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Patrick	
  Henry	
  ‘s	
  famous	
  quotation	
  “Give	
  me	
  liberty	
  of	
  give	
  me	
  death!”	
  was	
  credited	
  
as	
  the	
  deciding	
  motivation	
  delivering	
  Virginan	
  troops	
  and	
  George	
  Washington	
  to	
  the	
  
Revolutionary	
  War.	
  How	
  many	
  of	
  you	
  today	
  would	
  be	
  willing	
  to	
  give	
  up	
  you’re	
  lives	
  
to	
  defend	
  our	
  constitution?	
  	
  Well	
  we	
  know	
  that	
  hundreds	
  of	
  thousands	
  of	
  men	
  and	
  
women	
  have	
  risked	
  their	
  lives	
  defending	
  this	
  country	
  in	
  the	
  immediate	
  past.	
  	
  But	
  are	
  
they	
  defending	
  this	
  country	
  and	
  its	
  symbol	
  the	
  Statue	
  of	
  Liberty	
  and	
  all	
  it	
  represents	
  
or	
  the	
  United	
  States	
  Constitution?	
  	
  I	
  wonder	
  how	
  many	
  of	
  those	
  people	
  who	
  have	
  
taken	
  the	
  oath	
  to	
  defend	
  our	
  Constitution	
  have	
  actually	
  read	
  it.	
  	
  	
  I	
  wonder	
  how	
  many	
  
of	
  them	
  have	
  reflected	
  on	
  the	
  possibility	
  that	
  the	
  Constitution	
  may	
  have	
  been	
  
fundamentally	
  flawed.	
  	
  	
  	
  We	
  know	
  that	
  the	
  constitution	
  was	
  a	
  compromise	
  between	
  
two	
  basic	
  fundamental	
  theories	
  of	
  government.	
  	
  Thomas	
  Jefferson	
  believed	
  in	
  strong	
  
State	
  rights	
  and	
  a	
  weak	
  Federal	
  Government,	
  no	
  Federal	
  bank,	
  and	
  very	
  limited	
  
associations	
  of	
  the	
  Federal	
  Government	
  with	
  businesses.	
  Alexander	
  Hamilton	
  
believed	
  in	
  the	
  opposite.	
  The	
  constitution	
  should	
  have	
  been	
  designed	
  to	
  follow	
  the	
  
precepts	
  of	
  the	
  Declaration	
  of	
  Independence,	
  life,	
  liberty	
  and	
  the	
  pursuit	
  of	
  
happiness.	
  	
  The	
  question	
  is	
  has	
  it?	
  	
  Let	
  me	
  ask	
  you	
  to	
  be	
  patient	
  and	
  suspend	
  you’re	
  
disbelief	
  when	
  I	
  say	
  our	
  country	
  is	
  great	
  despite	
  the	
  extremely	
  harmful	
  effects	
  of	
  our	
  
Constitution.	
  	
  	
  That	
  the	
  Constitution	
  needs	
  to	
  be	
  erased	
  and	
  replaced!	
  
	
  
Wow!	
  	
  After	
  this	
  opening	
  statement	
  people	
  are	
  going	
  to	
  think	
  I’m	
  nuts.	
  	
  	
  I	
  like	
  that	
  
phrase	
  “nuts”.	
  	
  	
  It	
  was	
  said	
  at	
  a	
  critical	
  stage	
  in	
  US	
  history.	
  	
  At	
  the	
  moment	
  of	
  the	
  
greatest	
  crisis	
  for	
  American	
  soldiers	
  near	
  the	
  end	
  of	
  World	
  War	
  Two.	
  At	
  a	
  place	
  
called	
  Bastogne,	
  Luxembourg	
  in	
  the	
  Ardennes	
  forest,	
  a	
  German	
  army	
  surrounded	
  
our	
  forces.	
  	
  The	
  German	
  commander	
  asked	
  for	
  our	
  surrender.	
  	
  	
  Our	
  general	
  replied	
  
with	
  one	
  word	
  “nuts”.	
  
	
  
So	
  I	
  say	
  nuts.	
  	
  I	
  will	
  use	
  the	
  oratory	
  of	
  our	
  great	
  second	
  to	
  last	
  president,	
  Barrack	
  
Obama.	
  	
  	
  I’ll	
  have	
  to	
  say	
  he	
  does	
  have	
  a	
  pretty	
  cool	
  name.	
  	
  	
  I	
  wonder	
  if	
  he	
  knows	
  in	
  
Hebrew	
  his	
  first	
  name	
  means	
  lightning?	
  Anyway,	
  I	
  believe	
  I	
  can	
  design	
  a	
  transition	
  
of	
  our	
  federal	
  government	
  without	
  affecting	
  any	
  of	
  the	
  beloved	
  social	
  programs	
  
presently	
  in	
  existence.	
  	
  So	
  in	
  the	
  words	
  of	
  our	
  dear	
  president,	
  you	
  can	
  have	
  the	
  same	
  
Doctor	
  now	
  as	
  in	
  after	
  my	
  changes	
  
	
  
In	
  order	
  for	
  you	
  to	
  continue	
  reading,	
  I	
  must	
  make	
  you	
  aware	
  that	
  I	
  don’t	
  believe	
  any	
  
of	
  our	
  politicians	
  past	
  or	
  present,	
  republican	
  or	
  democrat	
  intended	
  any	
  harm	
  to	
  
befall	
  on	
  our	
  great	
  nation.	
  	
  	
  I	
  take	
  no	
  sides.	
  	
  I	
  am	
  neither	
  a	
  Democrat,	
  a	
  Rebublican,	
  a	
  
Libertarian,	
  a	
  socialist	
  or	
  an	
  anarchist.	
  	
  	
  I	
  share	
  many	
  principles	
  supported	
  by	
  all	
  of	
  
our	
  parties	
  present	
  and	
  past.	
  	
  	
  But	
  I	
  say	
  none	
  of	
  us	
  have	
  the	
  right	
  to	
  enforce	
  our	
  
principles	
  by	
  politics	
  on	
  our	
  fellow	
  citizens.	
  	
  That	
  is	
  simply	
  not	
  consistent	
  with	
  why	
  
our	
  country	
  was	
  miraculously	
  created	
  by	
  long	
  gone	
  patriots.	
  	
  When	
  I	
  mention	
  
disparaging	
  remarks	
  about	
  any	
  politician	
  current	
  or	
  historic,	
  I	
  am	
  using	
  it	
  to	
  
emphasize	
  a	
  point.	
  	
  I	
  have	
  nothing	
  against	
  any	
  of	
  these	
  people.	
  	
  They	
  are	
  fellow	
  
Americans.	
  	
  I	
  have	
  to	
  believe	
  that	
  all	
  of	
  them	
  thought	
  they	
  were	
  helping	
  our	
  country.	
  
Almost	
  all	
  of	
  the	
  damage	
  they	
  have	
  created	
  to	
  this	
  country	
  and	
  world	
  were	
  just	
  
unintended	
  consequences.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
While	
  it	
  is	
  true	
  that	
  in	
  the	
  history	
  of	
  our	
  planet	
  that	
  there	
  have	
  been	
  many	
  
civilizations	
  that	
  have	
  enjoyed	
  some	
  measure	
  of	
  individual	
  freedom	
  under	
  various	
  
forms	
  of	
  government.	
  	
  Their	
  economies,	
  their	
  arts	
  and	
  sciences	
  have	
  flourished.	
  	
  
Some	
  have	
  even	
  enjoyed	
  “Golden	
  Ages”	
  where	
  there	
  have	
  been	
  monumental	
  giant	
  
accomplishments	
  in	
  all	
  areas	
  of	
  human	
  endeavor.	
  	
  	
  But	
  they	
  have	
  all	
  fallen	
  to	
  a	
  
morass	
  of	
  corruption,	
  been	
  uprooted	
  by	
  violent	
  upheaval,	
  suffered	
  a	
  “coup	
  de	
  
d’état”,	
  or	
  were	
  swallowed	
  in	
  part	
  or	
  whole	
  by	
  war	
  with	
  a	
  stronger	
  foreign	
  power.	
  
	
  
We	
  have	
  been	
  FED	
  a	
  load	
  of	
  crap	
  (pun	
  intended).	
  	
  	
  That	
  our	
  nation	
  has	
  become	
  a	
  
beacon	
  of	
  liberty	
  because	
  of	
  the	
  beauty	
  of	
  our	
  form	
  of	
  Democracy	
  as	
  defined	
  by	
  the	
  
perfect	
  balance	
  of	
  power	
  of	
  our	
  unique	
  constitution.	
  	
  	
  If	
  we	
  could	
  bring	
  those	
  
gentlemen,	
  the	
  writers	
  of	
  our	
  blueprint	
  of	
  freedom	
  to	
  our	
  present	
  time	
  they	
  would	
  
be	
  aghast.	
  	
  	
  Simply	
  the	
  mountain	
  of	
  devastation	
  that	
  was	
  caused	
  directly	
  or	
  
indirectly	
  by	
  our	
  nation	
  since	
  it’s	
  founding	
  would	
  have	
  left	
  them	
  crestfallen.	
  	
  	
  The	
  
power	
  usurped	
  by	
  our	
  heads	
  of	
  state	
  would	
  have	
  made	
  them	
  befuddled.	
  	
  	
  The	
  
volumes	
  of	
  laws	
  passed	
  by	
  their	
  perfectly	
  balanced	
  congress	
  that	
  have	
  destroyed	
  
much	
  of	
  our	
  individual	
  liberty	
  would	
  have	
  stricken	
  their	
  hearts.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
The	
  truth	
  is	
  that	
  our	
  country	
  has	
  become	
  great	
  despite	
  our	
  constitution	
  and	
  our	
  
democracy.	
  	
  It	
  has	
  been	
  a	
  beacon	
  of	
  hope	
  and	
  amazing	
  accomplishments	
  because	
  of	
  
our	
  wonderful	
  people	
  born	
  here	
  and	
  those	
  that	
  have	
  sacrificed	
  everything	
  to	
  travel	
  
to	
  our	
  beloved	
  and	
  awesome	
  country.	
  	
  	
  The	
  truth	
  about	
  Democracy	
  is	
  that	
  it	
  is	
  only	
  
as	
  good	
  as	
  its	
  citizens.	
  	
  If	
  all	
  our	
  citizens	
  present	
  in	
  America	
  today	
  would	
  truly	
  
believe	
  in	
  their	
  hearts	
  give	
  me	
  liberty	
  or	
  give	
  me	
  death	
  it	
  wouldn’t	
  matter	
  what	
  form	
  
of	
  government	
  we	
  had.	
  None	
  of	
  what	
  has	
  occurred	
  over	
  the	
  last	
  two	
  hundred	
  years	
  
would	
  have	
  happened.	
  	
  	
  But	
  that’s	
  an	
  impossible	
  dream.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
It	
  shocks	
  me	
  to	
  think	
  that	
  the	
  tens	
  of	
  thousands	
  of	
  scholars	
  who	
  have	
  become	
  
educated	
  in	
  Political	
  Science	
  have	
  blinded	
  themselves	
  to	
  the	
  reality	
  that	
  Democracy	
  
and	
  freedom	
  go	
  hand	
  in	
  hand.	
  	
  	
  Show	
  me	
  a	
  democracy	
  that	
  over	
  time	
  individual	
  
freedom	
  has	
  not	
  declined.	
  	
  In	
  point	
  of	
  fact	
  some	
  democracies	
  become	
  totalitarian	
  
states	
  shortly	
  after	
  their	
  formation.	
  	
  	
  An	
  extreme	
  example	
  of	
  this	
  was	
  Adolph	
  Hitler	
  
who	
  was	
  elected	
  democratically.	
  	
  	
  All	
  of	
  the	
  other	
  Democracies	
  including	
  ours	
  have	
  
become	
  less	
  free	
  as	
  time	
  goes	
  on.	
  	
  	
  	
  It’s	
  inevitable.	
  	
  By	
  definition	
  in	
  Democracy	
  the	
  
majority	
  rules	
  and	
  the	
  minority,	
  the	
  individuals	
  lose.	
  It’s	
  the	
  majority	
  who	
  choose	
  
representatives	
  that	
  continuously	
  pass	
  laws	
  that	
  are	
  suppose	
  to	
  correct	
  some	
  
injustice	
  or	
  benefit	
  the	
  people	
  that	
  elected	
  them.	
  	
  They	
  all	
  lead	
  to	
  unintended	
  
consequences	
  that	
  require	
  more	
  rules.	
  	
  Over	
  time	
  this	
  endless	
  loop	
  of	
  laws,	
  rules,	
  
and	
  taxes	
  to	
  pay	
  for	
  the	
  laws	
  and	
  rules	
  leads	
  to	
  an	
  exponential	
  decline	
  in	
  freedom.	
  
	
  
Albert	
  Einstein	
  once	
  said	
  the	
  most	
  powerful	
  force	
  in	
  nature	
  is	
  compound	
  interest.	
  	
  If	
  
you	
  went	
  back	
  in	
  time	
  to	
  1776	
  and	
  could	
  invest	
  $1000	
  at	
  4%	
  interest,	
  it	
  would	
  be	
  
worth	
  about	
  eight	
  million	
  dollars	
  in	
  2015.	
  	
  	
  I	
  say	
  the	
  same	
  force	
  works	
  in	
  
government.	
  If	
  we	
  started	
  with	
  one	
  hundred	
  laws	
  in	
  1776	
  it	
  has	
  become	
  80,000	
  laws	
  
today.	
  
	
  
The	
  United	
  States	
  constitution	
  is	
  unique.	
  	
  The	
  founding	
  fathers	
  brilliantly	
  conceived	
  
of	
  a	
  system	
  of	
  checks	
  and	
  balances	
  to	
  prevent	
  this	
  political	
  decay.	
  	
  But	
  it	
  only	
  has	
  
delayed	
  the	
  inevitable.	
  	
  It	
  should	
  now	
  be	
  as	
  plain	
  as	
  the	
  nose	
  on	
  all	
  our	
  faces	
  that	
  the	
  
check	
  and	
  balance	
  system	
  has	
  failed.	
  	
