Perhaps a dozen times every day, there is a message sent to me from any number of people and more than a few publications of how bad our current President is – if he actually won the election. He is called evil. Pictures of him with horns and a tail are passed around the internet, and sometimes the same message is sent by several of my friends and acquaintances. All of this is highly appreciated. For someone to send me a message is a compliment. But none of it is news.
In 2000, a man calling himself Barack Obama said in a televised interview that the Constitution is an “impediment to government”. He was absolutely correct.
The people of the British Colonies in the New World were tired of the impediments of the King of England that were imposed from the other side of a huge ocean. Fifty-two men signed a document declaring their independence from the king. It was a bold move to which those few brave or foolish men dedicated their fortunes, their sacred honor, and their very lives. This stellar event occurred on July 4th, 1776. Subsequent to the Declaration, and after much verbal wrangling, a Constitution was agreed upon. They compromised among themselves but would not compromise with the man who would keep them in chains.
The founders of this nation were the first to declare their individual rights and powers. But those rights and powers are universal, not reserved only for the Americans. “… all men are created equal…”-The Declaration of Independence.
Every line in the Constitution for the United States of America was designed to impede the government. The government being formed was to be limited in power and scope. Even the physical geographical area was limited. The power to manufacture (coin) and regulate the value of an exchange unit was granted to the new government. American dollars were put into circulation in the form of gold and silver coin. Gold and silver have been accepted as currency since the discovery of those two very beautiful and precious metals. Other nations, as well as individuals, would accept the medium for their goods and services.
An arbiter was needed to settle conflicts that might arise between and among the various States that would have memberships in the union (and with governments outside the union.) Each State had a method of settling disputes within their own borders, and even subdivisions within each State had their own methods of settling disputes and conduct at a local level. The people at the local levels granted to the State legislative bodies, duly elected, a bit of their power to act on their behalf. The power went from the people to a State and then to the federal government. At each level, the powers were limited. That was the beauty of the new government. The ultimate power was held by the people who were being governed, and the power was held jealously, in the beginning.
The impediment to an all-powerful government was the Constitution itself.
From the outset, though, the representatives of the bankers went to work to deprive the people of the power of creating and controlling their own money. Alexander Hamilton wanted a national bank with the power to control all of the money. He wanted a central bank that had the power to create fiat money. The power to create our own exchange unit based on a thing of value was a powerful notion that drove the bankers of the time mad.
Abraham “Dishonest Abe” Lincoln started the downfall of the union with the Civil War. The States had the right to secede from the union, but Lincoln interfered with the power of the States to exercise the right. The Federal Government started enacting laws that interfered with the daily lives of the people in the States (and the operation of the States.) Until the election of Woodrow Wilson, the people won many of the battles fought to continue the Union as it was initially intended. But Wilson’s actions on behalf of the International Bankers put another nail in the coffin that was being constructed to hold the Union formed in 1776. The impediment was being destroyed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with the New Deal and his relentless assault on the Constitution for nearly sixteen years, destroyed the impediment completely. The people didn’t realize what had occurred because the government itself was lying to the people and telling them that the impediment was still in force – and it appeared to be so. Each and every President and Congress since have done their respective parts to bring about the complete destruction of the Union of 1776.
So the man who calls himself Barack Obama was right. The Constitution was an impediment to government. And the government that has taken over our country is an impediment to our freedom. There is one thing that the government doesn’t quite seem to get: the power still lies with the people. It may be that the Constitution no longer impedes the government, but the people are still here to impede what is in control today. And we will. Have no doubt about that. There are enough of us who have become aware of the situation (and more are waking up daily), and the Union created in 1776 will rise from the ashes that the International Bankers have turned our country into. We, you and I, are the impediment that this current crop of evildoers will rue. Get active; do something to take control of the government that is interfering with your freedoms.
Peace.
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Does The Government Work For Us, Or Do We Work For Them?
Attitude is very important. In my opinion, the following quote from Lysander Spooner pretty much describes the attitude that will help us to get our government back under control.
Altitude has to do with one’s position in relation to others. One’s boss is higher on the job than the worker. One must do as the boss says in order to keep one’s job. Therefore, the boss’s altitude is higher than the worker – on the job. Off the job, we are equal in stature. One is not above the other.
So then, what is the altitude of the elector and the elected?
The elected fills out a job application by way of filing a document in some government office offering his/her services for the job to be filled by an election. Each applicant for the job then promotes their own value to the public, which will do the hiring by virtue of casting a ballot choosing one over the other. The elected person, then, is the hireling. The elected person is the worker, and the elector is the boss. The altitude of the elector is above that of the elected.
That is not the situation in which we find ourselves today. The elected has turned the tables on us. The public education system has convinced us that the government is all powerful. It is upside down, backwards, wrong side out, and a cause for consternation among the American public who still have some ability to think. The hierarchy has been reversed. The people have been convinced that we are at the bottom of the heap. We are, in reality, near the top. The real hierarchy goes like this:
Creator
Man
State
In the case of our Nation, there is a fourth level below State. That is the united States of America. There are levels between Man and State that we need not go into at this time. The small ‘u’ on united is intended. This is the States of America, united. Each State is autonomous of itself, united with other States for mutual benefits such as defense.
Our slide to the despotism we are living under today started around 1860. The American Civil War was the beginning of the end. When the secession of the Southern States (which was their right whether jointly or on their own individually) was interfered with, the despotism got its foothold.
Since that time, the erosion of our powers to exercise our natural rights has been steadily increasing.
Some time between the end of the Civil War and 1913, the international bankers purchased the U. S. Congress along with the Presidency. The advent of the election of a socialist, F. D. Roosevelt, to the Presidency further sped the erosion. Today, the President of the United States of America has the unlimited power to detain (arrest) any citizen of this nation without charges, without the natural right to a counselor of any type, not even a government attorney. It can be a life sentence. That is an assumption of altitude that is not warranted by any stretch of the imagination – not even in places like China, Cuba, or Venezuela – though it is used in those countries as well.
Adjust your attitude; rise to the altitude where you belong.
Peace.
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