The View From 1776
Unwritten Constitutions
Steve Kellmeyer’s commentary on Hamas’s victory in the Palestinian elections underscores the importance of preserving the unwritten constitution of the United States.
The Palestines were fed up with corruption and wanting a change turned to Hamas, unwittingly making their opportunity for a better life and existance disappear.
That same danger is arising in this country. The people are being bombarded with a lieing media that does not seek or report the truth. That is, unless the truth helps their liberal (socialist) cause.
But again, much blame can be placed on the present administration and other republicans in power. They have allowed themselves to become involved in corruption. They have forgotten their oaths and those they represent choosing instead the big handouts. They no longer listen to the people.
A good example is the lack of an extremely strong response to the border excursions from Mexico. Whether they be Mexican Military, paramilitary, police, or dope and alien runners matters not. They are armed invasions and as such demanded more than the Director of Homeland Security passing them off with excuses. It demands more from our President, and congress other than “we are getting more agents and strengthening our border”. It deserves more than the overwhelming silence and lack of action from those that are constitutionally bound to protect our borders.
Will the American people, based on the constant propaganda and lack of adequate response from the republicans in office turn away and elect democratic liberals (socialists)? It very well may happen as digust with the present administration builds.
If it does it is the republican’s fault, as it was Fatah’s fault in Palestine.
The American people have lost sight of where their Constitutional rights came from, and have allowed both parties to shred and work to destroy these rights:
The Constitutions are not the sources of our personal rights. Our theory of government is that the people [Citizens of the several states], in full possession of inherent, inalienable rights, have formed the government in order to protect these [Natural] rights, and have incorporated them into the organic law as a shield against unwarrantable interference by any department of governments.—16 CJS § 199
Every [state] citizen and freeman is endowed with certain rights and privileges, to enjoy which no written law or statute is required. These are fundamental or natural rights, recognized among all free people.—United States v. Morris, 125 F 322, 325
From Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”, as quoted by Justice Fields in Butchers’ Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1884):”It has been well said that ‘the property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands, and to hinder his employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property. It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.’ Smith, Wealth Nat. bk. 1, c. 10.
The United States is descending into socialism. This is evident by the constant referral to it as a “democracy”. From Training Manual TM2000-25, ordered destroyed by FDR, our first socialist leader:
Democracy:
.A government of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of
“direct “ expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic-negating property
rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, preju-
dice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences..
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.Republic:
Authority is derived through the election by the people of public
officials best fitted to represent them.
Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights,
and a sensible economic procedure.
Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with
fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to
consequences.
A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be
brought within its compass.
Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or: mobocracy.
Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and
progress.Will we adopt “Seig Heil” or a new officially mandated greeting?
Posted by Ronarl on 01/27 at 10:12 PMRonari writes “The United States is descending into socialism.” I wonder if he has given any thought to the idea that this is the natural trajectory of a mature, developed society and that the idea is no longer an ideology but a natural progression.
I was reading yesterday about the Veterans Health Administration and its success in dispensing medical treatment to its members. It is socially based and thus costs far less to run than the present privatized system for the rest of the population. It is a very efficient system. This shows that often a concerted social efforts work much better than an individually based system which is always fighting itself.
Granted, there are many things that should remain privatized for best results and most efficiency. But more and more that privatization is occurring in the context of ‘socialism’ and the collective. That is the way things are going. It is the natural human way. It is delusional to think otherwise.
I am impressed how the social tendencies of society are constantly attacked by some individuals and libertarians. Nevertheless, its happening. However, resistance to this tendency is what makes socialism better and eventually universally accepted. Ultimately, though, resistance is futile and we do it at our peril.
Posted by on 01/28 at 01:35 PMIf you love socialism, so be it for our government is on your side. What you call a natural progression is nothing more than a take over by those that lust for power and control and they use propaganda, liest and theft to accomlish it. They have even ignored the constitution and their own laws.
As for the V.A., they left me in pain with no relief. I had to go elsewhere.
If you love socialism, then ignore the rest of this post. It is meant for them that would like to recover what has been unlawfully taken from them.
Go to the following and learn how you can get what has been withheld from your pay back legally, to include Social Security, medicare, etc.:
http://www.losthorizons.com/Cracking_the_Code.htm#Cracking the Code
For those that don’t believe then just click on the following in that URL:
The federal government has now repeatedly acknowledged that what is revealed about the law in ‘Cracking the Code’ is true!
