No Honor Among Thieves

The Indiana Supreme Court ruling that T.L. is referring to is talked about in more detail here.

I truly believe that our Founding Fathers would not recognize what our Country has become. They would weep that the revelation of what we have allowed to happen to their dream. We have perverted that dream. We have allowed our government to become everything our Founding Fathers despised.

We have allowed our government to become a ruling class not so different than the England our Founders fought so hard to separate us from.

 As this ruling in Indiana shows, we are even expected to offer no resistance when the government violates the most basic of rules, the Fourth Amendment. What will it take for us demand the thieves give back what they have taken from us? What are they going to have to steal from us before we rise up and begin to take our lives and freedoms back? This is the Fourth Amendment -

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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By T.L. Davis - TL in Exile

The revelations about the Indiana Supreme Court ruling that essentially says that an officer of the law might enter any building at any time and force to repel the invasion is unlawful only cements the oft-opined sentiments I have made over the past few months. When they outlaw liberty, one has a choice of being a law-abiding slave, or a criminal. Systematically governments of every form have disposed with the rights of the people to better establish the control of the state, theoretically for the good of all, but rarely is that demonstrated.

The basic premise has always been that one's liberty is only limited by the infringement of liberties of others. That one might swing a fist so long as it does not come in contact with another. But, that is never quite enough for the state. There soon arrives on the scene a "sense" of danger to others so that making the fist is a threat, a form of violence in itself. that must be stricken from acceptable behavior. Then, since all action begins with thought, having thoughts of violence must be identified, reported and dealt with. Then, just to preserve the peace, the state will identify those who come from a particular group of individuals who have in the past demonstrated the thoughts that could have led to violence and that group must be identified, revealed and sequestered. This must be done to preserve the peace of the "just" and "righteous."

This is no longer theory. We are in the process of the devolution of society. We are standing midstream in the wave of the anti-liberty process. We are watching the political and social disintegration of that which made America not only great, but exceptional. Once we allowed these concepts to present themselves in our society without being shattered, smashed and roundly rejected we became susceptible to their arguments. Those who felt weak and unable to compete on a level playing field began to tip it, not so much in their direction, but away from those things that made the society strong.

The simplicity of this is amazing. The people we have charged with the protection of our system have no reason to protect it and in fact have every reason to demolish it. A system formed to empower the individual requires individuals to protect it. It was never considered by the founders of this system that the people themselves would become antagonistic to liberty. It would the the equivalent of discovering that birds would rather walk than fly. What they did not account for was the prospect that we could fool ourselves into believing that the pool into which we threw our taxes would become an ocean of largess from which to perpetually draw.

Now, unable to pay off our citizens with that promised largess, the government is seeking the means to lay the blame at the feet of the producers. It was the practice of letting too many people keep too much of their money that led to you not being able to continue to draw cash from them perpetually. In other words, your laziness can no longer be supported by the workers, so the workers must be punished. Recently, Tim Geithner stole the pension funds from the government workers to stave off the consequences of the previous congress from passing a budget. That seems like a horrible thing to do, but it is exactly what they have been doing to the rest of us for years. They stole the funds in the Social Security program to pay for all of the things they wanted and promised that they would "make us whole" too, when we retired. Why do the government workers think they should get a better deal than the rest of us? Because they believe they are special, that the raiders and plunderers are working with them against the rest of us. Well, unlike the old saying, in this case, there is no honor among thieves.

I know it seems like two issues have been addressed in this post, but if you take a look at it, they are the same. The power of the state enables the theft of the treasure. The only difference being what each of you treasure.

The Original Right Wing Whackos

Our Founding Fathers may not have been perfect, but together they developed a perfect blueprint for the greatest Country ever on the face of this planet. Each and every one of those men are rolling in their graves at what we have allowed this Nation to become. We have become complacent, and because of that, the special interests and fringe groups are running our Country.

How many of us have had enough?

Each one of our Founding Fathers put everything they owned, even their lives, on the line for this Country. They would have gladly given their lives for the Nation they knew we could become...

by Jim Pontillo - Guns & Patriots

Recalling his death resulted from a duel might reveal something fundamental about his character and his perverted sense of honor. Among the Founding Fathers, only James Madison was considered to have intellect of such strength that he might oppose the “towering genius” of Alexander Hamilton as lamented by Thomas Jefferson. At five and a half feet, what Hamilton lacked in imposing height he made up in brilliance. An aggressive patriot, he enthusiastically endeavored to engage battle during the Revolution to the dismay of John Adams who considered him mad. As United States Treasurer, Hamilton single handedly turned America’s fledgling economy from desperation, and American war bonds appreciated from worthless to better than face value under his stewardship.

