Destroying the Electoral
College Destroys Freedom
by Tom DeWeese
A campaign to eliminate the Electoral College and “let the
people elect the president,” is gaining steam. A group called “National Popular
Vote Interstate Compact,” started in 2006, has won commitments from eleven
states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. These
include, Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington,
Massachusetts, California, New York, Hawaii and the District of Columbia. These
states control 165 electoral votes. They only need states representing 105 more
electoral votes to join and the Electoral College will be a thing of the past.
Meanwhile, such legislation is under consideration in Missouri, Oklahoma and
Arizona, to name a few. It could be a done deal by 2020.
When a state passes legislation to join the National Popular
Vote Interstate Compact, it pledges that all of that state's electoral votes
will be given to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote
nationwide. These bills will take effect only when states with a majority of
the electoral votes have passed similar legislation. States with electoral
votes totaling 270 of the 538 electoral votes would have to pass NPV bills
before the compact kicks in and any state's bill could take effect.
As usual, it’s easy to get people to join this cause – yet
another sound bite based on emotion rather than knowledge or logic. “Let the
people decide.” “It’s the American way.” “It’s Democracy at work.” Yep, that’s
why America was never set up as a democracy. Here’s another sound bite for you
– “Democracy is a lynch mob.” Here’s another one – “Democracy is three wolves
and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.” Majority rule violates the rights
of minorities. It’s not a good thing.
Get the picture?
Our Founding Fathers went to a lot of trouble to give us a
government that was fair, representing all the people in every state – to
protect a minority of one against the will of a mob which isn’t too concerned
about the rights of someone standing in their way. Hence the Electoral College.
The abolishment of the Electoral College would, in fact,
establish an election tyranny giving control of the government to the massive
population centers of the nation's Northeastern sector, along with the area
around Los Angeles. If these sections of the nation were to control the
election of our nation's leaders, the voice of the ranchers and farmers of the
Mid and Far West would be lost, along with the values and virtues of the South.
It would also mean the end of the Tenth Amendment and state sovereignty.
Throughout history, certain factions have challenged the
legality of the Electoral College. Opponents point out that our President is
actually elected by 538 virtually unknown people who are members of 51 small
delegations in fifty States and the District of Columbia. Moreover, in most
states the electors are not even bound to vote for the candidate that won the
popular vote. In fact, many Constitutional scholars believe that's just what
the founders intended, 538 independent thinkers, bound to no one. There is
reason and logic behind the idea.
The Founding Fathers, particularly those from small States,
were very concerned that they would be smothered by the larger states. Under
the representative republic (not a democracy) established by the founders, the
United States is made up of fifty sovereign States. Under the Constitution,
except for limited powers specifically defined for the central government, power
for the rule of law is intended to reside in the States.
To deal with the problem, the founders decided on a
compromise that would establish two chambers for the Congress; the House of
Representatives, whose size would be dictated by the population in each state
and the Senate in which every state would get two representatives, regardless
of its size or population. You see, in the beginning, the states appointed
Senators to be their representatives in Congress. But, like these geniuses of
today who want to wreck the Electoral College, previous geniuses came up with
the idea that Senators should be elected by the people – “It’s only fair,” went
the mantra! The result is an imperial Senate that answers to no one but their
own elite club members. That’s what happens when you mess with the real genius
of the Constitution.
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How to destroy a
culture, by Kathleen Marquardt
Things are getting weirder and weirder and people are
scratching their heads and thinking they must not understand what is happening.
Well, they’d better wake up, quit feeling stupid and start objecting to just
about every new law, fee, regulation, and politically correct dictum coming
down the pike.
For decades, the
powers-that-be (PTB) worked long and hard to put together a blueprint to
control the world. That blueprint is Agenda 21, Sustainable Development,
published by the United Nations. They then wrote the directions on how to take
that framework and make it the Law of the Land, according to Wikipedia.
The PTB have gone a long way to achieving those goals. Late
last month I attended a meeting here in Knoxville, attended by some 200 people
who for the most part worked in planning or transportation in the 16 county
regional plan (presented to the citizens as plan ET/ 5 Counties, One Vision).
(Note: re the disparity of 5 counties in the plan becoming 16, my assumption is
that in order to fulfill the grant from HUD requirement of resident
participation, rather than do their ‘dog and pony’ show in 16 counties [a lot
of make-do work and time], they’d present it to the five counties and just
absorb the other nine when the farce was over.)
The audience at the meeting, instead of wanting to know what
the presenters (promoting walkable, bike-able, stack-em and pack-em cities)
were pushing and asking why we might need/want these changes, they were wanting
to know how they could effect change (rules and regulations) quickly to achieve
this nirvana state of no cars here in sprawled out East Tennessee. If it is
happening here with no outcry, it is happening across the country. In fact
there are many places that are far more down that regionalism/commutarianism
road to utopia.
So the means to destroy personal freedom, the right to
private property, and the Rule of Law are set and being implemented now. But
there is a need also to destroy the culture that gave us freedom or it will
rear up it’s ugly head again. The PTB have no desire to have to deal with
unruly subjects, so off with some of their heads and the rest – wipe out the
values, attitudes and beliefs. Not easy?
Hah. That’s what I thought, but I am wrong. Political correctness is the answer
to the culture issue.
Western Culture is a product of the Judeo-Christian
religious traditions, Socrates, and the ancient Greeks. But what is it? Western
Culture encompasses many things, but some of the key features are individual
freedom, capitalism, rational thought, Rule of Law, and democracy. How do you
destroy these values?
And we have the Big Lie, that is supposed to beg big
government to take care of every aspect of our lives (i.e., to give them our
freedom which includes our property rights), Global Warming/Climate Change. The
reinventing of a global economy is, in truth, redistribution of American and
Western European wealth to the PTB in the disguise of support the destitute of
the world.
EPA Chief concedes no climate impact from ‘climate rule’:
It’s about ‘reinventing a global economy’ “Over a period of twenty months, EPA
Administrator Gina McCarthy repeatedly concedes that the Agency’s sweeping
climate-regulation of America’s fossil fuel-fired power plants will have no
impact on the Earth’s climate. McCarthy openly admits that the Clean Power Plan
“is not about end of pipe controls.” Instead, she says the rule is about
“driving investment in renewables…, [and] advancing our ongoing clean energy
revolution”. McCarthy says, “That’s what… reinventing a global economy looks
like.”
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Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental
Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC, drafted and
adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice. Since then, The Principles have
served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for
environmental justice.
PREAMBLE
WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this
multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to
build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight
the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish
our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to respect
and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural
world and our roles in healing ourselves; to ensure environmental justice; to
promote economic alternatives which would contribute to the development of
environmentally safe livelihoods; and, to secure our political, economic and
cultural liberation that has been denied for over 500 years of colonization and
oppression, resulting in the poisoning of our communities and land and the
genocide of our peoples, do affirm and adopt these Principles of Environmental
Justice:
1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother
Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right
to be free from ecological destruction.
(http://www.greenfaith.org/?mc_cid=ef2e91353b&mc_eid=5f675b1de6)
That is the tip of the iceberg but you can see what all of
political correctness is addressing. It
isn’t about being nice, stopping bullying, and liking everyone. It is about
making all of us equally stupid and equally slaves of the PTB.
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