"We have ourselves to blame for losing our constitutional freedoms" April 10, 1998

SISKIYOU DAILY NEWS Friday, April 10,1998

We have ourselves to blame for losing our constitutional freedoms

BY NANCY GREGG
Concerned Siskiyou County Resident

reedom is a feeling. When you no longer feel free, you are not free and you will cease to want to be productive.
    It does not matter what governmental agency we think calls the shot. If it is County Government refusing to give zoning changes that are by any common man's thinking the reasonable use of land, to State Attorney Generals who refuse to follow the law provided by the people in a prudent manner, to the ultimate shift of our Constitutional Government into a Runaway Bureaucracy by the callous disregard of their Responsibilities of a Congress that writes two page laws, and says the implementation of those laws is out of their control, then the first three layers of government are without substance and we are actually operating with NO LAW under a Bureaucratic Dictatorship.
     (The 1972 Environmental Act was two pages long. It has been implemented by several different agencies and is now a book a half inch thick.)
     Congress passes laws and then allows agencies to implement them with no one overseeing these decisions. They are made law, by the publication of Bureaucratic Decisions in the Federal Register, which only a few read and no one has any rescinding power over those who implement the regulations.
     When this change of the functioning of our government took place...... the Constitution ceased to exist. We are now in a full Bureaucratic Dictatorship.
     The egotistical boldness of this type of governing is so offensive to the sole of man that as we become increasingly aware of it's power and control directly in our lives, we will cease to have the motivation to work for it, as we no longer will reap the rewards of our own efforts. Clustered cities will become the long lines of people waiting for meager food supplies as they already have in Russia.
     Confiscation of private property will happen in the rural parts of our nation swiftly and without warning. Public meetings will always be with Supervisors in attendance so that it will have the effect of protest, while they keep the citizens in a mode of paper pushing and no cohesive leadership.
     In 1972 Richard Nixon put into existence the Emergency Banking Act. This act suspends the Constitution of the United States, (letting the people presume up to that

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point they were abiding by the Constitution,) and "allows for the confiscation of tractors, housing of soldiers in private homes and the confiscation of food."
     How hard will you what to work after that one has been enacted? What circumstances would come about that a bureaucracy would use such a law? In the immediate future I can think of two possible scenarios. They will have to use it when they have taken so much private land that the people wake up to what is really happening. Enter the National Marine Fisheries Service...
     First case scenario: The millennium glitch. Everyone has been primed that the government and business will come to a abrupt halt when the computers can no longer function because of the programming problem with the year 2000. This programming problem has been solved. I have heard from two reliable independent sources that industry and government is implementing the new programming into all systems. With the people not knowing that this problem has been solved, and only the implementation needing to be done, this would be the perfect reason to stop Economic chaos in the working place and enact the Emergency Banking Act.
     Second case scenario: Recently the United States Government by Mr.Clinton announced WE had agreed to as multi billion dollar bail-out of Indonesia. Japan, (already having economic problems of it's own), had agreed to contribute substantially to the IMF. (International Monetary Fund, the arm of the United Nations money supply.) Where was Japan going to get the money? Easy, sell their holdings in OUR STOCK MARKET. How can this be done to not let the United States Citizen aware of how much control foreign governments have over our lives? As Japan sold, four other countries have been buying, China, England, France and Germany. Independently or collectively any one of these countries has the power to dump their stock and put this country into immediate economic chaos! Enter the Emergency Banking Act of 1972.
    You better wake up folks, it is not a matter of we are loosing it, we have lost it. We are now just becoming aware to what extent and the mass population of the cities will not be aware of to what degree until this last shoe is dropped!
     We can bring it back, however it is not by violence, armed resistance, or giving in.

      It is by changing ourselves individually. You see the strength of a Free, Constitutionally governed people lies within each of us. We didn't make sure the law makers were doing what we wanted done. We forgot the job description for the President of the United States is to keep the people informed that they might know what laws the Congress is passing and put proper pressure to insure Congress only passes laws that protect all the people. God gave us dominion over the animals of the land, the birds of the air, and the fish in the sea. Congress prostituted itself, with contributions from the wealthy few through the Endangered Specie Act reduced mankind to a lower level than God gave us.
     Yes we the people did it! We did it as over the years they divided us into pork barrel groups and gave us something for nothing! When you are offered something for nothing, remember the ultimate price may be more than you really wanted to pay. When the Social Security Act of 1935 was enacted it was government taking your responsibility for you away. West Virginia for years with Senator Robert Bird head of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation Committee got his state more than 1/3 of the entire road budget. Farmers being paid not to plant crops. Dairy men keeping market prices up by the government buying "surplus". No one owes you an education, you have the right to purse one for yourself. If individually we don't sweat and pay our own price for our dreams then collectively we loose the rights to have a dream. Any time anyone of us has taken something for nothing, or gotten more than the FREE MARKET would bare, then WE have stolen from the Constitution of the United States of America. Our attitude of thinking the government owes it to me... nibbled at the framework of each page of that special document. We defiled the memories of our loved ones who fought and gave their lives for its preservation. WE the People have done it to ourselves.
     It will take about twenty years, the lessons we are about to be taught are going to be some of the most costly lessons in the last two hundred years. When we have collectively changed our own way of thinking and living, to care for one another first, in our neighborhoods and in our communities, we will over come this period of suppression and reestablish the Constitutional Republic in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.