Posted by
Toddy Littman on Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:00:00 PM
A firm believer in America based on
America's Founders, and not those who, would and do, trespass to
rewrite the Constitution as though time alone provides wisdom,
irrespective of the lack of "lessons learned." I've found a need to echo some principles that seem long forgotten.
You see these who would easily ignore the Constitution wish to apply the differences of today, changes of the modern era, as
justification for changes to The Constitution assume we no
longer could have a domestic enemy or the ideas of feudalism and
tyranny died long ago. Sadly they themselves by failing to know our nation, the story that is America, are not from from being that domestic enemy themselves.
Yet many who want us to believe this idea of the modern era, and their obliviosness, are well
aware of getting us to believe in them as their means of success, as their way to get us to vote for them, to listen to
them. The fact they are not running for public office, nor do they have any
genuine love for America is to be overlooked. That instead they see America as a tool for their
own personal gain irrespective of any sacrifice to America which occurs
at every encroachment upon the rights of the individual, especially property rights, is absolutely foreign to their thinking of everyone's profits as "public excess."
These people
do not see our input of any import, they do not look to what we produce, desire,
or our dreams and aspirations, etc., with exception of using these as a
means of revenue -- a sort of blackmail (Oregon not receiving enough
fuel revenues due to people buying hybrids and the whole Co2 global
warming environmental thing who then pay less fuel tax and now the state wants to tax their specific mileage using GPS to track them and bill them!) These people and their propositions are the certain and specific epitome of the Feudal Exchequer.
Contrary to popular public opine, Government however is not a business,
well, at least it is not a business in an elected capitalist republic
(according to Franklin) featuring an administrative form of government
with an arbitration by majority or greater votes depending on the
circumstance.
These "liberal ideas" are the remnants of Feudal Tyrannies and
their Tyrants, whether called feudalism, socialism, communism, and/or
facism, etc., these "forms of government" and economy are entirely and
purposefully a business run by government. These are where government
is formed under the guise of "the Will of the People" but executes it's
actions irrespective of their needs. Eventually everything these
governments do is for the sole purpose of protecting the governmental
mechanism or control of "the political means." In all cases this means
the assumed control of every aspect of property, tangible and
intangible, so long as it is controlled and provides a justification,
another opportunity to receive more revenues for the government. This
more often results in government claims over rights, or protections
from and, to intangibles claiming a duty and obligation, that these are
a "necessary act of government."
Historically these duties and
obligations always seem to come with a form of "generating revenue" for
government, government "eating out" our "substance" and new expenditure
systems that allow our honorable elected to abscond with funds generated by the new tax irrespective of it's imposition on other grounds.
The
above described Feudal Tyrannies and the variety of names in
"re-branding" the Feudal ideology of government owning everything it
claims any interest in, of course also erects an invisible line, a
border, which rises up into infinity from the very core of the Earth.
This border outlines the outer edges of every property these
governments claim, including we the People, as "resources," and
"subject to" their administration of our lives -- to in our best
interest but as a means to generate revenue for the government.
And
all within this border, as decreed by government of course, is further
subject to "schemes" (they use this term in their own government codes)
to afford expansion of government within this border -- a condensation
of government power -- justified on "the revenues government needs" to
"effectively carry on the business of government."
As with when
we were under the old Feudal Tyrants and Lords, nothing belongs to us
outright, everything by permission, by privileged grant to those who
seek it; always a "contingent" or "public" interest in the private
lives of the people to claim such permission is necessary and
justified, along with the "fee" associated with the permission -- the
fee another "revenue."
Some may find this comforting, and I
submit that since 911, some information should be shared, but, not for
taxation, not for government to adjust it's revenue notions and see how
it can spend more (say $700 billion), merely creating a debt on our
backs, to justify another assessment and tax under the guise of "to pay
off this debt." See it doesn't matter who is bailed out, that's the
"red herring."
What does matter is that government, even for a
moment, felt it was, it is, so empowered as to agree to such an
expenditure at all. This is the Feudal Lord, the King or Queen, the
Tyrant, spending and justifying the expense even if there is no means
to afford it but to oppress the people. This may have meant killing a
number of them merely to not be required to have as much food in
storage for the winter. This may mean selling off lands and a noble to
another nation so as to increase the Sovereign's Wealth so they can
afford that artist's monument to their last conquest, and get it
finished before they die so the next in the "blue blood" line doesn't
interfere.
In particular to the "$700 Billion Bailout"
consider how 95% of America was against it at the time (and 80% still),
that this opposition led to failure in the House. This is important
because it had no revenue generation provisions in it, it was not a
"Bill for raising Revenue" as that requires certain rules, house rules,
before such a bill can even reach the floor of the house. This is a
protection that we the People want and is in recognition of U.S.
Constitution Article I, Section 7. To be clear, the original $700
Billion Bailout failed without having any revenue generating provision
in it. Our Constitution makes it very clear that....
"All bills
for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;
but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other
Bills." (Article I, Section 7, main body of the U.S. Constitution.)
Harry
Reid demonstrated the very essence of feudal tyranny. Even after the
house vote on this bill had failed to pass it, in adherence to the will
of the people, he used the Amendment Clause to now add revenue
provisions to the dead bill (thus the revenue portion did not originate
in the House and does not provide the people with the protections they
should have been afforded). The Senate then passes this new version of
this now $850 Billion Bailout packaging it specifically as an amendment
to another bill (the revenue provisions are now 3 layers deep from
being legitimate according to the U.S. Constitution.). Harry Reid, knew
exactly what he is doing, if you look at the record and what votes they
had, the packaging being very particular to pass this bill, you'll find
Harry Reid did not care about the Will of the People. See this isn't
about if we need the Bill or not, it is about government acting on the
basis of what we've indicated we want or do not want versus acting on
their own accord, as though our input doesn't matter. This is
absolutely the means and control of Feudal Tyranny irrespective of it's
brand.
Yet few Americans know anything about the Constitution,
other than "I claim my rights under the Constitution" not even
realizing that their rights are not subservient to the Constitution,
and our rights have never derived from the Constitution. Thus we
haven't any idea how or what to do, nor will we act, when government is
acting without us, without consideration of us as anything but a vote
to keep those in power holding a seat -- power they were meant to have
as a matter of carrying out our will, of carrying out the propositions
of the The Unanimous Declaration of Independence.
The U.S.
Constitution, main body, is the one and only supreme, absolute, and
certain directive of administration of the governing the United States
of America in a fair and just manner, and yet, the Original 13 Colonies
required the Bill of Rights to be ratified with the U.S. Constitution.
I must say again, The U.S. Constitution, main body, is the one and only
supreme, absolute, and certain directive of the administration of
governing the United States of America.
The "Bill of Rights," of
course, has become a bit vague as a term since it is used as an
affectionate colloquialism we've applied to the ratified First 10
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. This is in contradistinction to
the "Bill of Rights" being the title to a particular document with 12
Articles for Amendment, the last 10 of which are the first 10
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The original 13 colonies, now
forming into states "all-at-once" essentially, found it necessary to
require this Bill of Rights Document be ratified in order to assure
greater limitation on the centralization of power in a national
government, to assure a "Federal" Government, even beyond the founders
original main body.
You see after being under Feudal Tyrannies
for a good 1500 years, which are a "civilized" form of Tribalism and
slavery of one's own people, our Nation's Founders found themselves
very unwilling to centralize any power under any form of national
government figurehead, be it a prince, singular or even as a body with
3 parts, or just under the banner "government."
This is why
our national government is referred to as a "Federal" government." The
powers of the federal government are entirely circumscribed by the 10th
Amendment where the States, or even the People, claim such right, then
such powers are not delegated by the U.S. Constitution to the
administration of government in the United States. Now of course the
U.S. Supreme Court has found, since around the Civil War, that the
National Constitution is "the Supreme Law of the Land" however, the
trouble is that the Constitution itself indicates this in a more
limited capacity:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made,
or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall
be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be
bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to
the Contrary notwithstanding." (U.S. Constitution Article 6)
Note the condition, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof...."
