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From: James Neher
To: Rep Ron Paul R-TX
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: How Congress Can Make A Perfect World!
What Congress Can Do To Make A Perfect World!
58,000 American dead bought us UN-style peace in Vietnam but
that record can
be beat in Yugoslavia! Now, let me request other things
Congress can do to
make this a perfect world:
1. Congress could pass a law giving us a national database
of employed
people so our leaders can know who among us is evil and who
is good, whether
politically-incorrect or politically-correct!
2. Congress could initiate dozens of pages of new "health
care crimes," and
pass many of them, for which the penalty is (among other
things) seizure of
assets from both evil doctors and evil patients!
3. Congress could approve confiscation of assets from any
evil person
establishing foreign citizenship!
4. Congress could pass the biggest gun confiscation act in
U.S. history in
order to disarm the evil people (lawful citizens) and
continue letting the
good people (criminals) be armed to the teeth!
5. Congress could make evil people (lawful citizens)
punishable as federal
criminals by owning a gun and living within ill-defined
school zones!
6. Congress could increase funds for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and
Firearms so they can hunt the evil people (lawful citizens &
the Waco
babies, mothers, & fathers attacking ATF agents)!
7. Congress could enable BillyWorld to define the evil
people as
"Terrorists" - without stating any reason and without the
possibility of
appeal, thus making their mailing and membership lists
instantly available
to good government enforcers! (or Congress could let
BillyWorld simply
issue an Executive Order uncontested by Congress)
8. Congress could authorize secret trials with secret
evidence for certain
classes of people but not to worry, this would only apply to
the evil people
(lawful citizens), not the good people (criminals)!
9. Congress could require that all states issue drivers
licenses carrying
Social Security numbers and "security features (such as
magnetically coded
fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000.
10. Congress could demand a national data base containing
every exchange and
observation taking place in a doctor's office, including
statements made and
any observations the doctor makes about mental or physical
condition,
accurate or not, with your knowledge or not.
Now for the good news, Congress does't have to make the
above into law, for
they have all ready accomplished this task in Public Laws
104-193, 104-191,
104-208, 104-132, 104-208, and 104-191 passed by the 104th
Congress! Ref: HR
3734, HR 3103, HR 3610, S 735, and HR 3610 where embedded
language created
the above Public Laws. Thanks a lot! Keep killing those evil
people who don'
t want UN-style peace! Support BillyWorld!
Jim Neher 1551 Sharon Dr Yuba City, CA 95993
(530)671-3977
5 Apr 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Land Mine Legislation - By Claire Wolfe
Let me run by you a brief list of items that are "the law"
in America today.
As you read, consider what all these have in common. A
national database of
employed people[Note A]
1.. Dozens of pages of new "health care crimes," for which
the penalty is
(among other things) seizure of assets from both doctors and
patients [Note
B]
2.. Confiscation of assets from any American who
establishes foreign
citizenship [Note C]
3.. The largest gun confiscation act in U.S. history --
which is also an
unconstitutional ex post facto law and the first law ever to
remove people's
constitutional rights for committing a misdemeanor [Note D]
4.. A law banning guns in ill-defined school zones; random
roadblocks may
be used for enforcement; gun-bearing residents may become
federal criminals
just by stepping outside their doors or getting into their
vehicles. [Note
D]
5.. Increased funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms, an
agency infamous for its brutality, dishonesty and ineptitude
[Note D]
6.. A law enabling the executive branch to declare various
groups
"terrorist" -- without stating any reason and without the
possibility of
appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and
membership lists
must be turned over to the government. [Note E]
7.. A law authorizing secret trials with secret evidence
for certain
classes of people [Note E]
8.. A law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers
licenses
carrying Social Security numbers and "security features"
(such as
magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by
October 1, 2000.
"...A Federal agency may not accept for any
identification-related purpose a
drivers' license, or other comparable identification
document, issued by a
State, unless the license or document satisfies the
[requirements set forth
in this legislation]. In other words, drivers licenses and
government
non-driver IDs will still look different in all 50 states,
but they will, in
fact, be part of a national ID system. If your drivers
license doesn't meet
the federal standard -- no Social Security, no passport, no
federal
contracts, no "benefits." And just try cashing a check at
your federally
regulated bank.[Note F]
9.. And my personal favorite -- a national database, now
being
constructed, that will contain every exchange and
observation that takes
place in your doctor's office. This includes records of your
prescriptions,
your hemorrhoids and your mental illness. It also includes
-- by law -- any
statements you make ("Doc, I'm worried my kid may be on
drugs," "Doc, I've
been so stressed out lately I feel about ready to go
postal.") and any
observations your doctor makes about your mental or physical
condition,
whether accurate or not, whether made with your knowledge or
not. For the
time being, there will be zero (count 'em, zero) privacy
safeguards on this
data. And, of course, the information will, by law, be filed
under your
"unique identifying number." But don't worry, your
government will protect
you with some undefined "privacy standards" in a few years.
