An ordinary citizen's State of the Union

By Ted Lang
web posted January 28, 2002

We are all familiar with the annual ritual State of the Union
address, and governors' state of the state addresses, but why not
give recognition to a more meaningful evaluation of the state of
government by one of the real people? Why not an evaluation by
one of those in the trenches, feverishly struggling to prevent
government from confiscating one's private property and all of
his or her private earnings, which the worker needs to support,
nurture and preserve family and home? Which is the more
important entity we should all be hearing from and giving most
reverence to?

Our Declaration changed an interpretation of God's will from that
giving ecclesiastical justification to monarchs and replacing it with
the sanctification of each and every human being's endowments
of life, liberty and property, with the freedom to legally convert
the latter for personal gain and enrichment.

It is indeed the purpose of our government to preserve those
God-given freedoms, declared in that famous letter to England's
George III in 1776. The spirit of '76 was written into law and
finalized in our Constitution and reinforced in the clashes of
opinion termed federalism and anti-federalism with the
incorporation of the Bill of Rights; hence, the establishment of the
superiority of the individual, which serves as the sole purpose
and intent of the Government of the United States.

And to this end, We the People of the United States, in Order to
form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for
the United States of America.

If we are to evaluate the state of both our endeavors as well as
our results in our charge to form a more perfect union, clearly we
should measure our efforts against those standards so
enumerated.

Have we established Justice to the best of our ability? If we fail
to hold accountable Bill Clinton for his treason in providing a
potential future enemy nation with weapons of mass destruction,
and allow his Attorney General to prevent investigation and
judicial proceedings, how can justice be served by prosecuting a
20 year-old terrorist who renounced both his country and its
religion? How can justice selectively applied be justice?

In setting an example to demonstrate the punishment in store for
those who merely wish to enjoy the freedoms of both the First
and Second Amendments in worshipping in their own way and
maintaining an inventory of firearms intending them only for self-
defense, we have permitted our government to gas, burn and
slaughter innocent men, women and children on the pretext of
their potential wrongdoing. And then we are punished by a
terroristic madman blindly striking out and duplicating the
brutality twice fold in retaliation.

We have further supported civil law and order by allowing our
representatives to write into law property and asset forfeiture
rules abolishing the due process that prevents the tyranny of
bureaucratic plotting and unjust and illegal confiscation and
conversion of private property, thereby nullifying the Fourth and
Fifth Amendments.

In the name of one war or another on the pretext of providing for
the common defense, we have allowed our servants in
government to engage in armed attacks on those not threatening
us, and allowed various segments of government to enter private
residences and property and discharge weapons without
provocation.

We have allowed our servants to confiscate half our earnings and
subjugate our property rights thereby equating our efforts in
wealth gathering and savings to that of serfs in the Middle Ages.
Our unjust and immoral taxes have eliminated our wealth and
prosperity in the name of perfecting government, instead of
enhancing our human freedoms to allow unlimited wealth
restricted only by the individual constraints of ability and work
ethic.

And in allowing those in government to ignore the basic
constraints of decency and morality, our ruling class has
overspent the fruits of our labor and thereby encumbered our
posterity with the burden of expunging their unearned
extravagances to embellish their own decadent lifestyles and
debauchery.

In that the Preamble to our Constitution sets forth the intentions
of our brief experiment in our limited government republic, any
comprehensive state of the Union, by its very nature, must start
by reviewing our intentions, and then compare them to our
achievements. After such a dissertation, those in government
should be fully informed.

This is Ted Lang's first contribution to Enter Stage Right. (c)
Theodore E. Lang. All rights reserved
 
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