Hear me, and hear me clearly.  The U.S. Government is in violation of the Social Contract.  We know the Social Contract that formed this nation as the U.S. Constitution, and those which formed the States as the State Constitutions.  Together, they create and define the laws by which our society is governed.  But this is what these Social Contracts are: the supreme law of either their State or this nation, and the chief executives are legally and morally bound to remain inside the boundaries set out by these Constitutions.  In Obama’s case, that means he is legally and morally obligated to operate according to the letter of the Constitution – as understood at the time of ratification!  If the President refuses to do so, then he loses his legitimacy and – with it – his authority.  But when the Congress allows the President to repeatedly and blatantly violate both federal and State law and does nothing to stop him, and when the Courts not only turn a blind eye to this violation of Constitutional law but lends its authority to this usurpation, then the entire federal government is in violation of the Social Contract (i.e. Constitution) and ceases to be legitimate.  In other words, it cedes its legitimate authority and enters into an open state of war with the people.  At that point, we are no longer bound by the law because the government has destroyed the law.  This is where we find ourselves today: with a government that has entered into an open state of war with the American people!

Let me ask you something: when was the last time you read the Declaration of Independence?  If you haven’t done so in the last six months, take a moment to read it – do it now!  The Declaration is a legal document, written according to the internationally accepted practices of the law at the time of our founding.  As such, it lists a series of charges against the Crown.  Today, we are told they are archaic and, therefore, have no meaning in our ‘modern’ world.  This is a lie!  If you doubt me, read the charges and think about the modern equivalent(s) that are happening today:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.(How many times have the courts over ruled something the people voted on and passed; or the President has directed his Attorney General to ignore, or even tell the State Attorney Generals to ignore?)

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. (How many times have the States passed laws only to have some judge suspend them until Washington can decide what it wants to do about 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. (How often are Federal laws passed mandating the States to do something, or how often are Federal programs tied to Federal funding?  These are – in spirit – the same thing: demanding the people submit before the federal government will act on their behalf)

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. (Obama has told the Senate they were not in session when they were so that he could make recess appointments.  Again, in spirit, that is the same thing)

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. (Refusal to enforce immigration laws: agains, same thing in spirit and practice)

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. (The bureaucracies that Obama now uses as a de facto legislature)

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. (DHS, and other militarized law enforcement agencies that do not answer to the Congress, thereby negating the spirit of subjecting military forces to civilian authority)

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. (This has been done through the aforementioned law enforcement agencies.  There are daily stories now about these agencies violating the laws and trampling on citizens’ rights with immunity)

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: (The Supreme Court has started citing foreign legal precedents, and the federal government has been bypassing the Constitution through Treaty).
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: (Many cases are now on the books where citizens have been forced to surrender their homes to the aforementioned militarized law enforcement agencies.  In spirit, same thing)

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: (There are many cases of political trials now, and we have had government officials who have murdered citizens and were never charged.  This has become an increasingly common problem – Ruby Ridge is just one example)

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: (Federal regulation of our trade has effectively done the same thing: trade can only occur with those nations the government permits, and then, only as the government allows)

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: (This is totally out of control, and includes double and triple taxation.  It’s just so hidden and/or ignored that no one even sees or cares about it anymore)

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury (There are many, many cases where trial by jury has been denied.  We have now started executing American citizens without any due process at all!)

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences (This hasn’t happened – yet.  But if you’ll remember, there were people in the U.S. who wanted to let Bush be tried by foreign powers, and we have had our soldiers given over to foreign courts for crimes they were charged with while in service to America)

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: (In spirit, this is the living document doctrine, whereby the laws change according to whatever the federal government wants them to be – or Obama flat out ignores them)

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: (Obama has already done this, and a Liberal law professor said so during testimony to Congress this week)

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. (In effect, this is the same thing as negating or telling the State Attorney Generals to negate the laws passed by the State legislatures)

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. (Failure to enforce border security; using federal financing as a means of extortion and control; favoritism to political allies at the expense of the rest of the citizenry and more are all examples of this, at least in spirit if not in actual deed)

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.  (The federal debt is a form of plunder; the tax burden is a form of ravaging the people and Obama care is a form of slavery…)

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.(This is being done by turning a blind eye to the borders and Islamic Jihadis operating within this nation)

Now, be honest, when was the last time you looked at how closely we have come to the conditions that existed before our founders seceded from England?  And the list of comparisons I gave was just off the top of my head.  I am sure you could add to them – if you tried.  But there’s more.  We no longer have the right o life from creation: abortion is not only legal, but advanced by the federal government and the people are forced to pay for it.  We have no liberty when we are forced to bake cakes for people we consider to be morally objectionable: we have slavery.  And we cannot pursue happiness when every aspect of our daily lives is controlled in some way by the people in Washington.  Connecticut is talking about taking the Peoples’ weapons away; the government is openly asserting that it needs to monitor the press; the Supreme Court has said the fourth Amendment is ‘conditional;’ the fifth Amendment is negated by electronic surveillance; and the list goes on, and on, and on, and…

