What to say?

I simply don't know what to say anymore. This past year has been like a political nightmare. Now the President vows to make me an outlaw by the end of the month, with the signing of this health care thing, not reform, not fix, just a thing.

You see, I am one of the thousands of uninsured in the country, because I want to be. If I have medical difficulties I pay for them myself. But, this government is going to make me an outlaw if I don't buy what they want me to.

This is just getting to be too much, very overwhelming. I am not usually a man of so few words on this page, but I guess I have too much to say without knowing how to say it, so for now I will bite my tongue for the most part, but when this writers block ends, there will a tongue lashing I will most certainly deliver.

The underlying assumption

For every political argument there must be an underlying assumption. Currently both parties claim that assumption is freedom. But if we take that assumption to it's logical end, neither parties policies make any sense.

If one's underlying assumption is freedom, then ponder this: freedom comes from the right of each to do with their property as they wish. That property starts at their own body and extends to anything earned under contractural labour by them.

If one has a right to their own body, how can anyone deny them the abuse of that right; prostitution, drug use or anything else.

If one owns those things which are property by extension; what right does anyone have to confiscate that property? Most would say none, but are taxes not a confiscation of this property.

By the US constitution, the legitimate use of government power is the protection of rights. So, no matter how much things are needed by others, it is not under the constitutional right of the government to take from one and give to another.

Yes, people need health care; but if the government undermines property rights to give health care, what stops them from undermining property rights for any other reason?

We need a new healthcare system, but allowing the government to steal from people is not the answer; granting the government unconstitutional power never is the answer.

Dominique Dorsey III

After being unable to make the Redskins' roster this season, Dominique Dorsey has returned to Toronto, and it seems they are very happy to see his return.

Can They Hear Us Now?

Yesterday; on September 12th 2009, Washington DC was flooded with people protesting against government expansion. Some were anti-Obama, some were anti-big government, some were pro-Bush, some were Republicans, some were Democrats, some were Libertarians, some were Independants. Some were protesting recent government expansion, some were protesting a long string of abuses. Some were young, some were old. But they were all fed up with Washington. I've seen some saying this was just this or that group, or this or that group shouldn't support it because this or that group was supporting it. This seems to be missing the point, whether or not all of any of one group's ideas are "correct" doesn't matter. What matters is that they are all fed up with big government. They may not agree on how small a government should be, or what that government should do, but they all think it should be smaller than it is.

This is where the focus should be, once we have shrunk the size of government, then we can have these discussions of what it should be doing, but for now, lets focus on the first step, shrinking the scope of power that Washington yeilds.

Estimates of the crowd size varies from 30,000-2 million. Capitol Hill Police are said to have estimated 1.2 million. I don't know which numbers are correct, but it was a lot of people; and they were joined by many more at Tea Parties across the country. Maybe some one in the monstrosity which calls itself a government took notice.

Dominique Dorsey II

Well, many of you seem to have read my report on my freshman year roommate Dominique Dorsey getting a try in the NFL with the Washington Redskins. Unfortunately it seems he did not impress the Redskins coaching staff enough, he did not make it past the Sept. 5th cut down to a 53 man roster. Niether was he signed to the practice squad on the 6th, although rumor seemed that he would. If no other NFL team shows interest, his old team in the CFL, the Toronto Argonaugts, are chomping at the bit to get him back. I don't know what's going to happen now, but I wish him the best.

Some More Jefferson

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

-Thomas Jefferson

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

-Thomas Jefferson

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

-Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

-Thomas Jefferson

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

-Thomas Jefferson

We are all doubtless bound to contribute a certain portion of our income to the support of charitable and other useful public institutions. But it is a part of our duty also to apply our contributions in the most effectual way we can to secure this object. The question then is whether this will not be better done by each of us appropriating our whole contribution to the institutions within our reach, under our own eye, and over which we can exercise some useful control? Or would it be better that each should divide the sum he can spare among all the institutions of his State or the United States? Reason and the interest of these institutions themselves, certainly decide in favor of the former practice.

-Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

-Thomas Jefferson

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

-Thomas Jefferson

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

-Thomas Jefferson

If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

Echoes of the Past

I was reading, and this passage; which is preceded by Jefferson presenting offences of British Parliment and Crown prior to King George III, seemed to have a familiarity with todays political climate.

"That thus have we hastened through the reigns which preceded his majesty's, during which the violations of our right were less alarming, because repeated at more distant intervals than that rapid and bold succession of injuries which is likely to distinguish the present from all other periods of American story. Scarcely have our minds been able to emerge from the astonishment into which one stroke of parliamentary thunder has involved us, before another more heavy, and more alarming, is fallen on us. Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."

-Thomas Jefferson "A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA"

Addendum

This passage as well seems relevent:

"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution. "

-Thomas Jefferson "A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA"