There Are No Government Good Guys


by Paul Rosenberg
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A lot of Americans
know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared
enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still,
very few of these people are taking any significant action, and
largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good
guys” to show up and fix things.

Some think
that certain groups of politicians will pull it together and fix
things, or that one magnificent
politician
will ride in to fix things. Others think that certain
members of the military will step in and slap the politicians back
into line. And, I’m sure there are other variations.

There are several
problems with this. I’ll start with the small issues:

  1. It doesn’t
    happen.
    A lot of good people have latched on to one grand
    possibility after another, waiting for a good guy to save the
    day, and it just doesn’t happen. Thousands of hours of reading,
    writing and waiting are burned with each new “great light”
    who comes along with a promise
    to run the system in the “right” way, and give us
    liberty and truth. (Or whatever.) Lots of decent folks grab on
    to one pleasant dream after another, only to end up right back
    where they started… but poorer in time, energy and finances.
  2. Hope
    is a scam.
    It’s a dream of someday, somehow, getting
    something for nothing. People who hope do not act – they
    wait
    for other people to act. Hope is a tool to neuter a natural
    opposition: they sit and hope, and never act against you. Even
    the biblical meaning of hope is something more like expectation
    (or sometimes waiting) than the modern use of hope.
  3. Petitioning
    an abuser for compassion.
    The “good guys” are
    considered to be a few people inside the abusive government. But
    if the good guys were really good, wouldn’t they have dissociated
    themselves with an abuser some time ago? By pleading for the good
    guys to rise up, people are asking one sub-group of the abusers
    to save them from the rest of the abusers. However, they all work
    for the same operation; they all get paid out of the same offices;
    according to the same rulebook. And if the good guys are so willing
    to turn against their employers, why would they have waited until
    now?
  4. Movies.
    We all grew up in the company of movie heroes who rode in
    at the last minute to save the noble victims. From John Wayne
    to Star Trek to Bruce Willis, the story line differs little. These
    are pleasant stories, of course, but cinema is not reality, and
    hoping for it to become reality is something that we should get
    over prior to adulthood.

But, as I say,
those are the smaller issues. Let’s move on to the serious
ones.

The Magic
System

A lot of Americans
believe that the American “Founders” created a system
that automatically fixes itself. They talk about the “balance
of powers,” and think that it will always save them from a
tyrant. The balanced powers of the US Constitution, however, were
trashed within fifteen years and doubly-trashed just a century ago.

In the Constitution,
the states balanced the power of the national government (the one
now in Washington, DC.) Not only did the states control half of
the legislature, but they decided if and how they would implement
the edicts of the national government. And that included deciding
whether a law was constitutional or not.

This changed
in 1803 with the Marbury v. Madison ruling. This ruling –
taught as a work of genius in American schools – was a fraud
against the US Constitution. In it, the Supreme Court held that
they understood the Constitution better than James Madison, the
man who wrote it!

But worse than
even this, they held – with absolutely no basis – that
it was they who would decide what was constitutional or not. The
states were tossed aside. Even the sitting President of the United
States, Thomas Jefferson, called it “a very dangerous doctrine
indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

Marbury’s
Judicial review (the Supremes ruling on constitutionality) merely
involves one branch of the national government providing a check
on the other branches of the national government. After Marbury,
no one could check the national government.

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April
25, 2013

Paul
Rosenberg [send him
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] is the CEO of Cryptohippie
USA
, a leading provider of Internet privacy technologies.

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