  Think	
  about	
  what	
  has	
  happened	
  in	
  
Washington	
  since	
  the	
  start	
  of	
  the	
  great	
  depression	
  in	
  1929.	
  	
  An	
  incoming	
  President	
  
has	
  been	
  elected	
  sometimes	
  even	
  without	
  a	
  popular	
  majority.	
  	
  He	
  announces	
  a	
  new	
  
sweeping	
  policy	
  change	
  to	
  our	
  system	
  of	
  life.	
  	
  Sometimes	
  we	
  are	
  lucky	
  that	
  he	
  can’t	
  
garnish	
  enough	
  support	
  to	
  get	
  his	
  new	
  policy	
  made	
  law.	
  	
  But	
  usually	
  some	
  form	
  of	
  it	
  
is	
  passed.	
  These	
  policies	
  are	
  especially	
  easy	
  to	
  get	
  passed	
  immediately	
  after	
  a	
  period	
  
of	
  economic	
  downturn	
  when	
  our	
  citizens	
  are	
  desperate	
  for	
  a	
  quick	
  fix,	
  or	
  as	
  the	
  
result	
  of	
  a	
  scary	
  terrorist	
  attack.	
  	
  Congress	
  passes	
  a	
  bill	
  that	
  has	
  so	
  many	
  pages	
  that	
  
none	
  of	
  them	
  probably	
  even	
  read	
  it,	
  much	
  less	
  analyze	
  the	
  consequences	
  to	
  our	
  
people	
  individually,	
  our	
  national	
  economy,	
  or	
  the	
  world	
  at	
  large.	
  	
  Parenthetically,	
  we	
  
know	
  that	
  in	
  our	
  congress	
  these	
  new	
  laws	
  in	
  order	
  to	
  be	
  passed	
  are	
  a	
  shadow	
  of	
  
what	
  their	
  constituents	
  desired	
  and	
  almost	
  definitely	
  not	
  what	
  the	
  minority	
  desired.	
  	
  	
  
Then	
  of	
  course	
  most	
  of	
  these	
  bills	
  have	
  many	
  pieces	
  of	
  unrelated	
  special	
  interest	
  
“trick	
  or	
  treats”	
  commonly	
  called	
  “Pork	
  Barrel”	
  additives	
  that	
  are	
  required	
  to	
  insure	
  
that	
  the	
  main	
  bill	
  will	
  be	
  passed.	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  These	
  representatives	
  hand	
  deliver	
  the	
  bill	
  to	
  our	
  
great	
  and	
  powerful	
  wizards	
  of	
  presidency	
  and	
  who	
  with	
  great	
  fanfare	
  sign	
  them	
  into	
  
law.	
  	
  So	
  the	
  first	
  check	
  of	
  the	
  balance	
  of	
  power	
  created	
  by	
  our	
  founders,	
  the	
  
presidential	
  veto	
  is	
  only	
  employed	
  when	
  the	
  president	
  doesn’t	
  get	
  most	
  of	
  what	
  he	
  
wants.	
  	
  Not	
  because	
  he	
  believes	
  its	
  wrong	
  to	
  put	
  more	
  burdens	
  on	
  our	
  citizens.	
  	
  
(Presidents	
  have	
  begged	
  for	
  a	
  line	
  item	
  veto	
  for	
  decades	
  to	
  prevent	
  these	
  artificial	
  
additives.	
  Good	
  luck	
  on	
  that!)	
  
	
  
Of	
  course	
  now	
  we	
  need	
  tens	
  of	
  thousands	
  of	
  new	
  bureaucrats	
  that	
  interpret	
  and	
  
execute	
  the	
  new	
  policy.	
  	
  Because	
  these	
  bureaucrats	
  are	
  individuals	
  and	
  not	
  a	
  
mindless	
  hive	
  of	
  ants	
  that	
  march	
  exactly	
  to	
  the	
  orders	
  of	
  the	
  queen	
  ant	
  (The	
  
President)	
  the	
  hundred-­‐page	
  bill	
  becomes	
  a	
  thousand	
  regulations.	
  	
  Oh	
  by	
  the	
  way	
  
isn’t	
  interesting	
  that	
  in	
  the	
  insect	
  world	
  it	
  s	
  the	
  female	
  that	
  rules!	
  	
  The	
  new	
  
beurocrats	
  cost	
  money.	
  	
  Taxes	
  must	
  be	
  increased.	
  	
  Then	
  over	
  time	
  our	
  individual	
  
freedom	
  of	
  choice	
  becomes	
  more	
  and	
  more	
  limited.	
  	
  	
  And	
  of	
  course	
  each	
  new	
  
regulation	
  has	
  unintended	
  consequences	
  that	
  require	
  more	
  bills	
  and	
  more	
  
regulations	
  to	
  “fix	
  them”.	
  	
  And	
  from	
  small	
  acorns	
  to	
  the	
  giant	
  oak	
  tree	
  of	
  our	
  great	
  
country	
  it	
  increasingly	
  rots	
  from	
  the	
  inside	
  out.	
  
	
  
Congress	
  has	
  a	
  duty	
  to	
  watch	
  how	
  their	
  new	
  bill	
  is	
  working.	
  	
  But	
  with	
  the	
  size	
  of	
  our	
  
present	
  federal	
  government,	
  which	
  has	
  three	
  to	
  four	
  million	
  people,	
  that	
  doesn’t	
  
include	
  the	
  department	
  of	
  defense	
  or	
  our	
  armed	
  forces	
  or	
  our	
  security	
  agencies.	
  	
  (No	
  
one	
  seems	
  to	
  know	
  exactly	
  how	
  many!	
  But	
  it	
  is	
  at	
  least	
  ten	
  times	
  the	
  number	
  of	
  
people	
  who	
  ran	
  the	
  country	
  in	
  1932.	
  	
  How	
  can	
  a	
  few	
  hundred	
  members	
  of	
  congress	
  
monitor	
  the	
  progress	
  of	
  their	
  legislation?	
  	
  They	
  are	
  all	
  too	
  busy	
  checking	
  how	
  good	
  
they	
  look	
  on	
  the	
  Internet.	
  	
  Oh	
  and	
  by	
  the	
  way	
  we	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  be	
  a	
  free	
  society.	
  	
  
But	
  we	
  have	
  no	
  idea	
  how	
  many	
  people	
  work	
  for	
  the	
  CIA	
  or	
  NSA	
  or	
  homeland	
  
security.	
  
	
  
Oh	
  and	
  where	
  is	
  the	
  Supreme	
  Court	
  the	
  third	
  check	
  to	
  the	
  balance	
  of	
  power.	
  	
  Guys	
  
these	
  are	
  just	
  twelve	
  men	
  and	
  women.	
  	
  When	
  the	
  country	
  was	
  created	
  this	
  might	
  
have	
  seemed	
  sufficient.	
  	
  But	
  now	
  how	
  can	
  it.	
  	
  There	
  are	
  so	
  many	
  disputes	
  outside	
  the	
  
arena	
  of	
  politics.	
  	
  How	
  can	
  they	
  devote	
  much	
  time	
  to	
  monitoring	
  the	
  behavior	
  of	
  
Congress	
  or	
  the	
  President?	
  	
  But	
  if	
  they	
  are	
  handed	
  a	
  political	
  football	
  to	
  judge,	
  do	
  
you	
  really	
  think	
  they	
  judge	
  laws	
  by	
  the	
  constitution	
  or	
  by	
  their	
  personal	
  political	
  
biases?	
  	
  I	
  think	
  they	
  are	
  more	
  interested	
  in	
  who	
  is	
  the	
  quarterback	
  (the	
  guy	
  who	
  
writes	
  the	
  majority	
  opinion)	
  that	
  scores	
  the	
  touchdown.	
  	
  He	
  or	
  she	
  gets	
  in	
  the	
  
history	
  book!	
  	
  Supreme	
  court	
  decisions	
  have	
  many	
  times	
  changed	
  the	
  law	
  of	
  the	
  
land.	
  	
  The	
  constitution	
  never	
  intended	
  for	
  that	
  to	
  happen!	
  	
  They	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  be	
  
judges	
  not	
  law	
  makers.	
  
	
  
Ob	
  you	
  might	
  say	
  we	
  did	
  have	
  presidents	
  where	
  policies	
  restricting	
  individual	
  
liberty	
  were	
  reversed.	
  	
  	
  How	
  about	
  President	
  Reagan?	
  	
  Yes	
  we	
  do	
  have	
  occasional	
  
winds	
  that	
  blow	
  our	
  government	
  back	
  towards	
  liberty.	
  	
  Fewer	
  taxes.	
  	
  Fewer	
  
regulations.	
  	
  But	
  that	
  trend	
  is	
  inevitably	
  reversed	
  with	
  the	
  next	
  administration.	
  	
  In	
  
actually,	
  it	
  matters	
  not	
  if	
  republicans	
  or	
  democrats	
  are	
  in	
  power.	
  	
  The	
  degradation	
  of	
  
liberty	
  sometimes	
  crawls,	
  sometimes	
  marches	
  and	
  sometimes	
  runs	
  towards	
  
eventual	
  disaster.	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
Enough	
  said	
  of	
  the	
  sad	
  state	
  of	
  affairs	
  of	
  our	
  political	
  process.	
  
	
  
Let’s	
  examine	
  the	
  constitution	
  in	
  light	
  of	
  the	
  three	
  principles	
  that	
  our	
  county	
  
declared	
  independence.	
  
	
  
LIFE	
  
	
  
This	
  principle	
  expressed	
  here	
  by	
  our	
  Founding	
  Fathers	
  is	
  the	
  belief	
  that	
  individual	
  
life	
  is	
  sacrosanct.	
  	
  That	
  at	
  that	
  times	
  a	
  King	
  living	
  in	
  Britain	
  could	
  theoretically	
  
sentence	
  to	
  death	
  anyone	
  at	
  his	
  whim.	
  	
  But	
  I	
  think	
  the	
  idea	
  is	
  more	
  universal.	
  	
  Those	
  
of	
  us	
  who	
  believe	
  in	
  a	
  supreme	
  being	
  who	
  has	
  commanded	
  us	
  in	
  the	
  bible	
  that	
  
murder	
  is	
  a	
  sin	
  whether	
  done	
  by	
  an	
  individual	
  or	
  a	
  group	
  have	
  an	
  appreciation	
  for	
  
that	
  fact.	
  	
  But	
  I	
  think	
  for	
  them	
  it	
  should	
  be	
  more	
  clear	
  because	
  as	
  a	
  Supreme	
  Being	
  
God	
  could	
  have	
  created	
  our	
  planet	
  with	
  millions	
  of	
  human	
  beings	
  not	
  just	
  one.	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  
Jewish	
  lore	
  states	
  the	
  reason	
  God	
  created	
  the	
  world	
  with	
  just	
  Adam	
  was	
  to	
  show	
  
that	
  causing	
  the	
  death	
  of	
  one	
  man	
  is	
  as	
  if	
  that	
  person	
  destroyed	
  an	
  entire	
  world.	
  	
  On	
  
the	
  opposite	
  side;	
  the	
  atheists,	
  the	
  evolutionists,	
  and	
  those	
  that	
  agree	
  with	
  Stephen	
  
Hawking’s	
  that	
  all	
  of	
  creation	
  can	
  be	
  explained	
  by	
  modern	
  physics	
  without	
  resorting	
  
to	
  an	
  all	
  powerful	
  God	
  whatever	
  their	
  reason	
  for	
  a	
  moral	
  stance	
  that	
  human	
  life	
  is	
  
sacrosanct,	
  they	
  too	
  must	
  realize	
  the	
  beginning	
  of	
  humankind	
  must	
  have	
  been	
  
started	
  with	
  just	
  a	
  handful	
  of	
  individuals.	
  	
  	
  So	
  that	
  there	
  too	
  if	
  those	
  first	
  intelligent	
  
self	
  aware	
  beings	
  had	
  been	
  murdered	
  it	
  also	
  would	
  have	
  been	
  like	
  destroying	
  the	
  
whole	
  world.	
  	
  They	
  also	
  must	
  understand	
  that	
  causing	
  the	
  death	
  of	
  one	
  human	
  being	
  
could	
  result	
  in	
  an	
  Einstein,	
  a	
  Graham	
  Bell,	
  a	
  Thomas	
  Edison,	
  a	
  Gandhi,	
  a	
  Martin	
  
Luther	
  King	
  or	
  any	
  of	
  the	
  greater	
  or	
  lessor	
  people	
  never	
  having	
  been	
  born.	
  
	
  
Therefore	
  how	
  can	
  we	
  have	
  a	
  government	
  that	
  a	
  president	
  without	
  any	
  oversight	
  
launches	
  a	
  drone	
  strike	
  and	
  murders	
  a	
  group	
  of	
  people	
  half	
  way	
  around	
  the	
  world	
  
and	
  maybe	
  one	
  or	
  several	
  of	
  them	
  are	
  would	
  be	
  terrorists?	
  	
  But	
  as	
  we	
  all	
  know	
  there	
  
is	
  always	
  collateral	
  damage	
  the	
  euphemism	
  for	
  the	
  senseless	
  slaughter	
  of	
  innocent	
  
women	
  and	
  children.	
  	
  As	
  citizens	
  of	
  this	
  country	
  all	
  of	
  us	
  are	
  responsible	
  for	
  his	
  
actions.	
  	
  If	
  this	
  happened	
  in	
  the	
  1960’s	
  spontaneous	
  protests	
  would	
  occur	
  all	
  over	
  
our	
  nation.	
  	
  I	
  guess	
  as	
  a	
  nation	
  we	
  have	
  become	
  numb	
  to	
  the	
  evil	
  perpetrated	
  under	
  
our	
  name.	
  	
  That	
  of	
  course	
  is	
  just	
  the	
  smallest	
  of	
  outrages	
  committed	
  by	
  our	
  
Presidents	
  over	
  time.	
  
	
  
But	
  that	
  fault	
  lies	
  with	
  our	
  founding	
  fathers.	
  	
