Great things are happening across America. The actions of a few brave and noble state legislators and state officers around the Republic may well demonstrate that the most important election in the nation may not be the run for the President of The United States. The most important upcoming elections for all Americans may be those for their state House of Representatives, State Senate, Attorney General and their Governor’s races. When this country was created the office of the President was intended to have a relatively minor influence on the citizens of each state. It appears that some legislators and state Attorney Generals are dusting off the Constitution and working to get their house in order.

In Oklahoma the state legislature has a Bill pending to re-assert their state sovereignty.  The short caption of the bill reads:

“Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; and directing distribution.”

Essentially, Oklahoma has asserted that the federal government and those in Washington D.C. are no longer going to dictate the way they run their state education, industries, National Guard, state police and they are especially not going to run rough shod over their state legislature. Oklahoma has told Washington, enough is enough. GET OUT!

In Montana the Governor and the State Legislature are reasserting their sovereignty and telling the Director of Homeland Security they have no constitutional authority to force the National ID on its citizens.

In New Hampshire a group of legislators are diligently working to introduce sound money backed by gold and silver as a state currency.

In Nevada the State Legislature rules the Federal Reserve Corporation unconstitutional.

It is All About Sovereignty

When we look at the source of the problem, most every problem in America today stems from a failure to respect and understand sovereignty: national, state, local and individual. The national police state and (FBI, DEA, CIA, OSHA, Corp of Engineers, Homeland Security, IRS, Fish and Wildlife, EPA, Fusion Centers, etc., etc.) runs rough shod over the state police, local sheriff’s offices and citizens in each state. The dire problems in this country were created by unconstitutional, unconscionable actions of the U. S. Congress. These agencies undermine the liberties of all Americans, violate the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and undermine the sovereignty of each state. Take a look at a list of all Federal Agencies. You will not believe it (http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml ).

The financial problems created by having to feed this machine seem so complex and overwhelming that most Americans have developed a sense of hopelessness and despair. When it comes to dealing with issues such as the national debt, the growing federal bureaucracy and the national police state, the citizens and states have no viable avenue for redress. When citizens have more fear of the IRS and the federal government than of dying, we have a problem.

When it comes to protecting one citizen from another, the sheriff of each county is the legitimate constitutional protector of the rights and liberties of the citizens. Their offices are charged with both protecting the liberty of the citizens and prosecuting those who commit criminal acts against another citizen. Should the sheriffs’ office ever engage in violating the rights of its citizenry, the citizens have immediate recourse by calling a town meeting or replacing the sheriff at the next election. The sheriff is immediately answerable to those who entrust him with such power. This is the proper order of things.

With a Federal Police state or federal regulatory bureaucracy, there is no redress for the citizens of the state. Can one vote out the director of the US Army Corps of Engineers or the head of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington D.C.? Write your Congressman and see what kind of results you get. Additionally, the U.S. Congress and its agencies treat our states and city municipalities as low level extensions of Congress. They have forgotten that, THE STATES CREATED THE CONGRESS and gave them their limited powers. The national police and federal regulatory agencies routinely undermine the citizen’s inalienable right of self defense by placing limitations on gun ownership. The federal government has undermined the citizen’s right of freedom and life through the personal income tax and regulation of every area of one’s life or business. The average state citizen now works nearly 4 months of the year for the federal government. The sad irony is, we created the federal government to protect our liberty and privacy and now it is the federal government we need protection from. This is not how the Founders intended.

Debt, Taxes and Inflation

In order to pay for the federal behemoth, the U.S. Congress and Federal Reserve Corporation have saddled the American people with an unrecoverable $13 trillion of debt. Half of this debt was accumulated in the past 8 years. This is now expected to be repaid by our children and grandchildren. No generation has the right to pass on a debt to the next generation.

Unfortunately, the U.S. treasury is empty, we are taxed until we cannot be taxed anymore and the federal government has borrowed until it cannot borrow anymore. According to the former Controller General of the United States David Walker, the U.S. has another $50 trillion in social service, Medicare and Medicaid obligations coming due over the next 30 years. http://www.federalbud….

