Here’s what the GOP should do now

For Immediate Release

November 7, 2024

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning was a candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024, and is now, and henceforth, just Andy.

Congratulations, Republicans!  The people chose you in what must be considered a strong endorsement and mandate.  And I understand why.  I know y’all have been at least half our troubles for a long time, but in hopes that the people’s trust means something more than donors’ dollars this time around, I have a few recommendations and requests:

First, don’t try to “go after” all the cold Malthusian eugenicist psychopaths currently running the world.  They’ll kill you all (remember JFK?).  Just peacefully defund, disempower and disentangle their global web.  Stand down our global “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” monsters Eisenhower warned us against almost 64 years ago.  Stop the covert surveillance state, put all spying powers under direct, regular military control and strict congressional supervision, and let’s move on with a more open, constitutional government.  Forget revenge or “justice.”  Let the evil rats slip away into darkness.  But in humble mea culpa honesty, open the vaults to truth with a more in-depth Church Committee-style revelation, so that we can see what our government has become …so that it never becomes that ever again.

Get OUT of NATO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the UN, and nullify all anti-constitutional agreements (like Agenda 2030)!  I suggest Peace, Commerce and Cautious Friendship with All Nations, Entangling Alliances with None.  End every military action that wasn’t directly authorized by specific congressional vote as either a declared war, or under letters of marque and reprisal (every overt and covert military action since WWII has been unconstitutional).  And let’s face the truth that our shamefully-numerous economic sanctions are, in fact, acts of war that have killed and impoverished countless millions worldwide.

Next, make good on your trans-generationally-broken promises to dismantle the bureaucracy.  Only lawmakers can make constitutional laws – no more edicts from unelected bureaucrats in executive agencies.  End all agencies not specifically authorized by the federal constitution.  I said “specifically authorized.”  Re-read the tenth amendment, please.

End the Fed.  This will be complicated, but we’re doomed if we don’t kill this arachnidian creature that monetizes political debt.  Let the free market determine what it wants to use as money, of course, but make sure that all government-issued money is constitutionally legit.   All federal money should be issued by only the Treasury, under total congressional control, as demanded by the federal constitution.

Here’s the hardest one: We must deal with the national debt.  I’ve suggestions to fix Social Security and Medicare, of course.  But we’d still need to repudiate a lot of debt.  We have to.  We should never have bailed out the banks.  We should never have let our politicians and the Fed get us into such a dilemma.  But the past is the past, and the present is about to kick our whole nation into the past, if we don’t wake up and smell pleuro$i$.  We’re going to either go through an intentional and orderly bankruptcy-like process, or we’re going to crash to a depth of widespread poverty and destruction that no “Western Culture” has ever experienced.

In summary, do constitutional rule of law, as is your oath and bond of office.  Nobody has ever come up with anything better, you know; and it still is the only thing that authorizes the existence of any USA government at all.  It is both the fundamental charter that protects us from you, and the law that protects you, from us.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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You ain’t seen nothin’ yet

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

October 23, 2024

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024. 

No matter the outcome of the election, pain is coming.  I of course hope it won’t be in the form of another “forever war” in the Middle East… or worse, nuclear Armageddon, but it’s already too late to prevent a socioeconomic catastrophe that, to too many of us, will be just as deadly.

Assuming the “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” plutocracy Eisenhower warned against, and that now own and operate the Democratic or Republican parties, don’t get their warmongering way, and we somehow avoid radioactive self-destruction; it’s already too late to stop massive inflation and monetary collapse.

The facts:  The USA has, for generations since the Breton Woods Agreement, benefited from the “exorbitant privilege” of the US dollar’s reserve currency status, to both enrich the investment and donor classes at the expense of the lower and middle classes (see the Cantillon Effect), and charge other nations for the use of our currency at the expense of domestic inflation (see the Triffin Paradox) and eventual collapse.  The interest on our national debt, is our #3 federal budget expense – ahead of national defense, and just behind Social Security and Medicare, and growing fast.  The BRICS economic block is meeting this week in Russia to admit Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to the original nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.  Turkey, Azerbaijan, Venezuela and Malaysia have filed for admittance as well.  The ASEAN alliance is growing in importance as well. This rapid growth was accelerated by the USA’s theft of other nations’ dollar assets, particularly Russia’s, and the literally thousands of sanctions we’ve placed on others as financial war.  Understandably, several nations, including western allies, started pulling away from obviously insecure US Treasuries and dollar dependencies which make them susceptible to our incessant sanctions.  ASEAN and BRICS’ goal isn’t hostile; it’s merely self-defensive against the USA’s weaponized monetary aggression.  Dozens more nations want to join the growing economic bloc, to throw off the USA’s global monetary/military sanctions and coercion.  Many nations, even “petrodollar” nations like Iran, have already begun de-dollarizing their transactions, including the purchase of oil, erasing the power of our petrodollar system.

