September 28, 2015 City of Liberty
Hill, Texas 78642
Second called meeting on
Involuntary Annexation
Greeting: Mayor, Council, City Staff and Attorney;
Neighbors, Friends
After listening
to all the questions and answers at last week’s meeting on the City’s proposed
involuntary annexation of property into the city, the realization came to me
that the City Council is on course to set a precedent for how the City of
Liberty Hill would be governed. In every
conflict there must be an objective principled standard in order to determine
what is just or unjust. In our American
family origins our Founding Fathers delivered to us the principled standard of
liberty as recorded in our American family birth certificate, The Declaration
of Independence. The principles of
liberty in the Declaration of Independence were later incorporated into our
Constitution. So, upon this principled
standard of liberty I state my reasons for opposing the involuntary annexation
of property into the City of Liberty Hill.
LIBERTY and LAWLESSNESS
PRINCIPLES AND PARALLELS
In
CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous
Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and
to assume among the powers of the earth the
separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God
entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation;
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government,
laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
Back In July of
1776 our Founding Fathers, with The Declaration of Independence summarized the
Principles of Liberty and the cause of the Necessity of We the People to
separate from the principles and practice of lawlessness to Principles and
Practice of liberty, for the people and their land, the 13 Colonies.
Today, for us on
September 28, 2015 we face the same cause of the necessity to separate from the
principles and practice of lawlessness to the principles and practice of
liberty for ourselves and our land, Liberty Hill, Williamson County, Texas,
USA, World.
The heart of the
conflict back then is the same heart of the conflict we face today. As the heart of the conflict in the 13
Colonies in 1776 was between Liberty and Lawlessness, likewise the heart of the
conflict in Liberty Hill, Texas in 2015 is between Liberty and Lawlessness.
So, like our
Founding Fathers in 1776 confronting the lawlessness of King George and Great
Britain, here we are today in the course of human events asking the same
question, by what authority is the City
involuntarily annexing the private property of We the People?
The Principles
of liberty in the Declaration of Independence became the foundational
principles in the Constitution with which our Founding Fathers formed our
Republic. We the People have to be at liberty in order to defend and preserve
Freedom.
The principles of liberty gleaned from the
Declaration of Independence and incorporated into our Constitution that are
necessary for the defense and preservation of Freedom are:
- The truths of Liberty are self-evident, we know them in our conscience, our heart, our spirit, because liberty exists between truth and justice, it is the truth that sets us free.
- That all men are created equal. We are all equal in our human nature. We all have need. It is our personal responsibility to work to meet our need. As some people are more gifted and talented than others, it must be understood that equality is in opportunity, not outcome.
- We are endowed with our unalienable (non-transferable and “non Lien-able”) rights from God not the government.
- Unalienable rights are the God endowed authority for the people to form their government.
- Governments are established by the people to protect the unalienable rights of the people
- Governments exercise their just powers by the consent of the people.
- If governments abuse their just powers the people have the God endowed authority to alter or abolish it and establish a new form of government that will safely, securely protect the unalienable rights of the people.
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| Rev. W.O. Spencer & wife |
In 1999 the people of the City of Liberty Hill, incorporated the City
and formed its government by consent of the people. Before, during and since
that Incorporation this City has moved further and further away from the
principles of liberty operating in the Spirit of Liberty toward the principles
of lawlessness operating in the spirit of lawlessness. So what is the spirit of this involuntary
annexation, the Spirit of Liberty or the spirit of lawlessness? Before we answer that question, we must
define liberty and lawlessness, particularly from our Founding Father’s
standard in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Liberty?
Liberty is the just use of the
law to exercise authority in governing over a jurisdiction to which one has the
God endowed right.
Liberty Principles Produce Liberty
Results. Liberty exists between truth and justice.
What is Lawlessness?
Lawlessness is the unjust use of
the law to exercise authority in governing over a jurisdiction to which one
does not have the God endowed right.
Lawless Principles Produce Lawless
results.
Lawlessness is not the absence of
the law that is anarchy. Lawlessness is
the unjust use of the law. And an
unjust use of the law is no law at all.
Lawlessness exists between error and injustice.
What is the Rule of Law according to our Founding Fathers?
The rule of law is that for any law to be
just, that law must be in agreement with the laws of nature, and nature’s God
and the endowed unalienable rights of We the People.
What is the nature of the flow of Authority in relationship to the
Right, to govern over a jurisdiction?
All authority
originates with our Creator who then delegates it down. The nature of the flow of authority is that
authority is delegated down, not up. The nature of the flow of authority is
that authority is delegated down to positions of authority. The person in that
positon of authority is exercising that authority either in Liberty or
Lawlessness. The positon of authority is
not the problem. Problems arise when the
person in the position unjustly exercises authority through the principles of
lawlessness, not the principles of liberty.