  	
  It	
  was	
  written	
  in	
  a	
  Constitution	
  that	
  
created	
  the	
  authority	
  for	
  this	
  possibility	
  to	
  happen.	
  	
  Our	
  founding	
  fathers	
  drenched	
  
all	
  of	
  us	
  with	
  the	
  responsibility	
  for	
  a	
  sea	
  of	
  blood	
  and	
  pain	
  from	
  the	
  very	
  beginning	
  
of	
  the	
  creation	
  of	
  our	
  great	
  county.	
  	
  Can	
  any	
  of	
  us	
  now	
  have	
  let	
  a	
  constitution	
  be	
  
written	
  that	
  allowed	
  slavery?	
  	
  Think	
  of	
  all	
  the	
  lives	
  destroyed	
  by	
  this	
  act.	
  	
  It	
  would	
  
have	
  been	
  better	
  if	
  we	
  had	
  remained	
  a	
  loose	
  association	
  of	
  states	
  then	
  to	
  give	
  a	
  
moral	
  blessing	
  for	
  such	
  an	
  outrageous	
  miscarriage	
  of	
  justice.	
  	
  Don’t	
  forget	
  that	
  
women	
  were	
  not	
  even	
  considered	
  to	
  be	
  citizens	
  when	
  they	
  wrote	
  the	
  Constitution.	
  
They	
  had	
  no	
  representation.	
  	
  They	
  could	
  not	
  vote.	
  
	
  
Yet	
  we	
  got	
  what	
  we	
  deserved.	
  	
  The	
  saying	
  “What	
  comes	
  around	
  goes	
  around”	
  hit	
  us	
  
with	
  full	
  force	
  during	
  the	
  civil	
  war.	
  	
  Six	
  hundred	
  twenty	
  thousand	
  of	
  our	
  US	
  citizens	
  
died.	
  	
  Another	
  five	
  hundred	
  thousand	
  were	
  severely	
  injured.	
  	
  That	
  doesn’t	
  even	
  
scratch	
  the	
  surface	
  of	
  the	
  property	
  loss,	
  the	
  economic	
  devastation	
  and	
  the	
  long-­‐term	
  
consequences.	
  
	
  
Let’s	
  discuss	
  the	
  creation	
  of	
  a	
  single	
  person	
  as	
  the	
  head	
  of	
  our	
  executive	
  branch	
  in	
  
the	
  constitution.	
  	
  Lovingly	
  called	
  POTUS	
  by	
  our	
  secret	
  service.	
  	
  Parenthetically.	
  Just	
  
the	
  act	
  of	
  our	
  nation	
  creating	
  a	
  body	
  of	
  men	
  called	
  the	
  “Secret	
  Service”	
  should	
  strike	
  
fear	
  in	
  our	
  hearts.	
  	
  What	
  secret	
  acts	
  have	
  these	
  men	
  and	
  women	
  done?	
  	
  Our	
  free	
  
society	
  should	
  have	
  no	
  room	
  for	
  secrecy.	
  	
  But	
  lets	
  leave	
  that	
  aside	
  for	
  now.	
  What	
  are	
  
some	
  of	
  the	
  highlights	
  of	
  the	
  history	
  of	
  our	
  early	
  Presidents?	
  	
  	
  
	
  
Between	
  1801	
  and	
  1805	
  the	
  United	
  States	
  became	
  involved	
  in	
  a	
  war	
  against	
  the	
  so-­‐
called	
  “Barbary	
  Pirates”	
  of	
  North	
  Africa.	
  	
  The	
  war	
  was	
  fought	
  on	
  the	
  behest	
  of	
  
American	
  merchantmen	
  that	
  were	
  captured,	
  enslaved	
  and	
  held	
  for	
  ransom.	
  	
  The	
  
negotiated	
  ransom	
  first	
  paid	
  was	
  one	
  million	
  dollars.	
  	
  That	
  was	
  10%	
  of	
  the	
  entire	
  US	
  
budget.	
  	
  The	
  USA	
  continued	
  to	
  pay	
  it	
  for	
  fifteen	
  years,	
  until	
  Thomas	
  Jefferson	
  built	
  
the	
  US	
  navy.	
  	
  	
  Self-­‐defense	
  is	
  a	
  righteous	
  and	
  appropriate	
  use	
  of	
  Federal	
  power.	
  	
  But	
  
in	
  this	
  case,	
  our	
  navy	
  and	
  marines	
  were	
  used	
  in	
  a	
  way	
  to	
  protect	
  special	
  interests.	
  	
  	
  
The	
  merchantmen	
  knew	
  that	
  the	
  Mediterranean	
  was	
  an	
  unsafe	
  place	
  to	
  travel.	
  	
  But	
  
the	
  profits	
  were	
  high	
  and	
  worth	
  the	
  risks	
  involved	
  at	
  least	
  to	
  the	
  owners	
  of	
  these	
  
ships.	
  	
  But	
  when	
  their	
  sailors	
  were	
  enslaved	
  they	
  cried	
  to	
  our	
  government	
  to	
  take	
  
action.	
  	
  Our	
  president	
  Thomas	
  Jefferson	
  with	
  just	
  a	
  wink	
  from	
  congress	
  authorized	
  
action.	
  	
  So	
  American	
  and	
  foreign	
  blood	
  was	
  spilled	
  for	
  the	
  sake	
  of	
  a	
  few	
  American	
  
businessmen.	
  	
  A	
  very	
  dangerous	
  precedent	
  was	
  established.	
  	
  	
  There	
  were	
  many	
  
alternatives	
  then	
  the	
  use	
  of	
  Federal	
  Governmental	
  power	
  and	
  it	
  violated	
  an	
  
important	
  moral	
  precept.	
  	
  It	
  was	
  the	
  beginning	
  of	
  	
  “special	
  interests”	
  influencing	
  our	
  
government	
  without	
  regard	
  for	
  its	
  people.	
  	
  I’m	
  sure	
  the	
  mother’s	
  of	
  the	
  dead	
  and	
  
wounded	
  sailors	
  and	
  marines	
  were	
  very	
  happy	
  that	
  it	
  was	
  now	
  safe	
  to	
  send	
  shipping	
  
through	
  the	
  Mediterranean.	
  	
  
	
  
You	
  could	
  argue	
  that	
  protecting	
  commerce	
  is	
  an	
  important	
  part	
  of	
  our	
  Federal	
  
Government.	
  	
  	
  I	
  agree.	
  	
  I	
  also	
  agree	
  that	
  a	
  justified	
  use	
  of	
  our	
  armed	
  forces	
  gives	
  us	
  
vital	
  training	
  in	
  the	
  art	
  of	
  war	
  unavailable	
  in	
  peacetime.	
  	
  But	
  it	
  must	
  be	
  used	
  
judiciously,	
  with	
  great	
  care,	
  on	
  a	
  voluntary	
  and	
  well	
  paid	
  basis	
  by	
  the	
  men	
  involved	
  
and	
  the	
  costs	
  should	
  be	
  born	
  by	
  the	
  direct	
  beneficiary’s.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
Just	
  shortly	
  thereafter	
  was	
  the	
  war	
  of	
  1812.	
  	
  I	
  wonder	
  how	
  many	
  Americans	
  know	
  
that	
  the	
  song,	
  our	
  national	
  anthem,	
  the	
  Star-­‐Spangled	
  Banner	
  is	
  about	
  the	
  war	
  in	
  
1812?	
  	
  When	
  it	
  mentions	
  the	
  rockets	
  red	
  glare	
  and	
  the	
  bombs	
  bursting	
  in	
  air.	
  	
  Those	
  
were	
  the	
  latest	
  weapons	
  of	
  the	
  British	
  Army!	
  	
  Yes	
  ladies	
  and	
  gentlemen	
  we	
  were	
  
stupid	
  enough	
  to	
  get	
  involved	
  in	
  another	
  war	
  with	
  the	
  greatest	
  military	
  power	
  on	
  
the	
  planet!	
  	
  It	
  was	
  just	
  a	
  couple	
  of	
  decades	
  since	
  we	
  miraculously	
  won	
  our	
  freedom.	
  
Our	
  president	
  and	
  congress	
  risked	
  the	
  entire	
  existence	
  of	
  our	
  country	
  on	
  the	
  throw	
  
of	
  the	
  dice	
  of	
  war!	
  	
  It	
  doesn’t	
  matter	
  now	
  why	
  they	
  did	
  it.	
  	
  Some	
  say	
  we	
  didn’t	
  like	
  
them	
  taking	
  our	
  sailors	
  who	
  believed	
  had	
  deserted	
  from	
  the	
  British	
  navy	
  off	
  our	
  
vessels	
  in	
  open	
  sea.	
  	
  Not	
  that	
  it	
  matters,	
  but	
  I	
  think	
  most	
  historians	
  would	
  say	
  we	
  
thought	
  the	
  British	
  were	
  tied	
  down	
  with	
  Napoleon	
  in	
  Europe	
  and	
  we	
  could	
  steal	
  
Canada	
  away	
  from	
  the	
  British.	
  	
  The	
  war	
  lasted	
  more	
  then	
  two	
  years.	
  	
  Our	
  capital	
  was	
  
burned	
  to	
  the	
  ground.	
  	
  	
  What	
  idiocy	
  it	
  was	
  to	
  allow	
  our	
  Federal	
  government,	
  mostly	
  
just	
  at	
  the	
  whim	
  of	
  our	
  president,	
  the	
  power	
  to	
  start	
  conflicts.	
  	
  There	
  are	
  always	
  
alternatives	
  to	
  resorting	
  to	
  war.	
  “Violence	
  is	
  the	
  last	
  refuge	
  of	
  the	
  incompetent.”	
  	
  	
  
Isaac	
  Asimov.	
  
	
  
I	
  have	
  been	
  an	
  amateur	
  military	
  historian	
  for	
  most	
  of	
  the	
  forty-­‐five	
  years	
  of	
  my	
  adult	
  
life.	
  	
  I	
  have	
  spent	
  thousands	
  of	
  hours	
  reading	
  about	
  wars	
  and	
  battles	
  and	
  have	
  
played	
  tactical	
  and	
  strategic	
  simulations	
  of	
  most	
  of	
  the	
  battles	
  from	
  the	
  level	
  of	
  the	
  
platoon	
  all	
  the	
  way	
  up	
  to	
  simulations	
  of	
  the	
  entirety	
  of	
  World	
  War	
  One	
  and	
  World	
  
War	
  Two.	
  	
  There	
  have	
  been	
  relatively	
  small	
  battles	
  in	
  the	
  last	
  seven	
  hundred	
  years	
  
whose	
  outcome	
  changed	
  the	
  course	
  of	
  history.	
  	
  Each	
  of	
  these	
  battles	
  was	
  affected	
  by	
  
random	
  events	
  that	
  could	
  have	
  turned	
  the	
  outcome	
  either	
  way.	
  They	
  were	
  all	
  mostly	
  
preventable.	
  	
  	
  They	
  were	
  often	
  mishandled	
  at	
  every	
  level	
  of	
  the	
  conflict.	
  	
  Especially	
  
by	
  the	
  meddling	
  of	
  the	
  Politian’s	
  overseeing	
  the	
  military.	
  	
  	
  The	
  last	
  thing	
  a	
  country	
  
wants	
  to	
  do	
  is	
  subject	
  its	
  citizens	
  to	
  the	
  fog	
  of	
  war.	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
Let’s	
  talk	
  about	
  the	
  constitution	
  making	
  the	
  president	
  the	
  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief	
  of	
  
United	
  States	
  Armed	
  Forces.	
  	
  Maybe	
  back	
  in	
  the	
  late	
  1700’s	
  it	
  made	
  sense	
  that	
  a	
  
President	
  without	
  any	
  military	
  training	
  becoming	
  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief.	
  	
  Wars	
  were	
  
still	
  relatively	
  unsophisticated.	
  	
  	
  Men	
  would	
  stand	
  in	
  a	
  long	
  line	
  pointing	
  their	
  
muskets	
  at	
  the	
  enemies	
  line	
  fire	
  away	
  and	
  then	
  charge	
  with	
  bayonets.	
  	
  	
  The	
  strategy	
  
and	
  tactics	
  of	
  such	
  a	
  war	
  were	
  easy	
  to	
  understand	
  and	
  easy	
  to	
  teach	
  an	
  incoming	
  
president.	
  	
  But	
  today,	
  the	
  complexities	
  of	
  our	
  world	
  and	
  the	
  varieties	
  of	
  weaponry,	
  
strategy	
  and	
  tactics	
  are	
  vast.	
  	
  I’m	
  sure	
  even	
  our	
  Joint	
  Chiefs	
  of	
  Staffs	
  after	
  a	
  lifetime	
  
in	
  the	
  military	
  would	
  be	
  the	
  first	
  to	
  admit	
  they	
  are	
  overwhelmed	
  by	
  the	
  possibilities	
  
of	
  warfare	
  in	
  our	
  time.	
  	
  Yet	
  from	
  President	
  Roosevelt	
  to	
  the	
  present,	
  (with	
  the	
  
notable	
  exception	
  of	
  President	
  Eisenhower)	
  all	
  of	
  our	
  presidents	
  have	
  been	
  eager	
  to	
  
use	
  our	
  military	
  as	
  their	
  private	
  toy.	
  	
  	
  Hundreds	
  of	
  thousands	
  of	
  precious	
  American	
  
lives	
  have	
  been	
  lost	
  in	
  the	
  last	
  one	
  hundred	
  years	
  directly	
  because	
  we	
  have	
  a	
  
President	
  as	
  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief.	
  	
  None	
  of	
  those	
  wars	
  had	
  to	
  be	
  fought	
  by	
  the	
  US.	
  	
  
Or	
  at	
  least	
  in	
  the	
  form	
  and	
  ill	
  preparation	
  they	
  were	
  fought.	
  	
  	
  From	
  the	
  extension	
  of	
  
the	
  length	
  and	
  destruction	
  of	
  World	
  War	
  One	
  to	
  the	
  horrors	
  of	
  all	
  the	
  wars	
  that	
  
followed	
  they	
  were	
  all	
  the	
  result	
  of	
  unintended	
  consequences	
  of	
  our	
  government.	
  	
