HessForGovernor Government Corruption Position Paper - Who Ya Gonna Call

Who Ya Gonna Call?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these Rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

So states the American Declaration of Independence—probably the single most significant and unique document ever divined by civilized men. This was a group who possessed intellectual depth, certainty, compassion, commitment, forethought and precision of language that has yet to be duplicated in the last two hundred plus years.

Maybe that’s why I am always dumbfounded when I hear or read anyone suggesting that ‘we’ Americans should be ‘like the rest of the world’ in some way or another. Such nonsense ranks right up there with supposedly intelligent politicians repeatedly saying ‘we’ (Americans) live in a ‘Democracy’. In just this last election, of the 6 or 7 presidential candidates who were on enough state ballots to mathematically win either or both, the electoral or popular vote, only two repeatedly insisted that America is a democracy. Can you guess which two they were? I’ll give you a hint; the only two the news media bothered to cover, and one of them is a reigning President.

A ‘democracy’ was considered by America’s Founding Fathers to be the single ‘most vile form of government’, called ‘tyranny of the majority’ because a ‘democracy’ is the epitome of a socialist’s utopia. Such a system of government operates on the premise that somehow--mysteriously, a majority possesses a magical trump card that can override or ‘vote away’ the ‘certain unalienable Rights’ of each ‘equal’ individual in the minority. Scary thought: Sometimes a ‘majority’ only means all the idiots are on the same side.

Such a vulgar thought should greatly disturb each and every thinking person who knows that our singular ‘social obligation’ is to protect the unalienable Rights of the next generation, and more so, every parent who honestly loves their children. ‘Un-a-lien-able’, means just what it says. Pay attention to the ‘un’ part.

As the document that defined America clearly states, the singular purpose of our particular government is to protect the individual Rights and property of each Citizen from force and fraud. There is not, and has never been, any other national government with such a clear directive—so how could we possibly ‘be like any other nation on Earth? Why did/do you let a reigning President (or his Democrat rival) get away with misrepresenting America as a ‘democracy?

Our government is charged with protecting each of us (as individual equals) and our property from illegitimate force and fraud. So what is that individual supposed to do when both offenses have been and continue to be inflicted upon them by America’s government itself?

It is the government itself that steals its Citizen’s property through deadly force claiming authority under something called a “1040 Tax” (no such tax is even found in the tax code), “Asset Forfeiture” (a clear deprivation of a Constitutional mandate requiring Due Process of Law), a “Death Tax” (Can your government really claim a vested interest in your demise?), and a private “Property Tax” (How can you own something that can be ‘taxed’ out from under you?).

Where do these mysterious ‘powers’ come from? The Declaration and our national charter are clear—they don’t exist. To claim that they do is nothing short of fraud…deception by a bureaucracy. We are living under the same tyranny that led to this world’s greatest revolution way back in the 1770s.

What can you or I do about it? Remember that ‘forethought’ thing I mentioned earlier? I’m telling ya the Framers, in their tight little knickers, were a brilliant lot. Let’s read on from that Declaration that changed the world;

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends (protecting individual Rights), it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it…”

Frederick Douglas is credited with saying, “The limits of tyranny are defined by the endurance of the oppressed”.

The limits of my ‘endurance’, and that of a fast-growing number of ‘the People’, has long since run out—how about yours? Do you really love your children enough to stand up for their Freedom and fix the problem before they are forced to a bloody revolution?

Barry Hess is the Vice-Chair of the Arizona Libertarian Party, and a candidate for Governor in 2006. He can be reached at BarryHess@Earthlink.Net.