As defined by Ind. Code § 3-5-2-30, there are two extremely unequal classes of citizens in terms of political and electoral rights, powers, privileges and immunities in Indiana:
Those associated with the two private organizations called “Major Political Parties” (Democratic party partisans and Republican party partisans), and,
Everyone else.
This violates Article I, Section 23 of the Indiana Constitution – “The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens;” and the equal protections clause of the USA Constitution’s 14th amendment – “No State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
So, today I mailed in my $400 check and complaint to the Terre Haute Division of Indiana’s US Southern District Court to seek remedy of this violation of both Indiana and federal constitutions.
Should I win the suit, the benefits would apply to all citizens of Indiana. After all, the non-MPP-associated citizens now greatly outnumber those who get the special perks and immunities. Many Hoosiers feel disenfranchised by a system they know to be corrupt and sold-out and bought-off long ago. Many have stopped voting, and worse, stopped caring. Most feel pretty helpless. An increasing number are talking violence (which is pretty stupid talk if they won’t even change the way they vote!).
This is so unnecessary…
Attached is a public-distribution version of the complaint as sent to the US Southern District Court, Terre Haute Division.
Please start talking about the horrible, criminal, unsustainably bad political corruption we suffer. Talk about this case, and everything that relates to the sellout of our nation by politicians and their owners who feel no pressure to change anything.
Remember; while our so-called approval ratings of politicians have dropped to an all-time low, incumbent reelection rates have risen to all-time highs. It’s stupid to say we hate this mess with our mouths; then say we love it with our votes!
There is only one poll politicians and their operators care about, after all; and that’s the one on Election Day, when We The People foolishly keep reelecting and reelecting the same !@#$ crony system, same incumbent politicians and parties, over and over without any electoral clue that we’re upset about anything.
And courts are much more swayed by public mood than by law. We need to change our sheepish, fuzzy-headed, misinformed and yet divided-against-ourselves mood.
Get mad…at the right people!
Write letters to the editor, break taboos, talk about it with acquaintances, express it in interpretive dance and music…we must get the message out that we have bigger problems than deflated footballs and absurd POTUS candidates…and that we can fix this one.
Please do me a favor and write letters to the editor, to your local radio and print broadcast, regarding a terrible, destructive, unconstitutional and criminal scam that’s been worsening for the past one hundred years.
The private clubs we call the Demoratic and Republican parties have, as you know, granted themselves special status, powers and advantages. Taxpayers are forced to pay for political primaries that involve only Ds and Rs, and which give them a year’s head start in public attention, fundraising, and organization. Only Ds and Rs can have Precinct Committeemen, people with many quasi-governmental powers, yet none of the restraints. Only Ds and Rs can be on election-related committees – only they count the votes, make appointments and fill public office vacancies. Only Ds and Rs can have electors, who really choose the President of the United States of America.
I’ve been advised that, while my case is rock solid on fact, merit and law, no court in Indiana, federal or state, would hear my case; at least not until there’s some public attention on this ongoing crime. Without at least a little public attention, my suit would almost surely be immediately dismissed “with prejudice” as are so many other complaints against our rogue leaders. So I take my case to you.
Please consider the gravity of my charges; and consider that you and your loved ones are also affected by our society’s worst, and potentially fatal problem.
If you’d like some supporting information to mull over, besides the links above, these might help:
I suppose we don’t react to it in any useful way because it has happened gradually, over several generations, in a sort of frog-in-the-cook-pot scenario. And maybe we just can’t picture anything better than what we’ve suffered all our lives.
But I don’t know why we even talk about ideology or “issues” until we deal with this: The two private clubs called the Democratic and Republican Parties are:
Owned by pretty much the same people. The small variation in owner pools (a few seemingly opposing corporations, unions, and “special interest groups”) don’t make any difference in political reality, because the major shareholder of both parties are the same bankers, military industrialists and energy, transportation, insurance, agri/pharma and debt services companies.
They do pretty much the same thing in rising spending, debt, militarization (both global and domestic), spying, lying and selling out. They’re both authoritarian, corrupt and think we’re their servants.
Let’s end the charade. The thieving, deadly game of false dichotomies we call “The Two Party System” should be revealed for what it is …a sock-puppet show that distracts us from the real behind-the-scenes truth that our government is a crony crime network. Their modus operandi and stock in trade is division and conflict; categorizing people and then setting us against each other; both here and everywhere on earth.
And this isn’t petty crime. No other gangs on earth steal so much or kill so many either directly or by their violent black markets, puppet dictators and covert collusion. This isn’t tin-foil-hat hyperbole. It’s fact. Let’s stop acting like it’s not.
Realistically, there are no other issues worth discussing until we deal with this one. All other serious problems are just symptoms of a government gone very bad…and very well-armed against us.
A dozen Presidents warned us about the people who have made the world their ATM and battle ground. But over generations, the factions controlling our government have become ever-bolder in their violations of written, practical and moral laws.
To banish any possibility of doubt about the “stacked deck” of our elections:
Special privileges and powers granted to a class of citizens called a “major political party,” as defined and implemented in Indiana, are of course illegal by the Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 23:
“The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
Here is a small sampling of special privileges and immunities just here in Indiana:
By creating arbitrary thresholds (Ind. Code § 3-10-1-2) that suppress all other candidates and political organizations, they have granted themselves taxpayer funded primary elections, which implicitly provide more money, public attention, free advertising and media promotion to only Democrats and Republicans at the actual expense of all alternatives.
Ind. Code § 6-4.1-4 specifies that members of the Indiana Election Commission “must be a member of a major political party.” And Ind. Code § 6-4.1-4 grants that only “the state chairman of the major political party” has powers of nomination and appointments for succeeding terms. Only designees “of the state chairman of each of the major political parties” shall “serve as members of the state recount commission.” (Ind. Code § 3-12-10-2.1)
Ind. Code § 3-10-1-4 grants only major political parties privileges of organization (precinct committeeman are a special class of citizen who have special powers [example, Ind. Code § 3-13-1-4, 5, 6], yet aren’t subject to the limitations placed on other political officeholders [Ind. Code § 3-6-1-15]) and process for nomination to public office and filling vacancies (e.g., Ind. Code § 3-13-5, 6).
Ind. Code § 3-10-1-15 sets apart a separate ticket for “each political party holding a primary election” making all alternative candidates inconspicuous to voters.
And to be clear…the Democratic and Republican Parties have, with the power they won during WWII (when most other parties, like the once-powerful socialist parties became discredited by their association with the USSR and Nazi/socialist Germany, and the opposite ideologies were overwhelmed by the USA’s new imperialism and nationalism), wrote themselves power over everybody else. Only they are “major political parties.” Only they get all the freebies, special powers and exemptions, and the ability to ignore laws anyway.
In case you think that writing words into Indiana Code can make anything legit, Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 25 makes it clear that legislation cannot transgress the constitution:
“No law shall be passed, the taking effect of which shall be made to depend upon any authority, except as provided in this Constitution.”
The evidence of corruption is everywhere. The correlation between campaign donations (business investments that pay multi-thousand-percent dividends) and legislation, the revolving door between regulators and the regulated, the hand-in-glove relationship between lobbyists and lawmaking, the insider trading that’s illegal everywhere but in the halls of power, the obvious payola, pork and conflicts of interest are so well documented by both “left” and “right” media as to be the most universally known and completely inexcusable part of this problem.
It’s not just academics, advocacy groups, bloggers, wonks and journalists who’ve told us about corruption. Our own US Presidents, from the very first one, tried to clue us in. President George Washington warned us against not just the existence of political parties, but also the entrenched corruption that invariably sprouts from such tribalism. In 1834 Andrew Jackson called Central Banks, “… a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out!” In 1912, after decades of rising cronyism, President Woodrow Wilson wrote that, “… we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” In 1961, President Eisenhower warned us against “…the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
What’s particularly of note today is what else Eisenhower said in that same speech: “Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
We should have heeded the warnings. We should have noticed when the warnings stopped.
Personally, I don’t care what politicians do on their free time and with their own money. They can have affairs with every sort of willing creature(s), and snort all the coke that Marion Barry missed, and I won’t care a whit.
But all the stealing and defrauding and needless, groundless war has got to stop.
And it won’t stop until we turn against the corruption that fuels all the worst of human actions.
Come on…we know this one. Our government, from the Precinct Committeeman who gets special business contracts and a summer job for his son on the DOT, to the bankers who own and operate most of the world, is corrupt from stem to stern, from keel to crow’s nest.
