Author: parischamber

The only excuse for the existence of government is the defense of individual rights.

(And before the howls of government lapdogs begin, it is clear that the defense of such rights include protecting and defending individual rights against the cronies and criminals inside and outside our state and national borders.)

The only legal or justifiable reason for government, is the defense of individual rights.

 

The intent of any government should be to serve and protect individuals from those who would do harm to others. The only power that government has is that which it takes from or that is given to it by individuals. It can perform a fair job of protecting everyone, but it cannot guarantee happiness to any one, and should always be prohibited from promising happiness or a special anything to a favored few.

There is nothing that government can do for you that it does not take from you. So, eventually, if its power is unchecked, it will become your turn in the barrel.

When we surrender our rights to government we become a ward of the state. As such, we cheapen the human right to be identified as an individual.

As wards of the state, we become a group of victims needing the guidance of a tool we’ve invented – a construct, based on hopes, wishes, and yearnings, that somehow has become our superior in intelligence and natural rights and with greater values and principles?

The very idea that this invented and constructed thing — a thing without intelligence or an empathy for emotional considerations or a moral standard for reasonable behavior – will voluntarily and freely act in in the best interest of mankind is a stinking mess of vomit from sick minds.

Once given birth, government grows to benefit government. To achieve this end, it divides us into groups of victims which, it claims, must be protected from other groups (that it identifies as more privileged).  But . . .

. . . . privileged is created by special allowances in laws for special reasons to exclusively create advantages or questionable rights for a certain class of people, professions, corporations, etc., that are not allowed for the average individual – as shown in tax laws,  regulations, restrictions, and permissions.

Government over-rides (corrupts) individual rights by inventing “rights”, which it gives to private and public limited liability partnerships, trusts, foundations, corporations, monopolies, and conglomerates. And for “Public Service” in government. All such  entities are non-human creations, without empathy or understanding, and unable to comprehend an excuse of either good or evil in the intent of a law that allow them to exist – or of the eventual results.

Yet, in every right or special construct in the paper formation of some law or regulation that benefits a non-human entity, that is not the same as it is for an individual, there is always a way to fleece the individual.

Every government program has a way to fleece the public.

Today, under State Capitalism, the partnership between Big Business and Big Government, there is no accountability for, and no limiting of, government’s action.

We, as individuals, create the government we have . . . and we are responsibility for it.

It’s why we have a vote.

The very idea that there are limitations on the  federal government’s executive / administrative branch is all but heresy in today’s political and judicial environments. No limitations exist.

The Supreme Court, the judicial branch, has lost respect from years of ignoring and violating Constitutional limitations and the role of the states.  And non-principled rhetorical criticism by law firms and law school professors ignore centuries of established common law and limitation on government to skillfully argue for destructive decrees. Appointed Justices, more politician than supporters of Constitutional mandates and constructs, have supported, and are supporting democratic socialism.  And there are no limitations.

And no limitations exist on Congress, the legislative branch. None.

Our founders, who had first-hand experience and hard-earned knowledge knew, as did Ronald Reagan, that “government is not your friend.”

When created, government becomes an entity with a primary objective to survive – to grow, and it feeds on the lies that another project or program need a solution that only a “benevolent government” can provide.

Government creates more government.

Knowing the danger in the nature of all its existing forms, the founders limited the actions of their new government to improving “the general welfare.” The Constitution allows Congress to collect taxes to pay for the general welfare of the United States, but not for the people or the individual states.

As James Madison observed, “If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their Own hands; they may apoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision for the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit of the application of money, and might be called, if Congress pleased, provisions for the general welfare.”

The Constitution never granted our government power to act in malevolent ways against the natural rights of the individual.

But today, however, government has obviously seized the raw power to do these things – and more – that Madison feared: Taking, annexing, the bounty from one segment of the population to give the illegal funds and / or benefits to another segment, and further dividing the nation by its hostile attitude to individual freedom.

This is plundering in its most basic form (to steal or remove something precious from something, in a way that does not consider moral laws or is more severe than it needs to be).

What is more dangerous, however, is that plundering had its beginning, and is continually permitted, by emotionally-disturbed or mentally-deranged Supreme Court Justices appointed to office by emotionally-disturbed, mentally-deranged, gutless members of the U. S. Senate, who have the power to advise and consent on any action by the executive branch.

