A Retinue of Institutionalized Personages

The federal government is one large state government.  Expansion of federal duties increased tremendously, especially over the last five decades.  What is even more disconcerting is the rapidity at which federal authority and public discretion has progressed over the last decade.  This phenomenon is highly detrimental to our collective security and prosperity as a free and independent people, and nation, of the world.  Our Liberty and Independence depend on the active participation of wise and virtuous citizens.    

During the last decade, and for some time before, Americans have become all too familiar with the wanton acts of terrorism.  We are also dealing with the ambitious intimidations of foreign despots, who reign over antiquated regimes and broken nations with enslaved populations.  America is contending with these spectacular calamities of human depravity.  We are engaged in long and costly wars to extirpate the malicious radical ligaments, emanating from several complicit and non-complicit foreign nations, regions, and transient entities, which are degrading religion, and defiling individual liberty and dignity in their worrisome wake.  American commerce has the right to flourish with any global participants without intimidation, and accosted, by foreign belligerents.

Another curious set of domestic problems to contend with is the severe economic downturn that has accompanied the troublesome foreign forces we confront daily, which have contributed a great deal to our fiscal fragility and, rather sour, and increasingly dour, public sentiment.  One cannot entirely separate foreign wars, tax cuts, low employment, reckless spending, and disjointed global economies, from our general domestic economic tepidness.  No one wants any of these demoralizing aspects of human existence to last for too much longer.  America’s insatiable appetite for Liberty, and its formidable national character will defeat the most enterprising and designing adversaries of our freedom as a people and nation.           

The Federative Union, that is, the United States of America, has primarily national responsibilities.  Other than being a vehicle to secure our Liberty and Independence as free citizens, this Union of Republics most important duties are attending to the nation’s finances, securing the nation’s borders, facilitating and protecting its commerce and interests, while interacting with the other independent nations of the world, who all have their particular interests at hand.

Congress is distracted, or at least seems to be.  It is true, though, that the federal head has a mind-numbing propensity to address a myriad of political trivialities that inhibit national adequacies.  Innumerable federal inefficiencies and numerous wasteful disbursements of public treasure are the harsh realities that need a focused, unified, and practical remedy.  If the current trajectory of cunning charades and phantom prophecies proceed, it will bring disgust and disdain to our national character, and feed the ambitions of domestic demagogues and foreign adversaries, who will do nothing but clip the wings of the mighty American eagle.  More people and nations prosper with a free America, than there are people and nations who profit from American failure.  

Many duties and functions, traditionally handled by private citizens, their families, and their state and local systems, with their own resources, and popular councils, are now increasingly coming under the ineffective jurisdiction of Congress.  Congress can barely administer the ten square miles encompassing the District of Columbia, which they have absolute jurisdiction over, and, it is sad to say, has a horrendous record of accomplishment when compared to other major cities controlled by state governments.  More specifically, a federal bureaucratic regulatory apparatus, erected and extended over time, of course with the consent of the governed, sanctioned by legislation and judicial doctrine, is now a massive self-propelling influence in our most private and public affairs that actually impedes political happiness and economic prosperity.

Most of what Congress does today, and its vast array of onerous instrumentalities weighing on individuals and private industry, was originally under the purview of state legislatures, and the American people themselves.  Federal authority has taken on too many diverse private and state responsibilities that are now diverting the nation from attending to our most pressing national priorities.  Do not be confused, this is not a call to go back to the social inequality that preceded modern civil rights.  It is a call to recapture the essence of equal protection of the law and proper federal boundaries.  

Congress is drifting away toward a multitude of natural, and, at times, it seems as if they are manufactured, maladies to micromanage and eradicate.  Utopian sophistry, whatever ideological quarter it emanates from, leads to a fantasyland, where totalitarianism and arbitrary power stands firm on the ruins of Liberty and Independence, where reason and logic succumb to the debilitating nature of fear and ignorance.  Federal responsibilities assumed over the last several decades inhibit Congress, and the ever-growing departments and agencies under its attendance, from adequately handling purely national objectives with the focused and unified approach required to address immediate concerns as they arise, while also trying to discern distant dangers on the horizon. 

There are burdensome hurdles placed in the path of prosperity.  They come from the private and public sectors alike, which stifle initiative, deter innovation, restrain competition, and drain personal independence, creating a languishing economic posture borne from fiscal disorder, political prostration, bureaucratic burdens, and inequities under the law, combined with the vast assortment of other unforeseen and unknown externalities that have no precedent to consult. 

Americans are trying to handle the baffling inefficiencies of entrenched structural processes that are resisting twenty-first century modalities.  The machines of self-interest have and will continue to manufacture good and bad results.  These are primitive motives natural to human behavior.  They have produced some of the most magnificent contributions to humankind.  Sometimes, self-interest manifests itself in the most disheartening and curious fashions.  The best scenario, of course, is when self-interest aligns with our Liberty and Independence as a nation, and a personal attachment to the Union of Republics that secures the dual treasures American self-government gives to each citizen. 

During certain times, and under unsettling circumstances, disruptive burs break free and grind down the gears of the manipulative machine of political profit and arbitrary power.  The slippage can occur with swift immediacy and drastic results, causing panic and turmoil, the twin winds of anarchy.  It can also occur gradually, with tempered efforts, slowly releasing pressure, so not to bind up this nation with the parochial obtrusions and invective injuries of narrow-minded ideologies that constrain the wheel of Liberty and Independence from spinning forward for all to enjoy. 

It is worrisome enough to contend with the naturally uncertain forces of human existence, and all the good and evil that accompany humanness.  At times, legislative and bureaucratic forces, which, of course, are human inventions, deriving their impetus from human activity, and, in fact, are necessary instances of an advanced society, can run quite retrograde in relation to the profound realities an enlightened, invigorated, and determined electorate is dealing with.  Congress is usually a lagging indicator, a reactionary institution by its complex nature, mainly focused on dealing with the immediacy of current events, as they happen, not the relative magnitude of distant consequences.  

Power and authority is penetrating and intoxicating.  Human beings possess a natural propensity and unique ability to abuse power, authority, and laws, especially when their freedom to do so is unchecked.  The fact is that overwhelming majorities of individuals do not abuse power, authority, and the law, and the few who do, with reckless abandon, will eventually face a dismal demise.  More importantly, most individuals do not possess the kind of power and authority that has far-reaching ramifications on hundreds of millions of personal lives here in America and around the globe.  Most people do not possess the amount of power and authority of elected assemblies, who are servants of a people.  These legitimate vehicles of self-government ultimately derive their power and authority from the consent, and assent, of the proprietors of government, and all power and authority, whether wielded by one person, a few, or many, needs scrutinizing by every liberty-loving participant. 

It is plainly certain, though, that abuses of power happen, and will continue to happen, within a full spectrum of gradations of abuse, and by diverse agents of disrepute.  It is not a fact, though, that an abuse of power will absolutely occur whenever a particular power is acquired or exerted.  In republican governments, when abuses do occur, they are, ultimately, and inviolably, the responsibility of citizens, the public at large, through their popular assemblies, and governing instruments, to address the breach of justice and the law as the general welfare may dictate.  This is a fundamental principle of republican government.  Every citizen that cherishes the privileges and immunities we inherited from our ancestors must correct, from time to time, any defects that arise from our system of government. 

America has various state assemblies, along with our federal councils.  They are strong and legitimate appendages of our Union.  Every one of our state systems arose during particular circumstances specific to its own creation in time.  All of our various governments, federal, state, and local, have reformed and altered constitutions, laws, power, discretion, and authority during their lives as civic laboratories in America.  We will continue reforming and adjusting our systems, so long as we remain free, and the numerous paths to reform remain known, open, and clear.  We will never arrive at a time where American citizens can just simply leave the governing structure alone, halting any future adjustments.  All of our governing systems have avenues for alteration.  This is a great republican principle that is alive and well, as long as the process remains free of obstructions. 

American citizens, for the most part, empower themselves through their local and state governments and economies, which, in turn, directly benefit the nation as a whole.  This arduous adventure in self-government commands that every citizen cast away any artificial distinctions, categorized caricatures, parochial traditions, bureaucratic hindrances, federal dependencies, and iniquitous notions sanctified under the law, and return this nation to the best principles of federalism, republicanism, civic virtue, and the great human precept of equality under the law.

