It has been written,
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government,
laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,” of one branch of government against all others, pursing the designs of absolute power and approaching despotism and radical revolution it is the Right, it is the Duty of the Governed,
“to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for,” ours and our children’s future security.
Our Founding Fathers said that, “the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.” (T.J.)
In a democratic republic, those who ‘run for public office’ are servants of the people who consent to be governed by these ‘would be’ servants. Servants who are given power, given in trust. Those who would govern enter into a sacred trust, purchased with the blood of past patriots, men and women who served their country, “who struggled to consecrate,” this land and our government with their, “last full measure of devotion.”
By our power to vote, our sacred right, privilege and responsibility, we call those who are elected into account, to answer for what they have done and left undone. In the end, they are servants of the Public Trust, a covenant, where the servant answers to the People they Serve! They work for us or they cheat the trust they are given.
In a democratic, representative republic, the, “people should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” Interesting idea from a strange little movie. Could have been a slogan from a pamphlet.
If a ‘public servant’ is not ‘representing’ the will of the people, they should ‘fear’ unemployment. They should fear that they will be dismissed from office and have to reenter the Private Sector. Of course many find jobs funded by the public trust, our taxes, and don’t really ‘fear’ unemployment at all. But the idea is that these servants are paid and receive all manner of benefits at the public expense, from the people’s life blood, our money ‘taken’ as taxes! They should and do work for us!
But then, there are hosts and hosts of others that have never been elected! Never examined or approved by the People. They are employed by the Government, without the consideration of the election that governs the ‘service term’ of ‘public servants’. They are paid from our taxes, from our blood and money. They are not subject to public consideration. They are paid members of the government who will not change from election to election, from administration to administration, from vote to vote.
The whole portion of the government, spanning all three branches of government are consistent, unchanged, the same from year to year. This ‘second government’ is never subject to any referendum of the People who they serve, in as much as they work for the Government, which works for us. This is the Government Bureaucracy. In its own way it is a living being with its own sense of survival. One of its first directives is self-preservation as opposed to a primary consideration of ‘serving’ the public interest. Not to lump every ‘civil servant’ into one category, but in a government system that is rife with waste, who looks over the every person’s function in the great system, this monster, the Government Bureaucracy. In business, when it does not make business sense, a position is changed or eliminated and the health and value of business and the investors is considered in balance with the person who fills the position. In Government, who decides when a position is no longer necessary and worth the tax dollars paid for the position? Who evaluates the answer to this question?
And so a whole, permanent part of our Federal Government sustains itself with our tax dollars, without giving and account of being accountable to the ‘People’ they ‘should’ serve. Or are they serving ‘The Government’?
In either respect, this is just one reason to fear our government. And now, the executive branch has decided to expand this un-accounted ‘fourth’ branch of government with a new breed of bureaucrats called “Czars”. Not the first time the term has been used. But in the current administration we have more than 30 at last count. Paid from the public coffers, with agendas that are not subject to public referendum. And what do these ‘Czars’ do? Do they have some sort of charter, public ‘job description’? And who holds these ‘Czars’ accountable to their charter or job description? Who ‘checks’ their credentials and qualifications? Someone, some other ‘Czar” in the executive branch? Who?
Looking at the current and recently resigned Czars, are the implied answers to the previous questions comforting or concerning to ‘We the People’? Can we remind ourselves for a quick second, what were the qualifications or credentials of Van Jones? What are the qualifications and agenda for Mr. Sunstein? What are the credentials of the others? I don’t just mean where they went to school. Aren’t there clearance flags that have to be passed to have access to the place of the White House? How many plans do they have, how many private agendas not subject to public referendum are being carried out? Who will assess the work that comes from these efforts, the progress and results? We are a Government of laws, a republic. Who will assess the results and appropriateness of the results to your Government’s interests? To the interests of the People who have given this government ‘power’?
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” But what if their power is beyond the people’s ability to, “throw off such Government and provide new guards for,” our security? Are we giving away our Liberty, our unalienable rights? Will our posterity recall that we gave all away in a democratic election? I did not vote for this and none of this was on the ballot!