What this means:  In the words of economist Herbert Stein, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”  The inevitable and calamitous collapse of our nation’s economy and global empire has already begun.  Democrats and Republicans have proven unwilling to cut spending and government’s destructive size; and even their not-so-covert plan to reduce Social Security benefits while raising the age of retirement, won’t help much.  So, short of defaulting on our nation’s financial obligations, that leaves only The Fed’s usual solution – print more fiat currency to pay debts, which makes each dollar worth less and less.  And that means, in terms of inflation rates, that you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. 

What I propose: We immediately do what’s proven to be the best design for society in all of human history, as I’ve been offering for decades.  That’d include, of course, a MASSIVE reduction in government spending and debt. It’d be rough for probably several years; but only by what only I’m proposing in the US Senate race, can there be a better future on the other side of what’s surely coming.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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MAKE PEACE, YOU FOOLS!

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

October 4, 2024

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024. 

Through three decades, I’ve written, spoken, sued and campaigned against corruption, the danger of war, collapse of the dollar, rise of BRICS against us, and in general, the fall of the USA Empire.  I’ve exhaustively proven that the unconstitutional, self-appointed and inherently-divisive “Two Party System” our founders warned against, has to go.  And for thirty years, I’ve been proposing solutions that are not only different from what the crony parties foist upon us, they’re also proven to work better than anything humans have ever tried.  Of course, for thirty years, I’ve also been fighting an organized system of deceit and mind-hacking.  Sigh…

But all of that was in a looking-forward, prepare-for-the-future mode that is now too late.  It’s too late to avoid major financial calamity, social unrest and, well…political governments do have a 100% eventual failure rate, after all.  No matter what we do now, USA hegemony is done.  Our standard of living will fall. …As it has begun falling already.

But what then?  We’ll have an awful mess to clean up.  How big a mess?  Will we clean it up?  Can we come back, better-than-ever?

That depends upon what we do with foreign entanglements and what Eisenhower called “the military-industrial complex,” and the “scientific-technological elite,” right now.  More importantly, it depends upon how We The People decide to live, right now.  And I mean, like, right now – before self-immolation in nuclear war.

I of course hope I’m wrong about the war with Iran that’s been on the Greater Israel Plan list of nations to destroy for decades. But Iran is powerful in its own right, and has strong ties to both Russia, and of increasing importance, China. A war on Israel’s behalf could end up a global catastrophe. It will at least be a tragic mistake with long-lasting consequences…at the very least will be debt, inflation, and skyrocketing fuel prices.

We The People have always had the numbers, and power, and accountability over everything.  We have both weapons of peaceful revolution in our votes, but also the power of nullification in our actions.  It’s only by ignorance and passive obedience that we humans are ever oppressed, enslaved and murdered by the millions, by the governments we empower.

It’s time to choose.  What next, my fellow citizens?

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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END the Puppet Show

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

July 4, 2024

The Puppets can no longer hide the Puppeteers

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

After the now-infamous “Presidential” debate, we can no longer deny that We the People have been continuously reelecting a puppet show built on lies, money, censorship, cronyism and illegitimate power.  All the smart people since our nation’s founding tried to warn us against this threat of authoritarianism.  General Smedley Butler warned us.  Truman warned us.  Eisenhower warned us.  JFK warned us, and we should’ve paid attention; particularly when the warnings stopped after JFK was shot.  But the evidence, and even not-so-subtle hints kept coming.  Even Bill Clinton, speaking in Ireland in 1998 said, “You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. … You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.”

The problems we debate and call “issues” are really just symptoms of political corruption under a shadowy ruling elite.  What we’ve been told are two different parties are only a divide-and-conquer distraction from those pulling their strings.

In short, we’ve been deceived.  Hornswoggled.  Bamboozled and gaslit by a rich crony network of corporations, NGOs, INGOs, military/monetary industrialists and globalist Malthusian eugenicist psychopaths for too long.  You know the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me?”  Well, it’s time to wake up, and change our choices on Election Day.

