There's no such thing as a valid excuse.
This editorial was originally published in the Winter 1995 issue (Volume I, Number 3) of THE RESISTER.
This
editorial explains why I and a number of other rational citizens of the
American Republic will not quietly submit to the whims of the God-Kings foisted upon us by the mob of Depraved-Americans,
Corrupt-Americans, Stupid-Americans, Ignorant-Americans,
Deceased-Americans, and Imaginary-Americans.
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Democracy: The Politics of TyrannyRights
are a moral principle, and each man has inalienable rights over
himself, his faculties and his possessions. This moral principle, this
objective reality, means that a man has a right to his own person, his
mind and body, and therefore his own labor. Furthermore, a man has a
right to the productive use of his labor and faculties. Because a man
has these rights he must respect these rights in all others. Since each
man is sovereign over himself, each individual must consent to any
activity which directly affects his person or property before such
activity can assume moral legitimacy.
In a rational society
founded of the moral principle of rights there can be no force or fraud
in the relationship between sovereign individuals. When rights are
properly exercised they take nothing from anyone, nor do they compel
anyone to act in a manner detrimental to their own self-interest. Notice
that the rational exercise of each right enumerated in the Bill of
Rights to the Constitution by an individual takes nothing from, or
compels, other individuals in their rational exercise of these rights.
Only
individuals possess rights. Groups, being nothing more than a number of
individuals can, in themselves, possess no rights other than those
which are possessed and exercised individually by each member. Hence, a
faction has no rights; nor does a gang, a mob, a tribe, a state or a
nation. A group may hove interests but those interests do not assume the
moral legitimacy of rights. To assert otherwise is to descend into
abstract subjectivism, an evasion of reality, where a society is ruled
by the-range-of-the-moment whims of its members, the majority gang of
the moment, the current demagogue or dictator.
Government is
force. No matter how benign or dictatorial, behind every law or
regulation or act there is a gun. The authors of the United States
Constitution were fully aware of this fact. They recognized that
government in a rational society must derive its delegated powers by the
consent of the governed and that these powers must be specifically
defined by law--the Constitution; delimited by a law higher than
government--the inalienable rights of man; and dispersed by permanent
separation of powers. For these reasons they specifically and
intentionally REJECTED democracy as a system of government. The system
of government created by the Founding Fathers, men devoted to the
primacy of the source of all rights, man's faculties (which means;
reason), was the CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Democracy is the
antithesis of the natural rights of man. The philosophical premise of
democracy is egalitarianism; not political egalitarianism which holds
all men equal before the law (justice), but METAPHYSICAL egalitarianism,
the belief that all men are equal in all things. This last construct is
such an obvious falsehood that it can carry only one meaning: the
hatred of reason. Democracy, by its very definition - rule by majority -
is the notion that" might makes right." The exercise of democracy
reduces men to mere numbers, and the faction or gang which gathers the
greater number of men to its fleeting cause wields the government gun
against the minority.
From this view of the subject,
it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, by which I mean a society,
consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer
the Government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of
faction. A common passion or interest will in almost every case, be felt
by the majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from
the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the
inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of
turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with
personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been
as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government,
have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect
equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be
perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their
opinions, and their passions.
--Publius (James Madison), The Federalist X, 1787
Indeed,
specific safeguards were designed into the Constitution to prevent the
subversion of the constitutional republic and the natural rights of man
by political party gang warfare and special interest factionalism
inherent in a democracy: the Electoral College (Article II, Section 1)
and the election of senators by State Legislatures (Article I, Section
3).
In the case of the former it was specifically intended that
the head of the Executive branch of the federal government be elected by
Electors chosen by each state legislature in equal proportion to its
representation in Congress; NOT by popular vote. This ensured : "No
faction or combination can bring about the election. It is probable,
that the choice will always fall upon a man of experienced abilities and
fidelity. In all human probability, no better method of election could
have been devised." (James Iredell, North Carolina Ratification Cttee.,
1788)
The latter provision ensured the logical effect of popular
election of members to the House of Representatives (whim based
legislation) was offset by representatives elected by state legislature
to the Senate to guard against Executive and House encroachment on state
sovereignty: "The election of one branch of the Federal, by the State
Legislatures, secures an absolute dependence of the former on the
latter. The biennial exclusion of one-third, will lesson the faculty of
combination and may put a stop to intrigues." (James Madison, Virginia
Ratification Cttee., June, 1788)
The United States has been
descending into the sewer of democracy since the ratification of the
17th Amendment on May 31, 1913. Before every presidential election there
are demands by special interest groups to void the Electoral College
and resort to popular election of the President. This headlong rush into
democracy is evident by the "value" placed on public opinion polls by
politicians of both parties (a practice begun by the crypto-communist
Franklin D. Roosevelt); as if the opinions and "feelings" of factions,
gangs and tribes were a counterweight to the inalienable rights of a
single rational man.
The irrationality of democracy was stated
most eloquently by Auberon Herbert in his London address on March 9,
1880, before a meeting of the Vigilance Association for the Defense of
Personal Rights, entitled; CHOICES BETWEEN FREEDOM AND PROTECTION: "How
should it happen that the individual should be without rights, but the
combination of individuals should possess unlimited rights?"
--Alexander Davidson