Walker says, the U.S. Government is already insolvent and operates only off of borrowed money. The income taxes collected are primarily paying the $1.5 billion a day interest payment. Assuredly, he states, at our present course the U.S. Government will cease to operate.

Privacy

Did you know that the federal government has passed legislation requiring every citizen to obtain a National Id Card? The little known legislation is known as the Real ID Act was passed into law by Congress in 2003 and began being implemented in May of 2008 ( http://www.realidstates.com/category/real-id-act/ ). Florida, my home state, implemented the program in January 2010. The national ID Card is a centralized federal government file database on every American. This legislation allows the director of the Department of Homeland Security to track all of your financial transactions (i.e. political affiliations, social clubs, service clubs, gun ownership, types of guns purchased, places traveled) health records, biometric data, blood type, DNA information and social security number and will have the ability to be directly connected to your ATM or Debit Card.

People often say that if you have nothing to hide why should you care?

First of all, it smacks of a modern version of the required papers required by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany and secondly the government was created to protect our privacy not invade it. Read a little on the Nazi police state for a brief history lesson. Also, I am uncomfortable knowing that my small children, for their entire life may have every doctor visit, everywhere they travel and everything they ever purchase collected, maintained and analyzed by the government official in a federal government database.

So with all of this, what can possibly be the good news?

The Solution

The good news is that our founding fathers anticipated all of this and they gave us the ability at any time to bring the house in order. When this Republic was founded, we referred to one another as Floridians, Alabamans, Georgians, and Virginians.

When referring to the states collectively it was states the “United States are” …

Today the federal government would have us to believe the “United States is” one large collectivist national state, run and operated out of Washington D. C.

This issue probably would not be resurrecting itself if it were not for Washington seeking to strip our liberties and God given rights from us, enslave us through taxation, burden our children with debts, and collapse the dollar we trade in until our entire nations wealth disappears through inflation. As a result, few leaders in Washington can be trusted. Our founding fathers repeatedly warned us to not trust those in power. We must follow Oklahoma’s lead, dust off the Constitution, re- assert our state sovereignty and turn to ourselves to preserve our liberties and our prosperity.

Our solution will be a long arduous battle that begins at the local level, then state level, one legislator at a time. Eventually we will have a legislature and governor willing to stand up to the federal leviathan. During the process they will be under tremendous pressure to abandon the course. Their careers will be threatened, if they own businesses they will be threatened with loss of business or contracts, they will be ridiculed by the media as anachronistic and the weight of their party will bear on each of them. There are trillions of dollars being spent at the federal trough and the pigs will not leave until they are starved out. This plan will take governors calling governors and legislators calling legislators. We must follow the Founders advice and the states must re-assert their sovereignty. The states must refuse to allow the US Government to continue to run roughshod over their legislatures. We must do as Oklahoma has done, tell them enough is enough.

We need to find, educate and elect officials who think deeply about the principles this county was founded upon. Leaders that understand that taking office is a burden not a popularity contest. We need leaders that do not allow themselves to become compromised. We need leaders with the courage of their convictions to tell those in Washington D.C. that our state is not going to take it anymore. As Oklahoma has said, enough is enough. We are here to take it back!

If you are committed to the cause of liberty and limited constitutional government please join or contribute to the Republican Liberty Caucus of Northeast Florida www.rlcnf.org.

Regards,
Will Pitts, Chairman

Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida

Florida Liberty Candidates

Here are some good candidates to support in Florida:

Charles Perniciaro, State Senate District 8
http://www.charlesperniciaro.com

Luis Melendez, State House District 16
http://www.electmelendez.com

Marcus Rivchin, State House District 117
http://www.marcusrivchin.com

Francisco Rodriguez, State House District 83
http://www.rodriguez2010.com

Nathan McDonell, State House District 26
http://www.nathanmcdonell.com

Roger Shealy, State House District 29
http://www.shealy2010.com

By Chaumont

In the Madisonian republic that the citizens of the several states have managed to sustain, above all else, including such abstractions as “the common good” and “general welfare” for example, stands the rule of law.  It is with strict adherence to and equal application of a supreme law of the land that we are able to live, at worst, relatively free and, at best, with ultimate liberty and maximum personal responsibility.  As Madison explains in Federalist Paper #57, the same laws that apply to the citizens also apply to the representatives.  No man–not the executive, nor the legislative– is above the law.  It is with this understanding then that we must allow ourselves to be guided when making judgments and decisions on our elected officials.