Many of our federal laws, and we sure have many, operate in an unjust and unequal manner, which, for the most part, Democrat majorities have extended over the last five decades, with the help of many Republican minorities and few majorities, along with several willing presidencies.  All that one needs to do is look at the federal tax code to get an idea as to how favoritism and inequality pervades the whole system, and the corrupting tendencies that result from misguided policies constructed by, and for, special favorites.  What is even more serious is the rapid rate of federal extension over the last decade, conducted by majorities from both political parties.  We have seen an unprecedented expansion of federal jurisdiction and public discretion, most especially since the no-budget Democrat Congress took over the reins in 2007.

We need to first identify, then curtail, reform, alter, or abolish the most reckless innovations and insidious intrusions attached to the American system over time.  It is time to disinfect the Halls of Congress, and clean out all the diseased legal perversities.  There have been too many unnecessary additions to our federal arrangement.  We need to arrest and reverse the most virulent articles of corruption peddled by congressional majorities, popular minorities, and special interests, both of a private and public nature. 

An artificial apparatus, constructed, revised, and extended, by both prominent parties, over the course of a century, is now a self fulfilling professionalized machine of legal disease, executed by a retinue of institutionalized personages, their plundering subsidiaries, cottage industries, pensioneering profiteers, and many other precious little favorites suckling from the federal dispensary of taxpayer liquidity.  Even with the multiple domestic and foreign feeders eating away at our national treasure and security, distracting and diverting this nation from important objectives, we all have to contend with the elaborate political structure we possess, legally implemented, extended, and sustained throughout our nation.  America’s governing system arrived here through the corridors of law, and reform must follow the same path forward.  This unsavory system, prone to fickle deviations of a peculiar nature, flawed like all human systems of self-government, did not just form in a vacuum.  However, this is the best-flawed system on Earth, one that should make every citizen proud to be the proprietors of a continent of vast resources.

It will be very difficult to shape governing mentalities, and reform the sheltered political process, which planted itself in modernity more than a century ago, and has sprouted dense foliage that needs severe pruning.  A popular sentiment took root - most especially thriving during Democrat Captivity - that has as its leading tenet a misconstrued conception of federal jurisdiction and public discretion.  Academic institutions and popular corporate media outlets have studiously propagated, and increasingly inculcated, a warped and expansive notion of federal authority to the populace at large, while also heavily editing the historical identity of the nation’s most treasured principles.  These menacing and expansive mentalities have become commonplace ideas that will not suddenly disappear any time soon.  Many minds are infected and conditioned with the expansive and expensive notions of federal authority and discretion.        

What American citizens need to do is peacefully reduce the corrupting travails of an excessively liberalized conception of enumerated powers, and its scrupulous accoutrement of adherents, structures, and barriers.  It will take the concerted and active efforts of liberty-loving citizens, and the states and localities they reside in, to turn back an increasing federal jurisdiction that grows with every crisis - real, imagined, or manufactured.  Every elected majority, and minority component, that recklessly reaches its treacherous tentacles deeper into our most personal lives need to be vigorously halted by the lawful acts of American citizens, the proprietors of government.  Every citizen that holds this nations interest at heart should rebuke any majority or minority that impedes on our national interests, and encroaches upon our most prized privileges and liberties as a free people of the globe.

The American system is not broken; American citizens are not using the system correctly.  Citizens have delegated too much power and discretion over to our public servants.  They are now elevated to the station of master, turning a group of 545 citizens, most of them millionaires, into the special diviners of destiny.  Americans are slowly engaging the rapid expansion of national debt and federal budget deficits run up by our public servants.  This spectacle did not just spring up on us, although, it drastically proceeded at a great rate over the last decade.  Obviously, dangerous foreign dispositions and the exploits to reduce them, combined with domestic economic turmoil and paternalistic policies, are enormous catalysts exacerbating our numerous social stressors. 

What are Americans doing with our federal system?  What are our “public servants” doing for us? Are there any citizens other than the obnoxious opportunists taking advantage of civic discontent that wants to lead this great nation into the twenty-first century?  What are they doing for us, and the nation?  Our public servants are driving recklessly on the road of debt, one day, if the current journey persists, delivering America to the doorstep of insolvency and national disgrace, where America’s domestic detractors and foreign adversaries are waiting to take advantage. 

If anyone has forgotten, American citizens are the masters, and elected and non-elected public employees - who are citizens, and definitely a minority interest – are, in fact, the servants.  This relationship has eroded over time.  The status quo, the danger of complacency, and all the perverse purveyors perpetuating it, will not be able to prevail this time around.  They must submit to the legal and legitimate grievances of American citizens, or get out of the way, step aside, retire, find another vocation, so this nation can move forward in the twenty-first century, not cling on to twentieth century constraints, mentalities, and structures. 

Americans are actively pursuing all instances of federal jurisdiction, power, and discretion, and trying to curtail the horrendous deviations that have occurred over time.  One of the few duties of the federal government is our national defense, without which, we cannot give anything to future generations.  Debts do not matter if peace and liberty are not present.  We can only possess Liberty and Independence when we have sufficient defenses against foreign assailants, and our own menacing majorities and minorities.  When the extremes line up, American citizens unite and determine the mediating remedy, according to the various charters of freedom given to us by our ancestors, and woven into the fabric of common law traditions, and human history.  The arbitrary whims of tyrants and brutes ultimately wither away in the face of Liberty’s awesome light of freedom.  The varying extremes of majorities and minorities always end up yielding to the laws governing our republic, which enable us to have Liberty and Independence as a people and nation. 

Rebirth of Republicanism

After the signing of the United States Constitution, September, 1787, a Philadelphian approached Ben Franklin, delegate from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and asked the elderly patriot what he and the other delegates created during their lengthy service on that grand council. Franklin’s well-known response to the lady was, quite simply, “a republic, if you can keep it.”

This was not a temporary proposition existing for, and during, that marvelous generation of human history; it’s a permanent proposition strenuously carried forward by every generation since that founding forum of public servants put into place the governing structure we still reside in today. The notion of a republic is fundamental to this American system and our national character. In case you did not realize it, our Republic is not broken; honestly, for the moment, it’s not being used correctly by American citizens. We need to properly utilize and persistently pursue the constitutional mechanisms already in place to obtain national prosperity and personal advancement, according to the lawful dictates of the proprietors of this government, American citizens.


When the American Republic came into existence, and this unique federal arrangement was placed in motion, its primary purpose was to protect citizen liberties by attending to specific, and limited, national duties and functions. The rights and privileges the founding generation fought and died for have, thankfully, increased over the last two centuries, mostly for our mutual benefit and common national advantage, possessing greater suffrage now then ever before. Americans inherited perpetual immunities from their ancestors, as laid forth in the founding charters of freedom, to keep them safe from arbitrary power. The first American citizens sanctified this system with legislative precedents and the noble deeds of many participants. The American Republic requires a moderating administration. It must be administered by a vigilant and wise citizenry, drawn from our diverse state systems, to prevent the corrupting tendencies democratic, tyrannical, regional, and anarchical innovations have on the precarious flame of Liberty.

At a moment’s notice, amidst popular discontent, radical intrusions descend upon Liberty’s light of justice, inhibiting the flame’s substance, keeping the rest of us in darkness, where we can’t see our similarities, wearily groping for meaning and truth, until the light is suddenly turned on once again. The American experiment in self-government is a genuinely conservative endeavor to control the corrosive, but natural, excesses a free society exhibits. Too much government is as dangerous to a free people’s Liberty as not enough government. These extremes require adequate responses from tempered citizens who hold true to the sound, steady, and moderate principles of American republicanism.

Liberty is a liberal concept. There are devastating, but very natural, elements that come with freedom. Determined extremes prosper in an unregulated and unchecked atmosphere, where law and morality are disregarded with impunity. Fear and distrust create an environment for pain and suspicion to thrive in, producing timid dispositions in the people’s spirit that cowers in front of perplexing adversities, always willing to gravitate toward the blissful allurement of demagogues and rogues playing on paralyzing apprehensions. Liberty’s naturally occurring extremes ravage reason and logic. They formulate premises based on ignorant prejudices, lazy inquiries, arriving at false assumptions, and arrogantly determining who gets Liberty, and who does not.

