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<blockquote data-quote="Judge Bean" data-source="post: 6836" data-attributes="member: 42"><p><strong>Rights We Have Lost</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing <strong>wrong</strong>, gives it a superficial appearance of being <strong>right</strong>, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em> Thomas Paine</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>A constitution is a thing <strong>antecedent </strong>to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government?.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>?governments arise either out of the people, or over the people?.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em> Thomas Paine</em></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Constitution provides for the removal of criminal leaders and judges by impeachment, but the people are not burdened with the responsibility to specifically accuse elected or appointed officials, or branches, of the federal government, when the offenses against them are of so long a duration, the culpability for them spread unevenly throughout, and of such enormity. </p><p></p><p>When individuals might be forced to trial for impeachment, the burden is by law on the accuser. Instead, we give grounds for a general impeachment, not being required by law to specify the particular offense of only some, but all of the government and Congress are called out on having together failed to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.</p><p> </p><p>The elected officials comprising the Executive and Legislative branches, and the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, carry on in an unbroken line of succession the policies and practices of a century of abuse and exploitation. </p><p></p><p>It is not for them to claim innocence based on what happened before them; it is for the American people to claim that its government has no rights in this respect, and must obey and withdraw when the people see fit to discharge them. The members of government, as members, have no rights to the powers they hold and pass on to their successors in interest. </p><p></p><p>Since at least 1964, the government, inasmuch as it is the same and continuously installed government by Constitutional mandate, has failed to correct or mitigate the effects and consequences of the policies, decisions, and acts under their leadership, and are called out in general impeachment to resign their offices.</p><p> </p><p>The elected officials comprising the Executive and Legislative Branch, and the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, having failed to delegate the powers entrusted to them in a manner consistent with the protection and defense of the Constitution, and having failed since at least 1964 to correct or mitigate the effects and consequences of the policies, decisions, and acts under their leadership, are called out in general impeachment to resign their offices. </p><p></p><p>As successors to those offices, or for their own part, among other numerous acts, they have embarked on military adventures without the consent of the people, costing tens of thousands of lives, and ruining the economy with debt, unproductive spending, and overtaxation.</p><p></p><p>They have rendered the laws subordinate to the profiteering and private interests of numerous parties while the standards of public health and education have steadily declined, and have even waged war overseas for the benefit of such interested parties, at the cost of citizens? lives.</p><p></p><p>And they have depleted the power and reputation of the United States by means of its policies and conduct of international policy, compromising the people?s full exercise of diplomatic representation and putting both trade and cultural exchange at risk by exporting fear, threat, arrogance, and ignorance of other peoples in their place.</p><p></p><p>And they have amassed an arsenal of doomsday weapons of which even a small fraction of the number can never be used without destroying civilization, and comparable to which no nation on Earth has any but the same fraction, in spite of having no nation or alliance opposed to the general policies and continuing existence of the United States able to launch attack or invasion against it; and has held the lives of the citizens and of all people in the world in fear and forfeit to the plausibility of nuclear attack for decades.</p><p></p><p>And they have amassed stockpiles and arsenals of unknown extent and precise character which contain inhuman weapons of chemical and biological agents, likewise without an enemy, and posing a threat to world health, on the basis that such weapons might possibly be used in the future, thus presenting to the world a national character of willingness to use absolute violence against helpless populations.</p><p></p><p>And they have undermined and corrupted the Constitution and succeeded in centralizing political and military power in itself contrary to the initial design of the United States government.</p><p></p><p>And they have embezzled and squandered the public funds and betrayed the public trust in the mishandling and waste of tax and investment revenue, at one time permitting the theft of billions of dollars, never recovered, from the treasury, to underwrite the failed Savings and Loan system.