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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