11A021 
Above the Law
 by Jim Davies, 1/21/2011
    



Government people perfume their domination over 
us by insisting that ours is a society of "laws, not
men" - to which, after debate by our representatives, we
are all subject, and that
nobody is above the law. It's a pleasant fairy tale.




 
For example, Amendment #4
guarantees freedom from government search, unless a "warrant
shall issue" - meaning that someone has sworn he saw Jones
hide in his barn something he apparently stole. Then alone can
the fuzz invade his barn (alone) and search for that object
(alone.) Ha! Even PBS Frontline, on Tuesday, seemed shocked when
revealing the monstrous apparatus government has constructed,
mostly since 2001, to spy on anybody and everybody. Catch its
flavor here;
in essence, an unlimited amount of money has been spent to record what everyone
is doing, anywhere and all the time. It isn't complete yet, but
what does exist is scary; it is exactly what Orwell foresaw in
1984. Titled "Are we Safer?" the
main thing it failed to do was to point out that "our"
own government is vastly more dangerous than some shadowy
terrorist. Oh, and I didn't hear mention of Amendment #4.



For another: Article
I, §8 specifies that Congress (alone) "shall have
power to declare war." The FedGov has fought many since
WW-II, including Korea and Vietnam, killing well over 100,000
Americans in them along with many times that number
of foreigners; yet the last time Congress declared war was in
1941. They simply don't care what the law says. It's just a scrap
of paper. Yes, true enough; but what's sauce for the government
goose is sauce also for 300 million ganders. 



For a third: half of all Federal revenue is collected directly
(and I reckon about two thirds of all government revenue
indirectly) with the Income Tax; it is enforced vigorously. Yet
the word "income" is nowhere
defined; neither in Amendment #16 that seems to authorize it,
nor in any statute. Further, whereas it plainly says in
the "1040 Instructions" displayed nationwide this month
that nobody need file a tax return unless
"liable for a tax", nobody has ever found a statute
making anybody liable
for one on what he earns. They are above the law, and they don't
care.



These examples concern the primary government funding
mechanism, the primary government function (providing
"defense", ie making war) and the nature of everyone's primary contact
with government (its rights to search us.) In all three, its own supreme
law is flagrantly disregarded. 



Some react by saying we must get the toothpaste back inside
the tube; that government must be caused to obey constitutional
limits. This is ludicrous. Reason shows that's impossible; if
government governs, it can never be governed, that would
be a flat contradiction, a violation of the meaning of
"govern." Practice, over more than two centuries, has
also shown it to be impossible; the US Constitution is the best
attempt in history to limit government, and it has
been proven over and over to have been a colossal failure.



Accordingly there is no alternative; consistent with survival
of the human race, government must evaporate altogether. For
how to cause that, see
here.



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