DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this blog post is to inform not to convince. Take what is said here and apply reason, logic and research of your own… or don’t.Take what you need and leave the rest.
Centuries from now, historians may wonder: Where exactly did Congress store all those pork barrels?
On the Capitol grounds they might look for the bushes, which were beaten around, and a row of haystacks in which members of Congress used to look for needles. The driveway is paved with stones, none of which was unturned, and there are three bandwagons in front of the building upon which they frequently climbed. There are no fewer than seven flagpoles for the running up of ideas.
The law is perverted, and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation are not only diverted from their proper direction but pursue a diametrically opposed course to the detriment of the populace.Government, at all levels, has become the tool of every kind of avarice, skullduggery, flim-flam, double dealing and iniquity that government, through the mechanism of the law, is designed to punish and exterminate.
We have been indoctrinated that man, (and woman), by the very act of being born comes into this world with God-given rights of freedom of personality, personal liberty and personal property-these three things are the core of being human. Because of the existence of personality, liberty and property, mankind has created laws for their protection. Law is nothing more than the organization of the natural right of lawful personal defense.
Every person has the right of defending, even by force, his or her person, liberty and property. If, under our constitutional republic, one person has these unalienable rights and the full right to defend them, the corollary is that ALL persons have these same rights and are free to exercise them so long as they do nothing to encroach on the sovereign rights of their neighbor.
Each individual, exercising THEIR rights while taking care to refrain from impinging on their neighbors sovereign rights is the very definition of justice.
But, something has gone drastically wrong with the government failing in its legitimate duties while encroaching on the natural rights of its citizenry. The state, at all levels has, without justification, intervened in private affairs rather than protect the rights of the individual from encroachment by others.
The function of the state is clearly spelled out in the preamble to the US Constitution; “We, the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…” THESE are the legitimate functions of the state. Unfortunately, we have seen the government unlawfully expand its activities into the private affairs of citizens. It has acted in direct opposition to its proper function. It has, over time, destroyed the vision of the Founders. It has employed itself in annihilating the very justice it was created to establish. It has wielded the coercive force of the collective in the service of those who traffic, without personal risk and without moral scruple against the persons, liberty and property of others. Like the privateers of old, it has converted plunder into a right and lawful defense into a crime.
There has been a number of decades when the law and the government has been perverted through naked greed and misconceived “charity” to a point where there is no negative consequence to the miscreants who inhabit the various positions within the halls of government.
Humans are driven, in the end, by two very basic and opposing desires; attaining pleasure, (reward) and avoiding pain, (punishment). To achieve pleasure, humans can pursue two routes; 1) application of his/her faculties to objects or personal labor. This is the origin of property. 2) By seizing and appropriating the production of property of his fellow man. This is the origin of plunder.
Labor, by its nature, creates pain and being inclined to avoid pain, history shows that whenever plunder is less burdensome that labor, plunder increases. Neither religion nor morality can prevent it from prevailing.
What can we do to have a cessation of plunder by the state? We must find a way to make it more burdensome and dangerous than labor. Later on in this series I will explore different mechanisms to achieve that end.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams