Total Chaos II

Hey Patriots:

Continuing on!!

“Scenario two:  After a few days, people notice that after the sun goes down, your house is the only house in the area that has lights.  So, one night, again about five days into the crisis, there is a knock on the door.  You look out the peephole, and notice a young woman with an infant in her arms.  Not feeling threatened, you open the door.  As you do, several men burst through, knock you down, pull out their weapons and demand that you give them all of your food and water.  They plunder your house, beat you and your family or maybe even kill you and your family and take over the house, which is now theirs.”

My son goes on to explain that there will be several types of people when the system fails:  the patriot prepared person, the takers, the meek and the military.  He tells me that the first to die will be the elderly and the children under ten.  The elderly will not be able to survive in the crisis because there will be no one to care for them.  The populace will be too busy trying to survive.  And, the young kids will not be able to fend for themselves against the hungry thirsty adults in a lawless society.

He told me that someone in the media interviewed a man about surviving in this kind of an emergency and the man flat out stated that he would not own anything, but that he would kill, murder his neighbors who had what he wanted.  If they had food, he would break in and kill them for their food. If they had water, he would break down their door and kill them for their water.  If they had gold and/or silver and it benefitted him, he would kill them and take it.  And, he would go from neighborhood to neighborhood killing and taking.

Then we went back to the, “What will you do when,” game.

What will you do when the takers, the marauders in full Kevlar body armor traveling in groups  of ten to one hundred find you and break down your door, take you prisoner, tie you up and make you watch while they forcibly and repeatedly rape your wife and daughter until you tell them where all of your valuables are hidden.  How much torture can you withstand?  What are you going to do when they strip you naked, strap you down in a chair, take out a ball peen hammer and start breaking the knuckles on your feet, then break the bones in your ankles and then break all of the bones in your hands?  How much pain can you endure?  What are you going to do when they take your testicles and crush them?  What are you going to do when they beat you unconscious, and you wake up hanging by your feet completely hairless and they start skinning you alive?  When they take your own skinning knife and start ripping large chunks of skin off of your body?  How long will it take before you tell them where all of your stores are?  Where your gold and silver are hidden?  How brave are you?  How much pain can you with stand?  What are you going to do when they cut your wife’s breast’s off right in front of you?  When they continuously sodomize your daughter in front of you?  When will you give it up?  There are ruthless, soul less people in this world and every creep that ever crawled out of the mud will try to hurt you to get, no, to take what is yours.  I don’t care if your army ranger, Green Beret, special black opts operative.  I don’t care if you can shoot the eye out of a squirrel running across the field two hundred yards away.  I don’t care if you were a sniper and can hit a target 1300 yards away.  You will lose! 

Let’s say these guys/gals come at you.  In anticipation, however, you have fortified your house.  You’ve upgraded to bullet proof glass.  You’ve switched out your doors for the heavy duty metal door.  You have your Kevlar body armor; as does the rest of your family.  You’ve taught your family how to shoot.  You are ready for battle.  They come at you.  And, being a ammunition conservative – that means, one bullet, one kill, you and your family manage to kill the first 5,000 that try to take what’s yours.  Then, having run out of ammunition, you take out the bows and kill another 20 or 30 enemy.  Now, they breech your defenses.  You take out your machete and commando knife and kill another five or six before they get you.  But, in the end, they do get you.  You lose!!!  End of story!!  Again, how much pain can you handle before you give it all up?  What are you going to do when bullets are more valuable than gold and/or silver?  In short, in the end you’re screwed and you’re dead.

Let’s look at another option.  Let’s say that you hook up with about ten other militia-survivalist patriots.  You all get together, find a piece of land.  You build on the land.  You get your energy systems running.  You get your water purification system.  You fortify your compound.  You electrify the fence you constructed around your land.  You put out land mines.  You set up your Claymore mines in ac crisscross pattern so that every inch of your boundary is covered every which way from Sunday and then some.  Your gardens are producing all you can eat and more.  You have all the meat you can store.  You are totally fortified and able to protect that which is yours.  So, now you are not in a FEMA camp, but, you are in a prison camp of your own making.  Now, also, you are large enough to get on the radar of not only the marauders, but the government.   First the marauders come and you are able to beat them off.  Now, the government troops show up.  First the local agency shows up, then FEMA, DELTA, NATO and then the U.S. Army.   You try to reason with them to leave you alone.  They can’t, however, because you are outside of the regular adopted system.  You are not controlled and you must be controlled.  The Army moves in with tanks, helicopters (e.g. Apache’s with stinger air to ground missiles), and battalion strength ground forces.  Your anti-tank ground mines, Claymore mines and electrified fences are no match for the military.  You surrender.  They take you to a FEMA camp in the area, chip you, retinal scan you and process you into the new totalitarian government and you are just another slave.  Or, you decide to shoot it out with a superior force, take about a hundred with you and die.  Either way, it’s game over!!

I then turned the tables on him and asked, “Okay smart ass, what are you going to do?”

“I” he answered, “Am going to become a mountain man a la “Jeremiah Johnson.”

“Like the movie with Robert Redford,” I exclaim.

“Yep!”  He proclaims.  “I’m learning how to hunt, trap and fish.  I’m learning which berries are good and which are poisonous.  I will have my sleeping bag, my rifle, my side arm, my fishing pole, my cross bow and arrows and  my knives.  I will live of the land in the wilderness.  Just an innocuous traveler, trapper with no visible means of any type,  I will have nothing that anybody would want even if they could find me.