We must learn to set aside our own “special interests” when seeking out the best candidates to rule us.  Citizens of the modern states excel at disdain for the organized interests of business, for example, who employ professional lobbyists, but fail to draw the parallels between their own intentions and the intentions of these organized groups.  Each citizen who makes a judgment of a candidate based upon any issue that is personal to them commits the same offense against the Republic that the professional lobbyist does.  The only difference is that the professionals often do so with more money than the common citizen.  But, in principle, there is no difference.  Each is trying to influence the system based on their own personal values and ambitions.  As secondary considerations, this practice is not so harmful; however the primary qualification for office in a constitutional republic is this:  Will the candidate respect the limits place on his power by the Constitution?  If no, then the candidate must not serve, no matter what a voter may like about the candidate’s views on other issues.

Contrary to what so many people believe, and what the lobbyists hired by the special interests practice daily, the elected representatives do not serve us.  They serve the Republic.  When representatives serve the people, then by consequence they will serve the majority at the expense of the minority, the rich at the expense of the poor, the influential at the expense of the commoner.  This is the evil which we see today where the elected are divorced from the electorate.  We must elect moral men who will bound themselves with the chains of the Constitution, vote for no legislation that is not authorized by the Constitution, and represent the interests of the whole of their constituency in the interest of maintaining the republic.

Much of my message here to you has been a nice way of saying the following:  Nobody cares what you think.  Your opinion does not and should not matter.  Your influence must be defended against by every liberty-loving citizen of the states.  It MUST be this way.  We have a rule of law and a system of government designed, as its primary function, to protect me from you .  My motivation for electing a representative to government is to make sure they will keep you from forcing your values upon me, to keep you from stealing my property, to prevent you from forcing my children to march off to foreign lands to slaughter innocent citizens of another geo-political union.  I know you’re my enemy when I see you supporting issues like the Fair Tax, which is a different disguise of theft of my fortune.  When you support aggressive and pre-emptive war, I know you are willing to kill my children to further your agenda against the enemies you’ve made for yourself.  When you support a ban on gay marriage, I know you are telling me that you own the definition of marriage and, at any time, you can further clarify that definition to exclude me.

I must find a moral man who recognizes the threat you pose to me and my liberty, and do everything I can to put him between you and me to provide protection.  THAT is what this republican form of government and our Constitution is designed to facilitate.  Only candidates who run on this platform are fit to serve our Republic.  Stop being selfish and become self-interested.  Cease looking for ways to participate in the power-grab which has become modern-day politics.  Find it in yourself to be brave enough to give up the tendency to use the power of government to force others to think like you, act like you, and vote like you.  Instead, choose liberty for all to do as they please so long as they do not rob another of life, liberty, or property!  Be loyal, not to a flag or another man or a government; rather be loyal to the principle of liberty that this country was founded on!

by James A. Hunter

The long arm of state law and your purchases in the produce aisle….

So who cares about tomatoes, you ask? I hope you will, but bear with me and follow along… I think you will.  Much is being made lately of the vast over reach of our federal government into what would be seemingly innocuous aspects of our daily lives but which have devastating effects on our economy, the free market and our day to day existence.  Whether it be the strong armed tactics of an ecologically oriented energy policy that pushes oil rigs out to mile deep waters to drill where disasters can’t be contained or to the punitive taxation of producers that drive jobs overseas and prop up the welfare state or even the overreaching measures that would force FREE peoples to purchase such consumer goods as health insurance or be subjected to fines and possible imprisonment, all such examples and there are many, are formulated under the guise of good intentions and advancement.    Likewise at a local level the examples are numerous whether it is the home owner who has to pull a building permit to simply repair an existing structure such as re-pouring the broken concrete of a driveway or putting new shingles on a roof of a home that has been there for 30 plus years or the debates of immanent domain that spring up periodically; in either case, a good case can be made that it is none of the governments business or that the government body that is supposed to protect its citizenry is in fact functioning as their persecutor.  Perhaps it might only be the fact that our local tax dollars are used in ways we don’t support or the cronyism that is prevalent in the sweetheart deals and contracts that are made with no bid.    My goal is not to rehash all of the draconian federal missteps that are now viewed in the light of the laws of unintended consequences nor lament at any great length about the pet peeves of a personal nature.   Rather, I seek to make the reader aware of such similar overreaches of state government as well as take away the point that your patriotic work to educate and make aware yourself and others of big government interloping extends beyond the sound bites of national press.  It is of equal importance to recognize it, and fight it, in your city and state as well.  The path to restorative healing in our nation starts at your driveway and extends through your city hall and your state capitol long before it settles inside the beltway of DC.  So, I’ve told you all of that to draw your attention to just one of thousands of what is surely to be considered inhibitive, inane and incomprehensibly burdensome intrusions by the great state of Florida.

