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At the Houston Tea Party April 15
As I sit here looking through the deluge of messages which came flooding to my in box in the wee hours, I'm sensing a common thread.
"Sign the petition!" reads one. "Call your Congressman NOW!" reads another. A myriad of Facebook groups popped up in minutes to oppose government-run health care. Almost as many popped up supporting Republican candidates in the 2010 elections. Still more urged me to show up at the next Tea Party here and there.
God bless them all. But they just don't get it.
We can sign all the petitions we want and get hundreds of millions of signatures on them. We could make so many phone calls that AT&T's switchboards melt. Every independent who foolishly voted for the Democrats in 2008 can vote for Republicans in 2009. We can stuff 10 million people onto the national mall.
And it won't matter.
Washington isn't listening to us. The Republic is no more. Mankind's great experiment in representative democracy has failed.
We no longer elect leaders; we elect rulers. Those who haunt the halls of Congress fully believe that they know better than we do, and bask in the riches they reap by taking from our pockets. Government no longer governs, it rules.
And we have allowed it to happen.
The wisdom holds that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.Our education system minimizes history these days as irrelevant, and we are reaping the result. Empire after empire throughout history has fallen not from external invasion, but from internal collapse -- because it tried to rule, rather than govern.
Modern historians doubt the tale that a Scottish philosopher named Alexander Tyler predicted that democracy could never last as a form of government because once voters realize they can elect people to give them gifts from the public treasury, staggering taxes and bankruptcy become inevitable. Whether Tyler truly said that is debatable -- but the simple fact is that it's true.
I have many friends and allies who believe the Republican Party is the cure for what ails the United States. Republicans support limited government, they say; they believe in the Constitution -- yet in the next breath they embrace hypocrisy by insisting that our national government needs to do things it has no authorization under the Constitution to do (and in some cases is expressly prohibited from doing, such as effectively establishing a state religion).
Yet twice in the last decades we've turned to the Republicans to turn this nation off the path toward socialist totalitarianism and restore accountable, limited government. Twice, Republicans have held enough seats in Congress to work the will of the people -- and twice, they have utterly failed to do so. Twice, they have had the chance to end the corruption which is Washington, to stop the cronyism and identity politics, to turn back the tide of an ever-greedy bureaucracy -- and twice they have failed to do so.
The passage of the health-care "reform" bill by Congress signals a new era for the United States: the start of totalitarianism. Yes, we'll still have "elections" -- but when neither major party truly believes in limited government and they conspire together to limit ballot access by anyone else, those elections will be no more "free" than are the ones in Communist China, because you don't really get a choice, do you?
We in Texas have begun the process of freeing ourselves from the United States. I would urge those who see the totalitarianism on the horizon who happen to live in other states to come join us here. Together, we can win and retain our freedom and both re-establish and guarantee the concept of limited government. We have the resources to survive separation from the U.S. and to forge our own way in the world.
Come join us, and let's rekindle the dream of freedom.
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