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The Simple-Ideas Occasional
A publication dedicated to the study and celebrationof common sense and repeatable experiments
Robert L. Nuckolls, III
Medicine Lodge, KS
Number 005, Rev C, August 10, 2010
The Most Destructive Disease on the Planet
A significant portion of our nations population is falling
victim to a new viral infection and its not the swine flu,
bird flu, or any infection that demanded cultural notice in
our past. However, this virus is demonstrably more deadly
than anything our society has ever faced.
Most organisms derive from a common ancestor and
branch out evolving into new organisms as conditionsdemand. This virus is different. Its a joining of many
similar variants that have afflicted human kind for
thousands of years. The virus is deadly. Every time a
strain of the historical virus propagated to a majority of the
population, the culture died. A population weakened by
unchecked progression of the disease reaches a tipping
point beyond which it can no longer sustain itself.
Bacteria are single cell organisms. In favorable
surroundings they are independently capable of dividing
to grow their population. When deprived of favorable
conditions for life, they die. Bacteria are vulnerable to
specific poisons which we call antibiotics. Treatment with
antibiotics is relatively quick and usually takes a few days.
Further, a colony of bacteria infecting a host can most
often be completely destroyed.
Viruses multiply but are totally parasitic. They must take
over the mechanism of a favorable cell in a living host.
Thus they are completely dependent upon a living host.
When the immune system of the infected host recognizes
a virus as an invader it generates antibodies antagonistic
to the virus. Viruses may be only subdued or held at bay
by the hosts immune system. The virus may linger on or
in the host - laying dormant until conditions for new
infection are discovered perhaps in a new host. Dormant
viruses are enduring and constantly vigilant . . . waiting
for an opportunity to gain footing in a new population of
hosts.
The virus Im describing is not your run-of-the-mill
organism. This virulent bug has been present in our
environment for thousands of years. Further, it did not
come into existence and thrive by the usual evolutionary
biological steps. This infection has gained strength and
destructiveness by merging with many symbiotic viruses
over centuries. Ancient manifestations of the virus have
collectively caused great suffering in humankind for
thousands of years. Now, this amalgamated super-bug is
in a position to threaten entire nations and perhaps even
the planet.
The disease manifests itself in obsessive-compulsive, self-
destructive behavior. Weve heard of individuals who
incessantly bite their fingernails or pick at imaginary sores
on their skin. Progress of these illnesses may be slow but
without remedy or restraint they are relentless. Ultimately
the victim destroys the use of their fingers. Perhaps their
they succumb to infection which invades their body
through self-inflicted injury. This makes the virus unique
in terms of its mortality. While not physiologically
debilitating, the virus causes behaviors that promotes a
host of risky and ultimately lethal behaviors. The untreated
host ultimately dies not from the disease itself but from
secondary mishap.
Casual witnesses to early stages of infection might
discount the hosts behavior as an innocuous aberration.
But left untreated for months or even years, the effects can
be astounding, horrifying and are ultimately terminal. This
virus produces a psychotic fog that prevents victims from
projecting present trends into the future. Infected
individuals progressively chip away at one or more
features of their existence but with no sense of prediction.
When self inflicted damage becomes too great to survive
they are oblivious to the inevitable.
The virus does not propagate by touch, breathing the air or
by ingestion of food. Nor does it thrive by taxing
resources of living cells. This virus propagates through a
hosts language of communication and thought. It is not an
organism of genetic materials but an organism of ideas. It
is a virus of the mind.
The virus is relentless and progressive with effects
reaching far into the future. Relentless in that an infected
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individual offered total relief of all symptoms today will
return tomorrow with new symptoms and still greater
discomfort. Hence, the disease is eternally progressive in
the destruction of its host and the community in which it
is allowed to thrive.
Similar intellectual infections have demonstratedprogressive traits over thousands of years. Theyve been
called communism, socialism, fascism, and dozens of
other names normally associated with a political or
economic ideology. Characteristics common to these
legacy infections are suppression of individual freedom,
lack of empathy for the destruction visited upon the
society, and total disregard for the inevitable consequences
of suffering or even death when the disease is free to run
its course.