These unregulated instances of social folly and personal depravity are as ancient as the flame of Liberty itself. True American conservatism is not housed in, or currently attached to, any one particular individual, party, or entity. The American people are the superintending vehicle for securing our Liberty. We have not surrendered our sovereignty as a people or a nation to any constituency other than our national interest. Liberty is our only constituent. Our sacred benefits must be conserved by an enlightened band of virtuous citizens peacefully participating in humanity’s greatest civic project, conducted on a daily basis, right here in America. In order for this cherished adventure to be successful there needs to be a clear and principled political philosophy, articulated and enacted by serious and credible citizens fervently adhering to the best tenets of republicanism, aligned with national interests, not with parochial hindrances.

The idea of Republicanism, having nothing to do with any political party, per se, is a unifying concept. It crosses state and party lines, and follows in the light of freedom, justice, and mercy. Every citizen has the same solemn obligation, and a profound duty, to protect, preserve, and extend Liberty’s flame so it shines for posterity, not turned into an enraged inferno, or a smoldering ember, yielding nothing but instability. This is civic virtue, citizens acting selflessly for the betterment of the nation and the liberties of all people. Any citizen that diminishes liberties, and weakens the bond of Union, should be shunned. Each and every citizen possesses equal rights under the law. We do not possess a right to equal physical and mental faculties derived from nature, nor an equal possession or distribution of property. Republicanism contains a great, yet difficult, end to obtain: to keep and preserve every citizen’s life, liberty, and property, while remaining an independent people and country of the globe. Until there are just and proper voices in America, there will cease to be a legitimate vehicle to conserve Liberty’s precious resources that we have graciously cultivated for two centuries, holding them very dear in our hearts and minds.

It seems, at least to this independent and free mind, that our social dialogue is fatigued. The campaign mentality is never ending. It is mired down in a maniacal maze of caricatures, cynically constructed by a self-interested and highly influential element, administering an elaborately well-arranged popular structure that distorts the American narrative, filling it up with specious assumptions, partisan dissimulation, contorted history, demonic denunciations, and profuse fiscal and moral profligacy by public servants, elected and not elected. All of these disturbing public and private spectacles are blatantly occurring out in the open for all eyes to witness. This noble nation and the sacred liberties it stands to protect, blows in the brutal winds of political profit, as we contend with increased fiscal disorder and dangerous foreign dispositions. These troublesome symptoms emanate from the dismal, yet fleeting, source of discontent and confusion that follows a leaderless people, dwells in a vacuous public discourse, and invites civic inactivity.

For the last fifty years, the Democrat Party has virtually controlled both Houses of Congress. This ruinous reign is the cause of our current duress. Since 1960, Democrat majorities controlled twenty congressional House sessions, forty years, and roughly sixteen Senate sessions. Democrat experiments with our governing institutions have brought us too close to national disgrace and insolvency. The Democrat Party deserves blame for increasing federal power and jurisdiction, our shameful propensity to borrow, tax, and spend, and all the inequities built into the tax code, along with all the other unnecessary and wasteful incidentals embedded in every federal department and agency. Democrats deserve praise for increasing liberties, but, for the most part, they, and the American people in general, needed severe prodding. Democrat majorities, and all their active and passive participants, were the grand facilitator of this pernicious incremental federal expansion of discretionary power. They enacted bureaucratic entanglements that inhibit efficiencies, dispensed public disbursements that nourish an unjust system, which has risen to great heights, and reaches into the depths of our most personal activities. This expansive and expensive system can no longer be sustained under current policy, and no longer conducive for prosperity.

The fifty year reign of Democrat majorities over the federal lawmaking branches, particularly the purse strings, sprinkled in with a few sympathetic presidencies, was set in place during a severe economic disturbance that was, at that time, the worst any citizen had ever witnessed or even heard about. Sure there were booms, panics, surpluses, and recessions along the way, but they were more cyclical and seasonal in nature, temporary instances of supply and demand imbalances, and all of those volatile times worsened public perceptions and confidence at some level. However, the Great Depression that settled in - most severely three years after the Crash of 1929, which was preceded by a decade long rapid growth phase after Word War I – created a national economic dislocation, more global in nature, with more lasting and devastating effects, in which American citizens and their governing and economic institutions did not have adequate capabilities and responses to contend with the scope, magnitude, and ferocity of events.

Reactionary measures to this massive societal disruption swiftly altered the relationship between citizens, states, and the federal government. A major shift in the balance of power occurred, in some areas welcomed and warranted, and, in other areas, intrusive and misguided.  This was all done with the consent of the governed, and majorities of Congress. Of course, there were not as many people back then that were allowed to participate in governing decisions as there are today. This is a great enhancement of Liberty that is well appreciated. This generation should consent to the peaceful and tempered diminution of federal authority and public discretion, especially in those areas it was not intended to have jurisdiction.

Enter the new and improved Democrat Party. Raised from the ashes of the Confederacy, Democrats gained more national prominence during the depression era, and the new leader of the party, Franklin Roosevelt, assumed and held office during one of the most harrowing episodes in American history. There were no easy, clean, and simple ways out of the national turmoil of the 1930’s. Academic disputes still rage over the many reasons for getting into, and out of, the Great Depression. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that the stock market returned to 1929 levels, which came with enormous capital destruction, and the devastation of so many lives during World War II and the Korean War.

What did occur during the most chaotic social atmosphere since the American Civil War was that Democrat majorities grew, nationally and in states, and those majorities were able to enact very expansive and extensive instances of federal power, and a structure to further its aims, at, possibly, the greatest rate than at any other time since the American Civil War. By 1960, the wave of Democrat power and arrogance took over the federal reins.  Many of the expansionist mentalities and programs from the depression era were in place by 1960.  Since 1960, Democrat control over Capitol Hill, and our individual lives, dramatically increased, and is now being challenged.  American citizens need a Rooseveltian leader espousing the great principles of republicanism to every citizen, so we can have fifty years of conservative mobilization to undue the most heinous alterations enacted by Democrat hegemony, and advance our common Liberty further along.

The challenge for Americans today is to dismantle the most ruinous innovations erected by a number of Democrat majorities, and their willing associates, in and out of government. This is not to say all and every policy emanating from the Democrat stranglehold over the national legislature was ill judged and extra constitutional. It will not take one or two congressional sessions to reduce the awful private and public obstacles and dependencies extended over the last half century. It will take at least a generational effort, with difficult and tempered curtailments of congressional power and discretion, to refine, restructure, and remove the frigid fetters and special favorites that our varying governing systems perpetuate and protect.

Today, the Democrat Party is controlled by a radically inclined political philosophy, inculcated most zealously throughout the last three decades. The philosophy is enamored with, and devout to, an excessively liberalized notion of federal power, and an agenda that seeks to perversely redefine the relationship between the federal government, its citizens, the states, and foreign entities, dangerously altering the balance of power, once again, in this republic. The old guard and entrenched Democrat elite - who are slowly, yet loudly, passing into the pages of history to teach the future what self-aggrandizement and arbitrary power looks like, when left unchecked - combined with current political careerists and salaried bureaucrats, have nurtured a social alliance between government, education, labor, and the media.

We are in the unfortunate position of living in an era where a new generation has taken over the Democrat party, and it is one that was cultivated by a curious social realignment initiative that was put in place, and up and running, over the last forty years. That once proud party of Jefferson and Jackson, who actually increased federal jurisdiction, has become the fertile nesting ground for an even more radicalized stream of consciousness. More recently, within the last half century, it is the Democrat operation that has controlled congressional power for decades before the Republican Party even sniffed a meaningful majority inCongress.

We are now witnessing the horrible realities of Democrat Captivity, which is slowly, but surely, coming to an end. What kind of an end is to be determined by the wise and virtuous citizens, on one hand, who cherish Liberty and savor Independence, and on the other hand, the ignorant dupes, flattering minions, and powerful partisans that will gladly lead the rest of us into abject Slavery and degrading federal Dependence. Don’t look to Europe, or any other country, for that matter, because they don’t have the answers, nor the level of freedom we have in America.