I used to think this was our fault — we, the people — but no more!  Now I realize this is the fault of open usurpation.  The people have been trying to assert their will, but our masters turn a blind eye and deaf ear.  And when we roar, like in the TEA Party movement, they turn the power of the IRS on us (add that to the list above).  They pass laws saying they can hold terrorists without due process, then pass laws saying that anyone who tries to oppose their power grabs is a terrorist.  So, fellow terrorist, let me ask you something:

At what point do we read the first two paragraphs of the Declaration and realize that we have finally arrived at the Jefferson option?

CAUTION: This post may offend those of you with deep religious sensibilities.  My motivation for writing was sparked by the current  story dealing with the Arizona law to make it ‘legal’ for people to deny service based on religious principles.  That we even have to consider such a law should be enough to condemn this nation, but – sadly – it isn’t.  Worse, we don’t even understand that we are arguing for slavery and not for liberty.  You have a Natural Right to be a bigot – period.  But you also have a Natural Right to discriminate, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you are a ‘hater’ if you do.  In fact, if you are one of those who have accepted this absurdity that ‘discrimination’ makes you a ‘hater,’ then congratulations: you are a bigot and a hater!  But for those of us who understand this issue, we are nothing more than a private citizen trying to live our lives without having others using government to force their beliefs on us.

I usually like to post the definitions of the words involved when I write about matters such as this.  But I am not going to do that this time.  Instead, I am going to use absurdity to make my point (if you have read “Brave New World,” this illustration should be familiar to you).  OK, here it goes:

If you decide to have sex, the government should be able to force you to do so with whoever wants to have sex with you.  In other words, you should not be able to tell anyone no.  The only right you have is to decide whether or not you want to have sex.  Once you decide you do, you must have sex with anyone who asks – or you are discriminating against them and that makes you guilty of a hate crime.

That’s it: that’s all there is to it.  If you decide to have sex and then tell anyone no – for any reason – you are a horrible, hateful person who is discriminating against the person you refuse.  And NO!  This example is not “over the top.”  In fact, it is dead-on accurate to the PC insanity that has seized this nation.

You see, if I own a business, that business is my property!  I have the right to decide what I do with it, just like you have the right to decide what you do and don’t do with your body.  So, if I am a ‘hater’ because I do not want to serve gays, or whites, or one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eaters, then that is my business!  The government has no role in telling me otherwise, and neither do you!  Otherwise, if you and the government can tell me what to do with my property, then the government and I can tell you what you must do with yours – even if that property is your body.

Also, this does not change just because I sell to the public.  The ‘public’ is just another way of saying ‘society,’ or ‘all people in a given area.’  It holds no special authority to force me to surrender my right to contract with other people.  That is a Natural Right, and – as such – I can neither give it away nor take it from others.  And that means the government cannot be given or claim the authority to force me to do business with anyone I do not want to do business with.  Remember, my business is an extension of my labor, which is an extension of my free will using my body to perform some action beneficial to me.  So if you or the government claims that you can force me to do something against my will just because I am in public, we are back to you having to have sex with anyone who asks.  Only, this time, you do not even have to decide to have sex first.  In fact, once you step onto public property, you become a free play room for anyone who finds you desirable.

Do you see the insanity that has gripped this nation?  And do you see what it is doing to us?  When will it end?  I’ll tell you when it ends.  It ends when the sane among us start telling the insane who are making these claims that they are insane – to their faces, so others can see and hear it.  Lead by example.  The next time someone utters some non-sense about how people should be forced to surrender their Natural Rights just because someone else wants something from them, turn and tell them that, unless they give it up, they are a racist, bigot, homophobic hater!

 

[You know what really sucks about this post?  Most Leftists who push this insanity are doing it partly because they aren’t attractive enough for anyone to want them in the first place. 🙁 ]

This post goes with my post explaining why the government cannot make end-around runs against your Natural Rights.  Hopefully, these two posts, along with all the rest of the posts in this series, will help you understand just how much of your liberty you have allowed the government to take from you.  So, we start with a story about an issue many ‘law-and-order’ types have accepted as ‘reasonable’ when – in truth – it is open tyranny:

Cops Secretly Tested Drivers for Drunk Driving at Those ‘Voluntary’ Checkpoints…Even Before They Consented

So, what should we make of the government’s claim that traffic stops are ‘constitutional?’  Well, first, let’s look at their arguments.  First, they claim that they own public property and, therefore, they control it.  According to this line of reasoning, you ‘willingly’ surrender your rights when you willingly use the public roads they claim to own and control.  Next, the government claims that driving is a ‘privilege,’ not a right.  And because it is a privilege granted by government, you not only need a license, you must also submit to whatever demands the government makes in relation to your driving ‘privilege.’  Finally, in direct connection to traffic stops, the Supreme Court has actually ruled that the government can ‘legally’ infringe on your rights so long as it doesn’t present an ‘inconvenience.’  The Supreme Court’s reasoning was that, since traffic stops do not take much time, you don’t really suffer any appreciable loss of your rights when you are forced to submit to one.