“What about your wife,” I queried?

“Oh, she and our two dogs will be with me, living off of the land; bothering nobody and not being bothered or seen by anybody else.”  

“That’s a pretty bleak existence,” I continue.

“Yes, but at least I’ll be free!” he retorts.

“It’s all a matter of perspective,” I share.  “It all comes down to the “Flight or fight” auto respond system that we all have.”

“No, it comes down to survival at the lowest common denominator,” he says.

So, let me ask you a question.  What will you do when…?”

I look forward to your input.

Until next time, I am Eldee C. Spratt, “The American Patriot!”  I’m a candidate for the Presidency of the United States and I want your support and vote.  Ever the optimist, I still believe with God’s help we can still turn this country around and take back our Constitution.  Please help me!  Thank You.

     
      

Total Chaos - What Will You Do When

Hello Patriots:

We’re going to take a little detour from the Constitution.

I traveled to Syracuse this past week.  My eldest son just graduated from a U.S. Navy sponsored program in journalism.  He was one of eight men selected for the program.  He is now a certified “motion media journalist.”  His next duty station is Naples Italy for the next three years (tough duty, eh).  After four tours in Iraq, two of those tours as a combat cameraman entrenched with a navy seal team, he was told that he was finished in the Middle East and given his choice of duty stations.  He chose Japan, where he worked in the news room of the Armed Forces Radio station for four years before being selected for the Syracuse program.

The day after his graduation, we took a trip to Niagara Falls, after which we drove up to Toronto to watch the Los Angeles Angels play the Toronto Blue Jays.  On our journey, which took about two and a half hours because of traffic, I asked my son if he could help me take this blog viral.  He, of course, asked me why?  I explained to him that the country was in a huge mess and that I needed to be the President to straighten out the mess.  He told me that it was too late.  And, he told me that he had no idea on how to use social media to make a blog go viral.  I queried, “How can that be?  You just graduated from Syracuse in ‘motion media’?”  He chuckled and replied, “I work in television.  I don’t use Facebook or YouTube or blogs.  You’re on your own.

Then we got into the discussion on the impending crash and downfall of this country.  I told him of all the things I was trying to do to ready myself and my family for the melt down.

That is when he let loose, “It doesn’t matter what you’re doing.  When the proverbial Sh*t hits the fan, it isn’t going to matter.  The best thing you could do is not own anything.”

I started telling him about being self -sufficient.  I told him that for about $100 per panel, one could have solar energy; for about $250, one could have wind energy - the wind in Las Vegas blow at least 300 days out of the year.  Hence, with solar and wind and about 18 golf cart batteries, while the rest of the grid is dark, without electricity, one’s freezer, refrigerator, TV, radio and computer still worked.

I told him about the supplies that one needed to stockpile, the fresh water, the water purifying system and the vertical hanging vegetable and fruit gardens, extra batteries, etc., etc…

He replied, “So what!”

I answered, “What do you mean, so what?”

He explained, “When the system collapses, there is going to be complete chaos and anarchy.  The wealthy, privileged and powerful, will have already fled the country to another place or country where they are already setting up for their next place where they will be secure and exempt from the pending crisis.  Even Rush Limbaugh, who has a net worth in excess of $32 million talks about it, but won’t give his listeners any details, is ready to jump ship.  Martial law will be imposed.  FEMA troops, the U.S. military, DELTA and NATO Troops will be all over this country trying to reestablish law and order.  Within the first three hours, all of the grocery stores will be plundered.  If you don’t believe me, look at what happened when Katrina hit New Orleans.  The banks will close.  You’re currency will be worthless.”  At which time he pulled out an Iraqi bill.  It said $50 Billion Dinar; that’s right billion with a ‘B’.  My son told me that if he could find an institution in which to exchange the note, he might have enough money to buy a pack of gum.  With two bills like that, he might be able to purchase an egg or a pint of milk.

I countered, “That’s why we are converting as much of our currency to silver and gold as we can.”

He replied, “So what!  When the banking system shuts down, who’s going to convert your gold and silver?  The only place that you will be able to exchange your hard assets is in one of the FEMA camps that have been set up around the country into which they – the current government- herd the people.  Only those that have entered the FEMA compound – camp – and have had the RFID chip inserted into their arm and/or have been tagged with a retinal I.D., will be able to conduct business in the camp.  Once you enter the camp, you are a slave to the system.  You are tagged and now belong to them.”

To which I stated, “That is why we want to be self-sufficient.  There are about ten million patriots out there; like-minded people who I believe will come together as one and try to re-establish our country.  I believe that the military, once they see what we are doing, will abandon the military machine that is trying to fight us, and join us.”

He then enlightened me, “The personnel in the military do as they are told.  Ninety-eight percent don’t have, and have never had an original thought.  If they are told to kill someone, they will kill that person no questions asked.  They are nothing more than walking zombies doing a job like any other citizen who gets up every morning and goes to work.  The military is just another corporation.”  Then he said, “What are you going to do when…?” And, he just let the questions hang there unfinished.

I said, “When what?”