Host victims of the virus exhibit a range of obsessive-
compulsive behaviors. They embrace and defend an
ideology that is guaranteed not only to bring about
destruction of the host but the very environment upon
which the host depends for survival. Victims are hard
pressed to relate the effects of their pathology to those of
past victims. Sufferers of the disease have no core, no
irrevocable, inarguable code of behavior that bonds them
to others with common values.
The most afflicted victims of this intellectual pathogen
will say anything, advance any idea and endorse any
means by which an idea is promoted. They seem oblivious
to their own words and actions (perhaps only days old)
that demonstrate them to be deceitful and fraudulent.
Behavior of carriers of this disease is best described as
despotic progressivism.
It is despotic because the infected individual has no
empathy for any other human being . . . it is the antithesis
of honorable behavior that loves and protects liberty.
It is progressive in that a carriers goals are perpetually
expanding. There is no acme of achievement to be
realized. It follows then that if every incremental
achievement is destructive, then the end is realized only
after the destruction and death are total.
Let us call it DesPro for short
For many years the infection was relatively powerless or
insufficiently concentrated to offer a serious national
threat but it has been with us almost since our nations
beginning. But now, an ignorant and unwary citizenry has
allowed the disease to take deep roots in our society. The
disease has three stages of development. Stage 1
(moochers) infects the easily inoculated ignorant who
succumb to smiling faces uttering comforting words that
promise a better life at the expense of somebody else.
Moochers are essential to the sustenance of Stage 2 and
Stage 3 carriers who I will characterize as soldiers and
looters.
Examples of Stage 1 infection are to be found throughoutour nations population. The soldiers of DesPro infection
are experts at suggesting victimization, guilt and fear.
Their techniques are particularly enhanced if they are
applied with a sense of urgency handed down from the
ruling class of looters. The watchword of the looter,
Never let a good crisis go to waste . . . invent one if you
need to.
Potential hosts are encourage to believe they are victim of
some condition over which they have no control. Ive
suggested in other essays that life is built upon
foundations of simple-ideas. While life is simple, it is not
necessarily easy. Particularly when looters discover the
power they possess by keeping the Stage 1 carriers and
candidate carriers ignorant. Ignorance breeds confusion,
helplessness and compliance the with guidance handed
down from the ruling class of looters and soldiers.
Alternatively, they might be told that they are members of
an immoral group. Perhaps their great, great, grand father
owned slaves. Perhaps their parents drive too nice a car,
live in too big a house, consume more than their fair
share of resources. Perhaps some natural or man-made
calamity is causing great discomfort and suffering that
demands our collective donation to a cause. These are
conditions under which the DesPro infection can spread
like a wind driven fire through the forest. Nothing gets aDesPro infected leadership more energized than wide-
spread, natural or created, real or imagined calamity.
No matter what ideas are advanced by teachers pretending
to be benevolent and caring, moochers are taught that
salvation and comfort will come if they simply vote some
looter into office.
Stage 2 manifests in teachers and leaders who call
themselves moderate and constantly utter platitudes like
bi-partisan, willing to negotiate, meeting the
opposition half-way, insuring access to our fair share,
protection of the workers, doing it for the children,protecting the planet, feeding the hungry, ministering
to the sick, sacrifice for the greater good, etc. These
righteous, smoothly delivered motivations are more than
can be counted and new ones are conjured up every day.
Soldiers and looters have a compulsion to wield any and
all power over individuals. DesPro soldiers may occupy
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important positions of leadership and management in our
societys institutions including legislatures, unions, boards
of education, city commissions, teachers, police
departments, etc. Many are elected to office but most are
simply employees of a system established and ruled by the
looters. One might call them, looters in training.
Soldiers are constantly honing proficiency in capturingthe loyalty and electoral support of moochers and
indoctrinating more moochers into their culture of helpless
and ignorant.
Stage 3 manifests in individuals have transited through
earlier stages of the illness and have acquired power to
generate law. In many societies, stage 3 carriers are simply
dictators. They are not burdened with tedious charades of
passing ideas through filters of unconstrained, legislative
bodies. Their very words carry the force of law as soon as
they are spoken. Our society is plagued with many such
individuals intent upon extending their cadre of obedient
followers to include all inhabitants of our nation, citizen or
not.
Power is oft wrested from honorable individuals by what
is claimed to be an honorable election process. Victims of
the infection are incapable of empathetic honorable
behavior, thus any tool for adjusting the outcome of an
election becomes a justifiable means by which the desired
end is achieved.