When government declares that a particular segment or group of individuals need help, it is saying that the group or its members are either too emotionally, physically, or intellectually incompetent to act in their own interest, Through its copious flow of ‘crocodile tears’ government uses contradictory and often illegal arguments to sell an excuse that our “society” (or some group) is responsible for the circumstances. It sets groups against group to enhance a perception that they are seen and treated as a subspecies of humanity, and can only survive through the benevolence of government.

Government uses the negative perception it creates to set groups against groups.

Congress has subverted the very foundations of the nature of limited government as established by nation’s founders, The consequences from its action deserves the condemnation of all Americans. Not to do so is to surrender our birthright.

Congress routinely delegates their powers to the executive and judicial branches, so we now live in a nation where literally everything involves the federal government.

Never was such power conveyed to Congress as is now given to or assumed by them. On the contrary, it was always clearly that the old Congress was limited to the enumerated powers, and that was explained in general terms.

The founders realized that an all-powerful government – one without unchecked or limited power – is a refuge for scoundrels and plunders, who view the population as its resource and its servants. In creating a new nation, they tried to create a government with only one excuse: The defense of individual rights and the rights of the respective states (whose citizens were risking their own lives).

Government should never be the playground for plunders and crooks of every stripe.

Every action by government should be restricted to protecting every individual from enemies inside and outside our national borders. It should never interfere in our personal lives. Its sole job is to protect them –

There is no other legal or justifiable reason for government.

When the lovers of government and those in government claim that it is there to do what individuals cannot do, they lie. Its why those who know that government’s power must be limited are described as “deplorable” and “garbage” and “terrorists” by the supporters of government.

There is no word or phase too loathsome for the socialists and other totalitarian lovers of the world to use in the fight for conquest over individuality and / or control and management of resources. Truth is the enemy; facts cannot be considered.

There is nothing that government can do for you – or anyone – that it does not take from you.

We, as individuals, create the government we have . . . And deserve.

It is why we have a vote; to hold government accountable.

Every action by government should be restricted to protecting every individual from enemies inside and outside our national borders.

Government should never be the playground for plunders and crooks of every stripe.

But it is . . .

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Paris talks about improving Paris.  Paris talks about the need to improve and beautify. Paris talks about substandard homes with unpaid taxes, and talks about what to do with them. Paris prefers talking, not doing. 


Talking is a poor substitute for doing. 


Behind all that Happy Talk, however, improvement is taking money – from some who can barely make economic ends meet – and giving it to others who are doing well economically, but who can help make the givers seem like they have a sound mind. 


Most local builders are chased out of the city limits with inane regulations, which have created residential and business growth in most Lamar County’s smaller communities. In turn, the City of Paris uses public tax-dollars to pay for land, water and sewer services, streets, curbs and gutters, even administration, and “other development incentives” to guarantee a profit to outside firms – some who take their profit back home with them, and some who leave us holding an empty bag of promises.


Ordinances are local laws designed to hold those without brown noses to the grindstone, while allowing those with brown noses to practice “how to circumvent the law without accountability.” 


Those with brown noses, for some reason, don’t like to be reminded of it.


Talking, and not doing demonstrates that Paris is at war with itself, as many weed-infested neighborhoods are breeding grounds for blight and decay – 


But Paris doesn’t want to talk about that . . . 


While talking, not doing, about keeping Paris beautiful, the grass and weeds keep onna’ growing. Not all weeds are flowers, but they are appreciated by all the local blooming idiots and passersby.


We use to tiptoe through the tulips. . . now we just waddle through the weeds.


                                                


Inside the city limits, there are five and six year old weeds in key places; i.e; on privately and city owned properties, along the right-of-way of state and U. S. Highways, and city streets.


Some are so old and large they are monuments to Mother Nature.


Those who believe that man can control climate should visit Paris, Texas; a city that proves weeds cannot be controlled (at least, inside the city limits). If weeds cannot be controlled, forget about the world’s climate.




As someone said, “Paris is a victory garden  —  too bad the weeds won.”


We’re lucky that so many weeds are covered with litter. 


