Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Time to Defend Freedom is Now

Dear fellow Americans:

Action is required by all patriotic citizens given the urgency of the political and economic situation in this country.

The most pressing issues facing ourselves and our posterity are rampant corruption, profligate spending, unsustainable debt, oppressive taxes and regulations, and an increasingly brazen patron-client government.

An avalanche of public pressure is needed to send the message to Congress and the President that we are citizens of the United States of America.

We are not servants of government to be tax-farmed out for the gain of political benefactors who magnanimously bestow our rights, our security, and our livelihoods.

We are not the means to the ends of scheming politicians or instruments enlisted to subsidize quixotic, wasteful, ever-expanding, and increasing government programs.

The entitlements or contrived, non-natural "rights" of one class of citizens necessarily requires the coercion of others. A free people cannot live in bondage to the incessant demands of oligarchs or even of a tyrannical majority cobbled together under the patronage of politicians dispensing the public treasury.

The United States Constitution was written to preserve the status of the citizenry as freeholders of a liberty-preserving republic. The document that brought the country into existence was intended to provide the government with the legal-rational authority required to preserve the people's freedom.

Political office is therefore a trust executed on behalf of the people of the United States. If a politician obviates from the strictures of his office he is to be removed and his unconstitutional actions rendered null and void.

It is our responsibility and our duty as citizens to actively reassert limited government as specified in the Constitution, lest the tyranny of oligarchy or democracy ensues and the republic be dissolved.

The message needed to be sent to the usurpers of Constitutional authority in the current government is that we are autonomous individuals, co-equals by virtue of our births as free men and women as stressed throughout the history of natural law.

We are the granters of political power and authority. The American people giveth, and the American people can taketh away.

[Please use the website Dear Politician [https://www.dearpolitician.org/index.php] to compose emails or free faxes, or find the phone numbers for the politician in charge of your state or congressional district. The agenda Congressional Reform Act of 2009 would be an excellent start to reforming the government, and I encourage anyone to copy it and mail it to their Senator, Congressman, or the President of the United States.]

5 comments:

Reaganx said...

=Political office is therefore a trust executed on behalf of the people of the United States.=
=We are the granters of political power and authority. The American people giveth, and the American people can taketh away.=

I know we agree on basic issues but I don't quite accept the wording. I think political office is a trust executed on behalf of the law, and nothing else. It is the law, which is derived from the objective requirements of nature, that legitimizes the actions of government. If 99% of the Americans were communists, their "popular will" would not justify a trust bestowed on communist politicians. On the other hand, if a government violates people's rights, an overthrow of such a government is legitimate. That is, the ultimate foundation of political authority is not popular will. It is law and justice.
One might think I'm picking on nuances, but wording matters a lot because, after all, language is reality expressed in verbal form.

Anonymous said...

It is not executed on behalf of the law because the law is not an end unto itself. The law applies to human beings therefore no necessary logical contradiction exists. As long as we are clear that the political order is founded on individual rights, of course it applies to the people of the United States. You will find no Rousseauian popular will sentiments here; in fact, I condemn democracy specifically.

Reaganx said...

I know you condemn democracy but I'm talking about the wording. "A trust executed on behalf of the people" and "the American people giveth" may be construed as implying that government's legitimacy is based on popular consent as its ultimate foundation. But popular consent is only incidental. If there is an agency that protects individual rights, it does not matter if this agency is appointed through popular elections. As I said before, a libertarian monarchy or aristocracy is as legitimate as a libertarian republic with universal suffrage. Whether a libertarian monarchy or aristocracy is AS FEASIBLE is another issue. But government's legitimacy has nothing to do with popular elections.

Anonymous said...

I think the means are important to effect the ends. How can you have the ends of freedom and the means of tyranny? I am not arguing here for a popular will model of government to secure liberty and individual rights. I simply don't see how laws are self-enforcing. Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on your view of the form of government best conducive to liberty.

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