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THE DOUBLE-D STRATEGY FOR RESCUING AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
A friend of mine lives in Kona
on the Big Island
in Hawaii. He has a fishing boat which he proudly named
the 44-DD after a spectacular feature of his wife's anatomy. This is not about that sort of Double-D.
While it may be difficult to
keep your mind off what that spectacular feature might look like - just as it's
hard to comply with the demand that you not think of a pink elephant - let's
try and focus on a Double-D that can rescue our country from the clutches of
the Fascist Democrat Party and the destruction being wrought upon it by
President Zero.
So - what does this Double-D
stand for? It's a strategy for any Republican wanting to get elected or
re-elected to Congress in 2010, and for any Tea Partyer wanting to take
individual action now against a
government that ignores the Constitution. Double-D stands for Defund and Disobey.
Let's talk about the Defund D
first. The Founders in their usual
brilliance place the power of the purse in the House, whose members must face
election every two years - for if they become profligate with this power the
voters can throw them out within months (24 max) rather than wait years (6)
like the Senate.
All Appropriation bills
authorizing any branch of the federal government (legislative, judicial,
executive) to spend any money for any program must be initiated in and passed
by a majority of the House. The Senate
can only agree or disagree, and the same with the President.
The obverse of this appropriation
authority is that if the House doesn't
authorize money for something, then no
money can be spent on that something by anyone in the federal government.
This was Senator Jim Inhofe's
point when he announced
(12/13) that "Obama has no power to make a deal in Copenhagen." Unless the House appropriates the money for
any deal he makes, there's no deal at all.
A conservative group in DC,
Americans for Tax Reform run by Grover Norquist, has had a successful program
for some years called the Tax Protection
Pledge. It is a pledge signed by a
candidate for public office to his constituents that (s)he will oppose any and
all tax increases.
Thus it has been helpful in not
increasing the burden of government on taxpayers - but it does nothing to
actually decrease that burden.
Currently, this is the best that
can be done at the federal legislative level.
That is, the key goal of House & Senate Republicans is to block the
passage of Dem legislation that will expand government and make our economy so
much worse than it already is. There is
no way for the Pubs to pass legislation that will make things better - and this
is true even if the Republicans gain
majority in the House in 2010 due to Zero's veto power.
There is another way. One key solution to solving our problems,
economic and social, is to get the
federal government out of the way. To
the extent that this requires positive legislative remedies - such as
eliminating capital gains taxes, the depreciation schedule for capital
expenses, and Sarbox - these will have to wait until we get a pro-capitalist
president instead of a pro-socialist in 2012.
This means we must focus on
negative legislative remedies that the Pubs can effect with a House majority right
after 2010 and not wait until 2012. They
can simply refuse to fund Zero's
programs. The Zero Administration is
adding some 10,000 new federal employees to government payrolls every month? Eliminate the funding to pay them, requiring
that their jobs be terminated.
ObamaCare is passed by the House
& Senate and is made law, providing for a government seizure of one-sixth
of the economy? Refuse to appropriate the
money to fund the administrative apparatus required.
The EPA (Environmental
Protection Agency) wants to conduct a carbon jihad and seize control over the
economy by regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant? Gut the EPA's budget and thus its ability to
do so.
NASA and other government
agencies continue to conduct climate fraud?
Zero out all funding for global warming research.
Thus, in order to gain the
support of TeaPartyers and plain normal voters for their candidacy, Republicans
wishing to get elected or re-elected to the House should be required to sign The Defund Pledge:
"Should I be elected, I solemnly pledge to my constituents that I will
consistently vote to defund, or vote against appropriating any money for, any
federal program or activity not specifically authorized by an enumerated power
in the United
States Constitution. For any federal
program or activity I do vote to fund, I will provide the specific enumerated
power constitutionally permitting it."
It's the only "purity
test" conservatives need.
Just as the "Contract with America"
enabled Republicans to gain a House majority in 1994, so the Defund Pledge will
ensure they do so in 2010. The voting public
is increasingly fed up with the Dems.
But they are still wary of the Pubs who refused to shut off the spending
spigots during the Bush years.
The Defund Pledge can reassure
voters that the GOP will in fact dismantle Democrat fascism by committing to a
concrete and simple way to do so: defund
the Dem programs and on a Constitutional basis.
It provides the starkest
contrast to the insufferably outlaw arrogance of Dems, epitomized by Nancy
Pelosi, who when asked where in the Constitution was it allowed for the federal
government to force people to buy something (e.g., health insurance), angrily
responded, "Are you kidding me? Are you
kidding me?"