He again replied, “When the system dies.  Let’s say that you’ve done everything right.  You’ve installed solar and wind, you’ve made your water purification system operational.  You have your vertical gardens producing more food in greater quantities than even you can imagine. You have a surplus.  You have your freezer stocked with enough beef and pork to last at least two years.  You have dry goods to last for three years.  You have four or five  55 gallon drums of purified water.  You have say $25,000 or $50,000 that you have converted to gold and silver – mostly silver – because silver is more easily convertible to the current MPC (Military Police Currency) that will be issued in place of the good old greenbacks – which by the way if you haven’t noticed are no longer green.  Let’s say that you heeded the warning of all those patriotic militiamen out there and bought a few weapons.  You have an: AK-47; SK-47; AR-15; 30-06; your or rather granddad’s .44 magnum  gas operated carbine; your 243 with the thousand yard scope; the .22 caliber long rifle; the 12 and 16 gauge shot guns; and your hand guns: .44 caliber magnum revolver, .22 caliber revolver;  .57 caliber magnum revolver;  9mm Glock and a few others.  You also have your crossbow, sportsman’s  bow, machete, and your hunting knife, carving knife, commando knife, and skinning knife.  And, over the last couple of years you have taken heed and managed to procure about 5,000 rounds of ammo for your weapons, as well as, shafts for your bows.  Let’s say you’ve done all that.”

I answer, “Okay, let’s just say that I’m as ready as a good boy scout.”

“Great” he answers.  “Now, how are you going to protect what is yours?”  “Besides you,” he continues, “Who in the family can shoot?  Who besides you has any military or survival training at all; mom, my brother or sister?  Who?  How many weapons can you shoot at one time?”

He goes on to say, “Look, there are two different scenarios for you and each one ends the same way.  Scenario one:  You have more than enough.  The system crashes.  The stores are looted.  There is no more food or water to be had.  Three days later, you notice that your neighbors are starving.  How long can they go without food?  I know that you fasted for four and a half days before; and, by the fourth day all you could think about was food and chewing.  A person can go just about three days without water before dying.  ‘What the heck’ you say to yourself, I can’t in good conscience let my neighbors starve to death or dehydrate to death.  So, in an act of Christian compassion, you give your neighbor some of your excess produce, fruit and water.  They are very grateful and thank you profusely.  Can you guess what happens then next day?  They come back for more and bring seven of their best friends.  You say, ‘what the heck.”  You have enough for a few more and you can’t watch them die in the street.  By the third day, it’s like a high school party where ten people were invited and the word got out that Eldee was having party and instead of ten people, a hundred people are beating on your door wanting, demanding what you have.  You now must start turning hungry, thirsty people away.  Now, it gets nasty.  Ordinary Christian people, who wouldn’t hurt a fly in their collective lives are now a hungry, thirsty, unruly mob; think lynch mob like in the old westerns on T.V.  And, they will not be denied.  So, you pull out your weapon to protect what is yours and what you planned on for so long for this emergency.  They rush you, a hundred strong. You manage to get off four or five rounds before they overtake you.  Now, you’re on the ground being beaten to death, the mob takes down your wife and kids leaving you on the ground with a broken and beaten body.  Your family is lying on the ground bleeding and /or dying and the mob plunders your food and water supplies and takes all that for which you have prepared so hard and so long.” 

The Amendments

Okay!  Here we go!  Let's limit our government.

The government:  can not, must not, shall not, may not!!!

In the articles of the Constitution, we discovered how our government was supposed to function and who does what.  The Amendments now turn around and limit the powers of our servants.

Amendment I:  (emphasis is mine)

     Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
     exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people
     peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

                                                              OR
  Hence, the people can start a religion and pray to whomever they wish, anyway they wish at anytime
    they wish.  So, Christians, Buddhists, Hindu's, Muslims or even atheists may pray or not pray if, when and     where they wish.  So, why then can't a student pray over his/her food at lunch and give thanks?  Freedom     of speech should guarantee them that right.  Where does the Supreme Court get off telling us that
    we (Christians) can't pray.  I see Muslim's in Las Vegas (mostly taxi cab driver's) park their taxi's in the         staging area at the Aria Hotel, get out of their cars, unroll their prayer blanket, face Mecca, get down on       their knees and bow down (kowtow) and say their prayers in public for all to see.  Why aren't they               stopped if Christians aren't allowed to pray over their food (say Grace, Bless and give Thanks), shouldn't
    other religions be stopped from their public display of their beliefs?  The answer of course, is they                 shouldn't be stopped; nor should the Christians be stopped from expressing themselves in public.                   SHAME ON THE ACLU AND THE SUPREME COURT for infringing upon the rights of the
    sovereign citizens of this country to freely express themselves as guaranteed under the 1st Amendment
    of the Constitution.

Feel free to comment on the 1st Amendment.

Until next time I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot.  I'm running for President of the United States; and, I want your support and vote.  Thank You.

Just in case you think you'll miss Obama, I promise to pull out my pen and write a bunch of executive orders bypassing the Congress and side stepping the Constitutional process. (Just Kidding!!).
   
    

Articles V Though VII

Article. V.

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.

Article. VI.

All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Article. VII.

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The Word "Thirty" being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words "is tried" being interlined between the thirty second and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word "the" being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the second Page.
Attest William Jackson
Secretary
done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

Again self explanatory and easy to understand.

I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot, and I want your support and vote in 2016.

Article IV

Article. IV.

Section. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

Section. 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due [Modified by Amendment XIII].

Section. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.


Self explanatory and easy to comprehend.

I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot, and I want your support and vote in 2016.

The Judiciary - Our Third Head

Article. III.

Section. 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Section. 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; — to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; — to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; — to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; — to Controversies between two or more States; — between a State and Citizens of another State [Modified by Amendment XI]; — between Citizens of different States; — between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.

Section. 3. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

I have several issues with our court system.

