States Rights as Natural as Wildness
26/April/2010 14:09 Filed in: Special Report | Week In Review
The United States of America used to be understood by the slogan, “Out of many — one.” It is now becoming better defined as, “Out of many — chaos.”
This evolution has taken place most dramatically in the last fifty years, but those chaotic roots run deep for at least the last century.
In January, when we began the “Why Me? A Novel — Novel of Historic Apprehension” it looked like there was a window in America’s trek to Gomorrah, in which we could develop a little historic context about how we got here and where we were headed, regardless of the desires of mice and men. It looks like the mice are holding up quite well in contrast to the best intentions of American leadership, but a couple realities did begin to be seen as “Why Me?” progressed, which show as early buds of the coming American political spring.
During those four months it was easy to anticipate the passage of Obamacare, but the firestorm of issues related to the individual mandate for people to purchase insurance, angered individuals, but also set off a spring burn of protests at the state level. Who would have thought at the beginning of the year that about a third of the states would begin to act like real sovereign states. All this time we thought they were extinct, except for collecting taxes and creating arcane regulations. We will here attempt to put some natural spring into these new found rumblings. We will look at the heavy lifting of what is just beginning under the Washington guise of “Financial Reform” in our Wednesday article.
I would suppose one could make the case that the concept of state dependency began during the Great Depression and the New Deal that followed. But the way the history has hyped that period among all the enlightenment progressive spin, it makes it impossible to find the states at all. Those who are yet still alive and actually went through that period were too young understand the context.
However using estimated dates beginning with the Civil Rights Movement: 1955-1968; the Viet Nam War Protests: 1965-1975; and the Environmental Movement: 1962-1981; we essentially saw urban intellectual evolution commandeer all aspects of American unity and those who disagreed with their worldview were vilified as: racists, warmongers, and primitive knuckle draggers.
This as continued to evolve until today, we have the Lame Stream Media basically becoming propaganda asylums, and fair and balanced reporting, sponsoring battling pundit promotions. What is lost in all this is the fact that human beings were generally created to like one another and to help one another succeed. In that respect to believe that a bloated Federal government can fix societies ills is truly insanity.
One major problem however, when God gives you the heartland of a whole continent to steward, develop, exploit, or plunder all find unity in the concept, if good is big, bigger must be better, and best of all if it is 2 Big 2 Fail, we truly have developed the global mechanism for universal heaven on earth. Perhaps it was because of our natural wealth, Americans never saw the need to become natural imperialists, but with the closing of the real frontier we sought to create a better material life for others using the paradigms of North America rather than the paradigms of the rest of the previously exploited world. In the process the American states just became another entity for federal foreign aid, applied domestically.
That all changed dramatically with the passage of ObamaCare. Even with all the hype on Obama being a socialist and a communist, Americans and their elected representatives at all levels of governance still believed in the free lunch. What a preposterous idea — Nationalized Health insurance for all Americans, and you expect the people and especially the states to pick up the tab, and the National government tip as well. Those were the actions of an Imperialist power, the divine right of political kings, those were the actions that could cause a revolution.
That revolution, for some God induced miracle, has been to go back to see what the Founders of the American Republic set up in the first place. Americans don’t need a new revolution, we just need to get back to our constitutional roots. Those dumb Founders weren’t as stupid as we thought all these years, in fact if they had a true lack of insight it would have been, it worked as well as it did, for as long as it did, without a major problem of governance.
The reason it worked was that the Founders had a much better understanding of natural law than did the British. In natural law, authority comes from above, ultimately God, but power comes from the bottom up, from the people. Why that is the way it is, that is the way God created it, and the discussion outside those parameters is inane folly. American’s general discourse has been evolving in that folly direction since we accepted Darwinian evolution as our scientific paradigm, but what really allowed for our demise when we adopted the concept of Social Darwinism, in that humans could control evolution, because natural evolution took way too long, like millions and billions of years.
Social Darwinism we will discuss more fully on Wednesday, so check back for that episode, but let us get back to real nature, or wildness.
In the true ecology of the wild world, which everyone talks about, but no modern mortal dares to adventure without extensive life support systems, pioneer biologic communities, like those created after a fire, flood, plowing, or other disaster, slowly develop an increasing diversity of individual species. Over time, as those species diversify, the total amount of energy available to the ecosystem is utilized more efficiently, both individually and as a total community. So generally both the informational and the energetic utilization make the community more immune to climatic changes. Put in human ecological terms, as we did at the beginning of this article, the many become one through symbiosis and synergy.
Eventually, if nature is allowed to follow its course, a climax ecological community is created that can last, without some true natural catastrophic disaster, for thousands of years. The way the Founders of the United States wrote the constitution, they allowed for that increasing diversity of individual to occur in the states, with the Federal government to provide a somewhat consistent backstop of codified human law. In the natural order of things, big is not better, just different, and 2 Big 2 Fail is not just 2 Big 2 Work, it is called cancer. Cancer can occur in all human enterprise, as well as within the human body itself.
