Fixing the federal government is not as difficult as you may think. by Stephen Aiken
(libertarian)
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Yes, we can have an impact on the unconstitutional behaver of the federal government, at the county and municipal level. Most of the federal agency and departments are unconstitutional, and the reason that they engage in this unconstitutional behaver is because we(the locals) demand it.
Our federal elected employees think that it is their job to bring home the bacon. NO IT IS NOT! It is their job to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and you DON'T uphold the Constitution by violating it. It is their job to say "the federal department of education is unconstitutional I'm not going to fund it", but they won't because they lack backbone. So the responsibility falls to the state elected employees to refuse to take the money that the federal government is constitutionally unauthorized to hand out but they won't because they lack backbone.
So the responsibility falls to the County elected employees to refuse to take the federal dollars unless the federal government as Constitutional authority to hand this money out. Up to now our County Commissioners have been also lack backbone, so therefore, we must demand that our County elected employees must have the necessary backbone to defend and uphold the U.S. Constitution by refusing to take money from the federal government unless the federal government is specifically authorized to hand the money out.
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Posted By: Dan Steward
Date: June 2, 2010 08:20:39 AM
I've given up on the U.S. Constitution to protect me or my freedoms. The reason why is that Big Bother can use any of it's agents from the county clerk on up to the SCOTUS to either set aside, interpret in a way hostile to liberty or just outright ignore our "rights" at their leisure.
Your best bet is to just try to live as free as you can.
Posted By: Dale Husband
Date: June 2, 2010 05:22:54 PM
"Our federal elected employees think that it is their job to bring home the bacon. NO IT IS NOT! It is their job to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and you DON'T uphold the Constitution by violating it. It is their job to say "the federal department of education is unconstitutional I'm not going to fund it", but they won't because they lack backbone. So the responsibility falls to the state elected employees to refuse to take the money that the federal government is constitutionally unauthorized to hand out but they won't because they lack backbone."
Or maybe they don't read the Constitution the same way you do. There are two ways to interpret it. The Conservative way would be to say "Whatever the Constitution does not command is forbidden." But that would deny the "freedom" you and most other Americans claim to beleive in. The Liberal way is "Whatever the Constitution does not forbid is permissible."
So, where in the Constitution does it say the federal government may not be involved in public education? Anywhere? Anyone want to point to a passage in it that says anything like, "Neither Congress nor the President shall have any oversight over the public education process"?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Does this mean by chance that delegated may mean just that and that the expropriation of powers not specifically "delegated" are in fact unconstitutional?
Posted By: Jahfre Fire Eater
Date: June 5, 2010 08:07:34 AM
Hi Stephen,
My wife and I are crusaders for local participation in constructive political behavior. I don't really care what rationale one uses for choosing their political tools and behavior, I just appreciate others taking an interest in shaping our local community and defending our right not to enslave future generations to the spending habits of our county commissioners today. Today we are saddled with commissioners who absolutely and wholeheartedly believe it is their duty to their neighbors to find as many sources of federal funds for "growth" projects...known to we fiscal conservatives as: "Perpetual Liabilities".
I made a flier that we have distributed at Commissioner meetings when they are pushing for spending my tax money to fund a study guaranteed to describe the most probable tactics for getting more federal funds flowing into our community. I don't have a way to share it online though.
Posted By: Jahfre Fire Eater
Date: June 5, 2010 08:24:25 AM
Hi Dan,
Good for you! I wish everyone could see that laws, words, intentions and expectations are not useful for protecting one's freedom. Only individual action to exercise or defend the exercising of rights will secure rights. Our Constitution, wonderful as it is in history, is the same flawed document that brought our nation to the brink of war-induced collapse of empire. Our Constitution has one glaring, erosive and fatal flaw, it depends on "the People" being a homogeneous herd where EVERYONE adheres to the rule of law. This is the same fallacy that most libertarian reason suffers from...the notion that "liberty" means "Freedom from" things we do not like. Homogeneity and Freedom From can only be attained as the result of constant and overwhelming force.
Any idea, even the idea of self-rule under the rule of law, that has at its core the assumption that "If everyone would just...." is a self-defeated idea. Thus, our Constitution has provided the means of its own demise...a herd-like belief in a fallacious premise that, in reality, results in our Constitution becoming a tool of oppression by those who control it rather than a protection of the people from the government.
There isn't any way to change this as far as I can tell. I feel fortunate to be living at this time to help shape the way history remembers how our experiment in liberty crumbled under the weight of the pursuit of "Freedom From" ideas we disagree with.