First, I believe that if a person passes the bar exam in any state, they are a part of the judiciary; and therefore they are at Bar and hence, should be excluded from serving in  the legislative branch of the government; to serve in the legislative branch would be a conflict of interest. Their (the judiciary's) job is to interpret the law as written and decide on the validity of the law.  When we have lawyers writing the laws, we (the general public) have difficulty understanding the verbiage of that law primarily due to the attorney's use of vocabulary with which the average person is not acquainted.  And, it is the obligation of each and every citizen to know and abide by all of the laws passed by Congress.  I contend that that is a virtual impossibility since congress passes on average 758 bills each year.  Read the article below to show the futility of our law making system. I contend that we can scrap about 50,000 laws and be much better off.  I believe that a Congressman's effectiveness should not be measured by the amount of new legislation he writes (ala Sean Hannity), but rather by the amount of pork he cuts from proposed new legislation, as well as, the number of new legislation that he refuses to pass just because.
 
"With all of the dysfunction in Congress as of late, it should come as no surprise to that out of the 5,140 bills and resolutions before Congress, only 5% will ever be signed into law. But the sheer extent of inaction in today's Congress is worth noting. When the 112th Congress came to a close last year, it was deemed the least productive on record, having passed just 561 out of the 6,845 bills introduced, well below the running average of 758 bills passed each session. The 113th Congress is well on its way to beating that record as only 15 bills have passed in the first six months of session; the 112th had signed 23 in that time.

Theoretically speaking, less legislation should be a good thing. Fewer laws and regulations equal a smaller government, thereby putting more power into the hands of the people. However, while we see fewer bills, the bills are becoming larger and larger, wrapped up in massive omnibus packages that fill binders heavy enough to kill your average Hill intern.

Last year, Senator Rand Paul took the Senate floor to call out Congress for not reading the bills in front of them. He bemoans this practice using a 600-page bill he had received only earlier that morning as an example: “600 pages, no one will read it. No wonder our approval rating is 10%, nobody knows what we’re voting on.” Just think, if our representatives don’t have time to read a 600-page bill before voting, how can they possibly make an informed decision to vote on bills that are over 1,000 pages? If you’ve ever tried making sense out of even 20 pages of congressional language, you know this is an impossible task.

The Affordable Care Act, for example, is a daunting 2,700 pages (not including the 20,000 pages of regulations); a number which made the Supreme Court cry “cruel and unusual punishment.” Then, of course, there is former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s infamous “pass it to find out what is in it” comment. This pass now, read later philosophy has continued into this Congress as well. Senators were given only 72 hours to review the 1,200-page immigration reform bill before voting at the end of June.

Is this the way that we want Congress to be run? Votes on thousand-page bills no one reads? What happens when massive legislative packages come before Congress? Pork. Pet projects, bridges to nowhere, obscure regulations, you name it. The special interests win and Americans lose. They get away with it because there is no accountability if no one can feasibly read these packages in their entirety.

So much for the transparency President Obama promised us time and time again. America deserves better. The American people deserve an accountable, transparent legislative process. Americans deserve a Congress that has the time to read bills before they pass them. Is that too much to ask?"

Next, I believe that the Supreme Court Judges should base their decision(s) on then law and not on how someone else prior to their tenure interpreted the law; and that they should look at the body and spirit of what was written and not just pick out one word like "The" in the third paragraph and make a judgement on what that one little article (sometimes adjective or descriptive adjective) of speech and base an opinion on that one word.  How they interpret a question before them sometimes borders on the criminal.  And, many times they come up with the wrong conclusion.  Sometimes I believe that they are afraid to upset the legislature or what the President wants since he appointed them.  When actually, an eight grader can conclude or decide better than they.

Am I wrong?  Tell me what you think!

Until next time, I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American President, and I want your vote and support in 2016.

Article II, Mr. President, I presume.

Article. II. 

This article is all abut the office of the president:

Section. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President [Modified by Amendment XII].

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected [Modified by Amendment XXV].

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: — "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Section. 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Section. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Section. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The duties of the office of the president are spelled out really well.  The election process is, however, a sham and the electoral college is a den of thieves.  I contend that this part of the election process needs to be over hauled.  Google the 12th Amendment and see what a corrupt piece of garbage it truly is.  I know for a fact that Lieutenant Colonel Bo Grits actually won the states of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho in the 1992 election.  He was on the ballot in 36 states.  Yet, his name was never mentioned on any news agency report. What happened to the 'fourth estate'?  What happened to objectivity and the truth in journalism?  Oh wait, I remember now, the liberals overran the industry and objectivity died.  How do I know Bo won those states? I campaigned for him.  Do you remember Ruby Ridge?  Do you remember the tragedy that befell Randy Weaver?  I do.  Do you remember the Vietnam hero brought in to negotiate?  I do. The electoral votes went to George Bush because a non-democrat or a non-republican could not can not be awarded any electoral votes.  And Dick Cheney stood up in public and bravely stated, "I told President Bush that I'd deliver Wyoming's 3 electoral votes and I did."

The electoral college needs to be dissolved and the president should be elected by the popular vote; no more backroom deals.

Notice, in paragraph four, the qualifying parameters for becoming the President of the United States. One must be:  natural born, 35 years of age and must have resided in the country for 14 years.  Hey, I know of a guy who qualifies!  He can even produce a legitimate birth certificate.  Who might  that be you may  be asking yourself?  I am he.  I confess, I qualify under the Constitution to serve you.  So, vote for me!!!