At the street level, soldiers and looters thrive by
intimidation and threats of physical force. Street gangs
must forage community assets to acquire benefits.
However, when looting is established by law and enforced
with guns, the institutionalized DesPro soldier is relievedof the need to forage for benefits. Benefits to the soldiers
are delivered by the simple stroke of a pen on a document
that codifies their ability to take what they want relatively
free of risk from a lawfully compliant populace.
Resistance is quickly and easily repressed because the
looters and soldiers are sanctioned by law to protect
themselves and their mission.
Looters and soldiers are incapable of offering recipes for
civilized success based on wisdom, experience, common
sense, knowledge of history or dedication to honorable
behaviors. The looters have converted the law to a tool of
plunder. The law is enforced by men with guns to achievegoals of total dominance over every one supported
democratically either by a majority of moochers or an
effective suppression of honorable behavior. When a
particular goal is thwarted by an absence of necessary law,
the well placed looter wrapped in a mantle of democracy
crafts new law by proclaiming a mandate from the
majority of soldiers and moochers. The looter monarch
simply says, Do it!.
Honorable and infection-free citizens entering community
of federal employees are exceedingly vulnerable to
infection. Sending honorable individuals to Washington
is akin to encounters Star Treks super villains, the Borg.Hapless visitors to a Borg community are greeted with:
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
For honorable individuals be become accepted members
of a DesPro infected community, they need to show
positive signs of infection. Words like, cooperation,
bipartisan and moderate are music to the DesPros
ears. As soon as the most honorable individual can be
induced to embrace even the smallest fraction of the
DesPro agenda, the hook is in. Its simply a matter of time
before the new member is either marginalized to
insignificance reeled in for full assimilation. If the new
member to a DesPro community does not show signs of
weakness in their understanding and resolve, they are at
risk for severe attack upon their liberty. If the inductee
proves too troublesome, they are suppressed, and vilified
if not destroyed.
US citizens have lived a sheltered existence in a protective
and nurturing nation founded by good students of a
horrifying history of their own era. Their foresight and
courage offer a clear and powerful vaccination against this
terrible disease. But vaccinations never given offer no
benefit. The vaccination can only be delivered and re-
enforced with understanding and knowledge of how the
disease spreads.
At one time, knowledge and understanding was offered by
honorable parents, teachers and members of a civilized
community. Our comfortable and indolent complacence,
has allowed the disease to achieved a major foothold in
our nation. It didnt happen in weeks, months or years.
James Norton, Frederic Bastiat, Thomas Paine, and many
others have offered clear insight and chronicled spread of
the disease in the United States going back more than two
centuries.
From its very beginning, our nation was plagued with
various carriers of DesPro. Thomas James Norton(2) has
chronicled a series events in both state and nationallegislatures from about 1880 and carrying through the
administrations of Harry Truman. It would be interesting
to see a revision to this body of work to evaluate things
like The Community Redevelopment Act, The Patriot Act,
health care reform, finance reform, the nationalization of
banks and General Motors, and the creation of hundreds of
regulatory agencies that are empowered to tell any citizen
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what he/she must do under threat of force.
Stage 2 infection is clearly exemplified by a majority of
the current United States congress and judicial system.
Keep in mind that this disease is not selective. It will
happily invade individuals who claim a variety of party
affiliations, political ideologies, and social aspirations.The honorable politician would never vote for any
legislation that attacks the liberty of any citizen. But in the
spirit of cooperation, bipartisanship and scratch my back
and Ill scratch yours, virtually every member of congress
manifests the effects of DesPro infection.
Stage 2 infection runs rampant in our schools where
teachers seek to spread the doctrines of perpetual pursuit
of transient pleasures and comfortable sustenance at
somebody elses expense. The school systems have
become adept at producing populations of moochers who
are expected to vote for the looter who promises the most
benefit from somebody elses production.
The disease now infects a majority of the voting
population. Friendly, hypnotic urging of stage 2 carriers
spreads the virus to millions of citizens of all ages at an
alarming pace. The sheer weight of numbers is about to
overwhelm our system for vaccination against the disease.