There are a few holdovers from the age of Democrat zealotry and control. Even some Republicans tried to lose the ineffectual practices of a minority stained by an inept ability to grow into a respected and sustainable governing majority. However, coming from such powerlessness for so many decades, Republicans learned how to get along by going along, so did the American people.  By the time the Republican Party found itself in control of Congress for the first time in decades, they showed too much deference to a burgeoning governing bureaucratic structure, a mentality of largess and entitlement, created by their predecessors, possessing no effective leadership to spread a cohesive conservative governing platform that actually rectifies the perverse projects conducted by Democrat majorities.

Republicans have often worked within the ever growing federal system, instead of dismantling the multi-layered intrusions instituted over time. Democrats have drastically increased and expanded federal power. Republicans, for the most part, went along with the intricately designed system they inherited. Certain discouraging Democrat sentiments have rubbed off on the Republican Party and the American people in general. The Republican Party must not be turned into a bastion for radical ideologies like the Democrat Party, imposing a rigid social order just as paternalistic and parochial as the one we find ourselves dealing with at this juncture in time.

This American system of government was intended to protect all of our liberties and privileges, not decide who gets special protection and benefits, as if Liberty is some switch that is flipped between constituencies every time power exchanges from one party to another. Never in American history - in all of human history at that - have more people been enfranchised with the gracious benefits of Liberty and Independence as the people living in America. Once a free citizenry enacts laws that only operate on certain citizens, for any reason, at any time, we cease to be equal under the law. The awful result is that justice, the rule of law, and due process, will ultimately suffer, bringing disgrace to the whole population of America, infecting our popular sentiments and mentalities with a poisonous virulent that deteriorates the precious bond of Liberty that binds every American to this Union of Republics.

Americans arrived at this social predicament, and the fiscal stressors that accompany it, with the help of our ancestors and contemporaries. Some day, we, too, will be ancestors. Now we are contemporaries. In order to provide for posterity, we must provide for ourselves, at this very moment in time. We must not be damned by a future generation for inactivity and indecisiveness. We must preserve and secure our own rights today, so posterity will be rewarded tomorrow. There will be a future generation of American citizens fifty years from now, let us try, today, and everyday hereafter, to leave future generations a workable republic, unified by the fabric of Liberty and the bond of Union that Americans love, and have cherished, for so long. Let the bright light of Liberty warm the hearts of patriots, and scorch the venal practices of all tyrants and brutes that assail human freedom, dignity, and independence.

During this point of fiscal distress and diminishing confidence in our governing apparatus, we do not need to start relinquishing more liberties and privileges to an increasingly centralizing force that has crept in over the last few decades. Our collective energies derive their life source from the level of Liberty we possess as a people and a nation. This republican system ceases to be a republican system if power becomes skewed to such an extent, and at such a rate, that it recognizes no boundaries, or is unjustly assumed, and kept, in one or a few segments of this vast federative Union. Power acquired by any particular entity does not automatically undermine law and justice. Menacing mentalities of majorities and minorities exerting more influence and power than they deserve are actual threats to a republican form of government when they make unusual approaches on our rights and privileges.

Liberty is the overarching objective, the prime mover, a keystone for the people of America. Republicanism is the political philosophy that explains it, and the motivating impulse that drives it. Liberty is not a special blessing dispensed by, and for, a few prodigious participating agents that determine the eligibility of the group of adherents. Liberty is a blessing for all human beings that roam this Earthly paradise of free will; not a privilege handed out to some; but, certainly, an objective embraced by all. American citizens are the lords of a vast realm of republican governments, not servants to a special caste of masters.

American citizens have more gracious treasures, avenues of expression, and an abundance of fabulous rewards and resources than any other people, of any other nation, at any other moment in human history. Americans are the largest free population in the world. We have the full capabilities, legitimate authority, and exacting fortitude, required of a free people, to handle any inconveniency hurled at us by the unforeseen consequences of our own actions, and the actions of malicious adversaries. Societal perplexities will always spring up along our common journey to live in political peace and enjoy personal happiness, among ourselves and with our neighbors, which is only possible when Liberty’s interest reigns.

All the ancient rights handed down to us over the centuries, we equally posses as citizens, and all of our rights and privileges can be considered collective. Do not be confused, we are merely a collection of independent citizens that retain the fundamental rights of speech; of religious worship; to be armed; to vote; to be secure from unwarranted invasions of our persons, places, and papers; to have a trial by jury; to confront witnesses and have the assistance of council; to have due compensation for property taken for a public purpose; the right not to be punished in cruel and unusual manners, without due process, and not to be held on excessive bail, or have habeas corpus revoked. American citizens enjoy these awesome rights - and the many more not mentioned here - equally. No single right is more important than any other. All of these rights exist so we can live in freedom.

We The People are a collection of individual citizens, from our respective states, who, on their own, or in any group, a majority or a minority, whenever constituted, can’t infringe upon any of these collective privileges and immunities, or act upon any law abiding individual who cherishes and protects these consecrated tokens Liberty has to offer each of us. It’s unconstitutional on its face for a people to even consent to the abolishment of any of the liberties that protect us from arbitrary power. American citizens need a rebirth of republicanism and civic virtue in order to conserve the flame of Liberty.

A Dense Cadre of Public Pilferers

     Madison, Wisconsin                                                  Associated Press


The political events unfolding in Madison, Wisconsin, and other states of our American union, are really bestial blows against a republican form of government. Certain elected public servants have brazenly abandoned the civic responsibilities entrusted to them by Wisconsin citizens. The whole electorate has an expectation, and rightly so, that public servants perform their duties, not avoid them by running away to a neighboring state. A relatively small number of deviant servants have obstructed due process by boldly evading parliamentary proceedings, neglecting the public trust temporarily placed in their hands. At the same time, another worrisome sect of non-elected public servants, aided by young and impressionable patrons, dressed in Soviet colors, and espousing antiquated anti-capitalist sentiments, captured the Wisconsin capitol building in a most brutish and despoiling manner, blatantly disrespecting the public’s property, as if these mobocrats were actually the true agents of all the wise and virtuous people of Wisconsin.

This is not the Paris Commune of 1848; it is somewhat similar to the Haymarket Riot of 1886, thankfully without the lead and dynamite, but plenty of anarchists to go around. There is more than enough room outside the capitol building, or in the ballot box, to peacefully assemble and assert first amendment rights in a proper manner that ascribes to the best tenets of civic participation and republican principles. Partisans have crowned themselves lords of the realm up there in Madison, Wisconsin, intimidating, disgracing, and exploiting the governing process. Their names should not even be mentioned, because they do nothing of value. The deed defines their creed, and resides in the public forum for all to dissect.


Wisconsin turmoil is not about protecting or advancing democracy and labor rights, as some of the well paid celebrified punditry, streaming through various mediums, choose to frame the debate; it is actually the last embolden strokes of a threatened bureaucratic elite, and the internecine fractures of an entrenched aristocracy, and both of these societal elements are pulling the rest of us in perverse directions. There are too many odious and long-standing practices that have nestled in our governing systems, taking a contrary path to the one that is clearly and legitimately marked by the rule of law, civic virtue, moral responsibility, and national interests. These four human conceptions converge to protect and promote the general welfare of the whole community, with an emphasis placed on the whole community. Right now, we have splintered factions in our midst that think they represent the whole community. What do you expect when there are many American citizens who do not vote and do not participate in this noble governing experiment? There is nothing virtuous or civic, good or just, about any of the licentious political displays, distorting combinations, and subversive natures that have manifested themselves in Madison, Wisconsin, in other state capitols, and inside the District of Columbia, generally.

We should not reward the misguided conduct of a few well placed participating actors; but, in fact, when they do manifest themselves in such a crude form, corralled in a public forum, for all of us to witness, every law-abiding citizen that cherishes common decency, tempered approaches, and a proper decorum should harshly condemn it when it rises above the law, and makes unusual and intrusive approaches on individual liberty. More importantly, the unlawful individuals maneuvering in the shadows deserve more scrutiny, but are harder to see than the public appearances, because the activities are conducted under the cover of darkness.

