship, and
plow, and
sow, and
reap,

to glut the avarice of the men who have

let loose on us the dogs of war

to riot in our blood and

hunt us from the face of the earth?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
—Sam Adams, From a speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, “to a very numerous audience,” on August 1, 1776

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1. The main components of the Samuel Adams Coaching Program are:

   1. Education
      You are a victim of educational malpractice

   2. De-Programming
      You have been brainwashed, and are held captive by a religious cult.

   3. Action
      Learning new facts is not enough; you must risk and take action. You must change patterns and habits.

   4. Accountability
      You need someone to nag you. You need someone to hold up a mirror so you can see yourself.
      

2. We will be happy to share our educational program with you without charge. 
   

3. This won't do you much good.
   
   Everything in our program is already available without charge on the Internet.
   
   But you're not systematically learning, growing, and becoming the next Samuel Adams.
   

4. This is because you need a coach.
   
   You don't need an expert or guru. You just need another human being who's on the same road, headed to the same destination.
   
   The purpose of Sam Adams Coaching is not just to give you the homework, but to create a network of like-minded people that can encourage you.
   

5. During the next year you will read through the Bible in Chronological Order. The first verse in the Bible is John 1:1. Each day we will give you the assigned reading which will take you through the Bible in one year.
    

6. You will be given two or three really easy no-brainer questions about the day's reading.
    

7. We want you to set up a blog to record your answers. You can make your blog private or public. Public accountability is not a bad thing.
    

8. In addition to reading the assigned portion of the Bible, you must agree to spend a minimum of 90-180 seconds per day meditating on Godly character traits, using guidelines we specify, with the goal of developing these traits in your own life. A partial list of required traits appears in the box on the right. Meditating on these character traits will transform you into an anarchist. You simply agree to allow us to brainwash you by listening to our audio meditations.
    

9. You must be willing to become the person your family, friends, and co-workers most admire by the time you finish this program, even if you don't think that's possible.
    

10. You must be willing for your family, friends, and co-workers to see you trying to make radical improvements in your life. We will ask for two or three letters of reference prior to commencing our coaching program from people who know you and will attest that you are undertaking a program to become the person they most admire.
     

11. It may be that the only people you know may not admire you, but may be people that you don't admire either -- with good reason. In this case, you must commit in advance to become the kind of American that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Samuel Adams would have admired. If you attended a government-run school, you may not know who these men were. More specific details will be provided. (Hint: Some people called them anarchists because they abolished their government.) Bottom line: We want you to make a commitment to be admired by admirable people.
     

12. You must be willing to admit that if you are not already the most admired person that your family, friends, and co-workers know when you begin this program, that this is your own fault. (This is a requirement because many people subconsciously refuse to make a commitment to radically improve their lives because then they will have to admit that they weren't without fault all along. Better to just stick with the status quo (they think) than to admit their own shortcomings by resolving to improve them.)
     

13. You must agree in advance that when you complete this program you will volunteer to be a mentor or coach to at least one other person each year for as long as you are able to do so. We will show you how to make a substantial commission every time you sell our home-study program to people in your church, at work, or in your neighborhood.
     

14. We ask that you commit in advance to donate (to religious or charitable causes) a minimum of 10% of any windfall profits that accrue to you as a result of undertaking our program.
    
    The Bible promises that if you meditate on God's Commandments (the basis for the character traits you will be studying) you will prosper:

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Joshua 1:7-8

Therefore keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Deuteronomy 29:9

And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;
1 Kings 2:3

But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
         And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
         Planted by the rivers of water,
         That brings forth its fruit in its season,
         Whose leaf also shall not wither;
         And whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalm 1:2-4

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12. On the other hand, you may lose everything. In our day the "Bill of Rights" means nothing. You may become the object of government surveillance. The FBI or other government intelligence agencies may open a dossier on you and members of your family. Your participation and public affiliation with an "anarchist" website may lead to IRS harassment in the form of an audit or other legal inconveniences. You may be deemed an "enemy combatant." If your job required you to take an oath or sign a statement indicating your support of the U.S. Constitution, you may lose your job because you visit "anarchist" websites. Your house or place of business may be searched and your assets "forfeited." We cannot be responsible for these eventualities. You have to make the decision: will you be approved by the government, or will you be approved by God?