For a more in-depth study, based on official government documents you can go to the following and get “America’s Path to Socialism”. It includes the following chapters:
· Introduction - The beginning of the Nation’s descent to socialism. Covers the implementation of the Communist Manifesto
· Federal Government Misinformation Exposed – See how they lie, even concerning Supreme Court decisions
· The Documentation System of Federal Law – Learn how the different elements of the federal legal system work together. Essential in determining what applies to you.
· Definitions – Critical knowledge as they redefine some terms in the tax laws out of their ordinary meaning.
· The Issue of Citizenship - Important to understand to keep from claiming to be something you cannot be, or denying what you really are.
· Requirement for Withholding – Details just what is subject to tax withholding and it isn’t what you think.
· Fraudulent Tax Law Application – Details just how they practice their fraud, in a manner they openly stated in sworn testimony to congress. Yes, your senators and representative know, and they approve of it by their silence.
· Recover by Using the Law – A way to keep what is constitutionally yours.
· Jurisdiction of Federal Government – May answer a few questions and doubts about the federal judicial system.
· Faulted Arguments That Get You in Trouble – Beware of the shysters willing to sell you “silver bullets”. There aren’t any.
· The Form 1040 and the IRS - Learn the truth about both. It will frighten you how this federal Mafia has been given free reign to steal from you, and even imprison the innocent with their allies on the bench and in the DOJ.
· GOD Denied by Government and Church - Learn that those in our governments have no true Christian beliefs as they violate God’s law as embodied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
· Conclusion – Shows our once proud nations descent from a free Republic to becoming mired in a vile national socialism type of government. We are closer than you think.
· Appendix A – Sources – Good links to informational sources on the internet. Many of them government.Seig Heil my socialist friend.
Posted by Ronarl on 01/28 at 09:25 PMRonari,
I bet your experience with the VA was an unusual one. No system can satisfy everybody.
If you don’t like socialism you should go live on another planet because it is everywhere. As a developed society we all live it. It is in the treatment plants that clean our common water supply. it is in the freeways the majority us use. It is in the communal garbage collection we all use. It is in the police forces and fire departments we all depend on for protection. It is in the mass transit that a lot of city dwellers rely one to get to work. It is even in the corporate mentality that profits from serving the social masses.
You must be against all those things. I don’t thinks so. You are against the extremes of socialism. Every system has its extremes. Even conservatism has its extremes, as I read here.
Posted by on 01/29 at 11:21 AMIt is typical. Haters of socialism listen only to themselves. Haters of anything only listen to themselves.
Another stealth socialist process in our lives is insurance. Insurance socially distribute sand spreads the liabilities whether it be for car accident fires or weather related disasters. Without insurance we could not afford to rebuild on our own or afford health care on our own. Without it, it would truly be a survival of the fittest society. And that would be an ugly society.
I just hear something more that is better about the VA. In New Orleans all the hospitals, except for the VA, lost their medical records. The VA, unlike the others, kept their records electronically. There is another social development, electronic record keeping.
The intern and computing is a virtual socialism. Lets do away with the internet first if we want to stop creeping socialism.
Posted by on 01/29 at 01:33 PMYour statement “It is typical. Haters of socialism listen only to themselves” is wrong. We have looked at and do not ignore what socialism really is. You socialist think of a paradise that has never existed and never will. Greed and corruption prevent this utopian paradise.
Seig Heil to you and may your dreams never materialize.
Posted by Ronarl on 01/29 at 09:50 PMDavid,
Normally, I agree with you, but when it comes to the VA, I have to side with Ronarl: not a good example of your point. Talk to any vet and see what kind of service [or lack thereof] they got. That lack of service stretches to more than just medical care.
But that’s not a critique of socialism. It is a critique of a government agency that has been woefully underfunded since its inception and is a real reflection of how the US feels about its veterans.
Posted by the Judge on 01/30 at 01:31 AMRonari,
Sieg Heil to you too. Is that the new necon greeting?
I am enough of a realist to know that paradise does not exist. I never once alluded to that idea. And my dreams have materialized. So, there!
