Is All Lost?
Posted in Back Door Politics by R Lee Wrights on November 1st, 2006 by Richard C. Evey, Libertarian & Patriot
On October 17, 2006, two bills were signed into law. The Military Commission Act, which suspends Habeas Corpus: the federal government can detain anyone without charges, there is federal government sanction torture and the use of hearsay evidence. The MCA was signed with some fanfare, little mainstream media coverage and a lot of alternative media coverage.
On that same day, in the privacy of the oval office, a despot who calls himself the president of the United States, signed Public Law 109-364, the “Defense Authorization Act” (DAA).
Section 1076 of Public Law 109-364 allows this despot to declare “Public Emergency” and “employ” the military anywhere in the United States, without consent of the state or local authorities, to “restore public order.” The law allows the Secretary of Defense to “provide supplies, services & equipment… to persons affected by the situation.” The law states that the Secretary of Defense “may provide supplies, services & equipment… as long as doing so will not interfere with the military preparedness.”
The law permits this despot and any despot in the future, to declare a “major public emergence” which includes “natural disasters, epidemic, serious public health emergences, terrorist attacks or incident” to “employ” the military even the National Guard from other states, to restore order and to supply or not to supply goods and services to the people effected.
This law in itself repeals the “Insurrection Act,” “Posse Comitatus Act” and effects Article III of the Bill of Rights, the stationing of military in private homes.
The Military Commission Act and the Defense Authorization Act affectedly establishes the police state and martial law when it rains too hard.
No matter who is in congress, DINO’s/ RINO’s, these laws will never be repealed, only changed to make them stronger and more powerful.
Are our rights, freedoms and liberties no more??
The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been dismissed and few have noticed, objected or maybe they do not even care.
When will the American people wake up to the fact that the president and congress do not care about them? The only thing that most members of congress and those who get into the oval office care about is how to cash in on that office and how to stay in that office as long as possible.
What can we do as citizens of this once great country of ours do to stop this madness?
There are four boxes of freedom: the jury box, the ballot box, the soapbox and the cartridge box.
The jury box does not work since people do not want to serve, lawyers will do everything possible to convince people to “take a plea” and judges want to rule on the cases themselves.
The ballot box does not work since we do not have the box but a machine and the machines do not work. The disappointment is that less than 50% of the people eligible to vote are not even registered to vote. The tragedy is that 35% of the registered voters even bother to vote, considering the choices we have when we go to the polls, can you blame them.
The soapbox has not worked since mainstream media controls the airways and they are controlled. Alternative media is working but they are not convincing the majority because they are not and will not listen.
With much regret, the only thing that may be left to us freedom loving patriots maybe the cartridge box.
God save the Republic.
Anonymous said,
November 2, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
“The disappointment is that less than 50% of the people eligible to vote are not even registered to vote. The tragedy is that 35% of the registered voters even bother to vote…”
I respectfully disagree with this analysis. The fact that less than half the people in this country don’t take part in the political process is neither a disappointment nor a tragedy; on the contrary, I believe it represents (1) the reality of human nature and (2) hope that someday freedom will prevail. Let me explain.
Government is defined as the organization holding the unique “right” to employ coercion as its means over a given territory (anyone else who does so is a criminal). This is the only objective, unambiguous definition of government that holds true for all governments past, present, and future. Government is founded on and depends on the principle of coercion. Voluntary association is the enemy of government. Imagine a society where everybody got along, lived peacefully among each other, and refused to employ coercion against one another — what’s in that for government? Absolutely nothing.
(The “social contract” theory is a logical impossibiliy: a person cannot volunteer himself to be subject to coercion, as the theory claims, just as he cannot force another person to volunteer. The two modes of human interaction, voluntary association and coercion, are mutually exclusive and opposite: that is what gives them meaning.)
So government — when you boil it down to its true objective reality — is simply coercion. What does the political process (i.e. the process of democracy) represent, then? It is simply the process of choosing who gets to hold this “right” to employ coercion. Remember, an individual cannot logically employ coercion against himself — coercion only has meaning in terms of interacting people.
So the fact that voting takes place does not, in any way, remove the core element of coercion from government.
With that, what can we say about the political (voting) process? We can certianly say that it promotes coercion. Voluntary association is found nowhere on the ballot — there is no option for “free choice”, “eliminate this position of power”, or even “none of the above”. Politicians are in the business of coercion, not voluntary association. (Sure, there is a very small handful who actually work to reduce, rather than expand, the powers of government over the individual. But for every Ron Paul working to roll back the coercive powers of government, there are 100 hawks working to seize even more power. History confirms it by a landslide: the US government of today dwarfs the US government of only 50, let alone 100 years ago, both in revenue and power over the people. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not because politicians are in the business of freedom.)
Therefore, it should be realized that when you vote, you are almost certainly voting for more coercion. You are voting to expand the powers of government — and consequently to oppress the freedom of the individual — because that is exactly what 99% of politicians will do.
I am proud that I refuse to take part in this corrupt game, and I am proud of everyone else who refuses. It doesn’t matter whether their reason for not voting is apathy or moral objection; I find it encouraging that so many people are simply uninterested in the political process, i.e. employing coercion as their means. After all, the man who only wishes to mind his own business and live in peace has no use for an organization specializing in coercion — certainly not one that has far surpassed the bounds of constitutionally limited government.
I don’t like the rules, and nobody has a right to force me to play the game. I have a natural right (god-given if you prefer) to complete and total self-ownership. Likewise, the “apathetic” population has a right to refuse as well. They are no enemy of mine — they threaten me with nothing, come to me with no demands, and they are certainly not accelerating the inevitable downward spiral into oppression. The voters who actually want something from government, want government to employ coercion against me on their behalf — those are the people who do me wrong.
Thanks for listening.
john galt said,
November 5, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
I’ll disagree as well. The ballot box doesn’t work anymore, either, because Diebold decides elections, not the electorate. As Josef Stalin once said, “He who votes decides nothing. He who counts the votes decides everything.” We must return to ALL paper ballots, stored in a transparent box, and counted in the presence of ANYONE who wishes to watch. Then, abolish political parties so candidates the People want to vote for aren’t locked out of the process by the machines. Until these things are done, all elections will be a farce and a sham.
James Anderson Merritt said,
November 5, 2006 @ 5:01 pm
From my own experience in the personal computer industry, I know that it is possible to have the benefits of electronic voting, but avoid the Diebold-style pitfalls by making all the mechanisms and the entire process transparent. Ballots could be encoded so that nobody but the voter in question (or someone with the voter’s cooperation) could verify that a particular ballot was his. Once the ballots were sufficiently randomized, they could be made public on the internet, so that anyone could privately archive the records, count the ballots, analyze the full results, look for patterns of fraud, etc. Error detection and correction codes could be used to ensure that only valid ballots were entered into the system. Any computer could print out a paper “ballot receipt,” which would include a tamper-proof, privacy-encoded version of the ballot information, which could easily be verified by the voter at any standard “reader” machine.
All the electronics and computer codes for this process could be in the public domain, always available for inspection by any interested member of the public.
We had the computer systems and the information theory to make all of this happen four years ago, when the Help America Vote Act was passed. So where is the system we need? Maybe the law should have been more honestly entitled, The Help Diebold and Sequoia Make a Killing and “Fix” US Elections Act.