If we fail to learn from the past, we are condemned to make the same mistakes over and over again. To grow and improve, we need to learn the some of the most valuable lessons of life and state craft. Democracies and/or Republics unfortunately promote a great deal of graft, corruption and secret crimes that could be eliminated and derailed merely by identifying the ways in which this kind of treachery normally takes place and instituting laws to correct them and/or prevent their development.

The constant hidden threat of the misuse of power and corruption in government must be recognized as a real and persistent enemy. Government, after all, provides some of the greatest temptations known to mankind, which is the very reason why checks and balances are

essential and fundamental to good government. And this includes instituting a constitutional monarchy with ultimate residual power in case of emergencies and a veto power over laws up to four years after they have been instituted in order to easily eliminate foolish or detrimental ideas that have proven to be harmful to the nation. (See the articles "Ideals" and "Advantages" as well as the article "Briefly, the Benefits of Constitutional Monarchy."

The following are areas of great concern, which have been identified because they have caused much harm, mischief and oppression through the years and should be thwarted by law or constitutional amendments to protect future generations and safeguard the precious principles of freedom and prosperity. Please do not consider the following to be in order of importance or severity. It is merely a list of important issues that promote, maintain and perpetuate the misuse

of government powers. Click on any one of the following that may interest you:

1. "Judicial Decrees" usurping legislative law is called "judicial imperialism." This is where the sovereignty of the people are undermined and taken over by a rouge court, which seeks to change policy or override the legislatures. A recent example, is where the Supreme Court of California declared that it was unconstitutional to deny gay marriages in May of 2008. The high court declared that the denial of gay marriages "violates the Constitution." The problem here is that "The Court ... has improperly set itself up as ... a superlegislature ... reading into the Constitution words and implications which are not there, and which were never intended to be there." This statement was made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Supreme Court in his day, but which applies to the current situation and is from an enlightening article by Stuart Taylor Jr. (www.nationaljournal.com

4694.php) It is inconceivable, but this abuse of legal authority used very ". . . vague constitutional phrases such as ‘equal protection’ a right to judicial invalidation of the marriage laws of every state and nation in the history of civilization. (Ibid.) To say that the denial of gay marriages "violates the Constitution" was "a deeply disingenuous dodge, if not a bald-faced lie, to conceal from gullible voters the fact that the decision was a raw exercise in judicial policy-making with no connection to the words or intent of the state constitution "(Ibid.) The author concluded that rules made by judicial fiat is an affront to democracy especially when they use "made-up constitutional law." He wrote:

Judicial power to override the deeply felt values of popular majorities should be used sparingly, to enforce clear constitutional commands or redress great injustices, not deployed whenever the judges think they can improve on the work of the elected branches. . . . I am concerned about the gradual, relentless strangulation of Abraham Lincoln's vision of ours as a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people,’ by judges who see constitutions not as binding law but as invitations for judicial rule. (Ibid.)

Unfortunately, in the hands of the Supreme Court of the country or any other federal or state court, the Constitution simply does not exist anymore and can be ignored anytime the justices wish to force their personal moral values on all American citizens. This abuse of power is called "judicial activism." It is usurpation and a criminal act.

An inside look at the Supreme Court Closed Chambers by one of its former law clerks Ed Lazarus came out in 1998. He writes: justices "resort to transparently deceitful and hypocritical arguments and factual distortions as they discard judicial philosophy . . . in favor of bottom-line results." (www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/law/index.html)

2. Presidential or "Executive Orders" override checks and balances and therefore subverts the separation of powers so needed to stop corruption. The president or prime minister simply

declares, anything he is particularly interested in, an "emergency" and then issues orders bypassing the legislature. Using the words of Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755), James Madison warned that "There can be no liberty [in the long-run] where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." (www.constitution.org/fed/federa47.htm) In such a system there is nothing to stop breaches of justice, good faith and good common sense. And most importantly, "if you compromise with evil, evil always wins," and everything right and good must take a backseat to it in value and importance. The answer: By law, allow nothing to be called an "emergency" unless it sustained by congress or parliament within 90 days. If it is not sustained, then the so-called emergency fails and the "executive order" would then become null and void. This could be established in law as binding on all parties unless the legislature cannot be consulted, because we are in the middle of a war or are under attack.

Executive power must have the necessary checks and balances to keep it from undermining freedom. Thomas Jefferson said it well when he wrote, "What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The

generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body." (Works 6:543; P.P.N.S., p. 125) The executive branch must be curtailed and held in check like any other division of government. This is the safe and intelligent way to operate. Winston Churchill said is well in 1943:

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. (2008: http://visibility911.com/blog/?cat=154)

3. Bureaucratic rules and regulations or mandates present another very real threat. In fact, any scheme which allows or permits anyone other than the legislature to make laws is an act of

usurpation. No rule or mandate promulgated by a bureaucracy should be allowed to become law or have consequences similar to law unless they are sustained and supported by a majority vote of the duly elected lawmakers in both houses. Otherwise, the safeguards to freedom are stifled, weakened and compromised. This is serious business, because the precious principle of freedom is at stake.