To treat the current governance cancer, the cure is the same as you will find in any hospital, private or subject to national health insurance, anywhere in the world. You operate to cut out all the cancerous tissue you can find and then provide other treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy to make the personal environment more toxic to the cancerous cells than to the healthy cells.
This isn’t rocket science, which the Founders of the American Republic had no basis to understand, but it is natural science and natural law, that we the enlightened in our own glory, have set in motion and will kill the country, unless the states again begin to function in the position and with the power they were given through the true wisdom of their unique position in God’s Providence that formed these United States of America.
Arizona’s new state statute, that basically emulates Federal Law, is just a step in which the Federal government either through incompetence or design is essentially 2 Big 2 Work. What Arizona is trying to do is fix a problem that truly is a Federal government constitutional responsibility. What I find interesting, is virtually the total breadth of the spectrum of those individuals that have a defined or tangential interest in current American Federalism, spin that this could lead to racial profiling.
There are an estimated half a million illegals in Arizona, with an estimated current population of 6.5 million, which should not include the illegals or a little over 7 percent of the total if you put them all together. If you assume most of the illegals are hispanic and 30 percent of Arizonans claim hispanic origin that puts our percent of legals to illegals at 25 percent, or 20 percent of the total. Most of the illegals have an economic interest to be there, it might be just a job to get some money to send home to your family somewhere in Latin America, or it could be to get rich by trafficking in people or drugs.
Until recently U. S. Constitutional rights were only afforded to American citizens. Those citizens do have recourse if they are subject to illegal police activities. Here is an interesting concept, considering a lot of law enforcement officers in Arizona are hispanic and also American citizens, they might be interested in true justice for all American citizens also. This will all work its way through true natural laws, but the point being in this and other cases that the Federal government is not acting in their limited constitutional ways, or is over reaching their bounds. Hence we will see states rights become much more important as these American governance and financial problems work into the future of the USA.
As for all the national commentators that our so worried about American citizens not treating pretty much everyone with respect, perhaps some rich Arizona rancher, could put together a voluntary camp down near the border, where these pundits and journalists could come and let the natural rattlesnakes and human rattlesnakes, or the real coyotes or the human coyotes, scare the hell out of them. It is just a guess on my part, but I would think there are more ranchers that would be willing to participate, than national commentators willing to get hot and sweaty. In the wildness of Arizona these well paid urban sages might get a new perspective natural sage and on the old American proverb “Out of many — one.”
This evolution has taken place most dramatically in the last fifty years, but those chaotic roots run deep for at least the last century.
In January, when we began the “Why Me? A Novel — Novel of Historic Apprehension” it looked like there was a window in America’s trek to Gomorrah, in which we could develop a little historic context about how we got here and where we were headed, regardless of the desires of mice and men. It looks like the mice are holding up quite well in contrast to the best intentions of American leadership, but a couple realities did begin to be seen as “Why Me?” progressed, which show as early buds of the coming American political spring.
During those four months it was easy to anticipate the passage of Obamacare, but the firestorm of issues related to the individual mandate for people to purchase insurance, angered individuals, but also set off a spring burn of protests at the state level. Who would have thought at the beginning of the year that about a third of the states would begin to act like real sovereign states. All this time we thought they were extinct, except for collecting taxes and creating arcane regulations. We will here attempt to put some natural spring into these new found rumblings. We will look at the heavy lifting of what is just beginning under the Washington guise of “Financial Reform” in our Wednesday article.
I would suppose one could make the case that the concept of state dependency began during the Great Depression and the New Deal that followed. But the way the history has hyped that period among all the enlightenment progressive spin, it makes it impossible to find the states at all. Those who are yet still alive and actually went through that period were too young understand the context.
However using estimated dates beginning with the Civil Rights Movement: 1955-1968; the Viet Nam War Protests: 1965-1975; and the Environmental Movement: 1962-1981; we essentially saw urban intellectual evolution commandeer all aspects of American unity and those who disagreed with their worldview were vilified as: racists, warmongers, and primitive knuckle draggers.
This as continued to evolve until today, we have the Lame Stream Media basically becoming propaganda asylums, and fair and balanced reporting, sponsoring battling pundit promotions. What is lost in all this is the fact that human beings were generally created to like one another and to help one another succeed. In that respect to believe that a bloated Federal government can fix societies ills is truly insanity.
One major problem however, when God gives you the heartland of a whole continent to steward, develop, exploit, or plunder all find unity in the concept, if good is big, bigger must be better, and best of all if it is 2 Big 2 Fail, we truly have developed the global mechanism for universal heaven on earth. Perhaps it was because of our natural wealth, Americans never saw the need to become natural imperialists, but with the closing of the real frontier we sought to create a better material life for others using the paradigms of North America rather than the paradigms of the rest of the previously exploited world. In the process the American states just became another entity for federal foreign aid, applied domestically.