Oh, guess what?
If the proposed rule implementing this legislation (issued
by the Department
of Health and Human Services in mid 1998) is adopted, you
won't be able to
get health care -- even privately paid health care --
without your Citizen
ID Number.[Note G]
All of the above items are the law of the land. Federal law.
What else do
they have in common? Well, when I ask this question to
audiences, I usually
get the answer, "They're all unconstitutional." True. My
favorite answer
came from an eloquent college student who blurted, "They all
SUUUCK!" Also
true. But the saddest and most telling answer is: They were
all the product
of the 104th Congress. Every one of the horrors above was
imposed upon you
by the Congress of the Republican Revolution -- the Congress
that pledged to
"get government off your back."
BURYING TIME BOMBS
All of the above became law by being buried in larger bills.
In many cases,
they were what my friend, gun-rights activist Charles
Curley, calls "Pearl
Harbor Legislation" -- sneak attacks upon individual liberty
that were
neither debated on the floor of Congress nor reported in the
media. For
instance, three of the most horrific items (the health care
database, asset
confiscation for foreign residency and the dozens of pages
of health care
crimes) were hidden in the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health
Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996 (House version: HR 3103). You
didn't hear
about them at the time because the media was too busy
celebrating this
"moderate, compromise" bill that "simply" ensured that no
American would
ever lose insurance coverage due to a job change or a
pre-existing
condition.
Your legislator may not have heard about them, either.
Because he or she
didn't care enough to do so. The fact is, most legislators
don't even read
the laws they inflict upon the public. They read the title
of the bill
(which may be something like "The Save the Sweet Widdle
Babies from Gun
Violence by Drooling Drug Fiends Act of 1984"). They read
summaries, which
are often prepared by the very agencies or groups pushing
the bill. And they
vote according to various deals or pressures.
It also sometimes happens that the most horrible provisions
are sneaked into
bills during conference committee negotiations, after both
House and Senate
have voted on their separate versions of the bills. The
conference committee
process is supposed simply to reconcile differences between
two versions of
a bill. But power brokers use it for purposes of their own,
adding what they
wish. Then members of the House and Senate vote on the
final, unified
version of the bill, often in a great rush, and often
without even having
the amended text available for review.
I have even heard (though I cannot verify) that stealth
provisions are
written into some bills after all the voting has taken
place. Someone with a
hidden agenda simply edits them in to suit his or her own
purposes. So these
time bombs become "law" without ever having been voted on by
anybody. And
who's to know? If congresspeople don't even read
legislation before they
vote on it, why would they bother reading it afterward? Are
power brokers
capable of such chicanery? Do we even need to ask? Is the
computer system in
which bills are stored vulnerable to tampering by people
within or outside
of Congress? We certainly should ask.
Whether your legislators were ignorant of the infamy they
were perpetrating,
or whether they knew, one thing is absolutely certain: The
Constitution,
your legislator's oath to it, and your inalienable rights
(which preceded
the Constitution) never entered into anyone's consideration.
Ironically, you may recall that one of the early pledges of
Newt Gingrich
and Company was to stop these stealth attacks. Very early in
the 104th
Congress, the Republican leadership declared that,
henceforth, all bills
would deal *only* with the subject matter named in the title
of the bill.
When, at the beginning of the first session of the 104th,
pro-gun
Republicans attempted to attach a repeal of the "assault
weapons" ban to
another bill, House leaders dismissed their amendment as not
being
"germane."
After that self-righteous and successful attempt to prevent
pro-freedom
stealth legislation, Congresspeople turned right around and
got back to the
dirty old business of practicing all the anti-freedom
stealth they were
capable of.
STEALTH ATTACKS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Three other items on my list (ATF funding, gun confiscation
and school zone
roadblocks) were also buried in a big bill -- HR 3610, the
budget
appropriation passed near the end of the second session of
the 104th
Congress.
