(some) Anarchy in the USA
Posted by CelticBear on 16th November 2004
The following is a post of mine to a Web forum I’m a member of.
You know, it’s sad–between my day job, my on-the-side job, and with the emotion of the whole political atmosphere, I just haven’t been motivated or have the energy to post about anything else recently (can you tell?)
Maybe in a few weeks I can start blogging non-plolitical thoughts again. =)
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Originally posted by Ambrose
Didnt it say that the bills concerning a draft were brought up by Democrats?
If they did it just to make a point, it seems a waste and crap politics. I hate to realize that politicians can just go around having their fun introducing things their voters arent aware of nor spoke for. Perhaps that falls under the voters responsibility of watching their reps.
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It falls under the concept that politics is crap, period. When I was in High School and would read The Congressional Records for speech & debate, I realized just how crappy politics was. They do things up there almost every day they’re in session that would make the average citizen go “wha’ the fuh’?!” Introducing the most rediculous bills and resolutions, adding the most insane amendments and riders. Politics sucks, and it’s being done by childish, selfish, arrogant, elitests, no matter what the Party.
One thing that kills me about the “He voted against this,” “He voted against that,” is that people don’t realize that just about every bill that goes through the House and Senate usually gets a rider on it, or something added to it that often has little to nothing to do with the bill in question.
So if Senator X. gets accused of voting against reappropriation of some weapon system, what people may not know is that some other Senator very likely may have added a rider to the bill to provide funding for some committe to study the effects of solar flares on Kansan field mice. So the Senator may be voting against that bill because of the rider, knowing that someone else will be submitting another bill for the same weapon system thing next session. And the funny thing, that Kansas mice rider may have been added seriously, by the Senator from Kansas, in an attempt to get some pork barrel money for a pet project, or he may have added it KNOWING it would kill the bill.
It’s politics, and politics suck! And the reason politicians do this crap is because we’ve failed to keep them in line before government became too big, unwieldy, and an entity of its own beyond the people. They are overreaching their Constitutionally given powers by proposing bills and resolutions that have nothing to do with their original mandate, and it’s gotten out of control.
Take just a minute and read the Constitution’s declaration of the powers and limits of Congress:
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec9.html
( from: http://www.usconstitution.net/index.html )
After reading that (it’s not long) tell me where the Government has the power to make even half the laws they do over us?
It seems to me that our federal government has WAY overstepped its bounds, and over the years of not caring we’ve allowed it. By allowing for career politicians, we’ve allowed it.
This is the 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights:
“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.”
Sounds to me that the framers of the government meant for the Federal Government to have very limited, prescribed rights, and all else should be decided by the soverign states and the people themselves.
Read this part from the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
What they’re saying, and I completely agree, is that all men (and women of course) by default, have God-given rights and freedoms and liberties, and the purpose of government is to protect them. Not define them, not limit them, but to PROTECT them. Is our government doing that? Or is our government defining and limiting our rights and liberties?
In my oponion, our Government has become destructive of our pursuit of liberty and hapiness. And have wrested our consent from us. But perhaps we’ve allowed it….
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” — Wendell Phillips
We’ve stopped caring, stopped being vigilant. We let it happen. We have become complacent and let the government strip away our God given birthright of being free.
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” — Somerset Maugham
We have come to value our comfort too much. We don’t wanted to be bothered with making our own decisions. Raise our kids? Let the schools and TV do it. Fainess and justice? Let the lawyers in our frivelous lawsuit decide that. How to live our life? Let the government decide that.
The reason we’re not currently safe? Our lives are threatened by terrorists? Because we stopped being vigilant and allowed our government to get us involved in places where we have no right to be. Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Middle East in general. And now we’re paying the price of what happens when we allow our government to run our lives for us. Our life is no longer secure, our liberty is no longer secure, and the only refuge we have is to find false happiness in the crap we’re spoon fed.
The Declaration of Independence doesn’t give us the right to revolt, we have the right to begin with! It makes it obvious to us that we are in control of ourselves, should be in control of ourselves, and the government should serve us, not the other way around.
And if this were pre-1900 you’d see me with a rifle in one hand and a printing press at my command striking up the cause to take our government back!
But revolt by the people is no longer possible. Modern technology has helped us cure small pox and has made the it impossible for the people to rise up against the federally controlled military. Short of a military coup in the name of the people, the best we can do is try to vote back some of our rights. Make our politicians more accountable. make the process of law making more transparent so that all can see the process happen and understand it.
By the people, for the people.
2008: http://www.lp.org/
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1759
For the curious and philisophically mature:
http://www.blackcrayon.com/
http://www.anti-state.com/
http://www.againstpolitics.com/market_anarchism/
I have to add, just like I’m compelled to say that I believe in God every time I denounce the Bible as literal fact, that while I’m a Libertarian and a somewhat anarchist, Robert A. Heinlein was an idiot, chevanist, sexist, asshole pig. =)
If you read enough Libertarian/anarchist Internet stuff, you’ll know why I have to make that statement. =)
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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