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“The Perfect Trap”
Sunday, June 14, 2009
By Ron Ewart
How weak is the human soul that it cannot hang on to freedom? How pathetic that once-proud and self-reliant Americans continue to fall into the trap that government camouflages in the shadows of the public treasury, in its quest for absolute power over all the people. How naive and ignorant we are to succumb to the siren call of "free" government money, handouts and subsidies, while ignoring the "strings" that come with the so-called "gifts". We have fallen into the bottomless pit of irrational greed and in the process, have abdicated our individual rights and freedom for a few pieces of silver. That qualifies us to be labeled ..... dumb Americans.
While we lay oblivious to the hidden agenda of a growing and ambitious government, all during the 20th Century it secretly planned and is continuing to plan for our eventual enslavement, while at the same time it is unraveling the fabric of our liberty. And like the dumb and weak Americans we have become, we have bought and are continuing to buy, their devious plans, hook, line and sinker.
The plans began early in the 19 hundreds with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service, under the 16th Amendment. Congress rushed through the Amendment a few days before Christmas in 1913. There is considerable question that all the elements of the adoption of an amendment to the U. S. Constitution were even met, such as the vote of two-thirds of the states. President Woodrow Wilson even lamented a couple of years later after ratification of the 16th Amendment, that he had made a terrible mistake in signing it into law. Many groups are now calling for repeal of the Federal Reserve and the IRS, and rightly so.
But government's evil plans didn't stop there. There is some strong evidence that government policy created the crash of 1929 in the first place and the resulting Great Depression. In response to this well-crafted government emergency, Presidents (Hoover and FDR) and the U. S. Congress set about to dismantle any semblance of constitutional authority by creating government programs that went well beyond the enumerated powers contained in Article I, Section 8 of the U. S. Constitution. One of the more highly suspicious activities by the Hoover administration was to contract with Harvard and the University of Illinois, paid for the Rockefeller Foundation, to study how government could influence the subconscious mind of the American people. The results of those studies ended up in actual legislation.
This conspiracy of government politicians to increase their power in response to an emergency they created, aided and abetted by an intimidated U. S. Supreme Court, established the Social Security Administration and a whole range of government subsidies and assistance programs under the New Deal. Government began the process of nationalizing certain key businesses and picking winners and losers in what was supposed to be a free market capitalistic system and by so doing, increased their power exponentially. They even bought off the farmers with farm subsidies that still exist today and are still growing every year. These government actions extended the effects of the Great Depression by 10 years and it took a World War to get us out of it.
But then in 1945, in response to World War II and the extreme, but understandable desire to stop all future wars, the United Nations was born. Suddenly, the will and radical agendas of a bunch of despots, dictators, socialist and communist regimes started to influence U. S. policy. The ideas of social justice and radical environmental protection (real or imagined) became center stage and were codified into American law by treaty, legislation, or executive order, without any regard to conflicts with the U. S. Constitution, which were many. All along, the hidden agenda of the United Nations was to strip America of its wealth, resources, liberty and sovereignty by playing on our guilty conscience over how bad the rest of the world had it. A guilty conscience that was totally without merit, in that America and Americans have been the most generous people on the face of this planet. That generosity was and still is the direct result of highly productive and innovative individuals, living free under our Constitution.
To demonstrate the true agenda of the UN, Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying at a Bilderberg organization meeting in 1992: “Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenarios, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”
Every segment of the American society is guilty of falling into the perfect trap, set by a government hell bent on controlling every aspect of our lives. Businesses fell into the trap by lobbying for special treatment. Farmers fell into the trap by taking money from the public treasury for either doing nothing, or giving into what government wanted them to do. Seniors fell into the trap of social security, thinking that it would provide them a living in their old age. It didn't and still doesn't. Cities, counties and states fell into the trap by accepting federal dollars in return for federal wish lists, accompanied by federal "strings". The 9th and 10th Amendments were becoming blurred by the people and their institutions for sucking on the Federal teat.
The Great Society, along with Medicare and Medicaid, aggravated the American economy even more and set the stage for an exponentially rising debt and a coming, no doubt unavoidable, national bankruptcy. Government, still operating in the same mode as before, is determined to dig our "hole" even deeper by adding national health care to all the other of its failed policies. It has now nationalized banks and businesses. It is setting salaries of corporate officers. It is determining the who, what, where, how and why of American car companies, overseen by a 31-year old well-connected undergraduate, whose only claim to fame is being on the Hillary Clinton campaign team. All of government's current actions are without a doubt, unconstitutional. It is legislating an energy policy that was created by a bunch of monkies, all typing at once on a typewriter.
We will close with a well-known speech by Davy Crocket on the Floor of the House, where the body was debating whether to grant monies to the widow of a fallen officer. The elements contained in Representative Crocket's speech were and still are the embodiment of the limited powers of the United States government, that have been so badly corrupted by those in power and by the unconscionable inattention of the Consent of the Governed.
“Mr. Speaker – I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him. This government can owe no debts but for services rendered, and at a stipulated price. If it is a debt, how much is it? Has it been audited, and the amount due ascertained? If it is a debt, this is not the place to present it for payment, or to have its merits examined. If it is a debt, we owe more than we can ever hope to pay, for we owe the widow of every soldier who fought in the War of 1812 precisely the same amount. There is a woman in my neighborhood, the widow of as gallant a man as ever shouldered a musket. He fell in battle. She is as good in every respect as this lady, and is as poor. She is earning her daily bread by her daily labor; but if I were to introduce a bill to appropriate five or ten thousand dollars for her benefit, I should be laughed at, and my bill would not get five votes in this House. There are thousands of widows in the country just such as the one I have spoken of, but we never hear of any of these large debts to them. Sir, this is no debt. The government did not owe it to the deceased when he was alive; it could not contract it after he died. I do not wish to be rude, but I must be plain. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”
The room fell silent, not one representative came forth to match Representative Crockets offer of charity and the bill did not pass.
But insanity still reigns in Washington DC, worse now more than ever before and it is all because for the last 100 years, Americans have fallen into the baited trap of unconstitutional handouts from the public treasury, to their own detriment. Government has been highly successful in dividing us up into opposing groups, all fawning over monies extracted from the sweat and labor of the producing members of society, who have no say in how their money is being spent ..... this being the ultimate travesty and the most egregious of all injustices to the institutions of freedom. If a foreign government was plotting to overthrow the United States of America, it couldn't have concocted a more successful plan than the one that the American government has hatched, to arrive at the same outcome ..... subjugation of the American people.
Ron Ewart, President, National Association Rural Landowners. An organization dedicated to re-establish, preserve, protect and defend property rights
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