Three hundred years ago, John Locke explained that, "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain [freedom], but to preserve and enlarge [and if possible expand] freedom." (www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/benson.htm) Every rule or law must be judged on that basis. In other words, will this mandate promote crime and corruption or will it enhance fairness, equity and safety? Special interest groups love rules and laws that favor them and their cause rather than what is good for others or what is in the best interests of society as a whole. They crave the privilege of having monopolies set up by giving lavish contributions to legislators and gifts, sometimes through hidden means, to candidates or other power brokers who then owe them favors. In other words, they buy up legislators and others people in power to get their way through election contributions, which is why the following is one of the biggest sources of corruption in government --- the big money temptation. It is the father of all kinds of legalized robbery and wrongs and a terrible threat to everything we hold near and dear. Entrepreneurism or enterprize is the bread and butter of any nation. Stifle it and strangle it with stupid oppressive rules and regulations and you kill the backbone of what creates wealth and prosperity in any nation.

4. "Raising Money for Elections" diverts huge amounts of time, energy and motivation from elected officials. Instead of becoming experts in the long-term impact, the fairness or inherent problems with proposed bills, they spend their time courting huge amounts of money, which are given with strings attached --- subtle bribes for which they owe huge favors. This is done so they can be re-elected and/or become personally rich and well off. This corrupts the whole system and makes lobbyists the most powerful people in the nation, because they hold the purse strings and can disperse the wealthy of special interest groups, corporations, foundations and individuals who want to protect their craft or way of life at the expense of others. Corruption, monopolies, and crime will never be curtailed or held back as long as legislators profit from them. The point here is, giant corporations and wealthy individuals buy political power and influence and politicians happily sell it to them. The result are that these corporations, foundations and the very rich dominate the political process and leave most private citizens out in the cold without a voice and without any real influence.

Hence, a small budget should be set for every candidate and every election to stop this contaminating influence from draining an amazing amount of money and resources that could otherwise go to charities instead of power-hungry candidates. No elected official should be allowed to accept any money, gifts or emoluments for any reason either before, during or after their tour of duty as public servants. Their chief motivation should be to serve their nation, not get rich by compromising values and voting for laws that hurt their fellow man and only benefit a few who would set up government sponsored trade monopolies, businesses or news syndicates, consortiums or cartels or whatever other evil they have in mind.

5. "Monopolies" are a powerful destructive force and destroy competition, which, 90% of the time, means that prices will go up and quality will go down. Monopolies are a conspiracy against the public in many ways. Reality is that making huge profits and effectively keeping others off of the gravy train is the ultimate goal of all monopolies. While competition creates better products, less cost to the consumer and shares the wealth

more evenly and equitably. Everyone is benefited when monopoly is curtailed.

Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. . . . To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic . . . . The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom. (www.answers.com/topic/benjamin-rush?cat=health)

In fulfillment of his warning, we now live in a largely monopolistic medical system that manages to kill at least 784,000 people per year and impoverishes millions, who must go bankrupt, because of the exorbitant costs for these services while the medical field, instead of being service oriented, is enriched and enlarged above 80% of the entire population of the nation in terms of being well off. (www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn12.htm) Yet:

Socialized medicine means waiting in lines, apathy of health-care workers, who are overworked, being herded here and there for testing and more waiting, lack of choice, poorer quality. less services and even misdiagnosis or even worse the denial of treatment. It isn't healthy or in the best interests of any society.

Another example of a deceitful or detrimental monopoly is the press. It is controlled. It is not free even though it is touted to be. One very important man who was certainly in the know about what is going on made the following remarkable disclosure. He was the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times and was one of New York's best loved newspaperman. This eminent journalist, John Swinton (1829-1901), called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession" was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club, and in so doing, made a monumentally important and revealing statement. He is quoted as follows:

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. (Richard O. Bayer & Herbert M. Moriais, Labor's Untold Story, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979: www.constitution.org/pub/swinton_press.htm)

Democracy is premised on a free press, and freedom of the press is premised on the absence of public or private gatekeepers with monopolistic power. It is why the Supreme Court ruled in 1945 that antitrust was probably more appropriate in the realm of media than in any other area. . . . A.J. Liebling's adage that "freedom of the press is limited to those who own one" is frightfully accurate. . . .

[There are four conglomerates or] giant companies [which] are the recipients of enormous direct and indirect subsidies and/or government-granted monopoly franchises. They include: monopoly licenses to radio and TV frequencies, cable and satellite TV monopoly franchises, magazine postal subsidies and copyright, to mention a few. . . . These policies, worth tens of billions annually, are generally made in our name but without our informed consent. That is the heart of the problem, and it points us to the solution: informed public participation on media policy-making. (www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/mcchesney)

Yet freedom of the press is one of the main engines of a free nation. Ruin it and you can lead a whole generation astray because the "uniformed are easily misinformed" and lead down the primrose path into believing in falsehoods by skillful manipulation and a propaganda campaign of lies. A good question is, how is it that ". . . every really dissenting voice from the prevailing consensus is effectively denied access to the mass media and is silenced or marginalised?" (www.geocities.com/democracy_nature/vol5/chomsky_press.htm) This is not freedom, this is supression. Walter Lippmann, a well-known 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society." (http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/rightsof/press.htm)

