Bring the Monster Out
When taxes become destructive they surpass the consent of the
governed bending to the will of tyranny. When regulations strangle
competition instead of securing it from evil combinations they become
counterproductive and defeat the very purpose for which they were
proposed. When foreign entanglements bleed the nation but do not secure
the peace or defeat the enemy they become interventionist vehicles for
vested interests.
When spending becomes a hemorrhaging of assists leading to national
bankruptcy those who continue to pile debt upon debt seek not the good
of the nation but instead its destruction. When leaders selected to
unite instead do all they can to divide they no longer advance the
interest of the whole and are instead partisan leaders in a factional
fight.
A
social contract is
one made between a people and their government. It is an agreement
whereby the people surrender certain aspects of their independence for
the guarantee of corporate security and the enjoyment of a general
welfare. In the case of most countries this is an unwritten and
unconscious arrangement built upon tradition and precedent as in the
case of England. However in the United States we have an actual
contract: the Constitution. This was ratified by the original states,
and the subsequent states were formed under it and admitted as full
partners to it.
All contracts may be legitimately changed over time as long as
there are mechanisms either within the document or established by the
document to do so. Within our Constitution there is an
amendment process,
and it has been amended twenty seven times so far. Whether we agree
with those amendments or not they have been legally ratified and
accepted becoming part of the document. However, over the years our
government structure has been changed, and our manner of life
transformed more by the informal changes of passing generations and
subsequent precedent than by the formal amendment process.
Nowhere in the Constitution is the central government given the
power to wage unending undeclared war. Nowhere is the central
government given the right to ignore the requirement to protect the
states from invasion. Nowhere is there found any basis for executive
orders, signing statements, or bureaucratic regulations having the force
of law without legislative action by Congress.
Well-connected rabble rousers now
say equality
will not be achieved until everything is equal in everybody’s house.
Leveling the playing field has finally thrown off its cloak of deceit
and exposed itself as from each according to their ability to each
according to their need. The professional civil rights entrepreneurs
who’ve extorted vast amounts of personal wealth with threats of boycotts
and demonstrations have been unmasked as the true purveyors of
prejudice seeking to keep race and gender differences alive for their
own benefit. Union bosses build political empires using the legally
forced dues of members with more money spent on political activity than
on member service. The union bosses ride in limousine comfort from
board meetings to political rallies while their members lose jobs.
The pensions of the bosses are golden parachutes while the pensions of
the members are underfunded.
The Land of the Free is held captive, locked in a two party system
where both parties are merely two heads on the same bird of prey. Both
parties are dedicated to more spending and bigger government. Both
parties exploit gerrymandering of districts and overwhelming corporate
donations to ensure a hierarchy of the perpetually re-elected using a
seniority system to enhance their power. Legal barriers exist at every
turn to stop any new parties from gaining access that might deflect the
central government from its ever increasing growth towards
totalitarianism.
When will enough be enough? When will citizens rise in their righteous indignation and demand not a
New Deal, not a
Great Society, a
New Frontier or a
Fundamentally Transformed America but
instead their original deal. The one we wrested from the hands of the
tyrant King George. The one we’ve fought to establish and defend from
Yorktown to Kandahar, and the right of a free people to live as they
choose, to work for their own benefits, and choose their own destiny.
Free from the smothering governmental control which has been the lot of
most people in most places since the beginning of time. When will the
yoke of tyranny become too heavy to be borne? What will be the spark
that lights the torches and brings the incensed villagers to the gate of
the castle demanding, “Bring the monster out!” so that a stake can be
driven through the heart of tyranny and freedom can return to the land?
When that day comes what will we the people do? Will we try to
resurrect the government of old that ultimately brought us full circle,
or will we be bold enough to forge anew the social contract and design
better ways to ensure the beast of tyranny doesn’t once again break the
chains of restraint?
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