"“. . . the selection of state rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for harmless or decent persons to ever rise to the top."
Yes, the problem is that when you elect politicians, politicians are the ones who get elected.
I think Alexander Tytler’s cycle of democracy, where dependency is the last stage of a democracy is very accurate. It makes sense because once people are dependent on the government, they are well…dependent on the government for everything. It falls in line with what Alexis de Toqueville said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” The cycle is in my first post- https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/coming-soon?r=76q58
So, my thought is let’s skip over dependency (end welfare) and skip bondage and get right back into spirituality which gives us the courage for liberty!
Voting is a useless endeavor as long as there are 439 federal agencies (https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies} including sub-agencies headed up by unelected bureaurats and their minions to do the bidding of their superiors who are not "We the people."
... well said - and it needed to be said. To legitimately have a reason to "complain" about the current state of the State is always met with some offense by those in the majority. "Why don't you join a political action committee Sonny Boy - we live in a Democracy."... the statist in power's typical rebuttal. For longer than I've been alive Parents (good parents) who are shocked by street violence comitted by "kids these days!" generation after generation nothing but disgust for the younger generation - their poor decisions/behaviors, but the real problem is never addressed - the poor parenting that produced the child and the poor behavior in the first place. It's a strange thing to see someone chastise a parent for their child's poor/destructive behavior... how often does a "good" parent intervene with another parent when they are not practicing proper parenting??? That discussion is always off-limit. We see the obvious results within society of poor parenting - as we do with democratic systems of government, yet we don't have or know the answers of why we are sufferning and why youths rage . Instead we chug-along in life and see the results without any intervention - and society suffers no guilt/shame for any of it.
There is no component of government that exists in a vacuum and all of government is a corruption of the Liberty of Man.
Democracy is the Great Lie of modern governments across the globe, but especially in the west. What a joke it is at any time and under any circumstance to surrender your inherant Rights to a foreign entity, but to surrender your Rights to a group of hundreds (government) or millions (random population voting) is beyond stupid.
It is more reasonable to surrender to a king than to a democratic government and society, where psychopaths and mobs rule.
This is a very well put article. Cross posted on Liberty Uncensored. Continue the good work. Blessings!
I agree but with the distinction that our wise founding fathers set up a Constitutional Republic, not a democratic republic, and there is a difference. It’s all tied to the unique US Constitution – if followed, and of course, we have decimated that idea. The intent was to have a LIMITED Federal government (10th Amendment) – because humankind is self-serving and corrupt, always. The idea was to keep the government close to the people.
Then, in 1913, the 16th Amendment ended that idea so the federal government would grow to the point where it is now with all that taxpayer money, and then with the 17th Amendment we now have (ignorant and dumb) people voting for the Senate (which was supposed to be comprised of smart, experienced and educated people, and not stupid people like Kamala Harris.) Add in the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 and 1913 should be considered a most disastrous year for freedom-loving Americans and the Constitution.
We the People are the Heirs of the American Experiment and We are Squandering Our American Inheritance! https://lizlasorte.substack.com/
Mis information; dis information and lies!!! April 16, 2024
“Governments are instituted among People, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed.” Exactly who are those that are governed? Only United States citizens. Where are they found? Washington District of Columbia, forts, ports and needful buildings and employees and dependents such as those in the military, civil service, elected, appointed and the like. The de facto States are subdivisions of the de facto United States. There is zero law only color of law. Except on Oregon.
Not all of us, as men and women, with our progeny on the land and soil of the several states, commonwealths and territories are US citizens. All of us that are not on the property of the United States of Washington District of Columbia [Inc] or employed by it or not with a proper oath that has not been discharged, we are not United States citizens. Those in that group are U.S. citizens. When they have their bona fides in order. When they make the claim and cannot support the claim, in the case of the elected or appointed, with oath, bond and other qualifications, they are outlaw.
In a lawful state, such as de jure not the current de facto, people can and do choose to expatriate from their sovereign state of being to enter another jurisdiction. As an example stepping down from sovereign to citizen, when elected or appointed, commissioned, warranted, or enlisted. There may be additional options. Consent is required and it must be accompanied by the proper bona fides for the position. It is said, that one of us can verbally consent to being a United States citizen. I deny that verbal option. Such as in a courtroom, when asked “are you a U.S. citizen.” Under the admiralty law form, “he who can be deceived let him,” an affirmative answer can change your jurisdiction from that of a sovereign to citizen. That is fraud as the totality of the situation was not explained and the affirmation could be in ignorance of the reality. I declare ignorance of that law by a sovereign, in this case, is totally excusable until there is a complete and common understanding in written form. Consider this, 12 to 15 % of the adult population is not smart enough to join the military, but they vote, drive and stand trial.
