Thread: OUR OWN GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME OUR ENEMY By Chuck Baldwin

"OUR OWN GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME OUR ENEMY"

By Chuck Baldwin
August 3, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

"Our own government has become our enemy." So said Pinal County (Arizona) Sheriff Paul Babeu.

"Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel.

"'What's very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU.' Babeu said."

The Arizona Sheriff was then quoted as saying: "Our own government has become our enemy and is taking us to court at a time when we need help."

See the report here. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70324

Sheriff Babeu is not the only one who believes that our own federal government has become our enemy. Writing for Investor's Business Daily, attorney Ernest Christian and economist Gary Robbins co-authored a July 30, 2010, column entitled "Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?"

Christian and Robbins write, "People are asking, 'Is the [federal] government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?'

"Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.

"Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do."

See the column here. http://tinyurl.com/dc-failures-2nd-rev

But it's not just an imperial presidency we need to worry about; and it certainly did not originate with Barack Obama--although he has certainly accelerated the pace of this federal aggression. For all intents and purposes, the last four Presidencies have been imperialist in nature. In other words, we have endured at least 22 years of federal imperialism, encompassing both Republican and Democrat Presidential administrations. But it has also been Republican and Democrat congresses (along with a compliant federal judiciary) that have assisted and facilitated this out-of-control federal imperialism. In other words, folks: the entire federal system is now illegitimate and broken!

The federal government has become a monstrous leech that has affixed itself to the underbelly of the American republic and is sucking its lifeblood out with a vengeance. It has increased its surveillance of the American citizenry to the point that--for all intents and purposes--we now live in a Soviet-style, East Bloc society: our phone calls, emails, cellular transmissions, etc., are being feverishly monitored; our financial transactions are scrutinized; this new national (socialist) healthcare system is nothing more than modern-day slavery; our manufacturing jobs have been deliberately outsourced to the point that America's real unemployment numbers are around 20% (Source: economist Donald McAlvany); the international bankers and their collaborators in DC could be described as the ultimate crime syndicate without much fear of hyperbole; the federal government's control and manipulation of our public schools has resulted in the fact that the United States now has the most expensive and least productive education system in the industrialized world; and now it is teaming up with the ACLU (not to mention thousands of Mexican gang members, drug dealers, human traffickers, rapists, and murderers) to fight the State of Arizona for its attempt to simply enforce the law. Yes, I would say that should classify the federal government as our enemy, all right.

If you doubt DC's arrogance, I challenge you to watch the following video of Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), who said, "The federal government, yes, can do most anything." With congressmen such as this, does anyone wonder why the federal government has grown into such a monster?

See the congressman's remarks here. http://tinyurl.com/feds-can-do-anything

Christian and Robbins could be right when they suggest that it might be time for a second American revolution! I might even argue, in many respects, that revolution has already begun. State governors and legislators across the country are increasingly frustrated with DC's arrogance and bullying, and are pushing back. Jan Brewer and her brave Arizonans are not the only State to start drawing a line in the sand. Millions of freedom-loving citizens in these states have about reached the boiling point. I really don't think it would take much of a spark to set this country ablaze with the "Spirit of '76" all over again.

Remember, it was the states that created the federal government--not the other way around. And the states never surrendered their authority or autonomy, not to Washington, D.C., or to any other power. I don't care what anyone says to the contrary; the states retained their Declaration status, that they were "Free and Independent" AFTER the US Constitution was enacted and the federal government formed in 1787. If the framers intended to make America "one nation," meaning one national government absent the features of federalism requiring State independence and power to serve as a check and balance against the imperialist tendencies of a central government, why were the states not dissolved when the Constitution was adopted? The states maintained independence for the very reason that Arizona and other states today are resisting federal encroachment, or in the case of illegal immigration, inaction: to arrest federal failure!

Therefore, when Sheriff Babeu said that the federal government "has become our enemy," he was 100% correct. Now it's time for the American people as a whole to not only recognize the enemy, but to recognize the solution: enlightened and energized states willing to fight for their independence! And if that means another American revolution, so be it!

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I agree, the federal government has indeed become We the People's enemy. Mr. Obama in the White House damages the United States far more than Osama bin Laden in the Hindu Kush of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

But that hostility is not any recent development. The federal government has been at war with its employers at least since 1968, when government lawmen shot and killed students demonstrating (or rioting) at Kent State, and Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated shortly afterward. Demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago were wasted by Mayor Richard J. Daley's thugs (to call them "police" slanders law-abiding police).

It didn't start then, either. In 1947, Everson v. Board of Education (of Ewing, N.J.) wrote "separation of church and state" into the U.S._Constitution_as_amended_with_interpretations_ by_the_Supreme_Court.
At the ACLU's behest, SCOTUS copied that phrase from the U.S.S.R. Constitution and wrote it over and above Amendment I, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" which had served US well for 156 years until SCOTUS went to meddling. In Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), SCOTUS prohibited prayers by state officials (teachers or staff) in public schools, even though Congress opens every day with prayer. In Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), SCOTUS prohibited Bible reading in public schools, Bible instruction which was the reason Congress called for the creation of schools in frontier settlements beyond the Appalachians in the first place.

But the federal government began acting in enmity to US the People before then. In 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act and created the Federal Reserve System. Financial panics demanded financial regulation by finance professionals - even though they didn't save us from the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. However, the Fed became the perfect agent to redistribute We the People's assets among the magnates of international banking and finance.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
"I contemplate [the system of banking] as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens." - Thomas Jefferson

The federal government was the arch-enemy of the people during the Civil War, which killed over 600,000 able-bodied young men, and crippled many more. Surely, there must have been a better way to rid the United States of the evil of slavery (and the force of those old-fashioned Amendments IX and X). Along with the blessing of the Emancipation Proclamation came the curse of the demand for cheap labor, which demand illegal aliens have been eager to fill ever since.

The federal government was the arch-enemy of the people during the Civil War, which killed over 600,000 able-bodied young men, and crippled many more. Surely, there must have been a better way to rid the United States of the evil of slavery (and the force of those old-fashioned Amendments IX and X). Along with the blessing of the Emancipation Proclamation came the curse of the demand for cheap labor, which demand illegal aliens have been eager to fill ever since.

Actually, the federal government was the best friend of the people during the Civil War, because for the first time in US history, the federal government actually abided its constitutional mandate and one of the reasons a federal government was formed by the people of the United States, which was to "secure the blessings of liberty" for the people of the United States. Yes, the Civil War was the bloodiest war ever fought by Americans. Yes, almost 700,000 Americans died in that war and thousands more were wounded. But, a fact many don't know about the Civil War is that the United States Army that fought that war was filled with volunteers. Yes, 98% of the 2,050,000 Union Soldeirs who fought the Civil War to free 4,000,000 slaves were volunteers. Less than 50,000 soldiers were drafted during that war by the Union, and even those who were drafted could pay someone else who wanted to join in their place.

The Lincoln Administration was elected specifically to end slavery in the United States, by all means necessary, whatever it took, everyone knew it would take a war with the South even though measures were offered to avoid it, but those were declined by the South, and the American People supported that war and its mission in ways and manners they've supported no other.