  
Ladies	
  and	
  gentlemen	
  you	
  have	
  been	
  sold	
  a	
  bill	
  of	
  trash.	
  It	
  was	
  the	
  mishandling	
  of	
  
the	
  US	
  government	
  that	
  got	
  us	
  involved	
  in	
  both	
  great	
  wars.	
  	
  I	
  can	
  show	
  World	
  War	
  
two	
  was	
  an	
  unintended	
  consequence	
  of	
  the	
  US	
  government!	
  	
  When	
  you	
  begin	
  to	
  
doubt	
  the	
  historians	
  eager	
  to	
  laud	
  the	
  US,	
  you	
  will	
  understand	
  that	
  our	
  government	
  
also	
  created	
  most	
  of	
  the	
  evils	
  that	
  followed	
  World	
  War	
  Two.	
  	
  I	
  will	
  discuss	
  each	
  one	
  
of	
  them	
  individually	
  later.	
  
	
  
Those	
  of	
  us	
  who	
  were	
  brought	
  up	
  in	
  the	
  50’s	
  and	
  60’s	
  experienced	
  first	
  hand	
  the	
  
emotional	
  impact	
  of	
  the	
  worry	
  of	
  a	
  world	
  ending	
  in	
  a	
  nuclear	
  holocaust.	
  	
  Every	
  hour	
  
there	
  would	
  be	
  a	
  test	
  of	
  the	
  emergency	
  broadcast	
  system	
  in	
  the	
  event	
  of	
  a	
  nuclear	
  
attack	
  on	
  TV.	
  	
  I	
  remember	
  at	
  age	
  seven	
  a	
  fallout	
  shelter	
  for	
  sale	
  at	
  the	
  neighboring	
  
gas	
  station	
  in	
  the	
  suburbs	
  of	
  Chicago.	
  	
  	
  My	
  whole	
  family	
  glued	
  to	
  the	
  seats	
  of	
  our	
  
dining	
  room	
  watching	
  the	
  latest	
  news	
  of	
  the	
  Cuban	
  missile	
  crisis.	
  	
  If	
  you	
  haven’t	
  seen	
  
them,	
  you	
  should	
  watch	
  On	
  the	
  Beach,	
  Failsafe	
  and	
  Dr.	
  Strangelove.	
  	
  	
  At	
  the	
  age	
  of	
  
twenty-­‐one	
  I	
  began	
  trading	
  stocks	
  by	
  the	
  side	
  of	
  my	
  broker	
  at	
  Rodman	
  and	
  
Crenshaw	
  in	
  Chicago.	
  	
  It	
  was	
  the	
  middle	
  of	
  the	
  Yom	
  Kippur	
  War.	
  	
  Across	
  the	
  ticker	
  
tape	
  came	
  a	
  message	
  that	
  as	
  a	
  result	
  of	
  the	
  Soviet	
  Union	
  mobilizing	
  its	
  airborne	
  
division	
  to	
  aid	
  Egypt,	
  President	
  Nixon	
  raised	
  the	
  nuclear	
  threat	
  level.	
  	
  I	
  guess	
  he	
  was	
  
willing	
  to	
  play	
  the	
  Nuke	
  card	
  on	
  his	
  own	
  authority.	
  	
  	
  It’s	
  a	
  miracle	
  the	
  world	
  is	
  still	
  
here.	
  	
  But	
  giving	
  all	
  that	
  power,	
  the	
  so-­‐called	
  nuclear	
  football	
  with	
  one	
  man,	
  the	
  
president,	
  who	
  can	
  destroy	
  the	
  entire	
  planet	
  at	
  a	
  moments	
  notice	
  is	
  insane.	
  (By	
  the	
  
way	
  why	
  isn’t	
  it	
  called	
  the	
  nuclear	
  baseball	
  that’s	
  our	
  national	
  sport!)?	
  	
  What	
  if	
  one	
  
of	
  them	
  wakes	
  up	
  in	
  the	
  middle	
  of	
  the	
  night	
  with	
  a	
  sudden	
  medical	
  condition	
  that	
  
makes	
  him	
  paranoid	
  and	
  sure	
  that	
  we	
  are	
  under	
  nuclear	
  attack.	
  	
  And	
  he	
  orders	
  a	
  
preemptive	
  strike.	
  I	
  assume	
  there	
  are	
  safe	
  guards	
  but	
  after	
  the	
  shocking	
  event	
  of	
  
911	
  can	
  we	
  be	
  so	
  sure?	
  
	
  
So	
  by	
  the	
  test	
  of	
  Life	
  as	
  an	
  important	
  precept	
  of	
  the	
  United	
  States	
  Constitution,	
  the	
  
office	
  of	
  presidency	
  fails	
  miserably.	
  
 
This	
  is	
  why	
  I	
  am	
  not	
  only	
  running	
  for	
  president	
  but	
  I	
  am	
  running	
  to	
  be	
  the	
  final	
  
president.	
  	
  	
  I	
  will	
  write	
  the	
  presidency	
  out	
  of	
  our	
  new	
  constitution.	
  I	
  will	
  discuss	
  the	
  
presidency	
  in	
  light	
  of	
  the	
  other	
  precepts	
  of	
  our	
  great	
  country	
  as	
  we	
  go	
  on.	
  	
  I	
  assure	
  
you	
  the	
  office	
  of	
  presidency	
  fails	
  liberty	
  and	
  the	
  pursuit	
  of	
  happiness	
  as	
  well.	
  
	
  
In	
  my	
  constitution	
  I	
  will	
  also	
  describe	
  a	
  more	
  rational	
  method	
  that	
  involves	
  as	
  much	
  
of	
  our	
  citizenries	
  approval	
  as	
  possible	
  in	
  the	
  use	
  of	
  our	
  military	
  power,	
  the	
  power	
  
over	
  life	
  and	
  death.	
  
	
  
LIBERTY	
  
	
  
The	
  idea	
  of	
  liberty	
  in	
  the	
  Declaration	
  of	
  Independence	
  meant	
  that	
  Americans	
  
demanded	
  the	
  right	
  of	
  individual	
  freedom	
  of	
  choice	
  and	
  freedom	
  of	
  will.	
  	
  The	
  former	
  
meaning	
  that	
  all	
  Americans	
  wanted	
  the	
  right	
  to	
  choose	
  whatever	
  course	
  of	
  action	
  
they	
  desired.	
  	
  The	
  freedom	
  of	
  will	
  meant	
  that	
  all	
  Americans	
  wanted	
  the	
  right	
  to	
  
choose	
  to	
  think	
  anyway	
  they	
  pleased.	
  
	
  
So	
  the	
  founding	
  fathers	
  believed	
  they	
  had	
  created	
  a	
  constitution	
  that	
  supported	
  this	
  
precept.	
  	
  How	
  well	
  do	
  you	
  think	
  they	
  have	
  done?	
  
	
  
Well	
  let’s	
  leave	
  the	
  glaring	
  mistake	
  of	
  allowing	
  slavery	
  aside	
  for	
  now.	
  	
  	
  They	
  believed	
  
they	
  had	
  created	
  an	
  ingenious	
  document.	
  	
  	
  A	
  document	
  where	
  there	
  would	
  be	
  three	
  
branches	
  of	
  government	
  that	
  would	
  balance	
  out	
  each	
  ones	
  power	
  over	
  the	
  other.	
  	
  	
  A	
  
congress	
  that	
  would	
  be	
  represents	
  each	
  state	
  according	
  to	
  their	
  size	
  (The	
  House	
  of	
  
Representatives	
  based	
  on	
  the	
  population	
  of	
  a	
  state)	
  and	
  their	
  existence	
  (The	
  senate	
  
with	
  two	
  members	
  per	
  state).	
  	
  	
  An	
  executive	
  branch	
  composed	
  of	
  the	
  President	
  and	
  
the	
  cabinet.	
  	
  And	
  the	
  watch	
  dog	
  Supreme	
  Court	
  with	
  just	
  twelve	
  old	
  wise	
  men	
  and	
  
women	
  in	
  power	
  for	
  life	
  answering	
  to	
  no	
  one.	
  
	
  
So	
  our	
  nation	
  is	
  created.	
  	
  Let’s	
  look	
  at	
  the	
  function	
  of	
  our	
  Congress	
  the	
  legislative	
  
branch.	
  We	
  already	
  had	
  states	
  that	
  had	
  been	
  in	
  existence	
  for	
  decades.	
  	
  The	
  States	
  all	
  
had	
  a	
  detailed	
  set	
  of	
  codes	
  of	
  laws.	
  	
  	
  The	
  States	
  were	
  further	
  broken	
  down	
  to	
  
Counties	
  that	
  had	
  their	
  own	
  set	
  of	
  laws.	
  	
  	
  The	
  counties	
  were	
  further	
  broken	
  down	
  to	
  
municipalities	
  with	
  their	
  own	
  laws.	
  	
  The	
  lawful	
  governing	
  of	
  our	
  citizenry	
  was	
  
already	
  in	
  place.	
  	
  It	
  was	
  working	
  well	
  with	
  no	
  great	
  burden	
  to	
  life,	
  liberty	
  and	
  the	
  
pursuit	
  of	
  happiness.	
  
	
  
So	
  what	
  did	
  the	
  founders	
  think	
  the	
  Congress	
  would	
  do	
  to	
  enhance	
  the	
  freedom	
  of	
  its	
  
individual	
  citizens?	
  	
  Well	
  the	
  main	
  function	
  of	
  congress	
  is	
  to	
  legislate.	
  	
  	
  That	
  means	
  
to	
  write	
  even	
  more	
  laws.	
  	
  Does	
  anyone	
  believe	
  that	
  another	
  law	
  on	
  the	
  federal	
  level	
  
would	
  help	
  create	
  more	
  freedom	
  for	
  its	
  citizens	
  or	
  less?	
  	
  If	
  the	
  writers	
  believed	
  it	
  
would	
  cause	
  more	
  freedom	
  why	
  did	
  they	
  amend	
  it	
  so	
  quickly	
  with	
  the	
  bill	
  of	
  rights?	
  
What	
  else	
  does	
  congress	
  do?	
  	
  They	
  watch	
  over	
  the	
  budget.	
  	
  They	
  decide	
  the	
  
allocation	
  of	
  Federal	
  money.	
  	
  Considering	
  that	
  the	
  debt	
  is	
  now	
  18	
  trillion	
  dollars	
  
they	
  have	
  done	
  a	
  crackerjack	
  job!	
  	
  What	
  else?	
  	
  	
  They	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  have	
  exclusive	
  
power	
  to	
  declare	
  war.	
  	
  Well	
  it’s	
  estimated	
  that	
  before	
  1970	
  the	
  president	
  has	
  
ordered	
  military	
  actions	
  149	
  times	
  without	
  congressional	
  approval.	
  	
  	
  	
  And	
  we	
  all	
  
know	
  it’s	
  been	
  even	
  worse	
  since	
  then.	
  This	
  should	
  have	
  been	
  a	
  clear	
  impeachable	
  
offense	
  by	
  the	
  president,	
  which	
  is	
  another	
  power	
  of	
  congress.	
  	
  It’s	
  been	
  threatened	
  
but	
  never	
  used.	
  	
  	
  What	
  else?	
  	
  They	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  regulate	
  commerce	
  between	
  
states	
  and	
  foreign	
  powers.	
  	
  Does	
  anyone	
  believe	
  that	
  any	
  congressmen	
  has	
  the	
  know	
  
how	
  to	
  run	
  even	
  the	
  simplest	
  of	
  businesses?	
  	
  	
  So	
  how	
  do	
  we	
  expect	
  them	
  to	
  help	
  run	
  
the	
  biggest	
  economy	
  in	
  the	
  world?	
  	
  What	
  else?	
  	
  They	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  watch	
  over	
  the	
  
executive	
  branch	
  to	
  make	
  sure	
  everything	
  is	
  Kosher.	
  	
  	
  Well	
  during	
  my	
  lifetime	
  there	
  
has	
  been	
  scandal	
  after	
  scandal	
  in	
  the	
  executive	
  branch.	
  	
  I	
  can’t	
  remember	
  a	
  single	
  
time	
  that	
  congress	
  made	
  the	
  slightest	
  difference	
  after	
  months	
  of	
  hearings	
  except	
  
maybe	
  when	
  they	
  caught	
  tricky	
  Dick	
  Nixon	
  at	
  Watergate.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
They	
  approve	
  nominations	
  by	
  the	
  executive	
  branch.	
  
I	
  doubt	
  that	
  matters.	
  	
  The	
  executive	
  branch	
  ultimately	
  gets	
  what	
  it	
  wants.	
  	
  	
  	
  
	
  
They	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  approve	
  treaties	
  with	
  other	
  nations.	
  	
  	
  	
  
Well	
  firstly	
  our	
  present	
  President	
  has	
  been	
  side	
  stepping	
  this	
  power.	
  	
  And	
  second	
  of	
  
all,	
  treaties	
  by	
  their	
  nature	
  are	
  an	
  agreement	
  that	
  excludes	
  the	
  freedom	
  of	
  choice	
  of	
  
some	
  of	
  our	
  citizenry.	
  	
  The	
  United	
  States	
  should	
  not	
  make	
  a	
  treaty	
  with	
  anyone	
  
because	
  they	
  contradict	
  the	
  principle	
  of	
  individual	
  Liberty.	
  Ah	
  the	
  US	
  Post	
  office	
  
enough	
  said.	
  	
  	
  Patents	
  and	
  copyrights,	
  I	
  doubt	
  a	
  single	
  congressman	
  has	
  ever	
  been	
  
involved	
  in	
  reviewing	
  these	
  very	
  important	
  ideas.	
  	
  Oh	
  taxes.	
  	
  Wow	
  there	
  they	
  have	
  
created	
  the	
  most	
  complex	
  tax	
  code	
  in	
  the	
  history	
  of	
  the	
  world!	
  Big	
  Kudos!	
  