No legislator can claim to have been unaware of these three
because they
were brought to public attention by gun-rights groups and
hotly debated in
both Congress and the media. Yet some *90 percent* of all
congresspeople
voted for them -- including many who claim to be ardent
protectors of the
rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Why? Well, in the
case of my
wrapped-in-the-flag, allegedly pro-gun, Republican
congressperson: "Bill
Clinton made me do it!"
Okay, I paraphrase. What she actually said was more like,
"It was part of a
budget appropriations package. The public got mad at us for
shutting the
government down in 1995. If we hadn't voted for this budget
bill, they might
have elected a Democratic legislature in 1996 -- and you
wouldn't want THAT,
would you?"
Oh heavens, no! I'd much rather be enslaved by people who
spell their name
with an R than people who spell their name with a D. Makes
all the
difference in the world!
HOW SNEAK ATTACKS ARE JUSTIFIED
The Republicans are fond of claiming that Bill Clinton
"forced" them to pass
certain legislation by threatening to veto anything they
sent to the White
House that didn't meet his specs.
In other cases (as with the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill), they
proudly proclaim
their misdeeds in the name of bipartisanship -- while
carefully forgetting
to mention the true nature of what they're doing.
In still others, they trumpet their triumph over the evil
Democrats and
claim the mantle of limited government while sticking it to
us and to the
Constitution. The national database of workers was in the
welfare reform
bill they "forced" Clinton to accept. The requirement for SS
numbers and
ominous "security" devices on drivers licenses originated in
their very own
Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of
1996, HR 2202.
Another common trick, called to my attention by Redmon
Barbry, publisher of
the electronic magazine, *Fratricide*, is to hide duplicate
or
near-duplicate provisions in several bills. Then, when the
Supreme Court
declares Section A of Law Z to be unconstitutional, its
kissing cousin,
Section B of Law Y, remains to rule us.
Sometimes this particular form of trickery is done even more
brazenly; when
the Supreme Court, in its *Lopez* decision, declared
federal-level school
zone gun bans unconstitutional because Congress demonstrated
no
jurisdiction, Congress brassily changed a few words. They
claimed that
school zones fell under the heading of "interstate
commerce." Then they
sneaked the provision into HR 3610, where it became "law"
once again.
When angry voters upbraid congresspeople about some Big
Brotherish horror
they've inflicted upon the country by stealth, they claim
lack of knowledge,
lack of time, party pressure, public pressure, or they
justify themselves by
claiming that the rest of the bill was "good."
The simple fact is that, regardless of what reasons
legislators may claim,
the U.S. Congress has passed more Big Brother legislation in
the last two
years -- more laws to enable tracking, spying and
controlling -- than any
Democratic congress ever passed. And they have done it, in
large part, in
secret.
Redmon Barbry put it best: "We the people have the right to
expect our
elected representatives to read, comprehend and master the
bills they vote
on....If this means Congress passes only 50 bills per
session instead of
5,000, so be it. As far as I am concerned, whoever subverts
this process is
committing treason."
By whatever means the deed is done, there is no acceptable
excuse for voting
against the Constitution, voting for tyranny. And I would
add to Redmon's
comments: Those who do read the bills, then knowingly vote
to ravage our
liberties, are doubly guilty. But when do the treason trials
begin?
BILLS AS WINDOW DRESSING FOR AN UGLY AGENDA
The truth is that these tiny, buried provisions are often
the *real* intent
of the law, and that the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
pages that surround
them are sometimes nothing more than elaborate window
dressing. These tiny
time bombs are placed there at the behest of federal police
agencies or
other power groups whose agenda is not clearly visible to
us. And their
impact is felt long after the outward intent of the bill has
been forgotten.
Civil forfeiture -- now one of the plagues of the nation --
was first
introduced in the 1970s as one of those buried, almost
unnoticed provisions
of a larger law.
One wonders why on earth a "health care bill" carried a
provision to
confiscate the assets of people who become frightened or
discouraged enough
to leave the country. (In fact, the entire bill was an
amendment to the
Internal Revenue Code. Go figure.)
I think we all realize by now that the database of employed
people will
still be around enabling government to track our locations
(and heaven knows
what else about us, as the database is enhanced and
expanded) long after the
touted benefits of "welfare reform" have failed to
materialize.
And most grimly of all, our drivers licenses will be our
de-facto national
ID card long after immigrants have ceased to want to come to
this Land of
the Once Free.
