Saturday, November 27, 2010

Drinking the Cool-Aid


Definition of Cool Aid or C-A:    Perceived realities based on hope, dreams, expectations and desires.

What makes C-A more potent?

1. Intensity of Need
2. Real or perceived expectation of eminent adverse Economic and/or social chaos
3. Group Think - Group Support:   
4. Hype - expectation of grandiose reward
5. Peer Pressure:  Manipulation of group members to retaliate or fear of retaliation including expulsion from group.


Symptoms of C-A Victims:

1. Animosity toward anyone that refuses to embrace the ideology or "Drink the Cool Aid"
2. Absence of accurate reporting:  Twisting, Spinning or Coloration of the Truth.
3. Fabrication of supporting documents, stories and general spinning of the facts.
4. Irrational behavior - social
5. Blind acceptance of a belief, argument or philosophy in the absence of critical analysis
6. Unwitting acceptance of information without investigation or due diligence.

Antidote:

1. Remove individual’s access to C-A - difficult to impossible

Saturday, November 13, 2010

COMMON SENSE MEETS LUNACY AND HYSTERIA


What we have here is “a failure to communicate”. I can see in my mind the subtle smirk on Paul Newman’s face when first he heard the warden speak those words in Cool Hand Luke. His character understood, as do I, that only the willing can be influenced to accept that which makes no sense. In the past two articles I have stressed the need to return to COMMON SENSE, to think outside the narrow confines of the de facto box which generations now have been trapped in. Today I understand what Luke knew, that people tend to adopt the path of least resistance and minimum interaction with any kind of sense when they are operating from a base of fear and desperation.  This brings me to disseminate the latest episode in the nationwide exodus away from sensible thinking.
Last Tuesday night there was a national call for all elected officials from each state in the Republic. The call was extremely well organized and orchestrated. It began with background information we have all heard a hundred times and then moved on to the Republic’s official historian of sorts. The historian stated he had an incredible epiphany over his morning coffee and breakfast that led him to recognize that the Constitution clearly states that we need only one representative and two senators from each state (Republic but for the sake of keeping separate I will use the word state), to form, convene and operate a lawful congress. It was this breakfast epiphany which brought forth the plan to arrange to bring a quorum of senators and house representatives out to Utah this weekend for the purpose of convening Congress in person and passing some 12 bills which the President is proposing. This he said would satisfy the need under Constitutional law for the Congress to meet “in person”.  (how that justifies the current call for “proxy” from those who will not attend astounds me, come on guys pick a story you either have to have the reps there in person or you don’t and the need to have them in person is the ONLY justification for the trip in the first place), GLARING LACK OF COMMON SENSE.
After the historian was finished speaking the call went into mass marketing mode. The hoopla began with speeches given to support the historian, instill a heightened level of urgency and even went so far as to scare the pants off the assembly by inserting claims of imminent invasion, death to our children and even the planet if we did not go along with the plan. No justification in the form of proof was offered just rhetoric which sadly the American people are pre-disposed to suck up like barrels of Kool Aid. The only missing ingredient to this event was COMMON SENSE.
I will give credit where credit is due, the Marketing Plan was very well put together so well that the first thing which comes to mind is that it could have been so well orchestrated between the historians breakfast and 10pm est. that evening. Now that’s a poser, or is it? Just before the announcement came out via email from the media team for the call I had been on the phone with an individual who informed me of the plan and told me that it had been in the works for weeks. I am not talking about the Utah event having been in the works, everyone already knew that. I am talking about the plan to convene Congress there, the plan that supposedly came by epiphany that morning. 
Before I go further with this missive I will state unequivocally, I have no wish to see this Republic destroyed, delayed or in any way harmed. In fact my only wish is to see it succeed but I know that in order to affect that outcome it must be done lawfully and documented to stand the test of time lest we find ourselves trading one form of slavery for another or even perhaps the same one.
In order for COMMON SENSE to play a part some facts must be brought forth, some uncomfortable and others simply historical that most in this nation have never been taught.
Fact number one is that we are currently operating under NO CONSTITUTION, Congress is not Congress because they are operating under the Declaration of Independence which makes them at best a Continental Congress, without having done any of the following:
·         Name the Nation (which was voted on in the Senate but not the House)
·         Adopt a national Law Form ie; The Holy Bible as the founders did
·         Establish the metes and bounds for the nation (this one is sticky)
·         Bring forth and consider, adopt and have ratified by the states a final Constitution or Charter of law for the nation.
·         Congress has not elected lawfully a President or Vice President. Without a Law Form and a Ratified Constitution how could they? President of what? Vice President of what?
·         According to the Constitution if we even had one, the acceptance vote which was done in the first tele conference convening included Governors, Justices, and Media Team. Null and Void under lawful structure.
As always I ask you not to believe me but to consult history and historical documents, experts outside the current leadership and your own COMMON SENSE. Just because a person has been appointed the official historian certainly does not make his opinions correct. Consider the following research:
The organic Constitution expressly prohibits more than one Representative to represent LESS than thirty thousand people. That much is correct and instructive. Congressional delegations should immediately be reduced to one Representative and two Senators per State Republic if we
are actually RESTORING the Republic to a specific point in time (such as the end of 1860). There can be no justification for a larger number as no State Republic currently has more than thirty thousand members. (See Article I, Section 2, Clause 3.)


Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 (see below) any attempt to interpret it to mean that members of the House or Senate may be present in Congress via telephone or by proxy is an outright perversion of the definition of the word "Attendance" as well as the original intent of this clause. This twisting of historical vernacular is a favorite trick of the de facto when claiming our Constitution is a “Living Document”. If you watch the Rose Bowl Game on your television can you then claim to have “been there”? Of course not! This perversion of switch-words will set a very dangerous precedent for future governmental hanky panky as we have all seen and been subject to for over a hundred years.

Attendance: the action or state of going regularly to or being present at a place or event.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1: 
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.


As an unforeseen result of the apparent decision to restore the nation to a given point in history as opposed to creating a New Nation, you may be interested in knowing that depending upon who was elected to their position FIRST, that person is designated, by law, to serve as the acting President of the RuSA until the next national election can be held. Right now that means the Senate Pro Tem as he was elected before the Speaker of the House.

According to the law, as it existed between 1792 and 1860, and the Constitution during that time, neither the President nor Vice President have been properly elected to their offices. The President can only be elected by the House of Representatives when, in joint session of Congress, tallying the ballots after a national election, no presidential candidate receives a majority of the votes cast by the ELECTORS appointed/chosen by the States to vote for the President and Vice President. (See Amendment XII.)

When no properly-held national election has occurred, there being no properly-elected President or Vice President to assume the office of President, the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 applies, which states that the President pro tempore of the Senate is to act as President until a national election can be held. This is the case at the moment. What that means is that the person elected to become the President pro tempore becomes the lawfully-acting President until a national election can be held. Did you know this?

But, there's even another twist... If there is no President pro tempore, the Speaker of the House becomes the lawfully-acting President until a national election can be held. This means that, in the current situation, if the Speaker of the House is chosen before the President pro tempore, the Speaker becomes acting President. If the President pro tempore is chosen before the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore becomes acting President. There is also NO provision for filling the vacant office of Vice President.

If you don't think that complicates things enough, the statute requires notice of the election to be made by the Secretary of State at least thirty-four days before the first Wednesday in December (12/1/2010), otherwise the next ensuing first Wednesday in December (12/7/2011), meaning that the acting President will lawfully remain President until the third day of March 2012.

