We are told by our governments that we must accept government,
because governments are necessary
and however frequent their failures,
it is our interest they have at heart,
however extreme the violence inflicted.
That is the accepted way of governments, I agree.
But our government is different
from every other government on this planet.
WE are our government, and those who staff our offices and administrations
are our employees, and no more than that.
I have been admonished by friends and associates
who are determined to assert
that once we "created" our governments
and they became "separate" from us.
I would reply that if we remain the authority and power with sovereignty
over the instruments we create, and if our "governments" are now seperate
from us, then it is by their rebellion, not by our authority or intent.
In America, the institutions of government
are formed and tolerated
by the People, You and Me,
for the sole purpose of protecting and preserving
the inherent and individual rights and liberty
of their founders, the People, and us, their Posterity.
We are the first society of recorded history
to achieve Self Governance
by establishing and maintaining
the Sovereign Powers for Governing
in the hands of the Individuals
of our society.
The tasks of governing are lawfully performed
only when individual rights
of life, liberty and property are aggressively defended.
When we tolerate the sacrifice of individual liberty
to the convenience of government or the interests of society,
Liberty, Freedom and Security are forfeited by all.
In a managed society, no one can be safe
in their body, their property, their liberty or their ambition
from manipulation and sacrifice to the will of the powerful.
We are experiencing a period of epochal transformation
of our society and our relationships
with the people of our government
and the powers which now are exercised over us
between continents and peoples.
