The Homestead Revolution II
We are taught that the U.S. Constitution is the best ever
devised by men so we ignore the many flaws that should have been
corrected long ago. One is the phrase "and to provide for the
general welfare." After enumerating what powers Congress has,
this phrase overrules everything. Anything the Congress should
decide is good for the people becomes a legitimate government
function. It makes government our ultimate caretaker and
unlimits its own growth. One of the enumerated powers is to
defend our national borders. This has traditionally been left
undone as a matter of policy which benefits the money lover
appetites for cheap slaves. Yet we have war on poverty, war on
drugs, government charities and all kinds of things the founders
never envisioned as functions of national government under a
general welfare clause.
Why isn't citizenship a choice and a test? Why am I
automatically a citizen by an accident of birth? If citizenship
was a choice for legal adults to make, how many residents would
choose it? How does my age qualify me to vote? If I know nothing
about anything, I have the same power at the polls as those who
know much, which if the polls are rigged as they easily can be,
is no power at all. Why is that fair? I don't have to know a
thing about law of any kind to sit on a jury and judge another.
All I have to do is follow instructions that could be and often
are unlawful.
The greatest error in the Constitution is to allow government
credit. Credit allows all the power of revenue with no
accountability for its use. It overrules wisdom and planning. It
increases the power of central bureaucracy. The United States is
insolvent. It cannot pay its debts next year, ten years from now
or twenty. All of this will collapse of its own weight like a
stick house in a stiff wind. Are you ready? Do you care?
Incorporation and many aspects of government are privileges
that no person has a right to bestow on any agency, because a
person has no right to such privilege her/himself. Privilege
creates obligation to the grantor and that is why government
grants incorporation privileges to businesses. If government
derives any power from the consent of the governed, the governed
must possess this power to begin with. I have no power to limit
your civil and social liabilities to your company, so you can
keep your personal bank account in the event of a lawsuit or
criminal proceedings. So how can I grant this power to you or
anyone else? I have no power to force you to fight a battle for
me. If I join with others who do not have this power, we do not
suddenly have this power among us, by the act of union. Multiply
zero one hundred times and we still have zero. I cannot
rightfully demand that you pay me taxes or render me any service
whatsoever. Nor can I gain this power by uniting with others who
also don't have it. We pretend government has powers granted to
it by us, we never had ourselves and never will. As long as most
of us are willing to pretend government has derived powers from
us, it all works. It just doesn't work very well for any but the
wicked. To better understand the things I am saying, it is good
to read the writings of John Locke, the philosopher who had such
a profound influence on many of America's founding fathers. Mr.
Locke shows us the differences between natural law and social
contract, moral foundation and moral fraud. The whole world owes
him a great debt and few Americans have a clue who he was. It is
much like when we ask a musician who her influences were. When
she tells us, we have a much better understanding of her work.
We hear some little about our founding fathers, but not about
those who influenced them. Therefore, we don't understand the
founders as we should. Nor do judges who are supposed to
interpret law by the intent of the lawmakers. In short,
ignorance prevents justice and true social welfare. John Locke
was a well reasoned expert on absolute morality, without
preaching. This is a subject that has most of the world
confused, especially leadership. Locke paints a clear picture
with the most reasoned and intelligent style I have ever read.
No American should ever graduate from high school without a
thorough dose of John Locke. He remains a brilliant light in a
dark and fearful world. He certainly cleared up a lot of
confusion about morality and government for me. Once we see the
moral high ground, no one can confuse us about duty and honor.
No one can bend us to their will for their own wicked
intentions. We see what was hidden and remains so for most. We
won't be fooled again.
Even if you were my child, I cannot contract your services to
anyone beyond your age of legal majority. When the founders of
the great federal estate got the States to ratify, by fraud and
deceit, they decided the government they all agreed to abide by.
It had no power over their children or any descendants
thereafter. A contract, which the Constitution is, binds no one
but the contractors until they nullify it or die. Therefore, you
are free to live as you choose and contract with whom you
choose. If you do not exercise this freedom carefully, you will
be punished by those who claim rights and powers they never had
and never will.
To be free in America is to keep your ideas to yourself and
keep a low profile. You are free until you come to the attention
of the privileged. You accept your punishment quietly and know
that freedom does have a price. You do best to minimize the
payments for yourself and others. For most, it seems good to be
enslaved to the corporate, money lover world but encouraged to
call this slavery freedom. Few choose to be free. Freedom is
uncertainty and that scares people out of their wits. Slavery is
certain and we all know the rules. That brings us comfort and
certainty, most of the time; until there is a crisis in
confidence, which ends many a confidence game.
The original idea of independence from Britain was the liberty
of every American Englishman in particular. That idea died with
the founders. Now we want equality of slavery. We think we want
to be treated all alike. We want the rich slaves to share their
money and power with the poor slaves and vote for those who help
us believe we can make them share. Freedom works by the law of
supply and demand, just like everything in a free market, under
the old world value system. Demand is down, the price is right.
The book is now about 30 years old but I bought it in paperback
a few years ago. It's called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree
World by Harry Browne. I cannot recommend it too highly. In the
first part of the book, Harry tells us about all the traps we
fall into, which rob us of freedom. Most of us fall into several
of them. In the last part of the book, he tells us how to get
out of these traps. None of the work is hard on the road to
freedom, it only requires a sincere desire to get free. Once you
have the desire, the work is usually pleasant and sometimes
great fun. Freedom is our birthright and most of us have sold it
for peanut butter sandwiches, as Esau sold his for soup. In a
nutshell, if you are going to be free and you are going to
weather all the coming storms in some semblance of comfort, you
must end the dependencies that have been created for you, often
before you were born. Independence, which means liberty, is
another way of saying not dependent. It isn't a gift from
government or grandpa. It is a choice you make every day, even
if you are sure you never had a choice.
You have been told choose this and you will be free. You did,
but you don't feel free, you feel obligated to others. You
created some obligations and you accepted others handed to you.
You were told some of these are your duty, others build
character and you accepted them. Until you begin to see the
possibilities independence suggests, you will never know what
you have been missing and how your personal growth has been
restricted. Break out of the traps and dependencies. Plan your
way out as you would a prison escape and you will likely succeed
to survive a turbulent, uncertain future. Even prison offers
only so much protection and security; ask someone who has been
there.