The disease plaguing our nation no longer manifests as
any particular variant of past infections. This new
infection is an amalgam of the worst characteristics of all
historical manifestations - an intellectual pathogen of
unimaginable ability to destroy its hosts. The disease seeks
dominance over the hosts resources by what ever
philosophy sounds good at the moment but withastounding lack of empathy and ruthless dedication to the
mission: Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated . . .
or destroyed.
Propagation of the Disease
DesPro carriers of any stage are predisposed to infecting
others. Its not a difficult mission. The symptoms of
DesPro exemplify humankinds baser motivations. DesPro
carriers are in perpetual pursuit of transient pleasures.
Further, anything that relieves them of responsibility for
assuaging their own discomfort is welcomed no matter
who else pays for it.
Many adults not already vaccinated against the disease are
easily infected. Classrooms for children are fertile ground
for spreading the DesPro virus. Over 200 years ago,
Frederick Bastiat warned:
But when you resettle a nation with a past into a
new country, the skill of the legislator rests in the
policy of permitting the people to retain no
injurious opinions and customs which can possibly
be cured and corrected. If you desire to prevent
these opinions and customs from becoming
permanent, you will secure the second generation
by a general system of public education for the
children. A prince or a legislator should never
establish a colony without first arranging to send
wise men along to instruct the youth...
Indeed, DesPro infected leadership has been intent upon
molding our nation in accordance with their own ideas
over several generations of progressive commandeering of
public education. Young citizens entering our public
schools are fertile hosts for DesPro infection. Our sense of
honorable citizenship is crippled by a generation of
parents who are equally ignorant of their own exposure
and infection by the virus.
Once given charge of children, the DesPro infected
educator propagates the disease by rewarding
incompetence, suppressing independence, suppressing or
even punishing exemplary behavior, and teaching that
certain humans are entitled to value confiscated or
extorted from others without having to reciprocate.
DesPro infected teacher tell our children that failure can
be excused for a host of dishonorable reasons. We teach
that success is more a function of luck than honorable,
independent self-sufficiency. They teach that individuals
successful at producing the most popular goods and
services are evil or greedy. The most successful are
targeted for vilification or even institutionalizedpunishment at the hands of Stage 2 and 3 carriers free to
craft and enforce the appropriate law.
Many of our nations teachers would have us believe that
providers of goods and services deemed essential by the
government should do so with benevolence even if it
destroys the mechanism by which that produce comes into
existence.
Children are taught early on that resisting the effects of
DesPro infection will be punished. The very young are
subject to simple denigration. Make them ashamed of any
tendencies for honorable behavior. Older students who donot demonstrate allegiance to lessons-taught will be
punished more harshly with attacks upon their liberty.
The DesPro infected teacher is silent on honorable
behavior, exemplary achievement and independent self-
sufficiency. Excellence in these traits are the DesPro
carriers worst nightmare. They understand that the child
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with an honorable and self-sufficient disposition is
exceedingly resistant to infection. It is essential that the
student first become dependent and then willing to at least
vote in favor of mitigating discomfort by confiscating
value from others where ever it may be found.
Many of todays parents are students of infected teachersand are themselves Stage 1 carriers of DesPro. Once
infected, they cease to understand what they dont know.
They are incapable of guiding and inoculating their own
children from infection.
Effective propagators of DesPro are purveyors of fiction.
Here we can easily identify a host of situations where a
DesPro carrier offers their talents to an audience of current
or prospective carriers. Effective tools of propagation can
include printed words in books, newspapers, letters and
Internet articles. When DesPro infected teachers are
lacking common sense, critical thinking skills, literary
skills and fundamental knowledge of life, they can still
prepare fertile minds of our children for the preferred
DesPro propagation process delivered by skilled actors.
Print and screen presentations are powerful DesPro
propagation tools. They offer an opportunity to distract the
mind. DesPro can only take hold if common-sense and
critical thinking are put on hold. Screen heros battle
hoards of bad guys shooting really big guns and setting
off huge fireball explosions. The hero survives with no
worse than a flesh wound; the heroines seldom experience
worse than a disordered hairdo. Yet they prevail against
the most evil of DesPro carriers in the story.
DesPro infected screen writers are skilled at giving lip-service to honorable, independent self-sufficiency. But
its interesting to note that the most famous of the
Hollywood personalities do not participate in free-market
exchanges of goods and services. They have no
employees, no stock holders, no talents to create a product
that would draw customers into stores and provide steady
jobs for workers. Yet they are among the highest paid
individuals in our culture. They are conspicuous
consumers of luxury but among the most dis-functional
when it comes to relationships with other individuals.