Strange as it may seem, transporting uninspected tomatoes is a crime in the State of Florida.  Yes, it is a second degree misdemeanor as per Florida Statute 603.151.  So is transporting all manners of uninspected citrus and avocados.   Florida’s chief agricultural exports are, you guessed it, tomatoes, limes, grapefruit, oranges and avocados.  Because Florida owes so much of its existence to the hay day of its agricultural enterprise prior to the housing boom, long before it was known to be a retirement Mecca, way before its sunny beaches and theme parks made tourism its primary industry and despite its always robust fishing industry…. The agricultural footprint of the state caused it to create one of the most powerful agencies of any in the state, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DOACS).  This department’s power resides in its ability to make sweeping Administrative Rules that are enforceable by state statute.

Who might seek to have such a law made, you ask? Well, in Florida we have a Citrus Committee and a Tomato Committee.  Who or what is that?  They are, at least in the realm of agricultural enterprise, fairly powerful consortiums that lobby our state legislators and the Division of Fruits and Vegetables within the DOACS for such rules and laws.

You ask, what could their interest possibly be in seeing such laws enacted? Well, according to the Tomato Committee website under the link for regulatory information, “These regulations are in place to assure that wherever you find a Florida tomato, you can be certain that it is of the highest quality.” (Found at:    http://floridatomatoes.org/index.html)     You might think this sounds logical.  I mean if something is so important to the economy of the state and the very reputation and image of the state hangs in the balance shouldn’t you want the products bearing the “Fresh From Florida” brand to be the premier, tastiest, best looking product you could find?  After all, the DOACS pumps millions every year in to marketing to include sponsorship of several race cars and even the whole race.  See here:  (http://www.florida-agriculture.com/racing/index_old.htm) or (http://www.automobilsport.com/grandam-daytona-continental-tire-200-race-results-fresh-from-florida—75498.html) or ( http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-07-24/news/RACECAR24_1_fresh-from-florida-florida-produce-florida-fruits )

So who cares, you ask? Well, you might and in fact, should.  You see these committees, consortiums…. Aw heck let’s just say it, CARTELS, Are comprised of the biggest growers in the state.  Their seemingly good intentions amount to little more than a vice grip on a small portion of an industry but which drives up prices at the store and impedes fair and free market competition.

How might it impede the free market and drive prices up? Well, to get a 25lb. box of tomatoes inspected it costs approximately 4 dollars a box in inspection fees that are paid directly to state inspectors.  That 4 dollar per box in fees might not sound like much until you are purchasing a tractor trailer load full at 1600 boxes and the state wants the 6400 dollars in extorted state taxes masquerading in the form of fees.  Making matters worse is the fact that small time growers who have a much smaller bottom line and 4 dollars a box cuts deeply into the already small profits they are able to show whereby scratching out a living.  An amount of less than 50lbs (2 boxes) is the only exemption and must be for personal use.

Who might enforce such rules you ask? Well, it is the law enforcement arm of the department.  The Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement is comprised of approximately 225 sworn law enforcement officers in uniform, administrative, managerial and investigative functions.  These officers are fully sworn to enforce all state laws but give primary focus to their “niche” as it pertains to Agriculture.  Now I don’t tell you this to besmirch any of the fine men or women that work for this agency as they do enforce many laws that have legitimate purpose and do protect the consumers of the state and the agricultural industry from invasive plant species and pests but in this one narrow aspect of their function they do serve as the henchmen for the Citrus and Tomato cartels which truly hurts the small growers, the free market and again every resident of this and every state in the cost of purchasing Florida tomatoes for their salads and burgers.

