A recent Democratically controlled session of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee met in complete secrecy in order to vote out (S-975) “The Community Character Act.” This act would give the federal government total control over those of every single local zoning board in America. Nothing in the Constitution authorizes or permits such federal power.
The Tenth Amendment specifically says “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Community Character Act is not merely unconstitutional, it is an assault on the most fundamental right of property ownership that forms the basis of our capitalist economy.
You may think you live in the “land of the brave and the home of the free”, but the America in which you actually live seeks to deny you the right to own and bear arms under the Second Amendment. More than 20,000 laws proscribe that right.
The recently passed, so-called Campaign Reform Act, the McCain-Feingold bill, puts limits the free speech of individuals and organizations that want to protest the views of candidates, thirty to sixty days prior to an election. In short, it outlaws political speech by all groups, whether it’s the National Rifle Association or the National Wildlife Association.
The First Amendment says, “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.” If you break Campaign Reform Law, you can end up in a federal prison for five years and have to pay a fine of $25,000.
Our Senators and Representatives, often with the approval of the White House, are slowly destroying the Constitution and turning this nation into a place where every single piece of information about you will be in national data banks and available to any bureaucrat or elected official that wants access to it. From the day you are born and issued a Social Security number, everything about you will be stored somewhere by Big Brother. That’s not the America the Founding Fathers envisioned. It is the opposite of it.
Half the people registered to vote, did not in the last election. Very nearly half the voters who did wanted Al Gore to be President. The former Vice President advocates the “elimination of the internal combustion engine” and “wrenching” changes in our lives. Most of the Gore voters live within fifty miles of the East or West Coast. The other half live spread out in the “fly-over” States that provide the much of the food we eat, the minerals from which everything we use is manufactured, timber, and energy sources such as coal. These fly-over people voted for George W. Bush.
Strange, then, that it is a Republican President Bush who signed the Campaign Finance Reform Act; who pushed through a $49 billion education bill that imposes endless testing of students; who advocates granting amnesty to still more millions of illegal aliens. None of this even vaguely reflects the views of those who voted for him. These are mostly Democrat initiatives.
Home of the free? I’m not that sure anymore.