Saturday, November 27, 2010
When Adopting Truth as a Foundation of Honesty
Honesty requires fairness. Agree when it is right. Truth is the finest foundation and the sharpest of blades. The Republican Party has lost it's soul many years ago. Which makes me disappointed that the Tea Parties took so long to demand purity in the party. The United Nations absolutely denies the right of sovereignty of Americans. Obama is an impostor. Obama's administration consists of haters of America's Constitution, which naturally makes them my mortal enemies. Labor union mafias, currency murderers and mega-bank dictatorships are best friends and supporters of this corporatist president. And that makes me want him impeached and his Democratic Party(pure socialism) publicly humiliated.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Husbands
The husband should be a leader. A man of integrity. A man of principle. He should be full of humility, patience and respect. A husband should be full of chivalry, service and good examples. Most of all a husband should always be subject to Christ Jesus: improving and learning.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Our Constitutional right to seceed.
Our government was designed to withstand many types of friction. Secession was in the law for a reason. If the Civil war hadn't happened, then I contend, we would have gone further than we had as it refers to slavery and race relations. We were leaning hard that way already. Blacks were already in government and elected office at that time. I feel deeply the loss of many lives. The slaughter of fine men who died for or against secession. A law in the Constitution.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Small Government is Constitutional Government
Who says we have to continue to stay the course? I say no. No to Federal Government Governing. We have little need for the President to set rules and guidelines for more than interstate commerce, sealing the borders and protecting them with troops and patrols, and directing and conducting a military that is staffed with Generals, Colonels, and Sargents. They need staffs and a central control, but all enlisted men and women below these ranks need not be perpetually employed. War is hell. Why have constant combat? Why have duty in other places where we are not at war?
Vetoes should be often. And treaties should be few. Recess appointments are sneaky, yet are necessary only if nomination processes are stalled.
I believe the way states should be controlled is by rating them by comparative records. No state should be mandated to do more for their people. They should not have a federal regulation to be followed. Only to obey the Constitution and allow the Federal Government to fulfill all of it's duties. There is no reason to litigate if there is not intervention prior. The relationship between the states and federal government should be in intervening between states due to conflicts and compacts and contracts and to enforce the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Vetoes should be often. And treaties should be few. Recess appointments are sneaky, yet are necessary only if nomination processes are stalled.
I believe the way states should be controlled is by rating them by comparative records. No state should be mandated to do more for their people. They should not have a federal regulation to be followed. Only to obey the Constitution and allow the Federal Government to fulfill all of it's duties. There is no reason to litigate if there is not intervention prior. The relationship between the states and federal government should be in intervening between states due to conflicts and compacts and contracts and to enforce the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
My short bio...
I am a truck driver. I've been one for over 20 years. I love this country, and you will find that I am not afraid to voice my opinion. I have been raised in a large family in Utah. I am a Constitutional Republican. I hate the way Republicans look to enlarge their numbers instead of focusing on the truth and loving it, and living it. It seems like no-one cares anymore. I want, very much, to run for the presidency so that I can show the nation the way back to God's inspired document. The Constitution along with the Bill of Rights have been under attack since their inception. But the only things that seem to cause our country such discord are the other amendments and the unjust laws that have come after. No law that has been passed that is based on fears is good. It should be thought-out. The Patriot Act is nasty at best. The National debt grows as we pay debts caused by government intervention, regulations and taxes, and unions.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
My Presidential Promises
*I will balance the budget and deplete our debt immediately within the first year and every year thereafter.
*I will stop all foreign aid. Monetary and military, especially the UN peacekeepers. We need our troops helping to secure our border. We need to prepare them to be ready for UN backlashes. We are so close to world dominant control supported by the Federal Reserve and it's sisters: IMF and Goldman Sachs.
*I will be an example of good Christian character with values for all to see.
