GOVERNMENT AS THE BEAST

Absolute Despotism is a form of government that allows no definition of reality other than that promulgated by the government. Under Absolute Despotism, the point of view of the individual is to be destroyed, when that point of view disagrees with the view generated by Absolute Despotism.

The central danger of government throughout all of recorded history is seen in the fact that all forms of governments tend toward Absolute Despotism. This tendency occurs because government, by definition, is empowered to force people to obey the definition of reality spawned by government. Since government is seen to be that part of reality that has the right to force people to obey, the temptation has always existed for government to be understood to have the unquestionable and unchangeable right to force everyone to obey everything uttered by government, which is of course Absolute Despotism.

The central dilemma of government can be stated as a question: how can people be forced to obey without at the same time bringing them under Absolute Despotism? In answer to that question, the Founders of the United States of America suggested that people be offered a plan of God that was so wonderful that they would want to obey. With such a plan in hand government would be empowered to act as government and would never need to exercise despotic powers to force the people to obey. Since we've forgotten this plan, the government of the United States of America has gone a long way toward becoming the Beast.

It is inevitable that government will become the Beast unless government pursues exactly the same planned authorized by the author of governments. Divorced from that plan, government is nothing more than people who hold the power to force other people to obey. Inevitably, people who hold such power, unfettered by any duty to obey a plan that forces them to respect the rights of others, become Beasts--Ravenous Beasts capable of doing the most horrible things that can be accomplished by any creatures who ever saw the light of day. They make Tyrannosaurus Rex look kittenish in comparison. Choose you own favorite historical examples that document this point.

There are people in the United States of America who will fight to the death before they surrender to Absolute Despotism. And this is the real and immediate danger this nation now faces. When the decision that received sanction in the Revolutionary War, and whose sanction was reconfirmed in the Civil War was overthrown by the Present Revolution, this nation once again began to move toward the Court of Last Resort. It is this knowledge that drives me to see more each day that few things can be judged more important than informing the people of this country of what sanction can cost if we decide to abandon the original sanction provided to the government of the United States. If we, the people, decide to abandon the principles upon which this government was founded, our government is without the sanction provided by the Revolutionary War. If we institute new principles as the foundation of the government of the United States, and in effect create a new government, those principles will have to receive sanction in the only way a new government can receive sanction.

This is a truly frightening prospect because it is a real possibility. There are people in this nation who define their duty in precisely the same way the Founders of this nation defined duty. Whenever a people suffer a long train of abuses by an existing government that demonstrates that government is unwilling to abide by the plan of the Creator for government defined in the Declaration of Independence, then, as the Founders declared, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to overthrow such a government and replace it with Guards that will institute the Creator's plan for government. I know this is a real possibility because I am one of those people.

I am writing to you because you, like me, are children of the Founders of the United States of America. I can believe you will not participate in doing anything that will make it inevitable that this nation will engage in Civil War if you understand that War will cost the lives of people you know, people you once laughed with, people you once cried with, people you once shared a nation with. Please believe me when I say this book is not an exercise in rhetoric. This is a last ditch attempt to alert the people I love to the fact that we have made a terrible mistake. We have forgotten that it was our primary duty as citizens of the United States to protect and defend the government we inherited from our forefathers. By failing to understand our duty, we have allowed this nation to move itself away from the foundation that provides sanction for every action of this government--the principles in the Declaration of Independence. Without that sanction, this nation will become, more each day, an unauthorized exercise in tyranny that will motivate more and more people to seek relief from its tyranny.

Without the plan of god defined in the Declaration of Independence as the authority that guides all the actions of government, the government of the United States becomes an instrument of the majority. The Constitution of the United States of America can theoretically be altered to allow the vast majority of citizens to do anything. Unless we understand ourselves to be citizens in a nation that is subject to a plan of god that is committed to protecting the rights of all citizens, there can be no peace of mind in this nation for any person who perceives themselves to be a member of a minority outside the mainstream. Minorities become threatened at the very core of their being.

In such a context, there is a remedy available to all those who define their duty in accordance with the definition adopted by the Founders of the United States of America. According to the Law in the Declaration of Independence, citizens of this nation have the right and the duty to overthrow a government that propels itself by the train of Absolute Despotism.

That remedy is horrible to contemplate. But obviously I am contemplating it. My prayer is that as you contemplate it with me you will see that anything we have to do to avoid it is a small price to pay.

And it can be avoided! But to avoid it we must wake up and overcome the institutionalized ignorance all around us. That's all it takes! We must agree on where the authority of the government of the United States of America is founded.

When we talk about agreeing on anything to do with this thing called government, we are really talking about trying to find a song about government that we can all agree to sing in harmony. Agreement is nothing more than a meeting of the minds in which harmony is established. Harmony is nothing more than a word that describes the sound produced by agreement. This harmony, the harmony of agreement, is established because the individual minds decide to sing the same song in the same key.

We were created to inherit a song about government, and to sing that song together. The words to that song are written in the Declaration of Independence. We must sing that song! We must become equipped as citizens to understand where authority comes from in this nation. We must be willing to raise our voices in every nook and cranny of this land telling everybody around us about the foundation upon which this government must rest if we are to avoid Civil War in the United States of America. And we must pray that we, the people, are truly the children of our forefathers, truly the children of the Founders of the United States of America, and not some bastard interlopers from a foreign regime. For, if we are truly the children of the Founders of the United States of America, we will find harmony once again in this nation. If not, there will be hell to pay. If at this point you still don't understand what I'm talking about, stick around; you'll see for yourself soon enough.