	
  
Congress	
  grants	
  approximately	
  thirty	
  billion	
  dollars	
  of	
  foreign	
  aid	
  given	
  yearly.	
  	
  I	
  
don’t	
  know	
  where	
  they	
  got	
  the	
  authority	
  from	
  the	
  constitution	
  to	
  conduct	
  this	
  
policy.	
  	
  But	
  forcing	
  our	
  citizens	
  to	
  give	
  this	
  vast	
  some	
  of	
  money	
  with	
  little	
  oversight	
  
to	
  regimes	
  that	
  are	
  hardly	
  similar	
  to	
  our	
  own	
  is	
  a	
  huge	
  travesty	
  of	
  justice	
  and	
  
individual	
  liberty.	
  In	
  point	
  of	
  fact	
  private	
  charitable	
  foreign	
  funds	
  greatly	
  exceed	
  
government	
  aid.	
  That’s	
  because	
  we	
  are	
  the	
  kindest	
  and	
  most	
  generous	
  group	
  of	
  
individuals	
  on	
  Earth.	
  	
  I	
  refer	
  you	
  to	
  read	
  the	
  excellent	
  article	
  written	
  by	
  the	
  former	
  
house	
  representative	
  and	
  former	
  presidential	
  candidate	
  Ron	
  Paul	
  in	
  an	
  article	
  
online	
  in	
  Antiwar.com.	
  
	
  
So	
  in	
  the	
  constitution	
  that	
  I	
  will	
  write	
  there	
  will	
  be	
  no	
  congress!	
  	
  It’s	
  totally	
  
unnecessary	
  and	
  extremely	
  harmful.	
  	
  Besides	
  in	
  present	
  day	
  United	
  States	
  the	
  
president	
  has	
  stolen	
  most	
  of	
  the	
  power	
  of	
  the	
  congress	
  anyway.	
  	
  The	
  great	
  benefit	
  of	
  
no	
  Congress	
  is	
  no	
  federal	
  taxes	
  in	
  my	
  constitution!	
  
	
  
Don’t	
  stop	
  reading	
  now.	
  	
  The	
  United	
  States	
  Federal	
  government	
  has	
  many	
  ways	
  to	
  
finance	
  itself	
  without	
  confiscatory	
  power.	
  	
  I	
  am	
  not	
  a	
  lunatic.	
  	
  	
  Well	
  since	
  it	
  isn’t	
  the	
  
full	
  moon	
  while	
  I	
  am	
  writing	
  this	
  maybe	
  you	
  should	
  be	
  worried.	
  	
  (That	
  was	
  a	
  joke.	
  
Humor	
  always	
  has	
  a	
  place	
  in	
  life.	
  	
  One	
  of	
  my	
  greatest	
  teachers	
  told	
  me	
  to	
  be	
  truly	
  
wise	
  you	
  need	
  a	
  good	
  sense	
  of	
  humor.)	
  
	
  
Let’s	
  turn	
  our	
  attention	
  to	
  the	
  executive	
  branch.	
  	
  We	
  are	
  a	
  modern	
  people	
  now	
  so	
  
lets	
  examine	
  the	
  cabinet,	
  as	
  it	
  exists	
  today	
  not	
  at	
  the	
  time	
  of	
  the	
  constitution.	
  	
  How	
  
well	
  does	
  the	
  cabinet	
  function	
  and	
  how	
  should	
  it	
  really	
  practice	
  in	
  protecting	
  our	
  
lives	
  and	
  liberty.	
  
	
  
THE	
  MAJOR	
  CABINETS	
  AND	
  AGENCIES	
  
	
  
Office	
  of	
  the	
  Vice	
  President.	
  	
  Well	
  there	
  will	
  be	
  no	
  President	
  so	
  any	
  need	
  for	
  an	
  office	
  
of	
  the	
  Vice	
  President.	
  
	
  
Secretary	
  of	
  State.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
Serves	
  as	
  the	
  President’s	
  principal	
  advisor	
  on	
  U.S.	
  foreign	
  policy.	
  	
  Well	
  again	
  no	
  
president	
  so	
  no	
  need.	
  
	
  
Conducts	
  negotiations	
  with	
  foreign	
  governments.	
  	
  	
  
Well	
  we	
  are	
  the	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America	
  the	
  most	
  powerful	
  nation	
  on	
  the	
  planet.	
  	
  
And	
  do	
  we	
  have	
  5000	
  nuclear	
  warheads	
  or	
  ten	
  thousand?	
  	
  In	
  all	
  this	
  confusion	
  I	
  
forgot.	
  We	
  don’t	
  negotiate	
  we	
  dictate.	
  	
  Besides	
  we	
  are	
  a	
  nation	
  of	
  individuals,	
  no	
  one	
  
person	
  can	
  make	
  decisions	
  that	
  we	
  all	
  must	
  abide.	
  	
  Please	
  my	
  fellow	
  citizens	
  
remember	
  the	
  military	
  draft	
  still	
  exists.	
  	
  If	
  a	
  treaty	
  gets	
  us	
  involved	
  in	
  a	
  major	
  war,	
  
you’re	
  children	
  may	
  be	
  forced	
  to	
  fight	
  and	
  die.	
  
	
  
Grants	
  and	
  issues	
  Passports.	
  	
  
Ok	
  we	
  need	
  that	
  to	
  travel	
  and	
  reentry	
  our	
  land.	
  
	
  
Advises	
  on	
  what	
  foreign	
  emissaries	
  can	
  reside	
  or	
  visit	
  the	
  USA.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
Well	
  we	
  are	
  a	
  free	
  country.	
  	
  Anyone	
  should	
  be	
  allowed	
  to	
  visit	
  our	
  country	
  and	
  stay	
  
as	
  long	
  as	
  they	
  wish,	
  and	
  work	
  in	
  the	
  US	
  as	
  long	
  as	
  they	
  are	
  not	
  criminals	
  or	
  violate	
  
our	
  laws.	
  	
  (As	
  noncitizens	
  there	
  would	
  be	
  a	
  much	
  higher	
  standard	
  they	
  would	
  be	
  
held	
  to	
  for	
  remaining	
  in	
  our	
  Country.)	
  	
  So	
  this	
  is	
  an	
  important	
  function.	
  	
  Every	
  law-­‐
abiding	
  person	
  that	
  visits	
  or	
  works	
  in	
  our	
  country	
  not	
  only	
  increases	
  the	
  wealth	
  of	
  
our	
  nation,	
  it	
  brings	
  back	
  our	
  culture	
  to	
  foreign	
  lands.	
  	
  Parenthetically,	
  President	
  
Hoover	
  blocked	
  immigration	
  right	
  after	
  the	
  onset	
  of	
  the	
  great	
  depression.	
  That	
  
certainly	
  did	
  not	
  make	
  the	
  economy	
  better.	
  
	
  
I	
  think	
  to	
  keep	
  our	
  ports	
  of	
  entry	
  running	
  as	
  smoothly	
  as	
  possible.	
  	
  	
  We	
  should	
  make	
  
all	
  foreigners	
  visit	
  one	
  of	
  our	
  overseas	
  consuls	
  and	
  be	
  preapproved	
  to	
  visit	
  the	
  US.	
  
The	
  granting	
  of	
  these	
  Visas	
  would	
  be	
  totally	
  done	
  on	
  the	
  authority	
  and	
  investigation	
  
of	
  our	
  State	
  Department.	
  We	
  can	
  never	
  be	
  one	
  hundred	
  percent	
  sure	
  that	
  no	
  evil	
  
doers	
  will	
  slip	
  through	
  the	
  cracks.	
  	
  	
  But	
  we	
  need	
  to	
  keep	
  attracting	
  the	
  best	
  and	
  the	
  
brightest	
  and	
  the	
  most	
  freedom	
  loving	
  people	
  in	
  the	
  world	
  to	
  increase	
  our	
  wealth	
  
and	
  opportunity.	
  	
  	
  Once	
  this	
  policy	
  is	
  in	
  effect,	
  going	
  through	
  immigration	
  should	
  be	
  
a	
  breeze.	
  	
  We	
  should	
  allocate	
  as	
  much	
  resources	
  as	
  necessary	
  to	
  review	
  all	
  
applications	
  overseas.	
  	
  We	
  should	
  greatly	
  increase	
  the	
  size	
  and	
  personnel	
  overseas	
  
in	
  our	
  counsels.	
  The	
  only	
  disqualification	
  should	
  be	
  a	
  check	
  of	
  crimes	
  on	
  previous	
  
visits	
  to	
  the	
  US,	
  or	
  crimes	
  overseas,	
  or	
  serious	
  illness.	
  	
  But	
  traditionally	
  the	
  
Department	
  of	
  State	
  has	
  its	
  own	
  intelligence	
  division.	
  	
  They	
  should	
  give	
  the	
  final	
  
approval	
  of	
  any	
  visas.	
  	
  It’s	
  a	
  dangerous	
  world	
  out	
  there	
  they	
  should	
  reject	
  those	
  they	
  
suspect	
  of	
  harmful	
  activities.	
  But	
  there	
  should	
  be	
  an	
  appeal	
  process	
  if	
  someone	
  
states	
  they	
  have	
  been	
  unjustly	
  accused	
  or	
  convicted	
  of	
  a	
  crime	
  outside	
  the	
  US.	
  	
  They	
  
would	
  have	
  to	
  pay	
  for	
  the	
  investigation	
  or	
  there	
  could	
  be	
  a	
  charitable	
  fund	
  created	
  
in	
  the	
  US	
  to	
  help	
  these	
  people	
  that	
  may	
  live	
  in	
  sketchy	
  countries.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
We	
  should	
  not	
  grant	
  diplomatic	
  immunity.	
  	
  Half	
  of	
  these	
  diplomats	
  are	
  spies.	
  	
  And	
  
do	
  we	
  really	
  want	
  foreign	
  powers	
  being	
  able	
  to	
  smuggle	
  dangerous	
  items	
  in	
  their	
  
diplomatic	
  pouches?	
  	
  And	
  screw	
  them	
  taking	
  parking	
  places	
  illegally	
  in	
  Manhattan	
  
and	
  getting	
  away	
  with	
  it.	
  Oh	
  and	
  by	
  the	
  way	
  did	
  you	
  know	
  that	
  during	
  World	
  War	
  
two,	
  some	
  of	
  our	
  scientists	
  betrayed	
  nuclear	
  secrets	
  to	
  the	
  Soviet	
  Union?	
  	
  Stalin	
  
started	
  building	
  his	
  own	
  weapon	
  before	
  ours	
  was	
  completed.	
  However	
  the	
  Soviet	
  
Union	
  had	
  no	
  source	
  of	
  Uranium	
  until	
  they	
  occupied	
  the	
  Czech	
  republic	
  in	
  1945.	
  And	
  
that	
  source	
  they	
  didn’t	
  start	
  mining	
  it	
  until	
  1947.	
  	
  	
  Guess	
  where	
  they	
  got	
  their	
  
Uranium	
  before	
  that.	
  	
  They	
  stole	
  it	
  from	
  the	
  United	
  States	
  in	
  a	
  diplomatic	
  pouch,	
  two	
  
tons	
  worth.	
  	
  That	
  must	
  have	
  been	
  some	
  big	
  Kangaroo.	
  	
  
	
  
Anyway	
  if	
  you	
  allow	
  a	
  legal	
  and	
  significantly	
  less	
  costly	
  and	
  dangerous	
  way	
  of	
  
arriving	
  at	
  our	
  country	
  without	
  crossing	
  deserts	
  with	
  coyotes;	
  Or	
  being	
  stuck	
  in	
  
cargo	
  containers	
  for	
  long	
  voyages;	
  or	
  before	
  they	
  just	
  opened	
  Cuba	
  small	
  boats	
  
across	
  the	
  Florida	
  straits;	
  we	
  wouldn’t	
  have	
  to	
  build	
  a	
  wall	
  on	
  the	
  Mexican	
  border.	
  	
  
We	
  aren’t	
  the	
  Soviet	
  Union	
  that	
  walls	
  people	
  in	
  or	
  out.	
  	
  We	
  are	
  a	
  country	
  of	
  people	
  
who	
  have	
  come	
  here	
  to	
  seek	
  freedom.	
  	
  Are	
  we	
  going	
  to	
  allow	
  a	
  Nazi	
  like	
  action	
  and	
  
round	
  up	
  11	
  million	
  mostly	
  hard	
  working	
  people	
  and	
  throw	
  them	
  out?	
  
Almost	
  all	
  the	
  people	
  that	
  have	
  come	
  to	
  the	
  United	
  States	
  have	
  helped	
  to	
  build	
  it.	
  	
  
There	
  were	
  two	
  and	
  a	
  half	
  million	
  people	
  in	
  this	
  country	
  1776.	
  	
  	
  Now	
  there	
  are	
  three	
  
hundred	
  and	
  twenty	
  million.	
  	
  If	
  we	
  had	
  not	
  let	
  the	
  country	
  be	
  built	
  by	
  immigrants	
  
we	
  would	
  be	
  a	
  third	
  of	
  the	
  size	
  we	
  are	
  now.	
  	
  	
  Let’s	
  not	
  forget	
  that	
  this	
  country	
  and	
  
world	
  owes	
  it’s	
  greatness	
  to	
  just	
  a	
  handful	
  of	
  immigrants.	
  	
  I	
  invite	
  you	
  to	
  explore	
  the	
  
biography	
  of	
  Nikola	
  Tesla.	
  	
  He	
  was	
  the	
  greatest	
  inventor	
  of	
  modern	
  times.	
  	
  (Yes	
  
that’s	
  the	
  guy	
  whom	
  Elon	
  Musk	
  named	
  his	
  company	
  after.)	
  It’s	
  a	
  fact	
  that	
  the	
  
economy	
  and	
  opportunity	
  go	
  hand	
  in	
  hand	
  with	
  freedom	
  and	
  size	
  of	
  population.	
  	
  If	
  
they	
  can,	
  people	
  tend	
  to	
  stay	
  where	
  they	
  were	
  raised	
  with	
  their	
  friends	
  and	
  family.	
  	