It has been written that "the truth shall make you free"---free from horrible mistakes, foolishness and misfortune. (John 8:32) But if you are denied that truth, you are denied that freedom---the power to do things, for "knowledge [of the truth] is power"---empowered to do things effectively and right. The opposite---lack of know-how and truth equals blindness and

ignorance, and ignorance leads to nowhere except some form of diminishment. Truth is, therefore, one of the most precious things there is on this earth---it is a pearl of great price---it equals potential, power and infinite possibilities. It must be protected and vouchsafed as one of the most important things there is. Control of the press by the media giants---the huge corporations that surpress whatever they want is a crime against humanity and against liberty and everything precious. To withhold the truth or twist and distort the truth is wrong---a wrong so serious as to be considered treasonous in its impact. One of the most important checks and balances must be instituted to protect this vital life-line---freedom of the press, internet, tv, radio, etc. From the above quotes, we must realize that this vital life-line has been compromised in a secretive and hidden way. Hence, greater safeguards must be initiated to preserve the truth and promote honesty and integrity in this basic field. A country built on falsehoods is blind, weak and blundering.

There are many other types of sinister and despicable monopolies that also betray freedom or suppress progress. Public education is one of them. It that has become another monopoly which promotes mediocrity instead of great quality and the lower costs that come through healthy competition. That is:

Prior to the Federal Department of Education, America had the finest schools in the world. Since this disastrous and unconstitutional grab for power, we can all see that a quadrillion dollars a year will not fix our schools, and they continue to decline faster than the feds or states can shovel money into them. (Devvy Kidd: lecturer and popular author: www.devvy.com/notax.html)

Public schools have become breeding grounds for violence [drugs] and sexual promiscuity; they often are outlets for socialist propaganda; they now constitute a formidable enemy of Christianity (by teaching evolution [denying any other view], by prohibiting prayer and Bible reading) and of the family (by teaching sex education [instead of sexual purity and family values] and deriding traditional [family] authority structures). (David H. Chilton: "What's Really Wrong with Public Schools?:" http://reformed-theology

The Tenth Amendment contains a very important concept: anything not required of the government, is forbidden to the government. Nowhere in the Constitution or any amendment does it require the government to educate the people. Therefore, it may not do it. In other words, the Department of Education is an illegal agency of the government. Doesn't that inspire your confidence [and make you feel good]? (John “The Gneech” Robey: http://freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm)

Ludwig von Mises (1818-1973), one of the notable economists and social philosophers of the Twentieth Century, wrote, "There is no hope left for a civilization when the masses favor harmful policies." (reference unknown) Socialized medicine, socialized education, socialized anything is monopoly and one of the worst kind because it has the force of government behind it. But monopolies of any kind are a recipe for inferior, low-standard, second rate, performances. They do not bring good, rather monopolies all tend to do great harm and/or they prevent enterprising people from creating improvements for the good of all people. In other words, they get in the way of progress. This is why checks and balances must be instituted to protect and safeguard the people and society in general. David Ellner declared:

Monopolies are one of the most destructive forces on earth. It is corruption for the sake of money. While competitive systems, whether in banking, in the news, in education, in the legal system, or in medicine, would bring down costs, while encouraging greater quality in both products and services. There needs to be strong and powerful laws implemented to curtail and break up monopolies of any kind to promote a healthy environment for competition and fair play to flourish, grow and advance. This is immensely important in the fight against corruption and to bless and protect or safeguard the future. No field or profession should be given a corner on the market---it promotes crime, deception and mediocrity.

Licensing laws establish monopolies. They are used to protect a commercial, business or professional activity or trade rather than protect the public. No licensing law or regulation should give any profession the exclusive right to use any particular word or phrase, such as, psychologist, medical doctor, cosmetologists, attorney, etc. This is an example of how legislators are used or manipulated into unwittingly creating monopolies. But there are also many other tricks and legal maneuvers used to subvert what is right into something that is unwholesome and unproductive of what is much better for everyone. Monopolies are an enemy to the people.

6. "Money" is an extremely powerful temptation. "For the love of money is the root of all [not some, but all] evil. . . ." (1 Timothy 6:10) In fact, nothing could be more true. Money is extremely powerful. President James A. Garfield wrote, "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country [on earth] is [the] absolute master of all industry and commerce." (Ibid.)

The following is how a terrible hidden government---a monopoly of immense power was

established in the United States of America and remains hidden and disguised to this day. It became more fully entrenched in the land when Woodrow Wilson took a bribe, a huge campaign contribution, so he could be elected President of the United States and in doing so he promised to sign the legislation to set up the Federal Reserve Bank, which was pushed through Congress two days before Christmas when most legislators were at home to celebrate the holidays. Thus in 1913 members of Congress, who knew about this scheme, committed treason and violated their oath of office to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic by voting in the Federal Reserve Bank. Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. declared, "When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized. . . . [It is] the worst legislative crime of the ages. . . ." (Ibid.) Just before he died, President Wilson solemnly declared to his friends that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country." He was referring to the Federal Reserve Act passed during his Presidency. (www.libertyforlife.com/banking/federal_reserve_bank.html) Congressman Louis T. McFadden (Rep. Pa), who was the Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency of the United States for twelve years, declared that:

Some [Most] people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government's institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers. (Congressional Record 12595-12603, June 10, 1932) (Ibid.)