Let me ask you a question.  Has the person who now occupies the White House actually produced a real live legitimate birth certificate when asked?

Okay, so the President is the military man in the country.  So, why, I ask is he rifting our military and sapping our strength and power?  He is the top cop because he is the head of the executive branch of the government.  So, why, I ask is he tying ICE's hands when it comes to finding and deporting illegals?  I have a lot of questions like these.  We can debate them later on when we go through my platform and why I want your vote.

"He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States."  So, why doesn't he?

Notice, it does not say that he is the king of the country.  He is a servant and only one-third of the head.  So, I ask, why does he persist on doing an end run around the Constitution every time that Congress disagrees with his intended policies?

I say that we confront him and put him back in his place; a mere servant to the people who elected him to be their representative to the rest of the world!

Until next time, I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot.  And, I'm asking for your vote and support for the Presidency of our great country.

Article I Section 10 - No State Shall

Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws; and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Pretty self explanatory.  Notice the part where is says that no STATE shall coin money.  That's reserved for the federal government; primarily for the uniformity of weights and measures to insure that a dollar in New York is the same as a dollar in Georgia.

Definition:  Dollar:  money.  A silver coin of the United States of the value of one hundred cents, or tenth part of an eagle.

     2.  It weighs four hundred and twelve and a half grains.  Of one thousand parts nine hundred are pure pure silver and the one hundred of alloy.  Act of January 18, 1837, ss. 8 & 9, 4 Sharsw. Cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523, 4; Wright,m R. 162.

     3.  In all computations at the custom house, the specie dollar of Sweden and Norway shall be estimated at one hundred and six cents.  The specie dollar of Denmark, at one hundred and five cents.  Act of May 22, 1846.

Well there you have it.  And, who shall coin the dollar?  The U. S. Treasury?  If so, then why is our money controlled by seven banking families; four of which are foreign?  These guys are the same guys that Christ kicked out of his Father's House over 2000 years ago.  All they did was change venues!  Why?  Because government officials can be corrupted and usually are;  they are controlled by the big money/power brokers of the beltway in D.C.   They take large sums of money from lobbyist groups to do their bidding - usually at great expense to us the tax payers.  And, IT'S OUR FAULT!!!  We know that most of them are as crooked as a dogs hind leg, and re re-elect them anyway - case in point Nevada.  I won't mention any names, but he's known as "Bring Me The Cash Harry!"  No real proof, but just look at his last act where he gave $17,000 of campaign money to his daughter and then when caught says "OOPs, sorry, my bad, I'll pay it back. No harm no foul."  And the idiots of Nevada keep putting this guy back in office.

SOLUTION !!!  READ ON AND AGREE IF YOU DARE!

We need to cancel our contracts with both the federal reserve bank (which is about as much of a federal agency as Federal Express), and the international monetary fund (which is run by the four banking families of europe - who want you and me enslaved and indebted to them).

Thomas Jefferson said, and I paraphrase; if the American people ever let a foreign entity coin (print) their money, they will wake up slaves in the land that their forefather's freed.  Wait!! I think I see the handwriting on the wall.  They want to control OUR money and take away our weapons so we can't object to their enslavement of us!!  WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT REALLY IS TOO LATE!!!  We may have already past the point of no return thanks to the likes of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Kennedy, Carter, Clinton & Clinton (The law firm of Screw America) and of course our dictator wanna be Himself Barack Hussein Obama - Oprah's and George Soros' Child.  Wait, do I see Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, and Kerry waiting in the wings to carry the Communist torch onward and upward if one of their predecessors stumbles, falls or drops the ball.

Let's see if I know whereof I speak - or in this case write.  Woodrow Wilson with the help of his alter ego Edward House and Philander Knox brought onto this continent for the last time the Federal Reserve Bank, owned by 3 American banking families and 4 European families; but only after the super-wealthy were shown and taught how to avoid having their fortunes confiscated by setting up trusts - both domestic and foreign.  Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, the maternal grandfather of Nelson Adlrich Rockefeller - who is the primary stock holder of the federal reserve bank and the trilateral commission - hosted the conference on Jekyll Island, Ga. in 1908.  By 1913, the stage was set to defraud the American public.

FDR, with the help of an English economist Francis Maynard Keynes in 1932, brought forth on this Continent the beings of a democratic-socialist-communist regime.  History has proven that the United States was well on it's way to recovering from the controlled crash of the stock market and the Great Depression of 1929 before FDR even introduced the National Recovery Act of 1933; which was preceded by the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932.  Roosevelt also took the United States off of the the gold standard:

          On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt became president for the first time, promising an “adequate but sound” currency. The next day, a Sunday, he closed the nation’s banks. “We are now off the gold standard,” he privately declared to a group of advisers. Goldbugs in the president’s circle immediately began prophesying doom. One of his aides, Lewis Douglas, proclaimed “the end of Western civilization.”

                                              

Isn't it just peachy how our elected officials, under the guise of helping us actually help to enslave us and take away our freedoms - especially those who would be King or Dictator (Ala Hussein Obama, Himself).

Moving on!  JFK, whom I considered the only half-way decent democratic president, took us off of the silver standard.  Wait a minute, didn't we discover that OUR dollar, OUR measure for payment and trade is defined as 412.5 grains of pure silver,  of 1000 parts, 900 parts would be pure silver (.99999 fine silver); and 100 parts alloy?  I BELIEVE we did.

