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For the Record ~ We Are NOT A Democracy!
American Chronicle ^
| October 8, 2006
| Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D.
Posted on 10/10/2006 8:35:41 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
What Does Sovereignty Mean to You?
In 1991 when globalism became a buzzword . . . Mel Hurtig who was the founder of the Council of Canadians, acknowledged the uniqueness of independent countries in contrast to a globalized world when he said:
The advantage of the nation-state is that it allows the people the freedom to determine their own future to the best of their ability. People of common values and inclinations [who] build traditions and develop a legal framework for the society they have evolved
for the preservation of their heritage, their culture, their moral standards, their ethics, and their customs. Different nations have different standards and values; and to the extent that democracy functions properly, these standards and values are reflected in the way the society functions.
"Ultimately, however, the globalization of hemispheric free trade runs counter to national independence, bringing each of the participating countries into a converged economic, political, and military structure. Think of it as a grand chess play, where the average citizen doesnt even make the grade of 'pawn'.
In 1931, Arnold Toynbee, who was Fabian socialist, a member of the Rhodes Round Table and a court historian for the British Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) which is a counterpart to America's Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) gave a speech to the Conference of Institutions for the Scientific Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen and said: If we are frank with ourselves, we shall admit that we are engaged on a deliberate and sustained and concentrated effort to impose limitations upon the sovereignty and independence of the fifty or sixty local sovereign independent States [he means countries such as Canada and America] which at present partition the habitable surface of the earth and divide the political allegiance of mankind.
". . . The harder we press our attack upon the idol [of sovereignty], the more pains we take to keep its priests and devotees in a fools paradiselapped in a false sense of security which will inhibit them from taking up arms in their idols defense. The local national state, invested with the attributes of sovereigntyis an abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not. It has stood in that place now . . . for four or five centuries. Our political task in our generation is to cast the abomination out . . . I will not prophesy. I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands . . . impugn[ing] the sovereignty of the local national states of the world . . ."
Ask Youself This . . .
How often have you heard people refer to America as a Democracy? When was the last time that you heard America referred to as a Republic? There is a very good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of Independence and our constitution do not even mentioned the word "democracy".
Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a democracy, or representative democracy. This is of course completely untrue. The Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and feared a democracy as much as a monarchy. They understood that the only entity that can take away the people's freedom is their own government, either by being too weak to protect them from external threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life.
Our forefathers knew very well the meaning of the word "democracy", and the history of democracies; and they were deliberately doing everything in their power to prevent having a democracy.
In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he chooses to solve a problem. The people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People. Many politicians have lost sight of that fact. I think we need to send them a message in November.
A Constitutional Republic has some similarities to democracy in that it uses democratic processes to elect representatives and pass new laws, etc. The critical difference lies in the fact that a Constitutional Republic has a Constitution that limits the powers of the government. It also spells out how the government is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing power between the different branches.
The goal of a Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy but what exists in America today is a far cry from the Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth.
Today we have DO have a mobocracy occurring in our streets all across America. Sadly, such mobocracy or 'mob rule' was endorsed and encouraged by Sen. John McCain who praised the recent wave of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations by saying . . . "if the protesters hang tough they will succeed in forcing Congress to liberalize immigration laws. If such demonstrations continue, I think we will have a bill for the President to sign soon . . . The more debate, the more demonstrations, the more likely we will prevail." He was of course referring to the Senate's massive illegal-alien amnesty bill S. 2611 which did in fact, pass. Was S. 2611 passed to appease the mob? If so, it is a perfect example of rule by mobocracy!(1)
Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution states: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion . . . Is it doing that?
Not only is our Constitution being ignored, the exact OPPOSITE is being encourage by John McCain and seconded by ALL those who voted for S. 2611 in the Senate. If you want to preserve the Constitutional Republic you should vote out of office . . . every single senator that voted for S. 2611.
Tom Tancredo who speaks to the treasonous position of those who would promote anarchy and mobocracy in our streets as said: "When I took the oath of office, it wasn't to my party or the President. It was to the Constitution."
