Excellent blog! Thank you Zephram.
 

 

We've tried revolting. It doesn't work because it requires us to change someone else. I propose that we instead try changing ourselves.

 

As you know, the USA has been under attack since its founding. The success of this Republic is a constant threat to tyrants everywhere. Part of the continual attack on the USA was and is centered on lessening the ability of the government to function. Representative government is slower to react than absolute monarchy. This fact was recognized and in matters of war the president acts as a monarch. But when it comes to law, Congress Acts and the Court reviews those Acts. That is slow so that representative government is scrutinized and adjusted by the populace. Racketeers in Congress are exposed by what they propose and vote upon. Limiting them in their specified powers in order to prevent racketeering is not the answer. The racketeers expose themselves to the free press and the free press exposes racketeers to the public but more importantly, State's Attorneys General must prosecute racketeering. The idea that all the states would elect racketeer governors, a racketeer president and racketeers in Congress was anticipated by the founders' protections for the press. Nevertheless, racketeering at all the government's positions of power and enforcement coupled with a racketeer monopolized press has occurred and the last honest power, the people, have been kept in the dark. The racketeers carefully covered every base. The "less government" mantra is 200 years old. It is again being offered as the solution to racketeering. That mantra was strong in 1907 and it was tempting enougfh to cost the USA its monetary system. Less government is never the solution for corrupt government. $3.4 Trillion was stolen at the Pentagon during 1999-2000. Clinton and Bush lead that racketeering mafia with the central bankers of the world. The exact same institution in England which the USA declared its Independence from has been at war with the USA for over 200 years. They never stopped. Sir George Bush is their Knight. Rhodes Scholar Clinton is their spy and a traitor. Racketeers dominate our military and our government at every branch. They know that we know. But the people love this form of slavery. They get in line and roll over very well. It will not help to limit the government's powers. We need its power to be returned to a well informed public. Obama has stupified the young into a state of total domestication for now. It may well be the end of Republican government. Our only hope is that the public becomes aware of the depth of the corruption in our government. %Trillions of dollars stolen did not do it. Endless war under false pretexts did not do it. Even government sanctioned torture did not do it. If those things did not cause the public to react, there is no need to lessen the power of Congress to Act. The problem is the public.

 

When you assert that representative government is slower to react than absolute monarchy, you are confusing the concepts of Church and State. A Church is something that dictates morality. A State is something that protects you from dictated morality. A monarchy tries to mix the two incompatible concepts and creates an abomination.

Abomination: any value system or living thing abhorrent to its own measures or the measures of the group it espouses

In a Republic, the State never tries to dictate morality against the will of its members. If it did, it would also have to create arbitrary measures of punishment or exclusion, and would thereby cease to be a Republic.

A war is a dead thing with a predefined set of ending scenarios covering all contingencies. If a war turns into a living thing, it would no longer fit the definition of a war; it would become a government.

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The Few, The Proud, The Guinea Pigs
Bigger government is harder to hold accountable than smaller government using legacy economic measures, but currency is no longer necessary with the robust economic tools at our disposal today.

I am not shocked that the American Bar Association's Church-State constitutional alternative has turned into a massive racketeering operation. In a system devoid of accountability, no reason exists for anyone to procede with honor. What amazes me is that some people, like Congressman Ron Paul, choose to act with honor anyway, and that some districts, like the 14th of Texas, make representation by an honorable candidate their top priority.

The public is made up of individuals. When an individual does something for the public good, he or she must have a method of determining whether such efforts are successful. If a hierarchy controls this system of measurement, the hierarchy can steer perception of public good any way it wants. It can take the natural inclination of humans to improve their surroundings and pervert it into a murdering, raping, torturing machine.

The problem is not the public. The desire in this soldier's heart to serve his country is true, but the compensation he receives for doing so is false. His economic measures are lying to him because these measures are controlled by enemies of the United States.

 

     Very well said.

 

"I hereby promise that any jury of which I am part will not convict a person of"...
 

If a judge could override the decision of a jury or coerce its members, the jury would serve no functional purpose.

 

a jury would be EXCELLENT,zeph,however,how many judges are for redistribution?~!!!
 

I don't know of any judges who claim to be for redistribution of something. What would you like them to redistribute?