That all changed dramatically with the passage of ObamaCare. Even with all the hype on Obama being a socialist and a communist, Americans and their elected representatives at all levels of governance still believed in the free lunch. What a preposterous idea — Nationalized Health insurance for all Americans, and you expect the people and especially the states to pick up the tab, and the National government tip as well. Those were the actions of an Imperialist power, the divine right of political kings, those were the actions that could cause a revolution.
That revolution, for some God induced miracle, has been to go back to see what the Founders of the American Republic set up in the first place. Americans don’t need a new revolution, we just need to get back to our constitutional roots. Those dumb Founders weren’t as stupid as we thought all these years, in fact if they had a true lack of insight it would have been, it worked as well as it did, for as long as it did, without a major problem of governance.
The reason it worked was that the Founders had a much better understanding of natural law than did the British. In natural law, authority comes from above, ultimately God, but power comes from the bottom up, from the people. Why that is the way it is, that is the way God created it, and the discussion outside those parameters is inane folly. American’s general discourse has been evolving in that folly direction since we accepted Darwinian evolution as our scientific paradigm, but what really allowed for our demise when we adopted the concept of Social Darwinism, in that humans could control evolution, because natural evolution took way too long, like millions and billions of years.
Social Darwinism we will discuss more fully on Wednesday, so check back for that episode, but let us get back to real nature, or wildness.
In the true ecology of the wild world, which everyone talks about, but no modern mortal dares to adventure without extensive life support systems, pioneer biologic communities, like those created after a fire, flood, plowing, or other disaster, slowly develop an increasing diversity of individual species. Over time, as those species diversify, the total amount of energy available to the ecosystem is utilized more efficiently, both individually and as a total community. So generally both the informational and the energetic utilization make the community more immune to climatic changes. Put in human ecological terms, as we did at the beginning of this article, the many become one through symbiosis and synergy.
Eventually, if nature is allowed to follow its course, a climax ecological community is created that can last, without some true natural catastrophic disaster, for thousands of years. The way the Founders of the United States wrote the constitution, they allowed for that increasing diversity of individual to occur in the states, with the Federal government to provide a somewhat consistent backstop of codified human law. In the natural order of things, big is not better, just different, and 2 Big 2 Fail is not just 2 Big 2 Work, it is called cancer. Cancer can occur in all human enterprise, as well as within the human body itself.
To treat the current governance cancer, the cure is the same as you will find in any hospital, private or subject to national health insurance, anywhere in the world. You operate to cut out all the cancerous tissue you can find and then provide other treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy to make the personal environment more toxic to the cancerous cells than to the healthy cells.
This isn’t rocket science, which the Founders of the American Republic had no basis to understand, but it is natural science and natural law, that we the enlightened in our own glory, have set in motion and will kill the country, unless the states again begin to function in the position and with the power they were given through the true wisdom of their unique position in God’s Providence that formed these United States of America.
Arizona’s new state statute, that basically emulates Federal Law, is just a step in which the Federal government either through incompetence or design is essentially 2 Big 2 Work. What Arizona is trying to do is fix a problem that truly is a Federal government constitutional responsibility. What I find interesting, is virtually the total breadth of the spectrum of those individuals that have a defined or tangential interest in current American Federalism, spin that this could lead to racial profiling.
There are an estimated half a million illegals in Arizona, with an estimated current population of 6.5 million, which should not include the illegals or a little over 7 percent of the total if you put them all together. If you assume most of the illegals are hispanic and 30 percent of Arizonans claim hispanic origin that puts our percent of legals to illegals at 25 percent, or 20 percent of the total. Most of the illegals have an economic interest to be there, it might be just a job to get some money to send home to your family somewhere in Latin America, or it could be to get rich by trafficking in people or drugs.
Until recently U. S. Constitutional rights were only afforded to American citizens. Those citizens do have recourse if they are subject to illegal police activities. Here is an interesting concept, considering a lot of law enforcement officers in Arizona are hispanic and also American citizens, they might be interested in true justice for all American citizens also. This will all work its way through true natural laws, but the point being in this and other cases that the Federal government is not acting in their limited constitutional ways, or is over reaching their bounds. Hence we will see states rights become much more important as these American governance and financial problems work into the future of the USA.
As for all the national commentators that our so worried about American citizens not treating pretty much everyone with respect, perhaps some rich Arizona rancher, could put together a voluntary camp down near the border, where these pundits and journalists could come and let the natural rattlesnakes and human rattlesnakes, or the real coyotes or the human coyotes, scare the hell out of them. It is just a guess on my part, but I would think there are more ranchers that would be willing to participate, than national commentators willing to get hot and sweaty. In the wildness of Arizona these well paid urban sages might get a new perspective natural sage and on the old American proverb “Out of many — one.”