← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · d daxx
Thread ID: 4697 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-01-30
2003-01-30 14:19 | User Profile
Ever since the turn of the 20th century, the Constitution has been slowly ignored and probably eroded. The humanistic, socialistic and collectivistic philosophies of the European continent slowly flowed into our great Republic and the damage, though subtle, is now obvious. The federal reserve is neither federal nor a reserve. It was allegedly promoted to be a control on the banking cartel but the board was/is composed of those same bankers! The 16th Amendment, in accordance with the intent of the Congress, the Congressional Record, only intended to tax the (statutory) income that was realized from the act of "doing business", but neither the Congress, nor the Courts, except for the Eisner v Macomber opinion, 252 US 189, in 1920, have clarified what the Congress intended to tax: What was income, statutory, that is. In 1920, the Evans v Gore Supreme court falsely opinioned that judges should pay their 'fair share in the cost of government' in absolute abrogation of the Constitution at Article III, phrase 1, to wit: The salary or compensation that a judge receives SHALL NOT BE DIMINISHED! A discerner can easily recognize that from that time on the courts were both biased and prejudiced regarding all future income tax challenges. The 'good and welfare' clause certainly does not infer that the Congress is granted the power to create agencies that require funding for all of the present forms of federal welfare or largesse! Executive Orders are not a granted consideration within the limitations and restrictions of the Constitution! Withholding of the Social Security (income) tax was ONLY demanded FROM THE EMPLOYERS, however, WWII arrived and the Congress quickly worded the Victory tax of 1942 to state that since withholding had already been established then it could be enforced upon all employees: Say what? In 1943 the Congress changed the name of the Victory tax to become the Extended income tax act and the citizens of the States have been defrauded ever since! The Bill of Rights IS NOT a grant of anything, IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DENIAL OF GOVERNMENT TO INFRINGE UPON THOSE RIGHTS, however, now there are illegal gun controls, the Homeland Security Act will INFRINGE upon the privacy of the citizens of the States and there will be more to come! The Declaration of Independence almost commands that when government(s) become destructive with regard to its limitations and restrictions and of the unalienable Rights of the people it is their duty to alter or abolish it and institute a new government! Thomas Jefferson said that a revolution may be needed every 20 or so years: The united States and the citizens of the States are eleven (11) revolutions overdue!
2003-01-30 15:17 | User Profile
Is the Constitution outmoded? I don't know.
I do know that it's no longer "law". It was a contract, and the contract was abrogated.
2003-01-30 15:25 | User Profile
I hate to disabuse anyone, but the Constitution is dead as a doornail.
It was critically wounded by the Civil War, then finished off under the New Deal.
The Congress does whatever it wants under the Commerce Clause, and the Courts do whatever they want under the Supremacy Clause. Article 5 is merely a pretense.
I believe this is why Joe Sobran has gone public with his embrace of anarchism. No contitution-based system will ever survive the impulse to control of that segment of our population that wants control.
Jefferson thought periodic violence was the only answer, but I see none of that in the offing. We're too docile. Maybe a disastrous war with Islam will do some good. A rebirth of faith might also help.
2003-01-30 15:50 | User Profile
No man can say authoritatively that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are "dead" or "outmoded" until they've actually been adhered to over a period of time. Neither has.... at least in the modern era.
Of course, strict adherence to either - now - would immediately precipitate a coast-to-coast bloodbath. But that's another story.
2003-01-31 10:51 | User Profile
I remember Sam Francis had a good article on this a while back, though I can't seem to find it now.