This year marks thirty years since I started writing, campaigning and in every way I could think of, protesting against corruption, and offering the existing, once-revered but long-ago discarded state and federal constitutions, as the solution. 

But I, as a choice on the ballot, am not what any of this is about.  Elections are about voters, and what they want for our society.  Even the best Democratic and Republican Party candidates have voluntarily chosen to represent and sustain the status quo global crony network.  What I’ve chosen to do is oppose this crony network.  So the choice I’m placing on the ballot is simpler than ideology, law, or even money: 

Do voters want to continue re-electing the false hope, wasted money, inherent divisiveness and corruption of the costly, destructive, unconstitutional and self-appointed “Two Party System” our founders and all the wise people since, warned against?  Or do voters want to say NO to all this madness? 

This July 4 marks twelve score and 8 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote, “…that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Our founders had to take up arms against their own government.  But they gave us, with our votes, weapons of peaceful revolution.  We can, in airconditioned comfort and button-pushing simplicity, vote away the corruption, and, at long last, try something proven to be better – owning our own government.

That’s what I’m putting on Indiana’s US Senate ballot for 2024.  Any questions?  Please ask me, and let’s talk, while that is still an option.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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Even the Best Republicans Can’t Fix Our Mess

Freedom, Indiana – Today, Andrew Horning is announcing his candidacy for the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s nomination for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024:

Statement from Andrew Horning in announcing his candidacy

I admire loyalty.  But partisan divisions and contempt are tearing us apart. They make us believe we must double-down and reinforce this tribal warfare. 

It’s time to face the truth. Any vote for any major party candidate is a vote for a global puppet show of lobbyists, permanent partisan DC staffers, bureaucrats, bundlers, kingmakers, military industrialists and, increasingly, a relative few wealthy authoritarians scheming global domination and oppression behind the curtain of an unconstitutional, inherently divisive and destructive “Two Party System.” We should be enraged enough by the rising debts, inflation and cost of living, along with loss of rights, wealth, security, health, opportunity, and of course, freedom, that we’d vote it all away. Yet we embolden the status quo’s crony crime ring with our predictable votes of overwhelming approval.

The very best GOP officeholders, like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul, are well-intentioned, but voluntary cogs in a machine bigger than any candidate, bigger than the major parties, and, sadly, bigger than the USA.  The best Republicans (and there are many well-intentioned fine people in both major parties) can only waste our best efforts, money and time. They give us only false hope. They misappropriate our power of peaceful revolution. They waste our votes. We’ve been warned for generations, and not just by Eisenhower or our nation’s Founding Fathers.

Yet there’s no need to detail our culture’s many, vast, fundamental and catastrophic problems, or their surprisingly simple solutions. I wrote a whole book about it, and am offering a free Kindle Edition copy of “Relighting the Torch” from June 5 through June 9.

We have an opportunity to resurrect the best ideas in human history, and to vote away the worst.  We can have peace, prosperity, security, liberty and justice for all, at long last.  But we have to stop voting against ourselves…and for a better way.

The constitutional purpose of U.S. Senators is to be the voice of our sovereign states against the violation of constitutional restraints, concomitant encroachment and abuse of power and loss of individual human rights.  For that fundamental, constitutional, legal purpose, Indiana has not had a U.S. Senator for generations.  But there will be one such candidate for Indiana US Senate in 2024 — me.

Liberty or Bust!

Andy Horning

Freedom, Indiana

horningforsenate.com/

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Horning takes on the “Administrative State”

Here’s a Press Release for today, July 4…

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Libertarian candidate for IN08
thefreedomfarm@gmail.com   

July 4, 2022

Horning takes on the “Administrative State”

Freedom, IN – In previous press releases 8^th District US House Rep. candidate Andrew Horning detailed the inflationary and profligate debt spending of the incumbent US House Rep., the cause of inflation under unconstitutional monetary policy and central banking, and how to fix it.

But as damaging and dangerous as bad money and debt spending are, perhaps more ominous threats to both our economy and liberty are what Thomas Jefferson described as “…a Multitude of new Offices,” and “Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.”  Or, today what we call, “The Administrative State” of executive agencies that have unconstitutionally acquired executive, legislative and judicial powers all their own.