As most trusted aid, George Washington valued Hamilton’s council during the Revolution, and as towering a figure as was Hamilton, his greatness was overshadowed by a superior integrity, grace, and might, possessed by the formidable General. Unanimously nominated to be our first President, Washington held together our feeble undersupplied Army under disastrous conditions and guaranteed there would be a United States as decreed in America’s Declaration of Independence. Upon taking the oath of office vowing to protect our Constitution he completed the pledge with a simple and spontaneous addition, “So help me God.”

Brilliant, Warren Buffet wealthy and world renown for his invention of the lightning rod, while visiting France as diplomat to enlist French support in the Revolutionary war effort, Benjamin Franklin was treated with pomp and majesty today’s biggest rock stars could not obtain. The father of electricity, inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, the glass armonica, and purveyor of the world’s fastest and furthest reaching communication system; Franklin served as co-Post Master General for the colonies from 1753.

A committed loyalist, Franklin had no interest in revolution. After presenting the colonial case to English parliament as its representative, Franklin was dressed down like a petulant child, and in 1774 was dismissed from his position as Post Master by England sighting Franklin’s devotion to the new world as “too sympathetic”. In one arrogant insult, mother country transferred the wise and crafty old statesman into a deliberate revolutionary.

Born with a silver platter upon his highchair, Thomas Jefferson might be compared to a modern day Edward Kennedy, except he never drove off a bridge killing a girl. When considering the plight of today’s American education system, consistently underperforming and consistently requesting money, it is instructive to recall Jefferson’s words explaining all that is required to train a lawyer, “A good library where the student is instructed in what order to read its contents…”

Perhaps the most quoted of America’s Founders, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and after incorporating a few edits advised by the old post master, America presented its case to the world to advocate its justification for separation from Britain.

After succeeding Adams as President, the vocal “states rights” Jefferson consistently railed against an expansion in power within the federal government considering the just repository of government power to reside with the states and people. Upon acquiring the office of President, Jefferson did more than either of his predecessors to expand that power he deplored.

Stodgy, pugnacious, rigid and loyal, John Adams name was notably absent from a list maintained by the English, those high ranking individuals among the colonial opposition to be spared death upon capitulation, were the Revolutionary War to be ended in such fashion.

While serving as diplomat in France with Franklin, Adams was perturbed by the old fox who seemed to betray his own teachings, “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Unlike Franklin, Adams was wholly incapable of making the cultural adjustments necessary to succeed among the French aristocrats. Their customs and traditions were repugnant to Adams who only wanted to get on with his work.

Adams’ inflexible demeanor made him ineffective as French diplomat, and too plagued his one miserable term as our Nation’s second President. His devotion to truth and justice cannot be understated, however. Adams continually fought for justice and righteousness, and when eight British sentries along with their commanding officer were tried for murder after the Boston Massacre, it was Adams who agreed to defend them.

Without concern for his own career, Adams provided legal counsel in a hostile atmosphere where he stood nothing to gain. He procured acquittals for all but two of the soldiers charged and spared those the penalty of death.

Adam’s would later ruminate in his diary, “…one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the Verdict of the Jury was exactly right.”

The original “nerd”, James Madison exited Princeton University to suffer a nervous breakdown after pushing himself relentlessly by completing his Junior and Senior year studies in a single term. The youngest member of the Constitutional Convention, Madison is remembered as “Father of the Constitution” for his copious notes chronicling the proceedings, and his persuasive arguments on the floor helping to mold the document.

Politically aligned with Jefferson, Madison opposed Alexander Hamilton who he conspired with to write the Federalist Papers, and set the foundational principles which would create the Democratic-Republican Party. He was author of Federalist #10 which is considered by many scholars the premier Federalist document laying out most clearly the argument for American Republican government.

When George Mason and others refused to sign the Constitution lamenting, “it contains no Bill of Rights”, Madison wrote the first ten Amendments to the Constitution and fought to see them ratified.

Madison died in 1836, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.