An Irish Rebel’s Ghost, My American Soul, and the Cowards Who Have Our Undivided Attention

Joe Athon

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This is not a debate. This is a summons. We must let them know, here and now, that we see their schemes and we will not stand by and let this happen. Their cacophony of grievance is meant to deafen us, but our response must be a symphony of steel. It begins not with a shout, but with a sacred act, just as it did in 1777. It begins with an oath.

This is my voice. This is my promise. This is my steel:

I, Joseph Athon, do acknowledge the United States of America to be a Constitutional Republic, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed. I therefore declare that the people owe no allegiance to any who would replace the rule of law with the rule of one person.

I renounce, refuse, and abjure all fidelity to any would-be tyrant, oligarch, or political leader who subverts the will of the people through force, conspiracy, or lies.

I will be true and faithful to the Constitution of the United States and to the free state of Kansas, whose soil was consecrated by the fight against anti-democratic forces. I will, to the utmost of my power, support, maintain and defend the government as established by the Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

I will use my utmost endeavors to disclose and make known to the governor, or some one of the judges or justices thereof, all treasons against the Constitution, and all attempts or combinations to interfere with the rights of the people which may come to my knowledge.

I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help me God.

That is my line in the sand. Now, we must draw ours together.

These architects of amnesia are betting on your silence. They are wagering their vast fortunes that your love for this country has grown colder than their greed and lust for power.

Prove them wrong.

Reclaim the sacred ground. Find your words, forge your own covenant, and speak it into the public square. Let us flood this nation not with rage, but with a resolve so absolute it becomes a physical force, a public record that states plainly: we will speak out, we will not be stopped, and they will be held accountable. Let them hear the roar of a people remembering their own power. Use every platform, in every city, from all of us. Let them feel the ground tremble as we rise, our declarations held before us like shields.

And then, watch. Watch how their hollow threats shatter against the steel of our conviction. Watch how cowards run when confronted with a people united, who refuse to be silent.

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