Horning’s day job is in healthcare, an industry where nearly all the rules are written, judged and enforced by unelected bureaucrats in agencies that have multiplied like rabbits since even before the New Deal.  There are over 400 agencies that have the power to mandate, prohibit, imprison, reward, tax, fine, open and shutter businesses, and, significantly, shoot people.  They spit out laws like machine gun bullets, and, actually, these agencies have actual machine guns and SWAT teams.  Even the HHS and EPA have military assault equipment, body armor, guns and ammunition.  I have to wonder if the Small Business Administration is jealous that their Glocks don’t have silencers…like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has.  Among other agencies that have stockpiled hollow-point ammo banned by the Geneva Convention are the Forest Service, National Park Service, Office of Inspector General and …Bureau of Fiscal Service!  Agriculture, education, even the Smithsonian is heavily armed such that these agencies are now more heavily armed than are the US Marines.

STOP!  This must stop.  And I have a plan to stop it.
Curious?  Ask me!

https://horning4congress.com/

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, Indiana

*See “Eight Steps to Success” at https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/eight-steps-to-success/  and https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/money-politics-and-central-banks/

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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

Ever since FDR’s “switch in time that saved nine,” our legal system and law schools have spewed out innumerable “constitutional law experts” who often claim that whatever any government official, agency, bureaucrat or cop can do to people is OK.  They do this by ignoring our short and simple constitutions to unleash an interminable fusillade of judicial pronouncements and federal/state code sections that, by their number of words alone, do seem to overwhelm the few political powers constitutions authorize.

…Except, of course, to someone who’s actually read the laws.

Nobody claims that Governor Holcomb’s COVID-19 mandates were actually authorized by any constitutions, state or federal.  The constitutions absolutely forbid executives from making laws.  Executive Orders are constitutionally actionable only if they’re only the details of executing laws written by legislators.

Other than invoking armed force against insurrection or invasion (which would be as ineffective against a virus as was Caligula’s attack on Poseidon), the Governor’s only constitutionally authorized emergency power is to call an emergency session of the General Assembly.

To be clear, the constitutions say that what the Governor did, and is still doing, is unconstitutional in both word and intent.

The Governor cited not the Indiana Constitution, but Indiana Code as his authority, specifically the statute, IC 10-14-3, the “Emergency Management and Disaster Law.”

That particular ream of legal effluvium does indeed appear to authorize every possible decree, action or mayhem, if read by itself; and if ignoring all the key principles of separation and limitations of powers in a republic.

Ironically, it’s even less-limited than the federal 40 U.S. Code § 1315 that Trump’s folks invoked against Portland protesters.

But consider what the Indiana Code says about its own authority in the hierarchy of law. What follows is IC 1-1-2 § 1-1-2-1:

“Section 1: The law governing this state is declared to be:

First. The Constitution of the United States and of this state.

Second. All statutes of the general assembly of the state in force, and not inconsistent with such constitutions.

Third. All statutes of the United States in force, and relating to subjects over which congress has power to legislate for the states, and not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States.

Fourth. The common law of England, and statutes of the British Parliament made in aid thereof prior to the fourth year of the reign of James the First (except the second section of the sixth chapter of forty-third Elizabeth, the eighth chapter of thirteenth Elizabeth, and the ninth chapter of thirty-seventh Henry the Eighth,) and which are of a general nature, not local to that kingdom, and not inconsistent with the first, second and third specifications of this section.”

Please note the order.  Last, or fourth, is case law.  This is what most USA citizens now think comes first.   Supreme Court does, in fact, sound supreme.  But it’s actually dead last in the legal hierarchy that determines what politicians can decree what we can do, can’t do, and must do for them.

Third is the federal code. Second, is the Indiana Code, as long as the code doesn’t contradict the constitutions, state or federal.

First on the list, of course, are the constitutions that say only legislators can legislate.

The Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 26 says very clearly says that only the General Assembly (our legislature) has any authority to suspend the laws protecting our rights from politicians under any circumstances.  Article I, Section 25 very clearly says that laws cannot create any authority not already granted.

And nowhere is the legislature granted authority to delegate away it’s power and more local accountability by the stroke of a pen.

The law is clear.  Why the Governor still refuses to call our legislators to work, is not. You’d think he wouldn’t want all the protests, disagreements from Sheriffs and Indiana’s Attorney General landing on him alone.
Unless, of course, he intentionally crossed this Rubicon and wants to be Caesar.

That’s history we really shouldn’t want to repeat.

