Freedom and Government:

True freedom involves the free giving of personal allegiance, with such allegiance being given on a person's word of honour. Such a giving of personal allegiance, and the principle of personal honour, defined as personal honour is through a Code of Honour, are the basis for liberty and dignity: an expression of the civilized way of life. Personal honour is thus the criteria for judgement: the basis of what is fair and just.
 

Thus, a free individual only accepts the authority of someone to whom that individual has sworn allegiance and thus obedience. In the case of a Government or any other Institution, the same principle applies: a free individual only accepts the authority of officials if that individual has freely made, on their honour, an Oath of Allegiance to that Government or Institution.

A Government is a government of freedom - an upholder of liberty and honour - when and only when it gives and allows its subjects, its citizens, the right to freely give their allegiance to it and thus to those officials its appoints and who represent that Government and its authority. Furthermore, such a Government of liberty and honour makes it a condition of citizenship that every adult swear, before witnesses, an oath of Allegiance.
 

Anyone who does not freely give their allegiance to such a Government - who refuses to swear, on their honour, an Oath of Allegiance to such a Government - or who before witnesses renounces a freely given Oath of Allegiance, becomes a rebel, and a Government of liberty and honour gives every such rebel the right the leave the territory and live, as a free individual, elsewhere. A denial of this right of exile, of this right of an individual to become an outlaw in a territory or territories over which the Government does not exercise authority, is evidence of tyranny.

A Government of liberty and honour thus respects the sovereignty of the individual: the right of an individual to freely give, or freely deny, their allegiance; the right of an individual to rebel and choose exile; and the right of an individual to use personal honour as the criteria for personal judgement: as an expression of what is right and just. This sovereignty of the individual is the true basis for individual freedom and true democratic government.

It is tyrannical for a Government to assume that its subjects or citizens - those who reside in the territory over which it claims authority - accept its authority, or to not allow them to freely make, or freely deny, their allegiance.
 
 
 

Laws, Courts of Law and Personal Honour:

A tyrannical Government is one which takes away by presumption or force or legislation, or by all or any combination of these, the sovereignty of the individual. Any law, edict or judgement by any Government which does not use or express or imply the criteria personal honour as the basis for that law, edict, or judgement, is a tyrannical, unjust, dishonourable law, edict or judgement.

Before any judgement is made in any Court of Law, and before any trial in any Court of Law, it is the duty of officials of a Government of liberty and honour to ascertain if the individual before that Court and the subject of such a judgement has given an Oath of Allegiance to the Government from which such Courts derive their authority.

If such an individual has not given such an Oath, then any and all proceedings are null and void, and until it has been proven that such an individual has given such an Oath, on their honour, or until that individual does take or does re-affirm that Oath in such a Court, the proceedings and judgement are invalid because tyrannical and dishonourable: a taking away of the sovereignty of that individual, of the right of that individual to exercise their own judgement, based on honour, and on the right of that individual to freely give their allegiance: to freely accept the authority of an individual, an official or a Government.
 

Rebellion:

It is the right, the moral duty, of every individual to rebel against a Government which denies and takes away by any means whatsoever the sovereignty of the individual: which thus denies or does not allow or which forbids, through any law or laws, the right of an individual to freely give, and freely deny, their personal allegiance, and which takes away by any means or through any law the right of every individual to defend their own personal honour according to a Code of Honour.

A Government which does these things is a tyrannical Government and its dishonourable actions demand that honourable individuals formally and before witnesses renounce their Oath of Allegiance to it, and then either declare war against such a Government, as so seek its overthrow, or seek exile elsewhere. Should such honourable individuals who seek such exile, having renounced their Oath, or not given an Oath, to such a Government, not be able to live in exile elsewhere because of Government restrictions, Government measures or the use of force by such a Government, then those honourable individuals are honour and duty bound to declare war upon such a Government.

It is the right, the moral duty, of every individual to use whatever force is necessary to overthrow such a tyrannical Government.
 
 

David Myatt
JD 2451888.316

The word of a man of honour is his bond - when a man of honour gives his word ("On my word of honour...") he means it, since to break one's word is a dishonourable act. An oath of loyalty or allegiance to someone, once sworn by a man of honour ("I swear by my honour that I shall...") can only be ended either: (i) by the man of honour formally asking the person to whom the oath was sworn to release him from that oath, and that person agreeing so to release him; or (ii) by the death of the person to whom the oath was sworn. Anything else is dishonourable.

A man of honour is prepared to do his honourable duty by challenging to a duel anyone who impugns his honour or who makes dishonourable accusations against him. Anyone so challenged to a duel who, refusing to publicly and unreservedly apologize, refuses also to accept such a challenge to a duel for whatever reason, is acting dishonourably, and it is right to call such a person a coward and to dismiss as untruthful any accusations such a coward has made. Honour is only satisfied - for the person so accused - if he challenges his accuser to a duel and fights it; the honour of the person who so makes such accusations or who so impugns another man's honour, is only satisfied if he either unreservedly apologizes or accepts such a challenge and fights such a duel according to the etiquette of duelling. A man of honour may also challenge to a duel and fight in such a duel, a person who has acted dishonourably toward someone whom the man of honour has sworn loyalty or allegiance to or whom he champions.

A man of honour always does the duty he has sworn to do, however inconvenient it may be and however dangerous, because it is honourable to do one's duty and dishonourable not to do one's duty. A man of honour is prepared to die - if necessary by his own hand - rather than suffer the indignity of having to do anything dishonourable. A man of honour can only surrender to or admit to defeat by someone who is as dignified and as honourable as he himself is - that is, he can only entrust himself under such circumstances to another man of honour who swears to treat his defeated enemy with dignity and honour. A man of honour must die fighting, or die by his own hand, rather than subject himself to the indignity of being defeated by someone who is not a man of honour.

A man of honour treats others courteously, regardless of their culture, religion and race, and women gallantly, and is only disdainful and contemptuous of those who, by their attitude, actions and behaviour, treat him with disrespect or try to harm him, or who treat with disrespect or try to harm those he has personally sworn loyalty to or whom he champions.

A man of honour, when called upon to act, or when honour bids him to act, acts without hesitation and if necessarily quite ruthlessly provided always that honour is satisfied.

A man of honour, in public, is somewhat reserved and controlled and not given to displays of emotion, or to boasting, preferring as he does deeds to words.

A man of honour does not lie, once having sworn on oath ("I swear on my honour that I shall speak the truth...") as he does not steal from others or cheat others for such conduct is dishonourable. A man of honour may use guile or cunning to deceive his sworn enemies, and his sworn enemies only, provided always that he does not personally benefit from such guile or cunning and provided always that honour is satisfied.

A man of honour strives to dress in a clean, discreet way in practical clothes devoid of ostentation and suitable to the task in hand.