At the moment, the whole population of Wisconsin is being rudely pushed aside by narrowed political interests, seen and unseen, which serve an elite cast of characters. This is a microcosm of our current political perplexities. An upsetting and unduly influential crew has breached the public peace, engaged in political manipulation and subterfuge, only to advance an insolent, paternalistic, outdated, and financially fatigued social agenda. The despicable denizens of absolute democracy that emerged in Madison disregarded the lawful pursuits of legal elections, abandoned the proper course of normal legislative procedure, and repudiated republican principles.

In Article Four, Section Four, of the U.S. Constitution, you know, that quaint piece of parchment ALL citizens, elected and non-elected, are bound to abide by, “[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” You may ask yourself what is a republican form of government? This notion will be explored with greater specificity in a future addition to this blog site. But, for the time being, there are many individuals who confuse the concepts of democracy and republic. They are not interchangeable governing systems, although, one may find superficial similarities between the two. When we begin to peel back the layers, specific differences are revealed between them, and the contrast becomes clearer to the enquirer.

A democracy, in the truest sense of the concept, is the absolute rule of a majority, whenever constituted, whether enlightened by reason or enraged by passion. A republican form of government attempts to hold majorities and minorities accountable to the rule of law, which maintains equal justice, to prevent any constituent component of our vast federative union from becoming too powerful and influential. If America was ever turned into an absolute democracy – as it was, momentarily, when marauding protestors in Madison took over the capitol building, acting like a troop of wildcats in heat - a majority could simply write any law, erect any procedure, appropriate any sum, perform any action, simply according to the sheer force of numbers, at any time a majority is conjured up, irrespective of how many assembly seats are occupied. It is slightly similar to a tyranny, not residing in a single person, but in a despotic rowdy mass. A republican form of government inserts several barriers of checks to avert democratic, tyrannical, and anarchical perversities from grinding away the fundamental rights and privileges bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

Spectacles of moral depravity conducted by public servants, and private citizens, are not new, and will not suddenly disappear from the human species, but they are real blemishes, nonetheless, when they occur. Private individuals do enough harm to society. If our public officials harbor these natural dispositions, and their actions are driven by distempered passions, it is a dangerous and unsteady proposition to contend with, and it will only end up tarnishing America’s national character, eventually bringing all of us disgrace, ultimately diminishing the sacred blessings of self-government that enable us to enjoy Liberty and Independence.

Most of our republican governments are snagged in a burdensome budgetary web. Various participants, active and passive, past and present, seen and unseen, have steadily increased its sticky grip, and the tacky fibers are being felt by many of us. Virtually all of our republican governments around the nation, particularly at the state and federal level, are trying to extricate themselves from an intricate fiscal entanglement. This feeble fabric of insolvency was first woven several decades ago. Many of our most notable ancestors, and several of our most dearly beloved contemporaries, have erected a number of burgeoning bureaucratic fiefdoms, supposedly instituted for our own protection and well being, but they are really stifling economic innovation and personal independence. Every government - local, state, and national - extracts a great measure of tribute, in some form or fashion, to support and sustain a consortium of legislative, administrative, and regulatory instruments. It’s a sad bit of commentary to even suggest, though, that most taxpayers, who are not considered wealthy, or elite, are in risk of becoming the vassals of feudal lords.

American taxpayers, wealthy and not so wealthy, by any reasonable standard used to define such an abstract term, have been called upon to provide for a multitude of unnecessary services and functions, most especially on the federal level, that only prop up and protect a retinue of salaried pensioners and their suckling regimes. Not only does this prospect divert valuable resources from citizens and their respective state governments, it adds distracting duties to the federal government. It’s now up to vigilant and law-abiding citizens to run straight forward in to the difficult task of peacefully dismantling the most burdensome feudal structures and wasteful inefficiencies that have placed many tortuous obstacles, and cultivated several debilitating relationships, that stand in the way of our local, state, and national interests. We need to return the light of prosperity to the true proprietors of this republic.

Citizens and public servants have a special relationship. Each of them have solemn obligations to the other, and share the same rights, when they enter into the public contract. We arrived at this point of budgetary duress and tax inequities because of the people’s active and passive support throughout the years. Our federal structure, more specifically, has amassed a public workforce, and assumed too many state and private responsibilities, that are wasting, and diverting, valuable resources from the national purse. The federal government has become one very large state government, and is losing focus on primary objectives. We should not passively sit around anymore as our public officials make extravagant disbursements on a multitude of misguided social adventures. Policies, guided by sincere intentions and zealous ideals, are concocted and conducted by numerous profiting fiefdoms, fervently supported by a dense cadre of public pilferers, squandering taxpayer money, only to perpetuate a nefarious nexus of patronage and nepotism.

It will be very difficult to deconstruct the most ruinous governing fiefdoms, especially those that have been built up and supported throughout the decades. Many have become formidable entities of self-interest, and every day these bureaucratic bastions remind us of their wasteful existence, and the enormous misapplication of public discretion and treasure that denotes their activities. Every bloated block laid over the years eventually rose to a great height that is now struggling under its own weight. The inhabitants on the other side have buttressed the towering walls with a large amount of influence and power. They usually keep quiet in their privileged fortress, at least during tranquil times, and under normal circumstances, hoarding particular expertise and specific information, using it to gain even more budgetary advantages and political leverage.

A mote of long standing legal precedents, and misconstrued congressional authority, encircles these intractable territories. This veneer of legitimacy that our ancestors have neatly constructed has finally succumbed to the erosion of time and circumstance. A new generation is standing on the verge of the realm, looking forward to the challenge that is before them. They have placed the well funded fiefdoms under legal siege, trying to contain the menacing misconstruction of enumerated powers, and slowly reducing the awful ramparts that protect them. The precious and uncertain path of Liberty, on every strenuous step advanced by the human species, has witnessed fabulous rewards and gracious benefits; although, several times along the way, many societal travesties and curious conundrums have accompanied us on this never-ending journey, every time we dutifully surmounted them, and it was never precise, clean, and easy.

A daunting task is right in front of American citizens, as it always is. We only muster a solid resolve when something has smacked us in the face. Do you know the story about closing the barn door after the horse has left the barn? Well, the horse has galloped away, running aimlessly in the pasture, with no rider holding the reins. As for the barn door, it, too, no longer exists. It was unhinged and torn asunder by utopia’s whimsical winds. As a matter of fact, the horse left the barn through the gaping holes in the walls, and the fences are in such disrepair, they did not keep the horse contained. It should also be noted, the horse was afraid the roof would collapse, and did not trust the maintenance crew’s repeated claims to fix it, even though the roof only leaks when it rains.

American citizens are now being forced to take a good hard look at the structure, gazing into the bowels of their governing institutions, and they do not like the fiscal incompetence, neglect, contempt, and excessive misuse of power they see. A great number of non-essential and un-elected public servants, who were supposed to maintain the structure, and who constitute a small minority of the general population, have become a burdensome bureaucratic barrier to real political reform. Many governing officials have become a special caste of scribes, and are a powerful lobbying force that propagates ruinous regulations and sophisticated social formulas. They are a formidable and influential class of taxpayer subsidized plunderers. They possess all the remedies, can accurately predict future outcomes, and will easily deploy political gimmicks, to rid human existence of natural plagues. Wise and attentive citizens are now scrutinizing every budget item and public servant, elected and non-elected, and determining if they have any utility, purpose, and constitutional necessity. No longer will American citizens have their hard earned wages arrogantly depleted by a group of unaccountable servants dispensing taxpayer money to themselves, and the self-interested favorites peddling profuse platforms.

The Demagogue’s Benevolent Disguise

The demagogues are out in full force. This elusive sort of species clings to a waning influence, covets a fleeting power, and boldly exploits unhinged passions. In the people’s name, they’re on a perpetual quest to seek out and destroy the multi-headed Hydra that will gobble up your fundamental rights and ancient privileges. Its flashy appearance is brilliant enough to even blind the most discerning eye. It descends from the lofty clouds in the sky, and freely dwells among mere mortals. It wears a benevolent disguise, holding all the answers, looking quite like a concerned patriot, but the garb that drapes this individual is patched together by an artifice of cynical sinews that reach out and encircle reason and logic until they are both confounded by an intricate design.