Open letter to Governor Holcomb

Governor Holcomb, I know you’re not a bad man.  In fact I believe you’re a man who means well.  I’m certain your advisors assured you that what you’ve been doing is legal.  And I know that many applaud your “leadership” in closing businesses and schools, forbidding all manner of association and movement, and in general, suspending rule of law as a state-wide, one-size-fits-all rule. But right is right and wrong is wrong.  And while I know you don’t believe you’ve done wrong, you have. I of course wish you had called an emergency session (Indiana Constitution Article 4 Section 9) so that Indiana’s General Assembly could have constitutionally authorized (by Article I, Section 26) what you have been doing …in violation of your oath of office. I’m betting they’d have come up with measured, regional plans that made more sense and relieved you of total accountability for this mess. The scared-stupid post-9/11 security blanket standing order from the legislature (IC 10-14-3) was both unconstitutional and foolish – not so different from 1973’s War Powers Act that so many regret today.  Such vague, inherently corrupt delegations/ surrender of authority nullify the whole point of the separation and limitation of powers.  Besides, Governor, unilaterally taking such unconstitutional authoritarianism upon yourself when it’s not only illegal, needlessly inflammatory, and raises fears about our new, dangerous form of government, is also bad politics. No one person should wield so much power.  And under our constitutions, no one person does. I’m sure that, given the circumstance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus / COVID-19 disease, the General Assembly would have granted you specific, timely and focused authority to do what needed doing, where it needed doing …and without the suspension of laws that are in only the GA’s authority to suspend. While I think what politicians have been doing in response to this pandemic is based more in fear and self-interest than in fact (and the corruption has become obvious, in case you’re wondering), it should still be done by constitutional rules. Anything else is unconstitutional, specifically illegal (Article I, Section 25), and contrary to the most fundamental principles of this nation’s purpose. Please read this: https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/indiana-constitution-book.pdf You took “…an oath or affirmation, to support the Constitution of this State, and of the United States…” I’m sure we’d all be both relieved, and favorably impressed, if in a public mea culpa, you’d recognize the chain of errors and misapplication of force, and resolve to do what’s right…and legal. Nobody expects a politician to be perfect, you know.  But we’re all looking for somebody to earn our trust in these pivotal, tumultuous times. Going legit, and governing our government according to constitutional rule of law, would be a great start.

About Prohibition…

Short answer: Decriminalizing pot isn’t about pot; it’s about governing our government.

If you’d like to start discussing and finding the best ways to suppress bad behaviors and promote good behaviors, fantastic!  Let’s do it!

But that’d be pretty much the opposite of what we’re doing now.  The War On Drugs is not only counterproductive, it’s also unconstitutional, illegal and immoral.

The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America couldn’t be more clear.  It’s just one sentence; and it was exhaustively explained at the time it was written and made a part of this nation’s fundamental law:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

So… powers not specifically granted, are specifically denied.  If the Constitution doesn’t clearly say our federal government can do something, it can’t do it.

Simple. No “penumbras” or “emanations.” No “expansive interpretations,” no cheating. What’s not clearly granted politicians is absolutely denied.

Of course, politicians hate that.  It’s a leash on their power.  It’s a limitation.  It’s a big NO to their inevitable desire to oppress their fellow humans.  It’s a restraint that makes them public servants instead of rulers. …And if actually enforced by citizens against our foolishly reelected incumbents by electing constitutionally restrained new political representatives, it would invalidate and nullify at least 90% of what we call “government” today.

And so, they’ve been fighting the 10^th Amendment since the ink was wet.

But even with our first Prohibition, 126 years after the Tenth Amendment, our politicians were still restrained enough (and/or We The People were still wise and watchful enough, more likely), that they understood that in order to ban the sale of alcohol…or anything else, for that matter…they’d have to amend the constitution.

So they wrote, passed and ratified an amendment respectful of these fundamental principles and laws.

If you want to do something breathtakingly stupid, that is the correct way to do it.

But let’s be clear about this.  The 18^th Amendment, while composed of three sentences instead of just one, was also written clearly enough that confusion would be inexcusable:

1. The federal amendment would be null and void without concomitant and timely action from the states. “This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.”
2. Enforcement was also understood to be a shared responsibility. “The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
3. Most importantly, this amendment was very specifically limited to only the manufacture and distribution of “intoxicating liquors.”  It did not grant any level of government any authority or power to limit the manufacture/distribution of anything else…and it did NOT take away anybody’s right to consume whatever they wanted! “After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.”