The Federal Reserve makes money out of nothing---out of the clear blue. There is nothing to back up the money they print. It is only paper. Paper that we put our trust in---paper that runs or

controls all industry and all commerce---paper that literally runs our lives and determines our future for better or worse. They print this paper money, loan it to the United States Government and then on top of that charge the government interest on what they made out of nothing. It is a huge scam or con game involving the hidden theft of billions and billions of hard earn money. It is the biggest scam ever created on earth. On this huge amount of profits that they legally extort from the United States and its people, they have never paid any taxes, nor have they ever allowed anyone to audit them lest the public should find out about the monumental rip off that is taking place right under their noses. Thomas Jefferson wrote the following remarks on this serious threat that

the private banks implemented in his day and which has grown to become an enormously entrenched monopoly that reigns triumphantly in our midst. He said:

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. (Ibid.)

The solution is easy, just make it law that no debt (the national debt) will be paid to this private sinister organization, which has already robbed us of far too much. In other words, as a nation create a law similar to a chapter 7 bankruptcy for private individuals and start over by disenfranchising them and their ill begotten money machine. The nation could then print its own money as the founding fathers intended and not pay any interest on it whatsoever. This would free up billions of dollars annually so that taxes could be reduced motivating massive private enterprise and production, and this nation could begin to thrive again and be the economic giant it once was leading all the earth in wealth, esteem and status. Louis T. McFadden declared before congress in 1932:

Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. No man and no body of men is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. These evil-doers have robbed this country of more than enough money to pay the national debt. What the Government has permitted the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the people should now be restored to the people. (Congressional Record, Congressman Louis McFadden, June 10, 1932, House of Representatives, pages 12495-12605)

Phillip A. Benson, President of the American Bankers' Association, on June 8, 1939 wrote, "There is no more direct way to capture control of a nation than through its credit (money) system." (www.national-renewal.org.au/ModelCon/Task34/start.shtml) Reginald McKenna, when Chairman of the Midland Bank in London, declared, ". . . They who control the credit [money system] of the nation . . . hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.” (Ibid.)

. . . has been engineered to benefit rich and powerful interests that get more rich and powerful every day as a result. These rich and powerful interests currently do everything in their power to make sure this topic rarely gets debated, much less resolved." (www.national-renewal.org.au/Model

It is a huge source of corruption that must be destroyed for governments to prosper and be free to thrive and make major headway in alleviating the ills of mankind and allowing countries to run their own nations. Yet, "By this means [the private stock holders of the Federal Reserve Board] may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft." (Lord John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of Peace, 1920 and Harry Kawilarang, Quotations on Terrorism, 2004, p. 399) It is, in the words of Major L. L. B. Angus, ". . . the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented." (http://political-resources.com/money/quotes.htm)

Today Americans are being fleeced to the tune of approximately 52% of every dollar going for local, state and federal taxes. And over $430 billion a year---all that the IRS receives from all the citizens of this country is given to the greedy Federal Reserve Board for doing nothing, that is,

something the government could do for itself for pennies on the dollar, that is, print money and run a specialized accounting firm. In all the annals of history, no greater fraud was ever perpetuated on any people. It is much worse than highway robbery. It has bilked and pilfered trillions from this country. In summary, Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941), President of the Bank of England and the 2nd richest man in the nation wrote:

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it [all the vast wealth of the banker] away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But, if you want to continue to be the slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit. (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Banking)

No country deserves such a revolting gang of robber barons in their midst. Robbery is wrong no matter who does it and for what reason. For example, to show how terribly wrong this really is note that, "without the central bank siphoning off the wealth of our nation, there would be no need for a personal income tax." (Devvy Kidd: www.devvy.com/notax.html) What a great boon that would be for the American people or the people of any land!

7. Deficit Spending is spending more money than you actually have. There is an old saying that goes, "If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall." That is, if you keep on spending too much, it will result in financial ruin. Government deficit spending means devaluing the dollar, which robs everyone. It is like diluting the milk supply—the milk—the value of our money is then watered down. It ends up being a hidden or disguised tax which secretly does damage to the economy and more importantly, it hurts people—our greatest resource. This is so serious that as reported in "The Hill" in December of 2007:

"The greatest moral issue of our time isn’t abortion, it’s robbing our next generation of opportunity," Coburn told reporters at a breakfast meeting Thursday at the National Press Club. "You’re going to save a child from being aborted so they can be born into a debtor’s prison?" (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news

This kind of spending is reckless and irresponsible to say the least, but it is all a part of the corruption that is so typical of out-of-control government and why more checks and balances are needed, not less, to curb the greed and avarice of politicians, rich special interest groups and other monopolies and their lobbies who instead of pushing for equality, push for special privileges at the expense and ruin of others. The unfairness, the injustice, the fraud, the waste, and the misconduct of big government is staggering. See below:

Many dismiss pork as a drop in the bucket in relation to the size of the federal budget. The pro-porkers claim that the real problem is entitlement spending, so pork is insignificant. This dismissal of pork as "small potatoes" ignores the fact that pork is the root cause of some of our nation's most debilitating fiscal and political pathologies, and $100 billion shouldn't be considered insignificant in anyone's book. (www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=policy_Pork_Barrel_Spending)

The whole purpose of this article can be summarized by a statement made in December of 1998 by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Republican from Florida), when he said, "The greatest challenge of free peoples is to restrain abuses of governmental power." (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2666_129/ai_67328791) This is certainly one of them.

