A conversation this country MUST have

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Here I go again, wasting my breath (or rather fingertip skin) starting another discussion I know will be largely ignored or burried by triviality. So why do i keep doing it? Because it is so very important and relevent to the survival of the United States of America. It is a conversation we must have and goes to the very roots of every problem we have as a nation today economicly, politicly and socialy and I will continue to harp on it with even my last dieing breath if nessesary. If you happen to be a responder in this discussion, i must insist you hang the little party letter you wear on the hooks I have provided for you by the door, they are not needed in here nor will they be welcomed. They are irrelevent and a dangerous tool used by the powers that be to keep us devided and fighting what we believe are two seperate enemies, those enemies being either a democrat or a republican, depending on which little letter you wear on the lapel of you jacket. I think it is first important for everyone in this country begin again to understand the apropriate role of the federal government and how the constitution defines it. It is a limited function and very specificly defined, one need look no further than the constitution, it is everywhere and easily accessable, was written at roughly an 8th grade level so it is not a complex document to read. It is more than just a quaint relic asigned to sit at the smithsonian, [/i] it is a standing contract. [/i] The states existed long before the United States did, long before the federal government did. We decided that it would be usefull to create an agent to carry out our mutual business and our affaris abroad. So the states created the federal government by the constitution and thusly, creating the United States of America. Not the "united states", thats a sham corporation that the federal government created itself, but that's a whole other story. But, in doing this, the founders already knew full well the dangers of having a central government, much like any government would be in danger of corruption and power addiction that could so easily engulf it. So, they drafted the contract that created it -the constitution, very carefully. They drafted it in such a way that it had many safe guards, specific limits, specific duties, and specificly guaranteed the inherent rights we as people have. So what we see so far, is that the federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government, as it's agent, subserviant to them, answerable to them and bound by firm law to a limited role under the terms of this contract. It is not a regulating body un to itself that is to dictate from the top down, it has no authority to do so other than what is outlined in that contract, no authority that we, the states didn't give it. The federal government derives it's authority ONLY from us the people and states and is not an entity un to it's own. This was done not only to prevent corruption and tyrany, but to keep it from becomming ineffective. With a simple list of limited duties and reponsabilities, it could operate effectively, efficiantly and under a very reasonable cost with out undue burden on our wallets or our freedoms. Somewhere along the way, we began to look to them for more and more soulutions to the problems we had. Rather than rely on our states or try and effect change on our state governments or demand better governence from our states and towns, we began to see the federal government as an overseeing authority over the states, we essentialy created a grandma to run to when mom and dad didn't give us what we wanted instead of trying better to persuade mom and dad. so as years went on, our agent had a heavier and heavier work load and along with that work load, the people running that agency began to see oportunity. Here is where it began to get dangerous. As the work load increased, so did the cost increase and the effectiveness began to decrease, but what DID begin to gorw out of this was the authority it felt it had, and we, the people, were only too happy to feed that delusion as long as we had grandma to run to and take care of things for us. So the perception of an all powerfull overseeing authoritarian federal government grew and with it, the power grabs. So here we are today, with an education system ran by this agent that "educates" our children in that philosophy, regulates our states activities, and continues to use misconceptions and fear to push ever more regulations and losses of freedoms in the name of "saving us from terrorism" or from "economic crisis". A system ran by two little letters we have arbitrariliy assigned to the people who work for this agency, both of which continue to push the same broad agenda of growing this agent and it's illusion of authority. Nearly every problem we have today, can be traced back to not sticking by the constitution, can be traced to the fact that we allowed our servant to become our master. Once this happens, it can become ireversable, after all, if you were a servant and suddenly found yourself as a master with servants under you, would you go back to being a mere servant? Would you give up that authority? So now we are faced with a problem. What do to about it? How do we convince the servant it must remain a servant and that it was never our master? how do we enforce the terms of the contract that created this agent? Some might say the only solution is a violent overthrow or uprising but this is of course very undesirable. So the next best thing is that our states must begin to demand complience from our agent to the terms of that contract, Like we would any other contracted agent in todays society. The state soviergnty resolutions being considered in many states now seek to do exactly that, to essentially draw a line in the sand. Enough states must pass this to make it a loud clear voice that cannot be ignored. Enough states must stand up and realize that they are the ones in charge over the federal government and begin to excersize that authority. After all, who are the people who run our agent? They are people from our states, chosen by other people from our states, they are only there at our pleasure and though working in this agency, are under the direct authority of the states they reside in. Once enough states have stood up to give our agent this strong clear messege, what next? We can hope it comes to it's senses and begins oporating under the terms of it's contract. But what happens if it does not? what happens if we are ignored and scoffed? As distastfull as it may sound, we fire this agent and offer the contract to a new one. The states recall their respective congressional persons, take over federal offices with in each state, begin exersizing control over federal law enforcment agenies in each state through state police and county sherrif officials. The executive branch is disolved and the judiciary branch becomes answerable to the only national law, the contitution. We then convene a convention inviting anyone who wishes to join the new union under the constitution and create a new agent for our common interests. Now obviously there is much more to it but to outline every detail and all the issues involved is far beyond the scope of thsi forum or discussion. but the outline would already be there for a new union, we would be able to bypass the stage our founders had to deal with of drafting a contract. If this sounds drastic or unthinkable it might well be, but considering the direction this country is taking, we must beign to think about the unthinkable. We must think ahead. This is a conversation we must have, to ignore the problems is only to further it, it is not going to go away. It is increasingly obvious that normal channels of regress, elections, complaining calls letters and emails, ralleys and protests are not working. They are simply NOT working. So we must begin to send a far more ominous message, a clear, booming thunderous message, we must hold this message to the head of this agent like a weapon and further more we must demonstrate our resolve to use that weapon. We must educate our children in these matters, we must educate our frineds, family strangers of the way things were intended and what we risk losing if we ignore the problem. and we must demonstrate a clear booming resolve to do what ever we have to to save this nation, this glorious union, this "United States of America", this creation our founders entrusted us with to guard, protect and perpetuate. We have failed in that duty and if you believe our ancestors can look down on us, those particular ancestors are looking on us with nothing but shame and detest for the disrespect we show them by allowing this creatation to become what it has, by willingly to have handed freedoms over, to have taken that contract, that sacred document and reduced it to a pretty museum piece to be gawked at. I beg you all, have this conversation. Do not permit what our ancestors died for to pass in to being a mention in history. Do not leave us having to explain to our grandchildren why they can't live in the same country that was created for them. *****steps quietly off soap box and walks away slowly, head hung.