So let’s fix it.
There are two parts to this:
Recognizing how we got here.
Choosing something else. That means, of course, anything butthe Two Party Puppet Show.
We got to where we are because authoritarian corruption is where people usually go. It’s what happens when you stop fighting it, and it’s why all civilizations eventually fail. And in the case of the USA and its democratic elections, we didn’t just fall into humanity’s default state of corrupt government, we voluntarily chose it, and kept choosing it with a >90% reelection rate. And, if I can believe my ears and eyes, will likely choose it again in 2016.
Of course I hope I’m wrong about that last part.
So…
We have to change ourselves. Our choices must change. Our actions must change. We must do our homework before we vote, after we vote, and whenever we feel like caring about our lives, liberties and property. We can stop voting for the same people and parties that we know are corrupt. We can vote for alternatives that, up to now, have been getting only single-digit support.
And to do that, I think we need to imagine a better way to live. We need to stop putting so crazy-much trust in politicians, and show a little skepticism with their promises. We need to see more ways to do things through the free market (look up what this really is if you think the Free Market is the bad guy…we have crony capitalism, not free markets). If we can picture a better life, we can choose it. If we choose it, we’ll get it.
This last part is critical. Simply voting for alternative candidates won’t fix a thing because it’s fixing the wrong thing.
First, comes us. Nothing gets better until We The People do.
We must change our own hearts and minds. We must develop a picture of how we should live, and then, dammit, choose that life!
I shouldn’t have to prove that constitutional rule of law under our existing state and federal constitutions as written would be a great start. I’ve been trying to prove it for decades now (to little effect). But ultimately, nobody can make you read the constitutions or choose wisely.
That has to come from you.
I’m hoping that what I’m offering here is a first step in recognizing that we have a terrible, terrible problem.
And I’m hoping you know that it’s in your power to fix it. If we could get more people to see only that, we could be on the path to a better future…as opposed to the more usual cataclysm…which, I hope you can see, is just around the corner.
I shouldn’t say “I told you so.”So I’ll just say, instead, that being right has never done me any good at all.In fact, it’s been a costly annoyance to both me, and to all my loved ones.Being right is no advantage in the voting booth; it seems absolutely detrimental in electoral politics.It’s no advantage in any way I can think of.And it’s downright dangerous to be right when the government and its media are wrong.
I hope, in fact, that I’m desperately, completely and astoundingly wrong about what’s coming next.I pray that I am very, very wrong.
So I’ll not say “I told you so” about all the warnings, predictions, admonitions and sermons I’ve written, spoken and kinetically harangued upon my friends in the ongoing battle for liberty and justice.No, I will restrain myself by means of superhuman humility and magnanimous spirit…
But we should admit that the media got it right.They have correctly portrayed the “tea party” hubbub, and the liberty movement in general as undirected, vague, and ultimately, pointless blather.
It pains me to say so, but my allies in liberty and justice are not just wasting their own time and money.Rather they are destroying our combined credibility.They discredit truth, and are, in effect, stealing from us all by spoiling the opportunity for those who’d do the right thing.
What is the right thing?I’ve said it many times on these pages, but maybe it’s just too simple to comprehend.Maybe it’s too basic to seem like a clever tactic or even a pragmatic first step.
We all have to agree to what it is that we want.And there is only one thing that I am aware of that all of us actually want…Rule of Law under existing state and federal constitutions as written.
We’re out of time for all this fooling around.We must stop thinking of tactics and games.We must stop thinking of others as our enemies when we need no enemy other than ourselves.We will never convince others of anything as long as we are ourselves such doddering fools that we can’t articulate for the media just what the heck it is that we want.
Before I go and say again what it is that we should be doing, here’s the setup:
“The media” are not anything other than people.While these particular people tend very strongly toward soviet-style authoritarianism, it’s not their ideology that causes us problems.It’s the usual human laziness, mental weakness and idolatry that plagues us all.Like us, they worship celebrities and disparage those who attempt to become one, and fall back to earth.They kick such people.Trust me.
They love excitement, but see it in all the wrong places (sports, celebrities…and weather).And like the rest of us, it takes the firm administration of a baseball bat to make them change their ways.
