The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance. Get Involved!

John Philpot Curran

By Alan Sexton

Fasten your seatbelts, folks, I’m on a tare.

The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance. While the title I have chosen represents only one among many and differently attributed variations of this wise observation, accurate phrasing and attribution are of less importance when compared to the urgency and importance each one of us must place upon understanding–and embodying–the unchanging among variations message.

Warnings From History

By Alan Sexton

Compelled by current events, I present for your objective consideration the following. Make of these observations and warnings from history whatever you will, folks:

Conservative Denial, Apathy, and Crocodile Food

By Alan Sexton, Green Mountain Scribes

When temporarily allowed, denial can serve as a protective and helpful coping mechanism and, when allowed to persist, denial can also become a dangerous crutch, inviting all manner of grave consequences — such as those now endangering our already much assailed constitutionally protected Natural Rights and liberties.

Staff of the prestigious Mayo Clinic find that denial “is a

If Liberty is the Object, Perhaps “Occupy” is not the Proper Venue

By Alan Sexton

Thomas Jefferson penned within an 1819 correspondence with Isaac H. Tiffany what many advocates of liberty justifiably hold as perhaps the best definition and description of liberty ever advanced, writing:

Thomas Jefferson, Legislators, Laws, and Natural Rights

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their power;  that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.  No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another;  and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him;

~Thomas Jefferson, Letter To Francis W. Gilmer, at Monticello, June 7, 1816.

Green Mountain Scribes Adds YouTube Channel

Inspired by the popularity of, and the positive feedback about the “Liberty Videos” page on the website, I have added a video channel for Green Mountain Scribes on YouTube.

Click on the adjacent photo to visit “GreenMountainScribes’ Channel”.

Initially, I have uploaded the 6-part

Madison, Paine, and Franklin Talk Liberty and Courage

From James Madison:

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations;

“The Socialist Revolution via Education”

      A great educational video featuring Samuel Blumenfeld addressing the socialist revolution via education. Great information we all need to know.

In this one hour presentation you will learn about the Socialistic history of American education and how it affects you.

Economic Freedom and Quality of Life

Economic Freedom and the Quality of Life is a short, informative video centered on the ideas of economic freedom and the societal benefits it produces. The video helps explain what economic freedom is and why it’s key to improving society.

Self-Made Men By Frederick Douglass

We are sometimes dazzled by the gilded show of aristocratic and monarchical institutions, and run wild to see a prince. We are willing that the nations which enjoy these superstitions and follies shall enjoy them in peace. But, for ourselves, we want none of them and will have none of them and can have none of them while the spirit of liberty and equality animates the Republic.

 Excerpted from Self-Made Men, by Frederick Douglass, 1872