Further complicating the issue is the fact that this only applies to tomatoes that are grown in what is referred to as “Regulated and Production Zones” which encompass everything but the panhandle and therefore growers in the panhandle are not subjected to the fees.  Why? Because there is no way to enforce it except in these areas.  If you look at the top of the regulated area line on the map found here:  http://www.floridatomatoes.org/map.html and connect the dots on the map of Agricultural Inspection Stations shown here:  http://www.fl-aglaw.com/bus/bus_locations.html.  Can you see a correlation?

What happens to someone who is caught transporting uninspected tomatoes of regulated kind? I’m glad you asked.  They may be formally charged, carried to jail and immediately bonded out for not more than 500 dollars for a first offence and progressively steeper bonds for subsequent incidences.  What then? The driver of the load is then permitted to either donate the load if less than a full load so as to avoid being delinquent in the distribution deadlines for their remaining cargo or they may elect to return to an approved packing house to have their tomatoes inspected before they attempt to exit the state again.  Who approves packing houses and authorizes them to conduct such inspections? Well, the Tomato Committee, of course.

Now let me really blow your mind….

First, Thanks to NAFTA and CAFTA we are being inundated with Tomatoes from Mexico.  Mexican Tomatoes have no inspection fees, they are grown and sold at costs well below what it can be produced for domestically and when you add to that Tomatoes and Citrus fruit being shipped in from California and other areas the laws that were designed to supposedly protect the industry in this state are KILLING IT!!!    Why would anyone in their right mind pay even 5 dollars more money for their domestically grown, inspection fee included box of Florida Tomatoes let alone the 10 or 15 dollars a box more it may likely be over a box of Mexican Tomatoes that are already selling in some cases in excess of 2 dollars a pound?

Second, these regulations don’t pertain to Cherry Tomatoes, Roma Tomatoes, Ugly Tomatoes, and other varieties that are considered less than perfect in shape, size, or breed.  Why, you might ask again?  Well because ….. Well just because!!!!   But wait, there is a plan afoot.  There hadn’t been any previous regulation on those sorts of tomatoes but now just this last year it has been unveiled in what is being called Tomato – Good Agricultural Practices (T-GAP) now all tomatoes must be washed and certified as such at…. You guessed it, at “Approved Packing Houses”

Why do the tomatoes need to be washed, you ask? Well because somewhere, someone got salmonella poisoning and blamed it on a tomato.  I’ll wait for you to stop laughing… yes; they blamed it on a tomato.  Now if you don’t know why this is funny, it is because salmonella doesn’t grow inside a fruit.  It could be picked up on the surface along the way from other methods related to handling but if washed today it could still pick up a microbe tomorrow before it hits the supermarket shelf.   Making matters worse yet, now when tomatoes are transported in violation of T-GAP rules they can no longer be donated.  That’s right, because someone might get salmonella from it at the county jail or boys home who frequently received the donated produce in the past.  The  State of Florida is now destroying THOUSANDS OF POUNDS of perfectly good tomatoes every week and leaving them to rot in land fills while unwashed uninspected Mexican tomatoes are filling the shelves of Florida supermarkets and elsewhere.   If you’re not scratching your head yet you might want to see a doctor and ask them to undo the lobotomy you received.

Let me ask you a few questions for once.  WHO DOESN’T WASH THEIR FRUITS AND VEGITABLES BEFORE EATING THEM? If you don’t, I’m sorry but you deserve whatever you get and if it was due to the negligence of the restaurant’s salad bar preparation staff then your issue is with said restaurant.  OK, let me ask you another question.  WHY DON’T WE HAVE THE SAME RULES FOR CUCUMBERS, BEANS, SQUASH, ETC? That is an excellent question but one for which I have no answer and can offer only the following speculation in the form of a third question.  HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE FOR THE MENSA CANDIDATES IN TALLAHASSEE TO FIGURE OUT THAT THEY CAN EXTORT FEES FROM ALL GROWERS OF ALL PRODUCE PASSING ON TO ALL CONSUMERS THE FEES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING US FROM SALMONELLA? Maybe the cretins who make up such arbitrary rules for us and industry should take an extended leave of absence.  Maybe we should all pay just a little more attention to what seemingly innocuous, silly or inane laws are being passed by our legislators and rules passed by government agency.

One last question from me to you.  HAVE YOU GIVEN ANY THOUGHT AS TO WHO IS RUNNING FOR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE? If you had the opportunity, wouldn’t you love to hear anyone running for such expound on their thoughts about tomatoes in Florida?  Do you think anyone with the knowledge of the subject as laid out above would be able to keep a straight face while arguing for such an intrusive and arbitrary set of laws / rules?   I don’t think so.

Other links of interest:

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/fruits/Tomatoes.html

http://www.floridatomatoes.org/FoodSafety/TOMATO_QA_on_T-GAP_and_T-BMP11-8-06.pdf

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/fs/TomatoBestPractices.pdf

http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2007/01/21/the_liberated_tomato?page=full&comments=true

By Chaumont

Only with a clear grasp of the meaning of enumerated powers can one begin to understand that the responsibilities and powers granted to the different branches of government are legal and anything outside the scope of those powers is illegal.  In the times of our founding fathers, standing armies were seen as a threat to liberty and were called to duty only for a specific purpose and for a specified time.  A specific mission was defined for which funds were appropriated, and no assumption was made that one individual could expand that mission or ignore the restrictions of the mission.  Listening to the mainstream media, Washington think-tanks, and beltway insiders, one might believe that a President is, at all times, in control of the military forces, military decisions, and has, at his sole discretion, the power to take the country to war with anyone at anytime.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  One must study the words carefully to insulate oneself from the propaganda machine that intends to change, usurp, and ignore the restrictions placed on government by the Constitution; further, one must read historical texts, such as the Federalist papers, to gain an understanding of original intent and of historical context which is so vital to properly draw one’s own conclusions.  In other words, read the documents, check your bias at the door, forget what you were told to believe in government schools, and think for yourself.

It is well founded in the words of the author of several of the Federalist Papers, those being long regarded as the detailed explanations behind the binding legal restrictions on governmental power in the Constitution, that the President is to be “Commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States.”  These exact words wound up as the actual text of the Constitution, and for these words to be penned by Alexander Hamilton, who history records as one of the stronger proponents of centralized government and of consolidation of executive power amongst the founding fathers, strongly suggests the tendency towards restricting the war-making powers of any one individual.  Quoting Hamilton from Federalist Paper #69:  “The President will have only the occasional command of such part of the militia of the nation as by legislative provision may be called into the actual service of the Union.”  Possibly, Hamilton was addressing concerns that the executive branch was being given despotic military powers, of which he may have been seen as a leading proponent of, for he defends the powers granted to the President by comparing them to those of the King of Great Britain as well as the governor of New York.  Quoting Hamilton again:  “The king of Great Britain and the governor of New York have at all times the entire command of all the militia within their several jurisdictions. In this article, therefore, the power of the President would be inferior to that of either the monarch or the governor.”  It is clear that not even the hawkish champion of executive power, Alexander Hamilton, intended for the President to permanency of military command or to have war-making power that so many people believe he has today.

It is clear:  the President assumes his responsibility of Commander-in-chief ONLY upon being called into service by the legislature.  An army must be raised, given a set mission, a formal declaration of war drafted, and the operation funded for a specified period of time by Congress.  Only after Congress has met its responsibility does the President gain any war powers whatsoever.  Caution must be guarded not to be fooled into thinking that interpretations can be made that actually give the President wider more sweeping powers than that which is clearly spelled out in the Constitution, nor should the citizens be obligated to battle by illegal legislation that abdicates Congress’ responsibility such as has been done by the War Powers Act and several War resolutions made in the past 50 years, for example.

By Cliff Johnson

With the exploding controversy over the governor of Arizona signing the bill that makes it easier for police to identify and arrest illegal immigrants, there are some questions that arise. My first question is why in the name of Zeus have these invaders been allowed to enter this country? This has caused a debacle of such magnitude that our system of government may never recover. Well, guess what…now they are here and they will very difficult to deport, not only in the physical sense, but in the political sense as well. We have created an extremely unpleasant situation by allowing this to continue.