So when you get a microphone in your face, “the media” will try to label you as quickly and dismissively as possible.If you offer ten minutes of Patrick Henry-like rhetorical brilliance, they’ll air the one point at which you stumble and say, “ummm…”If you speak convincingly about something they don’t understand or don’t like (Rule of Law under existing constitutions as written), and offer, for example, income tax, you’ll be dismissed as a “tax protester,” and nobody will ever hear what you said about the constitutions, or the sweetness of politics on a leash.
This last point is my whole point.
We must, immediately and without any waffling, converge on a single message and deliver it without any side trips, divergence, hesitancy or missteps.We must simply, firmly, passionately yet reasonably present the demand that politicians, policemen and soldiers keep their oaths to the laws that protect us from them.They must obey the written constitutions, as written.No “interpretation” from the bench, no caveats, provisos, ifs, ands or buts.
You must not protest government spending, taxation, or even overt oppression. Do not mention Ron Paul, though this is his cause too. Don’t talk about central banking or “The Fed.” You must not write letters, campaign or speak to neighbors about the myriad symptoms presented by our collective social disease.We must address only the disease.Quit nibbling at branches; it’s time to strike the root.
What’s the root that we can all agree upon?
The existing state and federal constitutions are still the best, most practical, most proven, most fair and just social contracts ever signed into law.So let’s agree that these are exactly, and only, what we want.
We have easy communication now.We can still move freely.
Do not assume that this will last much longer.And most definitely do not assume that a “revolution” will get you what you want if you can’t even agree now what it is that you hope to accomplish with violence.The hour is late, and our side is losing.Your choice is not up to your enemies.It’s all up to you.Personally.Right now.
Before all the “Tea Party” events swirl through the news, there’s something I have to get off my chest.
Despite what you’ve been told about the cause of our Revolutionary War, you’ll be half-way through our Declaration of Independence before you see taxation mentioned, and then only in regard to imposing taxes on us without our consent.
After that, guess what?
Taxation doesn’t appear again.
Even “taxation without representation” (not in the Declaration, and the phrase was popularized later in the conflict) isn’t so much about taxation, as it is about colonists’ right to proxies in the seat of power.
Taxes are a symptom, not the disease.
You see, the real reason our founders declared independence from England was King George’s “refusal to assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” The Declaration cites the King for 27 violations of rights that Englishmen were due by written law. It was Rule of Law instead of rule of tyrants that our founders wanted — not anything unreasonable or even new.
Of course, from the moment the US Constitution was made law, politicians resisted its limitations on their power, such that by 1799, just ten years after ratification, both Madison and Jefferson wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions to reassert federalism …or face annulment and dissolution of the union!
They demanded Rule of Law under existing constitutions as written…and they meant it.
Right now, we do not operate under Rule of Law by the constitutions as written. We are, at best, under Common Law, or law by judicial decree. There is a good place for Common Law. It’s not a bad thing. But where legislation and constitutions apply, what’s in play is Civil Law and Statutory Law.
The difference in practice is huge. And as predicted by our founders, if the borders are breached, the mistake is ultimately fatal.
But what’s worse is that we are actually, in my opinion, under a state of lawless power. Unelected bureaucrats write most of our laws, and have the power to judge and execute them. Police, who can’t possibly know all the rules anymore, have been made increasingly militarized, empowered, and unaccountable. And the people really running our government aren’t on any ballot, or even employed in any visible agency.
Right now as you read this, no political power is any longer bound by any written laws. As the courts are servants of the greater political/finance and military-industrial machines under a practically invisible ruling class, there are no real limits on political power at all.
So you have no rights. You have only conditional privileges, with increasing conditions, and decreasing privileges.
Forget the laws plainly written down, the rules are what is enforced by guns and jails and spies and drones and fines. And that’s all ad-hoc, arbitrary and ever-changing.
You have no second amendment because you have no constitution. You have no first amendment because you have no Rule of Law. You’ve got nothing that can’t be taken away from you. Not your property, your rights, or your life.
I’m scratching my head wondering why we think we have any other issues?
But no. We divide and conquer…ourselves.
Second Amendment advocates campaign against our constitutional right to sin (drugs, prostitution, etc.) without civil punishment.
Those who call themselves “First Amendment Champions” typically oppose the very first right mentioned in the First Amendment’s five enumerated rights.