And it gives the TeaPartyers the
single uniting electoral message they are searching for. Right now, the TeaParty movement is inchoate,
more emotion than focus. As this article
points out, "the biggest challenge facing the movement is how to organize
hundreds of local groups, and dozens of Tea Party leaders nationwide with
divergent interests, into a force that can influence elections."
The Defund Pledge solves the challenge.
And yet... the 2010 elections are next November and the new Congress, presumably
with a Republican majority, won't take office until the end of January
2011. The amount of damage Zero and the
Dems can do until then is monumental - on top of the damage they have already
done this year. How can that be
prevented and undone? What can be done now?
The answer is the second D: Disobey.
Disobey the Ghandi
Way. Peaceful civil disobedience. No violence.
Just the refusal to obey fascist and unconstitutional laws.
There are only three federal
crimes in the Constitution: treason (Article
III section 3), piracy, and counterfeiting (Article I, section 8). Yet Congress has passed laws making over
4,000 activities a federal crime now, and federal regulatory agencies have
issued tens of thousands of rules and regulations the violation of which
constitutes a jailable offense.
Ever hear of the Aquatic Nuisance
Prevention and Control Act? Under
it, anyone who transports water hyacinths across state lines for "interstate
commerce" can be put in jail for six months and fined thousands of dollars.
Suppose a group of TeaPartyers,
with press in tow, walked across a state line wearing water hyacinth flowers in
their hair, and met another group of TeaPartyers waiting for them who proceeded
to buy the flowers for a penny apiece?
The Federal Register contains
some 85 thousand pages of rules and regulations, most all of which are
unconstitutional. TeaPartyers have a lot
to choose from.
Or they could focus on, say,
ObamaCare. If it's passed with the
mandate to buy health insurance or pay a $1,000 fine - what if tens of
thousands, what if hundreds of thousands of TeaPartyers refused to do
either? Perhaps a few might be
prosecuted - but there is no way all but a tiny fraction could. There are not enough prosecutors nor judges
and it would tie the fed courts up in knots.
And that's the goal. For so many people to disobey so many rules
that it becomes impossible for the rules to be enforced.
Call this The Revolution of Disobedience.
A Mass Movement of Conservative Civil Disobedience that empowers every
participant who knows he or she is actually doing something specific and
concrete to bring down Fedzilla.
The anger among TeaPartyers is
growing to such an extent that one hears "lock and load" talk, implying they
are ready to physically fight against the federales with guns and violence. If they have the guts to do this, then surely
they have the guts to simply disobey fascist laws non-violently and peacefully,
to fight in the courts and not the streets.
Yet it's a far safer and more effective way to cripple Leviathan.
Ghandi knew this. He saw where the Brits were vulnerable and
went after them with disobedience. After
building railroads in India,
the Brits couldn't run the place without them.
And they couldn't run the railroads by themselves, for they required
many thousands of Indian railroad workers.
So he persuaded the railroad workers to go on sitdown strikes. They did, the Brits shouted and screamed that
such strikes were illegal, Ghandi and the workers said "So what?" - and British
rule of India
was over.
If the EPA conducts a Carbon
Jihad, if the Dems enact a Cap & Tax bill penalizing energy production in
the US, it would take no more than 50,000 energy workers to go fishing next
winter, shutting down refineries, coal plants, pipelines et al, for the entire
east coast to freeze in the dark.
What Ghandi knew - what
TeaPartyers need to know - is that the key to success of any mass movement is
the opponent's loss of moral legitimacy. The goal, then, of The Revolution of
Disobedience is to deligitimize the moral
obligation to obey fascist laws.
There is no such obligation -
any more than there is a moral obligation not to lie to a mugger holding you up
at gunpoint about money hidden on you and not in your wallet. You may have a practical obligation to obey
what he says, but no moral duty.
Just like the mugger, Fedzilla
may have power and guns - but no moral
authority unless its rules and laws are enumerated constitutionally.
So -
expect to see at TeaParty demos and meetings signs that declare Just Say No To Fascists - We Won't Obey Your
Fascist Rules - For The Health of America, Break At Least One Fascist Law A Day.
Expect to
see public demonstrations of federal rule breaking, initially with mass arrests
- and the arrestees all demanding a jury trial.
Expect to see courthouse protests with protestors making sure the jury
members understand jury
nullification (for info on a jury's right to nullify the law under which a
defendant is being prosecuted, see the Fully
Informed Jury Association). Expect
to see them acquitted with rare exceptions, then the prosecutors and judges
give up under the onslaught of mass disobedience.
We don't
need guns, we don't need violence in any way to rescue America. We just need to say no. No to funding fascism. No to obeying fascism. The Double-D - Defund and Disobey - will save
our country.
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