We ARE The Government.

[SeekLiberty]

Have most Americans forgotten that our Government is "BY, FOR, and OF The People"? It's called Self-Government ... a very new and novel idea drummed up by our forefathers. Check it out! It's really true! :)

We hire elected representatives to represent WE THE PEOPLE (The Government).

Ron is absolutely correct, and I totally, 100% AGREE with him. The Government (WE THE PEOPLE) are absolutely not responsible for specific crimes of our Congress and Executive administration.

If we're guilty, we're guilty of being conned by your hired public servants into believing they would obey WE THE PEOPLE's Constitution.

Isn't it possible (IMO, very probable) that some criminal TRAITORS within our Government (WE THE PEOPLE), who are pretending to represent WE THE PEOPLE (as the Self-Government we are), are complicit and/or even responsible for many traitoress crimes?

Thomas Jefferson on Self-Government ...

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0600.htm

- SL

PS: Here's a chalkboard writing assignment for those whom do not understand the foundational principles of our American Republic:

Please write on the chalkboard, ONE-HUNDRED times, the following ...

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT ...

... :D

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[rpf2008]

Please write on the chalkboard, ONE-HUNDRED times, the following ...

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT ...

... :D

I second that motion.

[SeekLiberty]

I second that motion.

LOL.

Here's a clip from a good article on Self-Government ...

Self-Government
By Donald J. Boudreaux

Donald Boudreaux is president of www.FEE.org

"But what is self-government if not the ability to govern yourself as you choose—with you taking responsibility for yourself and leaving others free to take responsibility for themselves? Those who insist that government must take responsibility for the safety and welfare of people should stop proclaiming their allegiance to liberty and self-government. They should instead forthrightly proclaim an allegiance to the principle of government by the elite few of the irresponsible many.

I would resolutely object to this principle, but at least its advocates would be forthright. They would no longer be masquerading as friends of the noble ideals that motivated Jefferson and Madison. They would, instead, honestly reveal themselves as patrons of the notion that ordinary men and women are incapable of self-government and, hence, unworthy of liberty. The result would be a more enlightening debate. Liberty and self-government stand clearly opposed to the exercise of intrusive state authority. People advocating intrusive state authority would then be explicitly aware that they reject liberty. They would be forced to concede that they do not believe in the principle of self-government."

http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=2317

It's very easy to see whom are masquerading as our friends of Liberty.

- SL