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Congress and the Senate

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside of Washington, D.C.  Nothing was moving.  Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.  The driver rolls it down and asks, what’s going on?

The reply was, terrorists have kidnapped Congress, including the Senate.  They’re demanding 100 million dollars in ransom.  Otherwise they’re going to douse all of them in gasoline, and set them on fire.  We are going car to car, collecting donations.

How much is everyone giving, on average, the driver asks?  Oh, roughly a gallon, the man replies.

I got this in my mail today, and my first thought was, most cars have about 12 to 14 gallons, if I was in my van, with thirty five gallons roughly, I reckon my share would have to be at least 2 to 3 gallons.

That this is my first thought, screams there is something fundamentally wrong with our government, something which goes all the way down to its foundation.  I love my country, I offered my life to serve it, and my first thought is, “my share would be two to three”.

For this to be going around and get this kind of reaction speaks volumes about how everyone feels regarding The People who have been put by us into Congress, and what they are doing, what we The People think the outcome of their actions will be, and what we, as A People, believe we have the power to do about it.

In this joke is the statement we don’t believe, as a Whole Nation, we can either control what the people we vote into office do, and we can’t control who we are allowed to send to office.  To suggest the only way to “clean house”, which is what this whole joke is about, is for terrorists to kidnap the whole of OUR working government, and offer us the choice of getting them back, for a lowball price, and the natural take of 90% of us is to avidly choose letting the terrorists enjoy a wienie roast, is a telling answer, with jokes being a way to tell a truth which is ugly, in such a way, people aren’t totally offended, and actually think about the statement the joke makes.

I wrote an essay last week, very carefully taking a long screed, dissecting it, cutting out all the excess, chopping it up and eliminating things everyone already knows, and getting it winnowed down to some seven hundred words, and for me, this was hard work, much harder than writing what I chopped to pieces.

I must have cut out all the important part, because I got zero reaction from that essay, and looking at it in retrospect, it got the reaction natural for what it said.

I tried to speak my mind, but all I did was make the statement; we have to change, or we have to live with what happens when we do nothing.  If I can, I will put forth what I wrote after realizing the return on that essay, the “if I can” is whether I can break it into rational parts, and present it without losing the audience.

I’m angry with My People, my fellow citizens.  We can pass around jokes, we can laugh at these people who are all we are offered as choice, we can do everything we want except choose who we would have represent us, and put them in office, because those we would choose, are not acceptable to the rulers of our Nation, the party bosses, the non-governmental rulers of our elections, those people who have been in their respective parties long enough to be the top tier, and those who decide who shall, and who shall not be supported by each of the parties.

If this really were our Country, our Nation, if we were really “Sovereign Citizens”, if we believed in the rule of law, any single one of us could turn to any of those in “party” and simply state, you have no authority, nothing on me, and it would be true.

Instead, because the loyalty which so many cleave to their party, the exact parties which have done every bit of evil work against our national principles, every bit of agitating against equal rights for women, every bit of standing against the application of our original principles to all citizens, simply as a matter of course, following the nature of the law, and the nature of what we must accept all people to be.

 We made our Declaration of our natural right to establish a new government of our own choosing, precisely because the lawful government which was in charge when it was in good legal standing, was violating its own laws against we Subjects of the Crown, and only because this government of ours was breaking The Law, did we have the natural right to dismiss it from over us, as free and self governing colonies, assuming the separate but equal status of “States” among the other States of the world.

We live under a government which has a hundred times as many laws, violating reason and liberty, than that government did, and this government is not restrained by almost two thousand miles of ocean, but resides in the heart of our own Nation, where it has extended its tentacles out in every direction, inserting its self in every transaction we make, even down to the candy we buy for our children, and most of Americans are willing to accept what This Government offers as “The Candidates”, either the one who is actively working to destroy every bit of the form and function of the Nation we inherited from previous generations, or one of the four, right now, who have made it to the stage to compete with that incumbent.

Three of those are properly fit to the party called republican, with one who has so much public support the party, while doing everything in its power to abuse him, deny him legitimacy, the one man who has the support of over 80% of the members of our Armed Forces; he’s there because The People refuse to let the party keep him off the stage.

