AN ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT

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AN ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT

 

Sunday 8th May 2005 (16h53) :

 

 

 

 

AN ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT

 

A recent poll discovered that half of Americans know that the

government intentionally lied about Iraq's weapons of mass

destruction. The actual figure is probably a lot higher since there is

a large percentage of Americans still willing to let their neighbors'

children die than ever admit they were wrong to support the war in the

first place. So, the majority of Americans know the government lied to

create a war.

 

A majority of Americans now know there were no weapons of mass

destruction in Iraq and that claims to the contrary were intentional lies.

 

A majority of Americans now know the US Government lied when it

claimed Iraq's WMDs were a threat to the United States.

 

A majority of Americans now know the mainstream media lied when it

claimed Iraq's WMDs were a threat to the United States.

 

A majority of Americans now know that the US Government has been

torturing innocent Iraqis for information on WMDs the US Government

already knew they could not possibly have.

 

A majority of Americans now know their government can and does engage

in the most monstrous lies possible, and that hundred of thousands of

people have been killed, crippled, and tortured for that lie.

 

How much of a majority is irrelevant. A majority is a majority is a

majority.

 

Setting aside their access to inside information, the US Congress

statistically should follow the public. A majority of them also know

the war was started with a lie. It is perhaps understandable that the

Congress has done nothing about these lies. They are, after all,

complicit. One should not expect a gaggle of liars to impeach the liar

in chief. Nor will the mainstream media be overly critical of those

lies which they put into a hundred million homes.

 

But what I do not understand is how Americans, who pride themselves on

their love of truth and justice, can continue to tolerate a government

that they now know lied to start a war of conquest. What I do not

understand is how Americans, who pride themselves on their love of

truth and justice, can continue to tolerate a government that shows

every indication of preparing to lie again about weapons of mass

destruction to justify a war of conquest in Iran.

 

Do any of you still delude yourselves into thinking that a government

that lied to send your children off to die in wars is working for your

benefit; is in any way shape or form thinking of your welfare versus

their own? Do you still think that this is YOUR government? Is it not

more accurate to say that you are the government's property, your

children mere livestock to be harvested when old enough, handed a

rifle, and sent off to die when useful?

 

The Constitution does not explicitly authorize the government to lie

to the people, and the tenth amendment forbids the government to

arrogate that right to itself. Therefore, when the government lies, it

acts illegally and unconstitutionally. When the government lies, it

ceases by that very lie to be the lawful government of this land. When

the government lies, it delegitimizes itself. When a government lies,

it lies for its own benefit, not yours. When a government lies, it

breaks faith with the people who empowered that government to provide

for the common good, not for the privilege of a few. When a government

lies, it loses the moral right to rule.

 

Our nation is founded on the principle of rule with the consent of the

governed. Nobody I know has consented to be lied to by the government.

Nobody CAN consent to be lied to, because they cannot know what they

consent to, and no court of law would enforce such an agreement.

Therefore, when the government lies to the people, it operates without

the consent of the governed. Again, this delegitimizes that government.

 

If you accept that the US Government intentionally lied about weapons

of mass destruction to take this nation to war in Iraq, then you must

accept that the US Government, by the commission of that act, is no

longer a legal government of the people, but an illegal occupation

serving private interests. The majority of Americans now know that the

US Government is criminal. They know that the US Government has lied

to start wars of conquest, and that it has knowingly tortured innocent

people because the lie required it. The majority of Americans now know

that the US Government, unless stopped, will continue to do more of

the same.

 

There is no law that compels Americans to believe the government when

it lies. No legislation exists that obliges Americans to pay for a war

started with lies. There is no moral principle under which Americans

are required to obey a government that lies. Indeed, morality and

prudence demands that a government that lies be openly defied.

 

The Germans ended WW2 in shock at what their government had really

been doing. Americans cannot claim that innocence. We DO know. The

information has been available for a long time, and if this new poll

is accurate, the majority of Americans know what their government is

doing, and the rest of the world knows that Americans know. Get that?

The whole world is watching to see what Americans will do now that

most Americans know the government deliberately lied to start a war.

 

So, what will Americans do? Will they walk their talk, and fire the

liars? Will they stand up like free human beings and refuse the

dictates of an illegal government, or will they cower and send their

children off to die, watching them walk up the chutes to the

slaughterhouse without complaint, shrugging their shoulders that this

is how life is supposed to be and there is no point in making a fuss

about it? Will Americans go on paying more money for government than

they do for anything else, yet refusing to hold that government to the

same standards of truth-in-selling that they demand from a used-car

salesman? Will they go on making do with less so that the government

and its friends can have that much more? Will they continue to bow

down saying, " Take our money, take our neighbors' children, and tell

us what to think, oh lord! We know you really are just and moral

because you threw Martha and Chong in jail! "

 

Or will Americans decide enough is enough? Will they decide that they

cannot support a government that is criminal without being criminals

themselves? Will they finally realize that they cannot claim to be a

moral people if they do not have moral government?

 

No magazine puff-piece, no comic book, no movie can make America look

great if, when the time calls for it, Americans fail to be a great

people. Great people are willing to stand up to a government gone

wrong, to force their government to be truthful and honest and moral.

Great people know that freedom is impossible under a government that

lies because lies are tools of enslavement, and that chains built of

false beliefs hold slaves tighter than chains made of steel. Slaves

will cower before a government they know lies to them, bless the face

that lies to them, and ask for more. And now the world watches to see

if Americans are a great people, or just slaves living under the

delusion they are a free people.

 

Free men or slaves. Time to choose. The whole world is watching.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created

equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable

Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these

ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to

institute new Government,

— The Declaration of Independence

 

 

 

 

by : Mike Rivero

Sunday 8th May 2005

 

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