The above research (only a small portion of all that was done)  was brought forth by a very intelligent and dedicated person who since has been utterly renounced by the Republic Executive branch as being a bi-polar raving lunatic, that he has been voted out and kicked out of the Republic. Hmm, this begs the question, when did we acquire an official national Psycho Analyst and when did this individual examine this man to arrive at such a diagnosis? The second imperative question becomes, by whose authority can an individual be kicked out of the Republic? This issue should raise some eyebrows clear to ones hairline. If in fact the man is a bi-polar raving lunatic he must also be an idiot savant because he cites historical fact done by excellent research directly from founding documents not a rambling opinionated diatribe of deranged hyperbole. As for me, I will take the lunatic’s COMMON SENSE over the national historian’s convenient views any day, especially when much of the documentation being brought forth for our consideration from that quarter is rife with de facto terms and forms not to mention RAP layers of assembly type intent.  Never mind the fact that said national historian has already attempted twice to effectively “throw me under the bus” with false witness.
The third issue I raised above was the establishment of metes and bounds and I stated, “this one is sticky”. Why is it sticky? Well first there is the obvious reason that since there are at least 9 states which currently are not part of the Republic, we would have no authority to include them in the national boundaries but if we can for a moment ignore that pesky fact we might look deeper. If we are to accept the false claim that we are indeed operating under a “Constitution” circa 1787, 89 or 91, take your pick, there are 17 states which didn’t exist at that time and lawfully have no vote! Those states weren’t even territories then. Most were just part of a vast wilderness yet to be explored. Of course we don’t want to tell them they don’t exist and can’t have a voice because in our minds and theirs they are states in this Union. However I ask you, do we go forth on our feelings or do we go forth with lawful procedure. That of course was a rhetorical question to which I hope I know the answer. Those states MUST be presented with the CHOICE, officially and in writing from Congress in order to be a lawful part of the Republic. This has not been done so how do we include them in the boundaries lawfully? If all of that is not reason enough for stickiness, how about the obscure Oregon Treaty of 1846 which has never been rescinded?
Over the past weeks there is constant back pedaling and convenient switching going on. The President tells Congress over and over to convene and get the job done, that he cannot tell them what to do or how to do it. Yet the minute he is finished telling them the rest of the team prohibits them from doing as he has asked without media team and executive level intrusion and control and that they cannot have their own contact info for their congressional peers due to security issues. This is at best an oxymoron because anyone knows there is no such thing as a secure document on the internet for so many reasons it defies logic and certainly contains no COMMON SENSE. Sometimes actions are taken on the basis of having no working Constitution but then when it suits we suddenly do have one. Contradictions fly like a flock of scared geese, one after the other but the people, ordinary every day hard working intelligent adults operating from a basis of fear and desperation fail to see it. That alone is utterly amazing but considering the de facto mindset they have been so carefully instilled with, not really surprising in the end.
It is finally decided by the President that I should have the data base with the sworn agreement that I will share it with no person other than the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the senate unless he tells me otherwise. He then instructs the media team to give it to me. Instead of following the instructions the following day there is a two hour attack against me, my colleagues in the senate and house and indeed my state on a regular internet radio show. Falsely accusing us all of malicious intent. This resulted in apologies on the next call given by only two individuals but not the one truly responsible. (that’s another article for the future).  I gave my word to use the data base only to facilitate a way for Congress to convene under their power and control so they could get the job done. I had no other involvement than sending out call information. The President’s instructions were NEVER FOLLOWED and I WAS STILL NOT GIVEN THE DATA BASE.
As we have all seen many times since we started on this incredible journey there have been multiple “Divine Interventions”. One such intervention took place the following morning after the ridiculous radio broadcast, when suddenly I received the data base anonymously. When I checked the information I had thus far built on my own and after a few phone calls was satisfied that it was indeed the “REAL DEAL”, I set about fulfilling my obligation to President. The temporary speaker and pro tem set up call arrangements gave me the call info to send out and I did. Low and behold, dozens of bounce back emails ensued.  There were also many individuals with no email addresses or no phone numbers or both. I spent many hours on the telephone calling those I could and repairing a woefully incomplete data base chock full of typo’s and omissions. Over the coming days I was able to fix most of the problems except the ones deriving from people failing to empty their full email boxes. Even so I was accused of failing to notify representatives. Well this begs the question, how many were notified the day I made all these corrections who had never received prior notification of other calls and information?
I haven’t let the constant barrage of needling and baiting that has been thrown at me make the slightest difference in my task. On the Momentous Marketing call the other night I was asked to fork over the data base until a senator so nicely pointed out that I had given my word and was not likely to break it. Why then at that moment was it not said that the Media Team would at last provide it? Why call my work unreliable, inaccurate and suspicious and then demand I share it? COMMON SENSE has indeed left the building. National still has their original data base which they have kept from the people all this time so why would I be baited into breaking my word?
So here we are suddenly being told that everything is at stake if we don’t dig deep into our pockets and find the money to travel to Utah to attend the “Big Bash” and convene congress unlawfully for the purpose of voting on bills which we haven’t seen, are being said to be too sensitive to share and will be attached to what?
Absolutely nothing can be done in Utah which will be lawful without first addressing the issues I listed at the beginning of this article. How will people feel after sacrificing the time and money to travel there only to find out that it was all wasted because there is no authority to do what is being attempted in the first place? I don’t imagine they will be feeling very sympathetic when that sinks in.
Do they intend instead to covertly undo everything accomplished thus far and “start over” as it were with one representative from several states and thus removing other elected officials in those states from their positions? Do they intend to shove a version of the Constitution down the people’s throats for the purpose of completing the agenda? I certainly hope not folks because even the purest of those documents, that being the original Constitution of 1787 contains some serious faults and any document accepted by COMMON SENSE must be examined, adjusted, debated and adopted by Congress first and then ratified by the states in order to be lawful.
Even if all I have said is swept under a rug and ignored there remains one GLARING TRUTH. An unlawfully created and seated provisional government WILL NOT GAIN STANDING AND WILL NOT BE FUNDED.

