A Brief Note

Tuesday last this nation played "Truth or Consequences".  The "Truth" lost and now this nation must face the "Consequences".   I see the clouds getting darker and the roads ahead will be filled with many potholes.  Be prepared for things to get a lot worse in this nation as long as there remain in authority people without scruples or decent ethics.  They are interested in only one thing and that is self-survival.  It is the nature of things that these events must play out to their conclusion before sanity once again prevails.  It is most unfortunate, that too many will fall by the wayside before that happens.  

We must keep faith and take heart that this will not last forever and there is still much that patriots can do in working to eliminate this menace from our shores.  

In the days ahead I will add to these thoughts in what I hope will shed some light on the historical significance these events have on the passing parade.   

TINSTAAFL - History & Moral Philosophy Part III

Rather than delve at length in what can be a very daunting subject that is entirely too large for this essay, suffice it to say that moral philosophy (or ethics) has played a leading role in the history of the world – both in the East and the West. From the early Greek philosophies of Aristotle and Plato to the modern philosophies of Aquinas, Kant and Rousseau, among others, history has shown that nations and religions rise and fall around certain philosophical teachings.


In the late eighteenth century the hypothetical state of nature became the philosophy du-jure. One of its chief proponents was the French philosopher Jean-Jaques Rousseau. It was from Rousseau that Thomas Jefferson borrowed heavily when he framed the Declaration of Independence with that immortal declaration of the rights of man – to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is so much more to be divined, however, from that most precious of all American documents next to the Constitution itself.


One of the problems that has arisen in the nation over the past two hundred plus years is the attempt by many to judge the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights based on contemporary philosophy that has ‘devolved’ politically over the years. From a strictly general semantic point of view these documents can only be truthfully analyzed and interpreted in the light of the prevailing moral philosophy and popular culture that existed at the time of their framing.


This is why there has been such a bone of contention over the ‘true’ meanings of the first and second amendments; why those who ascribe to a modern philosophy read it one way and fail to account for the precedents and history that lie behind them. This is true of any document or literary work. One cannot truly understand a novel, short story or other work of literature without knowing, at length, the history of the era in which they occur or were penned. It is also true of any legal document. These must be viewed in the light of the prevailing ordinances, resolutions or other rules and regulations that are labeled laws.


This is nothing new. Authors have used this device ad nauseum. Mark Twain wrote two novels transporting 19 century morality into Arthurian and Tudorian England. It is a flaw of thinking that must be understood to be merely a literary device only. History is what it is and any attempt to deconstruct it to suit a political agenda is tantamount to tyranny over the minds of all humanity.


Now, to return to the Declaration of Independence and that immortal verbiage, this was nothing more than a rationalization for the secession of the North American Colonies from the British Empire.

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights…


We hold… that all men are created equal. Why that phraseology? Why not, We hold … that we are created equal… that we are endowed … This verbiage has always bothered me. At this point he changed from the first person to the third person. Why? What was he really trying to say?


Next is the statement, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just authority from the consent of the governed.


Consent of the governed. That they are endowed. Their creator, not our creator. The only possible conclusion I can come to is an old Latin adage that states quite succinctly Vox Populi, Vox Dei. This transliterates into English as the voice of the populace is the voice of the deity, or more plainly the voice of the people is the voice of God.


So, in essence Thomas Jefferson was saying that it was the voice of the American People who decided that their desires to separate from the tyranny of England would become a reality with the assurance that it was spoken as though it were the voice of God.

This phraseology, however has taken on epic proportions with the false assumption that the rights enumerated were granted by an omniscient being when in reality these rights were granted to the people by themselves.


In the next installment I will delve further into the reasons why this is so.

An Essay - Will Our Democratic Republic Survive

This will interrupt the regular sequence for a message of great importance.

Of late I have been participating in the opinion portions of Fox News and Op-Ed Pages seeking to gain a better understanding of the forces at play in what has become a great debate of what is and what isn’t constitutional in the minds of many and of the frustration they experience when their elected officials refuse to listen to the electorate who chose them as delegates to represent them. There is, indeed, an alarming trend of late on the part of the current administration and of the Congress itself to subjugate the wishes and desires of their constituents by forging ahead with a bill that it is quite plain the majority do not wish to be enacted. They, in their hubris, are blinded with the majority they now experience and are determined to do exactly what they complained about when the opposition had the upper hand. So the cycle continues holding the people themselves hostage to their machinations.

I have found, thus, that there is a shadow on the land –a dark and insidious specter whose sinewy fingers seek to insinuate its way into our collective consciousness and becloud it so that we may not see the tyranny that is plainly in front of us - a cloud whose epicenter is Washington City. A false cloud of hope that has been decades in the making and one that feeds on our own winters of discontent and seeks to cultivate us so that it can eventually marshal us like pawns in a great chess game. It will not hesitate to sacrifice any of those pawns when the occasion calls for it, like a great chess master. As the historian, Barbara Tuchman stated, “every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.” We have arrived, mes amis, to that transition point.