This directs in no uncertain terms the need for every single law, every
single act to be in pursuance of The Constitution, a document of
limited government powers. Each act must be in pursuance of the proper
administration of a government to the principles of the documents whose
force and effect is not excluded, and was a legislative enactment by
it's own words "In Congress Assembled....The Unanimous Declaration of
Independence."
It is important to note that the Declaration of
Independence is the only founding document that received unanimous
consent, and therefore, has greater authority than even the U.S.
Constitution where Rhode Island would not sign.
So now when we
go back to Harry Reid picking up a Bill the House had voted down and
that had no revenue provisions, thereafter adding another $150 Billion
in "Christmas Trees," and adding "Bills for raising Revenue" by
amendment, or in itself, making the new $850 Billion Bailout a "Bill
for raising Revenue" we find this act is not in pursuance of "This
Constitution," the very document that prohibited what Harry Reid did.
This
is why our expansion of our national government, cannot be into a
central government, and such expansion is not in the best interest of
America. This is also why the founders love of freedom and the
experiences which forged these principles so strongly in them that they
made this written Constitution with such limitations and clauses to
assure we, the governed, remain in grant of our consent to the
government. This is why this same power has been extended to everyone
in this nation by the 14th Amendment.
Understand that there
are many who from the Founding of the United States of America miss
central government and continue to long for the "Blue Blood" reign.
These are people whose families would have loved to have been the
dominating Lord of one of the colonies granted by Letters Patent of a
Crown Head of Europe. These people have and continue to choose to
interpret our Constitution to meet those ends, and not the ends of our
Unanimous Declaration of Independence, nor to meet the conditions
ironed out over 11 years of discussion, meetings, and secrecy from
1778-1789 to produce the Constitution of the United States.
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intends and is meant to preserve this knowledge, this ideology that
manifest into a nation through these founding instruments and those who
worked so hard, so diligently, to put them together, fight for them
afterwards up to this day, and, whose remnant of reasonableness began
to be lost to distant memory under FDR. Of course with the passage of
time, and something the Feudal ideologists count on, the zeal for
freedom, its recognition and defense, has since declined and almost
entirely a non existent voice of knowledge and wisdom from the people
who brought about the largest wealth redistribution program ever: The
Founders of the United States of America.
Our founders know
Feudalism under any brand, its properties a defined certainty that
cannot be masked, cannot be mistaken for something else, or glazed
over. Our Founders, these people who were born into feudal slavery,
even as a noble "at pleasure of the King [or Queen]," they fought for
better for all of us and, together with Lincoln, did all they can to
assure this promise extends to everyone equally. It is up to us to take
up this mantle. We must make sure these freedoms and their extension of
equal representation, the works of these so very many people beginning
in 1641 and continuing through the Founders of the United States to
Lincoln, are not lost.
When someone wonders what America is,
read the U.S. Constitution. Read the Federalist Papers. Learn of the
life of serfdom and caste society, a structure that insects live by and
are born into as well (as we once were, it is nice to be able to write
that), "peonage" is the life Our Founders left behind and did all they
could to assure none of us would ever experience again as Americans.
Learn
about the first attempt to leave the crown in 1641 by 5 of the
plantations, and the first codification of laws in 1643. These define
America, for they define our Spirit of defiance to oppression. We are
defiant of man being viewed, comprehended, treated, and used as a
substance and resource subject to the control of other men purely due
to their claims of right to do so and without care or consideration
whatsoever of our claims that they cannot, that their "sentience" is no
greater than my own, irrespective of anything they have to claim --
there is no justification for anyone to believe in any manner they are
in the position to determine the fate, the life, the future, of another.
Elite
status is a myth, conjured up for those who want to portray importance
to whatever they are promoting as granting them an elevated condition
over others.