*Internet should be free to all. there are few who should not be able to access it. It is a freedom that should be allowed, unrestricted. My aim is to make it
*I will have a moratorium of income taxes and return payments. This is a form of welfare that is just another way to control the population. We need freedoms not control. People would be left alone to realize their Maker, and may be free to worship without government restrictions.
*I will repeal all laws and taxes that go to pay for them that were forced upon us in the last few presidential terms.
*States will not be mandated by federal programs and bureaucracies, therefore if a state wishes to continue a welfare and/or a free service, it will not receive federal funds.
*I will investigate the claims made by Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin and intend to do justice in that case.
*Aside from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, states should not be regulated nor mandated outside the courts. States will have one mandate that will be pressed upon them. That is that all will stay solvent and will not let 3-1/2 years go by without having a debt free year.
*Homeschooling is a right. It will be encouraged with steps and procedures and best practices with workshops on the internet. All will be encouraged to see history as it was and not how it can be twisted or ignored as in times, past and present.
*I will push for the return of the vote to property owners.
*I will make federal land affordable. I will take land grabs that the BLM holds including the ANWR and sell it to US citizens to repay our federal debts. No land should be preserved for wildlife without the express individual state's input. The green movement should have a movement somewhere else.
*All land owned by the UN,in America, will be confiscated and will be paid market price for it to clear all ownership rights.
*Government is to teach and inform only in ways that keep out of all citizen's family life. Family and education and marriage are sacred to individuals and governments and communities have no business in another family's sovereign home without invitation.
*I will press for a law to be voted on that will eliminate political confiscation of private property. It will be the sovereign right of the individual to own, except in times of financing. When the banks are cleared from the title, the land will be cleared complete and will be naturally patented to the true owner.
*I will levy taxes only upon those who own real estate and it should be 1% of value. Taxes should not based upon earnings.
*I will make it so that those on government assistance should not see taxes nor a ballot box.
*I plan to make steps to repair our sovereignty. To break away from the United Nations. And will present my blueprint for an amendment to distance ourselves from the UN. It is full of rogue nations that are run by thugs and tyrants and for the most part are shooting for our demise. They want the United States of America to pay for reparations worldwide. And so does Barrack Hussein Obama, in the form of Carbon Credits.
*I will set up a best procedures, progressive in nature, training program for all governments to learn from. And will develop standards of excellence which all states, counties and cities will not be mandated to follow, but will be graded and compared and rated on. This will replace most federal programs and bureaucracies with state and local controls. This will return our liberties and freedoms.
*Income tax is for those who are here to prosper but choose not to patriate.
*I will pay off all Communist nations first. And will press for an amendment to never do business with them until they reform. As long as we are free and they are not, we have little in common. Money is a standard, but not a treaty form. Where is their incentive for humane practices?
*I will eliminate as many federal programs as possible. Including EPA, Dept. of Education, and IRS(which is not even part of the government).
*All goods from foreign nations should have a tariff. And it should be based upon the humane conditions, whether they are free,and whether they have sanitary living standards.
*I will eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank. It pays those who have only their own interests at heart. It is not a part of the government. It lends money to foreign countries. It lends money to USA. It borrows from the China and Russian and rogue nations. The money system is flawed. I propose we return to the Constitution. I propose that the US Senate return to it's primary position as a state legislature elected post. What we need is the Senate to come together for a special session every quarter and determine the market value of the dollar. And to control all aspects of it's existence. As the market fluctuates and needs adjustments often, it should be done quarterly. It should require all to vote and a 2/3rd's vote to pass to change status.
*All law abiding citizens should be free to have a gun and a holster on their hip.
*I will press for an amendment to restrict the federal government from banning states from making laws against the destroying of life(abortion) that does not endanger the very life of the mother as in the case of tubal ligation. because I believe in the preservation of life of all innocence... especially the life of the unborn. Who can argue against them having a right to life? Precious innocence... Who is their executioner? Is he/she also their judge? Let them live. Let them love their country. God bless America.