</p><p></p><p>And they have extended the explicit powers in the Constitution to include by preemption and court opinion the control of all rivers, ports, harbors, interstate highways, lands of indigenous peoples, and lands in the public trust confiscated without remedy, constituting a majority of open land in some States.</p><p></p><p>And they have instituted general policies of secrecy despite the unmistakable call of the public and of the Constitution for revelation, and in some cases violating clear law requiring disclosure, and in any event cutting against the plain intent of the Constitution and its Framers to conduct an open and accessible government in form and function, thus further undermining the public trust.</p><p></p><p>And they have mismanaged the country?s natural resources even while intruding jurisdiction over them contrary to the original intent of the Constitution, and by their environmental and economic policies and acts permitted the extensive ruin of the atmosphere, pollution of the air and water, and destruction of wildlife and their natural habitat throughout the world.</p><p></p><p>And they have undermined the ability of the majority of citizens to obtain inexpensive and competent healthcare, including mental health treatment, in apparent collusion with pharmaceutical and medical interests, and to meet the unconscionable expenses of their military, intelligence, and secret projects and programs.</p><p></p><p>And they have levied taxes upon the American people in an ever-increasing severity, making the value of one?s labor to the government nearly the equal of its value to himself, in sharp contradiction to the intent of the Framers that each citizen should be protected in his enjoyment of property as an aspect of his liberty.</p><p></p><p>And they have extended administrative powers of the Executive Branch into law enforcement nationwide, into the summary collection of onerous taxes without review or remedy, and into the control generally of the national economy, education, and law enforcement, among others, violating the Constitutional directives of Separation of Powers and Rights Reserved to the States and People.</p><p></p><p>And they have by Supreme Court opinion diluted and weakened Constitutional guarantees of rights, instead of expanding the recognized scope of such rights, and aided in the violation of Separation of Powers and Rights Reserved, as above, by honoring the arbitrary and capricious expansion of the Executive War Powers; and have failed to interpose a judicial review system to avert the majority of Constitutional questions having been neglected on writs of certiorari.</p><p></p><p>And they have encouraged and sponsored partisanship of the judiciary, and subjected candidates for the courts of the United States to the mutable demands of inconsistent politics.</p><p></p><p>And they have permitted the pervasive influence of corporate interests to direct the affairs of Congress and the presidency, and to participate in the drafting and execution of regulations in all departments, and in the policies and acts of government overall.</p><p></p><p>* * * * * </p><p></p><p>If a wrong was once done to the people by its government, at that time democracy was reduced and mocked; if the wrong goes unpunished in the immediately successive administration, at that time democracy struggles forward under a great and unjust burden; if the wrong, as we see has now happened, remains as incorporated into the body politic, democracy no longer walks, and is wheezing on its final bed. </p><p></p><p>We have endured wrongs which have not only gone pardoned and ignored, but have multiplied, one upon the other an each depending on all, like a vast cancerous web; there is no proper governing from the creature trapped within. The frame or branch anchoring the web itself must be cut and burnt. </p><p></p><p>This is not the corruption of a few Congressmen only; nor does it condemn good leaders who have surpassed the expectations of their inevitable predators and payors, and finally disappointed the creatures of graft and profit. This is not a revolution meant to start up a foreign kind of rule or overthrow a lawful government?we are to clear the boards, and start anew according to our Constitutional rule of law. </p><p></p><p>They are not free to use the country for their own benefit. We are taking it back.</p><p></p><p>One would think it difficult to prove to Americans that their wealth has been squandered by the government (where it has not been stolen outright, as in the Savings & Loan debacle, the biggest theft in human history). </p><p></p><p>There are many, no doubt, who have not noticed that the government devours a huge portion of individuals? livelihood, leaving corporations untouched (two-thirds of which do not pay taxes); and that, even in light of the magnitude of the sacrifice, willingly made by citizens for the public good, asks for more and wastes and gives away more every year. </p><p></p><p>The pace proceeds unabated through the generations of bureaucrats and executives and elected officials, and is the one tie that binds the opposing political ?parties.? Why do we continue to give them our money, knowing that they are misusing it, and abusing our trust? It is because we are a great people, and proceed guided by hope and faith; and because the government is, literally, composed of a million Americans, who believe that they can somehow spend