Term Limits

Al,

There is some here to agree with. While term limits may help, it doesn’t address the root problem . . . a disregard for LAW. Everything else is a symptom of that. Poverty, recession, unemployment are not our problems – they are only symptoms of a greater problem, our country’s move from Rule of Law to arbitrary rule of man.

John Adams
“A government of laws and not of men.”
“Novanglus Papers,” no. 7.— The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, vol. 4, p. 106 (1851).

If we pass term limits but our lawmakers do not submit to the highest law of the land, we still have the same tyranny just slowed a little. I don’t think Americans understand this. I have something I want you to think about . . . “Jurisdiction”. Our founders gave the federal government a clear cut area of responsibility and expressly outlined it in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. This was to be the highest law of the land. It was not only you and I who were to submit to its authority but our lawmakers as well, Democrats as well as Republicans.

James Madison
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Federalist No. 51 (1788-02-06) [9]

Madison understood this. When the federal government uses its authority and the “power of the sword” to encroach into areas outside their lawful jurisdiction (Energy, Education, Food & Drug, foreign wars, bailouts, health care, Federal Reserve etc….) we get tyranny and the problems our society faces today. The folks that benefit the most from congress’s use of force to take $2,600,000,000,000 of our private property (remember our nation existed without an income tax until 1913) are the major banks and defense contractors who sit on the boards of these six major media organizations (95% of all our media comes from these six). This is why you have to hear about this via an email and not your morning paper or evening news.

As you read this, General Electric, one of our nation’s Top 10 Defense contractors, owns 80% of NBC. Americans depend on major media to tell them how to think and what is important. Americans trust their news organizations. We assume we have a free press. General Electric was not going to allow NBC to inform us or ask tough questions about the Iraq war back in 2002 this would have stopped millions of revenue from entering their corporation.

Here is one example of media bias. Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor, says on the BBC News Night what he is forbidden to say on the evening news here.

http://gnn.tv/articles/111/The_Lynching_of_Dan_Rather
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/archive/2029634.stm

This helps explain why other nations don’t respond to international events in the same way we do. They are responding to a different presentation of facts. They get news we don’t. It’s hard to believe but true. Our news is more censored than any of us care to admit. It keeps us from questioning immoral policy decisions. This also explains some of the division in the church. We are responding to different perceptions of reality. Money is “the root of all evil” and corporate boards and lawmakers must deal with the same temptations as you and I. Without a respect for higher law and its importance to a just society we cannot have real reform.

Eric
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson

"But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it . . . this one will be blessed in all he does." - James 1:25 NKJV