  
It’s	
  only	
  the	
  biggest	
  risk	
  takers	
  and	
  hardest	
  workers	
  that	
  struggle	
  to	
  travel	
  to	
  the	
  
freedom	
  of	
  the	
  US.	
  
	
  
By	
  allowing	
  all	
  people	
  almost	
  unfettered	
  use	
  of	
  our	
  ports	
  of	
  entry,	
  we	
  will	
  be	
  a	
  more	
  
secure	
  country.	
  	
  Anyone	
  that	
  law	
  enforcement	
  becomes	
  aware	
  of	
  trying	
  to	
  enter	
  the	
  
country	
  illegally,	
  by	
  crossing	
  the	
  desert,	
  using	
  Canadian	
  wilderness,	
  or	
  entering	
  
illegally	
  by	
  sea,	
  we	
  can	
  assume	
  they	
  are	
  criminals	
  and	
  are	
  dangerous	
  and	
  act	
  
accordingly.	
  
	
  
I	
  will	
  have	
  much	
  more	
  to	
  say	
  about	
  the	
  issues	
  surrounding	
  customs	
  and	
  immigration	
  
laws	
  and	
  border	
  safety	
  when	
  I	
  write	
  my	
  suggested	
  constitution.	
  
	
  
What	
  else?	
  They	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  negotiate	
  treaties.	
  	
  Well	
  we’ve	
  seen	
  how	
  well	
  that	
  
has	
  gone	
  with	
  Iran.	
  	
  Again	
  treaties	
  are	
  against	
  the	
  principal	
  of	
  liberty.	
  	
  Our	
  citizens	
  
should	
  not	
  have	
  to	
  abide	
  by	
  an	
  agreement	
  with	
  a	
  foreign	
  power.	
  	
  Treaties	
  can	
  be	
  
very	
  dangerous	
  to	
  the	
  safety	
  of	
  the	
  world.	
  	
  	
  It	
  was	
  a	
  network	
  of	
  treaties	
  that	
  
entangled	
  the	
  world	
  in	
  the	
  First	
  World	
  War.	
  
	
  
Helps	
  our	
  citizens	
  abroad.	
  	
  	
  This	
  is	
  a	
  proper	
  and	
  important	
  function	
  of	
  the	
  State	
  
Department.	
  
	
  
So	
  yes	
  to	
  a	
  limited	
  form	
  of	
  the	
  Secretary	
  of	
  State.	
  	
  	
  But	
  I	
  think	
  all	
  the	
  proper	
  
functions	
  I	
  have	
  described	
  above	
  can	
  be	
  administered	
  by	
  the	
  second	
  in	
  command	
  at	
  
office	
  of	
  Secretary	
  of	
  State.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
The	
  most	
  important	
  part	
  of	
  the	
  state	
  department	
  is	
  the	
  Secretary	
  of	
  State	
  himself	
  or	
  
herself.	
  	
  That	
  being	
  the	
  resolution	
  of	
  important	
  disputes	
  with	
  foreign	
  powers	
  that	
  
may	
  involve	
  us	
  in	
  military	
  action.	
  	
  	
  I	
  will	
  describe	
  later	
  in	
  my	
  suggested	
  new	
  
constitution	
  how	
  this	
  person	
  should	
  be	
  selected.	
  
	
  
We	
  shouldn’t	
  have	
  a	
  secretary	
  of	
  states	
  that	
  have	
  had	
  no	
  experience	
  with	
  diplomacy	
  
like	
  Hillary	
  Clinton	
  whose	
  only	
  use	
  of	
  her	
  position	
  was	
  to	
  travel	
  around	
  the	
  world	
  
more	
  times	
  then	
  any	
  of	
  her	
  forbears.	
  A	
  person	
  who	
  enriched	
  her	
  family	
  to	
  the	
  tune	
  
of	
  over	
  a	
  billion	
  dollars	
  by	
  misuse	
  of	
  her	
  position.	
  	
  	
  A	
  person	
  who	
  authorized	
  the	
  
sneaky	
  ploy	
  that	
  allowed	
  the	
  Soviet	
  Union	
  to	
  steel	
  one	
  sixth	
  of	
  the	
  world	
  supply	
  of	
  
Uranium.	
  	
  	
  Oh	
  and	
  by	
  the	
  way	
  I	
  never	
  had	
  sex	
  with	
  that	
  woman	
  (Hillary)!	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Treasury	
  
	
  
The	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America	
  has	
  the	
  largest	
  collection	
  of	
  assets	
  in	
  the	
  world	
  and	
  
also	
  the	
  largest	
  debt.	
  So	
  of	
  the	
  executive	
  branches	
  this	
  should	
  be	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  most	
  
important.	
  
It	
  is	
  also	
  the	
  most	
  hated.	
  	
  
	
  
What	
  do	
  they	
  do?	
  
	
  
Manage	
  Federal	
  finances.	
  
That	
  seems	
  to	
  be	
  a	
  very	
  vague	
  duty.	
  	
  I	
  guess	
  it	
  means	
  they	
  write	
  all	
  the	
  checks	
  to	
  the	
  
other	
  departments.	
  	
  	
  Anyone	
  with	
  a	
  checkbook	
  could	
  do	
  that.	
  
	
  
What	
  else?	
  Collect	
  taxes,	
  duties	
  and	
  any	
  other	
  money	
  due	
  to	
  the	
  US.	
  	
  	
  	
  
Should	
  be	
  a	
  no	
  brainer.	
  	
  But	
  they	
  manage	
  to	
  foul	
  it	
  up	
  completely.	
  	
  They	
  make	
  
everyone	
  hate	
  them.	
  	
  I	
  guess	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  sneaky	
  things	
  they	
  do	
  is	
  let	
  you	
  pay	
  them	
  on	
  
the	
  installment	
  plan.	
  	
  I	
  think	
  most	
  people	
  know	
  that	
  we	
  have	
  to	
  work	
  the	
  first	
  three	
  
or	
  four	
  months	
  for	
  the	
  IRS	
  until	
  we	
  get	
  to	
  pocket	
  the	
  rest	
  of	
  our	
  dollars.	
  	
  	
  If	
  they	
  
acted	
  like	
  the	
  tax	
  collectors	
  in	
  the	
  Middle	
  Ages	
  where	
  they	
  came	
  to	
  you’re	
  home	
  the	
  
first	
  three	
  months	
  of	
  the	
  year	
  and	
  took	
  all	
  your	
  earnings	
  the	
  country	
  would	
  have	
  an	
  
immediate	
  revolution.	
  	
  Because	
  when	
  you	
  look	
  at	
  income	
  taxes	
  in	
  this	
  light	
  you	
  
realize	
  that	
  income	
  tax	
  is	
  outright	
  slavery.	
  
	
  
	
  
They	
  print	
  currency	
  and	
  make	
  coins.	
  	
  This	
  is	
  called	
  counterfeiting.	
  	
  Some	
  would	
  say	
  
that	
  if	
  the	
  government	
  does	
  it,	
  it	
  cannot	
  be	
  called	
  counterfeiting.	
  	
  But	
  forcing	
  our	
  
citizens	
  to	
  use	
  pieces	
  of	
  paper	
  and	
  numbers	
  in	
  our	
  bank	
  account	
  that	
  cant	
  be	
  
redeemed	
  from	
  the	
  government	
  with	
  something	
  objective	
  what	
  else	
  can	
  you	
  call	
  it?	
  	
  
We	
  were	
  once	
  on	
  the	
  Gold	
  standard.	
  	
  Every	
  dollar	
  created	
  by	
  the	
  Federal	
  
Government	
  was	
  backed	
  by	
  gold.	
  	
  	
  But	
  for	
  United	
  States	
  citizens	
  in	
  1933	
  the	
  right	
  to	
  
change	
  our	
  paper	
  money	
  to	
  something	
  physical	
  and	
  valuable	
  like	
  gold	
  was	
  taken	
  
away.	
  But	
  it	
  was	
  worse	
  then	
  that,	
  all	
  American	
  citizens	
  had	
  to	
  turn	
  in	
  their	
  gold	
  for	
  
paper	
  money.	
  	
  	
  Most	
  of	
  you	
  probably	
  don’t	
  know	
  or	
  remember	
  but	
  it	
  was	
  illegal	
  to	
  
for	
  us	
  to	
  own	
  gold	
  until	
  1975.	
  	
  	
  Only	
  foreign	
  countries	
  could	
  redeem	
  US	
  dollars	
  into	
  
gold	
  until	
  1971.	
  	
  	
  Can	
  you	
  believe	
  that	
  under	
  our	
  beautiful	
  constitution	
  a	
  President	
  
not	
  only	
  stole	
  our	
  gold,	
  but	
  he	
  took	
  away	
  our	
  right	
  to	
  own	
  it!	
  
	
  
The	
  government	
  had	
  many	
  rationalizations	
  for	
  this	
  brutal	
  attack	
  on	
  our	
  rights.	
  	
  But	
  
the	
  government	
  insists	
  they	
  have	
  been	
  granted	
  this	
  power	
  from	
  god.	
  	
  Congress	
  
passed	
  this	
  act	
  in	
  1861.	
  	
  “Our	
  nation	
  under	
  God”	
  
	
  
They	
  supervise	
  national	
  banks	
  and	
  institutions.	
  	
  Well	
  gee	
  they	
  did	
  a	
  hum	
  digger	
  job	
  
of	
  this	
  the	
  mid	
  2000’s.	
  	
  	
  They	
  almost	
  succeeded	
  in	
  destroying	
  the	
  entire	
  world’s	
  
financial	
  institutions.	
  	
  And	
  now	
  of	
  course	
  they	
  are	
  doing	
  equally	
  just	
  as	
  great	
  a	
  job.	
  	
  
The	
  Federal	
  Reserve	
  is	
  supplying	
  almost	
  unlimited	
  funds	
  to	
  the	
  banking	
  system,	
  but	
  
the	
  Department	
  of	
  Treasury	
  is	
  making	
  sure	
  very	
  few	
  people	
  can	
  borrow	
  any	
  money.	
  
So	
  basically	
  the	
  Department	
  of	
  Treasury	
  are	
  Chinese.	
  	
  They	
  believe	
  in	
  Yin	
  and	
  Yang.	
  	
  
They	
  tried	
  Yin	
  letting	
  everybody	
  borrow	
  money	
  even	
  if	
  they	
  weren’t	
  credit	
  worthy.	
  
That	
  ended	
  with	
  the	
  housing	
  crisis.	
  	
  And	
  now	
  Yang	
  only	
  the	
  insiders	
  the	
  big	
  boys	
  can	
  
buy	
  out	
  other	
  companies	
  with	
  all	
  this	
  extra	
  cash.	
  	
  	
  Everyone	
  else	
  you	
  have	
  shown	
  
you	
  cant	
  be	
  trusted	
  with	
  debt.	
  	
  This	
  is	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  real	
  reasons	
  the	
  economic	
  recovery	
  
has	
  been	
  so	
  slow	
  the	
  last	
  five	
  years.	
  	
  All	
  the	
  small	
  businesses,	
  the	
  small	
  startups	
  that	
  
could	
  normally	
  get	
  loans	
  are	
  not	
  able	
  to	
  get	
  anything	
  until	
  they	
  prove	
  themselves.	
  	
  
Our	
  citizens	
  believing	
  in	
  themselves	
  and	
  getting	
  loans	
  from	
  banks	
  built	
  America.	
  	
  	
  
We	
  need	
  to	
  close	
  shop	
  on	
  the	
  Treasury	
  as	
  far	
  as	
  administering	
  our	
  financial	
  
institutions.	
  	
  
	
  
Oh	
  they	
  are	
  the	
  ones	
  that	
  will	
  take	
  you’re	
  property	
  when	
  you	
  don’t	
  pay	
  you’re	
  taxes.	
  	
  
They	
  will	
  also	
  put	
  in	
  jail	
  if	
  you	
  print	
  your	
  own	
  money.	
  	
  	
  As	
  Rand	
  Paul	
  said	
  don’t	
  steal	
  
from	
  the	
  government	
  they	
  don’t	
  like	
  competition.	
  
	
  
They	
  also	
  run	
  the	
  following	
  services.	
  
	
  
The	
  secret	
  service.	
  	
  They	
  protect	
  the	
  president	
  and	
  have	
  large	
  booty	
  parties.	
  
 
Alcohol,	
  firearms	
  and	
  Tobacco.	
  
	
  
Alcohol	
  department	
  enforced	
  the	
  Volstead	
  act	
  made	
  the	
  Kennedy	
  family	
  very	
  rich.	
  
Oh	
  we	
  in	
  Chicago	
  got	
  three	
  great	
  pieces	
  of	
  entertainment	
  out	
  of	
  it.	
  	
  	
  The	
  TV	
  show	
  the	
  
Untouchables.	
  	
  The	
  movie	
  the	
  Untouchables,	
  and	
  a	
  piece	
  of	
  the	
  series	
  Boardwalk	
  
Empire.	
  	
  	
  	
  
	
  
(I	
  am	
  going	
  to	
  be	
  liberal	
  in	
  the	
  use	
  of	
  idea’s	
  and	
  themes	
  created	
  by	
  Hollywood	
  films	
  
and	
  fictional	
  writers.	
  	
  I	
  am	
  using	
  these	
  ideas	
  to	
  emphasize	
  points.	
  	
  I	
  know	
  they	
  are	
  
fiction.	
  but	
  Hollywood	
  movies	
  represent	
  American	
  culture.	
  	
  	
  Aspects	
  of	
  Hollywood	
  
films	
  have	
  undeniably	
  even	
  shaped	
  our	
  culture	
  and	
  our	
  patterns	
  of	
  thought.	
  	
  	
  There	
  
are	
  many	
  instances	
  of	
  fiction	
  in	
  films	
  and	
  books	
  predicting	
  real	
  life	
  events.)	
  
	
  
	
  
Firearms.	
  	
  	
  They	
  are	
  good.	
  	
  They	
  ran	
  Project	
  Gunrunner	
  also	
  known	
  as	
  “Fast	
  and	
  
“Furious”.	
  	
