De-centralization Now!

July 11, 7:33 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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One of the most worrisome developments in the life of our nation is an adversity between the sovereign in this country – you – and our public servants who dispute our authority over them.

Some may believe that a government is the sovereign, and in some countries, this is so, but not here. In the United States, the citizens are the sovereign and the governments we hire as executives and functionaries are our servants. The move is on to build dependency on the servants. n we resist this, we are classified as anti-government. What do you do when more and more of the electorate resists bigger government?

But, who could be anti-servant? Nobody is anti-government; we like our servants, only we never gave them authority over us in the sense that they are acting. To actually believe that the People want bigger government (yeah, right!) or that the Administration has a mandate is nonsense (to put it nicely). A mandate is an implicit command when it comes from the people. In law, it is an order from the court. A hair over 50% win at the ballot box is nowhere near a mandate, and if there even was one, it is been recalled by all polls on the administration’s popularity this week. There is no mandate.

It is not government that the people are smelling as bad for the country, it is the ever-increasing centralization.

Several states have petitioned for state sovereignty; are they anti-government? They are castigated by the federal government for summoning the Tenth Amendment. They are castigated by shills who look forward to the ascendancy of the State. We who love our freedom are opposed by people who cannot live with their own independence from their servants and they work to destroy their own rights with ours.

Thousands of voters want the misinterpretations of the Commerce Clause out. For many – and the electorate is the sovereign here, not the State – the Commerce Clause has been abused. When we demand this and are ignored, we have another early warning sign that our executives want more power than we have been willing to give them. Now you know why.

As the sovereign, Americans have to tolerate more than 20,000 gun laws from their servants. Patiently, law-abiding throughout the decades, and with faith in due process, the lawful sovereign of this nation has put up with abuses of process while neighborhood safety is held hostage by the servants. There is no such thing as a sensible gun law.

Right now, we are witnessing the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her mistaken notions about the Second Amendment. If she has found that states can write their own laws about gun ownership and that 2A does not apply to the states, she has said two things: 1) that shall not be infringed does apply to the federal government in comparison, and 2) she is making noises that she believes in state sovereignty on at least one issue. If a state can write their own gun laws, then a state can repeal their own gun laws and the fed wouldn’t have much to say about it one way or the other. Hm. Sounds like a finding that could be the beginning of de-centralization. If shall not be infringed applies to the feds, then we need to see the repeal of all gun laws.

Americans are looking to get out from under bigger government, not government. Americans don’t want to be forced to depend on agencies and their bureaucracies to the exclusion of our own freedom to act. This country is not about what the government wants, this country is all about what we want. The solution, of course, is to de-centralize and take back a lot of the power which we never granted them in the first place After all, governments do not have fundamental rights, only the citizens have rights.

De-centralize now. This means first the repeal of all gun laws, since gun control is cloned in so many seemingly non-gun related programs in a centralized government. Repeal all gun laws and we will see a miraculous return to fewer laws overall for lack of need on their very face. In a word, a great deal of our national issues will take care of themselves. Scary, but healthy. Sovereignty is scary, too, but healthy. The health of the nation is the foe of liberalism, because it shows how little liberals are really needed. In a word, Independence.

Liberals aren’t needed. Liberals are the last ones to talk about personal dignity; the only way they can survive is when they take it from you. It’s time to stop asking for de-centralization and order it.

The whole point of gun control is to test, discover and implement control in other areas, such as education, environment, national security, health care (yes what they learned from gun control they are applying in health care reform) the economy and more. Simply, it is a matter of identifying a crisis with some urgency, freezing the citizen out of the remedy process of that crisis, and then issuing a mandate for all. This formula might seem like a good faith dealing with the electorate, but it an underhanded power grab. The result is dependency just as certainly as if one must then depend on police after being totally disarmed. Not only is your gun taken, but so is your authority.

The whole point of gun control is to test, discover and implement control in how to blueprint other programs, penetrating education, security, health care, the economy - all learned from gun control.

Oh, and I hasten to add that since our free market choices are in fact a vote of a sort, any attempts to stunt the free market are, obviously, attempts to silence the electorate. That, too, was tested, discovered and implemented from gun control. All of gun control has operated outside of due process since incremental infringement became the norm.

Americans say what they want by doing it in freedom. When the centralized government senses how little they are needed, it says No, and infringes on your say-so and your Independence, and that, my fellow Americans, infringes on your sovereign authority.

Tested and proven in gun control first.

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