Judge,
Thanks for your input about the VA. I was only reporting on second hand information that sounded quite positive. It sounds like a system that manages quite well within its recourse base.
Posted by on 01/30 at 09:49 AMNo David I do not plan on leaving. I love this country but I hate this government. As for the VA they waste much of their funding in building temples to their greatness, instead of functional buildings.
I am no neocon, but believe I know a little more than you socialists about what our nation stood for.
Thomas Jefferson foresaw this happening:
“Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless… the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is [now] while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.” - Thomas Jefferson in “Notes on the State of Virginia”, Query 17, p. 161, 1784
You idiots are in the careless class.
“If the American People ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing power of money should be taken from the bankers and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.
I agree with what Abraham Lincoln said “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts--not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
You, and the other socialists are as mentioned in the first sentence of the following:
“A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carriers his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation-he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city-he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.” --Cicero 42 B.C.
As you labor, your federal and state governments have their hands in your pockets. Taking that which constitutionally belongs only to you.
Posted by Ronarl on 01/30 at 11:59 AMRonari,
Your a smart man. To bad you are so bitter.
What Jefferson wrote has nothing to do with the socialism you attack. It has to do with individuals and their cabals perverting the system. Those people have no political ideology. They are out for what they can get for themselves. And America is full of them.
Jefferson’s words were right on the mark. He knew that men would naturally abuse the system. The only way to prevent that abuse, which comes naturally, was to develop a system that would contain and temper it. Under those circumstance, America has developed the best system possible to contain and temper its abuses. The system is nowhere near satisfactory. But again, under the circumstance of the human precondition mixed with America’s grandiose aspiration, it is the only system that can be had.
Hopefully all the bitching will improve it.
Posted by on 01/30 at 01:04 PMDavid, what Jefferson stated has everything to do with socialism. Socialism thrives on man’s corruptness and lust for power. The 12 points of the communist Manifesto, as Samuel B. Pettengill, Democratic Congressman from Indiana, 1930-1938 attempted to warn the American people about. He recognized what FDR was really up to. It is only a shame not enough others did.
The President, every member of congress and those others either elected or appointed realize that this government operates on lies and theft, and they are all for it. There is not a single honest Christian in the whole lot.
A “Hidden Prayer of Our Government” that I wrote and has been selected and published is as follows:
O’ Mighty Lucifer we adore and idolize thee.
Please forgive us our oath to uphold the free;
We promise that we shall always endeavor,
in our efforts, our acts their freedoms to devour;
We shall through use of trickery and perversion,
ignore the Constitution to effect their conversion;
No longer shall they have God’s laws of nature,
in which to enjoy life, liberty, and God’s pleasure;
The Republic will no longer stand in freedom,
It will be a democracy type of kingdom,
God’s name and words they shall not speak or show,
For our black robed judges bask in your inferno’s glow,
We shall use fraud to steal the property of their labor,
till upon us they must beg for help calling us savior;
Thru infiltration of our states’ education systems,
we shall unteach them of their inviolable freedoms;
We shall take over the profession of medicine,
and eliminate their loyalty to the oath of their profession;
In our brief tenure on earth this is what we do
so in eternal hell we can serve with you.Since you love socialism, I am sure that you wouldn’t be interested in recovering what they stole from you under false pretenses so just ignore the rest.
That everyone is not required to file a Form 1040 is made very clear in Prepared Testimony of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Charles O. Rossotti, Before The Senate Finance Committee on Promoted Tax Schemes on April 11, 2002. Some excerpts are as follows. Page 3 of the subject testimony is shown on page 262 :
Enforcement Action Against Non-filers IRS has implemented a multi-functional, comprehensive effort called the National Non-filer Strategy. The overall goal of this strategy is to bring taxpayers back into compliance and keep them there. In addition to nonfilers, the IRS will reach out to individual taxpayers who are not legally required to file, but are potentially entitled to refunds or credits.
Notice that it stated “who are not legally required to file, but are potentially entitled to refunds or credits”.Here are some who did, and got back everything withheld, including social security and medicare:
http://www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories.htm
Why not get yours? Go to the following and learn how:
http://www.losthorizons.com/Cracking_the_Code.htm#Cracking the Code
Posted by Ronarl on 01/30 at 10:01 PM
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