We each have our favorite rights, but we doggedly, stupidly, deny others theirs. And while every Election Day is essentially a tug of war over which of our two-faced, inherently divisive tribal scheme loses the fewest rights, we never, ever leash the POWER to take away rights.
And so we have no rights at all. We have only conditional privileges with ever-increasing conditions on ever-decreasing privilege.
And we think, on Tax Day, that how much of the Fed’s monopoly notes we feed the meter is, in itself, a problem?
Taxation out of control is only a minor symptom of a fatal disease of debilitating, wasting corruption, and we’re running out of time. The very existence of the unregulated “Fed” ensures that at some point, and I’m betting very soon (within 10-15 years), we’ll be facing massive inflation, unpayable transgenerational debts, and a criminal transfer of wealth from the bottom and middle, to the top of our partisan pecking order.
Right now we can communicate with amazing ease and very little censorship. We can travel unimpeded. We can form groups and meet. But because we won’t even ask for constitutional Rule of Law, these are not rights, and they won’t last.
Soon, we will lose these privileges to the degree that opposition to our oppressors will be very, very difficult.
You think I’m kidding? You think I’m in mouth-breathing hysteria mode beyond any reason? You think that happy days are, as the experts tell us, just around the corner?
I hope you’re right, and I’m very wrong.
But what I see is that our government is blowing the great bubble even bigger for one huge, stinking, bloody pop.
Read any history book. Then look at current events and see that those who’ve been wrong every time before are today called “pundits,” “experts” and “leaders,” while those who’ve always been right are called “fringe” and “losers.” Our language and culture is increasingly debased, perverted. We’re turning the excelsian hope of 1776 into the dystopian muck of 1984.
Look at all the fallen nations before us and imagine what they must have been thinking in their final days.
I’m betting they all thought, “surely not! That could never happen to us!”
What we call “government,” or “politics,” comprises the sole agency of humanity’s default state of oppression, slavery, genocide and war. Individuals, no matter how wicked, are obviously unable to oppress, enslave and war without the delegated power and collective obedience we call “the state.”
Politicians and political schools of course tell you that civil society cannot exist without their organized and variously/occasionally benign prohibitions and punishments.This isn’t true, but for now we’ll leave alone the idea that government isn’t always entirely bad.
But it usually is.History demonstrates redundantly that if we don’t actively and continuously fight our default state of oppression and murder, we will indeed suffer as most people have suffered since shortly after Cain slew Abel. That’s just the way human societies work.
Read the Declaration of Independence and you’ll see that our nation sprang from men who really wanted only the rights due them as English subjects.They didn’t want to create a new nation, but found it necessary to create one as their King was intractable to reason…and law.
This is a pattern. A nation begins with at least some degree of liberty for its citizens.The nation thrives to the degree its citizens have freedom. The rulers get greedy/corrupt. Freedoms and property are progressively stolen. The nation fails.
If you grant this take on human history and behavior, let us then consider where we are in the life cycle of a nation by considering what some noted Americans have said:
There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Benjamin Franklin
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. ~James Madison
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ~James Madison
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ~James Madison
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ~Benjamin Harrison
War settles nothing.~Dwight D. Eisenhower
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie. ~Robert Higgs
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace. ~George W. Bush
Now I’ll not suggest that our troubles began with GWB.No, we’ve had trouble since constitution’s signatures were still wet.The price of liberty has always been eternal vigilance…against politicians.
But what I am suggesting is that Americans are threatened like never before.We’ve been lied to for so long (via mass media, government schools, political races) that we don’t even know how this country is supposed to work.
In fact, some may wonder why, if I’m running for Governor of Indiana, I’m worried about the Supreme Court or even the Constitution for the United States of America.
Well, because it’s the Governor’s job to worry about such things, that’s why.
The Indiana Governor swears an oath to both constitutions, you know.It’s the states who’re responsible for federalism (as opposed to the unitary government we now suffer).Read the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and you’ll see how our founders intended that the states push back, hard, to ensure federal government.
As the governors are the executives, the executors of both constitutions, it’s therefore the job of governors to worry about undeclared wars and stolen rights far more than it’s their job to subsidize the Colts with taxpayer money.
There is only one poll politicians and their operators care about, after all; and that’s the one on Election Day, when We The People foolishly keep reelecting and reelecting the same !@#$ crony system, same incumbent politicians and parties, over and over without any electoral clue that we’re upset about anything.
We Declare 