*I will stop all foreign aid. Monetary and military, especially the UN peacekeepers. We need our troops helping to secure our border. We need to prepare them to be ready for UN backlashes. We are so close to world dominant control supported by the Federal Reserve and it's sisters: IMF and Goldman Sachs.
*I will be an example of good Christian character with values for all to see.
*Internet should be free to all. there are few who should not be able to access it. It is a freedom that should be allowed, unrestricted. My aim is to make it
*I will have a moratorium of income taxes and return payments. This is a form of welfare that is just another way to control the population. We need freedoms not control. People would be left alone to realize their Maker, and may be free to worship without government restrictions.
*I will repeal all laws and taxes that go to pay for them that were forced upon us in the last few presidential terms.
*States will not be mandated by federal programs and bureaucracies, therefore if a state wishes to continue a welfare and/or a free service, it will not receive federal funds.
*I will investigate the claims made by Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin and intend to do justice in that case.
*Aside from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, states should not be regulated nor mandated outside the courts. States will have one mandate that will be pressed upon them. That is that all will stay solvent and will not let 3-1/2 years go by without having a debt free year.
*Homeschooling is a right. It will be encouraged with steps and procedures and best practices with workshops on the internet. All will be encouraged to see history as it was and not how it can be twisted or ignored as in times, past and present.
*I will push for the return of the vote to property owners.
*I will make federal land affordable. I will take land grabs that the BLM holds including the ANWR and sell it to US citizens to repay our federal debts. No land should be preserved for wildlife without the express individual state's input. The green movement should have a movement somewhere else.
*All land owned by the UN,in America, will be confiscated and will be paid market price for it to clear all ownership rights.
*Government is to teach and inform only in ways that keep out of all citizen's family life. Family and education and marriage are sacred to individuals and governments and communities have no business in another family's sovereign home without invitation.
*I will press for a law to be voted on that will eliminate political confiscation of private property. It will be the sovereign right of the individual to own, except in times of financing. When the banks are cleared from the title, the land will be cleared complete and will be naturally patented to the true owner.
*I will levy taxes only upon those who own real estate and it should be 1% of value. Taxes should not based upon earnings.
*I will make it so that those on government assistance should not see taxes nor a ballot box.
*I plan to make steps to repair our sovereignty. To break away from the United Nations. And will present my blueprint for an amendment to distance ourselves from the UN. It is full of rogue nations that are run by thugs and tyrants and for the most part are shooting for our demise. They want the United States of America to pay for reparations worldwide. And so does Barrack Hussein Obama, in the form of Carbon Credits.
*I will set up a best procedures, progressive in nature, training program for all governments to learn from. And will develop standards of excellence which all states, counties and cities will not be mandated to follow, but will be graded and compared and rated on. This will replace most federal programs and bureaucracies with state and local controls. This will return our liberties and freedoms.
*Income tax is for those who are here to prosper but choose not to patriate.
*I will pay off all Communist nations first. And will press for an amendment to never do business with them until they reform. As long as we are free and they are not, we have little in common. Money is a standard, but not a treaty form. Where is their incentive for humane practices?
*I will eliminate as many federal programs as possible. Including EPA, Dept. of Education, and IRS(which is not even part of the government).
*All goods from foreign nations should have a tariff. And it should be based upon the humane conditions, whether they are free,and whether they have sanitary living standards.
*I will eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank. It pays those who have only their own interests at heart. It is not a part of the government. It lends money to foreign countries. It lends money to USA. It borrows from the China and Russian and rogue nations. The money system is flawed. I propose we return to the Constitution. I propose that the US Senate return to it's primary position as a state legislature elected post. What we need is the Senate to come together for a special session every quarter and determine the market value of the dollar. And to control all aspects of it's existence. As the market fluctuates and needs adjustments often, it should be done quarterly. It should require all to vote and a 2/3rd's vote to pass to change status.
*All law abiding citizens should be free to have a gun and a holster on their hip.