Every single idiot we have the choice to choose from save one, the criminal incumbent, all the democrats who would run to the front were a lawful government to choose to investigate, and miraculously discovered he was an illegal alien, and not even a citizen, but they would never push, and this government will never be lawful, so that isn’t an issue.  All those who would have been on the ballot, but were knocked out early, all of them approved by the whole of this government we hate, we know is wrong, which won’t do anything we tell it, not even keep books honest, we can vote for any of those this government approves of.

Then there is this other choice, and for it, we are told only fools could vote for him, he’s crazy because he thinks the truth still matters, honor is still a fixed and unchanging thing, and nothing of our original contract for government is out of touch, it is only the loss of sight of what government should be which is missing, but should he by some miracle becomes the nominee, we’d have to be crazy to vote for him and upset the whole of the Nation, The Government, and the Word’s expectations, and put a crazy man in office who thinks all those things matter to Countries, or we can act like reasonable people and either re-elect the gun running, amnesty executing, crucifying law officers and border patrol agents, those it doesn’t kill, or provide guns to those who would kill them, illegal alien who wants our Nation to die, or any of those others who is in less of a hurry but is looking for exactly the same end.

I guess I’d rather just be called stupid, or crazy, or what ever, but I choose truth, honor, principle, and there is one and only one man who would represent those things for our Nation, standing upon them before the world, and telling all the detractors, they know not what of they speak, and he is right.

I only know he believes these things because he has stood on them for over forty years, in public, bearing the ridicule, the jokes, forty years of the establishment looking at a lone man standing on stage, a slight smile on his lips, normally, a slight wrinkling of consternation when the hardest jabs are made, but the twinkle in his eye remaining, even as the only logical, reasoned, fact supported principle founded statement of what we must do to have the established republic; the single best form of government ever established by man, restored and back in working order, instead of the massive, disrespectful behemoth we face every day, and laugh about terrorists taking it hostage, and what we would donate to set them free.

Copyright February 2012 by Gulf1

Seriously Considering our Society

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

I’ve been writing a column now for about three months, and from this, I’ve gotten much encouraging mail, a few critical pieces pointing out my flaws, and a few letters suggesting I’m simply out of my mind.  Recently, I’ve gotten a couple letters complaining I am on “one track”, and suggesting I shouldn’t be, or asking to be removed from my mailing list.

I would like to say, I am not a writer, I am a retired Marine watching my Nation take a sudden and steep drop, after a long steady decline, ever increasing in slope, all my life.  I have taken pen in hand, so to speak, only because I know the Nation cannot stand and our course continue either as it was, or as it is, now, under obama.  I know this because I have studied history, and it has shown no Nation has survived going the way we are.

We have gone from being a Nation with a government fully held in check by a fixed legal Contract, The Constitution, exactingly explicit of its scope and authority, to a central government which only pays lip service to that Constitution, not merely ignoring it, but deliberately twisting its words, suggesting malleable rather than explicitly for the purpose of binding the government to its original purpose.

We are told we are bound by the laws of our government, and as “A Nation Under Law”, must abide both by the laws produced by different levels of government, and by the rules produced by bureaus created to fulfill the demands of some of those who should be serving in government, but have chosen to rule.

The Constitution is very specific in its supremacy over all our law, specifying any which contradicts it, being “null and void at its inception”.  The Constitution specifies this, both for “The People” and “The Several States”; as well as with regard to our interaction with foreign Nations, specifying that no treaty may be entered into which conflicts in principle or purpose with any aspect of our founding documents, our Declaration of Independence, and The U.S. Constitution.

There are those who suggest we must go forward in the same way we have become accustomed to, and that precedent is of greater weight than the law of the Constitution, and the Law of our Declaration, in all its principles.

History also shows that every form of democracy always end up with The People voting more government, and more government charity, “for the good of the poor” than can ever be paid for by those who choose to work.

This is the exact and only reason I write.  According to our founders, the people pre-exist government, and establish such government as they feel will secure their rights and respect the source of the authority lent it, by the consent of the governed. Should a government come to be antithetical to those principles, it is not only our right, but it is our solemn duty to alter and or abolish such government, and establish a form we feel would be more fitting and do a proper job in its exact purpose as established.

