In modern times, it has become common for most people to forget the very principles on which America was founded. The Constitution and Bill of Rights tells government what it cannot do, for all practical purposes. Look at any of the sections of the Bill of Rights. The first says there shall be no national religion, no law prohibiting freedom of press, speech, assembly, right of petition, etc. The second says there shall be no law prohibiting ownership of guns. The third says that no one can be forced to house the military, the fourth says you have a right to privacy, the fifth says you can’t be forced to testify against yourself, the sixth, says you have a right to trial by jury, etc.
In other words, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, are supposed to make government obey you, and radically limits its power. The Constitution tells how government is to work, plus a few limits on its power. The Bill of Rights, which are the first ten amendments, is what has made America great. Without the Bill of Rights, we might have slid into unconsciousness a hundred years ago. As it is, the Bill of Rights and even the Constitution have been ignored for decades, and as a result, we are a nation which has become second rate, to put it mildly. Why do I say this? Look around you and take note. Rather than the government having limited powers, as permitted by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, it has taken on virtually unlimited powers. As an example, doesn’t the Fourth Amendment prohibit government’s wire tapping and snooping without a court order? I would hope so.
Our dollar has slid so much, that foreigners are having a ball buying our companies, land, and homes right out from under us. We owe so much to so many foreign entities, thanks to their loaning us money to pay our ever increasing debts, that China alone has a trillion of our dollars in their safe, and they can use them any way they choose. Could they buy the entire state of Wyoming with their trillion? Maybe? China isn’t alone. Other nations have trillions of US dollars, either actually on hand or owed to them by the US government. How did they get those dollars? From selling us billions of gallons of oil and thousands of other items we no longer produce or manufacture. Foreign nations constantly acquire billions more dollars each year.
These dollars were created out of thin air by the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, which loaned them to the Treasury, which in turn placed them in circulation world wide and domestically. In other words, many trillions of US dollars were created out of thin air by a privately owned bank, and loaned at interest to the US Treasury, who in turn paid bills voted by a Congress which has not the slightest idea of economy or accountability, but is merely concerned with re-election. The quandary America now finds itself in, but which mess perhaps only 1% of its citizens are aware of, is that it is utterly bankrupt, and has been for many decades. America’s financial situation could perhaps be compared to a credit card holder who long ago maxed out his cash reserves, continues to spend wildly, and has been keeping up payments with counterfeit bills he printed in his basement. Sort of anyway. He will be caught eventually, as America will eventually come to a stone wall of obvious bankruptcy, which will be witnessed and accepted by one and all.
How does the Bill of Rights and the Constitution come into this? Very simply. The three wars we have fought, and actually have lost and are losing, are Vietnam, Korea and Iraq, with Iran probably to follow soon, if Bush has his way. None of these wars were Constitutional, and they alone have debased our dollar value by perhaps 85%, or maybe even more. They were fought with printing press money, and as Stott’s Law states, “The more of anything there is, the less they will be worth,” and this includes dollars. These wars are, and were unconstitutional, because none of them were Congressionally declared wars, as the Constitution requires.
Article One, Section Eight, makes paper dollars, the Federal Reserve, and the three wars unconstitutional. The Bill of Rights and Constitution makes government a literal slave to its citizens. We the citizens, and the Constitution and Bill of Rights, are supposed to control government, and not the reverse. The Constitution does not permit or allow the hundreds of bureaucracies now in existence, which endlessly throttle us in our every move as we attempt to make a living, or live peaceful lives. We are constantly bothered by the federal government at every hand, from probably millions of federal regulations and rules, none of which have been put into effect or law by votes of the Congress. They are all therefore, unconstitutional. The 16th Amendment (income tax) was never legally ratified, and even if it were, there is no law requiring most of us to pay that tax. We pay it because government paid judges are afraid not to rule in favor of their boss. Who wants to risk jail, when even if you are right, you will be ruled wrong?
Today, instead of the Constitution and Bill of Rights prohibiting government from subsidizing things, annoying us, and messing in our lives, we have the opposite. Laws, rules, and regulations tell us what we can’t do, not what the government can’t do. We have become slaves of government, rather than government being our slave. Government has become our master, rather than government being controlled and mastered by the citizens. We have become ’clients’ of government, and literal ’staff’ of government, just like any employee is of his boss. We, like an employee, are afraid to do what we might want to do, because our boss, the government, might fine or even imprison us. We must trod a very narrow path to keep out of our bosses’ way, lest we be punished. We can’t drive our cars without a seat belt being in place, nor can we do a hundred things we might wish to do if it weren’t prohibited by unconstitutional laws, rules, and regulations.
The public schools have so miss-educated and non-educated, resulting in the citizens being stupid and often virtually illiterate, that they don’t even know what is and has happened to them. Government is taking our guns with all possible dispatch, and violating the Bill of Rights and Constitution so regularly, and with such contempt of those documents, that we are rapidly becoming a third world nation. No where in the Constitution, is there any permission given for Medicaid, Social Security, hundreds of bureaucracies, or subsidies of any kind to anyone or any group. No where in the Constitution, is there any prohibition of speech of any kind, be it of another race, religion or gender. You can be jailed if you make a so called ’racial speech,’ fail to hire a minority or even an illegal, and the list is endless.
We have become ’clients’ and ’employees’ of government, which is totally contrary to what the Founders intended and wrote, because government has made us ’clients’ and ’employees’ by writing us checks. Old age checks, welfare checks, unemployment checks, student loan checks, medical checks, disability checks, refund checks, grants, and of course many more. The citizens have become recipients of government largess, making them dependents, ’clients’ and ’employees’ of government. All the while, government is writing ever more checks, with nothing in the bank to back them, other than more printing press dollars, which decrease in value as the checks are written. Nothing gained, in other words, other than larger government, ever more dictatorial government, more expensive government, and to me and other thinkers, more intolerable government. What can we do? Nothing. Just protect ourselves is all I can think of. Protect ourselves against ever more, diluted, less valuable dollars, which are a tax no one can avoid, regardless of income.
When government says that the poor don’t pay taxes, that is an outright lie. Everyone pays taxes, although hidden, on everything they use and buy. It is sales taxes, taxes on gas, telephones, electricity, food, licenses, and this list is in the hundreds. All of us, rich or poor, pay the tax of decreasing value dollars, because we must use dollars to buy things we need or want. As prices go up, thanks to government caused inflation, we are obviously being taxed without our permission. All of us, regardless of income.
So the BS is that government is not our friend, but our enemy. BS is that overseas wars are not to “protect us,” but are efforts to rule the world and enrich various corporations which make guns, bullets, planes, rockets, and other paraphernalia. The BS is that dollars are valuable. Voltaire once said, “All paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.” J.P. Morgan, the old grizzled banker who almost single handedly saved the US economy, once said, “Gold is money and nothing else (is).” The BS is that government is ruled by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, when it isn’t, but the reverse is true. We are being ruled and enslaved by government. Protect yourself. Also have a great weekend while you are at it.