To come up with a solution, one must clearly diagnose the problem. Not the symptoms. Symptoms are studied to come up with a diagnosis and the diagnosis leads to the cause of the problem. I say that sounds like pretty simple stuff, right? Well some of us are blessed with the gift of clarity, or should I just say, Common Sense. It’s funny how common sense is just right out there in the open, but somehow folks just walk right on by.

Perceived problem 1: They took yer jobs!!!!!!! Right? Well no, that is really not the problem. In a free market society, people would be free to work for whatever wage they wanted to sell their labor. Thus creating competition and lower prices for consumers. There is no difference when K-mart sells a Barbie Doll for $15.00 and Wal-Mart Sells it for $10.00. Where would YOU buy that birthday present? Hmmm? Wal-Mart right? Especially if the Wal-Mart Barbie shows up to work sober, produces a superior job and doesn’t complain about working on the weekends if necessary, like the Kmart Barbie. My point is, it is not about the job, because in a free market society, I don’t have a problem with people competing in the job market.

Perceived problem 2: They are not paying taxes! Au contraire, mon frère! Everyone actually pays taxes. By that I mean Constitutional taxes. When ANYONE spends money on goods or services they are being taxed! And in most cases, those apportioned taxes are Constitutional. You are upset that Illegal Invaders may not be paying income taxes, but you are. In reality, you should only be upset that the government is screwing YOU over. You have been led to believe that the money the government is confiscating from your wages is legal and is being used to pay for services. News Flash, the money is being squandered and used to pay the interest on the national debt that continues to grow. So don’t be upset with the man who is keeping all that he earns, for he has earned it.

Okay, we still haven’t figured out the problem. As Henry David Thoreau so eloquently stated, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to the one who is striking at the root.” The issue that I believe most Americans have with illegal invaders is the fact that those who are not working, and have come intentionally come here for a free ride, end up leaching off of the services that WE have been paying for our entire working lives. These Illegals are essentially “eating our substance” as our founders put it. We have been contributing to these services (or at least that is what the government tells us) and they have not, but the law is allowing them to plunder our resources. This is where the anger and animosity comes from, NOT because someone is willing to work hard and earn a living.

Which brings me to my next point. People come here from other countries for different reasons, in my estimation, mainly one of two things; to work and earn money so they may support their family, or so that they can live of the government at the expense of our resources. The latter is intolerable and should be met with full resistance and immediate deportation.

We are now in a situation that makes finding and sending these intruders back to where they came from very touchy. Laws are being passed that adversely affect OUR Civil Liberties as Americans just so we can weed out the illegal invaders. This is a situation that MUST NOT be allowed to get any worse or we will end up like Germany in a Police State having to show papers everywhere we go!

The solution to the problem is following the existing laws, protect our borders and DEPORT THOSE WHO ARE NOT HERE LEGALLY! That includes children who were born here from non citizens! It is not cruel – it is defending our sovereignty as a free nation enjoying the benefits of LIBERTY!

Now for the tough question: How do we go about doing this without violating the Civil Liberties of Americans by turning our police into Germany’s SS? You will all remember ” Paperz Pleez. Do you have your paperz?”

Well here is a thought:

I say we start with the leaches. If a person is using a government service, they must provide proof of American Citizenship. If they are found not to be a citizen, they will be IMMEDIATELY deported along with all of their dependents. PERIOD.

If the Illegal Invader is not using a service provided by a government and is self-supporting and producing, they will be allowed to keep the money they have earned and be deported immediately. They will still have the opportunity to apply for worker status or citizenship – the LEGAL way.

Bottom Line: The animosity and anger towards Illegal Invaders mostly comes from them ending up as a drain on our own vested resources and not because one has the desire to work and be prosperous.

Next, we must remove the incentive for employers to hire Illegal workers by removing government involvement in the trading of ones labor for money. When government controls wages they control the workers.

We must be vigilant in making sure that we don’t hand over too many keys to the government. They will only end up being used to lock up our own liberty.