  	
  	
  That	
  worked	
  out	
  real	
  well.	
  	
  Guns	
  sold	
  by	
  our	
  government	
  were	
  used	
  in	
  
numerous	
  crimes	
  on	
  both	
  sides	
  of	
  the	
  border.	
  	
  Well	
  I	
  guess	
  this	
  violates	
  our	
  sanctity	
  
of	
  life	
  test.	
  
	
  
Tobacco	
  
	
  
Well	
  I	
  guess	
  they	
  do	
  a	
  very	
  good	
  job.	
  	
  	
  American	
  cigarettes	
  are	
  prized	
  all	
  over	
  the	
  
world	
  especially	
  Marlboros.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Defense	
  
	
  
Oh	
  my	
  god	
  this	
  department	
  is	
  stuffed	
  with	
  so	
  many	
  functions	
  I	
  am	
  not	
  going	
  to	
  bore	
  
you	
  with	
  an	
  analysis.	
  The	
  following	
  is	
  copied	
  from	
  the	
  defense.gov	
  website.	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
Major elements of OSD
Start_Module_618
▪ Secretary of Defense
▪ Deputy Secretary of Defense
▪ Executive Secretary of the Department of Defense
▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and
Logistics (AT&L)
▪ Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer
(USD(C)/CFO)
▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (P&R)
▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
▪ Deputy Chief Management Officer
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A))
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs
(APSA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (GSA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (HA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global
Security
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
(ISA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (LA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel
Readiness (L&MR)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chief Information Officer (DoD
CIO)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Chemical & Biological
Defense Programs (NCB)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and
Programs (OEP&P)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (PA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering
ASD(R&E)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (RA)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low
Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC)
▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities
▪ General Counsel of the Department of Defense
▪ Inspector General of the Department of Defense
▪ Director of OSD Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE)
▪ Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)
▪ Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight (IO)
▪ Director of Administration and Management (DA&M)
▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and
Concepts
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Manufacturing and
Industrial Base Policy
▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and
Environment (I&E)
▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material
Readiness
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and
Family Policy
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care
and Transition Policy	
  
	
  
	
  
I	
  can’t	
  find	
  the	
  data	
  of	
  how	
  many	
  of	
  the	
  people	
  in	
  these	
  multitude	
  of	
  sub	
  
departments	
  are	
  actually	
  serving	
  member	
  in	
  the	
  military.	
  	
  	
  But	
  for	
  certain	
  the	
  
Secretary	
  of	
  Defense	
  is	
  a	
  civilian.	
  	
  	
  There	
  is	
  no	
  requirement	
  that	
  this	
  person	
  has	
  
served	
  in	
  the	
  military	
  or	
  that	
  he	
  has	
  gone	
  through	
  our	
  various	
  war	
  colleges.	
  
	
  
Anyway	
  this	
  is	
  the	
  guy	
  that	
  is	
  supposed	
  to	
  advise	
  the	
  president	
  on	
  the	
  preparedness	
  
and	
  the	
  use	
  of	
  military	
  power.	
  	
  So	
  now	
  we	
  have	
  at	
  least	
  two	
  levels	
  of	
  Bozos	
  the	
  
clown	
  deciding	
  the	
  fate	
  of	
  our	
  nation.	
  	
  I	
  have	
  no	
  idea	
  how	
  many	
  other	
  personnel	
  
without	
  any	
  military	
  training	
  theoretical	
  or	
  actual	
  work	
  in	
  this	
  department.	
  	
  	
  Ladies	
  
and	
  Gentleman	
  the	
  most	
  important	
  people	
  in	
  our	
  lives	
  are	
  our	
  physicians.	
  	
  	
  Would	
  
you	
  want	
  decisions	
  that	
  affect	
  your	
  life	
  determined	
  by	
  non-­‐physician	
  Hospital	
  
administrators	
  or	
  the	
  physicians	
  themselves?	
  
	
  
If	
  you	
  really	
  want	
  an	
  inside	
  look	
  at	
  the	
  functioning	
  of	
  the	
  Department	
  of	
  Defense	
  
during	
  a	
  crucial	
  time	
  in	
  our	
  history,	
  I	
  urge	
  you	
  to	
  watch	
  the	
  documentary	
  “Fog	
  of	
  
War”.	
  	
  You	
  tell	
  me	
  if	
  this	
  makes	
  you	
  feel	
  sanguine	
  of	
  the	
  way	
  our	
  Department	
  of	
  
Defense	
  conducts	
  itself.	
  
I	
  have	
  to	
  mention	
  one	
  quote	
  from	
  that	
  movie	
  because	
  it	
  is	
  just	
  so	
  poignant.	
  
	
  
General	
  Tecumseh	
  Sherman	
  was	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  most	
  revered	
  generals	
  in	
  the	
  history	
  of	
  
the	
  United	
  States.	
  	
  He	
  was	
  under	
  the	
  direct	
  command	
  of	
  Abraham	
  Lincoln	
  the	
  
second	
  most	
  revered	
  president	
  after	
  Washington.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
Sherman	
  came	
  with	
  his	
  forces	
  to	
  the	
  city	
  of	
  Atlanta	
  Georgia.	
  	
  The	
  mayor	
  begged	
  the	
  
general	
  to	
  spare	
  his	
  city.	
  	
  	
  Sherman	
  responded	
  “War	
  is	
  cruel”.	
  	
  And	
  then	
  Sherman	
  
torched	
  the	
  city	
  and	
  burned	
  it	
  down.	
  	
  (I	
  have	
  been	
  told	
  that	
  this	
  quote	
  in	
  the	
  fog	
  of	
  
war	
  is	
  inaccurate.	
  	
  That	
  General	
  Sherman	
  said	
  this	
  to	
  his	
  aides	
  not	
  to	
  the	
  mayor.	
  I	
  
don’t	
  see	
  much	
  difference.	
  	
  He	
  said	
  it	
  and	
  he	
  burned	
  Atlanta.)	
  An	
  American	
  general	
  
destroying	
  a	
  great	
  American	
  city!	
  	
  	
  	
  Lets	
  contrast	
  this	
  with	
  the	
  Nazi	
  General	
  Dietrich	
  
von	
  Choititz.	
  	
  This	
  is	
  a	
  man	
  who	
  had	
  carried	
  every	
  order	
  of	
  his	
  beloved	
  Adolf	
  Hitler	
  
including	
  the	
  extermination	
  of	
  Jews.	
  	
  	
  But	
  when	
  Hitler	
  ordered	
  this	
  general	
  to	
  burn	
  
down	
  Paris	
  he	
  refused.	
  	
  Food	
  for	
  thought.	
  
 
The	
  current	
  organization	
  of	
  the	
  military	
  could	
  certainly	
  use	
  vast	
  revisions.	
  	
  There	
  
also	
  definitely	
  needs	
  to	
  be	
  a	
  civilian	
  structure	
  that	
  supervises	
  our	
  military.	
  	
  But	
  the	
  
civilians	
  that	
  supervise	
  the	
  military	
  who	
  make	
  the	
  most	
  important	
  decisions	
  
affecting	
  our	
  nation	
  the	
  conduct	
  of	
  military	
  force,	
  must	
  be	
  professionals	
  with	
  life	
  
long	
  training	
  in	
  all	
  of	
  our	
  military	
  colleges.	
  	
  	
  They	
  must	
  be	
  independent	
  of	
  the	
  
military	
  with	
  no	
  cronyism.	
  	
  They	
  must	
  dedicate	
  their	
  lives	
  to	
  this	
  mighty	
  
responsibility.	
  	
  They	
  must	
  represent	
  as	
  closely	
  as	
  possible	
  the	
  individual	
  wishes	
  of	
  
our	
  citizens.	
  	
  	
  They	
  will	
  get	
  no	
  glory	
  for	
  their	
  decisions.	
  	
  They	
  will	
  never	
  have	
  or	
  
develop	
  monetary	
  or	
  friendly	
  relationships	
  with	
  our	
  defense	
  industry.	
  	
  I	
  will	
  
describe	
  my	
  ideas	
  more	
  fully	
  later	
  when	
  I	
  write	
  my	
  replacement	
  constitution.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Justice	
  
	
  
The	
  principal	
  duties	
  Attorney	
  General	
  	
  who	
  administers	
  this	
  department	
  are:	
  
	
  
Represent	
  the	
  USA	
  in	
  legal	
  matters	
  
I	
  see	
  no	
  harm	
  in	
  that.	
  
	
  
Supervise	
  the	
  massive	
  bureaucracy	
  of	
  this	
  department	
  
I	
  won’t	
  bore	
  you	
  with	
  a	
  case-­‐by-­‐case	
  analysis,	
  	
  When	
  I’m	
  elected	
  I	
  would	
  ask	
  every	
  
part	
  of	
  this	
  organization	
  to	
  justify	
  its	
  existence.	
  
	
  
Represent	
  the	
  government	
  before	
  the	
  Supreme	
  Court.	
  	
  
I	
  find	
  no	
  fault	
  with	
  that.	
  
	
  
The	
  drug	
  enforcement	
  agency	
  is	
  a	
  division	
  of	
  this	
  department.	
  	
  	
  It	
  was	
  established	
  to	
  
stop	
  the	
  use	
  of	
  illegal	
  drugs.	
  	
  	
  To	
  date	
  it	
  has	
  spent	
  more	
  then	
  a	
  trillion	
  dollars	
  on	
  an	
  
endeavor	
  that	
  has	
  had	
  just	
  as	
  much	
  success	
  as	
  the	
  Volstead	
  Act	
  that	
  required	
  a	
  
constitutional	
  amendment.	
  	
  	
  	
  (Can	
  you	
  believe	
  that	
  alcohol	
  was	
  illegal	
  for	
  seventeen	
  
years!)?	
  It	
  has	
  criminalized	
  many	
  of	
  our	
  citizens,	
  violating	
  their	
  individual	
  liberty.	
  	
  
Jeopardy	
  problem.	
  	
  The	
  enacting	
  of	
  the	
  War	
  on	
  Drugs.	
  	
  	
  Who	
  was	
  tricky	
  Dick	
  Nixon?	
  	
  
Last	
  year	
  the	
  Federal	
  Government	
  spent	
  25	
  billion	
  dollars	
  on	
  drug	
  control.	
  	
  The	
  state	
  
and	
  local	
  levels	
  governments	
  in	
  total	
  spend	
  35	
  billion	
  dollars.	
  	
  	
  Unbelievable.	
  
	
  
Did	
  you	
  know	
  that	
  almost	
  1%	
  of	
  the	
  citizens	
  of	
  our	
  great	
  nation	
  are	
  in	
  prison.	
  	
  It	
  
would	
  be	
  a	
  lot	
  more	
  if	
  we	
  had	
  the	
  space.	
  	
  	
  	
  Of	
  those	
  prisoners	
  about	
  20%	
  are	
  serving	
  
time	
  for	
  drug	
  offenses.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
Oh	
  by	
  the	
  way,	
  Afghanistan	
  is	
  the	
  source	
  of	
  almost	
  all-­‐illegal	
  opium	
  in	
  the	
  world.	
  	
  	
  If	
  
we	
  had	
  just	
  opened	
  a	
  new	
  super,	
  super	
  big	
  Wal-­‐Mart	
  and	
  traded	
  nice	
  American	
  
goods	
  for	
  the	
  opium	
  don’t	
  you	
  think	
  we	
  would	
  have	
  made	
  out	
  like	
  bandits?	
  	
  For	
  a	
  
few	
  items	
  of	
  cheap	
  Wal-­‐Mart	
  crap	
  we	
  could	
  have	
  cornered	
  the	
  whole	
  illegal	
  opium	
  
market!	
  	
  Then	
  we	
  bring	
  it	
  back	
  to	
  the	
  US	
  and	
  charge	
  a	
  comparatively	
  huge	
  amount	
  
selling	
  it	
  to	
  our	
  drug	
  companies!	
  	
  The	
  Taliban	
  would	
  have	
  gone	
  bankrupt.	
  	
  	
  We	
  
wouldn’t	
  have	
  had	
  the	
  longest	
  war	
  in	
  US	
  history	
  that	
  probably	
  cost	
  us	
  1.3	
  trillion	
  
dollars!	
  	
  	
  We	
  wouldn’t	
  have	
  lost	
  two	
  thousand	
  great	
  Americans	
  and	
  seventeen	
  
thousand	
  wounded.	
  	
  We	
  wouldn’t	
  have	
  fought	
  in	
  a	
  country	
  that	
  hasn’t	
  been	
  
conquered	
  by	
  anyone	
  since	
  Genghis	
  Kahn.	
  	
  If	
  you	
  don’t	
  know	
  this	
  if	
  Genghis	
  Kahn	
  
had	
  died	
  six	
  months	
  later	
  then	
  he	
  did,	
  the	
  Mongols	
  would	
  have	
  controlled	
  the	
  entire	
  
landmass	
  between	
  the	
  Pacific	
  Ocean	
  and	
  the	
  Atlantic	
  Ocean!	
  	
  	
  	
  Only	
  Alexander	
  the	
  
great	
  came	
  close	
  to	
  the	
  amount	
  of	
  territory	
  he	
  conquered!	
  	
  	
  Not	
  bad	
  for	
  little	
  guys	
  on	
  
horses	
  with	
  bows	
  and	
  arrows!	
  	
  	
  Next	
  time	
  we	
  go	
  to	
  the	
  Middle	
  East	
  we	
  should	
  ask	
  
our	
  native	
  tribes	
  to	
  fight!	
  	
  The	
  US	
  cavalry	
  said	
  American	
  native	
  cavalry	
  were	
  the	
  best	
  
cavalry	
  in	
  the	
  world!	
  
	
  
We	
  all	
  have	
  read	
  accounts	
  or	
  seen	
  movies	
  of	
  the	
  billionaires	
  created	
  by	
  our	
  drug	
  
laws.	
  	
  	
  I	
  think	
  anyone	
  reading	
  this	
  knows	
  the	
  same	
  thing	
  happened	
  during	
  
prohibition.	
  