Our Founding Fathers
respected the position of King in the British Monarchy form of government. However, King George was also a man of
lawlessness, a tyrant from whom our Founding Fathers chose to separate in order
to live in Liberty. In other words, King
George from his position as King was being like a school yard bully exercising
the authority of his position unjustly.
Our Founding Fathers did not rebel against the Kings’ God ordained
position of authority. The Declaration
of Independence is our national declaration of separation from lawlessness to
liberty. Britain declared war. We the People defended our Creator endowed
rights.
The authority to
govern is first delegated down from God to the position of We the People. Then
We the People delegate our authority with specific limited powers further down
to positions in the government that we have formed. The number one reason government is formed at
any level is to protect and defend the unalienable rights of the people.
Understanding
the flow of authority and the Principles of Liberty, the form of government
given to us by our Founding Fathers is a Constitutional Republic. In this Constitutional Republic form of
government, We the People are Sovereign.
Our elected representative are to justly govern by consent of We the
People, with limited delegated authority and separation of powers, Legislative,
Executive and Judicial.
The Boston Tea
Party took place on December 16, 1773 and is known as a demonstration against
the lawlessness of taxation without representation by King George. What is less
known is that in addition to taxation without representation, the law also
mandated that the Colonies could only buy their tea from the British owned
company!
Last week with
respect to the Principle of Liberty of the God endowed right of private
property ownership, a property owner whose property is in the proposed
involuntary annexation area asked: Why
didn’t the City just ask us to be annexed?
The reply from
the City: The reason we are going through this process is because nobody
volunteers to be annexed. The reply is
based on the erroneous unjust lawless principle that property rights come from
government therefore the City can take through involuntary annexation those
property rights from the people and force the property owners to only do
business with the City.
It was said last
week, that even if We the People voted to not be annexed, it didn’t matter
because the City had the “legal right” to annex involuntarily. In other words, the City would exercise their
position of authority to govern over this new involuntarily annexed
jurisdiction without the consent of the people and in rebellious blatant
disregard of our unalienable property rights. Lawlessness being the unjust use
of the law to exercise authority in governing over a jurisdiction to which one
does not have the God endowed right, with the expressed reason of imposing new
taxes and impact fees and subsequent LUE fees, involuntary annexation is the
lawlessness of taxation without representation, without consent.
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Living in
liberty and freedom, who in their right mind with a shred of common sense would
voluntarily give up their God endowed private property rights that they have
secured for themselves and freely accept their personal responsibility to
maintain? So who in their right mind
with a shred of common sense living on property that they are paying for, in
houses with perfectly functioning septic systems and roadways that they through
voluntary association maintain, would not stand up against the lawlessness of
involuntary annexation?
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Have you ever
been manipulated? Manipulation happens
through deception. One of the Principles
of Lawlessness is for governments to cause a crisis or take advantage of a
crisis thereby forcing We the People to surrender our independence and God
endowed rights and making us co-dependents enabling government control. They know that as long as we are on the
government dole, they will have control.
Once a right is surrendered it is never given back. Involuntary annexation in order to force the
unjust redistribution of wealth- “everyone pay their fair share” is
lawlessness. Involuntary annexation is like a shotgun wedding forcing us into a
dysfunctional family. And we do well to
remember that by whatever we are overcome, to that we are enslaved.
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Inscribed on the Liberty Bell are these
words from Exodus 25:10 “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof” Chapter 25 of Exodus is about the year of Jubilee. The
year of jubilee only happens every 50 years.
It is a time when the land was voluntarily in freedom given back to its
rightful owner.
Today, September 28, 2015 is the first
day of the year of Jubilee ending on September 28, 2016. The Liberty Hill, City Council has a decision
to make in this new year of Jubilee.
Will they proceed on in the spirit of lawlessness or will they do as
they are instructed and return the Spirit of Liberty to the land of Liberty
Hill, Williamson County, Texas, USA, World?
Dr. Don Bebee, Liberty Hill, Williamson County, Texas, USA, World
Call To Action: Please email the following and tell them NO INVOLUNTARY
ANNEXATION
Mayor Connie Fuller: connie@conniefuller.net
City Manager Greg Boatright: gboatright@lhtexas.com
City Secretary Barbara Zwernemann: bzwernemann@lhtexas.com
City of Liberty Hill: 512-778-5449 512-548-6020
www.lhtexas.comDr. Don Bebee, Liberty Hill, Williamson County, Texas, USA, World
