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Posted on 04/25/2013 11:03:45 AM PDT by kreitzer
A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up and fix things.
Some think that certain groups of politicians will pull it together and fix things, or that one magnificent politician will ride in to fix things. Others think that certain members of the military will step in and slap the politicians back into line. And, I’m sure there are other variations.
There are several problems with this. I’ll start with the small issues:
It doesn’t happen. A lot of good people have latched on to one grand possibility after another, waiting for a good guy to save the day, and it just doesn’t happen. Thousands of hours of reading, writing and waiting are burned with each new “great light” who comes along with a promise to run the system in the “right” way, and give us liberty and truth. (Or whatever.) Lots of decent folks grab on to one pleasant dream after another, only to end up right back where they started… but poorer in time, energy and finances. Hope is a scam. It’s a dream of someday, somehow, getting something for nothing. People who hope do not act – they wait for other people to act. Hope is a tool to neuter a natural opposition: they sit and hope, and never act against you. Even the biblical meaning of hope is something more like expectation (or sometimes waiting) than the modern use of hope. Petitioning an abuser for compassion. The “good guys” are considered to be a few people inside the abusive government. But if the good guys were really good, wouldn’t they have dissociated themselves with an abuser some time ago? By pleading for the good guys to rise up, people are asking one sub-group of the abusers to save them from the rest of the abusers. However, they all work for the same operation; they all get paid out of the same offices; according to the same rulebook. And if the good guys are so willing to turn against their employers, why would they have waited until now? Movies. We all grew up in the company of movie heroes who rode in at the last minute to save the noble victims. From John Wayne to Star Trek to Bruce Willis, the story line differs little. These are pleasant stories, of course, but cinema is not reality, and hoping for it to become reality is something that we should get over prior to adulthood.
But, as I say, those are the smaller issues. Let’s move on to the serious ones. The Magic System
A lot of Americans believe that the American “Founders” created a system that automatically fixes itself. They talk about the “balance of powers,” and think that it will always save them from a tyrant. The balanced powers of the US Constitution, however, were trashed within fifteen years and doubly-trashed just a century ago.
In the Constitution, the states balanced the power of the national government (the one now in Washington, DC.) Not only did the states control half of the legislature, but they decided if and how they would implement the edicts of the national government. And that included deciding whether a law was constitutional or not.
This changed in 1803 with the Marbury v. Madison ruling. This ruling – taught as a work of genius in American schools – was a fraud against the US Constitution. In it, the Supreme Court held that they understood the Constitution better than James Madison, the man who wrote it!
But worse than even this, they held – with absolutely no basis – that it was they who would decide what was constitutional or not. The states were tossed aside. Even the sitting President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, called it “a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
Marbury’s Judicial review (the Supremes ruling on constitutionality) merely involves one branch of the national government providing a check on the other branches of the national government. After Marbury, no one could check the national government.
Washington DC was unleashed with Marbury v. Madison. What made it almighty was the 17th Amendment of 1913, which took the powers of the states and transferred them to Washington, by mandating the popular election of senators.
With senators being elected directly by the populace, the states were cut-out of the equation. In their place, political parties gained massive power, and nearly all power was consolidated in the city of Washington.
And so it is today. Washington is an unfettered beast. The system will NOT fix itself; the mechanisms to do that were lost a long time ago. The Easy Way Out
Standing up against a beast like Washington DC is scary, to be sure. Understandably, not many people want to do such a thing. But if the beast is abusing you, what other choice do you have? You can certainly avoid or evade the beast, but we all know that the beast hurts people it catches avoiding it, so the risk of doing this isn’t zero either.
So, what’s a person to do? They hate their abuse, but outright disobedience would be scary. Unfortunately, many people have come up with a third option: Get someone else to do it for you.
Lots of writers have done this, for example: Write flamboyantly about the abuses people face and stir them to “rise up against the power.” Fairly seldom does the writer take big risks himself – he just stirs up others to do the scary stuff.
Something very similar happens to basically moral people who don’t want to risk pain and suffering: they imagine good guys riding in to save them.
But, as I say, these are genuinely decent people, and they are willing to take smaller risks to help the good guys: They will spend time and money promoting them, and they will even accept name-calling in many cases. They just don’t want to become full-blown rebels and outcasts.
The result of this is predictable: abuse by the political class. If the politicians show them a viable possibility every election cycle, they’ll keep voting their way forever… and the hero never really has to show up. The Sad Truth
Let’s just say it:
No one is going to ride in and save you.
If you want things to get better, then YOU will have to make them better. YOU will have to stand up and take the arrows, yourself. Liberty, at this stage of human development, requires risk and pain.
I trust that you will remember the end of Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount: That it is not those who call upon his name who will be saved, but only those who DO the things he said.
Likewise in this situation, our only hope of salvation lies in DOING.
and...pray tell...what might the first clue have been...?????
Senper Wondering!
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The good guys left the building 19 Jan 09
Very good article by Paul Rosenberg. Thanks for posting.
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there were people in nazi germany who thought they were going to be saved to but they died by the millions
This is one of the best works of brutal in your face reality, I’ve seen in a while. Thank You for the smelling salts.
The MOTHER SHIP,,,
thanks for posting
We here know how true these remarks are.
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We are the battered wives of the GOPe, time to get a divorce. We have elected enough Yeah but morons.
Also, one very important Supreme Court clarification about Congress's powers that your probably never going to hear from Fx is the following. As mentioned in related threads, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially issues which Congress cannot justify under its Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Who is John Galt.
Cancel your cable for starters.
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Yep, the separation of powers has been destroyed.
Reading the Old Testament, about the destruction of Israel I am struck by the amazing parallels to what is happening in our country. The “good guys” are us, and the only thing that will save America is repentance to God.
AMEN!!! I have been studying the OT as well and your comments are spot on.
It’s funny how one step led to another in my life. I dumped tv in 1997. I bought a small farm in central KY in 2008. I moved there from my home of 45 years, Seattle, in Summer of 2011. It is becoming a spectacularly beautiful compound.
Actually PHYSICALLY fighting our government would be non-productive and suicidal. It would also be the wrong thing to do, based on what I reaed in my bible. However, starving the beast and educating others is a different matter.
Those were not good guys. Read the article again.
THAT bears repeating. Let that sink in folks - because Leftist/Socialists/Marxists who achieve the same level of power that they have in the USA today - have a hallmark history of genocide of their own people.
It's what "Progressives" do. It's what they insist happen to anyone who opposes or is perceived to be a threat to their religion.
As the writer of the OP correctly states, NO ONE is going to save us. NO ONE is going to save you, but yourself.
I'm not sure what this people are waiting for - I keep watching that 'line in the sand' getting erased and moved further and further back - until it's right to everyone's front door.
And then, given what I saw go down on video at Watertown, MA - like the Jews in Germany forced out of their homes at the point of machine guns to their heads - so too did American sheep willfully walk out of their own homes with hands on their heads when ordered.
Sadly, I now think a vast majority of Americans are going to willfully walk themselves into boxcars for death camps that they refuse to believe exist.
There is no longer any 'line in the sand' of defending to the death - our liberties.
The few who do - are going to be seen as Branch Davidians, deserving of their fate and hated by the vast majority of those who do not want the boat rocked.
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