A Reminder of Premise
Government Tyranny
Amendments 28 and 29
By Stephen L. Wilmeth
The progenitors of my family name arrived in the New World as indentured servants. Their pursuit of happiness had to be extended unto such time their contracted obligation to a New World potentate was satisfied. They escaped the filth and poverty of the lives of commoners in Europe to join a band of green horns pledged to enhance the life of some person more fortunate than they at that moment in time.
Their journey became visible in mid 19th Century Texas. By the turn of the 20th Century, they were in New Mexico ostensibly free and independent men. If there was an indicator of change, it was the fact that every child born to New Mexican hard scrabble ranchers and wage earners, Albert and Sabre Wilmeth, became a college graduate. Prior to that time, there was no similar achievement.
The Lessons of Tyranny
My family was like a great number of American families who struggled to achieve and reach any degree of success. It took over two hundred years to journey from servitude to a level of visible independence.
The patriarch of the family demonstrated it was dishonorable to rely on anybody but himself for anything. Independence, thrift, and self reliance were the standards he advocated and displayed.
The squalor his ancestors escaped from was pounded into our minds in our World History lessons. It was shown on the big screen movies where we saw the tax collectors visiting the English settlements and coerced payment to the King. Offenders were flogged, thrown in the dungeons, ransomed for release or dealt with in the dark of night. Collectively, those vilified masses financed the King’s investments with their money and their lives.
The lessons continued as our Founders organized and fought against the tyranny of King George and his Court. They rebelled. They dumped tea in the Boston Harbor. They vowed to end conditions of Tyranny under which they lived. They fought the British for their independence … and they won.
The Modern Corollary
The growing tremor in this land is not yet the rumble of empty stomachs. It is the growing resentment toward an ensconced, tyrannical ruling body that demonstrates selective memory of its origin. Change the names of medieval Europe, but the same factors have all taken root and are choking the vitality of freedom from the machine that drives the prosperity of this country.
How dare our leaders vilify those who have contributed to our wellbeing and sustained this outpost as the model for hope to this world! How dare they posture in dealing with the economic debacle they have leveraged by threatening more rules and regulations to the perceived wrongdoers!
The actions of those in that mold are no different from the medieval courts that existed on the backs and minds of the citizens who paid the fare. Productive Americans are weary of capitalizing crippling projects of the modern tyrannical ruling body.
To the Issue
There is a lot of talk these days regarding a balanced budget amendment. If our decision is to live with the crowd gracing our hallways in Washington today, there is reason to pursue such an amendment. Constitutional leaders, though, don’t need it imposed on their actions. If they existed, they would be the first to make it happen.
A more important debate is needed. The real debate is to determine the direction the country is going to take. Is the future a World Order with its human hierarchy loyally pledged to the pursuits of the Environmental Movement or is the future a populous pledged to the underpinnings of the sovereign individual? That is the real question. It should also be a national, constitutional debate.
America needs to see the real color of our leadership’s intentions. The identity and the agenda of their leadership are lost in the protection of political parties, a press that should be sued for malpractice and safe academic bastions. The quagmire of a veiled, undisclosed mission extends out from their safe havens in the form of social programs and corrupted political and scientific firewalls.
It is time to strip away the nonsense and call a spade a spade. We, the People, want to know where our hard earned tithings are pledged in spirit and intent, and we will decide if we agree with our leadership … or not.
Amendment 28
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution needs to map the future of the country. It is a simple roadmap that forever elevates one of two premises. It is either going to be “In God We Trust”, or “In God We Don’t Trust”. It should be that simple.
In the matter of “In God We Trust” is the implied sanctity of the sovereign individual. If that course is adopted, the progressive onslaught must be scrapped. The country has had all too much warning to recognize that the Environmental Movement and the sovereign individual are mutually exclusive. They cannot exist as equals. The Environmental Movement cannot take the precedence it enjoys today if the “In God We Trust” alternative is adopted.
In the matter of “In God We Don’t Trust” is the implied elevation of all things environmental and progressive. Accelerating social programs, uncontrolled tort actions, class vilification, revocation of the second amendment, nationalizing permanent wealth, full elimination of extractive industries, and the headlong pursuit of theoretical green industries will be the direction sanctioned by a national consensus. Forthwith, the sovereign individual will not enjoy the importance implicit in the Constitution if the “In God We Don’t Trust” alternative is adopted.
If the American people adopt the “In God We Don’t Trust” amendment, we will line up and hand over our guns and our keys. We will submit to the tyranny of the state.
If the American people adopt the “In God We Trust” amendment, Congress will have the mandate to eliminate all those agencies that redistribute wealth, choke the growth of American ingenuity, and force the nation into deeper debt.
For starters, the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Labor Department, FEMA, OSHA, and the Department of Health and Human Services will be shut down within the normal and customary process that any American business takes. The Departments of Interior and Agriculture will be required to transfer those agency duties that can better be managed by the states to the domain of state controls.
If God is left in our lives … a second amendment is important.
Amendment 29
The 29th Amendment to the Constitution will do several things. First, it will repeal the 17th Amendment. The selection of the two Senators who represent the state will be returned to the will and the pleasure of the state assemblies. In that manner, the states will finally, after nearly a 100 years, have vested representation at the federal level.
The amendment will also change the way taxes are collected and paid. There will no longer be any payroll withholdings. Individuals will have to cut a check monthly to his or her state. The state, acting as the collection agency, will remit such taxes to the federal government. The states will stand between the people and the federal government.
Thirdly, the authority of the payment of wages and benefits to federal officials will henceforth be overseen by the combined assembly of the state governors. Never again will Congress be allowed to mandate self payment and benefit packages. It will also be the authority of the state governors to determine if and how any retirement benefits are paid to the same Congressional representatives.
The Controls
The Constitution is not broken. The balance of power and the controls of power are. We, the people, are responsible for the authority in the use and application of power. The requirement is to place the control of the nation in the hands of institutions that can be controlled closer to home, closer to the people, and closer to the sovereign individual.
Term limits, the balanced budget amendment, and the warp speed acceleration of federal spending are not matters of controls. They are symptoms of policy creep and fiefdom expansion through decadent federal budgets without administrative market controls … the Constitutional grownups have been absent!
All other issues we tend to identify as problems will not go away, but, if the people control the House, the moral bastion of our system, and the states control their rights through the Senate, elected officials will be much less willing to identify with special interest temptations.
The colonists demonstrated they didn’t care for King George … and the folks out here in the hinterlands are fed up with his modern counterpart.
Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “The cattle were laying up by 9:30 this morning. The spring weeds have reduced our drought conditions, but every American would gain a different perspective of life if he or she had to manage through our rainless May to July marathons. ”
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