Personal declaration of independence

November 11, 2009

Carolyn Hileman

Today I declare my sovereignty from the government run healthcare and any other plan that they shall put forth without the consent of the people, calling on those age old documents that have guided our country through wars and peace, the Constitution and the Bill of rights which guarantees me and my fellow countrymen citing the tenth amendment the right to disregard such measures. The tenth amendment of the Bill of Rights clearly states that the powers not given to congress belong to the states and the people respectively. No where in the Constitution or the Bill of rights does it give permission to the congress or the president to declare such a bill mandatory, it does not have anything in it that allows for the congress to arbitrarily impose fines and the threat of imprisonment if we do not obey. Therefore, as a citizen of this country I refuse to acknowledge such a document and you would have you arrest me first.

While the congress and the president do not see any merit in using the Constitution and the Bill of rights I as a citizen of this country do, the bill in question and others passed or about to be passed have no constitutional basis and are therefore null and void in my opinion. The hate crimes legislation is a complete violation of the first amendment and the healthcare bill violates just about every amendment there is. So I am giving you my notice as a citizen of the United States of America, protected by the Bill of rights and the Constitution I will not adhere to your wishes or demands. I am a free citizen; I know my rights and I Will not submit to your reign.
 

If each and every one of us send this to our elected representatives they will have absolutely no doubt in their minds as to where we as American citizens stand. Feel free to copy and paste this anywhere and everywhere, make printed copies and distribute for written mail. It is time they knew exactly where we as American Citizens stand.
 

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson put it simply: “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” This justice’s comment is a far cry from what we hear from these “liberal lawmaking judges” today. “We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts, “ said Abraham Lincoln, “not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” A government that is anxious to give alms to as many people as possible is even more anxious to commandeer their earnings. Witness, through Federal, State, and local taxes, a man/woman pays 40% or better of their income in taxes. One might ask, “Why have we become a nation of such horrific lawlessness?” One of the main reasons is when the state becomes the violator of liberty and property rather than its guarantor; it debases respect for all law. People in society develop an increasing disrespect and disregard for what the law demands. They view the law as the agent for immorality in the form of legalized plunder for the benefit of some at the expense of others, and this same disrespect and disregard sooner or later starts to creep into dealings between individuals (trickle down theory). Society verges on the brink of lawlessness. Stop and think, when individuals began to ask government to do things for them, rather than merely to secure rights and property, they began asking government to violate others rights and property for their benefit.
 

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