With this understanding, I have both duty and obligation to fight to see the central government we have which has assumed powers not vested in it, while those to whom the powers are properly placed in, sit by without objection, and have allowed this to continue forward.

We have a singular choice at this time that we must make it whether we like to or not.  We can choose to restore the established Republic, and forcibly put government back under the law, and once again be a “Nation under Law”, and legitimate.  The other choice being we can accept we are insufficient to do so, accept what is done and what is intended for us, forget we once had a law over government, and once ruled ourselves, and allow our government to choose those we are allowed to vote for, while they plan for the subjugation of our Nation under an international government, and finish the job of disestablishing the one Nation whose stated principles deny any possible rightful world government.

We, the Sovereign Citizens of this Nation, have a choice no other People in this position have ever had.  We can choose to take up our Sovereignty, and choose to take control of our authority, and fix what we’ve allowed to happen.  We can’t do it by doing what we have continued to do for over a century.

 

Copyright February 2012 by Gulf1

Can We Change?

By Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

When I was a youth, or is that a “Ute”, in high school, and assigned to write to congress about something timely and important, I suddenly looked around me and saw all sorts of rats everywhere, eating everything from the rubber of electric cords, to stealing the food from those living in alleys, homeless, right out of their hands.  I was shocked at how much of what we used daily was being eaten up, with nothing but a trail of droppings to tell by what.

I questioned if all those Senators and Congressmen knew of these ravenous creatures and their proliferation, and what they consumed, and thought if a whole bunch of us told them, from all over, they would jump on this; seize the moment, and get things under control.  The letters I got in return didn’t exactly bolster this notion of galvanized action.  I thought maybe I just hadn’t been effective in communicating the problem.

I took it upon myself to continue to write, and stayed on the subject of the cost of living, the debt, the rats eating us out of house and home.  I figured if they could resolve that, we could handle any other problems that come up.  I started seeing a trend, it was almost as if D.C. was the central source of the rats, and they were emanating in every shape, size, and color, standing up on hind legs with no fear unless you started towards them.  I began to wonder.

Getting the same form letter answers back, time and again, the debt is too big for one congress; the cost of keeping the world safe for democracy too great, they were hard at work, doing everything possible, that it was a tough nut. The rats were getting bigger, There weren’t scrawny ones, they’d come at you.  I could tell they came from the center, maybe there was a lab there and they were doing “Franken rat” experiments.

I still wrote to congress, but now wrote, responding to the inane stories, editorials and comments suggesting Keynesian economics meant you never had to pay off the debt, everyone owed everyone and the balance of interest payments cancelled each other.  The facts denied this, the truth obvious, and I was calling on everyone to write, and naming the lie for what it is, the interest of our debt eating up an ever increasing portion of the revenue.  I knew those people in Congress knew what was going on, and they were breeding the rats.

In the last years, almost two decades of them, I’ve spoken out to fellow citizens, noting we don’t produce much of anything now, the roaring economy of making steel, building ships and airplanes, trucks, cars, everything we need in this post modern world, all gone, we lived off Japan, then Taiwan, then South Korea, and now communist China.  We weren’t making anything, producing an economy, but we still were spending, more than ever before, and all the “building” was going on in the economies of those other nations.

Three years ago, we elected for president, a man showing no loyalty to this nation.  We had a congress with no concern for anything but their own lifestyle, their pension. For the first time in my life, lots of people rose up and voted differently in the interim election, and the Tea Party emerged promising to take charge and end the debt.

Having achieved the remarkable; getting enough supposed conservatives in office at one time to stand firm on the debt, the masters of the rat farm managed to twist enough arms and bully that what should have been an open and shut door was left open with only a threat, and the words:  “we really mean it this time”.

With what has been tried, what has been done to blunt it and with our debt much greater than our GNP, logic would suggest those paying the bills, and seeing the cost put on themselves, it should be easy to see we taxpayers have to do something totally different than we have during the debt, something which un-does what was done.