Littering, evidently, is a hobby for most folks in Paris, as, like the weeds, litter is all over town. All kinds of litter.




Drive around the Loop or around town and it’s likely the Florida firm that came up with the high-dollar logo proclaiming “Paris Texas – where Texans reach higher” was thinking that was how we stacked our litter or it was the only way to climb out of it. 


While talking, not doing, we’re actually building a dump ground that 24,900 bewitched, bothered, bewildered and befuddled people call home. 


Well, I’ve been all over this world 


down to the Gulf of Mexico,


but I ain’t never seen a dump heap


calling itself a city before . . .


                                                                                         ( – apologies to Dr. John and his Cabbage Head song…)


The Paris Texas Chamber has urged Paris to invest in people for years. It’s actually the best – and least expensive – way to do community development: Build it and they will come.


So why will we not invest in ways to help people help Paris?


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“Want to…”


Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), the 26th President of the USA, was talking about want to in stating that “We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”


 


“Want to” … yearning … raises a lot of questions. 


We begin life with want to and it seems we end life yearning for someone or something. 


Yearning never quits. 


When it comes to “want to”, you look at our leadership’s (or citizen’s) ability to adapt, evolve, lead with forward thought around a vision or a concept or a cohesive strategy, etc., and Paris mostly resemble Sears or Blockbuster video.


We cannot even agree on what historic restoration is or a vision or concept of what the Plaza and downtown area should be or a plan or platform that offers a cohesive concept of Paris, that will or would rebuild Paris as the North Star of Texas or as the Star of the Red River Valley. 


It appears that we’ve even settled for a lack of “want to”…? Our want to seems to have packed up and gone . . .


. . . We just want to get higher, which is appreciated by Toco and Sun Valley.


Think not? Then, how long has it been since we lost the “want to” to pick up trash and stop the littering? 


WHY can’t we stop it…? Shouldn’t we want to … ?


Paris is our home. People who litter crap in our kitchens and living rooms and bedrooms (and theirs). Are they really who we want as citizens? 


They‘re the idiots our present policies are encouraging.


In some places, the litter almost makes it hard to see the weeds, which brings up another question: WHY are in-city weeds, that have not been cut or mowed for over 5-years, allowed to exist?  Ordinances exist that (supposedly) control in-city weeds and grasses, as well as junk, storage buildings, parking in front yards, etc., to help “Keep Paris Beautiful.” But when it comes to enforcement, the “want to” must be hiding in one of the dusty Master Plans at City Hall. 


Before we can Keep Paris Beautiful we need to Make Paris Beautiful.  (Yes, the Paris Chamber realizes that the ‘want to’ seems to be lacking, but it sure needs done.)


Is it want to or a lack of it?


A developer will gladly jump on a project that seems profitable. If a project appears unprofitable, they won’t do it. If they demand money to do it, they’re admitting it likely will not be profitable but they’re hoping that there’s a sucker somewhere.


So, WHY is the city’s leadership giving the public’s tax dollars to developers who likely believe a project will not be successful or profitable? Maybe Paris should change the city’s name to Suckerville? 


And why are the City of Paris and the PEDC giving tax money from some citizens, who are barely able to make economic ends meet, to industries that have money and assets of their own? 


That surpasses want to; it’s stupidity. 


Why not establish a program that exchanges building materials for “sweat equity” by those with lower-incomes who have the “want to” and the ability to improve their own property (instead of giving their tax dollars to private firms that have money)? 


Want to or –


– is this community damaged goods by not wanting to do the right things in favor of wanting “my pocketbook first.” Or, as some claim, Paris is full of people who are too soft-hearted to “hurt people’s feelings…” Or, as others claim, “They don’t want to…”


More likely, for waaay too many years, the leadership majority operated with the same idea: That every dollar circulating in Paris belongs to them. There’s no other logical reason why Paris has so many deteriorated neighborhoods.


They forgot – and we forget – that we’re all mutts; not a show dog among us.


Paris people are not who you think they are


They are not who they think they are


They are who they think you think they are


They will browbeat you until you think you are


who they think you are


You do not want to be who they think you are


Or be who they think they are.


 


When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead. 

The pain is felt by others .


The same thing happens when you’re stupid.

-Unknown


 


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