The human mind is fully equipped with the necessary capabilities needed to deconstruct the distorting devices hurled at it by external forces. It also has a unique ability to be stimulated by corrupting internal perceptions, and, finally, disgraced by corrosive actions. Every Liberty loving participant residing in this American Republic, possessing the requisite mental faculties, must engage in a rigorous and thorough effort to peacefully disassemble the demagogue’s self-interested subterfuge. Human history is filled with the manipulative engines of political profit, which wage an intractable and eternal contest to curry populist favor, and stoke public furor, for personal rewards, just at the right moment, when the time is ripe enough for the picking. All along the laborious path of human Liberty a wise and virtuous citizenry have persistently worn down the conniving charlatans that divide and conquer.

Every day the Sun shines across this great land of republican governments brings with it a new opportunity to seize upon. Opportunities are plentiful in America. Most citizens take full advantage of this natural resource that rejuvenates itself on a daily basis. A great majority of citizens engage in honest adventures for great personal advancement, with plenty of societal benefits for their family and friends. There are a few – very loud and visible - dishonest adventurers taking advantage of a large set of circumstances for personal gain, with no societal benefit attached. Opportunistic vagabonds are currently on a societal rampage across the nation. The diversity of exaggerated opinions, and outlandish assumptions, is truly outstanding, and the more moderate streams of consciousness is dangerously diluted in the process. We are constantly being subjected to extreme heresies that nurture doubt, coddle suspicion, and sour public sentiment. We cannot escape the daily bombardment of fallacious assertions and hasty generalizations that are fired indiscriminately in all directions.

Demagogue’s cherish a frenzied mass, obstruct due process, upset the rule of law, proper order, and republican principles, all the while gathering up a host of duplicitous flatterers that follow close by, waiting to be deployed on mass, fully exploited to fulfill nefarious enterprises that manufacture distracting sideshows to keep us busy. This crew of misdirecting partisan pillagers travel around America through various mediums, bringing with them a covered wagon filled up with ideal evils, ruinous frights, ghoulish specters, collusive connections, tortured conjectures, conspiratorial concoctions, destructive combinations, awful appearances, and malicious machinations that will be let loose, at a moment’s notice, amidst a chaotic atmosphere, if you dare disagree with them. Harrowing uncertainties always push human beings toward the quick and easy route. The false comfort zone of certainty finds shelter in counterfactual assertions, human invention, lazy dispositions, and utopian testimonies professed by vociferous personalities that cultivate civic unrest, and self-aggrandizement.

American history, and the history of humankind, is littered with the horrific claims of the end time, and the demise of America. Creatures of pending doom and the peddlers of prophetic disasters joyfully dance around reality, history, reason, and the truth, making you climb a mountain of woe, always engaged in a speculative endeavor that neatly conforms to future outcomes. Catastrophic visionaries and conjurers of condemnation possess their own truth, but are merely carnival curiosities left over from an ancient minstrel order, one that is as old as human imagination itself. Step right up and receive a fancied treat. The fortune tellers are handsomely paid. This celebrified breed finds a readied banquet of fears to feast on, and paranoid patrons to indulge. A highly vigilant, morally tempered, and enlightened citizenry is the only barrier that has a chance of containing the menacing wave of malignant marauders eroding the shores of Liberty, Justice, and Reason. When American citizens stand firmly united against profiteering plunderers of public trust, treasure, and republican virtue, will the demagogue finally be unmasked and seen for what it is; a corrupter of justice, defiler of truth, deceiver of perceptions, and, ultimately, a weaver of worrisome portents, one that will produce paralyzing and tantalizing conundrums that require exhausting efforts to expose.

We need to cast out our weir of reason and logic to catch the drifting diviner of devastating perplexities. We must have a tightly constructed fishing net, and utilize its full capabilities. You need to cast it often and far. Let it fall gently into the deep sea of human introspection to ensnare the bountiful prize that lurks below the surface. We need to haul our bounty to the surface, drag it to the craggy shore, empty the contents on the sandy beach, get on our hands and knees, and scrutinize the catch in the light of day, with a thorough examination, so it can be determined what is real or fake. Plenty of things around here look safe to eat, but what is actually safe to eat is another investigation altogether that shows itself in the future. This laborious task is necessary for the existence of a republican government. Every now and again, the swift currents of time and circumstance churn up scrupulous specimen from the darkened depths of humanity, who prosper during the agitated turbulence emanating from a tempestuous environment. These fraudulent figures thrive on the unsettled brew that is drawn up from the lazy sediment, which is heaped into the swirling eddies of tyranny and anarchy, with a determined thrust, easily captured, then cravenly carried and deposited in a fantasy land of mystical ideals. Those who remain on the sound and unified bedrock, resisting the vexatious updraft of disorder, have a strong disposition not to be torn asunder by the whimsical fancies of shrewd and cunning characters seeking influence, fame, and power. Denounce the demagogue at every turn with reason and logic, and unmask its benevolent disguise for all to see.

The Sacred Bond of Union

When one tries to define the essence of the Union, the first objective for an inquisitive mind is to correctly identify the great formative principles and the national imperatives that caused the need to form a Union. American Liberty and Independence are the dual mandates that spawned the Union's special relationship with its constituent components, the states and the people. The Union's precious bond has been nurtured, protected, enlarged, and sustained for more than two centuries, and will possibly continue for two more centuries, so long as every citizen possesses a resilient reverence for the solemn obligations placed in their hands.


Every generation, for more than four hundred years, participated in a glorious production, courageously conducted out in the open for all eyes of the world to witness, and for all hearts to be comforted by a warm embrace. A marvelous cast of actors perform on this well lit stage. There is not a precise script written to be disseminated to a specific audience. There is not a single director providing absolute direction, nor are there a few profiting producers managing the whole process from a distant perch of wisdom. The bond that binds every citizen together is intimate, and in close proximity to all of us. This theatrical display of human invention is supported by the indissoluble fabric of freedom that entwines our passionate hearts and tempered minds.

This American Union of Republics is perpetual. It can only be strengthened and sustained by the merciful hands of vigilant citizens, lawfully acting through public councils that accomplish a beneficial advantage for the whole Union, while proliferating Liberty and Independence abroad. This demands a careful attention to our ancient charters of liberties that gave birth to freedom’s vessel, and the momentous history of its construction, so to make sure it proudly sails humanity's rambunctious seas with a firm purpose and steady resolve to transport the priceless jewels of human Liberty and Independence to unborn generations yet to draw a breath in freedom.

We are the beneficiaries of Liberty and Independence. They are both honorable commodities that Americans proudly cultivate, and cheerfully export. Nowhere on Earth have these rare elements been jealously cherished for so long, and in such a manner, as they have been in America. It is a spectacular process, pivoting on time and circumstances, how this ideal experiment turned out. When this Union was established, it was the only instrument of its kind. That seed spore of Liberty and Independence was taken by the eternal winds of humankind, virtuously spread across the nations of the globe, taking root in so many minds, and in so many hearts, which is a great testament of human history.

The friends of Liberty and Independence are now abundant and robust. America is one of the leading manufacturers of these shinning gems of human hope; however, we did not create these lofty notions, but definitely acted in a way that sought to preserve and extend them. They are magnificent resources from the distant ages of human history and achievement. America does not hoard, nor hide, these jewels from the rest of the world, it has generously shared these bountiful benefits with the honest people of the world that seek justice and freedom in their own time and style.

Every nation that sides with the friends of Liberty and Independence have made a determined commitment, and a virtuous pledge, to live in freedom while adhering to the universal practices of law, respect, and dignity. American citizens are not the only people that have the capacity to extract and unleash the enormous potential that is harnessed within the cherished bounties Liberty and Independence has provided for each of us. Each country of the globe is a sovereign entity, most have peaceful designs that follow the best practices of international relations, yet some continue to be hostile adversaries of the Liberty loving participants that join hands for common security.

Under the Union's nurturing embrace, Americans are the largest population of free people in the world. It is unfortunate that there are still too many people who do not feel the warmth of Liberty, and the dignity of Independence. American citizens are fortunate to be the sovereign proprietors of a vast continent of tremendous resources, gracious rewards, and profound responsibilities that are directly under our careful protection, requiring astute attention, and a merciful hand to administer. These highly valuable rarities are the special objects of this Union of Republican Governments, and the people who give their consent to its form and fashion. They are the legitimizing force propelling this great ship of Republics on a journey in self-government and civic virtue. We are all helmsmen on this vast voyage of personal discovery and human happiness. Each and every citizen holds a sacred trust that ultimately directs this virtuous vehicle of government toward a more secure and tranquil port, avoiding the tempting allurement of near-sighted adventures, and hastily arranged maneuvers for political expediency and reckless retribution. Our mutual destiny depends on the strength and duration of the Union's bond to assure that American Liberty and Independence does not disintegrate amidst the formidable adversaries and malicious manipulators of public peace, the rule of law, national sovereignty, equal justice, and human dignity.