        Executive Order 11110 was issued by U.S. President John F. Kennedy on June 4, 1963.
This executive order delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the president's authority to issue silver certificates under the Thomas Amendment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended by the Gold Reserve Act. The order allowed the Secretary to issue silver certificates, if any were needed, during the transition period under President Kennedy's plan to eliminate silver certificates.

   On November 28, 1961, President Kennedy halted sales of silver by the Treasury Department. Increasing demand for silver as an industrial metal had led to an increase in the market price of silver above the United States government's fixed price. This led to a decline in the government's excess silver reserves by over 80% during 1961. Kennedy also called upon Congress to phase out silver certificates in favor of Federal Reserve notes.^{[1][2] (IOU's - a promissory note - evidence of debt!! - My edit.)}
Kennedy repeated his calls for Congress to act on several occasions, including his 1963 Economic Report, where he wrote:^[3]

I again urge a revision in our silver policy to reflect the status of silver as a metal for which there is an expanding industrial demand. Except for its use in coins, silver serves no useful monetary function.
In 1961, at my direction, sales of silver were suspended by the Secretary of the Treasury. As further steps, I recommend repeal of those Acts that oblige the Treasury to support the price of silver; and repeal of the special 50-percent tax on transfers of interest in silver and authorization for the Federal Reserve System to issue notes in denominations of $1, so as to make possible the gradual withdrawal of silver certificates from circulation and the use of the silver thus released for coinage purposes. I urge the Congress to take prompt action on these recommended changes.

Wouldn't it have been easier and more beneficial to us (the American citizen) to have our silver float with the international price of silver.  What did Kennedy say, "... silver serves no useful monetary function."  Hold the phone you dems!!! According to the Constitution, Silver is OUR CURRENCY!   Because of Kennedy, we no longer have a viable currency.  Our money is trash; nothing more than useless rags!!!  Thanks a whole lot John! Under executive order, Kennedy negated the coinage act of our Constitution - Sound familiar???? - didn't Hussein, Himself just negate a bunch of our Constitutional freedoms by issuing his (How Many is it now?  I've lost count.) executive orders bypassing Congress????

We covered LBJ in an earlier post.  Let's see, who followed Kennedy?  I believe that would be the paranoid sociopath Richard "Tricky Dicky" himself.  Could it be that Dick was a democrat in an elephant disguise? What did this so called republican do to his fellow Americans?

Well to start. after seeing the effects of wage price control on an economy, Mr. President stated that he would never institute a wage-price control system in the United State.  How long did that last?  Was his statement good for one or two days before he instituted wage-price controls.  We all know how that worked out with long gas lines; only being able to purchase gas on certain days depending on whether or not your license plate was an even or odd number.  What about the gold stadard?

The Nixon Shock was a series of economic measures taken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971 including unilaterally canceling the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold. It helped end the existing Bretton Woods system of international financial exchange, ushering in the era of freely floating currencies that remains to the present day.

Wow!  FDR confiscates our gold; Kennedy takes us off of the silver standard and Richard Milhouse "You won't Have Dick Nixon to kick around any more," ends our gold standard.  I reiterate!  We are left with no real currency only IOU's in the form of Federal Reserve Notes that we pass amongst ourselves.  Did you know that by law when you pass an IOU note onto another person that you are supposed to endorse that note as acknowledgement of passing that debt onto the next holder in due course of that debt?  To really understate the obvious, our economy is in deep do-do!!

After Nixon, we got Carter, who let our embassy in Iran be taken without any retaliation what so ever.
And, under who's watch interest rates soared to 20%.  Not to mention, he gave away the Panama Canal which was built on the blood, sweat and back breaking labor of Americans.  All this happened why? So Jimmy could show the world what a great negotiator he is.  Are you kidding me! Jimmy graduated from the Naval Academy.  He earned his master's degree in nuclear physics.  He is the top admiral in charge of the greatest navy in the world and instead of bearing the full brunt of our military to rescue our people, he chooses to negotiate with radical Muslims.  The only reason that the Iranians let the hostages go is because our state department told them that Ronald Reagan won the election and that he would have no qualms in destroying them. - nuff said.

George Bush the First got us into a war with Iraq who up to 10 months earlier was our greatest ally against Iran in the middle east. (If you want the real story about Bush and Hussein and the Bush family oil well holdings in Kuwait, subscribe to a publication out of Washington D.C. called "The Spotlight"  300 Independence Ave. SE, Wash. D.C. 20003; (202) 544-1794 - I'm not saying I like all of their stuff, but I believe they come pretty darn close to the real truth in government today.).

Then along came Clinton!  He almost single-handedly destroyed our military and turned our house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a brothel.  He claimed that he did not have sex with that woman even though she was naked because oral sex is not sex (Oh yeah he's a smart one alright).  I better stop here, or this post will turn into a tome.  Let us not, however, forget White Water nor the women that he (allegedly) raped (or sexually accosted) as governor of Arkansas (e.g. Paula Jones). And to think, this man became the idol of many men because of his sexual conquests.  And, the Hollywood crowd loved him for it.

That brings us to Bush II.  George, under the guise of deposing a ruthless dictator and searching for weapons of mass destruction invaded Iraq.  That was has cost us hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars and sadly the lives of many brave men and women:

"During the Iraq War, 4,475 U.S. service members were killed and 32,220 were wounded; in Afghanistan, 2,165 have been killed and 18,230 wounded through Feb. 5, 2013. Among service members deployed in these conflicts, 103,792 were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over the period 2002 to December 2012. Over that same period, 253,330 service members were diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) of some kind. As a result of battle injuries in the Iraq War, 991 service members received wounds that required amputations; 797 lost major limbs, such as a leg. In Afghanistan, 724 have had to undergo amputations, with 696 losing a major limb. - See more at: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/security-military/us-military-casualty-statistics-costs-war-iraq-afghanistan-post-911#sthash.yEaPRG3O.dpuf."

