Americans demanding a return to limited government, a balanced budget and an end to spiraling sovereign debt have been voting for the GOP
for decades and the result has been total failure on all counts. To
accomplish these goals we really must turn the government structure back
to our first government model, the Articles of Confederation, so the
centers of real power are at the state rather than the federal level.
Since 1913, it has been very easy, between maintaining the two-party
monopoly and buying off Congress, for the power elite
to control leviathan from the top down. This would be far more
difficult if power, authority and programs were decentralized and
returned to control of the individual states.
Changing the government does not mean voting in another president or
changing whether the Democrats or GOP control the House or Senate. Both
parties are equally guilty and responsible for the downfall of America.
Yes, I would certainly prefer Rand Paul to another Democrat president following the second term of Barak Obama.
And of course more liberty-oriented state house representatives as well
as senators and congress members at the federal level would help to get
the liberty message out.
But national politics today is like "window dressing" on the Titanic
and electing a "few more good politicians" will never create a majority
on most important issues. The political leadership knows we are sinking
and have reserved the lifeboats for themselves. All of the
electioneering and mindless political chatter is about as relevant as
deciding who would pay the final bar tab on the Titanic. Politics is
just a subterfuge to keep you in the bar while the elites rush aboard
the lifeboats.
A Short History of the Articles
If we really want to restore the original republic of our founding fathers
and a modern day version of liberty and limited government back to
these united States, the current all powerful federal government must be
relegated to the trash heap of failed ideals of history – and soon. The
formerly sovereign states of the US must return again to our first
federal government, the one our founding fathers created and our patriot
armies shed their treasure, blood and lives to establish, the Articles
of Confederation.
Before the Constitution was drafted, the nearly 2.5 million citizens
of the 13 sovereign states were governed under the Articles of
Confederation, established by the Second Continental Congress. The
limited confederation government formed by the Articles began on May 10,
1775 and lasted until September 15, 1787. Please note the population
statistics at the time did not include Africans or Indians, according to
the US Bureau of the Census, so the real population was substantially
higher than the official figures.
According to US Office of Personnel Management, the 2011 civilian
federal workforce, excluding postal service employees, was 2.15 million.
Adding in the 500,000 postal workers means there are more civilian
parasites employed by the federal government living off of productive
taxpayers in the private sector than there were citizens back in 1776. I
believe the Constitution and Bill of Rights have failed our nation
because of the actions of a few.
The Constitutional or Philadelphia Convention took place in
Philadelphia from May 25 through September 17, 1787 supposedly to
address problems with the Articles of Confederation. Slow methods of
communication had made it difficult to govern a decentralized
confederation of sovereign states, both at the executive and legislative
levels, one of the reasons a more centralized government structure was
suggested.
So although the announced public intention was to revise the
Articles, powerful interests represented by James Madison and Alexander
Hamilton conspired to create a new government instead of improving the
lawful and legitimate government of the Articles of Confederation. The
result was the Constitution that America operated under for better and
sometimes for worse until the coup of Lincoln in 1861 and the total
overthrow by Money Power
in 1913. Note most of the participants supported the Constitution
because of communication inadequacies of the Articles and had the best
of intentions but there was a hidden element consisting of those out to
emulate the powerful central governments of Europe.
The extreme opposition to the Constitution has been covered up and downplayed in the establishment's directed history propaganda about the period but, in fact, men like Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee (great uncle to Robert E. Lee)
and many others strongly opposed ratification. The Anti-Federalist
opposition was strong and existed across the nation. For instance, in
North Carolina and Rhode Island, the new government was not ratified
until forced to do so. In Rhode Island, resistance was so strong that
civil war almost took place but with the passage of the Bill of Rights,
the opposition collapsed, the Articles of Confederation was ended and
the new, more powerful government structure took over the federal
government.
A Sampling of Coup D'états and Black-Flag Operations In US History
"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship." – William Blum
Of course, the truth of many such actions was effectively covered up until historical accuracy was revealed through the Internet Reformation. This is why the history books and public school texts teach only the authorized propaganda version.
The first was the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791 in which armed resistance
by citizens against a new whiskey tax took place in opposition to
Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's federalist program to increase
central government power and revenue. George Washington and an army were used to successfully quell the rebellion.
Second was the Fort Sumter
incident in Charleston harbor in which a horse was killed but the
"battle" was used to coerce Northern newspapers to begin to oppose
Southern independence as strongly as they had earlier urged a peaceful
solution to state secession. The real reason for the about-face was
that the Southern states generated most of the government revenue at the
time because of import duties and the Union could not survive without
the Southern revenues.
The third was Lincoln's call for troops from the different states to
invade and conquer the seceding Southern states. This demand for troops
and states to wage war on other states caused the states in the upper
South to vote in secession conventions to withdraw from the union.
Southerners rightly considered their actions a second American Revolution against tyranny.
Fourth was the secretive and deliberate aid to support both the communist takeover of the Soviet Union as well as later support for the Nazi regime in Germany by Wall Street interests.
Fifth was Roosevelt's prior knowledge of a certain Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor after the US had cut off all oil and steel imports to
Japan. Many in Washington felt this was necessary to stop Hitler and aid our communist Soviet ally against the will of a majority of US citizens.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
by Lyndon Johnson, based on a falsified incident, was introduced to get
the US into a ground war in Vietnam. This harkened back to both the
Charleston Harbor incident as well as the 1898 sinking of the battleship
USS Maine in Havana Harbor, starting the Spanish American War.
Then there were the political assassinations of John and Bobby Kennedy as well as Dr. Martin Luther
King and the attempted assassination of George C. Wallace. During those
days the elites didn't fear truth because without the Internet
Reformation and alternative media
of today there really were few outlets available to circumvent the
establishment news and opinion monopoly. Therefore, political leaders
could say and even act often without restraint as long as they didn't
have the mass popularity to threaten the monopoly control. When this
happened, there was usually a warning first that some heeded, like Ross
Perot. Others were eliminated or badly wounded, like Wallace.
Looking Back
In hindsight now, 220-plus years later, it is clear
that the concerns expressed by the Anti-Federalists were correct. They
strongly opposed the central government having more power than the state
governments, were concerned about the federal judiciary and rightly
feared the presidency could morph into a monarchy.
Actually, the recent presidential election, inauguration and the
related entertainment provided proof we have the presidential trappings
of monarchy, the centralized power structure of fascism
and the immorality of Rome's Caligula. America has come a long way DOWN
from the original government established by our founding fathers, The
Articles of Confederation.
Next, Axiom 4 will show how to organize and structure the restoration of our individual states back to the Articles.
Ron Holland's introductory article in this series, "How to Restore the West," is here, Axiom 1 here and Axiom 2 here.
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