13. The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western Civilization. It is also the book more people own but have never read. Yet these same people have dogmatic opinions about the nature of the Bible and what it says. You may have pre-conceived ideas about the Bible that close your mind to the conclusions to which we are trying to lead you. You may doubt our credibility and reliability to the point where you will not be persuaded by anything we say about the Bible. Therefore we will require you to read four (4) other works which are widely regarded as being among the most important in the history of Western Civilization. These four credible, reliable, and time-honored works will abundantly confirm our "anarchist" interpretation of the Bible and the human condition. We will show you how to download these works for free from the Internet.
     

    1. "The Westminster Standards"
       At a time when the total population of America was only four million people, it is estimated that some five million copies of the "Westminster Shorter Catechism" were available in the colonies. Historian Richard Gardiner writes:

The Westminster Catechism was not only a central part of the colonial educational curriculum, learning it was required by law. Each town employed an officer whose duty was to visit homes to hear the children recite the Catechism. The primary schoolbook for children, the New England Primer, included the Catechism. Daily recitations of it were required at these schools. Their curriculum included memorization of the Westminster Confession and the Westminster Larger Catechism. There was not a person at Independence Hall in 1776 who had not been exposed to it, and most of them had it spoon fed to them before they could walk.

It takes approximately 11 minutes per day to read through the Bible from cover to cover. It only takes a couple minutes more to read through the Westminster Catechisms and Confession. They were written around 1645 and the drafters unequivocally opposed our brand of libertarianism. But they believed that God is God, and denied that the State is God, a necessary first step on your road to becoming a radical libertarian.

2. Capitalism
   Many people today believe that the government produces wealth. Others want the government to redistribute wealth ("spread the wealth") to special interests. Such people wouldn't even entertain the idea of abolishing the government, much less actively work toward that goal. "The government can give us whatever we want if we just vote the most generous and compassionate politicians into office." Adam Smith would be appalled at such ignorance and immorality. Smith taught ethics at the University of Glasgow and wrote a Theory of Moral Sentiments. In the same year as the Declaration of Independence was written (1776), Adam Smith wrote a book entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, widely regarded as the first treatise on capitalism. Capitalism is unquestionably one of the most important features of Western Civilization. Capitalist nations enjoy health and prosperity. Capitalism is the opposite of socialism. Socialist nations can't spread the wealth, they can only spread the poverty. Socialism -- government intervention in the economy -- is not just inefficient and wasteful, it is immoral.
   
   Smith's book is not easy reading. A more recent treatise is:  Capitalism by Prof. George Reisman. We will assign Reisman's text. Consistent socialism is maximum government. We believe consistent capitalism is anarchism, the absence of government force. Prof. Reisman disagrees with us, but his book will help us prove our point with credibility and impeccable logic. 

        

2. Theocracy
   America became the most prosperous and admired nation in history because it was a nation "Under God." In short, America was a Christian Theocracy. Today the word "theocracy" conjures up images of Islamic terrorists and mullahs. People think of "theocracy" as a police state  governed by priests. This is inaccurate. The word "theocracy" comes from two Greek words, theos, meaning "God," and a Greek word meaning "rule." A theocracy where God rules is a nation "under God." America has always been known as "one nation Under God," and therefore America has always been a Christian Theocracy.
   
   But there are good theocracies and there are bad ones. A nation can be attempting to be a Christian Theocracy and do a very poor job of it. We do not believe that a good Christian Theocracy is a police state. We believe a good Christian Theocracy is one where all the priests and princes have resigned and gotten real jobs where they serve others.
   
