LET’S TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT – PART TWO
It appears so paradoxical: Trying to appear so peace-loving, with two major wars raging, bombing the moon, while a war of ideas escalates here in the United States.
As the saying goes, “Is the organ not playing and the monkey on fire?”
In this second part of this series of articles, I’m going to digress and touch on the subject of human nature. According to many psychologists and psychiatrists, plus that which appears obvious to me, all the acts we perform are for a profit or a gain. Despite the fact they may turn out to be a loss, our aim and desire is for a profit or a gain. Sometimes it’s a psychic profit. The profit may come in the form of unseen power, or for recognition, or adulation. Then there’s always the monetary profit for our actions.
This points to a selfishness in our nature. Generosity can be viewed as a selfish act because if it is true we always act for a profit or a gain, then acts of generosity are for what? Why do we give and share that which we have? For any number of reasons, but whatever the reason, it is to make us feel better about ourselves. We want to experience that good feeling about ourselves. Nothing wrong with that, it’s the way we are.
What is wrong is when one person takes, or steals from one person to give to another. We are now living in a country under a system of political government where this kind of action, taking from one to give to another, is pervasive.
In my opinion, it is a part of the very fabric of who we are, to want to give, share and be charitable to others. It is our desire to help others and give to others. However, when so much is arbitrarily taken, by force or threat of force, there is frequently little left to voluntarily give and experience that feeling of generosity. This is one reason so many are frustrated, angry, resentful and upset – they are denied the joy and good feeling of generosity, because they have nothing left to give by the time government takes a part of almost everything we do.
How did this happen? We have done it to ourselves, by voting others into power over our lives to take property and Freedom.
Just over 500 men and women sit in elected seats of power, living a life of luxury, grinding out laws to take from the producers in this country. Not only that, there are thousands upon thousands of other individuals hired by this system to carry out the laws these few make. To execute and intrepret and enforce.
In order to keep this system ongoing, they absolutely must have your vote. Towards the end of the reign of Hitler the people realized they had voted themselves into this state of bondage, and stayed home. That’s when Hitler ordered armed guards in huge trucks to go out, round them up and bring to polls to vote for him, at the point of a gun. He had to have their vote.
We are not at that stage yet, because millions still voluntarily flock to the polls. However, as recently revealed, the large and powerful organization Acorn was awarded large sums of money in the last election to go out sign up and bring voters to the polls. Plus the fact there has been exposure of fraud, by registering cartoon figures and non-existent persons by this organization receiving government funds. Add to that the fact that we do not know the full extent of this infusion of voting fraud in the system.
We hear like a mantra, that voting is a Right and a privilege and a responsibility of the citizens of this country. And we must vote to insure Freedom in this country. But we are no longer free, instead living in a system of Socialism, denied ownership Rights. We are now living in the worst crisis this country has ever been in.
If this was supposed to be a system of Constitutional government, in a land of the Free, operated by Constitutional laws and not men, what went wrong?
If we are to expect any chance of salvaging the remnants of individual Freedom and personal property Rights, then we must take a serious look to figure out what went wrong and why.
Why do individuals vote other individuals into seats of power over their lives? Why do they think another person can manage their lives better than they can? Why do they think the elected will act in the best interests of the electorate instead of their own best interests? What is the basis of expectation of government taking care of their needs, when no government has anything, until they first “take” from other persons? Why do they sanction this system of thievery? Why do people still believe the gristmill of lies the government propaganda offices keep up 24-7?
Further, why do they keep tolerating the abuse political government perpetrates upon the citizenry of this country? Exacerbated by this notion that if we only send enough letters, e-mails, phone calls to those elected, the worm will turn, and fulfill expectations of taking care of them and acting in their best interests. And if this doesn’t work, the answer is elect another batch who will. And when they do, things continue going from bad to worse.
Let us return for a moment to the beginning of this article. The part about our very nature acting for a profit or a gain. So it goes for politicians, they are going to act in their best interests for a profit or a gain for themselves. And not for you nor I. Where along the way did we lose common sense and rationale, and think there was a magic wand waved over the politician which totally changed his or her basic human nature to stop acting in their own best interests for gain and profit, and start acting in yours or mine? The absurdity of this notion, defies common sense and rationale.
Oh yes, let me guess – you thought somewhere along the way the politician would abide by the Principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the original Constitution! But those Principles were ignored and violated many, many elections in the past. Now having acquired such awesome power over the lives of all of us, and so seduced by this power, there is ONLY one direction to go and that is the route of acquisition of more power. Throughout the history of mankind, government never reduced itself, but only expands for more and more power until it is totalitarian.
As expressed by Albert Jay Nock, the State or political government operates with expediency of self-aggrandizement. Always and without exception. Therefore any expectations of the citizenry, that political government will ever act in their best interests, is in total opposition to this self-aggrandizement, and a fantasy, as evidenced by the current crisis we are in.
Sir William Blackstone, said: “That the King can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English Constitution.”
(1769) Do we now have a leader in power who can do no wrong?
LET FREEDOM RING
JUST ME
AC
EMAIL: annecleveland@bellsouth.net
