American Republic 
or 
American Democracy

Beginning in the late 60's, incidentally when the American Republic gave way to the American democracy, you, for wont of a better word, native-borns, developed new perceptions which have never ceased to amaze me. In a way they remind me of people who long ago gave up their dream for freedom and reconciled themselves to remain a ward of their government for the rest of their lives having convinced themselves that madness was sanity.
It seems there is now an incredible infatuation with tripe beliefs: a true conviction that you can mix and match, completely oblivious to the fact that the resulting mixture will assume the characteristics of the worst element in the mixture, an inability to comprehend that gradual degeneration is no indication of evil's absence, and then the strangest of all, a belief that throwing enough money at the problem will make it go away.
What struck here me is the statement that today's democratic party is not the old democratic party anymore. Not so my friend. It is still the same, just as evil then as it is now. Let me quickly add that anyone getting carried away by reading into this statement some extolling for the republican party is sadly mistaken.
Evil requires no conception, has no gestation, no birth, and no childhood. It is simply and always there, always present. What was different then was that evil was held at bay, held at bay by justice, that feudal overlord to whom the colonists and the Founding Fathers had sworn allegiance and obeisance. Remove justice and evil is decaged.
Thus, when the American Republic died and then replaced with the American democracy, justice became a casualty. Socialism, the core projection of any democracy, legalizes the taking of property belonging to others. That is tantamount to legalizing plunder, in fact it is legalized plunder camouflaged in the guise of securing the maximum good for the greatest number of people, and legalized plunder is injustice and injustice is the absence of justice, the old overlord. That is the simplest explanation why a democracy cannot discharge its fiscal affairs with money backed by silver and gold. Only fiat money, money backed by debt, can have legal tender here. Thus socialism unloosed a monster that scarcely can be fathomed.
Let me see if I can get us all at least onto the same page. Picture yourself falling out of the top window of a 55-storied building. What sense does it make to argue that you are not dead, when passing the the 5th and then the last? Is it not certain you were for all intents and purposes dead the moment you fell? I find it, therefore, extremely dismaying, when I hear of those many proposals seeking to determine the moment our Republic received her deathblow. Some have it as early as 1803, when the Supreme Court arrogated to itself sole discretion to define justice. Some hold Lincoln accountable, some find in Wilson the perpetrator. All these have philosophical tender, but were not the deathblow that propelled us into extinction.
The ratification of the 17th Amendment in April of 1913 was. It opened the top window of the 55-storied building and it is here that the Republic fell. In 1963 she past the window of the 5th floor, and sidewalk came in 1968, when the 1968 gun control act converted the right, the right to keep and bear arms, into permission. Then the American citizen ceased being sovereign over his government and government became his overlord and he its servant.
So her fall lasted 55 years. The first 50 years she survived on life-support systems which were removed when the Kennedy assassination levied the first overt and concerted attack on the Second Amendment. She lingered for another 5 years until the passage of the 1968 gun control act, when she finally succumbed to her illness.
Thus we should be able to see that the passage of time is no indication that evil did not lurk in the shadows from the very beginning. And that is of immense importance to understand, if we are to have hope to recover our Republic. Knowing that we have a problem is not enough. Of what help is it to know that "five" is not the right answer? Even if we knew that the right answer is "four", we still would have no solution, because four can be two plus two, three plus one, ten minus six, and a myriad of other possibilities, but only one of them will give us the means by which we can arrest our destruction. Sovereignty, our sovereignty, is the right and the only answer.
And that requires that in addition to explicating and identifying the countless pathogens devouring our Nation, we also must describe to our neighbors, loved ones, friends, and, yes, even strangers the incredible symbiosis between the American Republic, our liberties, and the Second Amendment.
