Our Constitution: An Inconvenient Frivolity?

From Human Events--Guns & Patriots:

Our Constitution, an Inconvenient Frivolity?


by Dr. Gerald Stephens



06/15/2010





We the People waged a war for independence from England, the most powerful nation in the world at the time, to establish freedom from tyranny. Although the people of that nation had effected an advanced system of constitutional governance, We the People determined that system to be imperfect to the purpose of fully protecting the Peoples’ inherent supreme natural rights.



We the People through an exhaustive process of deliberation and revision produced the Constitution and Bill of Rights. They are the rules by which We the People established and agreed to function as a society. Recognizing a probability that the rules may require amendment, We the People provided within the rules further rules to correct any inadequacy that may prevent full implementation for the inherent supreme natural rights of the citizen.



Article 5 – Amendment:





The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.



To make indelibly clear that the rules as established and ratified did not include every natural right possessed by a citizen and to guard against misuse of Article 5, We the People inscribed Amendment 9.



Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.



Great debate swirled about the question of federal powers. Revisited time and again, We the People resolved the issue in plain English with Amendment 10.



Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People:



The powers not delegated to the United States (federal government –emphasis added) by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people



The Founding Fathers defined the natural rights of the citizen inviolable and supreme to any act(s) of man to the contrary. Provision for the defense and protection of the natural rights of the citizen in the free State was thus inscribed in Amendment 2.



Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed



The rules allow absolutely no provision for a president, a congress or a judiciary to perform any act contrary to those indelibly enumerated in the rules.



Examination of the record demonstrates multiple violations of the rules in the name of We the People by presidents, congress and the judiciary. The violations have in every case been justified through elected or appointed agents of We the People personally determining that the rules were Inconvenient.



We the People have in every instance been mandated to accept the violations because it is the law.



We the People are NOT obliged to obey any alteration of the rules contrary to those established by the rules without amendment of the rules as dictated in the rules.



We the People of the United States of America have a determined history of recognizing both domestic and foreign dangers to our very existence as the freest society of people in the world. It sometimes requires unusual events to illuminate such dangers.



Danger is again upon us in the form of a president, a congress, and judiciary totally ignoring the voices of We the People. They have declared OUR CONSTITUTION to be an INCONVENIENT FRIVOLITY.



The flagrant abuses and abusers are so prevalent that the horrendous is now commonplace. Election laws are violated with impunity and the organized criminal operatives protected by their affiliate political and jurist fellow travelers. Legislators at all levels of government brazenly perpetually increase and squander tax revenues to bribe and buy constituents. Special interests, corporate, legal, and others are openly courted and corrupted in return for support of and acquiescence to the corrupters.



The purposeful composition of the congress in two bodies, senate and house of representatives, was conceived as the means of diluting the potential for legislative abuse of the minority by a majority. Representatives of the house, being elected by population demographics, was recognized to possess a potential wherein states with large populations and popular causes or ideology would overwhelm minority positions.



A balance was struck whereby each state would have an equal number of senators. Members elected to the senate chamber by the entire population of a state were contemplated to be more deliberative on issues that affected the full population of the respective state, rather than a house member elected by a smaller number more prone to limited geographic or political considerations. Agreement to the language of proposed legislation by both chambers is required preceding presentation to the executive for signature and enactment.



In the event of a singular element controlling both houses of congress, and the executive, it was anticipated by the founders that the limitations of powers contained in the constitution were so constructed as to prevent usurpation of the natural rights of the citizen.



It was further anticipated that tyranny could arise to threaten the destruction of the system.



The Founding Fathers unequivocally reminded each citizen of their personal duty to protect and defend against any usurpation of their natural rights by domestic or foreign enemies through force of arms if required.



December 16, 2009 will mark the first of its kind, a blatant unconstitutional surrender of national sovereignty to an international organization by a president of The United States of America. On this date Mr. Obama issued an Executive Order amending (rescinding) an Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983 issued by President Ronald Reagan.



The issue is that of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL). The United States is a member. Interpol functions within our national jurisdiction by Act of Congress, Public Law 79-291, International Organizations Immunities Act. The law enumerates the terms and specified immunities under which an organization, designated as an international organization, is permitted to function within the jurisdiction of the United States of America.



President Reagan determined that the immunities granted under the original law to be contrary to national sovereignty. The existing language granted Interpol such immunities as to declare it above and not responsible to U. S. law and jurisdiction.



The Reagan Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983 struck from the existing enabling law, “…those provided by Section 2(c), the portions of Section 2(d) and Section (3) relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes, Section (4), Section (5), and Section (6) of that Act.”



Prior to the above Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, Section (2) read, “Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.” This section, if not struck, permitted Interpol an international police force, to exercise police powers violating provisions embedded in the Constitution of the United States of America.



Mr. Obama’s Executive Order of December 16, 2009 amending that of June 16, 1983 is unconstitutional for multiple reasons but most importantly it sets fourth a condition in law wherein an international organization is immune from and superior to the Constitution and

U.S. Law. Not surprising?



We the People demand a reversal of this usurpation.



Tyranny must not and shall not be tolerated. Our citizen constitutional scholars have gathered at the bulwarks in defense of our liberty and freedom from the tyranny of politicians and judiciary. Fellow patriots from across the length and breadth of the nation have assembled and are literally marching to once again seek redress of grievances and protect our way of life from despots.



Citizens, you are The United States of America! We must support the efforts or be forever doomed to violation and corruption of our supreme natural rights, the insanity of increasing deficits, economic collapse, national and state bankruptcy, domestic crisis, and inevitable civil strife if not civil war.







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Dr. Gerald Stephens is the President of LAKS Laboratories, a retired Chiropractic Physician and former United States Marine.



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