I read a newsletter from Hillsdale College
entitled “Impremis”. Hillsdale College
is the premier “political science” college in America. In this most recent edition, (October 2013,
Volume 42, Number 10) Mr. John Marini, a professor of political science at the
University of Nevada-Reno gave a speech on September 26 at Hillsdales’ Kirby
Center in Washington DC in which he discusses what has happened to our
political structure in Washington DC.
Our founding fathers envisioned a government for the people
and by the people. They did, however,
realize that true “democracy” which involves every political decision being
made by majority rule, would be impossible with the communication system they
had in place at that time, so the concept of a republic, where duly elected
individuals would represent a constituency group in the decision making process
and that constituency would have access to the representative to voice their
opinions on policy. The original
constitutional limitations placed on those representatives were deliberate
as our founding fathers did not want a situation where there was any one person,
or even a body of persons, making random decisions for all.
That original concept has been thrown out the window in Washington DC. Our current government is NOT a true
Republican representation it has become an Administration. This is EXACTLY what our founding fathers wanted
safeguards against! In the following
quotes the capitalized words, midsentence, are mine for emphasis.
As Charles R. Kesler wrote in his publication “Claremont
Review of Books” (1) in regard to the Affordable Care Act :
“(such
laws) start not from equal rights but from equal (and often unequal) privileges,
the favors or benefits that government may bestow on or withhold from its
clients. The whole point is to empower
government officials, usually UNELECTED and unaccountable bureaucrats, to bless
or curse your petitions as they see fit, guided, of course, by their expertness
in law so vast, so intricate and so
capricious that it could justify a hundred different outcomes in the same case.
When
law ceases to be a common standard of right and wrong and a common measure to
decide all controversies, then the rule of law ceases to be REPUBLICAN and
becomes DESPOTIC. Freedom itself ceases
to be a RIGHT and becomes a gift, or the fruit of a corrupt bargain, because in
such degraded regimes those who are closest to and connected with the ruling
class HAVE special privileges.” (2)
Mr. Marini adds to this assessment
that “Congress has become a major player in the ADMINISTRATIVE STATE precisely
by SURRENDERING its constitutional purpose and ceasing to defend limited
government.” (3)
We, the people of America, do not
any longer have a congressional body that works FOR all of us, instead we have
inclusive a legislative, judicial and executive branches who ADMINISTER to us
as though we all were recalcitrant children who have no knowledge of how to rule
ourselves! According to Mr. Marini we
lost the “governance” of our political system in 1965 and it has effectively
been replace since with an “administration” of mostly Unelected bureaucrats …
and Congress, instead of MAKING laws spends most of its time, in “oversight”
and “administration” of the government.
So, what difference does it make
to the common person? LOADS! For one thing, your elected officials don’t
give a rat’s ass about you; they only care about the profits in their
personal portfolios. Ever wonder why Big
Fossil Fuel, Big Chemistry, Big Agribusiness, Big Pharmaceutical and Banks get
away with so much? Because NO ONE in
congress at this time is NOT a “millionaire” and they vote for their OWN
profits not what is best for everyone.
Now before I get accused of being a crackpot, I’m sure there are a few,
damned few, people in congress who actually still have a conscience and believe
in the oath they took to uphold the constitution, but they are NOT the
majority. It would never surprise me if
anyone came forward and said that those in public office were actually
threatened in some way by their multi-billion dollar industrial “partners” into
making decisions to favor those industrial partners. Ever wonder why Ross Perot “quit” his bid for
president? Because his family was
threatened! Currently politics is a very dirty business. We’ve all seen the mud slinging ads of one
side of the campaign against the other.
And I understand the desire to stay home instead of go out and vote when
it is rather obvious that the candidates are crooks. Look at Mitt Romney. If he was squeaky clean why would he refuse
to make his tax returns public? Why doe
he have more than one “off shore” bank account?
Exactly what does he have to hide?
I also understand the majority of
Americans grew up in the Public School System which has been under control for
over 100 years by those who want a nation of placid sheep instead of people
capable of ruling themselves and making their own decisions. Do you think that advertising in magazines,
newspapers, radio and television is NOT a psychological trap? That advertising focuses on “selling”
products and not on selling a way of life?
If you do, you ARE a sheep.
Advertising is the largest use of psychological warfare ever
evidenced in the world!
So … what can YOU do about it? Find out where the local office of your
federally elected officials is located.
Get their phone number, fax number and email addresses as well as their
physical address. Read their “newsletters”. Find out all you can about who is in office
and BUG THE SHIT out of them; my three senators HATE hearing from me, only
because I’m up their butts all the time.
Express your opinion on EVERYTHING.
Not to your family or neighbors or co-worker but to your elected
officials. Complaining to your peers
doesn’t do anything but waste air and time.
Complain where it just might do a little good, TO your elected
officials.
“America the land of the free and
the home of the brave” … not in the last 100 years it isn’t! It is the land of the complacent and the home
of the sheep! Are you an intelligent,
sensitive, open minded and conscientious human being or are you a sheep? Are you capable of making decisions for
yourself or do you let the political system and television make your decisions
for you? I quit reading newspapers 35
years ago. I quit watching broadcast
television 25 years ago. I was never complacent
to sit and listen to the teachers and do only what I was required to get past
school. I am NOT a “product” of the
industrial-school/political suppression regime.
I can read, I think for myself and I act. It’s time all American’s wake up and
understand you’ve been “played”. Throw
off your conditioning, your programming, and start making your own
decisions. If you don’t like how
something works, find out who has the ability to change it and bug them. Write to them, telephone them, send them
emails, contact their competitors and complain.
If every 5th person who
goes to Walmart or Sam’s Club would simply change stores we’d get rid of a
business propagated on greed and prejudice in less than 2 years. Sam Walton had a great idea, but his sons are
nothing but greedy. They don’t care
about their employees, they don’t care about the communities in which they
build their stores, they don’t even care about their customers all they care
about is their own bottom line. But that
bottom line disappears when people boycott the store and spend their money
elsewhere.
The same holds true for political
situations. If you don’t like the way
the federal government does something, petition your state government to change
the way they do business to defy the feds.
The Constitution of the United
States is still the rule for law in this
country and states rights still supersede federal rights. Get on your state Senators and Congressmen’s
backs and make them make the right decisions.
Our government got the way it is because YOU, citizen of the USA have
ALLOWED them to get away with it. It’s
time to EARN your so called “freedom”.
It does come with a price; INVOLVEMENT!
Freedom isn’t free you have to work to protect it. And right now, we need protection FROM our
own federal government!
(1) Kesler, Charles A., Claremont
Review of Books, 2013
(2) Marini, John, “Budget Battles and the Growth of Administrative
State”, Imprimis, October 2013 Volume 42, Number 10
(3)”Reprinted by permission from
Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale
College”
