In a recent letter to the chairman of my state’s Libertarian Party, I mentioned that I believe the real battle for our liberty lies not in state capitals, but in Washington D.C. Sacramento, Albany, Austin, Topeka, and the other state capitals are only the symptom of the giant freedom-sucking, bureaucratic, monster that is government in this country today.
Because the states have allowed themselves to become the nation’s largest federal government welfare recipients, they have become dependent on the largesse created in Washington. The federal government has effectively parlayed the power of the purse into an ever more intrusive set of directives the states must enforce in order to get their “welfare checks” from D.C.
Unfortunately, a net loss of liberty is normally the result of the implementation of these directives. The cause of preserving liberty in this nation has become a greater battle than we could ever have imagined a generation, or even a decade, ago.
Powerful forces now stand foursquare against the will of the people, the principles in our nation’s founding documents, and human decency. They parade around as our leaders and protectors while they betray everything we hold dear. They cloak themselves in patriotic rhetoric while they pursue empire and set up a system of domestic subjugation.
State capitals are at fault in as much as they have failed in their Constitutional obligation to stand up to the federal government when it crosses the Constitutional line, say “no”, and swat it on the nose like a bad puppy.
Fear is the problem. The federal government and its national mouthpiece media have been extremely effective in creating a great deal of it. Terrorists are about to get you. Global warming is going to drown the planet. The bird flu is going to kill a billion people. Unfortunately, our elected representatives in Topeka and their counterparts around the country buy into all of this as much as the rest of the population. Instead of treating the federal government like the bad puppy, we have been trained to sit straight up, expectantly, tail wagging waiting for our federal masters to save us, or direct us what to do, or send us a check.
If we are ever to return this country to freedom; if we are ever to become a nation of free people instead of government dependents; we must take the leash back and get the puppy under control. What we need from our state capitals is leadership and backbone. We need them to read the Constitution and understand their role in countering federal control of everything. We need them to work collectively to rebut federal attempts to centralize power.
And we, as aware and concerned citizens, must hold our state lawmakers accountable for doing these things. Ultimately, the Constitution does not lay our liberty at the door of any government at any level. Instead, it calls upon us to be responsible adults and to maintain our freedom through our own vigilance.
The state legislatures have failed and we have failed for too long. The puppy is big, strong, and very willful. However, we can and we must bring it back under our control. State capitals can begin, as some have, by rejecting the REAL ID Act, the USA Patriot Act, and other federal intrusions on its citizens. The time for action is now! Our freedom is in the balance.
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