Generally these "elitists" have their "alphabet
soup" after their name and are looking to bring others to grant the
same significance of meaning to these that these people found in
pursuing these letters -- an acknowledging qualification that they
believe should grant some sort of authority over those without it.
things from those who didn't.
Titles of any kind, be it
President, etc. are of similar significance in a free nation and to a
free people. These things only command respect out of those who glory
in it, who desire to find significance in it. Those who have these
titles have no right to force anyone else to recognize this
significance and thereby derive no right to dictate others lives, what
they do with their property, or if others are capable of managing
themselves.
In a free nation there is no criteria but freedom
and that, if one is representing government, they adhere to the
principles of The Unanimous Declaration of Independence -- our
foundation as a nation -- or they no longer have the consent of the
governed, no right to "wield" any sword of authority or claim any such
right.
Fights for freedom in every form, from our nation's wars
with England to a prison riot, are a testament to the value of freedom.
And when we act accordingly, when government uses a clear head and
reason to achieve results that haven't anything to do with their own
best interest, it is at that moment of such achievement that governance
is occurring and not "the business of government" -- something that
clearly has been forgotten in light of this revenue generation
structure where government is guaranteed an income irrespective of
nature not providing such guarantee to anyone who they rely upon for
such revenue.
This is not to say that there is no government
interest involved, it is to say that those representing government have
a duty to remember it's place, and theirs in it, as an administrator,
and recognize that pursuant to those instruments which founded our
government, the source of it's legitimacy: American Government interest
is subservient to the States and the People.
This is vital to a
free people, free nation, free society, and free markets. Any
regulation, even by measure and opining of the importance of the
measure, is a threat to freedom by threatening these, a threat that
occurs by the slightest suggestion of "normal" or "tradition." America
isn't about tradition or we'd have never left the Crowns of Europe, we
never would have ceased to continue our vassalage and subject slavery
(serfdom).
Thus and so I am guilty of being an American. I am
guilty of promoting the Founders Values and Beliefs as the conservative
and republican values they actually are. I am guilty of believing a
free nation can only remain free if the people are willing to take
part, to make it their duty to be informed (This is not to be confused
with the ad infinitum conjecture that can and has often developed into
a conspiracy theory, usually intertwining with another conspiracy
theory, as though knowledge of such things, the "specialness of it,"
will help anything.)
Reason is a tool that can fool if not
used wisely. It is the heart of freedom when adopted by a mass of
people who arrived at the conclusion through use of reason and in
repulsive reflex to their abject condition, a worldwide right of the
sentience of mankind. Reason is the heart of tyranny when used by a few
to spread rumor, gossip, and other theory as though fact, "in
arguendo," to lead one to believe this suggestive "talk" is true, and
only so as to get them to apply reason to such fallacy and manipulate
them or a situation.
It is in the repulsive reflext to our
abject condition that our nation was founded, and, that a republican
named Abraham Lincoln risked this nation in a Civil War to assure these
principles have no limit through the administration of our Federal
Government.
Lastly, few realize the very essence of
freedom, the spirit of this country, derives from capitalism because it
is the most significant and symbolic departure from Feudal Europe.
"But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to reduce them [the People] under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
"Security"
here is meant everything, that, "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness" are "among" the "certain Unalienable Rights" each of us is
"endowed with by their Creator." Thus "future Security" is an assurance
that this limited group of Unalienable Rights as well as those not
enumerated -- other rights these are "among" -- is defended, upheld,
and protected by a government structure designed to do so by written
constitutional direction to administer itself with these fair, just,
and proper ends as the goal and purpose of the administration of our
United States Government.
Our Congress has long since deviated
from this principle. Though they have the "Power of the Purse" under
the Constitution they continue to carry on "political tradition" and
blame the outgoing unpopular President, the most politically "safe"
position, for economic woes. Congress cannot, nor will they ever, take
responsibility for poor economic conditions, or better said by our
Founders in The Unanimous Declaration of Independence, for being poor
"Guards for" our "future security."
Thank you for reading.
Toddy Littman