However, rule by mobocracy is only a tiny part of what is happening here in America. The larger problem we are facing is related to those who would support and approve of mob rule. It is called tyranny. What is tyranny? Simply put, we are being governed by tyrants who have usurped the will of the people. Our government has become a raging bull elephant, no pun intended, and is totally out of control. We are well on the road to fascism, which was defined by Mussolini as the combining of capitalism and Communism.(1)
There is underway . . . a betrayal of the American people by a government cabal who are bent on destroying our sovereignty in order to create a North American Union. The miscreants include many who function at the highest levels in our government. Many hold membership in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission and pursue a subversive agenda. The cabal is deliberately circumventing the U.S. Congress and 'We the People' in blatant violation of our Constitution. Collectively they are committing TREASON. If you continue to believe that the illegal alien invasion is the biggest threat to America, you will never understand that there is something far more dangerous to our country called the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" (SPP). As bad as the illegal alien situation is . . . you will learn that this nation is in dire peril far exceeding the illegal alien problem.(1)
I urge you to educate yourself. If you have access to a computer you need to read what your own government has posted on their official websites such as the Whitehouse.gov, SPP.gov, State.gov and Canada.USembassy.gov (without the www). You will be aghast at the nearly complete destruction of our sovereignty, Bill of Rights, Constitution, laws, Republic, and freedoms they have ALREADY achieved. This heinous ongoing treason has been engineered by an entrenched cabal of legislators, courts, military brass, and government employees in this and prior administrations. The tyranny is being facilitated by hundreds of people embedded at all levels of the executive branch and Congress constituting a so called 'Shadow Government' who are working in concert to dismantle this country in plain sight. Their agenda was engineered by the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR) and kept secret by a deliberately silent media who work in collaboration by treating the America people like mushrooms. We are kept in the dark and fed you know what . . . mislead by their propaganda.(1)
If you don't have a computer, get one. It is the last bastion of freedom to information and knowledge left to 'We the People'. Ask questions. Think for yourself and be advised that our current congress is working hard to eliminate, curtail and control your access to the internet as we speak.
Always keep in mind as the balance of power continues to be usurped by the executive branch elevating the current president to a Dictator-in-Chief. Thomas Jefferson warned that . . . When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny.
- Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D., Treason Abounds ~ Gov't Cabal Plots North American Union (NAU), September 4, 2006, Stop The North American Union, TreasonAbounds.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: canamex; hemispheric; integration; nau; northamerican; pitchforkpat; semanticgames; sovereigntylost
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To: ableLight
Hamilton's grand design called for the "governor of United States" to be elected for a 7 year term and have monarchical powers. Not elected for life. Hamilton never proposed popular election for the presidency. For that we have to turn to James Wilson of Pennsylvania.
Some men at the Convention were ahead of their times. Mr. Pinckney of South Carolina was already thinking democratically along the lines of Andrew Jackson a generation later. Mr. Wilson was anticipating the Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Wilson was one of the lesser known Pennsylvanians present. (Franklin, of course, was the best known man in the world.) Wilson took seriously the idea that all power derived from the people. Toward the end of the Convention when the delegates began addressing the means of electing the president, Wilson decided to pitch his idea of direct popular vote to Madison. He invited "Jemmy" over for dinner.
Wilson set a goood table, and afterwards he took Madison out to his back yard where he had installed a putting green. Wilson had come from Scotland as a boy and still spoke with a Scottish burr. He was an avid golfer, but with Philadelpia lacking a good golf course, Wilson contented himself with the little green in his back yard.
He put a club in Madison's hands and attempted to teach him a good golf swing, all the while keeping up a one-sided conversation about his plan for electing the president by popular vote. (Wilson was tall while Madison was quite short, so I see a comical Mutt-and-Jeff image in this scene.)
Madison was polite, but he knew he would never be able to sell Wilson's idea. Hamilton, the lead Nationalist, viewed the people as "the mob" and would oppose it adamantly. The States' Men would never buy it because it de-emphasized the role of the states and pushed toward a consolidated union, something that had killed Hamilton's grand design on Day One.
Wilson's idea was a non-starter, and in the final days of the Convention, the Electoral College was cobbled together from a number of different plans. No one was happy with it, but it was the best that could be done.
In 1829, Jackson picked up where Wilon had left off.
(Headed for bed.)
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posted on
10/11/2006 12:05:45 AM PDT
by
Publius
(A = A)
To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
Once God has determined... I thought god was omnipotent.
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posted on
10/11/2006 12:07:51 AM PDT
by
killjoy
(Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
To: Publius
I thought the 17th Amendment was adopted in 1916.
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posted on
10/11/2006 12:09:04 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Hugo Chavez is the Devil! The podium still smells of sulfur...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I have 1913 as the date.
After Jackson, the Progressives had been pushing this idea through the late 19th Century along with open primary elections, initiative, referendum, recall, women's suffrage and the prohibition of alcohol. When Congress voted on it, the House was willing to go along with direct election of senators but not the Senate.
The states began to get antsy, and a movement began to invoke Article V. State after state petitioned Congress for a Convention for Proposing Amendments on this subject. When only one more state was required to force a convention call, the Senate blinked and voted for the amendment. It was ratified in record time.