*I will press for an amendment to restrict the federal government from banning states from making laws against the destroying of life(abortion) that does not endanger the very life of the mother as in the case of tubal ligation. because I believe in the preservation of life of all innocence... especially the life of the unborn. Who can argue against them having a right to life? Precious innocence... Who is their executioner? Is he/she also their judge? Let them live. Let them love their country. God bless America.
Immigration remedies for our Arizona Illegal Alien laws
I will seal the border with a real fence and will revamp the citizenship laws to make it easier to become a citizen. No duel citizenship at all. No true patriot wants two or more homelands. It was retarded to allow it in the first place. Our government has been playing games with the populations of the world. they have made a lottery, red tape, and silly quota requirements to allow those who wish to become Americans. How terrible the lies that they use to argue their points. Population controls? Nasty inhumane garbage the globalists assume. They used to make charges that our oil supplies would be depleted years ago. they made the charge in the 1970's that there would be global cooling. Now it is global warming. They are trying to scare us into submission. Population control is supporting the mass death(culling) of our planet. It is a lie straight from the Devil.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Loss of American Citizenship and Assassinations
Imagine you are sitting home on a quiet Sunday afternoon in conversation with your beloved spouse. Suddenly your husband slumps over, blood draining from his head as a sniper's bullet shatters your living room window. Your husband has just been assassinated by a government agent and it is later discovered -- after ten years of painful inquiries carried out under the threat of your own assassination -- that your husband was targeted as an enemy combatant and a terrorist. Just as easily, you and your entire family could have been killed in a home invasion in an attempt to cart off your husband for weeks of torture and lifetime detention or execution in an unknown Federal facility. Your investigation might also reveal that your loved one was targeted mistakenly by a bureaucrat or was a political enemy of officials in the government or their corporate allies.
Thus could be the very near future for American citizens if President Obama, Senator Joe Lieberman and people like Mayor Rudy Giuliani get their way. Lieberman (with Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) and Congressmen Jason Altmire (D-PA) and Charlie Dent (R-PA)) introduced the "Terrorist Expatriation Act" last week. The act would strip "terrorists" of their American citizenship and is in response to the recent attempted bombing of Times Square by an American Citizen -- a former Pakistani granted this privilege in 2009 (Faisal Shahzad). It would make it very convenient to torture and kill any person that is viewed unfavorably by the powerful and arrogant elite sitting in Washington D.C. today. In fact, the New York Times reports that the President has authorized the assassination of American Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki who was born in New Mexico and now is reportedly plotting against America from Yemen.
On ABC's "This Week" (5/9/10), Mayor Rudy Giuliani permanently lost my support when he advocated removing Miranda Rights from American Citizens who are "terrorists". " I would have instead declared him an enemy combatant" says Giuliani of the naturalized American Citizen arrested and accused by the State; an American Citizen who has not even had a 5th amendment right to a trial to ensure he is not actually wrongly accused. Who else would Giuliani, Obama or George Bush declare an "Enemy Combatant"? Would they quietly kill them in the field after a period of torture? Given the categorization of anyone with a Ron Paul or "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker as a potential danger to the state and the Department of Homeland Security report on "Right Wing Extremism", just who does the government think a "terrorist" is? Excerpts of an article by David McKalip, M.D. from Campaign for Liberty http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=852
Thus could be the very near future for American citizens if President Obama, Senator Joe Lieberman and people like Mayor Rudy Giuliani get their way. Lieberman (with Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) and Congressmen Jason Altmire (D-PA) and Charlie Dent (R-PA)) introduced the "Terrorist Expatriation Act" last week. The act would strip "terrorists" of their American citizenship and is in response to the recent attempted bombing of Times Square by an American Citizen -- a former Pakistani granted this privilege in 2009 (Faisal Shahzad). It would make it very convenient to torture and kill any person that is viewed unfavorably by the powerful and arrogant elite sitting in Washington D.C. today. In fact, the New York Times reports that the President has authorized the assassination of American Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki who was born in New Mexico and now is reportedly plotting against America from Yemen.