The Union’s sole purpose is Liberty and Independence. It exists so that every American, and the individual states they reside in, can partake in the blessings of freedom, so to live in peace, happiness, and prosperity, among themselves, and with their friends. The Union exists to protect its integral parts from internal disorders and external subversion that inhibit our national interests. The Great Charter of American Government is the framework by which the Union’s stability, and agility, is actuated. In order for Liberty and Independence to exist, there must be domestic tranquility and external security. The Union, acting with a national voice and purpose only it can represent, commands respect, and holds a moral responsibility, to ensure that both prerequisites are strictly adhered to, and properly invested in. There is an explicit guarantee nestled in the charter of rights governing the conduct of this Union, it is simply to secure the blessings of Liberty and Independence that our ancestors have bestowed upon the citizens of America.

American government is a public corporation. Each citizen is a common shareholder with equal rights under the law. We are fully invested in a prime asset that comes with radiant rewards, as well as ruinous risks. We have a charter that guides our actions, and we elect board members to serve our interests, and an administrative apparatus sufficient enough to enforce the obligations we are all compelled to abide by. America has always been a commercial proposition. Many of the original colonies were entrepreneurial endeavors seeking profits, both spiritually and materially. Commercial vitality, and the freedom necessary to foster personal advancement, is one of the many primitive characteristics that constitute the essence of American Liberty and Independence. It is a fresh and enlightened spirit, emanating from a largely diverse and innovative moral force that is practically unparalleled in modernity. The extensive nature of American freedom and commerce requires a strong Union to manage the varied interests on this continent. We have cultivated an array of private and public alliances, with a wide range of freedom loving nations and friends all over the globe, that seek Liberty’s warm rays of hope, and the mutual honor and respect Independence brings to a free people.

The sanctity of the Union, and the sovereignty of our national Independence, will always exist to protect and preserve our consecrated liberties. The true barometer of our national character will only be determined by the level of law and justice that exists. America will continue to foster these great ideals at home and abroad with our commercial and strategic partners. The Union, and its governing system, is the tempered arbiter of our national will, molding disparate interests and parochial influences into a common voice with a superintending authority over specific national duties. The Union is a harmonizing venue. It assumes the various melodies, from a diversity of instruments, and renders them into one powerful movement, with one beautiful song. The Union's tune rings loud with Liberty and Independence, its vibrancy is carried by the universal notes of freedom.

Liberty, The Jewel of Humanity

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American citizens will correct any imbalances that arise under their governing system. The great human notion of Liberty is not some quaint ideal relegated to the romantic pages of a forgotten and neglected history book that is placed out of reach, way up high on a dark and dusty shelf, deep in the bowels of a vast labyrinth of human knowledge. It does not reside in a dim and distant realm of fantasy; nor is it a mythologized force of fiction contorting itself into gross heresies that injuriously attach themselves to ignorant minds. Liberty is a perpetual endeavor, a constant objective, and prime mover, for every human being.



In America, for several generations now, fundamental precepts of constitutional practice have been loosened and extended, at times, wholly justified by proper acts for a national advantage; but, too many times, though, and in all the wrong places, Liberty’s prime principles have been slackened by the people’s neglectful attitude toward the prize. Each and every one of the citizens in America - the proprietors of a free and independent nation, who give their consent, and assent, to be governed by publicly elected servants - have inherited a solemn duty to secure Liberty’s most treasured blessings. The chief token among them, and most honorable pursuit, is self-government. It is through this instrument of the people that the mechanism for immeasurable benefits and happiness can be fully actuated. It also has a naturally perverse propensity to increase its jurisdictional purview at the expense of individual liberties.


Self-government is a supreme blessing for human advancement made under the rule of law, while also being a dubious scourge of humanity. In America the dual propensity of Liberty’s extremes are best managed by the people through their government. This endeavor will best protect our unalienable rights, and more than capable of diminishing the destructive components of majorities and minorities that accompany Liberty. Americans are the actual participating agents driving this constitutional engine. It moves as they move, always nourishing the life source of Liberty and the pursuit of happiness it provides, forever fueling this grand experiment in republican government, self-control, and personal responsibility that deserves exacting scrutiny and a disciplined rigor on the part of every citizen.


It seems as though American citizens are faced with a crisis of confidence in their governing arrangement. This has been the case since its inception. That amorphous fourth branch, who reigns in this restless realm of Liberty, cannot be easily pinned down in a neatly constructed category. It is a futile effort even to define its true essence, or accurately predict its proper movement. This is merely a marvelous symptom common to all people, over thousands of years, yearning for freedom and peace during their particular epoch.


All along this wondrous journey there were obnoxious obstacles placed in the glorious path of Liberty. It is too bad that there will always be foreign and domestic agitators and assailants of Liberty, personal freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law, who manufacture, then exploit, a contentious atmosphere perpetuating the antagonizing vexations that continually divide and distort perceptions, cynically accumulating more power and influence over the general welfare, while supposedly acting in its interest. They dangerously conjure up instances of inequities, artificially predefined distinctions, which, ultimately, sours public sentiment, denigrates the national and moral character of America, all at great risk and peril of undermining the great republican principles America, and its Liberty, rests upon.


The current domestic perplexities American’s are faced with cannot be summed up into one succinctly constructed proposition. These intricacies of social existence are not new and unique phenomena to the human species, and do not wholly reside in the temporary structure of our governing systems, or our domestic sentiments, generally, they are eternally housed in every heart and mind. American citizens, and other independent nations and peoples of the world, are still trying to comprehend the essence of Liberty, and figure out the appropriate measures needed to protect its enormous blessings. A fundamental objective for every independent and sovereign people is the preservation of their lives, liberties, and properties, which, once obtained, then jealously maintained, provides an environment for peace and happiness to thrive in. This is the general welfare of the community. The American governing system, more specifically, has assumed a substantial weight not suited for its primary voyage. There have been several ambitious additions, driven by noble intentions, accumulated over several decades, and is now in need of measured relief. The general welfare of the whole community has all too often been unfairly sacrificed for narrow and parochial interests that drive the painful practices of political expediency and mutual animosity. The great ship of state is always listing about the unpredictable societal seas, and constantly requires serious correction during tempestuous storms so it does not become debris in the strand line on history’s barren shores.


Our resilient system has changed for the better, climbed and crashed through tumultuous waves of civic unrest, having more freedom now then before, yet, sadly to say, not enough, even today. Most changes were for the better, and we still sail the seas with great purpose and resolve. But, at several critical junctures in American history, there were changes spurned on by an advantageous atmosphere of civic discontent, which inevitably leads to revenge politics and division, ultimately bringing national turmoil, disgrace, and contention. Our distant ancestors, and several of our most notable contemporaries, enacted numerous alterations not intended to be attached to the federal vessel, which unduly increased federal weight, and created a disturbing and debilitating imbalance of federal dependencies.


Obviously, necessary and proper structural changes have occurred over time. We are in a better place now due to the changes that have occurred. It does not take a genius to see the gracious benefits flowing from those needed alterations; but, there have been many constitutional constructions, consequently, that have produced an array of troubling realities, and several unforeseen externalities, we are currently forced to address. These constitutional extravagances and perversions of our governing principles have been a work in progress for some time. Although the American experiment in self government is far larger than any single generation, executive administration, congressional session, judicial construction, or bureaucratic fiat, but when they compile suspicious schemes and pernicious precedents over time, they amount to commonplace and lasting occurrences that may be beneficial, or harmful, to the sanctity of Liberty, and not easily altered. The virtuous citizens of the American Republic will endure as long as Liberty’s flame remains a well-regulated light for all to see and touch.


