There are primary purposes as detailed in the Preamble
Posted on 11/19/2015 1:37:19 AM PST by GonzoII
In my latest In Depth Analysis (The Question of Government Size and Scope), I discussed four issues that should be kept very much in mind before we reflexively turn to government, especially the highest level of government, to solve our problems. But one thing I deliberately avoided in that essay was a consideration of the purpose of government in the first place. I’d like to address that briefly here.
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But in the midst of all these attitudes, predispositions, and mood swings, we really ought to stop to ask ourselves: What, in the abstract, is the actual purpose of government? In both classical political theory and Catholic social teaching, government is not seen as a necessary evil, but neither is it seen as any sort of panacea. Both traditional sources of political theory recognize that man is a social being, that there is necessarily a public order through which we organize our common life together, and that the purpose of government is to secure the common good—not the individual good of each citizen, but the good common to all.
Thus it falls to government first and foremost to secure the peace of those within its jurisdiction. I don’t mean extended concepts of peace which hold that there is no peace when one person has problems that another doesn’t have, or when any person suffers. I mean freedom from physical attack, both external and internal—that is, the protective functions of the army and the police force.
Second, it falls to government to secure justice, that is, to be a public power which protects the basic personal and property rights of its citizens...
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This is what Leadership (both religious and political), in the search of some "We are One World Utopia", have gravely forgotten to the demise, health and well-being of the people they are supposed to lead and protect.
To loot the treasury?
Ping.
The answer, of course, is MUTUAL DEFENSE. It certainly wasn’t to redistribute wealth.
To maintain its existence at all costs. And to GROW.
According to fundamental law, as written by Thomas Jefferson and stated so well in the Declaration of Independence, all men have unalienable rights, “among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and it is to PRESERVE THESE RIGHTS, that governments are instituted among men.
2015: To combat white privelige
Based on federal actions, my question is..there’s law in this country now?
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breaches or fraud by the others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.
To strip you of your Constitutionally-protected, God-given rights and turn you into a third-world thinking slave.
Bastiat’s “The Law”. The purpose of government is mutual self defense. It meshes very well with the purpose of society (and society and government are distinctly different). The purpose of society is to provide an environment for the selection of mates, and equally important to that outcome, the mutual protection of wombs.
Societies that learn to successfully protect their wombs are societies that thrive.
Successful societies didn’t fashion the notion that it’s the men who go to war because they didn’t think women could fight. No.
Men go off to war because if 80% of men die protecting the society, 100% of wombs will still be filled. This is why older men/younger women has been historically approved.
The purpose of society is to protect wombs.
And that’s why abortion is killing more than babies. It’s destroying society.
Demographically, all the Western nations (including our own) are bringing in immigrants hand over fist to replace what they’ve lost by failing to protect and fill their wombs.
It won’t be successful.
But it should be telling that the specific immigrants being cultivate, here or abroad, are those willing to fill their wombs, willing to reproduce.
The problems we are seeing in the world as a result of demographics is the West, after a millennia of being profoundly successful in protecting their wombs, suddenly aren’t anymore. With devastating consequences.
Indeed, the primary strategy of Islam at this moment is to move in and then out-reproduce the West.
Societies that protect their wombs thrive. Those that don’t - die.
It is up to us, the sovereign people to reestablish the law.
To even the score with white men.
There are primary purposes as detailed in the Preamble
As someone once put it the real purpose of government is to protect the citizens from criminals and I would say criminal means anyone who would harm us for no reason, whether foreign or domestic but inevitably the government USURPS the function of the criminal and becomes a much greater threat to the citizens than criminals can ever be. Of course what happens is that the government is then the criminal but strangely enough most people will make excuses for the government when it is doing things to them that no criminal has ever done to them. If I began to walk around the neighborhood with a pistol and rob people while telling them that it is okay because I am doing good with the money I steal from them they would rightly call me insane and someone would kill me to protect the community but the government can do essentially the same thing and people will make excuses to say it is alright.
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