   A Christian Theocracy seeks to give God all the glory. It's hard to see that God rules when the State claims to be the Messiah.
   
   Americans today have been misled by the myth of "the Separation of Church and State." This mythical idea -- not found anywhere in the Constitution -- has come to mean the separation of God and State, with God being separated into the private world of fantasy and imagination, and the State having omnipotent power in "the real world."

The great conflict in Western Civilization today is whether our world will become

•	an Islamic theocracy,
•	an atheistic theocracy (where man thinks he is his own god, but the omnipotent secular State wields total, crushing power),
•	or whether America will again be a "City upon a Hill," persuading the world to become a peaceful, global Christian Theocracy -- the kind described by the Prophet Micah.

The third reading assignment will be the history of Christian Theocracy and "Western Civilization."

Hundreds of years before Christ, the prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, Christ's coming in the days of the Roman Empire. That empire was destroyed, and Christian Theocracy began growing. The Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West kings like Alfred and Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the basis of new legal systems. The "Common Law" began, with a Christian foundation, and eventually found its way into the Constitution of the United States, "a Christian nation." No one book adequately chronicles this history, so we will read from a number of books that try:

Excerpts from these books are freely available on the Internet. Only one of the authors agrees with our anarchist conclusions, but their arguments lead to our conclusions if consistently held.

There are two stories that need to be told:

The first is how Christianity destroyed the slavery and paganism of the Roman Empire and brought "Liberty Under God," the foundation of "Western Civilization" (476 A.D.- 1517 A.D.).

The second story is the story of America, and how
• Calvinism created America (1517 - 1787)
• America apostatized into an atheistic empire (1787 - 2008)
• and -- hopefully -- how America repented and became an anarchist-theocracy (2009 - ????).

To begin this second story, we will assign the reading of the Supreme Court's opinion in the 1892 Decision Holy Trinity Church vs. The United States and all the historic legal documents cited by the Court.

4. Four months into the program we will be taking a detailed survey of all participants to monitor their progress. We will determine the chief continuing objections to becoming an anarchist (if any). The fourth text will be assigned based on the individual answers.
   
   One of the most popular objections to undertaking the task of abolishing an atheistic dictatorship by working to persuade archists to repent (resign) is the belief that Christ is going to return "any day now," and "you don't polish brass on a sinking ship." Christians are soon going to be "raptured," it is believed, so why work against the tyranny of "The New World Order" or invest energy in a defense of "Liberty Under God?" Those voicing such objections will be assigned an 1876 book entitled The Parousia:

This book is simply a catalog of all New Testament prophecies concerning "the second coming." The result of looking at all the evidence will be a "paradigm shift."

Other objections will be prescribed an appropriate remedy on an individual basis.

Success experts like Brian Tracy say you should read for an hour a day in your chosen field to be successful (that's more than a dozen books a year). George Washington read the Bible for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Your "chosen field" was chosen for you by God: to be an extraordinary human being. If you can't read just four of the most important books in the history of Western Civilization next year, you'll never be a success in the human race.

18. In order to succeed in the program, you must agree to give up 1 hour of "the mainstream media" each day:
    • 1 hour of "American Idol," or
    • a half-hour of the CBS Evening News and a half-hour reading the sports section of your favorite newspaper, or
    • 2 half-hour sit-coms, or
    • 1 hour of escapist fiction, romance novels, or
    • 1 hour of computer games, off- or online, or
    • 1 hour of Rush Limbaugh, Opie and ____, or other "drive time" radio as you commute to work (MP3 downloads of this home-study program are available to burn to CD so you can listen in the car while you drive to and from work), or
    • any combination of 1 hour's worth of the mainstream media each and every day. Cut it out.

    You will substitute in its place 35-45 minutes of our daily reading program, 5 or 6 minutes answering no-trick questions, and a few minutes of prayerful thought.
      • 20 minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening.
      • 15 minutes for breakfast, 15 minutes at lunch, 15 minutes after dinner.
      • Any way you choose.
     

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