There have been claims that the CIA has provided proof that some men in the upper national level are BUSH 41 plants and you’ve all heard that on the calls. I really must point out here that there are few of us left who don’t know who runs the CIA, George Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney so with that in mind in order to engage in COMMON SENSE you MUST ask yourself this………. Would it be in the CIA’s best interest to destroy the enemies in the Republic’s camp or would it serve them better to destroy the HONORABLE men to make way for the REAL PLANTS to complete their assignments?
There are many issues I haven’t even addressed in this article such as attempts to manipulate voting in the house and senate. Secret meetings and undo pressure being put on the President for private agenda and creating ghost threats on his life to keep him scared and unable to function reasonably  but until he sees that which is happening under his nose it is of no use for me to share. So I leave you with this thought. If you are determined to take part in this Utah dog and pony show and then find out you have been hoodwinked without sitting down and engaging in some good old COMMON SENSE, don’t for a moment think you will have the right to complain. Unless we put our collective foot down right here and now and get this job done right, lawfully and under Divine Providence we will have no right to complain and indeed will not be given that luxury as it will indeed be too late. This is about the REPUBLIC not about ONE MAN, a man I greatly respect, support and fear for but my fear is not of outside attack but from the inside.

Post Script;
My goal is not to rant and rave but to get reasonable responsible Americans to use their heads. Just think and ask these questions. Don’t take my word, don’t trust my judgment, TRUST YOUR OWN! Do not allow rampant LUNACY and HYSTERIA to rule your own COMMON SENSE!
  • Why has no promise EVER made by the Executive branch in the last 8 months, been fulfilled?
  • Why are the requirements and the process and direction changed every time we get close to the end result?
  • Why did the initial Thursday night teleconference call of congress which was supposed to arm the Executive branch with proof positive that a seated provisional government exists, fail to do that? Why suddenly we are being told that’s what Utah is all about? How many times, in how many ways must it be done?
  • Why has every person who dared to raise legitimate questions been swept away or vilified in some way?
  • Why after we finally achieve that which the President asked, convening congress and getting some work done is there a sudden rush to blind action and a whole new agenda? Could it be that the “intended” pro tem was not elected?
  • Why would you give a proxy for somebody else to vote on something you are not even aware of but yet you will trust them to know your mind and vote as you would? So, dear person if you have given your proxy please consider withdrawing it because you have no idea what your name will be put on nor do you know the possible consequences of actions taken on your behalf.
  • Why, if the reason for Utah is that there must be a convening of Congress in person is it even allowable to vote by proxy? Do you know the meaning of the word oxymoron? It seems closer to oxyorchestratedmoron to me.
  • Why even now have you not been given the data base by national? They know I have it. They know the silly web site access to it is not only unsecure in the extreme but unnecessary to boot so why make you beg me for it? Remember they have already put people up to asking me for information from it to which I refused, having given my word, so they are aware there is not a tinkers chance in you know where of me complying.
  • Since even if we were to get this done in three days time we still have no infrastructure, no military (and they will not come on board with a rinky dink operation that can’t even do things lawfully run largely by ex FEMA employees, radio jockeys and a retired cop turned gumshoe), no enforcement and no ability to effect the aftermath of the de facto collapse, why would you do this? Why would you rush out to Utah to take part in this absolute LUNACY?
  • If you believe as I do that the President is an honorable God fearing man, then who is pulling the strings and how? More to the point, why? Even more to the point, how is this truly wonderful man being convinced to go along with it?
Sit down, think, consider and remember all that we have done over the past months. Recognize the honor where it exists, the lies where they have surfaced and let’s get back to work restoring this nation by convening both houses and pick up the ball! All can be done and all can be fixed where need be.

GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC AND LONG MAY THE FLAG OF THIS GREAT NATION WAVE!