9. Government waste is a crying shame especially when serious problems abound. "A real war on government waste could easily save over $100 billion annually without harming the legitimate operations and benefits of government programs." The following are three examples of serious neglect. (All the following is from the website of the Heritage Foundation on government waste:

(1) The government knows that $25 billion was spent by someone, somewhere, on something, but auditors do not know who spent it, where it was spent, or on what it was spent. It was lost. . . . The unreconciled $25 billion could have funded the entire Department of Justice for an entire year.

(2) A recent audit revealed that between 1997 and 2003, the Defense Department purchased and then left unused approximately 270,000 commercial airline tickets at a total cost of $100 million. Even worse, the Pentagon never bothered to get a refund for these fully refundable tickets. . . . This $108 million could have purchased seven Blackhawk helicopters, 17 M1 Abrams tanks, or a large supply of additional body armor for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Efficiency in government would save an amazing amount of money that could be used for good instead of throwing it away needlessly and foolishly. The government is notorious for being wasteful. This ought to be considered a crime against the people who work so hard to pay taxes only to have the government bungle everything and mismanage it.

10. "Sovereign immunity" for legislators, judges, lawyers, international bankers, bureaucrats, and a number of others creates an atmosphere in which subtle, hidden white-collar crime can thrive and prosper in the sacred institutions of government. And if crime pays, crime expands and is enlarged, especially in government, where the temptations are far too compelling and insidious. Immunity for some also produces a privileged class instead of fairness and equality for all. In other words, the ideal of "justice for all" is flushed down the toilet and some people are above the law.

In a government of laws [the rule of law], the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously [that is, its destiny, its prosperity, it civil obedience and decency is in peril if it fails to follow the law conscientiously with precision and exactness]. Our government is the potent, [the powerful, the influential,] the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy . (Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438)

. . . every official, from the Prime Minister down to a constable or a collector of taxes, is under the same responsibility for every act done without legal justification as any other citizen. The Reports abound with cases in which officials have been brought before the courts, and made, in their personal capacity, liable to punishment, or to the payment of damages, for acts done in their official character but in excess of their lawful authority. [Appointed government officials and politicians, alike] . . . and all subordinates, though carrying out the commands of their official superiors, are as responsible for any act which the law does not authorise as is any private and unofficial person. (London: MacMillan, 9th ed., 1950, p. 194)

Thomas Paine, one of the founding father of the United States stated in his pamphlet Common Sense in 1776 that, ". . . in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other." The point is, no one should be above the law. Every person, especially public servants, must be held to a standard of honor, decency, good will and good faith; and if they fail, they must face the consequences like anyone else. If law makers, lawyers, judges, bureaucrats, etc. were no longer given immunity, the abuses and injustices of the legal system would be corrected very quickly. This is because when a person is immune, that person would naturally have little personal vested interest in the wrongs of the justice system, but if a person is subject to their failures, then such a person would naturally worry about it and would work to fix it, find solutions that work and make it safe to be a normal citizen, a business man, policeman. The solution of making certain power holders immune to justice does not protect the people from judicial or civil travesties---it promotes it. The whole idea can be summarized by the following:

11. Justice is one of the most precious things on earth, but it is unfairly denied to a majority of Americans, who end up being robbed and cheated by a system that is stacked up against them. Anacharsis, a well-known philosopher who lived in Athens about the 5th century BC, declared that, "Laws are like spider webs: they hold the weak and vulnerable in their meshes and are torn . . . asunder by the rich and powerful." (www.geocities.com

/Pentagon/6315/law/index.html) Judicial reform is desperately needed. Estimates suggest that as much as "60% of Americans are denied equal justice under law," which reflects the fact that there is major corruption and sickness in the setup which has thus far defied all efforts to reform it. (Ibid.) It is like a cancer that needs radical surgery. But before the strong cure can be applied, one must first understand the breath and depth of the problem. There will always be offenders and victims, but the benefit of justice and a system that ensures that crime does not pay would be one of the greatest benefits a nation could ever have.

[Lawyers] have an economic interest in cultivating and prolonging conflict. This means they are fundamentally at odds with the purposes of the legal system. Courts and lawyers exist only to explain and enforce the rules society sets for itself--and settle disputes arising from these rules. . . . The trouble is that lawyers' well-being runs in the opposite direction. The more conflict, the better. The more cumbersome and ambiguous society's rules, the better. (Ibid.)

