cuestión de lo mundano

I know I promised a book report and I think I have a better idea now.

Reading this book; I am not finished yet but, it raises more questions than it answers, at least for me. If you have read the book front to back, you can ignore this post as I think there are answers or at least possible solutions later in the book. I will finish this weekend but for now, I need to get some thoughts out or I am never going to get sleep 'fore I go to work at zerodarkthirty.

First question. The Declaration of Independence is a great document as is the constitution, problem being: Why is the bill of rights a section of AMENDMENTS and not DECLARATIONS in the original document?
Answer: The entire document is written by Multiple lawyers, each with an agenda, and the entire document is a compromise at best and only a thought experiment at worst. It was also written several years after the fact. The Bill of Rights, (focus on the Bill part, like a law but not ratified) was added (amended) to silence some of the dissent that was building within the states. To be truly a founding document, it needed to be written and agreed to BEFORE the Revolution was commenced not after the fact, behind closed doors. (hmm, sounds like most of the law making that has taken place over the last 20 years.)

Second question: If the above statement is a fact, why did it take this long for the ugly truth to really start to come to light?
Answer: It didn't take this long. Facts show that there were more opponents of the Constitution as it was drafted then. States submitted over 200 different possible "rights" and the 10 we got were sorted out behind closed doors by the same lawyers that drafted the original document. (hence the amendments). The MEDIA was the culprit in the smoke and mirrors.(granted the Federalists purchased the most outspoken paper of the time and essentially shut it down. Go figure)

Funny how things change the more they stay the same, ain't it?


So far in this book, Boston does one hell of a job of pulling documentation up from history(many of the same ones I was taught with) and applying them to the correct correlation of events. The way I was taught these facts was in a rather cryptic, well, maybe not cryptic but highly biased way. It really ticks me off that the level of deception is so deep and so widespread. Knowing what I do know of jurisprudence (side line hobby thanks to my Ex's dad) The core of any legal-eze is buried in Semantics. Little slices, but each building upon the last. Various forms of words that mean one thing in the mundane world have a completely different translation under the jurisprudence codes. (want to realize how little you understand the word 'corporation' or the word 'legal fiction', just look them up in Blacks Law Dictionary. Pay close attention to the difference between Law of Admiralty and the Law of the Land. Two VERY different things. Do you know which is used in this country? or if they are swapped for convenience? Or if it even applies to you on a daily basis? )

Facts are, this country was founded in the blood of people that believed in freedom over slavery, but was usurped by a bunch of lawyers with an agenda to create an entirely different form of power than the monarchies of the past. They were 'little men' with visions of Grandeur and power. Jefferson was the cobalt rod that kept the whole mess from turning into a bond market from the start.( Research just what a Bond is and the historical reference from slave trade days and you may get a glimpse of how bad it really is.)

Just as I have been discovering the truth behind the Civil War and how I had been duped for many years by an external liberal agenda, I am finding similar lies exposed about the Constitution by reading this book. It pisses me off.(not at the truth teller but at those that came before.)

I won't lie, its leaving me with little hope that there is a solution. I see one solution but it is extreme to say the least. Revert back to the villages and tribes. The Natives of this continent understood grouping and survival better than most really attribute to them. They knew that congregating too many people into too small of a space created imbalances within the world around them.(they didn't have words like environment but they understood the concept) They also had little to no property concepts: this was the Achilles heal for the tribes. I see many things that seemed crude within their setup but the facts are, they were much healthier in mind, body and spirit that we are today. MUCH healthier.

But that setup couldn't survive a swarm of people looking for liberty and opportunity. And those two things are what inspired people like Jefferson to write the Declaration.

The Constitution may have aborted that point.

It also opened doors for people like Madison, Hamilton, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Clinton, Bush (all of em) etc etc. (obama *cough*)(I wrote that only to say, he hasn't had enough time to REALLY show just how bad its going to be when he is through. Heck, it took 7 years, arguably, for the Bush issues to really come to head, We are only half way through his first ( and last? ) term. We can speculate all we want, truth will come out in the end ) Some of these people were 'shooting stars' to grow into quickly and burn out just as quickly, others have been 'bred and groomed' for it from the start (usually while in college they are chosen though how and or who makes that decision is far beyond me. The only thing that really answers it is "follow the money". I will let you make of that what you will.)
Facts are, we are not free any more or less now than we ever have been. Yes, there are more laws on the books, and many more agencies to 'enforce the will of the people' (whatever that means) but we are still more free than most. Freedom comes from willingness to make choices. HARD CHOICES. When the original colonists ran into oppression on a local level, they chose to vote with their feet and find somewhere else to go( or fight back). Why do you think the expansion of this country was so fast? Many people, consciously or not, felt the stirrings of tyranny from the District of Criminals and chose instead to go elsewhere to live free. How many of them would rather face the uncertainty of the wilderness and angry indians over an oppressive government? I would bet that number bordered 100%. Sadly, Government followed them.
There are many out there now that would rather be coddled than have to make a decision much harder than what to have for breakfast or should they downsize that Latte at lunch. They are equally free. They also have no worries of running afoul of the laws because they swim in very shallow waters of existence. Those that take the Constitution to heart and the Bill of Rights to heart, feel a bit more restrained. Especially if they want to keep the peace.(as most of us do, we only wish to be left to our own wills, not some petty and ignorant lady with a mission to make others conform to her idea of a 'better world'.) Preppers walk a fine line between law abiding and outright lawbreaking due to the nature of our convoluted law structure. The more you learn the more you realize just how UNFREE we are and just how ENSLAVED everyone short of the political class truly are. (well, Bill Gates may not be enslaved but he could buy off any politician he wants and not be hurting for it.)


OK, time to wrap this up a bit. More questions than answers but here comes another one.

When, not if, this all falls apart, HOW can we make it so it can't happen again? (I am fairly certain that persons such as Jefferson, Adams, Henry, Rush and Hale, felt the same way.) OR

Are we doomed, as a species, to continually repeat our mistakes?