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12/13/13, "A Government Separated from the People Cannot Stand," American Thinker, Lawrence Sellin
"The United States is now controlled by a Democratic and Republican ruling class that
transcends government and sees itself as distinct from the rest of
society and as the only element that may act on its behalf. The ruling
class considers those who resist it as having no moral or intellectual
right, and, only reluctantly, any civil right to do so.
Power
rests, not with the citizens, but with a relatively small group of
politicians and financiers, who enhance their personal wealth and
privilege by looting the country through a self-serving legislative
process. They maintain their authority by adjusting the levers of
government and using the establishment media to manipulate public
perception and opinion.
Barack
Obama, a coffeehouse communist, leads a dishonest and lawless cabal of
far-left ideologues, whose goal is to promote socialist policies that
can only be implemented at the expense of personal liberty.
Republican
leaders neither contest that view nor oppose their Democrat
counterparts because they do not want to challenge the ruling class,
they want to join it. The GOP leadership has gradually solidified its
choice to no longer represent what had been its constituency, but to
adopt the identity of junior partners in the ruling class.
There
is now a sharp division between the bipartisan ruling class and the
rest of the American populace, who are considered retrograde, racist,
and dysfunctional unless properly controlled by the dictates of central
authority.
When
blatant and outrageous lies are no longer sufficient to soothe the
electorate into complacency, such a government must begin to curtail
freedom and oppress the people in order to remain in power.
The
present political environment, that is, the separation between the
rulers and the ruled, bears comparison to the events leading up to the
American Revolution.
On January 10, 1776, nearly six months before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine published the forty-eight page pamphlet Common Sense, which openly presented arguments supporting the freedom of the American colonies from oppressive British rule.
According
to Paine, a society arises because individuals living alone in nature
find shared benefit by living together rather than remaining isolated....Only when moral virtue is inadequate to
restrain human evil, do laws become necessary; and only when a society
becomes too large to operate by collective agreement and as individual
enforcers of those laws do governments become necessary.
In
such circumstances, the balance between society and government will
determine the balance between individual liberty and functionality of
the society. In complex societies, in the absence of laws and
government, chaos will prevail. When laws become too numerous and
government too large, individual liberty suffers.
The efficiency and effectiveness of government are directly
dependent upon the trustworthiness of government officials
as
representatives and executors of the views and desires of the people.
In
other words, whenever the interests of government officials divert from
or are in conflict with those of the people, tyranny ensues.
The
attributes that best describe how America is now governed are
executive
overreach,
legislative complicity,
judicial partisanship, and
journalistic acquiescence.
The
erosion of the Constitution and the theft of our Constitutional rights
have been occurring incrementally and quietly over a long period of
time. With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, those efforts have
accelerated.
In contrast to what Thomas Paine wrote in The Rights of Man
(1791), the Obama "utopian" model sees individual rights as privileges,
not endowed by God, but granted via political charter, and, thereby,
legally revocable to ensure the "good order" of society. It is a
collectivist philosophy that directly conflicts with the principles
outlined in the Constitution, where government is a construct of and
accountable to its citizens, as Paine noted:
"The
fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his
own personal and sovereign right, entered into a contract with each
other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which
governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they
have a right to exist."
The Obama nightmare could be ended at any time simply by telling the truth.
To
do so, however, would expose the rampant corruption of our political
and media elite, reveal their complicity in Obama's violations of
Constitution, uncover their willful ignorance of his alleged felonies
and confirm their participation in the greatest election fraud and
Constitutional crisis in American history.
Both
the Democrat and Republican parties know that exposing Obama would
reveal their dereliction of duty, their complicity in undermining the
Constitution, and their continuous flouting of the rule of law. They
know that the truth would topple the corrupt status quo and terminate
their exclusive grip on political power, allowing the American people to
regain control of their government. The political and media elite will
do anything to prevent that.
The
status quo is no longer defensible. Unless there is a significant
reversal soon, it is only a matter of time that a catastrophe will be
upon us, which may well lead to national collapse and fragmentation.
The ruling elites of a now hopelessly corrupt political system are just one major blunder away from revolution."
"Lawrence
Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US
Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is
the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution. He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com."
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Two years ago a Sunday NY Times magazine piece spoke to GOP lobbyists about the problem of Tea Partiers with principles coming to the Beltway. It was expected the new people would become corrupted like the rest when they saw how much money could be made:
10/16/11, "Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.?" NY Times Magazine, Matt Bai
p. 4, "Like nearly every other establishment Republican I visited, (longtime GOP lobbyist Vin) Weber went out of his way to tell me how much he admired these Tea Party lawmakers and shared in their essential cause. “One thing I do notice about them,” he added, “is that when I ask them, ‘So how are you enjoying it?’ almost none of them will say, ‘Oh, jeez, I’m really loving this.’ They all say some version of, ‘This is not what I’d want to be doing,
Weber seemed genuinely surprised that this aversion to Washington didn’t melt away once they arrived in town.
“I can just tell you, when I came to Congress, we were rabble-rousers, but, boy, if you’d asked any of us six months into it how we were enjoying it, we’d have said this was the greatest opportunity of a lifetime,” Weber said. “It just struck me. And it’s part and parcel of this anti-government mind-set.”
I wondered if maybe the Tea Partiers’ contempt for Washington was just a kind of outsider’s shtick.
“I’d feel better about it if I thought it was,” Weber said glumly."...
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