Posted by rightsman on 04/10/10

"Know Your Rights!"  That is an order.

I am a very selfish man.  The reason that I would like for everyone to know his or her rights and know how to assume the powers to exercise those rights, is because that is the only way my rights can be protected.

We must be able to exercise our rights.  If a thug with a gun enters your home, and you are unarmed, you do not have the power to exercise your right to protect your property and to defend yourself and loved ones, if you have any.  It makes no difference if the thug is wearing a uniform of some kind and is committing the atrocity at the behest of and under the auspices of a government - your ablsolute right to self defense cannot be exercised.  You have that right, but it cannot be exercised.

The One, the Is, the All, the Power, the Author of the Universe, the Creator, by whatever name your Creator is known to you, makes little difference unless you, through the use of force, intimidation, or coercion insist that I call my Creator by the same name you have given your Creator.  If you insist on that, you are interfering with my power to exercise my natural and inherent right.

You have the natural right to call your God by whatever name you choose.  You may call your Creator Vishnu or Krishna, Jehovah or Allah, Henry or Georgie-boy, it makes absolutely no difference to me as long as you do not attempt to kill me or do some other damage, because I want name my Creator something different than the name you have given yours.

We have the right to breathe.  We have the responsibility to keep on breathing.

We have the right to food.  We have the responsibility to earn that food.

We have the right to shelter and clothing.  We have the responsibility to provide that shelter and clothing for ourselves.

Do we have the responsibility to provide for those who refuse to provide for themselves?  I think not.

We have the right to decide how to dispose of our property.  If we choose to help a neighbor or loved one, that is our right.  We should choose.  The choice should not be made by some faceless bureaucrat in Liechtenstein who thinks that he or she knows what is best for every human being on this ball of mud. 

That bureaucrat has quite possibly never calloused his hands by using a shovel, or an axe.  He has quite likely never been a sanitation engineer on a dairy farm, though he has learned how to sling the brown stuff.  He has no concept of how the food that is served to him got to his table.  He does not stand in  line at the grocery store, nor wait at an airport.  Boiling water would surpass his ability.  Yet, he deems himself so all knowing that he will dictate to all and sundry how to live.

If we assume the powers given to each of us to exercise our natural and inherent rights, we will be better off. 

If we assume the power to exercise our natural right to travel without any licensure by any government, to our house of worship, by whatever means available, we will be better off.  If we purchase a care and choose to use it, providing we harmed no one in the purchase, and the use, to travel to the grocery store, and buy the week's victuals, who rightly has the power to interfere?  I say, "No one."

By what right does a government, instituted by men, take money form one's income to distribute to those who will not earn any income?  There is no such right as that.  There is power, though.  Power from the threat of fines and imprisonment, and such threats are carried out daily in this nation of free men and women.  The power of sending a missile from the end of a tube of steel through the air to knock one's life out of one's body, is an awesome power.  The threat of using that power is intimidating.  It could be called a terror.

However awesome that power might be, though, it cannot be compared to the awesome power of the Creator, by whatever name you might address him.

Assume the power.  Exercise your rights.

This was first published in the Las Vegas Tribune 7 April 2010

 
Posted by amleavitt on 02/04/10
Last updated 02/04/10

This post is right on. It comes from Scott Hammond who is running for State of Nevada Assembly District 13. (My district)

I had a conversation today about the Tenth Amendment, or what is sometimes called "the reserve clause". This amendment states that "the powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states. . ." While the framers of the constitution felt the need to strengthen the fledgling country by securing the powers of the central government, I feel recent conditions have seen the states pass too much of their power and responsibilities over to Washington D.C.

We send our money to D.C. and in return we have to fall in line with their conditions and demands in order to get the money back. Just recently it was proposed that we remove a state law that prohibits teachers from having their evaluations directly connected to student achievement. While I support teacher accountability, I don't see why we, as a state, should have to beg for help.

It frustrates me that our state is in this position. We shouldn't have to sit and wait for money from D.C. too help with our education problems, or any other state problem (like the foreclosure situation.) We need to be more self reliant and less dependent on D.C.! We need to make decisions without asking the feds for a bailout. I don't want to have to change what we do here in Nevada in order to get our money back from Washington.

 
Posted by amleavitt on 12/20/09

This is an insightful discourse by Ezra Taft Benson. The question of government has been on our citizen's minds from the founding of our Constitution to the present. Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-27680185747711503#

 
Posted by shawn91210 on 11/11/09
Last updated 11/11/09

First off, let me say that I love the fact that Harry Reid finally might get kicked out of office. I'm tired of him, as are the people of Nevada by the looks of the recent polls.

So in Nevada, my lovely state, the current people running for Reid's position are:

* Mark Amodei, State Senator
* Sharron Angle, Former Assemblywoman
* John Chachas, Lazard investment banker
* Chuck Kozak, attorney
* Sue Lowden, Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman and former State Senator
* Mark Noonan, Conservative blogger and Navy veteran
* Bill Parson, conservative activist announces his candidacy and registers with FEC in April 2009
* Danny Tarkanian, Real estate owner
* Robin L. Titus, Physician
* Mike Wiley, conservative activist

Now, I'm not sure about any of these people, but for now I'm going to bet that Bill Parson is most likely our constitution-loving man for the job. This next race will be a fun one and I will get to vote for the first time. :]