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We are Simon Jester.
We are not anarchists.
We are not Far-Right or Far-Left. We are the seventy percent in the middle.
We are not Capital “L” libertarians, although we do have sympathies with their platform.
We are neither bitter clingers nor conspiracy nuts.
What
we are is a group of folks that think we see liberty and freedom
eroding in our beloved United States. We see the policies and agendas
of the hirelings in Washington D.C. heading toward an abbreviation if
not outright abrogation of the Bill of Rights.
We think that the
Federal government is grasping to consolidate power using the current
crisis, since as Rahm Emmanuel said, it’s a terrible thing to waste. We
think the Federal government, not just this administration, is more
interested in self-serving personal, political, and party power than it
is in actually doing its best to do the least.
This President didn’t
make it this way. It has been heading along this path since Woodrow
Wilson held political prisoners and FDR held four terms as president;
since Johnson’s Great Society and Nixon took us off the gold standard;
since Bush Sr. lied about no new taxes, Clinton desecrated the Oval
Office, Bush Jr. rammed through the Patriot Act, and Obama wanted every
high school kid to ‘volunteer.’
For almost a hundred years, our
country has been heading towards becoming a Socialist, centrally
planned, Nanny State where the Federal Government tells it citizens how
to conduct business, what they could grow in their own gardens or on
their own farms, and now even how much a private citizen is allowed to
earn before punitive and illegal taxation takes it away.
Now is the time to make it stop.
The
Constitution of the United States of America tells us how our
government is supposed to operate. It tells us what powers they have
been lent by its citizens. It even delineates what powers each branch of
government is supposed to have. Our Federal Government, all three
branches, has over-reached. Continually.
The Declaration of
Independence told King George what we felt about the way he was treating
the Thirteen Colonies. It also told the world what we as Americans
believed were natural truths about how government should work, with the
consent of the governed. It amazes us how many of the things the
Colonies begged King George to address have raised their ugly heads in
the present day. We are taxed without our consent for government
programs we don’t want. We are told that our natural resources are not
ours to do with what we would. We are even told that our property can
be confiscated if the government thinks it can get a bigger tax base
from a different owner. Our elections are swayed by huge amounts of
dollars and the willing collaboration of the old media giants. More
than that, our elections are influenced by unconstitutional law such as
McCain-Feingold, communist groups such as ACORN signing up 200,000
illegal voters in Ohio, and terrorist groups like the Black Panthers
staking our polling places such as in Philadelphia. And we, the
legitimate voters of this country are forced to accept the results.
Our
voice has been ignored, even to the point of telling the citizens of a
state that a duly enacted and overwhelmingly voter-approved
constitutional amendment would not be allowed to stand due to political
correctness.
Our representatives have listened to us on occasion
however; only to be overturned by a pen-stroke from the Executive Branch,
like when we said we didn’t like the idea of bailing out the auto
industry.
Our legislature has pretended to listen to us about our
need to protect our country’s borders, but then come back and tried to
tell us that they have changed their minds. All the while trying to
curry favor to their own districts with pork projects.
We flood D.C.
with calls and letters and emails demanding that the administration not
burden our grandchildren with huge government debt that will necessitate
huge tax increases, but are told that our thoughts on the matter have
no bearing because some things are just too big to fail; only to hear
the same legislators come back a few months later and demand punitive
taxes on those companies it gave money to against our wishes.
The
current administration has appointed all of these extra-constitutional
“Czars” to oversee what they view as problems in our country and in our
world, including an avowed Communist.
This administration, as well as
far too many legislators, clings to a philosophy of man-made global
warming that is far from settled science and has decided that “Cap and
Trade”, regardless of the huge burden that will place on the consumers,
is necessary to limit carbon emissions. The fact that it has been tried
in Europe and FAILED to limit carbon emissions doesn’t matter because
this program will generate huge tax dollars for the government while at
the same time penalizing the consumers of energy in the form of higher
energy bills.
Another thing that has failed in Europe and elsewhere
is the idea of universal health care. Yet still our government is
racing headlong towards rationed medical procedures, diagnostics,
medicines, and preventive care because it is yet another way to control
the population. It is very hard to tell the government “No” when you or
your spouse, or your child, depend upon the government owned and run
kidney machine, insulin shots, or cancer treatments.
And now our
Federal government has asked for more power. It isn’t even trying to
hide it anymore. They want the power to regulate to the point of
confiscation the administration of every business in the United States,
just for our own financial safety or course. They want to regulate our
salaries and compensation. They want to bankrupt the coal industry,
which provides eighty (80 !!) percent of all the power in this country.
They don’t want us to be able to drill for oil or natural gas. But at
the same time they don’t want to allow the transmission of power from
wind farms or solar farms across the countryside because they say it
will affect the natural beauty of the desert or they don’t want their
view cluttered out past Martha’s Vineyard. They want control of the
means of production, the type of crops we grow, and the structure and
location of the buildings in which we live. And, despite their
protestation to the contrary, they want to disarm us. Too much has
slipped out about that for them to be able to deny it any more.
And
yes, we repeat, they now are asking for more power. This isn’t just
theft, it is a bloody strong-arm robbery with a knife in your ribs.
Now, here is where Simon Jester comes in.
This
whole thing isn’t about the Democrats or the Republicans, because they
are both taking us to the same place and they aren’t afraid of us
anymore. It is about our Constitutional form of government. The Rights
were there before the words were written, for they are inherent in all
people. They don’t come from government; government, no matter how hard
it tries, cannot dissolve them. Now, here we the people are, having
all these Tea Parties, trying to show our government that we, the
seventy percent or so of the country who is right smack dab in the
middle trying to raise our families and give our children better lives
than we had, are tired of this grab for power. These Tea Parties, where
no one actually throws anything in the harbor, are getting hardly any
coverage from the press. In fact, the TWO counter protesters at the
March Tea Party in Orlando got as much or more local coverage than the
under-reported thousands who attended the rally. So, short of actually
committing acts of vandalism and felonious assault, how are we going to
get noticed?
Simon Jester. A symbol, since “The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein was published in 1966, of dissent
against authority. Let the press, and the government, and your
neighbors know that you are paying attention to what the Federal
government is trying to do. Let someone ask you what that little devil
underneath the word “Citizen” across your chest means and then explain
it to them. Explain to the one pool reporter who shows up at the next
Tea Party that you and Simon have your eyes open and are watching as the
government tries to control your life. Explain to your pastor, or your
waitress, or your barista at Starbucks, that our government is power
hungry and that you and others like you are trying to be heard.
We are Simon Jester. So are they.
And so are you.
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