The 18^th Amendment never granted any level of government any power or authority to tell you what you can, can’t or must consume.  It never granted any level of government any power or authority to even limit the manufacture, sale, or transportation of anything but “intoxicating liquors.”

One of my favorite Presidents, Calvin Coolidge, was deadly wrong to call for the aggressive enforcement of the 18th Amendment, and invoke the agency that became the ATF, which, in NYC and a few other places (Coolidge did NOT authorize this) poisoned alcohol supplies and killed at least 10000 Americans. This violated the limitations of this amendment!

So let’s clear up one more thing…and it’s The Biggy:

When the 18^th was repealed by the 21^st Amendment, it was replaced by …nothing!  There is no longer any amendment, there is no authority (see the 10^th Amendment), no legal, just power to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or transportation of ANYTHING!

And there never was, and still isn’t, any constitutional authority or just power to prohibit people from consuming whatever the heck they want!

In other words, all the no-knock raids, the expanded policing powers, the incarcerations, the lives ruined by a conviction record, and of course the insane loss of life with enforcement, and the politically corrupt nature of black market trade …is all unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, and otherwise totally wrong.

It’s frustrating we even use the word “decriminalize” since what we’re calling criminal was never legally made a crime.

Legally, constitutionally, none of this should be happening. And it’s really our politicians and their enforcers who are the real criminals.

Whether people should be consuming high-fructose corn syrup or 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine is a separate topic.  How to make people stop doing bad things is a separate topic.  And I would never argue that THC and the new strains of marijuana are harmless.  They are not. 

The War On Drugs is not just an inconvenience.  A violently corrupt, deceitful, off-the-rails and ungoverned government is a civilization-destroying monster.  And a government that has the power to prevent you from putting things into your body voluntarily, is certainly powerful enough to put things into your body against your will. That’s been a Sci-Fi nightmare scenario for decades. So…

Let’s fix that.  Pronto.

Then, if we’d like a legitimate Second Prohibition, we ought to do it in the proper way.

Until we follow the procedure for this, however, there is no legal, moral, or certainly any functional argument to keep doing what we’re doing to people, all over the world, with our illegal, immoral, costly and self-destructive “war on drugs.”

 

We could fix it in a Single Day

But voters, as always, must choose

Freedom, IN – Many feel that our “Major Party” choices on Election Day have been getting worse and worse, while the general condition of our society and individual lives seems to be devolving toward calamity.

That’s true, of course.

But we could fix it if only we’d acknowledge the problem, admit who freely chose this, and realize who’s got the power to turn this around. The fix itself is simple enough, and mostly written-down already.

The most important three steps are:

• Stand down our military-industrial complex and global imperialism.
• Monetary/banking reform.
• End the cronyism/corruption culture.

That’s in reverse order, unfortunately; because as congressmen I could address the first two listed only after voters take a stand against the recent (since the 1970’s), self-appointed and irretrievably corrupt, “Two Party System”…by electing me!

Only voters can topple the two-party-in-name-only, crony network, which has become little more than a front, distraction, protection and marketing group for the finance and militarism elites who run the world behind the Two Party Firewall.

So before we can nullify the unjust, profligate, unconstitutional judgments, agencies, laws and actions which produced the welfare cliff, the horrific cost of healthcare, oppressive lawless bureaucracy, and of course endless war and ever-more militarization, voters must first say something to the ruling elites that they’ve not heard in a hundred years:

…NO!

The other 8^th district candidates have no intention or ability to fix the mess they choose to represent. So, first, voters must vote against that corrupt monstrosity. Yes, it’s good to vote against what’s wrong. To say otherwise is a terrible misunderstanding of the whole point of elections; and that is for peaceful revolution. If they feel that they can vote for me, that’d be great. But first, voters must fire the Two Party System!

After voters fire that shot heard ‘round the world, we can talk about other reforms including:

• Term Limits
• Rule of Law
• End “earmarks” (pork)
• End special classes, special deals for special people – equality for all at long last
• Sunset provision/amendment to refine and reduce the number of laws so that our rules are:
  • Few enough to actually know
  • Simple enough to actually obey
  • Important enough to enforce without exceptions or special classes

None of the preceding is ideological, untested or even new. Most of it is already law.

It’s all in voters’ power to set things right. But first, in order to use their power, they must understand that they’ve always had it, and used it to get to where we are today. And for that to happen, they need to be better informed of their choices, and how elections have been working up to now.

Liberty or Bust!

Andrew Horning

Libertarian for 8^th District US House of Representatives

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