All this human carnage for some oil!!???

I know Bush said it wasn't for the oil.  Yet, in one of his speeches, he stated that Iraq would make war reparations by paying us back in oil.  Sorry Georgie, I like you, but you invaded for the oil.  Iraq was totally contained.  We had a no fly zone over the country.  And, even if Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, he, like that idiot in North Korea didn't possess the delivery system(s) to get past our aerial supremacy and defense systems.  We have the greatest Air Force that has ever flown the wild blue yonder.

So, when we invaded Iraq in 2003, I questioned our or rather Bush's motivation.  I mean, if we or Georgie wanted to depose a dictator and liberate people from harsh, cruel and unusual torture, there is a small island about ninety miles off the southern most tip of Florida who has been begging us, pleading with us since 1959 to come on down are rescue them from one of the most brutal dictators in history.  That would have been an easy gig.  We could have liberated the Cuban people in about three days and probably suffered pretty close to zero casualties. Oh, but wait, Cuba doesn't have any oil. 

Sorry George, you lied!! You went to war with Iraq for the OIL!!

And now the present, Hussein Obama, the man who would be king or dictator.  The man who is extorting our citizens so that the insurance companies can become even richer and the quality of life for the average citizen can be debased even further.  Let's run some numbers.  Let us presume that Obamacare actually does enlist 30 million people at an average of say $250 per person per month.  That totals to $7.5 Billion per month.  That equals $90 BILLION per year.  Now, let us presume that the average deductible in $5,000 per person.  One would have to have a catastrophic disease before the insurance companies who put out one penny in benefits.  And, I'll wager that after the deductible, the insurance companies would only pay 50% of allowable expenses.  In other words, there is a caveat of what is covered.  If this insurance is like the normal dental coverage, only about 30% would be covered.  Hence, after spending $100,000 for a five day stay in a hospital, the insurance company would pay about $30,000 - maybe - and you'd get stuck with the other $70,000 plus the $5,000 deductible.  I don't know for sure, I haven't read the insurance companies liability clauses.  I would venture to say, however, like the mortgage banking industry, they will come out on top and further ahead and be deemed to large to fail. 

Now, let's couple that with the fact that like his fellow democrat Slick Willie, he never shouldered a weapon nor stood a watch, and is rifting the armed forces of it's dedicated personal.  There are brave men and women who have served their country for 15, 16 AND 17 years that are been booted out of the service before they reach their 20 years in service and qualify for their pension.  Let's see, Barack Hussein will receive about $100,000 a year in retirement for holding the office of U.S. Senator and about $436,000 per year for being our servant.  That amounts to about $536,000 per year for about 10 -12 years as our cook or butler.  WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!  And, he has the nerve to sell us down the river to his insurance company buddies.  Just how much of a kick back is he receiving from the insurance companies to enslave us.   Harry Reid, eat your heart out. We found a bigger crook than you in our government. 

We will continue our dissection of his presidency and regime (dictator wanna be) as we venture forth in our blogging and get you involved in this conversation.

Until then, I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot.  And, I want your support and vote in 2016.

Article I; Section 9

Section. 9. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.


Wow!!!  There's a lot to digest here.  Immigration and State's rights alone can take years to debate.  Look at the trouble we're having right now with ILLEGALS entering our country and the blind eye being turned by our servants.  I have solutions trust me.  Neither the democrats nor the republicans, UNFORTUNATELY, want to hear these solutions nor address the problem.  The democrats see these illegals as future votes and the republicans see these people as cheap labor - good for the bottom line!

We can get into an indepth discussion on this topic after we finish our trek through the Constitution.  I'll spell out my platform in detail on this subject and you can either tear me apart or agree with me; either way it will be fun.

Also, note that "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken."

OOOOPS!!!  What does that say?  Am I reading that correctly?  No DIRECT TAX shall be laid upon YOU unless in proportion to the Census.  Does that mean NO TAXES on WAGES?  I think it does.

Let me explain!  The government has a budget (allegedly - supposed to have anyway).  The government can collect money through: taxes, duties, excises and imposts.  If the government does not collect enough money to run the government; then (according to Thomas Jefferson - I believe) the government is too large and must be purged of the excess fat (PORK - as it is referred to in the bills that congress tries to pass without our permission.); or the Secretary of State must send each individual an invoice for each person's obligation over and above what congress did not collect.  Upon the receipt of an invoice for their fair share of the government's budget overrun, each citizen is supposed to write a check for his or her obligation to balance the budget.  Thus, a tax in direct proportion to the census.  

I contend that if we actually followed the Constitution, 99% of all congresspersons would be out on their collective ears and be replaced by fiscal conservatives that would work within the budget and would balance the budget every year or face the consequence of their predecessors.  I also contend, that our SOCIALISTIC-COMMUNISTIC DEMOCRATIC WELFARE STATE would cease to exist and we'd get back to the Constitution instead of following the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto.

Go ahead, I dare you to prove me wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Until next time, I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot

What's a Congressman To Do?

Well let us see!  Section eight tells us what a Representative and a Senator is entrusted by the people who elected them to office to do.