1. "Lawyers tend to be dishonest and lie because they know the system --- they know that lying and cheating and perjury work. Lawyers know that perjury isn't prosecuted and they pass that on to their clients." (Ibid.) Thus they promote deception and deceitfulness rather than honesty and truth.

2. "Lawyer/Judges do their utmost to damage pro se or self-represented litigants. With 60 percent of the population unable to afford lawyers, that means the majority of citizens cannot get [the] justice [they deserve] because there is a lawyer on the bench. Judges shill for lawyers because those are their buddies, [their] culture, and system which they [are] a part of [and] accept. . . ." (Ibid.)

3. "Lawyers are not legal experts, they are not trained in many areas of law: tax judges/lawyers know a fraction of tax law that CPA's and tax-preparers that come before them do; family law lawyers/judges are not social workers; juvenile law judges are not psychologists; technical subjects like patents, copyrights, trade secrets, medical malpractice and psychiatry are well beyond the competence of [many] lawyer/judges." "Bad decisions, which are endemic to the system [even thought they cost a fortune]. . . ." (Ibid.)

4. "[Lawyers] have an agenda [it is not justice, but] the furtherance [and promotion] of the interests of lawyers. . . . [All monopolies work this way.] That is simply their modus operandi or nature. . . . [Such lawyer/judges, for example] are [not] going to let a pro se person win no matter how right he is, because to allow justice in such a case would be the end of the cartel --- it would demonstrate that lawyers are superfluous." The craft, the monopoly, the status must be protected and defended at all costs to the point that they become more important than justice itself.

5. "Lawyer/judges favor high status law firms and lawyers because those are their reference group --- the people whose good opinion they seek; it advances the profession [and their personal careers and prestige]. So cases get decided [far too often] on how expensive your lawyer is, [not] on the merits of your case. . . . You can imagine the abuse they would get from the fraternity, if they ruled against a lawyer in favor of a non-lawyer (because in the end, economic interests are involved). . . . Law is a [huge] money-making machine --- [a monopoly]." Unearned and massively overcharged contingency fees [as much as 90% of the award] in cases of early settlements where lawyers did little or nothing is just an act of fleecing or cheating. He should not charge more than his hourly rate.

6. ". . . The appeals Court is a greater farce than the trial --- the courts have a stated bias to uphold the lower court and a real bias to scratch their friends and colleagues' backs. Most appeals court rulings are written by law clerks who are 2nd year law students. Oral arguments are almost never heard, because the appeals court does not want to even know what the case is about --- they make form letter rulings without even reading the case."

7. Self-regulation doesn't work. It is like asking the fox to watch the chicken coop. Or, "Having a lawyer judge ethics is like having a blind man judge The Miss America Pageant when his daughter is a contestant." The lawyer protection racket is such that if a complaint is made to a proper lawyer-driven organization, no one, not even the complainant will know if the lawyer lied or produced false evidence, because this important information is not allowed to be made public. A . . . national commission found that 95 percent of all complaints against federal judges were dismissed summarily by other federal judges put in place to review them. At the state level, NY is supposed to have the nation's top oversight organization. Over 85 percent of complaints are dismissed without investigation. Since they have a cartel and regulate themselves, you might expect that they would recognize the high responsibility [but instead they protect each other rather than promote justice]. . . . The CA Bar receives 140,000 hotline complaints a year and [only] 'investigates' 15,000 allegations of attorney misconduct. This shows how well licensing works [or how committed they are to policing their own profession]."

In conclusion, "[Self-serving] Lawyers . . . [have often earned the] reputation of being low-lifes and [of being] as scummy [or as dishonest] as used-car salesmen." The author declared, "We have a diseased system, which is rotten at the core and the core is lawyers." Rather, the core is more likely the corrupt monopoly created by the lawyers, which because of exorbitant prices and inherent corruption makes lawyer-craft similar to how a leech or parasite acts on its host. This malicious culture instead of being a blessing to mankind has become an unfortunate barrier to justice, fairness and equity. They sell their souls and sell out their clients for the almighty dollar.

So how does this corrupt gravy train continue to be maintained? Why isn't it routed out? Well, look where the money goes. It goes into corrupting government to buy up legislators. The problem: "Lawyers give more money to political campaigns than does any other industry. Approximately 75% of the lawyer's money goes to Democrats. Lawyers, and specifically trial lawyers, are the Democrats number one special interest group, and have been for years." Well, what do the Democrats do for the lawyers in return for huge amounts of campaign or bribery money?:

Dems block tort reform, block medical malpractice reform, block 'loser pays' lawsuit reform, and block damages award caps. Democrats are a trial lawyer's dream come true. Dems allow lawyers to continue to feed at the trough, uninhibited. Dems are money in the bank for trial lawyers. (www.ohiomm.com/.../da_kings

(1) Non-attorney judges: ". . . Good lawyers make too much money to accept the lower pay of judgeships. Therefore, only mediocre lawyers are in the pool to select from. By broadening the pool of candidates [to nonlawyers], we can have better judges." The author of this article recommended that lawyers be disallowed to serve as judges to break the back of their cartel and allow for greater objectivity and case expertise to be applied to individual cases by judges who are experts themselves in certain fields. (See #3 above)

(2) Elections: It appears that a new corp of non-attorney judges might best be appointed by elections as they would be more impartial and be less influenced by politicians or special interest groups as long as no contributions were allowed and only a equitable election allowance was permitted to be used for each individual campaign. This would help stop the bribes or favors that circumvent justice.