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posted on
10/11/2006 12:17:40 AM PDT
by
Publius
(A = A)
To: hedgetrimmer
I know this and you know it, but the young skulls of mush in the public skrools are being taught otherwise.
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posted on
10/11/2006 12:27:39 AM PDT
by
kalee
To: Publius
When my Grandma died we found amongst her papers our lineage to join the DAR (that just MIGHT have been handy in history class in high school).
In any event, upon researching my GGGGG Grandpa who sat in the PA Assembly, I came across a letter that he and two others wrote to one B. Franklin expressing their concerns about the upcoming vote at the Constitutional Convention.
They expressed grave concern regarding the fact that the document left too open the possibilities that:
The American people would one day suffer an egregious tax burden.
And, that press might coagulate into a "cabal" that would attempt to undermine the country.
Go figure.
To: ableLight
To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
Once God has determined who is going to endure to the end, he will bring the answer to all our problems. The America of the future is going to make the 50's look like a nightmare in comparison to how good its going to be for the over-comers who inherit the land.You write as if man is not able to make choices.
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posted on
10/11/2006 3:52:27 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: hedgetrimmer
Hey, hedgetrimmer, you are going to love this one:
Ten Young Former Gangsters Start Businesses on Guatemala Reality Show
USAID invested about $300,000 in this project through the Global Development Alliance. USAID/Guatemala has put in another $900,000 over time. The Guatemalan private sector and federal government have supported the program, which is being carried out by Creative Associates.
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posted on
10/11/2006 4:11:52 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: maine-iac7
The Constitution now hangs by a thread, with vicious enemies within determined to cut that last thread. We the People will need to roll up our sleeves and fight hard and furious, as did the Founding Fathers, to keep that from happening.Children today are not taught about the value of the Constitution and add to that the apathy that abounds brought on by govt. largesse in the form of various aid and you are asking something nearly impossible.
50
posted on
10/11/2006 4:21:25 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: hedgetrimmer
God isn't necessarily a Republican but the devil surely is a democRAT.
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posted on
10/11/2006 4:25:27 AM PDT
by
G-Man 1
To: hedgetrimmer
Now, if we could only teach the "free traitors" this simple truth....
They're a stubborn bunch. IMO, they believe the NAU will bring them great prosperity using ignorant persons from other lands as slave labor. In the process, they are willing to bypass or overlook the environmental, cultural and religious ideals that make this country great. Their personalities are ingrained in a philosophy willing to attack and humiliate others into agreeing with their POV. Getting them to see beyond their narrow view will be a monumental task.
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posted on
10/11/2006 4:45:20 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(You can spit in our tacos and you can rape our dogs but, you can't take away our freedom!)
To: wolfcreek
Getting them to see beyond their narrow view will be a monumental task.Theirs is a backwards view as they are going backwards into slavery to make money. Slavery has never worked.
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posted on
10/11/2006 5:24:33 AM PDT
by
texastoo
("trash the treaties")
To: texastoo
Once the majority of people realize where this country is headed, I expect the decent ones will lash out.
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posted on
10/11/2006 6:00:13 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(You can spit in our tacos and you can rape our dogs but, you can't take away our freedom!)
To: hedgetrimmer
Representitives? Heck, pull up the text of any of Bush's speeches and see how many times he says the word "democracy".
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posted on
10/11/2006 6:05:42 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Well, my days of not taking your seriously are certainly coming to a middle)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Sorry, I have been very busy.
To: maine-iac7
We the People will need to roll up our sleeves and fight hard and furious, as did the Founding Fathers, to keep that from happening.
I couldn't agree with you more.
To: maine-iac7
Believe it and fight it or learn to live under Socialism.
Our choices with the two parties, are soviet style socialism, or council style corporatist fascism. Take your pick.
To: wolfcreek; Reaganwuzthebest
Once the majority of people realize where this country is headed, I expect the decent ones will lash out.We have let the free traders get away with too much. Their claim is that the economy is good so NAFTA is great. Reaganwusthebest said this paraphrase. The economy is good inspite of NAFTA.
NAFTA is one of the main reasons we have so much illegal immigration as Mexico was devastated with the implementation of NAFTA.
Never do the free traders take into consideration the cost of higher insurance premiums, hospital costs, uninsured motorist insurance, welfare,food stamps, ect. These costs are forced on us . I, myself, would prefer tariffs so I could pick and choose what I want.
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posted on
10/11/2006 6:34:26 AM PDT
by
texastoo
("trash the treaties")
To: raybbr
USAID invested about $300,000 in this project
Its the Americas project. God Bless Americas mi amigo!
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