Italics are mine – Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today
The following is an editorial article which appeared in the Justice Times in 1988
In the 1984 presidential election, only 53 percent of eligible Americans voted, and given projections for the 1988 election (and the lack of substance in what most view as the only choices), the turnout will be lower yet. Turnout this year is expected to be the lowest in 40 years.
The statistics clearly show that we now have government of half the people, by half the people, and for half the people, something the Founding Fathers would have cringed at. What’s worse is that the future for self-government looks even more bleak; less than half of America’s youth even register to vote, with only 17 percent going to the polls. Add to that the fact that voting is the lowest level of participation – which caucuses, precincts, and litigating having the most impact on government – and it becomes clear that the United States is quickly is becoming a nation of political ignoramuses.
This voter turnout in a nation that is supposed to be the world’s example for self-government says many things about the current state of the people and their political process. First, it says that many Americans believe voting does little good because candidates are hand-picked and are elected by cleverly-built coalitions of power. “All I have is a choice between the lesser of two evils,” they say. “My vote means nothing.” Second, low participation suggests that Americans are content with what they have. The great majority are steadily employed (95 percent as of this writing), have weekends off, at least adequate housing and furniture, education for their children, a diet that most in the world would envy, at least one car, a stereo and a color television set. In short, they are fat and happy; so why vote?
I believe we grew complacent because of trust we had for government. Sure we had “it made,” with material things, we earned it didn’t we? Remember how the communists made us feel guilty because we had “too much?” Who would have thought we were being socialized/communized when we were constantly being told that communism was dead; that we were the greatest; the freest. And all that time our learning institutions, radical organizations, and the controlled press were undermining our Republic. But the most damaging was the subversion of the three branches of government. We finally discovered, perhaps too late, that we had criminals running our government, but never in such a large scale. They have been running our government outside the Constitution for too many years. There is no accountability and they’ve been doing what they please. Thank God for the likes of the Tea Party movement. People appear to be awaking from the American Dream that was really an American Nightmare. Dreams and nightmares are for people who are asleep – Good Morning! America.
Both groups are grossly mistaken and are neglecting their duty at a time when freedom is dwindling and the only way to get it back is by getting involved. The latter group, fat and happy, don’t realize that the price for freedom, and its accompanying prosperity, is eternal vigilance. They fail to see that their prosperous circumstances are subject to change and will change as the current trend toward socialism continues. Nevertheless, it isn’t likely that this group will get off their backsides and get involved in governing America.
The former group, the critical one, deserves more attention. They are the ones that have more desire, the knowledge and the capability to preserve America’s heritage of liberty; but they have become disaffected. They are so disgusted with “the system,” they have given up on the Constitutional formula for self-government established by the Founders. “It has come under the control of the political elite,” they say, “and bypasses the productive people who make up America.” They are right on the first count but wrong on the second one. The system is controlled by a political elite, but only because the common people have removed themselves from it by refusing to participate. They have effectively turned government over to the political elite who now rule, and they have done so because they have forgotten the counsel of their forebears.
Politicians, in my opinion, are not the elite. The elite are the International Bankers that own the Federal Reserve and control both parties in Congress. The November, 2010 election is the defining moment. We MUST throw the criminals out. Most of them are in the Democratic Party in Congress. President Pinocchio, the politician bankers have waited for is a president bent on destroying the middle class and reducing us to a third-world country status to complete the bankers’ long sought agenda. He will be a one-term servant unless something drastic happens that’ll cause him and the criminals in Congress to subvert whatever we have left of a Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson believed a free society depended on rule by the common man. “Jefferson’s life and philosophy were governed by a single overwhelming passion: a constant desire to establish a political economic structure in which the people – the producers of goods and services – would exercise control over the government and, as a result, retain for their own benefit almost all the wealth they created,” according to Dr. Martin Larson in his Jefferson: Magnificent Populist.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t meant to be. The criminals in Congress AND the White House gave our monetary system away to the bankers in 1913. It was unconstitutional then and it still is today. No Act (Federal Reserve Act) can change any thing in your Constitution without our permission. This is why our Founding Fathers wrote the Fifth Article to the Constitution – the amendment process. The only way the Constitution can be amended. Don’t believe the communists that it’s a “living Constitution” as if to say it can be changed as we go along, that the amendment process takes too long. The communists have done a masterful job in bull shitting the people. The following are still laws no matter what any black-robed thug tells you:
Art. 1 Sec. 8 clause 5 U.S. Constitution – “…to coin money and regulate the value thereof…etc” And just as an added safe-guard they included the following:
Art. 1 Sec 10 clause 1 U.S. Constitution – “…no State shall make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in payment of Debts…”
The problem today is that the disaffected refuse to fulfill Jefferson’s dream; they refuse to endure the pains that come with political participation. They rather expect everyone in government to mind their manners and obey the Constitution without any pressure from the electorate, which is a pipe dream. They refuse to live in the real world; the world in which the nature of man is to seek power, gain, and glory for himself; the world in which the Constitution was drafted.
The Constitution was designed to prevent such men from ruling and to preserve the freedom of the individual – but it can do so only if political participation among the common people (tea party) remains high. And voting is the least form of that participation. If the common man really wanted to govern himself, he would be involved in the candidate-selection process in his precinct, county or state. He would be nipping at the heels of those who get elected. He would be informed on the legislation pending in his state legislature as well as in the Congress and would be giving his input. He would be paying attention to cases in the courts that are critical to freedom and even involved in some cases himself. In short, he would be wielding the power given him in the Constitution, and hopefully, he would be joining others in doing so.
These are the things the political elite are doing, and it is the precise reason why they are in power and the common man – the non-participant – is left out in the cold. True patriots in the United States of America should be deeply involved in the political process, and the least of that involvement is to vote on Nov. 8. The real participation follows, and it never ends….end of article which appeared in the Justice Times in 1988.
How fast those who report the news are quick to associate the mentally-ill that commit horrible crimes with right-wing organizations. The most recent being the tragedy caused by the person who flew the plane into the IRS building. Look at what the Tea Party movement is enduring. Look at the ongoing attacks on Sarah Palin. The constant attacks on conservative radio. There is no end to the onslaught. This is how the communists operate. Maybe we should look for retired communists; they know how to fight, unlike cowards in the GOP.
Imagine an Uncle Sam Lobby made up of all the groups taking notice of the crimes being committed in Congress and the White House; all groups under one tent but still maintaining autonomy. Imagine the power those numbers could bring to make the criminals in Congress tremble, and honest. Why should we allow radical and communist groups to make all the noise? I refuse to believe that Americans have become so apathetic and not willing to fight – our country needs your help.
Whenever government begins to overstep the bounds of authority placed upon it by the people, especially by the Bill of Rights, the spirit of freedom inherent in us will be aroused. Now is the moment – grab it, Americans…I love you, America.
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