TLGA





Thursday, November 11, 2010

Thoughts on Authority


Working through the various proposals and conversations regarding the development of the Republic, I find myself mulling over the issue of authority within the context of leadership. More specifically, the matters of scope and application of authority as exercised by the various branches of our expanding provisional government is of particular interest.
At times like this I wish I had a far greater grasp and knowledge of the early history of our country, particularly as it relates to the manners in which governing authority was exercised by the first Congress and President Washington. However, it is abundantly clear that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution named freedom and equality as values of paramount importance. Our forefathers were done with the heavy handed authority that was lorded over them by the King of England. So it makes sense that the system they devised had careful checks and balances built into it to prevent the abuse of authority by those who were appointed and elected into positions of leadership.
Somewhere I heard a powerful remark by Thomas Jefferson that goes something like this: “This system of government can succeed only if the individual citizen exercises personal responsibility and restraint . . . “I wish I could remember the rest of the quote, but what I do remember is enough to indicate that the freedom of each person could only be enjoyed as that person took responsibility for their own life.
However, the value of equality and emphasis on individual responsibility by free men and women did not carry the day for long. The base temperament of fallen Man soon took over, and as it always does in the hands of flesh-driven humanity, servant authority turned into control and manipulation through deception. Generally speaking, that is the essence of why our government “of/by the People” became a top-down corporate structure that seeks only to control the people for the advancement and benefit of a few warped leaders at the top of the heap.
“Authority” is defined as “the power to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience”; “the right to act in a specified way, delegated from one person or organization to another”, and; “the power to influence others”. The first definition is why it is so easy for an unscrupulous person to shift from authority to control, which is defined as “the power to direct peoples behavior or the course of events”, or “a means of limiting or regulating something”.
Business, financial, and political leaders are not the only ones who abuse their authority. I remember a Hungarian pastor who attended a leadership conference I taught in Central Europe a few years ago. After a lively discussion on the difference between Law and Grace as represented in the Old and New Covenants, he commented: “I agree with everything you are saying about Godʼs gifts of freedom and grace to his people, made possible through Christs death and resurrection, but I could never teach that to my people.” When I asked why, he responded: “Because I would lose all control of them!”
Seemingly, there are many people of faith in the Republic, but lets not assume that belief in God automatically guarantees wise, servant-focused leadership. That confused Hungarian pastor is not alone. A large percentage of pastors in this country have somehow missed the fact that the New Testament nowhere presents a pulpit-focused, top-down leadership structure manned by one person called a “Senior Pastor”. To the contrary, the leadership structure Paul presented to the early Church was a pluralistic structure composed of a group of elders. Sometimes a lead elder was appointed by Paul due to the newness of a given church, but never do we read or hear about a leadership structure that included the role of “senior pastor”. Local expressions of the Body of Christ are also designed to be all about Gods presence in, to, through, and for his people - not about a strong leader with a golden tongue.
Abuse of leadership in the Church is one reason why George Barna, in his book“Revolution”, claims that more than twenty million American Christians have withdrawn from local churches because they consider the environment to be “detrimental to their Christian experience and spiritual growth”. And we can all site examples of heavy handed Christian leaders who used their position to browbeat their constituents into submission.
To my chagrin I have to admit my own failures over the years to lead from a place of servant hood and humility. There have been times not only in past ministry stations, but also in my own family, when I felt “out of control” and reacted by issuing orders and manipulating people into subjection rather than influencing them through grace, love, and patience. Ive also been on the receiving end of exceptionally poor leadership, some of it carried out behind the cloak of “Biblical Law”.
The 613 laws of Moses were fulfilled by Christ on the cross. With the advent of the New Covenant he taught that the entire Mosaic Code could be summed up in one law – the Law of Love. The writer to the Hebrews referred to the covenant of law as “obsolete”, and in his letter to the Galatians the Apostle Paul described Old Covenant law as “the ministry of death and condemnation”. So if were going to wave the Bible as our guidelets wave it intelligently and accurately: The rule by which we now live is the “law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus”, not a set of harsh dos and donts.
Free people just dont respond well to “enforced obedience”, or being “limited or regulated”, which is exactly why there are so many freedom movements in our country right now, and why Gods people are rejecting institutionalized “churchianity”. It is why the American Revolution happened in the first place, and it is why we will do well to lead from our knees. That is the posture of a true servant-leader who lives and thinks in the reality that God is the One True Authority in the Universe, and that the authority he extends to us is only for the purpose of lovingly serving the people to whom he has called us.
Let’s constantly remind ourselves and each other that the people we are called to serve are free. They dont want or need our oversight, but truly desire our trust, affirmation, encouragement, and facilitation. Letʼs look to God for the wise humility to serve them according to his plan and purpose, because in his sight we are all equal.


Derryck MacLuhan
Senator Elect for Georgia Republic