Many seek to hitch their wagons to the yoke of this new ‘savior’ in the hopes that he will lead them to the land of milk and honey, the Utopia of legend, the fabled Garden of Eden or the Elysian Fields. These converts parrot the tag lines and credos of ‘hope’ insisting it is their ‘god-given’ right and they are indeed ‘entitled’ to it. Obama is their Messiah and Pelosi, Reid and others are his prophets, spreading his theology throughout the land and forging proposed canons that require conformity from the flock or else stipulate punishment for the heretic, the non-believer and those who will not conform, and penance for the parishioners who have committed a mortal sin. This is tyranny be it religion or politics. Little force is needed to control anyone once they are hoodwinked.

They use the fertile ground of rebellion against the policies of the previous administration that engaged this nation in multiple armed conflicts which lead, inevitably, to the deaths of many in a unique guerilla warfare that is extremely difficult to combat, for there is no sharply defined front or battlefield. We are in truth not fighting a nation but an ideology that has no artificial boundaries – a religious philosophy whose adherents embrace death. We, in the west, embrace life, so there is very little common ground for the diplomacy others give credence to.

Then there are those whose minds are not clouded with the darkness, who seek to influence those who have fallen into the shadow and are often frustrated in their attempts. They seek a savior of their own, one who will march into the temple and cleanse it of the defilers who reside there. It is difficult to combat those who have a yearning for a life free of labor and worry and a world free of conflict and unnecessary death and destruction and the slave masters who are eager to give them the illusion of such. Spiritual religions rely on mystery, magic and miracle. Political religions rely on the promise of Eden and Utopia and there are many who will accept those promises and would sell their very souls for such a place. They seek not to labor in the field but to savor the luxury they so envy in others who have worked and sacrificed to achieve. They have yet to discover that there are still those who seek to control the minds of others and insist that their own beliefs be adhered to – feelings of inferiority run rampant in such and it can lead to a pandemic neurosis in others like them. Those who pretend to lead thusly invariably come from a socialist academia filled with theories of how humanity is supposed to live and coexist with one another, many of which have long since been disproved. We shall always have among us the ‘haves” and the “have-nots”.

The Democrats say “My Way”. The Republicans say, “My Way”. It’s akin to an epic battle of the Titans or the forces of darkness and light vying for supremacy. I say there is a third alternative – Neither Way. Why should any of us have to choose between two untenable positions? There are those who seek a New World Order – a single unifying government. It may indeed come one day, but only when the people themselves embrace it, on their own terms and not on the terms of those seeking to reign over the minds of others. A day that a world peace will be at hand and society will have learned to deal with those who threaten the survival of humanity with a solution of the most stringent measures necessary.

I present this for what it is, a brief essay, one that is but part of a much larger work now in progress. And to those detractors who say this is long winded and of no logical veracity I can only say, “There are more things in this universe than are contemplated in the limited plenum of your philosophies.”

Let Freedom Ring Once more

My nom de guerre is Katherine Lee Jefferson and this is a declaration of war against all those who have usurped the delegated authority invested in them by the people and who have willfully violated their oaths of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Declaration of No Confidence

Inasmuch as it is never really necessary to rephrase a truism once it is stated I hereby restate the following from the Declaration of Independence.

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. 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 to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We, the people, find that this declaration has been subjugated by the present Congressional delegation to Washing City; that they no longer follow the will of the people who elected them to serve on their behalf and have, instead, elected to follow the wishes of their political party bosses and the dictates of the Chief Executive officer of these United States who himself has subjugated the will of the people to further his own self centered aims and desires.

They have re-interpreted the mandate of the last general election to force on the general populace programs that they do not desire and many tenets of which are against the underlying principles of the United States Constitution and the first ten amendments of same that are commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights.

They are not leading but pushing us toward a socialist framework that history has proven to be against the principles of a free and democratic society as laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution that relegates certain duties and responsibilities to the States that comprise the whole.

The current President has in effect consorted with the antagonists of this country and has been an aid and comfort to its enemies, compromised our national health and safety as well as its happiness.

He consults with individuals of dubious character who have historically showN that they are not in conformity with the best wishes of the majority of its citizenry.

He has placed the needs of his political party and certain monetarily influential groups above the needs and desires of its people.

He has interfered in the areas of State affairs that are not in the purview of Federal Authority.

He is not, in our considered assessment, a leader but a dictator who pushes his agenda with countless speeches filled with circumlocutions that, in effect, say nothing of any appreciable value but can be reinterpreted as the current administration sees fit to further their own agenda.

He has demonstrated by his actions that he is willing to interfere in the areas of everyday life that are not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and has set himself above the judgment of the citizenry, ignoring their legal and just appeals that he cease and desist in his courses of action that will result in harm to this country and its people.

The current Congressional delegation and the Chief Executive Officer have thus been marked by every act which may define a tyrant and thus are unfit to be the rulers of a free people.

We thus express a complete LACK OF CONFIDENCE in their current planed courses of action they profess to be taking on our behalf.

Therefore, I, the undersigned, being a legally authorized citizen and voter of the City of ________________, County/Parish of _________________, State of _______________ do hereby REVOKE any and all Powers of Attorney and Proxies that empower the current administration to act on my behalf in matters having to do with the happiness, health and well being of its people.

This done this ________ day of ___________, 2009.

(s) __________________________

Transmit same by United States Post, certified mail, to the attention of the President at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC and to your elected state Senators and representatives