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government,
laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,” of one branch of government against all others, pursing the designs of absolute power and approaching despotism and radical revolution it is the Right, it is the Duty of the Governed,“to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for,” ours and our children’s future security.
Our Founding Fathers said that, “the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.” (T.J.)
In a democratic republic, those who ‘run for public office’ are servants of the people who consent to be governed by these ‘would be’ servants. Servants who are given power, given in trust. Those who would govern enter into a sacred trust, purchased with the blood of past patriots, men and women who served their country, “who struggled to consecrate,” this land and our government with their, “last full measure of devotion.”
By our power to vote, our sacred right, privilege and responsibility, we call those who are elected into account, to answer for what they have done and left undone. In the end, they are servants of the Public Trust, a covenant, where the servant answers to the People they Serve! They work for us or they cheat the trust they are given.
In a democratic, representative republic, the, “people should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” Interesting idea from a strange little movie. Could have been a slogan from a pamphlet.
If a ‘public servant’ is not ‘representing’ the will of the people, they should ‘fear’ unemployment. They should fear that they will be dismissed from office and have to reenter the Private Sector. Of course many find jobs funded by the public trust, our taxes, and don’t really ‘fear’ unemployment at all. But the idea is that these servants are paid and receive all manner of benefits at the public expense, from the people’s life blood, our money ‘taken’ as taxes! They should and do work for us!
But then, there are hosts and hosts of others that have never been elected! Never examined or approved by the People. They are employed by the Government, without the consideration of the election that governs the ‘service term’ of ‘public servants’. They are paid from our taxes, from our blood and money. They are not subject to public consideration. They are paid members of the government who will not change from election to election, from administration to administration, from vote to vote.
The whole portion of the government, spanning all three branches of government are consistent, unchanged, the same from year to year. This ‘second government’ is never subject to any referendum of the People who they serve, in as much as they work for the Government, which works for us. This is the Government Bureaucracy. In its own way it is a living being with its own sense of survival. One of its first directives is self-preservation as opposed to a primary consideration of ‘serving’ the public interest. Not to lump every ‘civil servant’ into one category, but in a government system that is rife with waste, who looks over the every person’s function in the great system, this monster, the Government Bureaucracy. In business, when it does not make business sense, a position is changed or eliminated and the health and value of business and the investors is considered in balance with the person who fills the position. In Government, who decides when a position is no longer necessary and worth the tax dollars paid for the position? Who evaluates the answer to this question?
And so a whole, permanent part of our Federal Government sustains itself with our tax dollars, without giving and account of being accountable to the ‘People’ they ‘should’ serve. Or are they serving ‘The Government’?
In either respect, this is just one reason to fear our government. And now, the executive branch has decided to expand this un-accounted ‘fourth’ branch of government with a new breed of bureaucrats called “Czars”. Not the first time the term has been used. But in the current administration we have more than 30 at last count. Paid from the public coffers, with agendas that are not subject to public referendum. And what do these ‘Czars’ do? Do they have some sort of charter, public ‘job description’? And who holds these ‘Czars’ accountable to their charter or job description? Who ‘checks’ their credentials and qualifications? Someone, some other ‘Czar” in the executive branch? Who?
Looking at the current and recently resigned Czars, are the implied answers to the previous questions comforting or concerning to ‘We the People’? Can we remind ourselves for a quick second, what were the qualifications or credentials of Van Jones? What are the qualifications and agenda for Mr. Sunstein? What are the credentials of the others? I don’t just mean where they went to school. Aren’t there clearance flags that have to be passed to have access to the place of the White House? How many plans do they have, how many private agendas not subject to public referendum are being carried out? Who will assess the work that comes from these efforts, the progress and results? We are a Government of laws, a republic. Who will assess the results and appropriateness of the results to your Government’s interests? To the interests of the People who have given this government ‘power’?
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” But what if their power is beyond the people’s ability to, “throw off such Government and provide new guards for,” our security? Are we giving away our Liberty, our unalienable rights? Will our posterity recall that we gave all away in a democratic election? I did not vote for this and none of this was on the ballot!
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