HOW CIVIL WAR CAN BE AVOIDED

The only way Civil War can be avoided in this nation is to overthrow the power of the present government of the United States of America, a government controlled by disciples of Joseph Campbell. This can be accomplished by replacing every elected or appointed government official in this nation who is subject to the self-image created by Joseph Campbell with individuals committed to upholding and enforcing the Law that has its foundation in the principles defined by the Declaration of Independence.

Obviously this will take some time. But it can be done, it must be done, and it will be done unless we, the people, of the United States of America are hellbent on choosing to engage in another exercise in mutual mass destruction.

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Admittedly, the scope and size of the remedy prescribed is mind-boggling at first glance. I am suggesting that literally tens of thousands of government officials at every level of government--local, county, state, and federal--be replaced by individuals committed to upholding the Law created by the Founders of this nation and defined in the Declaration of Independence.

Any reasonable person would naturally shudder when first glancing at the awesome logistical details created by such a strategy. But reasonable and knowledgeable people, when they first hear my strategy, do more than shudder, they laugh as if I am telling a joke. They react as if they have just encountered one of the most preposterous ideas ever uttered in this nation. They laugh because they know something about how our nation actually works today, something that, at first glance, makes my strategy utterly inconceivable. They know that only Lawyers get elected to office in this nation.

Virtually every office of government in this nation past the local level is presently filled by lawyers. A tradition has developed in this nation that only lawyers are qualified to hold elected or appointed government office. This tradition has developed because we, the people, have become convinced that only lawyers actually understand government and the law.

This book is an indictment of the failure of Lawyers to understand what Lawyers were supposed to understand--the Law! Every word I have written in this book is designed to prove that the opposite is actually the case in this country today. Lawyers do not understand the Law! If they had understood, the Revolution that has occurred in this nation could not have occurred! In the light of all the evidence I have outlined in the book, the idea that only lawyers are qualified to hold elected and appointed office in the government of this nation is absolutely hilarious in a bizarre and macabre way. That idea suggests that the very people who have demonstrated their abject failure to learn the fundamental Truths about Law in this nation are the only ones qualified to defend and enforce the Law for we, the people. How could this Revolution have occurred if lawyers had done their duty under the Law? It couldn't. Yet people laugh at my ideas because they think people will always be subject to the idea that only lawyers are actually qualified to hold office in this nation. Perhaps I will yet have the last laugh. But it's too soon to tell because the idea persists that only lawyers can run for public office. Because that idea persists, people who read my ideas feel pessimistic when they realize the only way rightful authority can be restored to this nation is through a grand and total restaffing of government offices.

Such pessimism is totally unwarranted because many thousands of qualified people can be equipped in a short period of time to be ready to stand for election to public office in this nation. Where would we find qualified people to accomplish such a strategy? From people, like yourself, who have been led by the ideas in this book to return to the Foundation of Law in the United States of America. Those people, once they stand on the real Foundation of the Law in this nation, will begin to exercise the authority that comes to those who understand the truth about the Law in the United States of America. In the exercising of the rightful authority of the law in this nation, they will draw support from every real citizen of the United States of America. That support will take the form of election to public office.

These are the people who will Restore rightful authority to this nation!

Think about it! The only truly necessary qualification for a responsible government official in this nation is an understanding of the Law. If you have read this book, and grasped the facts I have outlined here, you understand the Law. In fact, you presently understand the Law better than virtually every Lawyer in this nation! If you grasp the points I have written in this book, you are presently better equipped and therefore better qualified than virtually any Lawyer in the nation to actually uphold and enforce the Law in the United States of America.

Now obviously few people will read this book and feel equipped to jump up and run for office. Much additional study and thought will be required before a candidate is prepared to undergo the rigors of the public examination candidates must undergo.

But this book is only the first step. This book is a preliminary sketch of the ideas that must be firmly grasped and understood before an individual can be equipped to be a public spokesperson and representative of the Law in this nation. As a first step, the reading and comprehension of this book is necessary. Unless the philosophy of the Law outlined in this book is comprehended, nothing further can be added that can lead to Restoration of rightful authority in this nation. But citizens who have found their duty defined by the Philosophy of the Law in the Declaration of Independence, will have access to further assistance in the performance of their duty.

In order for citizen-candidates to be equipped to defeat the Present Revolution and Restore this nation to its rightful authority, a series of workshops and seminars will be conducted throughout the nation. There will be two distinct seminars formats available: (1) a one-day program free to the general public designed to expose the public to the ideas in this book, and identify individuals interested in further study; and (2) longer workshops designed to train candidates to implement the principles of Law defined in the Declaration of Independence by educating the citizens of this nation about those principles. Finally, for those who become candidates striving to restore the rightful authority to this nation, an ongoing communication and training resource group will be provided that is designed to assist the prospective candidates in dealing with both the philosophical details of a protracted campaign and the day-to-day decisions any candidate must make about local issues.

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Hopefully, after reading this far, you agree that the rightful authority must be Restored to the government of the United States. And hopefully, you now understand that it can be done. The only question remaining is, Will it be done?

That question is yours to answer. Your will, the will of the individual citizen of the United States of America, is the key to everything the government of the United States was founded to accomplish. The Founders of this nation understood that government could only exercise just power when the governed gave their consent. Consent is nothing more than an act of will, an act of willful agreement to a goal. I have tried to define the goal created by the Founders of the government of the United States of America, the goal precisely defined by the Law in the Declaration of Independence. The decision you as an individual make about that goal will determine the destiny of the United States of America.

Are we to continue wandering around like an amnesia victim drifting ever closer to Absolute Despotism, or will we be Restored to the nation created by the Founders of the United States of America? The destiny of this nation is in your hands. How will you decide?