"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
The opening of the declaration of independence contains this:
'When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.'
The signers went on to list 'the facts, submitted to a candid world'. These were the 'causes' for the separation. It is time, now, for Americans to list some facts regarding the constitutional overreaches in our current government. These overreaches, tramplings & corruption of the rule of American law are intolerable, & require the citizen's action.
"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." ~Abraham Lincoln
1. Wars & meddling throughout the world. The govt is charged with defending the nation, not playing policeman throughout the world. Armies are for wartime, from allocations not lasting more than 2 years.
2. Foreign aid. The constitution does not allow taking money from the hard working citizens & giving it to tyrants or corrupt dictators. Grants, gifts, & other corrupt practices with the public treasury are in this same category.
3. Cronyism, election fraud, & govt corruption. This govt is filled with corruption. Back room deals, insider trading, extravagant govt jobs for electioneering, grants & contracts with PUBLIC money for political purposes.. this is standard operating procedure in our government. They have no shame, & no sense of justice or propriety. Justice is sold to the high bidder, & truth is covered up for political expediency.
4. Hypocrisy & double standard. They pass laws & policies for working Americans that they exempt themselves from. We are being scammed. Our elected representatives work only for themselves, not for the people. They are greedy & self serving, masking their motives in duplicitous speech & smooth talk. They are supposed to be citizen representatives, not an elite ruling class.
5. Socialized medicine. The ACA act is an unconstitutional overreach, with congress, the president, & the supreme court all complicit in bringing this about. It forces Americans to buy something, & puts govt in charge of a private sector commodity.
6. Corrupt & racist redistribution policies. The welfare state has been a dismal failure, & has only institutionalized poverty. It is filled with fraud & encourages dependency. It does not help society, but ruins it, promoting crime & social dysfunction. Redistribution & 'economic equality' is not part of the constitution, & EVERY program that attempts this is unconstitutional.
7. Selective enforcement of law. The executive branch is ignoring some laws, picking & choosing others, & suing states over laws they pass. The ignoring of immigration law, & bullying states that want to protect the integrity of the voting process are clear violations of the constitution. The congress & courts are complicit by giving idle consent.
8. Personal liberties. Homeland security, the NSA, tracking phone calls, irs targeting of political groups, & myriads of other govt intrusions. They are acquiring police state powers, which are unconstitutional. Extreme punishments, debtors prisons, dark ages lending practices with student loans, & many other tramplings of individual rights are taken for granted & accepted in our brave new world.
9. Minting currency & govt budget. The govt is charged with providing a stable currency. The creation of the federal reserve was a 4th branch of govt power.. with the congress abdicating it's responsibility to provide currency & coin, & to mask monetary policy with obfuscation, rather than transparency. The subsequent deficit spending, fiat money, blending of banking & government, bailouts, & manipulation of the markets are all related to the policies of the federal reserve.
10. The 10th amendment: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.' The federal govt has continually & constantly overreached it's duties & responsibilities. Every branch of the federal government has violations of this amendment. They do not enforce it, but ignore it.
There is more, but any of these would justify action from the citizens. Some of these things are recent, & some have been going on for decades. It is time for the citizens to retake the government & return it to the constitution. It is time to refresh the tree of liberty.
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." ~Patrick Henry
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." ~Thomas Paine
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~John Locke
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