The Owners Manual of the USA
We are still working on the campaign to unseat John Edwards and hope to have some good news we can release soon. This has been a fascinating process and it makes some things crystal clear. I will discuss much of this at our next public meeting (June 2) but I wanted to write briefly about why we focus so much on the Constitution.
If you are paying attention, it is painfully obvious that the 2nd Amendment is under attack. Even defenders of the 2nd Amendment have caved and are supportive of governmental restrictions that have no basis in the Constitution.
The 4th Amendment. The right to be secure in your home is under assault by the courts.
The 10th Amendment is effectively dead. The 10th amendment limits the power of the Federal Government. The Federal government feels it can address any issue beyond what powers they were enumerated in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. The examples are numerous and sometimes border on the ridiculous. This story of rabbit farmers seems silly, but read this article closely and see the arbitrary nature in which the Federal government is crushing this family.
How long before it is you and I?
One of the many avenues we are pursuing is another state level group. We haven’t had the best luck with stuff like this, but it would be great in theory to have a state group. So we are talking. We would run this past our voting members before we did anything though. Anyway…
When the issue of restoring the original intent of the Constitution came up in a goal conversation, there was a conversation about steering away from Constitutional issues because there was ambiguity about what the Constitution really means. The thought was to focus on more concrete goals like cutting spending and such.
This was, in part my response.
“The ambiguity is caused primarily by the Federal government’s desire to expand their power. This desire was prophetically predicted by the anti-federalists, and before the end of the 1700s, the authors of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution had already taken steps to try and curb this power through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
We have a Constitution and we should abide by it. What can be a simpler and more basic goal than that? The Constitution is after all a contract. If I continually violated my marital contract in the way that the Federal government violates the constitution, I would end up in divorce court.
We are like a beaten wife, too afraid to stand up to our abusive husband.
If the goals are just going to be a list of talking points you can find on any Conservative candidates website, what is the point? How much courage does it take to stand up for gun rights? I can just join my local GOP for that. Heck even Creigh Deeds had a perfect rating from the NRA.
I operate on the premise that the root cause of our nations problems can all be traced back to violating the Constitution and the rights they were designed to protect.
I understand your focus on actionable goals. The plus to this method is that I am sure there will be goals that will be on the list that most of our group will be willing to help with. It would allow us to get more groups involved in specific fights and win some battles.
But goals have no meaning if they don’t add up to some constructive end place. When do we say we have won? If we achieve all 100 goals what would we have? If that end isn’t a Constitutional Republic rooted in protection of our natural rights based on the US Constitution, then what is the point?”
That is why we fight for the Constitution and this why we need your help. Trace any issue you have right now and you will find it always goes back to one issue. We ignore the Constitution.
