Page 13 - Fruits from a Poisonous Tree

During my investigation I became so overwhelmed by the government’s
deceit and unabashed arrogance that I went back to the history books trying
to identify the point at which our republic swerved onto the destructive
path towards democracy – where our creation, the government, servant
of the people, became the master and we became the servant – where the
nonproductive, who are consumers of the public treasury, elect politicians
who promise them even more government benefits at the expense of the
majority of productive, wealth-producing Americans. That is the democracy
we live in today and our founding fathers’ worst nightmare.
This change from a republican form of government to our present
democracy was silent and insidious. There are many contributors to this
metamorphosis who we might fault, both inside and outside of government,
such as teachers, clergy, judges and politicians, but laying blame would solve
nothing. Ultimately “We the People” are to blame; we are responsible. We have
permitted both state our and federal governments to have control over our
children’s education, which has resulted in the dumbing down of generations
so that most of us cannot detect the slow perversion of our freedom.
Thomas Jefferson cautioned us that “freedom is not free; the price you
must pay for freedom is eternal vigilance.”
As a people we have for many years been apathetic to the Congress, the
President and the Judiciary, so much so that we never noticed the subtle,
diminishing changes that were occurring to our freedom, right in plain sight.
We have not been vigilant.
Somewhere along the way this plan for a republic went dreadfully
wrong. Without any constitutional authority, the republic was transformed
into a democracy. Now the President makes law by Executive Order, again
without constitutional authority. The Congress is powerless because of fierce
partisanship and the constant pursuit of money from the international
corporations needed to perpetuate their political lives. The result is that
they do nothing to check and balance the other runaway branches of our
government. The agencies that were created by Congress to make and
enforce regulations and administer the draconian laws of the Congress and
the Executive branch now answer only to the diseased, corrupted body of the
Executive branch, which answers to no one but the international cartel of
bankers, philanthropists and senior level policy wonks.
These incomprehensible laws of Congress, especially the taxing statutes,
are patently unconstitutional in their application to the citizens of the fifty
states. But this seizure of the productive people’s wealth for the benefit of the
non-producing minority and the imprisonment of those who resist this theft
have been ratified by a corrupted federal judiciary and Supreme Court. That
briefly sums up our present day democracy and the state of the union.

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