The Left/Right Knockout Punch
columnist: Alex Wallenwein

Topic: Campaign for Liberty
ENFORCE FREEDOM - Police Your Government!

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Why does our government enforce so many unconstitutional laws on us? Because no one enforces the law our officials were given to live by on them. Here is how to change that.

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by Alex Wallenwein
(Conservative)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

On our nearly inevitable way to a police state under an absolute corporate dictatorship, there is plenty of "law enforcement" by our would-be rulers directed at us. The problem exists because nobody enforces the law (the Constitution and Bill of Rights) on them.

You Have The Power

The power to do so is absolutely in your hands.

Yes, I mean you; lonely, supposedly "powerless" little you. You have the absolute power to police your government.

How?

1. You have the freedom and power to vote out every representative of yours, whether at the federal, state, or local level, at will and for any reason;
2. You have the freedom and power to peacefully assemble and organize to help others to vote out theirs, as well.

To do so effectively and without defeating your purpose, you need to apply the most universal measuring stick for freedom in existence: the limitations placed upon federal government power by the organic law for the United States: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

It's Easy to Do

The Bill of Rights is particularly easy to enforce. Every American (other than Supreme Court justices) can understand the words "Congress shall make no law ..." that introduces the prohibitions of the First Amendment.

The best thing is, you don't even have to listen to the Supreme Court when it comes to interpreting the Bill of Rights as you determine whether you will vote an incumbent out of office You are the judge! Neither the Supreme Court, nor any other court, can limit your power to vote for or against any candidate for office in any way, for any reason, whatsoever.

There is also no statutory law against it (yet!) As long as you are eligible to vote, you can vote out any federal representative for any reason, no questions asked. The same thing goes for local and state elections, of course.

This is an awesome power!

Combine that power with the right to peacefully assemble that is guaranteed to you by the First Amendment, and you have the power to cut your representative back down to size. Combine with others to accomplish that same purpose, and you have the power to bring your government back under control. This gives you the power to, quite literally, enforce freedom!

At the federal level, you organize by congressional district. You examine your representative's voting record. Has he voted for laws like the USA Patriot Act or any other law that violates the rights and freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights?

If so, vote him out!

Has he voted to give the president money to fight an unconstitutional, undeclared war?

If so, vote him out!

Did he allow the executive branch to make and enforce executive orders that go beyond its express power as defined and limited by the Constitution?

Vote him out!

At the state and local level, you organize by state legislative district or city council precinct. You only have control over those who represent you, but you can always organize with others to help them control those who represent them, as well. Together, you will be a force to be reckoned with.

You're Not Alone

Do you think you are alone in your desire to be free?

Walk your neighborhood and simply ask your neighbors questions like "what do you think of the Patriot Act? Do you believe the government should be allowed to spy on your private phone calls and emails?

You will find you have many supporters of your cause.

Freedom is everybody's cause. We all disagree on this or that. There's nothing wrong with that. What we all have in common is that we want to preserve our right to disagree, and not only with each other, but with our elected lawmakers and their enforcers, as well.

In some states, you can even vote out judges (law interpreters) who issue unconstitutional rulings. Only once that right, that freedom to disagree, is guaranteed, only then can our ideological differences even come into play. Only then can we discuss them, decide which way we want to go, and then act on our decision.

The number one reason why the Founders drafted and ratified the Constitution was to make sure that this most essential of all freedoms is preserved. It protects all of us.

Our government's only legitimate role is to protect this freedom against infringement by others within the country, and to protect us from foreign invasion or overt attack from without. It has no right to infringe on this freedom itself. Any excuses our officials use for stepping outside of these strict parameters lead to tyranny. They turn lawmakers into lawbreakers.

We cannot leave the enforcement of these legal limitations to those who are supposed to be limited by them.

Stop the "Urging" - Start the Purging

Accountability is just a lame, empty word unless someone actually fires those who do us wrong.

Currently, no one is holding anyone accountable in public office. Yes, I know, there are citizen watchdog groups that "expose" civil servants who are guilty of wrongdoing. Occasionally, one of the things they do makes the press, and if the press gets on board and covers the issue and if it ticks enough people off, that servant may lose his job. But that is very rare.

Much too rare.

This approach relies on cooperation by the press. Other approaches rely on cooperation by law enforcement authorities or by the civil court process. None of these approaches is truly citizen-driven. Since the press is the government's "fourth branch", they are all government-driven.

Only when passing laws without constitutional authority (or in direct violation of constitutional prohibitions) results in immediate dismissal at the next election can it be said that our elected servants are truly being held accountable for what they do.

No public tongue-lashing by the press, no pleading, no cajoling, no "urging" to do something right for a change can have the same effect. It's time to stop the "urging" and start the purging. Cancer must be removed or radiated into oblivion, or the body dies. Asking it to "please stop metastasizing" means asking to die.

Forget Party Politics

Party politics is a sanctuary for elected lawbreakers.

It allows one lawbreaker to point at his opponent from the "opposing party" and convince his constituents that he is "even worse." Often,however, if not always, it turns out that the "lesser" evil quickly turns into the greater one if it is allowed to continue in office (aka "the Bush/Cheney effect").

Both major parties' primary reason for existence is to (a) come into, and (b) stay in, power. Everything else is merely being paid lip service to and regarded as secondary, if even relevant at all, by those in power.

Human nature guarantees that the very process of achieving that control twists and bends the less principled ones among us far enough into moral pretzels that the result is only too foreseeable. Because of that, voting along party lines is tantamount to constitutional suicide. It is the corrupt politician's panacea. It is the end-run around effective accountability, the "get out of jail free" card for law breaking lawmakers.

Teach your constituents that your party is the "good" party and your opponent's party is the "bad" one, and you can sit back and vote yourself and your buddies-in-crime more power and more money, almost at will, at any time.

A party will only be "good" if you are active in it, contribute to the formation of its platform, and then enforce that platform on your party officials. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Yet, just because a candidate runs under your party banner does not mean he is a "good" candidate. If, in your personal and exclusive opinion, he has violated his oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution, it is your patriotic duty to vote him out.

If you don't, you are an enabler of tyrants.

You may favor a candidate on social policy issues but if he has voted to pass a freedom-destroying and therefore unconstitutional law, vote him out, regardless.

Promises from lawbreakers mean nothing.

Police Your Government!

Only you can enforce the rule of law on your elected representatives. Only you can enforce freedom. Ultimately, only you can uphold the Constitution - and only if you do it will your elected representatives even think of doing it, as well.

The Campaign for Liberty is absolutely necesssary for restoring freedom in this country - but by itself, it is not enough. Like the human body needs red and white blood cells to survive, the American body politic certainly needs the fresh, new, freedom-loving blood the Campaign will bring to the halls of power - but it also needs a mechanism for removing diseased and corrupted 'elective tissue.' If you want to be effective in the Campaign, you need to fulfill both functions.

Become the police state's worst nightmare: police your government.

It's poetic justice and it's the right thing, the patriotic thing, to do. It is also great fun. The Founders gave you that freedom, and they bought it with their sweat, their pain, and their blood. .

Use it wisely.

"Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free." -- Dr. J. Reese Hunter

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