Educate yourselves, go beyond the box, and become involved, or you will wake up one day, and discover that as you slept the freedoms you took for granted were taken from you by the stroke of a pen and the promises politicians use so often called reforms and change. Many great Americans before US gave their life’s blood and treasure to secure the blessings of liberties and life we have come to enjoy in this great land of ours. They understood quite clearly that our rights come from G-d, and that government is instituted among men to secure those rights. That when
But, if we do not get involved, and reacquaint ourselves with our most cherished traditions and beliefs; those which founded this great republic that have bound and united these fifty states for over two hundred years; we will lose our identity as a nation, and our liberties as a people – the American People – and be swallowed up in a toxic cocktail of opposing special interest groups of various nationalities and identities, all bowing at the idol of repressive fascistic government, and lost to a byzantine bureaucracy from which we will never be able to extricate ourselves.
We have had good legislation and we have had bad legislation, but no legislation is as bad as that which corrupt and self-serving politicians draft that misuses the power and responsibility of the legislature, which then is upheld by corrupt activist courts, headed by judges appointed by heads chief executives with political agendas; all of whom remove piece by piece the restrictions imposed by our Constitution on the federal government which prevent our beloved republic from descending into a tyrannical federal behemoth.
We have seen more and more our elected officials, and presidents sign into law destructive legislation that have created federal agencies, headed by unelected bureaucrats, imposing all sorts of regulations and edicts upon the citizenry, powers which the framers of the Constitution never gave to our system of government. On the contrary, our Constitution is not about what our government can do for US, but what our government cannot do to US. These federal agencies, have either been created by acts of Congress, such as the US Department of Transportation on October 15th, 1966, with divisions such as the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and many others; or have been created by successive presidents, such as Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and those that followed.
Until recently, some of the worst offenders were Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, who created the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (1965); Jimmy E. Carter, who created the Department of Education (1979), and Richard M. Nixon. Nixon alone created the Council on Environmental Quality (1969), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (1970), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (1973). All of these agencies have since been incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security, following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, and signed into law by President George W. Bush. But, all of these federal agencies fail in comparison by the number of unelected bureaucrats that President Barack H. Obama has appointed to his cabinet, who hold unparalleled power of regulations not enumerated by our Constriction, or authorized by congress.
The following is a list of so-called "czars" who have served in the Obama administration. A few of them are no longer with the administration or are on their way out:
AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
Auto Recovery Czar: Ed Montgomery
Border Czar: Alan Bersin
California Water Czar: David J. Hayes
Central Region Czar: Dennis Ross
Climate Czar: Todd Stern
Domestic Violence Czar: Lynn Rosenthal
Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
Energy and Environment Czar: Carol Browner
Faith-Based Czar: Joshua DuBois
FCC Diversity Czar: Mark Lloyd
Government Performance Czar: Jeffrey Zients
Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
Information Czar: Vivek Kundra
Intellectual Property Czar: Victoria Espinel
Intelligence Czar: James Clapper
Manufacturing Czar/Car Czar: Ron Bloom
Mideast Peace Czar: George Mitchell
Oil Spill Escrow Fund Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
Safe Schools Czar: Kevin Jennings
Science Czar: John Holdren
Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
TARP Czar: Herb Allison
Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
Terrorism Czar: John Brennan
Urban Affairs Czar: Adolfo Carrion Jr.
War Czar: Douglas Lute
Weapons Czar: Ashton Carter
WMD Policy Czar: Gary Samore
9/11 Health Czar: John Howard
Cyber Czar: Howard Schmidt
Oil Spill Czar: Ray Mabus
Economic Czar: Paul Volcker (Volcker is expected to leave the Economic Recovery Advisory Board)
Ethics Czar: Norm Eisen (Eisen was appointed last year to be U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic)
Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke (Holbrooke, who served as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, died Dec. 13)
This list was compiled by Fox News in a list dated January 7th, 2011. It is fairly new and up to date. It can be found at the following URL:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/07/list-obama-administration-czars/#ixzz1I4Lr7hjI
Perhaps no document defines the abuses of liberty upon a people better than the US Declaration of Independence, and for that reason I have included it below. It would do the reader well to examine what it says and why our founding Fathers felt compelled to break the bonds of these 13 colonies with the mother country of Great Britain, then after having read it, to ask the same questions of our government today.
United States Declaration of Independence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
The first sentence of the Declaration asserts as a matter of Natural law the ability of a people to assume political independence, and acknowledges that the grounds for such independence must be reasonable.[73]
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 next section, the famous preamble, includes the ideas and ideals that were principles of the Declaration. It is also an assertion of what is known as the "right of revolution": that is, people have certain rights, and when a government violates these rights, the people have the right to "alter or abolish" that government.[74]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,[75] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The next section is a list of charges against King George III, which aim to demonstrate that he has violated the colonists' rights and is therefore unfit to be their ruler:[76]
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Many Americans still felt a kinship with the people of Great Britain, and had appealed in vain to the prominent among them, as well as to Parliament, to convince the King to relax his more objectionable policies toward the colonies. The next section represents disappointment that these attempts had been unsuccessful.[76]
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
In the final section, the signers assert that there exist conditions under which people must change their government, that the British have produced such conditions, and by necessity the colonies must throw off political ties with the British Crown and become independent states. The conclusion incorporates language from Lee's resolution of independence that had been passed on July 2.[77]
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
How many of these reasons can be applied to today’s situation in the United States? How many of these has our federal government violated? What can and should we do about this as a people? What are our responsibilities in this regard? Who among our elected representatives and those seeking office advocate views and policies inimical to our liberties and to our way of life, but especially to our Constitution and sovereignty as a free and independent republic? From where do we get the crop of individuals who will stand in the breach, and fight in the legislature, fight in the courts, and fight in the ballot box to see that our nation is restored to its rightful place in the world, but first and foremost, is confined by men and women sworn to uphold and who will uphold the limits placed on this runaway government?
Have we come to such a time as this? Not yet. We have seen the people rise up peaceably and through the ballot box, remove the corrupt career politicians, some of whom had been returning incumbents for decades, and replace them with principled men and women who would not betray the public trust, as these had done, and who will do all in their power, even against their own party leadership, to uphold the Constitutional principles of limited federal power, a balanced budget, a fair, workable flat tax, the elimination of the usurious Capital Gains Tax, and a powerful military that is capable and ready to defend America’s freedoms and interests anywhere in the world when called upon to do so.
America can only be great if Americans take their country back, and after taking their country back, give it back to the Lord G-d upon whose precepts it was founded. Then and only then, will America be great again. The day America is great again, it will again elect great leaders.
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