The Suggested Stand Your Ground Movement’s Top Ten Agenda.
Stand Your Ground laws are making their way throughout America. Legislators are coming to realize that — unless they are corrupt — they will see more prestige and revenues from a healthy community than a crippled one, and that their careers can flourish with supportive, independent voters better than with a constituency of forever angry dependent voters. One of the indicators is the rush to invoke eminent domain, the taking of title of private real property on the claim that another can do more with it, presuming, of course that they’re sincere about improving blighted areas.
The purpose of any Stand Your Ground law or even a nationwide movement is to re-establish the values of personal and national sovereignty as understood by the people, not as understood by officials.
It doesn’t matter how wise or informed the officials may be – perhaps they are faster, smarter and better informed – but they’re misinformed on one thing, and that’s who runs the country, namely the People. Constituents. Citizens. Disregard for the wishes of the people indicates that the system has broken down and that officials disrespect the instructions of the people who hired them as executives, not as ruler.
We re-establish the nation through due process and follow-through. We use the law and we finish what we started. Beginning with:
1. Getting Involved. Leadership in Washington works best when citizens address Congress, and local governance works best when citizens get involved with community officials. This means that they have to hear from you. This means individuals, and by all communications means, from e-mail to telegrams, postal service, phone calls, talkradio, you name it. One of the surest ways for un-Americans to reign supreme is for real Americans to remain silent. Congress then, logically, believes that it has heard from constituents, when, in fact it has not. Notify Congress by way of your Representative. Keep it simple, keep it civil, and as one puts it, pithy. Remember that many officials are faithful to their oath and do not quarrel with citizens.
2. Institute a flat tax and repeal the federal income taxes. Too much money is spent on collection, dispute, settlement and accounting. All of these will be easier, and, of course, taxes would be fairer, when customers pay the new taxes at the time of purchase of whatever they want to buy; if you can afford the item with the accompanying set tax, then you must be able to afford the item, and that would be fair taxation, would it not? I like other benefits of the flat tax. Look into them.
Americans need to fund their government, and we all have to pay taxes or we don’t get roads, law enforcement and all the rest, but the heavy-handedness of the government can be neutralized when we go to a flat tax where that funding is met at the time of purchase.
3. Repeal all gun laws. Name one gun law that has stopped a crime. Just one. Name one gun law that reaches criminals to prevent a crime and name one gun law that doesn’t injure the rights of the innocent instead. Please. Criminals don’t obey the law, and at present, any legal act can be criminalized by way of a very selective enforcement. Selective enforcement can touch you, and never reach the criminal.
Violent crime in America isn’t committed by honest persons, but by those never touched by the more than 22,000 gun laws. It’s like an IRS for citizens where the criminals don’t have to pay the taxes, but you have to because you earn money and obey the law. It’s safe to criminalize the honest, and never touch crime. It’s unsafe to be unable to defend yourself and loved ones for fear of punishment for doing so.
At present, the United Nations is pressuring the United States to surrender your authority to the rest of the world. Where the Second Amendment protects the health of the rest of your rights – your sovereignty is protected by legal (and lethal ) force, yours – it’s a subject that cannot be ignored.
Repeal all gun laws, including any bills that even entertain cooperation with the U.N.
4. Hold officials accountable. From stealing archival documents to lying under oath, officials not only have a golden parachute, but a safety net waiting for them when they break the law of the land. Talk about selective enforcement . .
One of the most important, useful and sovereign items under this item is the repeal of immunity for police officers who abuse individuals under color of authority with positively no penalty. Case after case comes to my attention as well as to the attention of others on the subject of abuse not by the agency per se, but by individual officers and non-police who take weapons, mistake individuals, lose evidence, lose their service weapon and badge, break into the wrong house at night, shoot their partner or other dumb things with immunity. This is compounded by a code of silence and siege mentality.
Is this the kind of agency we can use? IS this the kind of agency Police Officers signed up for? One of the items on the Top Ten is to take away officer immunity from civil liability. And the great part is that we’d get a lot of support from other officers on this one who believe in the dignity of the uniform and the mission of law enforcement.
5. Correct the record. For all the devotion to including all sorts of diverse figures in history, who’s left out? Republicans. Americans may not have a high opinion of Republicans these days – who can when Republicans are not anatomically correct? Republicans have no spine – but it is Republicans who built the nation. It was Republicans who passed both – I said both – Civil Rights Acts against the protests of the Democrats, and it was Republicans who stopped the Ku Klux Klan, the terrorist arm of the Democrats, and it was the Republicans who abolished slavery.
But who knows this without research? It’s sort of forgotten in high school history texts. Correcting the record by including the material contributions of Republicans – the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy – means standing your ground. You can be in favor of your country, a republic – you can be republican – without joining any party. It’s a matter of values.
6. Cancel the planned RFID Chip implantation in humans and the Real ID Card requirements for 2007. The nation is in trouble from within when officials say they cannot tell the good guys from the bad guys. That’s not our problem. It’s an excuse, and not a legitimate dilemma. The heart of the threat of Real ID and RFID Chip tracking is not merely monitoring individuals, but of supervising you. As if you can’t feel the pressure already, you are today being told how to think and punished for what you think, you’re told what to eat, criticized if you don’t eat right, and much more, all allegedly in the interests of health, cost containment, tolerance and so-called benefits to come. When the technology permits, and it will, new Internet modems will contain RFID Readers to scan every RFID Chip you’ve brought into the house in jeans, food packaging, medications and other everyday items.