But we are taught that these screen invincibles should be
revered as role models for the rest of us . . . particularlyour children. Its interesting to note that many screen
personalities are literally worshiped by the community of
DesPro carriers. . . especially if their musical, screen or
literary works favor the behaviors of DesPro infected
society. DesPro carriers in Hollywood are artful liars who
receive stellar rewards for repeatedly convincing us they
are something or somebody that they are not . . . and like
most of our legislators they make millions of dollars for
doing it well.
It follows then that many of our fellow citizens strive for
similar stature. Professional sports comes to mind as an
arena where a few individuals make millions of dollars to
tickle the vicarious fantasies of the citizenry. Yet at theend of the game, no new value has been added to our
culture. No diseases have been conquered, no new and
useful products developed, no new technology discovered.
Citizens walk away from such events all psyched up and
excited while remaining totally oblivious to the evil that
surrounds them.
Popular entertainment media is the intellectual anesthetic
needed by DesPro soldiers and looters to distract the
moochers and even the honorable but unwary citizen from
things that really matter.
The effects of DesPro infection have become profound in
some locations. Greece and Spain are on the verge of
collapse. California, Illinois and Michigan are wobbling
on the edge of bankruptcy. These are examples of
economies where laws put in place by looters have taxed
the productivity of the citizens so severely that the most
productive individuals have been crushed under the weight
of DesPro driven taxation or simply fled.
Similar flirtation with collapse is pending in many states
and many countries around the world. In every case, one
simply needs to examine the policies of the makers of law
and theyll see both the manifestation and the effects of
DesPro infection at its worst.
Identification of the Disease
On several occasions, polio and small pox have been
called eradicated but only after a concentrated,
professional effort that placed a lot of demands on
societies for the wielding of effective tools. In spite of
claims for success, risk for acquiring these diseases is not
zero. The organism is not extinct. It exists. Cases pop up
from time to time. Accurate laboratory identification and
rapid response keeps the potential for pandemic at bay.
The DesPro virus is a more terrible threat. Unlike small
pox and polio, its not an organism external to the humanbody for which there are positive vaccinations. The
lingering potential for re-emergence does not come from
organisms living in the wild . . . its genetic. Every human
being carries the gene.
Weve often heard individuals speak of various
imperatives for the survival of human kind. Ill suggest
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that human kind is very much at risk but not from external
influences. Humans are unique in that they will attack
their own species for benefit or even pleasure, sometimes
on a terrible scale. Humans will befoul their own nests.
Humans will routinely engage in self-destructive
behaviors.
Humans refuse to conform to the simple laws of nature
where survival of the fittest rules. Human communities
may be populated with individuals whos assets range
from opulence to abject poverty. Those who possess too
much are prime stimulus for latent DesPro to emerge in
individuals who decree that perceived surplus must be
confiscated and given to those with too little. Attempts
to raise up the poor by taxing the rich have failed
repeatedly for thousands of years. Its been failing in our
nation for over a century of trying.
Modern manifestations of Stage 3 disease have been
demonstrated to us in the person and behavior of
individuals like Pinochet of Chili, Marcos of the
Philippines, Edi Amin of Uganda, Hussein of Iraq, Pol Pot
of Cambodia, Hitler of Germany, Stalin of Russia . . .
sadly the list is very, very long.
I leave it to the honorable reader to consider individuals in
positions of power in our nation today. Which among
them have demonstrated the symptoms of DesPro
infection? Who among them has fought to make the law a
tool of plunder as opposed to a tool of justice?
Have any among them has complained loudly and publicly
about legislative, regulatory and judicial attacks upon the
liberty of honorable citizens? How many have achievedthe trust of the voters by claiming to be moderate,
cooperative, bipartisan, or in favor of doing good
works?
Ill leave it to the honorable reader to consider those who
would call themselves teacher? Which among them offers
understanding of simple-ideas. Ingredients that went into
recipes for success in this nations brief history. Which
one teaches that putting your hands on the person or
property of an honorable individual without their
permission is a violation of their liberty? Are there any
teachers that speak out when the legislature strays from
constitutional duties to cultivate opportunity and protectliberty?