it and use it well on everyone?s behalf. </p><p></p><p>It may be that someday the government will be deserving of this faith, and I have great hope that we will get that government?but we do not have it now. This is not the government we can trust; it has been in power for decades, and the time has come for it to end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Judge Bean, post: 6836, member: 42"] [b]Rights We Have Lost[/b] [SIZE=2][i]Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing [b]wrong[/b], gives it a superficial appearance of being [b]right[/b], and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine A constitution is a thing [b]antecedent [/b]to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government?. ?governments arise either out of the people, or over the people?. Thomas Paine[/i][/SIZE] The Constitution provides for the removal of criminal leaders and judges by impeachment, but the people are not burdened with the responsibility to specifically accuse elected or appointed officials, or branches, of the federal government, when the offenses against them are of so long a duration, the culpability for them spread unevenly throughout, and of such enormity. When individuals might be forced to trial for impeachment, the burden is by law on the accuser. Instead, we give grounds for a general impeachment, not being required by law to specify the particular offense of only some, but all of the government and Congress are called out on having together failed to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. The elected officials comprising the Executive and Legislative branches, and the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, carry on in an unbroken line of succession the policies and practices of a century of abuse and exploitation. It is not for them to claim innocence based on what happened before them; it is for the American people to claim that its government has no rights in this respect, and must obey and withdraw when the people see fit to discharge them. The members of government, as members, have no rights to the powers they hold and pass on to their successors in interest. Since at least 1964, the government, inasmuch as it is the same and continuously installed government by Constitutional mandate, has failed to correct or mitigate the effects and consequences of the policies, decisions, and acts under their leadership, and are called out in general impeachment to resign their offices. The elected officials comprising the Executive and Legislative Branch, and the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, having failed to delegate the powers entrusted to them in a manner consistent with the protection and defense of the Constitution, and having failed since at least 1964 to correct or mitigate the effects and consequences of the policies, decisions, and acts under their leadership, are called out in general impeachment to resign their offices. As successors to those offices, or for their own part, among other numerous acts, they have embarked on military adventures without the consent of the people, costing tens of thousands of lives, and ruining the economy with debt, unproductive spending, and overtaxation. They have rendered the laws subordinate to the profiteering and private interests of numerous parties while the standards of public health and education have steadily declined, and have even waged war overseas for the benefit of such interested parties, at the cost of citizens? lives. And they have depleted the power and reputation of the United States by means of its policies and conduct of international policy, compromising the people?s full exercise of diplomatic representation and putting both trade and cultural exchange at risk by exporting fear, threat, arrogance, and ignorance of other peoples in their place. And they have amassed an arsenal of doomsday weapons of which even a small fraction of the number can never be used without destroying civilization, and comparable to which no nation on Earth has any but the same fraction, in spite of having no nation or alliance opposed to the general policies and continuing existence of the United States able to launch attack or invasion against it; and has held the lives of the citizens and of all people in the world in fear and forfeit to the plausibility of nuclear attack for decades. And they have amassed stockpiles and arsenals of unknown extent and precise character which contain inhuman weapons of chemical and biological agents, likewise without an enemy, and posing a threat to world health, on the basis that such weapons might possibly be used in the future, thus presenting to the world a national character of willingness to use absolute violence against helpless populations. And they have undermined and corrupted the Constitution and succeeded in centralizing political and military power in itself contrary to the initial design of the United States government. And they have embezzled and squandered the public funds and betrayed the public trust in the mishandling and waste of tax and investment revenue, at one time permitting the theft of billions of dollars, never recovered, from the treasury, to underwrite the failed Savings and Loan system. And they have extended the explicit powers in the Constitution to include by preemption and court opinion the control of all rivers, ports, harbors, interstate highways, lands