CONTROL REIGNS
It matters not one whit whether the people controlling you
call themselves
R's or D's, liberals or conservatives, socialists or even (I
hate to admit
it) libertarians. It doesn't matter whether they vote for
these horrors
because they're not paying attention or because they
actually like such
things.
What matters is that the pace of totalitarianism is
increasing. And it is
coming closer to our daily lives all the time. Once your
state passes the
enabling legislation (under threat of losing "federal
welfare dollars"), it
is YOUR name and Social Security number that will be entered
in that
employee database the moment you go to work for a new
employer. It is YOU
who will be unable to cash a check, board an airplane, get a
passport or be
allowed any dealings with any government agency if you
refuse to give your
SS number to the drivers license bureau. It is YOU who will
be endangered by
driving "illegally" if you refuse to submit to Big Brother's
licensing
procedures.
It is YOU whose psoriasis, manic depression or prostate
troubles will soon
be the reading matter of any bureaucrat with a computer. It
is YOU who could
be declared a member of a "foreign terrorist" organization
just because you
bought a book or concert tickets from some group the
government doesn't
like. It is YOU who could lose your home, bank account and
reputation
because you made a mistake on a health insurance form.
Finally, when you
become truly desperate for freedom, it is YOU whose assets
will be seized if
you try to flee this increasingly insane country.
As Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged, "There's no way to rule
innocent men.
The only power government has is the power to crack down on
criminals. Well,
when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One
declares so many
things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to
live without
breaking laws."
It's time to drop any pretense: We are no longer law-abiding
citizens. We
have lost our law-abiding status. There are simply too many
laws to abide.
And because of increasingly draconian penalties and
electronic tracking
mechanisms, our "lawbreaking" places us and our families in
greater jeopardy
every day.
STOPPING RUNAWAY GOVERNMENT
The question is: What are we going to do about it? Write a
nice, polite
letter to your congressperson? Hey, if you think that'll
help, I've got a
bridge you might be interested in buying. (And it isn't your
"bridge to the
future," either.) Vote "better people" into office? Oh yeah,
that's what we
thought we were doing in 1994.
Work to fight one bad bill or another? Okay. What will you
do about the 10
or 20 or 100 equally horrible bills that will be passed
behind your back
while you were fighting that little battle? And let's say
you defeat a
nightmare bill this year. What are you going to do when they
sneak it back
in, at the very last minute, in some "omnibus legislation"
next year? And
what about the horrors you don't even learn about until two
or three years
after they become law?
Should you try fighting these laws in the courts? Where do
you find the
resources? Where do you find a judge who doesn't have a
vested interest in
bigger, more powerful government? And again, for every one
case decided in
favor of freedom, what do you do about the 10, 20 or 100 in
which the courts
decide against the Bill of Rights?
Perhaps you'd consider trying to stop the onrush of these
horrors with a
constitutional amendment -- maybe one that bans "omnibus"
bills, requires
that every law meet a constitutional test or requires all
congresspeople to
sign statements that they've read and understood every
aspect of every bill
on which they vote. Good luck! Good luck , first, on getting
such an
amendment passed. Then good luck getting our
Constitution-scorning "leaders"
to obey it.
It is true that the price of liberty requires eternal
vigilance, and part of
that vigilance has been, traditionally, keeping a watchful
eye on laws and
on lawbreaking lawmakers. But given the current pace of law
spewing and
unconstitutional regulation-writing, you could watch, plead
and struggle
"within the system" 24 hours a day for your entire life and
end up
infinitely less free than when you began. Why throw your
life away on a
futile effort?
Face it. If "working within the system" could halt tyranny,
the tyrants
would outlaw it. Why do you think they encourage you to
vote, to write
letters, to talk to them in public forums? It's to divert
your energies. To
keep you tame.
"The system" as it presently exists is nothing but a rat
maze. You run
around thinking you're getting somewhere. Your masters
occasionally reward
you with a little pellet that encourages you to believe
you're accomplishing
something. And in the meantime, you are as much their
property and their
pawn as if you were a slave. In the effort of fighting them
on their terms
and with their authorized and approved tools, you have given
your life's
energy to them as surely as if you were toiling in their
cotton fields,
under the lash of their overseer.
The only way we're going to get off this road to Hell is if
we jump off. If
we, personally, as individuals, refuse to cooperate with
evil. How we do
that is up to each of us. I can't decide for you, nor you
for me. (Unlike
congresspeople, who think they can decide for everybody.)