I leave it to the honorable reader to consider their personal
duty to family, friends and community to identify and
expose DesPro carriers. Work first to remove them from
positions of power. Second, attempt to vaccinate them
against the disease with explanations, demonstrations, and
historical study of the successes of honorable, self-
sufficient citizens of a free-market, democratic republic.
This is the best education that we can pass to our
descendants. Educate by living the honorable life, not by
turning the task over to somebody else.
Finally, I leave it to the honorable reader to consider
appropriate mandates for elected officials. How about
NEVER voting for any legislation that attacks the liberty
of ANY individual? How about dismantling any
institution of government that attacks the liberty of any
individual? How about sending legislators to the capitols
to become teachers by example of honorable behavior as
opposed to looters?
The job is really quite simple. Not easy but simple. DesPro
infected leadership would have us believe that life is
complicated. Too complicated to be understood an
managed by mere mortals bred to dependence and
ignorance by those same leaders. Our survival as a nation
depends on identification, opposition and purging our
institutions of power of individuals who preach life is
complicated, but becomes easy when you turn all that is
important into THEIR capable hands.
Combating the Disease
Like polio and smallpox, there are folks who may be
disposed to claim victory and declare that this or any other
disease has been eradicated. But in the world of
pathogens, its almost a sure bet that the organisms that
cause the disease are in existence someplace on the planet.
They may not presently manifest themselves by infectinghumans . . .but theyve not gone away.
There are people who have taken on the task of monitoring
for new outbreaks of diseases that have demonstrated
devastating behaviors among human populations. These
folks KNOW from past history that if allowed to run
unopposed, all of these eradicated diseases can seed a
pandemic that is just as violent (if not more so) than ever
before.
Not only are there systems in place attentive to the
potential for new outbreaks, vaccines have been developed
which offer humans considerable resistance if not totalimmunity to new infection.
DesPro is different. There are characteristics within the
human genes that make all individuals susceptible to
infection. Further, unlike organic viruses which propagate
when favored with random circumstances of motion and
contact with un-infected humans, DesPro is deliberately
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and often skillfully propagated by individuals infected
with the disease. The more power and mobility enjoyed by
the infected persons, the more successful they will be in
propagating the malady. The greatest risk is realized when
members of democratically elected government are
severely infected. Dangerous because they have assumed
the mantle of leadership within their society combinedwith what they feel is a mandate from the majority of
citizens who voted. Once a despotic progressive is given
the opportunity to use the force of law, the populace over
which they have control is at serious risk of economic,
cultural destruction. It has happened before. It is
happening right now in the United States of America.
There is a simple vaccine against the disease. Its call
honorable behavior. Its a vaccine delivered by parents,
neighbors, teachers and righteous leadership. The most
successful delivery of the vaccine is accomplished in small
doses over the lifetimes of the citizens of any nation.
Effectiveness of the vaccination is greatly enhanced when
honorable behavior is taught by all honorable citizens to
every other citizen beginning with parents on behalf of
their children, civic teachers and leadership, and finally by
the highest holders of public office in the nation.
The United States is currently suffering from a pandemic
of the disease. It has taken a strong hold over congress,
administration and judicial branches of our government.
These individuals in turn have enlisted millions of soldiers
who are similarly infected. They are employed at taxpayer
expense in hundreds of bureaucratically managed agencies
intent upon achieving saturation of this terrible infection.Its not clear that the tipping point has been reached but
its certainly very close.
Its the duty of all honorable citizens to resist by
exercising their duty to go to the polls and vote the
dishonorable legislators out of office. Its also a duty of
honorable citizens to join efforts to dismantle hundreds of
agencies and to fire millions of infectees from their
positions of power.
The bottom line is that there is no feature of the
Constitution that give our government the power to tell
any honorable citizen to do anything. Anyone who claims
that such charters exist have telegraphed themselves a
victim to the DesPro infection. There are peaceful
remedies that MIGHT still be enough to reverse this
terrible trend.
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(1) The Law a pamphlet published in 1860 by Frederick Bastiat. Copies available at http://bastiat.org/en/ and
http://www.freelythinking.com/The_Law.pdf
(2) Undermining the Constitution: A history of lawless government by Thomas James Norton.http://www.barefootsworld.net/nortonuc.html
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