of indigenous peoples, and lands in the public trust confiscated without remedy, constituting a majority of open land in some States. And they have instituted general policies of secrecy despite the unmistakable call of the public and of the Constitution for revelation, and in some cases violating clear law requiring disclosure, and in any event cutting against the plain intent of the Constitution and its Framers to conduct an open and accessible government in form and function, thus further undermining the public trust. And they have mismanaged the country?s natural resources even while intruding jurisdiction over them contrary to the original intent of the Constitution, and by their environmental and economic policies and acts permitted the extensive ruin of the atmosphere, pollution of the air and water, and destruction of wildlife and their natural habitat throughout the world. And they have undermined the ability of the majority of citizens to obtain inexpensive and competent healthcare, including mental health treatment, in apparent collusion with pharmaceutical and medical interests, and to meet the unconscionable expenses of their military, intelligence, and secret projects and programs. And they have levied taxes upon the American people in an ever-increasing severity, making the value of one?s labor to the government nearly the equal of its value to himself, in sharp contradiction to the intent of the Framers that each citizen should be protected in his enjoyment of property as an aspect of his liberty. And they have extended administrative powers of the Executive Branch into law enforcement nationwide, into the summary collection of onerous taxes without review or remedy, and into the control generally of the national economy, education, and law enforcement, among others, violating the Constitutional directives of Separation of Powers and Rights Reserved to the States and People. And they have by Supreme Court opinion diluted and weakened Constitutional guarantees of rights, instead of expanding the recognized scope of such rights, and aided in the violation of Separation of Powers and Rights Reserved, as above, by honoring the arbitrary and capricious expansion of the Executive War Powers; and have failed to interpose a judicial review system to avert the majority of Constitutional questions having been neglected on writs of certiorari. And they have encouraged and sponsored partisanship of the judiciary, and subjected candidates for the courts of the United States to the mutable demands of inconsistent politics. And they have permitted the pervasive influence of corporate interests to direct the affairs of Congress and the presidency, and to participate in the drafting and execution of regulations in all departments, and in the policies and acts of government overall. * * * * * If a wrong was once done to the people by its government, at that time democracy was reduced and mocked; if the wrong goes unpunished in the immediately successive administration, at that time democracy struggles forward under a great and unjust burden; if the wrong, as we see has now happened, remains as incorporated into the body politic, democracy no longer walks, and is wheezing on its final bed. We have endured wrongs which have not only gone pardoned and ignored, but have multiplied, one upon the other an each depending on all, like a vast cancerous web; there is no proper governing from the creature trapped within. The frame or branch anchoring the web itself must be cut and burnt. This is not the corruption of a few Congressmen only; nor does it condemn good leaders who have surpassed the expectations of their inevitable predators and payors, and finally disappointed the creatures of graft and profit. This is not a revolution meant to start up a foreign kind of rule or overthrow a lawful government?we are to clear the boards, and start anew according to our Constitutional rule of law. They are not free to use the country for their own benefit. We are taking it back. One would think it difficult to prove to Americans that their wealth has been squandered by the government (where it has not been stolen outright, as in the Savings & Loan debacle, the biggest theft in human history). There are many, no doubt, who have not noticed that the government devours a huge portion of individuals? livelihood, leaving corporations untouched (two-thirds of which do not pay taxes); and that, even in light of the magnitude of the sacrifice, willingly made by citizens for the public good, asks for more and wastes and gives away more every year. The pace proceeds unabated through the generations of bureaucrats and executives and elected officials, and is the one tie that binds the opposing political ?parties.? Why do we continue to give them our money, knowing that they are misusing it, and abusing our trust? It is because we are a great people, and proceed guided by hope and faith; and because the government is, literally, composed of a million Americans, who believe that they can somehow spend it and use it well on everyone?s behalf. It may be that someday the government will be deserving of this faith, and I have great hope that we will get that government?but we do not have it now. This is not the government we can trust; it has been in power for decades, and the time has come for it to end. [/QUOTE]
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