This republican system was erected because Liberty needed a sturdier and more moderate device to protect it from the passionate ravages and ignorance human beings act upon; the natural and destructive adversaries of Liberty are in direct opposition to the countervailing forces of peace, justice, equality, and happiness. A perpetual set of human crises has existed for more than a thousand centuries, they lay in the careful maintenance of Liberty’s delicate flame, and the control over its propensity to be smothered, or enraged into an uncontrollable inferno that is reminiscent of a state of nature. Liberty’s primitive extremes produce destruction, discontent, and division, and are usually accompanied by some form of tyranny, anarchy, or enslavement, of the body, mind, and spirit.


Innumerable generations have tangled with this eternal task given to us by our human ancestors, and yet the world is still teeming with all three maladies of societal perversion. When Liberty’s flame starts floundering and flickering we need to induce the embers, and reinvigorate the flame, with appropriate designs. On the other hand, when the flame starts to rage toward the heavens, and flees its well-regulated confines, we ease back on the fuel, and curtail its ferocity. Self-government, so far, is the best instrument to keep that flame under control, but only through the active, honest, and transparent operation of our governing apparatus will we be able to bequeath the blessings of Liberty to the unborn millions yearning to live in freedom. Each of us is personally responsible for safely transporting this jewel of humanity to another generation, and not let the flames consume the craft along the way.


Liberty is the object, self government is the actuator. How one attains it is dependent on the population that bears the legal responsibility to carefully maintain it. Liberty is a liberal notion, and its varying extremes carry destructive tendencies that undermine law and justice, the twin masts that help propel freedoms ship. The noble pilots of the revolutionary generation, just as imperfect as we are today – and, for sure, we are just as able at the helm – were faced with obscene obstacles that persist to this day. They installed a better regulator of Liberty’s ancient dual threats, tyranny and anarchy. These societal perversions have their origin in the intimate passions driving human action for thousands of years. These primitive aspirations are magnified in a large and free population. At times, human reason is dulled by the extreme elements that come with Liberty, and, at other times, enlightened by self-examination.


The relentless spirit of American freedom, and overbearing perseverance and purpose, swings with the peculiar circumstances of time and eternity. Never has there been so much freedom gained, and yet, we have so far to go, all of this being done without an accurate road map. History’s distant echoes tell us that Liberty is not easily controlled, let alone charted, and, at best, temporarily maintained. Liberty is an easier ideal to think about than it is to practice. The wise and virtuous citizens of America, and its future progeny, are in the enviable position to determine their own destiny. We will continue to face unforeseen instances of turmoil that challenge the essence of human Liberty and our national dignity. There is not a hint of doubt in this free and independent mind that American citizens shall continue to responsibly regulate, and surprisingly surmount, Liberty’s extreme propensities, with a vigilant and honest operation of their government. Whether this generation has success or failure, is up to it to decide, the next generation has the same gracious chance. This august project of Liberty’s careful maintenance is eternally woven in the hearts and minds of human kind to protect and carry it forward.

Rush Holt's Crusading Democrat Hoard

WARNING: Do not break the law before, during, or after reading anything I mention.

Rush Holt is propped up by several contributions from political entities, some well known, and others not so. Public servants exist to serve in the interest of citizens they represent, and the constitution they take an oath to defend and uphold. Rush Holt abuses this precious public trust. We placed it in his hands to act on our behalf, and he has recklessly abandoned most of his constituents for partisan pursuits, special interests, and political profits. Mr. Holt lost his independence some time ago, and is continuing to sacrifice our general welfare for a radical element now in control of the Democratic Party and our Congress. Rush Holt will continue to surrender our interests to transient tentacles of civic pollution extending from a crusading Democrat horde that plunders taxpayers, pillages the public purse, and squeezes the economic vitality from our vibrant nation. 



The list of links found below only represents a tiny portion of the public record pertaining to Rush Holt’s campaign benefactors. They are a curious crew of special favorites peddling their influence through Rush Holt's open door policy. The wise citizens of New Jersey's 12th Congressional District must take their seat back on November 2, and forever closing it on Rush Holt and his collusive crew of cronies.


Rush D. Holt’s Campaign Disclosure Form 7/15/2010 - http://images.nictusa.com/pdf/804/10990911804/10990911804.pdf#navpanes=0

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/42503112.html?c=y – Holt Pac’s

http://www.ucforcalifornia.org/ucsf/bio/fec/?id=394&cycle=2009-2010 – Holt Pac’s

http://politics.usnews.com/congress/holt-rush/donors -

http://www.citizen.org/congress/article_redirect.cfm?ID=7188 – Holt Pac For Responsive Government

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/fec/?id=394&cycle=2003-2004 – Holt Pac’s

http://www.cleanupwashington.org/sii/sii_tables_member.cfm?Names=76 – Holt contributors

http://app.mlogic.mobi/news.jsp?key=334983&rc=ne&p=2 – Holt & Goldman Sachs money $31,000

$5000 to Holt 5/17/2010 - National Community Action Fund - CAP-PAC SEPARATE SEGREGATED FUND - http://www.ncaf.org/ ; NJ Chapter- http://www.njcaanet.org/ ;Green job grants http://www.njba.org/pressReleases/?foundation_awards_grants -

$1500 & $5000 on 4/9/2010, LABORERS' POLITICAL LEAGUE-LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION Terence O’Sullivan, General President - http://www.liuna.org/tabid/69/Default.aspx ; LiUNA’s suspect disclosure activities flagged by Dept. of Labor 2007 - http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/07/liuna-applauds-senate-passage-of-financial-reform/# - http://laborers.com/USDOL-O'Sullivan.doc.htm ; worsening job picture by O’Sullivan - http://newsblaze.com/story/2010070208491700001.bw/topstory.html

$2500 & $2500 to Holt on 4/02/2010 - AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS/AFL-CIO http://www.aflcio.org/issues/education/vouchers.cfm - American Federation of Teachers http://www.aft.org/# - AFT Issues - http://www.aft.org/getinvolved/legislative_action.cfm - NJ Chapter - http://nj.aft.org/ - NJ Delegation ratings – Holt 100%- http://www.aflcio.org/issues/legislativealert/votes/index.cfm?location=House&termyear=2009&memberid=&statecode=NJ&act=3&Go.x=8&Go.y=7 –

$4000 to Holt on 3/31/2010 - THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS - BUILD POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE - http://www.nahb.org/ - http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/category/sectionID=188 – Issues - http://www.nahb.org/fileUpload_details.aspx?contentID=132899 – Freddie/Fannie support -

$5000 & $3000 to Holt on 3/31/2010 - NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE - http://www.ndcpac.com/ - Holt and the New Democrat Coalition Pac -

$1000 on 4/1/2010 & $1000 on 12/28/2009- AFSCME - http://www.afscme.org/ - Rally in Trenton - http://www.afscme.org/publications/28327.cfm - NJ Council - http://afscmenj.com/ - Political Activities - http://afscmenj.com/images/stories/volunteeractionteam.pdf - Agreement with NJ State http://afscmenj.com/images/stories/memorandumofagreement.pdf -

$2500 on 1/7/2010 & $2500 on 2/28/2010 - DRIVE PAC - Teamsters Union - http://www.teamster.org/content/about-drive -

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/FECCommitteeDetail.html?FECCommitteeID=1520 – Holt Pac’s

http://fec-political-committee.findthebest.com/detail/6190/RUSH-HOLT-FOR-CONGRESS - Rush Holt for Congress

http://www.phccweb.org/Contractor/WashingtonDetail.cfm?itemnumber=7361 – Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Association “PHCC was instrumental in helping U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) introduce water efficiency legislation that supports employing professional contractors.”


Rush Holt is personally and financially attached to the interests that support him. A majority of the total amount of money flowing into our congressman’s campaign treasure trove comes from special interests and corporate/Washington lobbyists outside of New Jersey or Princeton. They are the funding mechanism that enables Mr. Holt to spread falsehoods and construct nightmares that drive your passions. Mr. Holt has done their bidding, and now they do his, and that of the most radical elements in the Democratic Party. Democrats, and all the venomous vehicles of their apparatus, are pushing a sweeping social agenda, with vigorous and concerted efforts, while they still have a majority in Congress, to alter the relationship between American citizens and the federal government. The wise and free citizens of America must reconfigure the balance of power on November 2, and put these menacing elements in the minority where it belongs.