A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations

"In this country of ours, took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world’s history; the only true revolution. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. But here, for the first time in all the thousands of years of man’s relations to man, a little group of men, the founding fathers, for the first time, established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the God given right and ability to determine our own destiny. This freedom was built into our government with safeguards. ." Ronald Reagan,1961

Whenever a people contract with each other to live together in peace the question must always be asked "When shall we use force against one of our number, and why?".This question arises from the very nature of shared human habitation because human beings are, by nature, free, and entitled to remain free, and to resist constraints on their freedom.Force, or the threat of force, can, and has, been used for millennia, to curtail this natural and inherent condition, and only counter force, or its plausible threat, have ever been used to prevent this.

The purpose of Government, then, is to identify threats to the Life or Liberty of its participants,and to answer these threats with a response adequate to preserve for them the free exercise of the rights granted them by God.Inherent in this belief in the fundamental dignity of the human person, is the absolute necessity of resticting this use of force to its proper and legitimate ends.Recognizing the difference between rights,which are inherent in the human condition, and goods, which are the result of human effort, is,then, the fundamental prerequisite of good government.That is,no human being is ever entitled to anything which requires effort by another human being to make available.Any time the use force is used to mandate behaviour which is not morally incumbent on a human being,the result is to enslave the human being so effected.

Long observation of the history of government, and bitter experience with unaccountable rule, taught the first generation of independent Americans that,however necessary Government may be,as soon as a government has answered all other threats,the accumulation of power which makes governance possible can soon become the greatest threat to the freedom which the government was created to protect.To address this danger, our Republic was designed with a multiplicity of balances and safeguards to curtail the power that any one person, or group of people could ever accumulate.Legitimate activities of government were identified, and the freedom of those in power to exercise force over others citizens of the Republic were specifically and dramatically curtailed.It was desired that the powers of coercion which are vital to preserving our Freedom would never be exercised to curtail that very Freedom.

No person,and no political party,which fails to understand these things, can ever claim to stand in the traditions of the United States of America, and any such person or organization must always be recognized by the rest of us as what they are - People who would attempt to replace the American Revolution with a new revolution of their own, a revolution designed not secure rights granted by a Creator, but to control goods, made by human hands.

Such people will advance dozens or hundreds of reasons why the collective force of government should be turned away from the defence of the governed, and towards some other end,but the end of their proposals is always the same: to reduce the population, or some portion of it, to state of slavery, wherein the labour they perform, and the knowledge which they accumulate to perform that labour,become the property of some one else. Such people have sought continuously for decades to gain the control they desire over lives, by claiming to advocate for the needs of the elderly,the homeless,the poor,or some other such group,whose members are perceived to be in such dire need of charity from the rest of us, that the use of government - that is, force - is needed to meet their most basic necessities.

Far from decrying the hypocrisy of other partisans, one is forced to admire the rigour and consistency of modern efforts to socialize the administration of medicine, a task undertaken by not one, but two consecutive Presidents from the political party whose adherents call themselves democrats.

It is now, and with perfect philosophical consistency, proposed that that the infirm are somehow being maintained in their infirmity precisely by the selfishness of the healthy, who stubbornly refuse to insure themselves against catastrophe at the same cost as those who have demonstrated familiarity with the same.

They are not.Regardless of the choices or misfortunes which have consigned the infirm to their condition, it is the liberty of a free people which has created their only hope escaping it - the most effective system of Medicine in the history of the world.As the freedom which permitted this system to exist is taken from us, the genius which created it will likewise be extinguished, until where once,there was a free people, enjoying the legitimate fruits of their freedom, all that will remain is a nation of slaves,labouring under a condition of absolute despotism.