(3) More attorneys: ". . . Consider the world flooded with lawyers - bad lawyers couldn't make a living, average lawyers would have to get by on modest salaries because of the competition. Only the good lawyers would be well paid and that is as it should be. The quality of legal services would go up, the prices would go down and even the poor would be able to get "justice" or at least legal advice. Break the cartel by deregulation, decertification and allowing paralegals to practice law."

"Some ideas: eliminate exemptions from jury duty, eliminate pre-emptory challenges --- just take the first 12 jurors; let the jurors ask questions of witnesses; let the jurors see the statute that they are judging on: the only notice the accused could have had is the statute and the jury has to factor that into consideration. This business of jury instructions is the primary way judges and lawyers subvert the jury process. The first instruction should be the statute and the second should be 'if any following instruction conflicts with the statute - ignore the instruction and base your decision on the statute.' Juries need to be informed of the ideas of jury nullification. Allow less than unanimous verdicts, but no less than 11-1. That will prevent one crazy person from holding up the system, but care must be taken not to lower standards too much because it would result in lots of false convictions. Probably a good way to handle it is to make unanimous verdicts inviolate but less than unanimous verdicts overturnable by judges."

12. Big government like any monopoly equals more and more infringements on State, Community and personal rights. Freedom is little by little taken away or lost by such. In fact, big government is against the constitution, therefore it is in violation of it. In rebellion against unauthorized and illegal regulations and mandates from the Federal Government, the State of Oklahoma passed the following resolution on 3/13/08:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE 51ST OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE: THAT the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.

THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker Req. No. 9466 Page 3 of the House and the President of the Senate of each state's legislature of the United States of America, and each member of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation.

It is important that no part of the government be allowed to infringe on checks and balances designed to protect the people and preserve their inalienable rights to freedom. Big government is a threat and an encroachment that we must protect ourselves from. State and community shares of sovereignty are important safeguards to limit and preserve it.

Power is dangerous especially in the hands of big government which can force and rob us. Hence the following salient warning by Harry Browne who wrote, "It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want." In fact, "it will be used in ways you never intended." (http://freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm)

A good example of this was given by Neal Boortz in 2003. He said, "Tell me please why this Patriot Act is being used for so many criminal investigations in this country, like petty drug cases, that have no connection with terrorism? Lesson: If you give the government power . . . it will use that power. It will use 100% of that power, and more." (Ibid.) We are in jeaprody of becoming a police state if this trend continues.

Ah, you say, I have nothing to hide, so why do I care? In this era of political correctness where the ordinary practices of today become the crimes of tomorrow, it is dangerous to have that view. Perhaps you may want the government to have access to your innermost views. But what do you suppose will happen when you determine that the government has become too repressive and it must be replaced? What do you suppose will happen to you when government officials find out your views before you have had a chance to act upon them? (Ibid.)

As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism---unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom. (Dr. Thomas Sowell: Ibid.)

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind- in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others---with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. (Ibid.)

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power," declared Daniel Webster. (Ibid.) The problem is, most people do not see any danger at all in this. Burt Rand wrote, "People who think of government as the institution to entrust with enough power to right all the world's wrongs seem to never consider that they must thereby give it enough power to do wrong to all the world's rights." (Ibid.)

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., a political commentator declared on this subject, "We're dealing with the oldest political error: the belief that because everyone wants something, government should or must provide it." (Ibid.) This false philosophy deceives people into giving more and more power to the Federal government. But the so-called free handouts are not free, but come with a heavy price considering big government waste, mismanagement and boondoggling. John S. Coleman wrote: "The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away." (Ibid.) And it will use legalized plunder or theft to do it.

The safest road and the wisest thing to do is to reduce and limit the government and thus preserve our most priceless heritage of freedom for generations to come. To do otherwise is foolhardy or to stick one's head in the sand. It is to invite trouble, poverty and decline. "Government should be our servant, not our master." (Doug Guetzloe: Ibid.)

13. Income Tax in the original U. S. Constitution was forbidden as an important check against the Federal government getting too big. Because money is power, and an almighty government would end up being too big, too powerful and too dangerous to the freedom and liberty of its people, the United States government was, by design, created to receive its operating money mostly from the States in order to balance things out and limit what the Federal government could do. Their plan was to give the States a huge amount of power instead of crippling or diminishing them by making them beg money from the Federal government which then controls them through these purse strings. That is, if the States are obedient to the requirements---the strings they attach, then they get money, if not, they are denied.