On ABC's "This Week" (5/9/10), Mayor Rudy Giuliani permanently lost my support when he advocated removing Miranda Rights from American Citizens who are "terrorists". " I would have instead declared him an enemy combatant" says Giuliani of the naturalized American Citizen arrested and accused by the State; an American Citizen who has not even had a 5th amendment right to a trial to ensure he is not actually wrongly accused. Who else would Giuliani, Obama or George Bush declare an "Enemy Combatant"? Would they quietly kill them in the field after a period of torture? Given the categorization of anyone with a Ron Paul or "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker as a potential danger to the state and the Department of Homeland Security report on "Right Wing Extremism", just who does the government think a "terrorist" is? Excerpts of an article by David McKalip, M.D. from Campaign for Liberty http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=852
Monday, May 10, 2010
When I am elected
Politicians are only in office for a short time until they are running again. They are constantly seeking donations to their campaigns. It takes millions to run each time. It may be a two year vote, but then they have to be in high gear again. My complaint is that they are in a money mindset. Millions and we just keep it coming. I am determined to get them thinking about their patriotism and not pocket grease.
Friday, May 7, 2010
In President Obama's Own Words We are to Become Emasculated as a Nation
.'We should consider to reinvent our National Anthem as well as to redesign our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we as a Nation of warring people, should conduct ourselves as the nations of Islam, whereas peace prevails. Perhaps a state or period of mutual concord between our governments. When I become President, I will seek a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation have placed upon the nations of Islam an unfair injustice. My wife disrespects the Flag for many personal reasons. Together she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past, many years ago. She has her views and I have mine'. Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put aside my hatred. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path of hope. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America.
In an interview by General Bill Ginn USAF (retired.)Sun, 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST
In an interview by General Bill Ginn USAF (retired.)Sun, 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST
Monday, May 3, 2010
Immigration remedies for our Arizona Illegal Alien laws
This is a perfect example of trickery. National Identification Cards were opposed by most Americans until now. Look at what is sparked. The federal government has been waiting for a state like Arizona to do this. Now we will want ID's for everyone. We only need to patrol the borders and keep the illegal out at the line. Now we have 100 mile safe zones from the borders where the illegals will be tolerated. All due to the policies of the last 4 presidents.
I say safe zones because our I.C.E. is set up in the strangest locations and if legal ESL Americans do not carry their papers at all times, they may also get deported. Why should anyone free, be required through checkpoints. Can't you see tyranny?
We should be working the borders and securing it with our guns. We should be eliminating all red tape for naturalization of all responsible world citizens who want to become citizens.
Work visas are abused and ignored. We don't need them to extend past 1 month. We also don't need to be wishy-washy with our border.
I say safe zones because our I.C.E. is set up in the strangest locations and if legal ESL Americans do not carry their papers at all times, they may also get deported. Why should anyone free, be required through checkpoints. Can't you see tyranny?
We should be working the borders and securing it with our guns. We should be eliminating all red tape for naturalization of all responsible world citizens who want to become citizens.
Work visas are abused and ignored. We don't need them to extend past 1 month. We also don't need to be wishy-washy with our border.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Barack Obama had his records sealed, yet claims to have a past
I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding." Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me.
No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?
It's very strange." Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as President Barack Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN)
No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?
It's very strange." Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as President Barack Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
I was hoping for change that we can believe in
In the election process when the primaries were tallying and it became apparent that Mike Huckabee would not have enough delegates in a state(I don't recall which one). Instead of allowing another conservative candidate to get his votes and delegates, he placed his support for John McCain. He should have given the delegate votes to either Mitt Romney or better yet, he should have given his support to Ron Paul a true conservative. I hold the loss to the Democratic candidate, squarely on the shoulders of first, Mel Martinez, Mike Duncan and then Governor Huckabee. Barrack H. Obama has an agenda that will be the undoing of the Constitution, if left to his plans. And we have a mess to clean up with the amount of non-conservative Republicans. We have little to work off of, since the constitution is hanging by a tiny little thread. All due to weak and useless representatives and candidates. A real true patriotic black candidate, if that is what we really wanted, hands down, would have been Alan Keyes. At least he loves our Constitution.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Companies Have a Voice The States do not.