But this totalitarian runaway truck is never going to stop
unless we stop
it, in any way we can. Stopping it might include any number
of things: tax
resistance; public civil disobedience; wide-scale, silent
non-cooperation;
highly noisy non-cooperation; boycotts; secession efforts;
monkey-wrenching;
computer hacking; dirty tricks against government agents;
public shunning of
employees of abusive government agencies; alternative,
self-sufficient
communities that provide their own medical care and
utilities.
There are thousands of avenues to take, and this is
something most of us
still need to give more thought to before we can build an
effective
resistance. We will each choose the courses that are right
for our own
circumstances, personalities and beliefs.
Whatever we do, though, we must remember that we are all,
already, outlaws.
Not one of us can be certain of getting through a single day
without
violating some law or regulation we've never even heard of.
We are all
guilty in the eyes of today's "law." If someone in power
chooses to target
us, we can all, already, be prosecuted for *something*.
And I'm sure you know that your claims of "good intentions"
won't protect
you, as the similar claims of politicians protect them.
Politicians are
above the law. YOU are under it. Crushed under it.
When you look at it that way, we have little left to lose by
breaking laws
*creatively and purposefully*. Yes, some of us will suffer
horrible
consequences for our lawbreaking. It is very risky to
actively resist
unbridled power. It is especially risky to go public with
resistance (unless
hundreds of thousands publicly join us), and it becomes
riskier the closer
we get to tyranny. For that reason, among many others, I
would never
recommend any particular course of action to anyone -- and I
hope you'll
think twice before taking "advice" from anybody about things
that could
jeopardize your life or well-being.
But if we don't resist in the best ways we know how -- and
if a good number
of us don't resist loudly and publicly -- all of us will
suffer the much
worse consequence of living under total oppression.
And whatever courses of action we choose, we must remember
that this
legislative "revolution" against We the People will not be
stopped by
politeness. It will not be stopped by requests. It will not
be stopped by
"working within a system" governed by those who regard us as
nothing but
cattle. It will not be stopped by pleading for justice from
those who will
resort to any degree of trickery or violence to rule us.
It will not be stopped unless we are willing to risk our
lives, our fortunes
and our sacred honors to stop it.
I think of the words of Winston Churchill: "If you will not
fight for the
right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will
not fight when
your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to
the moment when
you will have to fight with all the odds against you and
only a precarious
chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have
to fight when
there is no chance of victory, because it is better to
perish than to live
as slaves."
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NOTES on the laws listed above:
(Employee Database) Welfare Reform Bill, HR 3734; became
public law 104-193
on 8/22/96; see section 453A.
1.. (Healthcare Crimes) Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability
Act of 1996, HR 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96.
2.. #3 - (Asset Confiscation for Citizenship Change) Same
law as #2; see
sections 511-513.
3.. #4, 5 & 6 - (Anti-Gun Laws) Omnibus Appropriations
Act, HR 3610;
became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96.
4.. #7 & 8 - (Terrorism & Secret Trials) Antiterrorism and
Effective Death
Penalty Act of 1996; S 735; became public law 104-132 on
4/24/96; see all of
Title III, specifically sections 302 and 219; also see all
of Title IV,
specifically sections 401, 501, 502 and 503.
5.. #9 - (De-facto National ID Card) Began life in the
Immigration Control
and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, sections 111, 118,
119, 127 and
133; was eventually folded into the Omnibus Appropriations
Act, HR 3610
(which was itself formerly called the Defense Appropriations
Act -- but we
wouldn't want to confuse anyone, here, would we?); became
public law 104-208
on 9/30/96; see sections 656 and 657 among others.
6.. #10 - (Healthcare Database) Health Insurance
Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996, HR 3103; became public law
104-191 on 8/21/96;
see sections 262, 263 and 264, among others. The various
provisions that
make up the full horror of this database are scattered
throughout the bill
and may take hours to track down; this one is stealth
legislation at its
utmost sneakiest.
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And one final, final note: Although I spent aggravating
hours verifying the
specifics of these bills (a task I swear I will never waste
my life on
again!), the original list of bills at the top of this
article was NOT the
result of extensive research. It was simply what came off
the top of my head
when I thought of Big Brotherish bills from the 104th
Congress. For all I
know, Congress has passed 10 times more of that sort of
thing. In fact, the
worst "law" in the list -- #9, the de-facto national ID
card--just came to
my attention as I was writing this essay, thanks to the
enormous efforts of
Jackie Juntti and Ed Lyon and others, who researched the
law. Think of it:
Thanks to congressional stealth tactics, we had the
long-dreaded national ID
card legislation for five months, without a whisper of
discussion, before
freedom activists began to find out about it. Makes you
wonder what else
might be lurking out there, doesn't it? And on that cheery
note --
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Congress Has Declared War On Freedom & Liberty
by Karen Anderson (P.I.E. Periodical - Jan/Feb 1999)
I don't think most Americans have the courage of our
Founding Fathers. I'm
not so sure that I do. Signers of the Declaration of
Independence were
prepared to sacrifice their lives and fortunes for liberty.