First, let’s deal with the claim that the government owns public property.  You will find a total refutation of this claim in my post on my other blog, The OYL: PIECES OF THE PUZZLE: The Role of ‘Self-Protection’ in the Process of Indoctrination.

Next, let’s deal with the government’s claim that driving is not a right.  This can be refuted rather easily by asking a simple question: do you have a right to breath?  The answer should be self-evident: yes!  You have a Natural Right to your life, and that means you have a right to pursue those things you need to survive.  No one ‘owns’ the atmosphere.  No person can claim any part of the earth because no one can claim to have used their labor to create it.  But neither can the government claim to own or control any part of the earth.  This is because the government is an artificial creation that you and I create through our Natural Right to contract.  And because we do not have a claim on the earth, we cannot impart that claim to the government, nor can we create it by forming a government.  This is part of the limitations of the Social Contract.  This line of reasoning extends to the government’s claim that driving is not a right but a government granted privilege – only in reverse.  Because the government is not real, it has no rights.  Therefore, it cannot grant them to us.  So, the government is claiming something it does not have the authority to claim.

But there is more to this claim that driving is a privilege.  Thomas Jefferson explained it this way:

 “The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.”

We have a Natural Right to own personal property.  A car or motorized vehicle is personal property.  We impart our claim to it when we use our labor to build or earn the money to pay for it.  Inherent in our right of ownership is the right to use it (so long as we do not harm another person or their property).  Since we also have an equal claim on public property, we then have a right to use our vehicle on that public property.  Nothing in the relationships between these principles requires or grants authority to the government.  The only purpose for the government is to mediate conflicts which may arise from negligent use of vehicles on the public streets and/or  what we call ‘acts of God.’  That is where the rule of law comes in: not to control use, but to justly determine liability between claimants as a result of traffic-related injury.

However, even if we grant that the government has a role in controlling the public roads, this does not and cannot give the government a right to set aside the fourth Amendment protection against unwarranted searches.  Simply driving on a public road is not sufficient reason to claim ‘probably cause.’  Even if the police see a driver turn around before reaching a traffic stop, that is still not probable cause to chase that driver down.  We have allowed the government to so stretch the meaning of probable cause that the term no longer has meaning.  And, even if there is probable cause, the Constitution – which, on these issues, applies to every citizen in every State – the Constitution requires that a warrant be signed describing what the police expect to find and where they expect to find it.  This clause in the fourth Amendment seems to have been totally ignored by all aspects of our government today – and we have allowed it.

Finally, let’s apply a little common sense to what the Supreme Court said.  They ruled that it is not a violation of your rights so long as it there is no real ‘inconvenience’ involved.  Well, what if the search reveals something that places you in legal jeopardy?  Does that now constitute a real inconvenience?  And before you say that it isn’t a problem unless you are doing something wrong, understand that you break at least three to five federal laws every day!  This means they can arrest you and put you in jail any time they want.  If you don’t believe me, go do some searches on this issue for yourself.  This way, you will be more likely to believe what you find than if I just ask you to trust me.  But understand, the cliché, “You don’t have to worry if you’re not doing anything wrong,” is ridiculous.  All of us are doing something wrong every day, we just don’t realize it.  This is what the fourth Amendment was all about: placing a barrier between people who are otherwise seeking no harm to others from being victimized by a tyrannical government.

Are you starting to see that gilded cage in which we all live yet?

It is a sad thing that the nation which brought self-government based upon the rule of law in alignment with Natural Law no longer understands the principles upon which it was founded.  We have people in the former Soviet States – where the principles of self-government and liberty have never really been known – fighting for their liberty, yet here, in the supposed land of the free and home of the brave, we are selling ours for promises of free stuff from a government we know must first steal it from us before it can give it to us.  It’s insanity, but then, how else can one explain how a once proud and freedom-loving people would so willingly accept government tyranny other than to say we have all gone insane?  What am I talking about?  I’ll explain – after you read this story: Continue reading FUNDAMENTALS OF NATURAL LAW: Government Can’t Make End-Runs Around Your Rights →

Are you one of those who refused to listen when you were warned that Obamacare included death panels and would be used to literally kill off the aging population in this country?  Do you still refuse to believe it?  If so, then you need to read the rest of this post. Continue reading FILE THIS UNDER “They Told You So:” Obamacare = Death Panels →