They can lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general welfare of the United States.

Back to the dictionary (Bouvier's of course).

Duties: In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things;  in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs, or imposts.

Excises:  The word is used to signify an inland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity, and frequently upon the retail sale.  (i.e. a sales tax).

Imposts:  This word is sometimes used to signify taxes, or duties, or impositions; and, sometimes in the more restrained sense of a duty on imported goods and merchandise.(Ah, an import tax) 

Taxes:  This term in its most extended sense includes all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, by whatever name they are called or known, whether by the name of tribute, tithe, talliage, impost,duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.

Please notice that there is no tax on a person's wages!!!!


Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
 — And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

As you the reader can see, Congress has a lot of power(s) to act in our best interest.  They do not, however, have the right to lay laws that will infringe upon your (the sovereign's) inalienable rights; nor to extort you in any way shape or form.

We can get into these different aspects later on and debate their allegiance to us their employer's.  I'm particularly interested in their ability to coin and borrow money.

Until next time, I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot

Section 7 - Huge!

Okay Boys and Girls here comes a biggie, section 7 of article one:


Section. 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States;^[2] If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

So, what happened with the 16th Amendment?  For those who do not know, that is the amendment that made income taxes legal.

Well, let's see.  Philander Knox, the Secretary of State,

Meat and Bones

Alright!  Let the fun begin.  Now we get into the part of the Constitution that clarifies just what our elected representatives can do and what they are supposed to do.

First, however, let us discuss their compensation.

Section. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

So, we see that their compensation for service(s) shall be, ..."ascertained by Law...."

Let me ask you a question.  Who makes and passes the laws?  Would that not be the same people who get paid by that law?  Isn't that kind of like leaving the hen house door open and inviting the fox to visit?"  No wonder they make more as our servants then we do as their employer. No wonder that they get a raise every year even during a depression while you and I can't get a raise - not even a cost of living raise to your social security benefit.  BUT, your congress people, almost all of whom just happen to be wealthy vote themselves a raise every year.  Why?

I contend that enough is enough.  A salary or a contract price for their services should be set by the citizenry and should be commensurate with the average wage of the average American citizen.

I remember back in (I believe it was August 9) 1974 when Richard Milhouse Nixon left office he said that it was impossible for a man to live on $50,000 a year.  While in office, however, he proclaimed that a family of four could live comfortably on $15,000 per year.  Oh my how things change when the shoe is on the other foot.

I believe now is a good time to discuss a term called "Status."  Status, I contend, was established by the Declaration of Independence when Thomas Jefferson enumerated the natural order of things:  God created man, man created the Constitution, the Constitution created the government (a Republic).  Hence, in the order of things, man (you and I) sit on top of the government.  Government is there to secure our, "... life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness..." (absent of government interference - protected by those who serve us; our government representatives).

So the hierarchy of status would be established as follows:

       1.  Free born citizen of this country with all of the Constitutional rights availed and accorded
            at all times with NO rights taken away at any time.

       2.  Civil Servant:  A person who gives up his absolute rights of a Free Born citizen for a period
            of time while he/she serves the needs and protects the inalienable rights of the Free Born
            citizen.  These servants include elected government officials, those who work for those
            officials, other government employee's and the military.

       3.  Political Refugees:  Those people who have asked for political asylum from their own
            government; and are here under privilege without all of the benefits accorded to a Free Born
            citizen.

       4.  Legal Alien Status:  A person granted entrance into this country to live and work who is
            not a citizen, but after a period of time may apply for citizenship.  These people are here
            under PRIVILEGE not RIGHTS!!  This privilege may and can be revoked at any time
            without cause.  They are guests in our country, that's all!!!

       5.  People here under a "Visa":  These are usually foreign people who have come to this
            country to either go to school or work on a temporary basis for six months at which time
            their visa expires and they are either required to leave leave our country and return to their
            country or go though the visa process again and gain another six months in our country.
            They are not and should not be granted the rights you and I have as Free Born citizens.

       6.  Illegal Alien:  An outlaw in our country who has no right whatsoever to be in our country.
            He/she has no status - zero standing in our society.  They have broken our laws and need
            to be tracked down and deported.  They cheated to gain entrance into our country.  They
            jumped the line.  Other people apply to migrate to this country (God Bless them and
            welcome!).  They fill out the paperwork and stand in line. Illegals have no Constitutional
            rights regardless of what the ACLU proclaims!!

Okay, now that we have established that government slaves, our civil servants our of a lesser status and are there to serve and protect, I think that we should establish the remuneration for their service.  They should not be allowed to establish their pay grade.

Here is my proposal.  I would argue that most congressmen and senators are pretty much independently wealthy.  I propose, therefore, if a congressman or senator has a net worth of  one million dollars or more that they should serve without monetary compensation.  If their net worth is less than one million dollars but more than 500,000 dollars, they should receive minimum wage.  And, if they are the average "Joe" living from paycheck to paycheck, like the rest of us, they should receive what the average American citizen earns.

 Also notice, "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office."

Definition: "Emoluments" : The lawful gain or profit that comes from holding office.

In other words, NO DOUBLE DIPPING.  With our professional politicians these days, I don't believe that we have to be concerned about them working two offices.  It's hard enough to get them to work one.

I believe the bigger problem lies in  them taking huge sums of money from lobbyists groups and selling their constituency down the river for untold profits through bribes.

What say you?

I look forward to your input.

Until next time, I am Eldee Charles Spratt, "The" American Patriot.