There has not been a lawful state among the several states or the United States since March 1861. Oregon is the single known exception. The same route taken by the people on Oregon is available to the other 32 states and 17 territories. Basically, in the history of our earth, the provenance of a sovereign man or woman begins with the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America 1776; followed by the 1777 Confederation and perpetual Union’s Articles followed by The United States of America’s Constitution, it is our last article, and its final lawful iteration is dated 1859 with Oregon as the final lawful state among the several states.”
To become the single exception to martial law of the United States of Washington District of Columbia Inc. [in some form] circa post 1861, a process was taken step by step. This was done by the now, provisional government on Oregon aka Oregon Statewide Jural Assembly. First we Assembled as in Amendment I, then we formed a social compact as in ARTICLE I Section 1 of Oregon’s Constitution. Then we formed a Civilian common law Court of record and implemented ex parte Milligan (SCOTUS) thereby nullifying martial law / Lieber code / FEMA.
We then formed a Jury Pool of men and women, sovereigns, with their bona fides in order. Grand Juries was called and appeared and found presentments and true bills. The Presentments were served to 38 Prosecutors on Oregon and the true bills went to our Article III Amendment VII court. Our court brought forth verdicts without appeal in fact and provided them to the USDOJ, USMS, FBI, USMC, State of Oregon aka STATE OF OREGON’s executive, legislative and judiciary, 36 Sheriff and 38 prosecutors on Oregon. They all acquiesced an defaulted. What took www.orsja.org 4.5 years to do can be accomplished on paper, by the other 32 states and 17 territories in 30 days. Signed, sealed, stamped, witnessed with proof of service. You will find all of this and instructions at no fee www.orsja.org.
"Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and [destroys] itself. . ."
I think Adams was arguing against democracy disingenuously, because he and Hamilton wanted a more centralized and less representative form of government than the anti-Federalists did, and Adams got what he wanted.
On the other hand, Athens was a democracy for longer (180 years) than the U.S. was a republic with a representative form of government, which ended in the FDR regime when the Administrative Practices Act created the unelected, unaccountable deep state, if not sooner. Maybe the Civil War ended the US republic.
"“. . . the selection of state rulers by means of popular elections makes it essentially impossible for harmless or decent persons to ever rise to the top."
Yes, the problem is that when you elect politicians, politicians are the ones who get elected.
I think Alexander Tytler’s cycle of democracy, where dependency is the last stage of a democracy is very accurate. It makes sense because once people are dependent on the government, they are well…dependent on the government for everything. It falls in line with what Alexis de Toqueville said, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” The cycle is in my first post- https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/coming-soon?r=76q58
So, my thought is let’s skip over dependency (end welfare) and skip bondage and get right back into spirituality which gives us the courage for liberty!
Voting is a useless endeavor as long as there are 439 federal agencies (https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies} including sub-agencies headed up by unelected bureaurats and their minions to do the bidding of their superiors who are not "We the people."
Well articulated indeed. Thank you sir!
I've banned two people since I started my stack 2 years ago. #2 was here. I can only take so much bullshit and he managed to make it.
... well said - and it needed to be said. To legitimately have a reason to "complain" about the current state of the State is always met with some offense by those in the majority. "Why don't you join a political action committee Sonny Boy - we live in a Democracy."... the statist in power's typical rebuttal. For longer than I've been alive Parents (good parents) who are shocked by street violence comitted by "kids these days!" generation after generation nothing but disgust for the younger generation - their poor decisions/behaviors, but the real problem is never addressed - the poor parenting that produced the child and the poor behavior in the first place. It's a strange thing to see someone chastise a parent for their child's poor/destructive behavior... how often does a "good" parent intervene with another parent when they are not practicing proper parenting??? That discussion is always off-limit. We see the obvious results within society of poor parenting - as we do with democratic systems of government, yet we don't have or know the answers of why we are sufferning and why youths rage . Instead we chug-along in life and see the results without any intervention - and society suffers no guilt/shame for any of it.
Beautifully written!
There is no component of government that exists in a vacuum and all of government is a corruption of the Liberty of Man.
Democracy is the Great Lie of modern governments across the globe, but especially in the west. What a joke it is at any time and under any circumstance to surrender your inherant Rights to a foreign entity, but to surrender your Rights to a group of hundreds (government) or millions (random population voting) is beyond stupid.
It is more reasonable to surrender to a king than to a democratic government and society, where psychopaths and mobs rule.
This is a very well put article. Cross posted on Liberty Uncensored. Continue the good work. Blessings!