Some Anti-Americans think that, "Congress is God," That, "Every law is just," and that, "We all should hate those who make large amounts of money."
I don't think that way, and neither do most of my friends. America was inspired when we were first formed well over 200 years ago. Inspired by our God to break free from tyranny and oppression. We have no business causing or allowing tyranny and oppression upon any person or entity in our nation.
Our Constitution was designed to limit the power and scope of government. Now it is hard to find people in our society that think it would be a good thing for government federal and local to shrink to it's rightful place and size.
The Senators once were elected by the legislators of each state. Now they are elected by the general election process. This is one place where America went astray.
http://sweetlibertyandtruth.blogspot.com/2010/03/companies-finally-have-voice.html
I don't think that way, and neither do most of my friends. America was inspired when we were first formed well over 200 years ago. Inspired by our God to break free from tyranny and oppression. We have no business causing or allowing tyranny and oppression upon any person or entity in our nation.
Our Constitution was designed to limit the power and scope of government. Now it is hard to find people in our society that think it would be a good thing for government federal and local to shrink to it's rightful place and size.
The Senators once were elected by the legislators of each state. Now they are elected by the general election process. This is one place where America went astray.
http://sweetlibertyandtruth.blogspot.com/2010/03/companies-finally-have-voice.html
Monday, March 1, 2010
I love America
Freedom is the opposite of government involvement.
Liberty is the opposite of Tyranny.
We have less of Freedom and Liberty in 2010 in the United States of America.
Our Constitution assures us of them, but our government denies us of them, all the same.
Liberty is the opposite of Tyranny.
We have less of Freedom and Liberty in 2010 in the United States of America.
Our Constitution assures us of them, but our government denies us of them, all the same.
Monday, February 22, 2010
My thoughts, as scattered as they are honest.
I was raised by religious people. That makes me naturally lean conservatively in politics. While growing up, I was told by my parents and teachers that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that character would be what people looked for in others, rather than what they looked like, was vital to liberty and freedom.
There would be less people in jails and prisons. We would have less taxes. we would have less laws. We would have less people relying on government and more on each other, in our families our friends and our churches.
Throughout the last 20+ years that I have been a professional truck driver, I have spent less time listening to music stations, and more to talk shows like Rush Limbaugh, George Putnam, Larry Elder and "the nearly famous Barry Young". To name a few. I have loved their truthfulness and candor. They were also full of whit. Using humor and logic to address the mistaken notions of those who were so-called educated.
I am convinced that I am in love. In order of importance: I'm in love with God. I'm in love with my family. I'm in love with America. I am in love with the Constitution. I'm in love with all people. I love the truth.
The truth is that freedom and liberty are natural enemies to government. We need to reset our country back to where hope and change mean something.
There would be less people in jails and prisons. We would have less taxes. we would have less laws. We would have less people relying on government and more on each other, in our families our friends and our churches.
Throughout the last 20+ years that I have been a professional truck driver, I have spent less time listening to music stations, and more to talk shows like Rush Limbaugh, George Putnam, Larry Elder and "the nearly famous Barry Young". To name a few. I have loved their truthfulness and candor. They were also full of whit. Using humor and logic to address the mistaken notions of those who were so-called educated.
I am convinced that I am in love. In order of importance: I'm in love with God. I'm in love with my family. I'm in love with America. I am in love with the Constitution. I'm in love with all people. I love the truth.
The truth is that freedom and liberty are natural enemies to government. We need to reset our country back to where hope and change mean something.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
The Federalist No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal
HAMILTON
To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.