As a check to limit "big brother" or irresponsible, inefficient, wasteful and power-hungry politicians and corrupt bureaucrats, the founding fathers constitutionally denied the Federal government the power of instituting a personal income tax. The States could levy an income tax, but not the Federal government. This was considered to be a great principle to stop government meddling and its infringement on rights as well as keep taxes down for everyone, because the states would naturally compete against one another to keep the rate low or risk losing individuals and business to other states with lower taxes. It must always be remembered in the words of Chief Justice John Marshall in the McCulloloch v. Stateplace Maryland ruling of 1819 that, "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." (http://freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm)

14. Limiting government: another way, besides forbidding a personal income tax to the Federal government, which was designed to keep the Federal government from getting too big, was to constitutionally limited what it could do or be involved in by the supreme law of the land. Article I(8) of the Constitution states:

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

There is absolutely no authority or legal permission for the federal government to legislate in areas of the environment, education, FEMA, the NEA, the FDA, welfare and many others. This limit was to keep the Federal government from getting into all kinds of mischief that is better solved and dealt with on a local level where nationwide monopolies will not be created or perpetuated. To further prevent corruption and the confiscation of rights, a new supreme law was created by the founding fathers to protect freedom. The tenth amendment states that:

If this wasn't enough, in addition, Article I(3) of the Constitution specified that Senators were to be chosen by the State legislators, not by State popular elections, in order to preserve State's rights and not have the Federal government assume the vast powers and authorities as it currently has. The problem is:

As the size of our gov has grown our capacity to manufacture our own goods, grow our own food and educate our children has decreased dramatically. And with each new session of Congress and each new Administration we somehow find the number of laws and regulations lacking [intelligence] - and [they] just keep adding more. (http://theroyalscam.com/2008/04/27/usn-get-ready-for-big-government-another-step-in-the-wrong-direction)

The point is, big government is invariably inefficient and bungling, costly, wasteful, creates huge new meddlesome and intrusive bureaucracies, spends money it doesn't have, and adds more and more regulations that drown people in red tape and ruins businesses, which are the backbone of all real progress.

As a test of corruption for a nation, Tacitus (56 to 115 AD), a Roman senator and historian, wrote, "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." http://freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm) Hence, it may be an indictment against the U.S. that, "The American government creates 50,000 new laws each year, and over 2 million new regulations." (Lorne Strider: Ibid.) He then added, sarcastically, "Then we are told by the courts that 'ignorance of the law is no excuse!'" The problem is most of these laws end up being enslaving, because little by little they rob us of freedom. The point is, power is inherently corrupting. It is dangerous and destructive and there must be safeguards and a strong determination to turn the tide of corruption from ruining the most precious thing we have in the whole world---our liberty.

The founding fathers did their very best to give us a framework of freedom that would allow us to

pursue anything we so desired, as long as one citizen’s pursuit did not hurt another’s ability to do the same. They were very suspicious of big government and rightly so. Big organizations with their big money use the power of government to enlarge themselves and become more and more powerful. They end up destroying all competition and transform themselves into monopolies that block any possible opportunities for others. Hence, they hedge up the way to a better life, better goods and services, and stifle the progress of mankind. Big government, like any other suffocating, crippling monopoly, is not user friendly for the little guy---the average man and his family. It is an enemy to mankind because it is an enemy to freedom and prosperity.

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. . . . The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional "do-gooders," who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others --- with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. (www.languageofliberty.com/q_freedom&lib_antifreedom_hubris.htm)

Quoting and paraphrasing Craig McMillan from the WorldNet Daily of November 21, 2008, "Education and voluntary compliance is never good enough [for them]. A law must be passed and penalties assessed to violators." They often cite Jesus, the Christ "in support of their cause (whatever it may be). It's a pity they don't read what [he really said] as much as they cite Him [as justification for their various schemes. If they did,] they would find that Jesus never once suggested a government mandate or funding for the same. What Jesus did mandate was personal [voluntary] acts of charity, paid [freely] for from one's own pocket, and not seen or praised by the world." (www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=45467)

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. (www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Sowell)

Great care must be taken to insure that the terrible force of government does not force its agenda down the throat of the people. Freedom is too precious, too glorious a standard to let this happen. It is the secret to everything beautiful, right and good in the land. The future is in the balance and so is prosperity is at stake. Carefully consider the following sections:

16. Welfarism, or government enforced redistribution of wealth, has been a colossal failure and creates weakness and vice instead of strengthening people into becoming greater human beings who can self-reliantly contribute and share the wealth they create for mankind. Congressman Ron Paul explained that:

Rather than encouraging self-reliance, strength and self-sufficiency, they have promoted weakness, helplessness and dependence. The government programs do not follow the simple truth that "if you give a man a fish, he may eat for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, he could eat for a lifetime." Beside, socialism:

. . . by its very nature, is an inherently tyrannical ideology that uses force or the threat of force to take from those who produce and redistribute to those who don't (after the ruling elites take their [big] cut). Under socialism, all power rests in the hands of the almighty State. The failure of socialism and social engineering by "the best and brightest" of left-wing liberalism has been proven [time and time again, but liberals think if only I, being superior to all others, were in charge I could make it work].

The problem is fundamentally flawed chiefly because it destroys incentives to work and produce. The profit motive has proven to be the most powerful incentive on the face of the earth. Throw that incentive out and you have a mess on your hands. Note the following altered "Modern Version of the Little Red Hen" by Gaylord Sutherland: