The federal government has relegated the Constitution to history!
The USA must reverse the damage by cutting government size by at least 50%. Eliminate most Agencies and layoff bureaucrats!
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Trump and Obama Bigotries
By Jim Babka
15 Principles in response to Trump, Obama, and the Fearful Retweet
by Jim Babka
Terrorism is a political tool. Politicians and other statists use it to their benefit. They cry, "That group, over there, is to blame for your troubles."
Group demonization is discrimination. Partisans divide-and-conquer by suggesting that people can be judged in broad groups.
If you accept their division, their political power expands.
Willing accomplices in the regime media run "fear propaganda," hour after hour. They bring on guests and ask...
- Politicians, "What are you going to do so solve our hyped-up problem?"
- Experts, "Can we really afford liberty?"
It's been about three months since the Paris and San Bernardino massacres. In the days following those attacks, we had influential people suggesting with incredible, emotional intensity that EITHER…
- Gun owners are too volatile
- Muslims are too dangerous
These statist finger-pointers are making the same bigoted mistake...
- Barack Obama wants to make it hard for everyone to get a gun because a few people are dangerous
- Donald Trump wants to prohibit all Muslims from entering the country because a few Muslims have done bad things
But we’re all unique individuals -- to be presumed innocent and judged individually.
In times of Fear, where the information we're being given is designed to manipulate us politically, we must have a foundation upon which we can rely. We need time-proven principles that will protect us from temporary, emotional whims.
Here are some of our principles, listed at random. [The list is numbered for those who wish to respectfully reply.]
- All persons are created equal, endowed with rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- These rights come with our humanity. They are pre-Constitutional -- they are not created or granted by governments.
- No one has the right to initiate violence against peaceful people. They certainly cannot delegate that power to their most elite neighbors, a.k.a., politicians.
- Each person should be judged by their character and not their skin color. All humans deserve the presumption of innocence, until individually proven guilty of a crime.
- Each of us desires that others respect our rights. In Golden Rule (empathetic) fashion, we realize that in order to be free we have to extend liberty to others.
- Because of this natural empathy, we recognize that everyone must be secure in their person and property, unless a warrant has been secured, based on probable cause that a crime has been committed.
- Everyone has a right to defend themselves. The weakest amongst us will need good tools to do so. Plus, an armed society is a polite society.
- Criminals, when convicted, must make amends. Locking them away from the rest of us may be required. But ONLY after due process, and never because of some personal characteristic such as religion, skin color, sexual preference, etc.
- Our republican form of government prohibits democratic mob rule, which is why it includes mechanisms to defend individual rights and liberties.
- The Constitution is built upon the "doctrine of enumerated powers," meaning that the only powers granted to the government are those specified in that document.
- The power you give a politician you like, to do something you want done today, is a power that will be used tomorrow, by a politician you hate, to do things you loathe.
- As Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Those who will give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Indeed, they will get neither!
- Politicians have done nothing, performance-wise, to demonstrate that they would do better with even greater powers.
- It's a huge compliment to America -- something of which we should be very proud -- that the tired, poor and huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, seek out our country as their safe-haven.
- Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat mistakes. People who said first the Irish, then the Chinese, followed by the Italians (Catholics!) and Vietnamese (to pick just a few examples) were a threat to the American way of life and could not assimilate, turned out to be wrong. This record of error is so perfect that we must assume current concerns about Mexicans and Muslims will likewise prove foolish.
As we look upon human beings, be they Muslims or gun owners, which of the above principles is erroneous?
You see, a principle is more than a feeling. It's a truth. Much of our liberty is grounded in a natural law tradition. Our national truth is and should be that...
- our individuality
- my personhood
- our neighbor's humanity
...all are imperative. Human beings matter.
Politicians and their media accomplices are asking you to reject these principles, for their political benefit.
We must stand by our principles, even after events like Paris and San Bernardino. Indeed, our principles have their greatest value when challenged by such events. Otherwise, they're not really principles. They’re just warm, fuzzy platitudes.
Already, the crisis-mode has largely passed. Intensity has waned. We're on to other things. The politicians and regime media have moved on, as they always do. That's their business: crisis creation and response. But our principles must remain in place, firm and unyielding.
And if you're willing to abandon such principles when an event like this occurs, then these are not truly your principles. You're a fair-weather friend of liberty.
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Jim Babka is a co-founder and the President of DownsizeDC.org, Inc. and the co-creator of the Zero Aggression Project.
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[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.
A Convention of States is necessary to amend the Constitution for Congressional Term Limits to twelve (12) years and restrict time in DC to only six (6) months per year. Such an Amendment is only a FIRST step in restoring America to its Constitutional roots. Back in the day when the People still feared kings, the president's term was limited by Constitutional Amendment.
Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.
CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.
Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788
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Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!
"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"
Larken Rose
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[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.
The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:
- laws to be repealed or modified,
- Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
- new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.
These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill".
A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.
Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto.
CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress.
If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.
The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and
regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of
Federalist Papers.
An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.
To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:
- the 16th Amendment,
- the Federal Reserve Act,
- the War Powers Act,
- all Asset Forfeiture laws,
- the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)
- the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
- NDAA
- Homeland Security which includes TSA
- the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- most Eminent Domain laws, and
- the Affordable Care Act
Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy.
These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).
Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats)
at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage
to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.
Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:
- clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
- Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
- strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
- a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"),
deficit spending is permissible.
- Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
- Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
- Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
- After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.
Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged"
Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic.
Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done.
If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted,
then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]
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The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.
According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.
So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.
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Why Do We Need Term Limits?
John Adams said, “Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey”. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.
- Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
- Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
- Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
- Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
- Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.
Term limits for lawmakers: when is enough, enough?
[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]
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