| Apr. 29th, 2009 @ 09:27 pm "But we voted for this!...." |
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I hear a lot of liberals, especially from the blow-dried paid-microphone set, answering the complaints of the Tea Party protesters with this apparent trump card, an imagined fait accompli:
"The original tea party was about taxation without representation. But but you VOTED for this...." (or more accurately, "this was passed by your elected representatives...")
Let us consider this.
First, a loud braying donkey laugh for anyone who thinks that the "duly elected" on Capitol Hill actually represent anyone but themselves. It is become so self evident over the decades that it is a cliche' to even mention it. When every voter knows that every candidate is lying to them and will break every promise they made once in power, is that representative government or just an impersonation of one?
But this skims over a more relevant point. "WE VOTED FOR THIS" MEANS NOTHING IF IT VIOLATES THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION OR, MORE IMPORTANTLY, AMERICAN RIGHTS.
This government, this country's founding documents, SPECIFIES that there are a great number of things upon which you do not GET a majority decision. You do not get a vote on my freedom of speech, sir. You do not get a vote on my right to freedom of religion, my right to assemble, my right to dissent, my right to bear arms, and you sure as the pits of damnation do not get to vote on whether you can rob, enslave and plunder me for your own ends.
For the first hundred years of our government,from the Founding Fathers on, our leaders asserted over and over again that the government had no constitutional and more importantly no moral authority to spend the taxpayer's dollar on any form of public largesse, and they voted accordingly. No matter how compassionate or heartstring-tugging the cause, no matter how pretty the photo-op, no matter how popular the issue, no matter how great or how small the amount. If it was not for the defense of the country, the upholding of law and order, or the maintaining of the national infrastructure, it did not meet the minimal constitutional qualifications.
For the entirety of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st, however, the politician and the perpetually self-irresponsible have conspired together to vote themselves free money out of other people's wallets. They have ignored all economic admonition, disregarded all complaint, and turned the courts into an editorial staff for the Constitution so that they may ignore its limits on their power. The consequence is the ever-growing ruination all about us; their ever-enlarging wealth and power at the expense of our broken backs.
A government that does not obey the restrictions of the Constitution is not a representative government. And our government, under the bit and bridle of the Obama administration, has trampled over the constitution in its eagerness to turn America into the new Socialist Utopia, Cuba North.
Our government, our congress, our president, represent noone but themselves. |
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