I agree but with the distinction that our wise founding fathers set up a Constitutional Republic, not a democratic republic, and there is a difference. It’s all tied to the unique US Constitution – if followed, and of course, we have decimated that idea. The intent was to have a LIMITED Federal government (10th Amendment) – because humankind is self-serving and corrupt, always. The idea was to keep the government close to the people.
Then, in 1913, the 16th Amendment ended that idea so the federal government would grow to the point where it is now with all that taxpayer money, and then with the 17th Amendment we now have (ignorant and dumb) people voting for the Senate (which was supposed to be comprised of smart, experienced and educated people, and not stupid people like Kamala Harris.) Add in the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 and 1913 should be considered a most disastrous year for freedom-loving Americans and the Constitution.
We the People are the Heirs of the American Experiment and We are Squandering Our American Inheritance! https://lizlasorte.substack.com/
As usual great report. Meanwhile...
https://frederickrsmith.substack.com/p/democracy-for-dummies-5c7
Mis information; dis information and lies!!! April 16, 2024
“Governments are instituted among People, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed.” Exactly who are those that are governed? Only United States citizens. Where are they found? Washington District of Columbia, forts, ports and needful buildings and employees and dependents such as those in the military, civil service, elected, appointed and the like. The de facto States are subdivisions of the de facto United States. There is zero law only color of law. Except on Oregon.
Not all of us, as men and women, with our progeny on the land and soil of the several states, commonwealths and territories are US citizens. All of us that are not on the property of the United States of Washington District of Columbia [Inc] or employed by it or not with a proper oath that has not been discharged, we are not United States citizens. Those in that group are U.S. citizens. When they have their bona fides in order. When they make the claim and cannot support the claim, in the case of the elected or appointed, with oath, bond and other qualifications, they are outlaw.
In a lawful state, such as de jure not the current de facto, people can and do choose to expatriate from their sovereign state of being to enter another jurisdiction. As an example stepping down from sovereign to citizen, when elected or appointed, commissioned, warranted, or enlisted. There may be additional options. Consent is required and it must be accompanied by the proper bona fides for the position. It is said, that one of us can verbally consent to being a United States citizen. I deny that verbal option. Such as in a courtroom, when asked “are you a U.S. citizen.” Under the admiralty law form, “he who can be deceived let him,” an affirmative answer can change your jurisdiction from that of a sovereign to citizen. That is fraud as the totality of the situation was not explained and the affirmation could be in ignorance of the reality. I declare ignorance of that law by a sovereign, in this case, is totally excusable until there is a complete and common understanding in written form. Consider this, 12 to 15 % of the adult population is not smart enough to join the military, but they vote, drive and stand trial.
There has not been a lawful state among the several states or the United States since March 1861. Oregon is the single known exception. The same route taken by the people on Oregon is available to the other 32 states and 17 territories. Basically, in the history of our earth, the provenance of a sovereign man or woman begins with the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America 1776; followed by the 1777 Confederation and perpetual Union’s Articles followed by The United States of America’s Constitution, it is our last article, and its final lawful iteration is dated 1859 with Oregon as the final lawful state among the several states.”
To become the single exception to martial law of the United States of Washington District of Columbia Inc. [in some form] circa post 1861, a process was taken step by step. This was done by the now, provisional government on Oregon aka Oregon Statewide Jural Assembly. First we Assembled as in Amendment I, then we formed a social compact as in ARTICLE I Section 1 of Oregon’s Constitution. Then we formed a Civilian common law Court of record and implemented ex parte Milligan (SCOTUS) thereby nullifying martial law / Lieber code / FEMA.
We then formed a Jury Pool of men and women, sovereigns, with their bona fides in order. Grand Juries was called and appeared and found presentments and true bills. The Presentments were served to 38 Prosecutors on Oregon and the true bills went to our Article III Amendment VII court. Our court brought forth verdicts without appeal in fact and provided them to the USDOJ, USMS, FBI, USMC, State of Oregon aka STATE OF OREGON’s executive, legislative and judiciary, 36 Sheriff and 38 prosecutors on Oregon. They all acquiesced an defaulted. What took www.orsja.org 4.5 years to do can be accomplished on paper, by the other 32 states and 17 territories in 30 days. Signed, sealed, stamped, witnessed with proof of service. You will find all of this and instructions at no fee www.orsja.org.
"Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and [destroys] itself. . ."
I think Adams was arguing against democracy disingenuously, because he and Hamilton wanted a more centralized and less representative form of government than the anti-Federalists did, and Adams got what he wanted.
On the other hand, Athens was a democracy for longer (180 years) than the U.S. was a republic with a representative form of government, which ended in the FDR regime when the Administrative Practices Act created the unelected, unaccountable deep state, if not sooner. Maybe the Civil War ended the US republic.