A Change is Needed

December 5, 2007

It’s time for a change. Remember the beginning?
The Declaration of Independence was the promise; the Constitution was the fulfillment.

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. (Alexander Hamilton, 1775)

From The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, I quote: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation”.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness.

I will stop here: I realize this was written to separate us from England and their unjust laws. But it really should apply for what has been going on in the United States for many years and it has only gotten worse. If people will read the rest of the Declaration, you will note some of the reasons given to separate us from England, can very definitely apply now. This Country still uses some of the Old English Laws, that the King used. Complete and total control, and that has become the agenda of our Government. I for one don’t like it, as I am a Citizen, not a Subject. I will follow just laws, but not the ones I feel are unjust.

Since we have a Government that does not respect the Citizens, as was intended. We have over these many years elected officials that have taken advantage and are dishonest, greedy and corrupt. It is time to go back to the original Constitution, remove and ratify all changes that have been made that do not apply to its Citizens. I had an ancestor who wrote in 1822, “Government was not Government for and by the people, it was a Government of favoritism and control by a few. And he came to realize that power over a man’s substance, in the normal course of human nature amounts to power over his will”. So the original Independence and the original Constitution didn’t last very long.

Many things in the original Constitution I don’t like, the exclusion of the inhabitants of this land the Indians, when all the immigrants came and set up shop. They were here first. But all those supposedly good Christian people didn’t consider them human beings and treated them ungodly. They forgot what the Good Book said, “That all men created equal”.

The many changes made over the years have been made for control and favoritism for a few of the Citizens. The first ten Amendments (Bill of Rights) were ratified, effective December 15, 1791. These amendments should stand today, as it did in 1791. We should go back and deleted all changes within reason.

The one I want changed back to the original amendment is Amendment V., or the part, now know as the Eminent Domain Law. But I would like it to read: Private property cannot be taken for any reason, without explicit permission of the owner and if permission is granted, just compensation by the taker. The law has been changed to benefit the Government and wealthy corporations. The loss has been to the property owners. My law is: If you set foot on my property and try it, I will use my right under Amendment II. Or the old range law,”SADDLE YOUR HORSES, LOAD YOUR WEAPONS AND PROTECT YOUR CASTLE.”

“The worst enemy that the people of any country has is its government and its leaders”. This is a quote from my deceased husband, made March 20, 1994. He was a lawyer and always told me, beware of lawyers, you can’t trust the majority of them. He said,”they will steal the pennies off their dead grandmothers eyes and the gold from her teeth”.

We need to eliminate most lawyers from the government and replace them with learned Professors, without a political affiliation. Just be sure they are honest and have integrity. You can’t find many politicians that have this quality.

The President that we have was not elected by the people, he was assigned by the Supreme Court. It is their fault that he is president. Which shows they are not capable of being a Judge for any reason, as they can be swayed by a political party or bought off like our other dishonest politicians. After he and his cronies got their foot in the door, they knew it would take longer than four years to get total control. For their second term that would be coming up, they knew that the chance of being assigned by the Supreme Court again would be risky. So they had to think of something else to keep everyone off guard for them to stay in the White House until they could get all the power they wanted.

I believe, along with many other people that Bush and Cheney along with their other warmongering friends, and with the help of their Saudi friends, planned 9-11, in order to start all the terrorist fears and get everyone off guard. Our Senate and Congress and many of our citizens believed this horrible ruse. The Senators and Congressmen started signing practically everything put before them in order to protect the people, or so they thought. Actually it was so that Bush, Cheney, friends and all the large corporations could take over and make all the rules and not let the citizens know what was going on behind closed doors…..Classified?

The Bush-Cheney propaganda machine, along with the war hawks, many of them republicans, went to work on keeping everyone scared out of their wits. We never heard the word TERRORIST or Al Qaeda so many times in our life. Reminds me of when we were kids, our parents would say, “if you aren’t good the old buggerman will get you.” They had to get to the middle east to try to take control of all the oil.

He didn’t really try to find Osama bin Laden, since he is from one of the large influential families of Saudi Arabia. Bush and Cheney don’t really want to capture him. It might upset their playhouse in Saudi Arabia. But since the Saudi family and Bush family hated Saddam, they went after him with a vengeance. They lied to the American people and everyone else. Just like they lied to us under Reagan and Bush about the Iran-Contra affair. They still have some of the same corrupt people back in the government that was in all of this. Surely someone remembers all this.

The only terrorist we have in the world are the governments and dictators ruling the countries. The majority of the citizens of these countries are gentle people. They have had rules forced on them and persuaded by the governing bodies, that it was the right thing to do and they believed them. Forced to believe that their religion said it was the right thing to do. Their “Good Book” has been changed over the many years by the rulers and religious fanatics, to say what they wanted it to say. Just as our various religions have changed to what various denominations wanted to say.

I listen and have listened over all these years to our government officials talking about values, morals, frankly none of them have any. There is no honesty and integrity in any of them. I remember my history, way back to year God one. We have had cruel uncaring rulers in every country. The ones that were supposed to be civilized. I have watched and listened to the Presidents of this country, put their hands on the Bible and swear to up hold the laws of this land. Well, they have to some extent, after they change the laws to suit themselves for their own selfish and corrupt reason, but not for the benefit of the majority of the citizens. Part of the citizens of this country have been reduced to third world status.
England, France, Spain, and other countries, along with the United States have for years exploited all the third world countries for their minerals, and other various riches within these countries. They made themselves and corporations from their various countries very rich, but the poor citizens are still left without and treated very badly. Man’s inhumanity to man has never ceased to amaze me.

As for the United States, we the people need to stand up and change things. We need to Impeach the President, Vice-President and fire all his followers. Get rid of all the corrupt politicians and make new rules for running this country.

When I get really upset, I sit down and start writing to vent my spleen. I have done this for years, it really helps to get it off your chest, but doesn’t really change things. I’m an 80 year old woman and too old to start a revolution, but I would help. I still can shoot.

Shotgun Granny