It is not, however, my design to dwell upon observations of this nature. I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately the opposition of any set of men (merely because their situations might subject them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable--the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears. So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth. You will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them, that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution. Yes, my countrymen, I own to you that, after having given it an attentive consideration, I am clearly of opinion it is your interest to adopt it. I am convinced that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness. I affect not reserves which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation when I have decided. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity. I shall not, however, multiply professions on this head. My motives must remain in the depository of my own breast. My arguments will be open to all, and may be judged of by all. They shall at least be offered in a spirit which will not disgrace the cause of truth.
I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars:
* THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR POLITICAL PROSPERITY
* THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THAT UNION
* THE NECESSITY OF A GOVERNMENT AT LEAST EQUALLY ENERGETIC WITH THE ONE PROPOSED, TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT THE CONFORMITY OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION TO THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
* ITS ANALOGY TO YOUR OWN STATE CONSTITUTION
* and lastly, THE ADDITIONAL SECURITY WHICH ITS ADOPTION WILL AFFORD TO THE PRESERVATION OF THAT SPECIES OF GOVERNMENT, TO LIBERTY, AND TO PROPERTY.
In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavor to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance, that may seem to have any claim to your attention.
It may perhaps be thought superfluous to offer arguments to prove the utility of the UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people in every State, and one, which it may be imagined, has no adversaries. But the fact is, that we already hear it whispered in the private circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of necessity resort to separate confederacies of distinct portions of the whole.1 This doctrine will, in all probability, be gradually propagated, till it has votaries enough to countenance an open avowal of it. For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new Constitution or a dismemberment of the Union. It will therefore be of use to begin by examining the advantages of that Union, the certain evils, and the probable dangers, to which every State will be exposed from its dissolution. This shall accordingly constitute the subject of my next address.
PUBLIUS
1 The same idea, tracing the arguments to their consequences, is held out in several of the late publications against the new Constitution.
To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.
It is not, however, my design to dwell upon observations of this nature. I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately the opposition of any set of men (merely because their situations might subject them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable--the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears. So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth. You will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them, that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution. Yes, my countrymen, I own to you that, after having given it an attentive consideration, I am clearly of opinion it is your interest to adopt it. I am convinced that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness. I affect not reserves which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation when I have decided. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity. I shall not, however, multiply professions on this head. My motives must remain in the depository of my own breast. My arguments will be open to all, and may be judged of by all. They shall at least be offered in a spirit which will not disgrace the cause of truth.
I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars:
* THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR POLITICAL PROSPERITY
* THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THAT UNION
* THE NECESSITY OF A GOVERNMENT AT LEAST EQUALLY ENERGETIC WITH THE ONE PROPOSED, TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT THE CONFORMITY OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION TO THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
* ITS ANALOGY TO YOUR OWN STATE CONSTITUTION
* and lastly, THE ADDITIONAL SECURITY WHICH ITS ADOPTION WILL AFFORD TO THE PRESERVATION OF THAT SPECIES OF GOVERNMENT, TO LIBERTY, AND TO PROPERTY.
In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavor to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance, that may seem to have any claim to your attention.
It may perhaps be thought superfluous to offer arguments to prove the utility of the UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people in every State, and one, which it may be imagined, has no adversaries. But the fact is, that we already hear it whispered in the private circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of necessity resort to separate confederacies of distinct portions of the whole.1 This doctrine will, in all probability, be gradually propagated, till it has votaries enough to countenance an open avowal of it. For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new Constitution or a dismemberment of the Union. It will therefore be of use to begin by examining the advantages of that Union, the certain evils, and the probable dangers, to which every State will be exposed from its dissolution. This shall accordingly constitute the subject of my next address.
PUBLIUS
1 The same idea, tracing the arguments to their consequences, is held out in several of the late publications against the new Constitution.
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