Indeed, many did
lose their lives and/or fortunes. (See July 98 P.I.E.
Periodical)
I have seen more bad legislation come out of the
Republican-controlled
Congress than I would ever believe possible. We call and
write our members
in Congress! We write letters to the editor! We pass items
to others! We
hold meetings! We donate to organizations only to discover
that some "sold
us out." We read legislation and report what we find! We
publish
conservative newsletters and newspapers! We speak out at
school board and
city council meetings! Some of us testified before State and
Federal
committee hearings, traveling at personal expense, only to
be cut off and
shot down! We walk precincts and give our hard-earned money
to Republican
candidates who once-elected pass more "land-mine
legislation!" We remind
them when they campaign for re-election only to have them
say, "I'm not as
bad as the Democrat. You had better hold your nose and vote
for me anyway."
The problem is that both parties, Republican and Democrat,
are taking us to
the same place. The only argument they have is how they're
going to get us
there. And it's a one-way ticket to hell.
I was elected to the Napa County Republican Central
Committee and was in
essence told that I must sacrifice my beliefs, my
conscience, my country,
and yes, even my children to the "god" of the Republican
Party. I was
expected to disregard my oath of office; to keep quiet about
legislation
that would destroy children's futures and our country; that
the republican
Party platform and the Constitution are not valid if an
elected Republican
chooses to ignore them; and that my only purpose in life was
to support and
elect Republicans no matter what they did while in office. I
was harassed,
threatened and ridiculed by some members of this committee
for daring to
speak out about dangerous legislation that would
dramatically and horribly
affect every single person in the United States.
They cry about "party unity" and the "big tent" and sound
like Rodney King,
"Can't we all just get along?" But "getting along" means
"going along" with
the agenda of whomever is in power within The Party.
But the Party doesn't belong to the average voter; it
belongs to the
corporations, the elite, and those in power. Principles do
not matter to
them because they will toss them aside the very moment they
think it is
"politically expedient" to do so or whenever they think they
can get away
with it. And make no mistake, they have gotten away with
plenty!
The problem is that both parties, Republican and Democrat,
are taking us to
the same place. The only argument they have is how they're
going to get us
there. And it's a one-way ticket to hell. I have since
resigned from my
elected position on the Napa County Republican Central
Committee and I have
reregistered as an American Independent. I did not want to
become
"processed" with the rest of them with their group-thinking,
tent-building,
outcome-based, mentality as they aid and abet the Republican
leadership that
is bringing our Nation to a totalitarian state. I refuse to
be bound by a
false sense of loyalty to the Republican leaders and their
cohorts who have
betrayed our trust and work to destroy us while professing
to be our
"friends."
Did my little stand make a difference? Probably not but at
least my
conscience is clear and that means a lot to me. I will never
have to face my
children and tell them, "I helped them do this to you." I
will not
compromise with evil. I will not sit down at the table and
"negotiate" with
the enemy. I will not vote for the "lesser of two evils."
George
Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior reads, in
part,
"Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem
your own
reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad
company."
So what is the answer? Do we bravely follow the footsteps of
our Founding
Fathers? In the words of Patrick Henry (March 23, 1775),
"Give me liberty or
give me death!" One thing is for sure - every day we are
losing more of our
freedoms and it won't be long before our Nation reaches the
point of no
return. I keep reflecting on the quote by Winston Churchill
in Claire
Wolfe's "Land-Mine" article, "If you will not fight for the
right when you
can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when
your victory
will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment
when you will
have to fight with all the odds against you and only a
precarious chance for
survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight
when there is no
chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to
live as slaves."
Thomas Jefferson said in 1781, "God who gave us life gave us
liberty. And
can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their
only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people
that these
liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be
violated but with His
wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just; that
His justice cannot sleep forever."
Quote To Remember: "Government is not reason, it is not
eloquence - it is a
force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful
master; never for
a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." -
George Washington
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