Alright, so I’m tracked. So what?
Well, you’re not only tracked, you’re supervised. Don’t forget about selective enforcement. Remember that privacy is a safeguard against mistake, abuse and retaliation, and privacy is an element of our larger concept, sovereignty.
Big Brother is not a person, and not likely to be; it is a movement of commerce, looting the nation for a payday on the basis of anti-crime policies and other alleged necessity. When Americans more fully understand your personal authority in fighting crime – not just a right to self-defense, but personal authority – you’ll begin to understand how little you need to depend on official agencies, and how much money and rights they’ve been taking for nothing.
7. Secure the Internet. World interests are demanding control of the Internet. The Internet is being torn in different directions. Remember that it’s a kind of sovereignty the way it is, and if you like it the way it is, then you’ll have to act to protect it. The greatest lesson of self-defense and the object lesson of New Orleans is that no one is going to do it for you. If world interests like the Internet so much, then use the United States as a model for prosperity. Go get yer own. If not, then it’s tough toenails. Go without. But keep yer mitts off our Internet.
8. Tort Reform and Crime Reform. Is it possible to go beyond being a nation of laws? Yes, when we move into becoming a nation of selective enforcement. Both civil and criminal litigation costs – both private attorney fees / awards and administrative prestige and clout in prosecution – are incentives to say to hell with the individual. They can be punished or intimidated by facing the enormity of expenses. Decriminalizing drugs, repeal of gun laws and various other approaches on the table can bring sanity, values and ethics back to law enforcement (also with the support of many, many professional law enforcement people). Defeating the War on Poverty, abandoning the War on Drugs and coming home from the War on Crime can bring back revenues, self-rule and self-respect. It’s time to bring back those troops, don’t you think..? It’s not even a matter of revenues – it’s about rights.
9. Stop The Removal Of The Cross. We are to enjoy freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. If you have a right to wear a turban in public, I have the right to pray. Your turban is a prayer of a sort, is it not? Scripture says that when you sing, you pray twice: is a turban or other clothing worn in pubic not a public prayer?
Understand that attacks on Christianity – litigation and otherwise – are nothing more than moves to silence opposing views; competitive views, views which can take control from leftists and keep it with people who prefer it. Those who would build and live in that world would live in a world of intolerance, hatred and tyranny. The stupid thing about that is that they would then eventually be untolerated. Leftism is not a political view in search of justice, it is an attitude of revenge.
Anxiety to remove a cross or any Christian symbol is personal, and has nothing to do with fairness, justice, politics or exclusion. It is purely a personal anxiety, and when made political, is purely a move to erase roots, to separate joy and comfort from others. Support for erasing or destroying symbols cherished by Americans is, of course, an attack on America, almost by pure definition.
Let me explain how all of these are defended.
Forget the case law authority for a second while we dwell on sovereignty, the core of what this is all about: when we object to something so embedded in our origins, we do not need to argue the case in legal terms, but in philosophical terms. People who attack America by removing symbols have no values shared by Americans. Put another way, we don’t have to prove anything to anybody. When courts even agree to hear the case, they forget how sovereign the concept is, as if it’s even open to hearing. That makes about as much sense as the court agreeing to hear why the judge should have a family, or even want to have gone to law school. Who needs to legally justify it?
No one.
As the shrinks say, “Why does what someone else does bug you?” Isn’t this the question we ask about the gay movement? Why isn’t this question good for the antagonists of faith?
The haters of religion — the haters of America’s symbols — are neurotic. And to cave to those impaired motives is to cooperate in giving away the nation for nothing.
10. Secure The Border. Hospital planning, highway planning, commerce, law enforcement, health care and all sorts of institutions and services are planned years in advance, and their capacity can be overloaded when more people than expected inundate the territory constructed in reliance on reasonable projections. Business benefits tremendously from the expanded customer base, and as such risks little in adapting to the new sales.Hospital planning, highway planning, commerce, law enforcement, health care and all sorts of institutions and services are planned years in advance, and their capacity can be overloaded when more people than expected inundate the territory constructed in reliance on reasonable projections. Business benefits tremendously from the expanded customer base, and as such risks little in adapting to the new sales.On the other hand, any adjustment by the system of services to the inundation takes time to effect – years – perhaps without much success as inundation grows and grows. This is not a matter of immigration, but of illegal entry, upsetting the capacity of all services to function in meeting unanticipated numbers. This works to the detriment of all, of course, except business.
In the middle are Congress, refusing to act on their single instruction from the people: secure the border, then we’ll address the rest. First things first.
This is why a Stand Your Ground movement must be born, and now.
I think you’ll find – if you don’t already suspect – that, when these are resolved by the will of the people, much of the rest of our dilemmas will take care of themselves. And liberals will become obsolete.
When the Founding Fathers declared this nation born and born alive because the citizens here are sovereign, they had just emerged from a fight where they knew what they didn’t want any more of; no more taxation without legitimacy and authority of the people in the bargain; no more warrants without oversight (jury); no more confiscation of weapons; no more imposition, intrusion and interference with the home. They knew what they didn’t want any more of.
Very much like what Americans are facing today.
The only way to keep what we have is to use your authority, not only in the Vote, but also in instructions to Congress throughout their term in office, year round. They are executives, appointed by the People. They don’t get an opinion, they get instructions.
And if they don’t hear from you, they’ll presume that you approve.
And that wouldn’t be very good for the country.
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John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth. John can also now be heard on MP3. His website is www.TransferOfWealth.net
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