[Osborn F Enready]

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These changes include:
The creation of the Federal Bank, recall of all Gold and Silver.
The adoption of the "War and Emergency Powers Act".
The creation of a "safety net" welfare system, socialist inspired.
The effective regulation and encroachment by state or federal levels, on all rights in the Bill of Rights.
The unchecked expansion of government, that led to, and especially after the Great Depression.
Federal Regulation and overwatch of all media mediums, except the internet, which is now under review.

In essence, what I am saying is that corruption exists in ALL societies, and probably in ALL people to some extent. It was the libertarian free market system the Constitution specifies, that was INTENDED to keep check on these known forms of corruption, but admittedly fell short in some areas that could be easily addressed. Over time, and extreme wealth creation as well as technological change, the American people have been placated with promises of education and liberty, while being sold into economic and social servitude at a piecemeal rate, under the guise of "progressivism". The danger of an open, free society is that it is its own greatest weakness. The efficiency of the system is directly tied to the education, and the attention of the governed. In a society that provides such an expansive, all encompassing free market, and a multitude of avenues of educational investment, it is easy to see why the masses become so preoccupied on niceties and luxuries of capitalism, and invest to further their ideals and passions. It is when these intrests and passions become political tools, or motivators, that the people should be wary, for when our intrests are used to further fragment, as opposed to further unify, we the people must step in if we expect to keep any semblance of a free, peaceful, voluntary union.

As you can see from the wise words of Mr. Washington, these tools of furthering corruption were well known, and known to be easily concealed under the guise of legitimate power. Add to those wise words, the ever growing facts of national and international conspiracy such as "Operation Mockingbird", and every sworn testament in any court to the notion, and you have a very comprehensive picture to the Architecture of Modern Political Power, in all nations.

We the laborers, the thinkers, the designers, the artistic are but tools of political hegemony to the governments we endorse and empower with our own labor, our own sweat, our own devotion through simply partaking and using the system with which they have emplaced slowly, over our original system.

Without a level playing field (absence of economic, information or private material monopolies) , the public on all levels can be "conditioned" through one abuse or another. Each and every one has a singular goal, and that is manipulation of LABOR, which is the ONLY thing that truly has value. Food cultivation, processing and sales requires labor if for anything other than personal sustinence.
Once done for more than personal sustinence, the final food product derives its value from the labor used to put it to market. Commodity mining, refining, processing and utilization is dependent on labor, which is where its value is derived. All things, ideas and material invention and goods, are dependent, therfore intrinsically tied to labor.

The U.S. Constitution RECOGNIZES a mans right to own property, to be secure in privacy on that property, as well as the rights to do what he wishes with that property, whether for home or business. He has a right to believe in a God of his choosing, or no God at all. He has a right to be viewed as equal to his peers, and no man stands higher than he in any standing court under the Constitution of the United States. He has a right to presumption of innocence, until proven guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt, before a jury of his peers, his trust in them as theirs would be in him were the shoe on the other foot. He has a right to live as he sees fit, to bond and barter with whom he chooses, at his own discretion. He has a right of conveyance across all land under the union, except that where private ownership forbids, as he too is recognized the right to do with his own land.
He is recognized as an upright, intellectual being, with the capacity of reason and responsibility for actions he may take. He is recognized not only the right own, but to bare arms should need be for national defense from all enemies, foreign or domestic, bound by the code established in the Constitution, and the rights of all men enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

All of these rights, and others, depend on the people having access to freedom of speech, political disourse, and a free media with which to inform and educate the people. They also equally depend on the will and action of the people to stay active and aware of government actions keeping them transparent and open to public scrutiny, and to form competent oversight and discourse when necessary to maintain a government that is dependent on WILLFULL citizen co-operation.

Overall, rights reside within the individual. The individual is the last resort of society, to exercise and protect the rights of citizens. It lies in the will and the ability of the individual to resist undue encroachment against the overwhelming ties of power against him, in the case of power gone awry.

Every single problem in the United States today, could be fixed constitutionally, and all un-constitutional laws stricken from the books. A few minor modifications pertaining to term limits, citizen oversight, political party funding, election reform and pork barrel politics and this nation could once again become the true testament to what is the American Experiment.

Pubmanager said:
I realise that this veiw could easily be dimissed as an over-simplification, however it is meant as a starting point for discussion. I am also mindful that when debating property rights, an equally complex issue, with a libertarian I was told "keep it simple, stupid".

I say:
I hope you didn't take that the wrong way when I said to keep it simple. It is a saying I have used for a long time, and in the sense I meant it was to imply to keep it to simple logic, and not get too involved with hypotheticals. No offense at all intended.


I hope this rather long winded, though on point description from my POV helps further the debate.