I look out at the republican primary and how it is playing out, and there is one man who has been stating this truth since 41 years ago, and stood on the same words ever since.  There are three or four other candidates who stand just like every other candidate.  I have to wonder, why is he the one who has been asked, cornered into suggesting he won’t run as an independent?  If we aren’t going to change what kind of president we elect, how can we even think of seeing change?

 

Copyright February, 2012 by Gulf1

 

Ending the Debt

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

Throughout history, gold and silver have been the principle metals put to use as money because they are rare, have what could almost be called a “magical or magnetic” attraction to man in their raw beauty, and this has been common where ever the metals are to be found.  Other metals, copper, bronze, iron, even stone have also been used, and their intrinsic value is in the least, a measure of labor to turn ore into shiny metal, and the labor and time it takes to accomplish this.

We have been using paper money, originally representing silver and gold, for its ease in carrying, enabled by a stable society allowing storage of the real money. The providing security of mind knowing the paper is exchangeable upon demand providing the only value that the paper can carry.

When our founders dealt with this issue, in establishing our Constitution, they good reason to establish gold and silver as our “money” as every Nation or empire which has risen, has fallen when it outspent its productivity, and started debasing its money, something more difficult to do with commodity based money.

In the first century of our Nation we had unprecedented growth, very much as the founders anticipated, due to the free nature of our trade, and having The People Sovereign, and eliminating an aristocracy which every other nation had controlling all aspects of work, trade, money, and in this control, siphoning off an “aristocratic portion”, the majority of profit, having put nothing in, and essentially taking it because they had the power to do so.

In providing an unprecedented market to buy from others and an unprecedented market selling goods, with the value established by the owners by their own standards, without the enormous loss cost by an upper class stealing the cream off the top our growth was enormous, our trade enhanced that of all nations we traded with, and their growth was substantially improved by our own.

There has always been a use for script, paper representation of money, because those in business often purchase large things, land, machines, buildings, and transferring mass metal for such transactions is difficult and dangerous.  The call for paper money is reasonable.

In establishing the Federal Reserve in 1913, the legal purpose for this was to make trade and financial transactions simpler, with the paper representing the real gold and silver held in “reserve”, with paper money printed only to the extent there was gold and silver held.  The very real risks opened by paper money were largely ignored, and only in the latest years have they been abused enough to make immediate and noticeable changes to every aspect of our use of money.

We have reached a point in our Nation’s existence where almost no one alive has actually transacted in business with real money, and since this time, substantial devaluing of our money has taken place, to the point our dollar is now about 2% of its established value.

At the same time, we have government which acknowledges no law as controlling it, and has chosen to alter the form of our nation from the republic as established to a “social democracy”, where the wealth brought into existence by ingenuity and hard work, is considered legitimate for those in government to take in ever increasing percentages, and “spread the wealth” among those who will not work.

We are at a point where we must either secure our money once again, with an established value, and end deficit spending, and pay off our debt, the interest of which eats almost have of government revenue, or we will shortly find our failure to do so has allowed our very nation, as an asset, to be at risk for “foreclosure”.

The American People were well served with our established monetary system until the Federal Reserve was put in place to automate the deliberate inflation.  From that point on, reaching this point we are at was inevitable.  All debate is pointless, since our debts are real, they cost us almost half tax revenue just to service the interest, and failing to end deficit spending, and paying off our debt will allow those we owe to come in to the Nation they own a substantial part, and demand either full payment, or transfer of Sovereignty of equal value, and thus assume control of our Country.

We are here in a large part because a great many people, who are powerful in America, as well as all over the world, wish to see one world government, and the founding principles of our Nation stand dead in the way.  This debt is seen by many as the means of breaking the principles of our Government which deny any rightful existence of world government, and thus it is to their benefit if we simply do nothing.

If we allow a world government to come about through failure to uphold our principles, no nation will ever be sovereign again while it exists.  In doing so, we relinquish all consideration of “natural rights”, self evident truths, and every bit of principle we established for the world in our Declaration of Independence, and its declarations regarding man and his rational relationship with government.




Copyright February 2012 by Gulf1