-Caveat Lector- RECALL THE TYRANT! by H. Millard (c) 1999 There is always a risk of overstating a threat to our liberties, and such overstating can have the effect of turning off good decent people who might otherwise support a move to correct the situation. It is no different with the talk to recall Governor Davis. Is Davis really a tyrant and has he really screwed with our liberties and that which underpins our society? Well, to understand what Davis has done with his drive-by shooting of Prop. 187 it is helpful to understand a little about the ordering of societies. In simplest terms all societies have a sovereign of some sort who is, by necessity, an authority above individual people in the society. To not have a sovereign would mean that each individual person would be his own sovereign and could "legally" do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted with no regard for the rights of others. Each person would be able to claim absolute authority to take whatever he wanted and to kill anyone who stood in his way and each person would be within his rights to do so because he was the sovereign. This isn't a good plan for a society that contains more than one person. So, it was necessary to have a sovereign. Now, a sovereign must be "above" individual people in order to have authority over individual people otherwise he is not a sovereign. This sovereign sets certain rules so that society works for the people in society. In countries with monarchs, the monarch is usually the sovereign and, in theory, sets the rules. In the past, such sovereigns, often Kings or Queens, ruled by divine right and their rules were absolute. Their power was claimed to flow from God to them. Taking the will of the people into account was a foreign concept in such a system. As years went by, the people in many of these monarch ruled societies revolted and overthrew the sovereign and established some other version of a sovereign in their place. One form of society that emerged that brought in a new sovereign was the democracy. In a democracy, the sovereign is the people themselves and all power flows from the people. It is the people who delegate certain of their authority to their elected officials for an efficient ordering of society. However, the people may never delegate their responsibility to elected officials because ultimately what happens in society affects the people themselves in some manner. For example, the people have delegated authority to police departments to protect the people. Whether the police fulfill the duty they they have been authorized to perform or not, the people are still responsible for their own safety and if the police do not fulfill their duty it is the people who will be robbed, murdered and attacked. In other words, even in a society with well established traditions and institutions such as legislatures, police departments, and, yes, Governors, the people themselves still bear the responsibility for protecting themselves and for ensuring that the things that they want done for their common good are taken care of. To help them with governing themselves, people write Constitutions and laws which set forth their rules so that tyrants can't come along and arbitrarily change things based on what the tyrants want. However, because the people are busy with other things and don't have the time to democratically decide on every issue that needs to be decided, some societies instituted representative forms of government in which the people would elect officials who were supposed to represent the people and ensure that the will of the people was enforced. In theory, it was pretty simple. Instead of each one of us taking time away from our businesses and other interests we would "hire" (via elections) someone to represent our interests. For example, instead of say 1,000 people in a town having to decide on each issue and how every penny would be spent, we had "hired" someone else to do this for us. However, it was understood that such representatives of the people might go astray and not do what the people wanted. To help prevent this, the people of certain states in the United States reserved the right to themselves to make people made law via the initiative process. Then if their elected representatives didn't make the laws that the people felt they needed, the people could trump the legislative bodies and make the laws themselves. That's what Prop. 187 was all about. It was the people assembled who saw that the legislators were not making the correct laws to protect the people from illegal aliens. To correct this situation for the common good of the citizens of the state, millions of citizens worked very hard to pass Prop. 187. This initiative was the expression of their will. It was the will of the sovereign--THE PEOPLE. It was law, because the sovereign--the people--said it was law. Period. Then along came one unelected federal judge who cast her lone "vote" against the votes of more than 5 million Californians and effectively destroyed what the people assembled had enacted. Being a peaceful and law abiding people the citizens then turned to their elected governor and asked him to pursue their rights against this lone judge through the judicial system. Then on July 29, Governor Gray Davis the elected Governor "hired" by the citizens of California to ensure that their will would be enforced, told the people that he would not take the action that they had asked him to take. The Governor, in effect, told the sovereign--the people-- to go screw themselves. Is this enough of a violation for the people to be enraged and call Governor Davis a tyrant and worse and to call for his recall? Well, King George found he was called a tyrant and he lost the New World for far less. King George just wanted to tax tea. Who could get upset enough over a tax on tea to start a revolution? Why that would be absurd. Right? Wrong! King George the tyrant miscalculated. Big mistake. Governor Davis may have also miscalculated. Will we soon see representations of the red flag of revolution with the number 187 emblazoned across its face along with the battle cry of this new peaceful revolution "RECALL THE TYRANT" showing up as bumper stickers and posters, and will we see the successful recall of Governor Davis. Time will tell. It's a difficult propositon to recall a Governor, but if the people are angry enough for long enough a period of time, it can be done. 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