It's Time To Part Company

     Politics/Elections Opinion (Published) Keywords: FREEDOM SECESSION
     Source: Jewish World Review
     Published: Sept 13, 2000 Author: Walter E. Williams
     Posted on 09/13/2000 08:36:12 PDT by Onelifetogive

-- ONE POLITICAL QUESTION we have to answer is whether George W. Bush or
Albert Gore shall be president, and just which party will control the House
of Representatives and the Senate. But I'd suggest that there's a far more
important long-run question we must answer: If one group of people prefers
government control and management of people's lives, and another prefers
liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight,
antagonize one another, and risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to
impose their preferences, or should they be able to peaceably part company
and go their separate ways?

Like a marriage that has gone bad, I believe there are enough
irreconcilable differences between those who want to control and those want
to be left alone that divorce is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in
a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed
by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government
instituted to protect them. Americans who are responsible for and support
constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways.

Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations. Article 1,
Section 8 of our Constitution enumerates the activities for which Congress
is authorized to tax and spend. James Madison, the acknowledged father of
the Constitution, explained it in The Federalist Papers: "The powers
delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few
and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are
numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on
external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The
powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which
in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and
properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and
prosperity of the State."

Nowhere among the enumerated powers of Congress is there authority to tax
and spend for: Social Security, public education, farm subsidies, bank
bailouts, food stamps and other activities that represent roughly
two-thirds of the federal budget. Neither is there authority for Congress'
mandates to the states and people about how they may use their land, the
speed at which they can drive, whether a library has wheelchair ramps and
the gallons of water used per toilet flush. A list of congressional
violations of the letter and spirit of the Constitution is virtually
without end.

Americans who wish to live free have two options: We can resist, fight and
risk bloodshed to force America's tyrants to respect our liberties and
human rights, or we can seek a peaceful resolution of our irreconcilable
differences by separating. That can be done by peopling several states, say
Texas and Louisiana, controlling their legislatures and then issuing a
unilateral declaration of independence just as the Founders did in 1776.

You say, "Williams, nobody has to go that far, just get involved in the
political process and vote for the right person." That's nonsense. Liberty
shouldn't require a vote. It's a God-given or natural right.

Some independence or secessionists movements, such as our 1776 war with
England and our 1861 War Between the States, have been violent, but they
need not be. In 1905, Norway seceded from Sweden, Panama seceded from
Columbia (1903), and West Virginia from Virginia (1863). Nonetheless,
violent secession can lead to great friendships. England is probably our
greatest ally and we have fought three major wars together. There is no
reason why Texiana (Texas and Louisiana) couldn't peaceably secede, be an
ally and have strong economic ties with United States.

The bottom line question for all of us is should we part company or
continue trying to forcibly impose our wills on one another?
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Count Alabama in as well.

Everyone knows:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Most don't know the rest.

"-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That whenever
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right
of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness.

True Patriotism is found in defending just government and fighting unjust
government.