So let me repeat, the democratic party was just as evil then as it is now, for a democracy is the embodiment of legalized plunder and the democratic party is its disseminating agency. And the republican party is now the same. Imagination only can place limits on the monstrosities inflicted on a people, when it is submerged in the endless vitriol of a democracy. Weigh this for a moment. What do you think the outcome will be, if a government, in the normal discharge of its responsibilities, acts as though evidence were not required and most certainly not needed, if in fact it considered it absolutely righteous to proceed on suspicion and innuendoes only? I know and that is why I need no physical evidence that we now have forced labor camps, ex post facto laws, unlawful incarceration, murder, etc., because, as I said, I know what a democracy is. The Nazi democracy taught me well, and these things are as natural to a democracy as heat is to fire, as flickering is to an open flame .
Let us now also begin to understand that you cannot mix and match. Mixing a democracy with other political concepts does not in the least lessen the counts of my indictment. The Germans are the most prolific in determining strange and idiotic mixtures: free democracy - an oxymoron, social democracy - a redundancy, christian democracy - a blasphemy, democratic republic - an absurdity and a madness now spreading its insidious poison here on our shores.
I must ask, what do you have when you mix honey and arsenic? Do you have honeyed arsenic or arsenical honey? Is it not obvious you have neither? Is it not clear that all you have is poison? You have no idea how frustrating it is for me to have to realize that only very few understand. Perhaps my having been baptized in hell is the reason for my having no difficulties in seeing these things so clearly and that is why I fervently hope that none of you will ever have to be baptized in hell in order to comprehend these things.
In conclusion I need to make one last observation for today. Not a single quote attributable to the Founding Fathers, or to anyone imbued with the willingness to see that our Republic is destroyed, including Ayn Rand, comes to mind that does not express in most euphoric terms the beauty of liberties, not only in perception but also in eloquence. This is the reason why I believe we are all prone to cite them whenever an opportunity presents itself.
But what is forgotten, or at least overlooked, is that when these scintillating words exposed the immeasurable greatness of those who crafted them, they were spoken to secure an entrenched and recently assembled Republic. When we repeat them today, we repeat them to overcome an entrenched and well established democracy, seeking to restore the Republic. Then no explications were needed, now they are. It goes to solving the problem facing us and to solve a problem, you must not only know that you have a problem, you must also know what kind of a problem you have, how it came to be a problem, and, if possible, who made it a problem.
I do not now remember how many I have asked if they could explain to me, for example, why the Colonists were angry at being taxed without representation. No one could give me the right answer. Oh, what frustration! The answer is that these great people knew themselves to be sovereign, to be king, and you just do not tax the king without his permission. That was the reason for their indignation. Then it was understood, now it must be explained, and when explained correctly it will go to restoring our Republic.
As matters stand right now, all that can be argued is that you know we have a problem, but that is the extent of it. And here it seems to me that you are prone to compete with each other trying to discover him who has uncovered the most virulent pathogen yet.
I heard it said that to be informed is to be vigilant. True! But so is the monster! Consider this. You have exposed forced labor camps! Have they been dismantled? You have exposed ex post facto laws! Have they been rescinded? You have exposed unlawful incarceration! Has that been corrected! You have exposed murders! Have they ceased? Know then this. A democracy, when in full bloom, can and will function on suspicion only.
Let this then be our impetus to talk. I talk at every opportunity and it works almost every time. During a recent court hearing, to contest a $275.00 parking fine and where I much to my chagrin neglected to note that the citing P.E.O. was not present, explicated to the judge, the clerk, and about half a dozen other miscreants  the horrors of a democracy and the beauty of the American Republic, now deceased, because it is the only form of government in which the citizen is sovereign and, therefore, has control over those to whom he has entrusted the safeguarding of, not his person, but his nation.
We see then, all of us, that we have an inexhaustible supply of moments which we can exploit to exegete the marvels of sovereignty. If you will not begin to talk soon, you will have to learn to goose step. It is a most invigorating way to walk. The only redeeming feature, should you be interested.
I hope this my lament does not translate into an offense. That is not my intent. I had simply sought to show that the constant exposing of pathogens, unless accompanied by a reference to sovereignty, will only hasten our complete destruction and hurl us ever deeper into an irrecoverable chaos.

Dieter
on 6/13/03