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 THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE Number 551, January 3, 2010 "Perpetual tea parties for perpetual peace—and freedom."
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
Jefferson wrote that the People had a duty to "throw off" a despotic government. "Throw off." That sounds to me like a somewhat unfriendly separation. It doesn't sound particularly cordial. It also makes me think that the throwee ain't exactly thrilled about getting thrown off and might take exception to the decision of the throwers. The quote above is only once sentence from the Declaration of Independence. But it is one of the most seminal thoughts and principles of the document. Let's take it apart and consider its words, their meanings, and the consequences. "...A long train of abuses and usurpations..." In 1776 that was the caprice of King George III as he and his Parliament created laws that affected the colonies in ways that did not affect any other Englishmen. Those laws included the Stamp Act, various taxes and tariffs, prohibitions on imports and exports, more and more taxes, Redcoats patrolling American streets, the suspension of habeas corpus, and requiring those charged with crimes to travel back to England for trial. Today, Washington has ignored the strictures of the Constitution of the United States, and has done so for over a hundred years. It violates the First Amendment. There are plenty of laws that abridge free speech, not the least of which is the Patriot Act. It violates the Second Amendment by enacting laws and regulations infringing on the rights of the people to keep and bear arms, simultaneously destroying the militia and making citizens less safe and states less secure. It violates the Fourth Amendment through internet surveillance, airport searches and warrantless searches. It violates the Fifth Amendment by rendition of American citizens without due process and IRS double jeopardy prosecutions. You also are compelled to be a witness against yourself every time you sign your tax return. It violates the Sixth Amendment as no one gets a speedy trial. It violates the Seventh Amendment when it does not protect the right to jury trial, but allows judges or administrative bodies to adjudicate cases. It violates the Eighth Amendment as excessive bails and fines are imposed regularly. It violates the Ninth Amendment as it ignores certain rights retained by the People. It violates the Tenth Amendment by accruing to itself powers not delegated to it, and others reserved to the States and the People. Need I go on? There are seventeen more Amendments. "...pursuing invariably the same object..." What was that object? The object was to milk the maximum revenue from the colonies as possible. England had won the Seven Years War from 1756 to 1763 and was heavily saddled with war debt. So the more taxes and tariffs that King George laid on the colonies, the more the colonists rebelled. Then, the King made still more laws to bring the rebels to heel. Washington's object today is much the same. It has a crushing war debt as well as a crushing domestic debt load. Then add the mind-boggling financial liabilities, like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae and the total comprises nearly 1000% more than the entire annual Gross Domestic Product of the USA. Then consider the ramifications of laws like The Patriot Act. "...evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism..." To evince is to show clearly. Colonists could see clearly that King George's taxes and laws, designed only for the colonies, were a design to reduce their rights as free Englishmen and confiscate their wealth without due process. Today's long train of abuses and usurpations coming from Washington evince a design to accomplish the same objects by turning the Constitution on its head. The Federal Government of the USA started with very limited roles and clear restrictions. Washington's design has been to acknowledge no restrictions on its power and to accomplish anything it desires. "...it is their right, it is their duty..." American citizens may have rights that they do not exercise. But that is different than duty. Many Americans consider that military service is a duty, and there is nothing in the Constitution that states anything of the sort. But find me a person who argues with the content of the Declaration of Independence. If you run into a person who is against secession, show them the Declaration and see what they do with fulfilling their duty. "...to throw off such government..." The process of state nullification does not throw off government. It merely attempts to control the actions of the government, and to nullify its unconstitutional laws while staying a part of the whole. Throwing off such government can only mean secession, which is the act of withdrawing formally from the United States of America. "...and to provide new guards for their future security." To explain this, we return to the Declaration for another quote: "whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." For the People to provide new guards for their future security can only mean to institute new government. That precludes and omits any continuing relationship with the old government. That means secession. State secession is the only reasonable, logical and pragmatic solution to overcome the absolute despotism and criminal tyranny pouring out of Washington, DC. DumpDC. Six Letters That Can Change History.
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