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Title: Is the American Experiment Dead?
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URL Source: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19812
Published: Mar 16, 2007
Author: helen krieble
Post Date: 2009-05-03 17:56:40 by IndieTX
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Views: 192
Comments: 6
King George III would be so proud. He and his aristocratic friends laughed at America’s quaint “experiment” with self-government. To them it was unthinkable that common people were enlightened enough to rule themselves. Today that experiment is the envy of a world where people in fewer than 100 countries live under democratic governments. Yet here in the United States, old King George may yet be right. Astonishingly, today’s Americans expect government to care for us from cradle to grave, the way commoners once expected a benevolent king to care for his subjects. We treat people as members of groups rather than as individuals, insidiously devolving into the very class system against which the founders rebelled. In a deeply disturbing sense, Americans are voluntarily surrendering the very freedoms that millions fought and died to establish and protect. James Garfield once said the most common form of death in politics is suicide. After a noble 225 year history, is the American experiment dying at the hands of its own people? Many of the “long train of abuses” that led to our rebellion from the British Crown in 1776 are eerily similar to our own government’s excesses. The Declaration of Independence listed a host of grievances against the King that are all too familiar today. The authors accused the King of refusing “his assent to laws… necessary for the public good,” of forbidding locals to pass laws “of immediate and pressing importance,” even of dissolving local representative bodies. How different is that from today’s “supreme” federal system that routinely over-rides local and state laws, especially by federal court orders and “constitutional” rulings based on premises not in the Constitution? The Crown had “obstructed the administration of justice” by controlling judges’ tenure and salaries; today’s government does so by empowering judges to usurp legislative powers -- to make up new laws rather than interpret laws passed by the people’s representatives. It is a more modern technique, but with the same anti-democratic result. King George had “erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” In 2007 the federal government has more than 4 million employees and costs taxpayers almost 3 trillion dollars a year. The King “combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution,” much as modern leaders compromise our sovereignty to institutions like the UN, international courts, and foreign trade commissions. The founders said government should protect private property, but today’s Supreme Court lets government take private property and sell to developers, take away the value of land by denying the right to use it, and force landowners to give their land for endangered species habitat, parks, trails, and “open space.” The first “inalienable right” in our Declaration was the right to life, but today’s courts prohibit states from protecting it. If we still believe “all men are created equal,” how can we justify racial preferences in school admission, government contracts and congressional re-apportionment? Freedom of speech is central to the Bill of Rights, but Congressmen now deny that right to those who want to speak about them, or other candidates, like politically correct thought police. “The policy of the federal government,” wrote President Jefferson, “is to leave her citizens free -- neither aiding nor restraining them in their pursuits.” Today, we are not allowed to plan our own retirement, design our own health insurance, or even devise our own children’s education. The endless intrusion reaches every facet of our lives from where we can hike in the woods to how our hamburgers must be cooked. Both parties instinctively look to government as the first answer to all problems. Even Republicans propose solving issues like illegal immigration by hiring 30,000 new federal employees. There is one crucial difference: Unlike our colonial ancestors, contemporary Americans voluntarily agreed to all these usurpations with their votes. We have been warned frequently to be alert. In 1835 Tocqueville wrote, “the American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” Sadly, that day has long since come. We are left with an unresponsive government millions of Americans do not recognize as theirs, or feel moral obligation to support. That trend could be the death knell of the founders’ ideas. It is not too late to rediscover our “experiment” in self-government, but Americans must first decide whether they care.
Poster Comment: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
- President George Washington
First Inaugural Address
New York City - April 30, 1789
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#1. To: IndieTX (#0)
It was also a mistake to grant land and mineral rights to corporations, and a mistake to give corporations personhood. Since corporations can outlive humans, their interests stay alive as long as the corporation stays intact. Corporate lobbies are far more successful in suggesting and seeing through political change. We could have predicted that conniving business interests would take control based on the presence of slavery in the constitution.
The acceptance of fraud/fiction created through legalese in every instance violates the natural law applicable to real live people. Fake money, fake "persons", strawmen, it's all an illusion made to incarcerate people on this PRISON PLANET.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
The dominant lawyer culture in America has destroyed it bump! Source: Sammy Sorrell Lawyers have become a "ruling class" in America, controlling all three branches of American government...constituional nightmare... Are lawyers destroying the nation? Often the best way to correct a problem on anything is to go back to the drawing board, see if we have strayed from the pilot model and make adjustments. The drawing board in this case is thirteen tiny early American colonies from whence sprang the greatest governing document in the world-the U.S. Constitution! You may not know this but lawyers were absolutely forbidden in those colonies for many years-in fact Virginia held them off for over 100 years. Disputes were settled by the church. Americans are being held in bondage and tyranny in a denial of justice because of the lawyer culture. Two standards of justice: the rich walk, the poor go to bankruptcy court or prison Source: Sammy Sorrell Law Enforcement Against Prohibition more than 55% of americans receive a gov check in one form or another. they will support whoever promisess their continuation.
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
We should see these "persons" you've graciously deemed Americans as more like a collection of barnacles on the bottom of a boat. Parasites that collect and grow until they're either scraped away or they're allowed to consume the hull of the ship of state. Self-discipline has departed our society and has been replaced with self-gratification at the expense of others. Ultimately this lack of self-discipline will cause a breakdown, as it has in every society before ours. I see many people that are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to survival demanded by natural law, but far more that are willing to sacrifice the future for their own temporary convenience and decadence. A govt check is fraud. The benefactor and beneficiary are frauds and parasites. Even the contributors that fund the govt are criminal frauds as accomplices in perpetuating a self destructive system completely founded and operated upon fiction. [The Bible calls it "THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY" ... and it truly is a mystery to me why people are prone to believe a lie].
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
Except for that civil war thing, that integration thing... Oh wait I forgot. Those were good things!
Everything lasts and everything ends. Longer than our children could ever imagine, faster than we could ever imagine. Children are the stuff of life; god was right to deny us immortality.
“The policy of the federal government,” wrote President Jefferson, “is to leave her citizens free -- neither aiding nor restraining them in their pursuits.”
#2. To: Deasy (#1)
and a mistake to give corporations personhood.
#3. To: noone222 (#2)
"...fiction created through legalese..."
Over 100,000 formal complaints are filed annually against lawyers and lawyer judges with only 2% formally prosecuted
Over 80% of low to middle income Americans cannot afford to pay the lawyer ransom for justice in America
Lawyer monopoly of the legal services profession now constitutes the most blatant illegal monopoly in America
Lawyers are robbing their clients through over billing and outright theft, conspiracy and fraud
Lawyer-judges have created class discrimination against non - lawyer pro se litigants nationwide
How lawyers and lawyer-judges have become a closed member country club with the masses picking up the tab
The American jury is being manipulated by the lawyers to get the verdict they want
America has become a giant law factory of self interest laws hurting law abiding citizens
Lawyers criminalize Americans attempting to assist citizens with generic legal procedures
The "case law" jungle created by the lawyer culture leads away from the Constitutional law
Unfortunately, he doesn't take it far enough to the unjust and unconstitutional laws themselves (War on Drugs, IRS, War on People, FedReserve, Social Security, other unjust taxes..thefts..and regulations et al ad infinitum) which make us a nation in bondage, but It's quite certain that lawyers created every bar on this cage we're in.
#4. To: IndieTX (#0)
In 2007 the federal government has more than 4 million employees and costs taxpayers almost 3 trillion dollars a year.
#5. To: christine (#4)
more than 55% of americans receive a gov check in one form or another.
#6. To: IndieTX (#0)
Unlike our colonial ancestors, contemporary Americans voluntarily agreed to all these usurpations with their votes.
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