	
  
Those	
  who	
  cannot	
  remember	
  the	
  past	
  are	
  condemned	
  to	
  repeat	
  it	
  	
  (George	
  
Santayana)	
  
	
  
I	
  have	
  to	
  comment	
  on	
  the	
  injustice	
  of	
  our	
  justice	
  system	
  nationwide.	
  	
  	
  There	
  has	
  to	
  
be	
  a	
  better	
  way	
  to	
  manage	
  crime	
  and	
  punishment.	
  	
  We	
  spend	
  twice	
  as	
  much	
  per	
  
year	
  keeping	
  someone	
  in	
  prison	
  as	
  we	
  do	
  educating	
  our	
  children.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
I	
  will	
  describe	
  a	
  much	
  more	
  rational	
  way	
  to	
  manage	
  criminal	
  justice	
  that	
  does	
  not	
  
involve	
  prisons	
  as	
  we	
  know	
  it.	
  	
  That	
  can	
  actually	
  make	
  crime	
  pay	
  for	
  the	
  rest	
  of	
  us,	
  
while	
  making	
  the	
  possibility	
  of	
  rehabilitation	
  much	
  more	
  likely.	
  	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Interior	
  
	
  
This	
  is	
  another	
  one	
  of	
  those	
  convoluted	
  departments	
  that	
  managed	
  relationships	
  
with	
  the	
  native	
  tribes	
  of	
  America	
  and	
  Hawaii	
  and	
  all	
  federal	
  land.	
  
	
  
This	
  department	
  has	
  been	
  totally	
  mismanaged	
  from	
  day	
  one.	
  	
  What	
  our	
  country	
  did	
  
to	
  the	
  indigent	
  population	
  of	
  America	
  was	
  criminal.	
  	
  	
  Hitler	
  used	
  our	
  behavior	
  
towards	
  our	
  native	
  population	
  for	
  his	
  moral	
  justification	
  of	
  resettling	
  the	
  Ukraine	
  
with	
  German	
  citizens.	
  	
  So	
  you	
  know	
  if	
  Hitler	
  liked	
  the	
  activities	
  of	
  this	
  department	
  
we	
  should	
  cheer	
  it	
  on	
  to	
  oblivion.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Agriculture	
  
	
  
Oh	
  great	
  a	
  bunch	
  of	
  non-­‐farmers	
  telling	
  farmers	
  how	
  to	
  do	
  their	
  job.	
  	
  Then	
  there	
  is	
  
that	
  program	
  they	
  subsidize	
  to	
  turn	
  corn	
  into	
  alcohol.	
  	
  	
  Hey	
  guys,	
  there	
  is	
  a	
  crude	
  oil	
  
glut	
  in	
  the	
  world	
  right	
  now.	
  	
  Stop	
  giving	
  our	
  money	
  to	
  farmers	
  to	
  help	
  fuel	
  our	
  cars.	
  	
  
We	
  don’t	
  need	
  it.	
  	
  It	
  hurts	
  the	
  environment	
  too.	
  Handing	
  out	
  money	
  to	
  not	
  grow	
  
crops,	
  its	
  ridiculous.	
  	
  Keeping	
  a	
  silly	
  import	
  duty	
  on	
  sugar	
  so	
  that	
  all	
  citizens	
  have	
  to	
  
pay	
  a	
  higher	
  price	
  for	
  sugar	
  then	
  the	
  world	
  price.	
  	
  The	
  United	
  States	
  has	
  no	
  strategic	
  
interest	
  in	
  keeping	
  uneconomical	
  sugar	
  industry	
  alive.	
  I’m	
  sure	
  if	
  most	
  of	
  the	
  honest	
  
remaining	
  US	
  farmers	
  knew	
  I	
  was	
  disbanding	
  this	
  department	
  they	
  would	
  certainly	
  
vote	
  for	
  me.	
  	
  	
  Any	
  of	
  you	
  commodity	
  traders	
  like	
  me	
  know	
  that	
  this	
  department	
  
makes	
  or	
  breaks	
  you	
  with	
  trading	
  grains.	
  	
  Totally	
  manipulative	
  and	
  totally	
  pathetic.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Commerce	
  
	
  
These	
  guys	
  could	
  never	
  run	
  their	
  own	
  company.	
  	
  Government	
  has	
  no	
  business	
  
getting	
  involved	
  in	
  commerce.	
  	
  This	
  is	
  clearly	
  a	
  department	
  opposed	
  to	
  individual	
  
liberty.	
  	
  They	
  do	
  collect	
  interesting	
  data.	
  	
  But	
  this	
  is	
  certainly	
  a	
  function	
  better	
  suited	
  
to	
  the	
  private	
  sector.	
  
	
  
Delete!	
  Delete!	
  Delete!	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Labor	
  
	
  
This	
  department	
  works	
  on	
  the	
  basis	
  that	
  there	
  is	
  a	
  war	
  out	
  there	
  between	
  
employees	
  and	
  employers.	
  	
  What	
  do	
  you	
  think?	
  	
  I	
  think	
  not.	
  	
  Get	
  rid	
  of	
  it.	
  
	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Health	
  and	
  Human	
  Services	
  
	
  
Hmmm.	
  	
  	
  Human	
  services	
  does	
  that	
  mean	
  there	
  are	
  some	
  nonhuman	
  services	
  out	
  
there?	
  
	
  
I’m	
  a	
  physician.	
  	
  I	
  have	
  a	
  huge	
  bias	
  against	
  Medicare,	
  Medicaid,	
  Obamacare,	
  the	
  US	
  
Food	
  and	
  Drug	
  administration	
  and	
  governmental	
  health	
  research.	
  	
  Basically	
  the	
  
whole	
  shebang.	
  	
  But	
  what	
  I	
  said	
  in	
  the	
  beginning	
  would	
  be	
  part	
  of	
  my	
  program.	
  	
  I	
  
would	
  delegate	
  all	
  these	
  programs	
  and	
  agencies	
  to	
  the	
  state	
  level.	
  	
  If	
  a	
  state	
  wanted	
  
to	
  keep	
  all	
  of	
  this	
  going	
  for	
  their	
  citizens	
  it	
  would	
  be	
  their	
  choice.	
  	
  But	
  on	
  a	
  federal	
  
level	
  no	
  more	
  no	
  more!	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Housing	
  and	
  Urban	
  Development	
  
	
  
This	
  is	
  the	
  department	
  that	
  has	
  the	
  most	
  responsibility	
  for	
  the	
  housing	
  crisis	
  of	
  
2008.	
  	
  	
  They	
  encouraged	
  people	
  to	
  go	
  over	
  their	
  heads	
  in	
  debt	
  to	
  own	
  a	
  home.	
  	
  This	
  
is	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  most	
  socialist	
  piece	
  of	
  crap	
  organizations	
  in	
  the	
  government.	
  	
  I	
  would	
  
get	
  rid	
  of	
  it	
  in	
  its	
  entirety.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Transportation	
  
	
  
What	
  a	
  joke.	
  	
  	
  These	
  guys	
  think	
  they	
  can	
  help	
  with	
  our	
  roads,	
  our	
  railroad	
  system,	
  
and	
  airline	
  travel.	
  	
  	
  Most	
  of	
  our	
  roads	
  have	
  been	
  maintained	
  very	
  well	
  on	
  the	
  state	
  
and	
  local	
  level.	
  	
  The	
  problems	
  come	
  in	
  that	
  the	
  money	
  collected	
  by	
  all	
  of	
  us	
  when	
  we	
  
buy	
  fuel	
  is	
  not	
  directed	
  at	
  keeping	
  our	
  highway	
  system	
  functioning.	
  	
  It	
  goes	
  into	
  the	
  
big	
  Federal	
  money	
  pot.	
  	
  The	
  air	
  traffic	
  control	
  system	
  is	
  so	
  out	
  of	
  date	
  it’s	
  laughable.	
  
We	
  would	
  be	
  much	
  better	
  off	
  if	
  the	
  airlines	
  themselves	
  created	
  a	
  private	
  association	
  
that	
  would	
  take	
  on	
  this	
  responsibility.	
  	
  The	
  airlines	
  are	
  the	
  experts	
  in	
  air	
  travel.	
  	
  
They	
  have	
  a	
  vested	
  interest	
  in	
  making	
  this	
  travel	
  as	
  efficient	
  and	
  safe	
  as	
  possible.	
  	
  
	
  
	
  As	
  a	
  side	
  note	
  it	
  was	
  the	
  FAA	
  that	
  made	
  911	
  possible.	
  	
  They	
  made	
  it	
  a	
  rule	
  that	
  the	
  
pilots	
  had	
  to	
  let	
  hijackers	
  enter	
  the	
  cockpit.	
  	
  The	
  use	
  of	
  an	
  aircraft	
  as	
  an	
  instrument	
  
of	
  massive	
  destruction	
  had	
  already	
  been	
  published	
  in	
  a	
  novel	
  written	
  by	
  Tom	
  Clancy	
  
in	
  1994	
  titled	
  Debt	
  of	
  Honor.	
  	
  In	
  this	
  book	
  a	
  disgruntled	
  Japanese	
  pilot	
  flies	
  a	
  Jumbo	
  
Jet	
  into	
  the	
  state	
  of	
  Union	
  address	
  killing	
  everyone	
  in	
  the	
  Capital,	
  basically	
  
decapitated	
  our	
  entire	
  government.	
  	
  Lady’s	
  and	
  gentlemen	
  what	
  a	
  failure	
  of	
  the	
  tens	
  
of	
  thousands	
  of	
  governmental	
  bodies	
  that	
  are	
  supposed	
  to	
  prevent	
  just	
  this	
  type	
  of	
  
attack.	
  	
  Do	
  none	
  of	
  them	
  read	
  popular	
  fiction?	
  	
  Simply	
  telling	
  our	
  pilots	
  never	
  open	
  
their	
  door	
  to	
  terrorists	
  would	
  have	
  saved	
  thousands	
  of	
  lives	
  and	
  billions	
  of	
  dollars.	
  	
  
The	
  patriot	
  act	
  was	
  drafted	
  as	
  a	
  result	
  of	
  this	
  horror.	
  	
  It	
  has	
  been	
  a	
  terrible	
  
infringement	
  on	
  individual	
  liberty.	
  
	
  
Yet	
  I	
  do	
  believe	
  there	
  is	
  a	
  role	
  of	
  the	
  government	
  in	
  the	
  interstate	
  highway	
  system.	
  	
  
This	
  system	
  was	
  ordered	
  to	
  be	
  built	
  by	
  President	
  Eisenhower	
  who	
  saw	
  how	
  difficult	
  
it	
  was	
  transferring	
  our	
  military	
  forces	
  across	
  the	
  nation	
  in	
  a	
  time	
  of	
  crisis.	
  	
  	
  If	
  the	
  
Japanese	
  in	
  world	
  war	
  two	
  knew	
  how	
  slow	
  our	
  response	
  to	
  an	
  attack	
  of	
  our	
  nation	
  
would	
  be,	
  they	
  could	
  have	
  invaded	
  our	
  west	
  coast	
  and	
  would	
  have	
  been	
  very	
  
difficult	
  to	
  dislodge.	
  
	
  
I	
  think	
  Federal	
  control	
  of	
  the	
  interstates	
  remains	
  an	
  important	
  function	
  in	
  
protecting	
  individual	
  liberty.	
  	
  I	
  will	
  describe	
  why	
  in	
  my	
  constitution.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Energy	
  
	
  
This	
  august	
  body	
  were	
  the	
  people	
  that	
  ran	
  the	
  Manhattan	
  project.	
  	
  The	
  story	
  of	
  the	
  
building	
  of	
  the	
  Atomic	
  Bomb	
  and	
  later	
  the	
  more	
  powerful	
  hydrogen	
  bomb	
  should	
  be	
  
required	
  reading	
  of	
  all	
  citizens	
  of	
  the	
  United	
  States.	
  	
  We	
  are	
  the	
  only	
  country	
  in	
  the	
  
world	
  that	
  has	
  used	
  these	
  weapons	
  to	
  kill	
  people.	
  	
  	
  I	
  personally	
  saw	
  the	
  monument	
  
of	
  the	
  shadow	
  of	
  people	
  imprinted	
  on	
  a	
  building	
  in	
  Hiroshima.	
  	
  It	
  made	
  me	
  very	
  
emotional.	
  	
  It	
  still	
  makes	
  me	
  sigh	
  when	
  I	
  think	
  about	
  it.	
  	
  The	
  costs	
  and	
  benefits,	
  the	
  
history,	
  the	
  betrayals,	
  the	
  espionage,	
  the	
  ethics	
  remain	
  important	
  topics	
  to	
  our	
  
citizenry.	
  It’s	
  impossible	
  to	
  put	
  the	
  genie	
  back	
  in	
  the	
  bottle,	
  but	
  let	
  us	
  not	
  forget	
  that	
  
the	
  architect	
  of	
  this	
  weapon	
  announced	
  after	
  the	
  first	
  nuclear	
  test	
  explosion	
  that	
  he	
  
had	
  become	
  “Death	
  the	
  destroyers	
  of	
  worlds”.	
  
	
  
Albert	
  Einstein	
  sent	
  the	
  letter	
  to	
  President	
  Roosovelt	
  advising	
  him	
  to	
  construct	
  the	
  
atom	
  bomb.	
  	
  	
  Late	
  in	
  his	
  life,	
  Einstein	
  said	
  that	
  letter	
  was	
  his	
  only	
  regret.	
  	
  I	
  studied	
  
the	
  Manhattan	
  project	
  when	
  I	
  was	
  eighteen	
  years	
  old.	
  	
  I	
  read	
  every	
  book	
  in	
  the	
  
Library.	
  	
  	
  I	
  was	
  fascinated.	
  	
  The	
  librarian	
  helped	
  me	
  look	
  through	
  periodicals	
  with	
  
details	
  of	
  this	
  project.	
  	
  	
  As	
  a	
  result	
  of	
  my	
  extensive	
  research,	
  I	
  wrote	
  my	
  first	
  paper	
  in	
  
college	
  titled	
  how	
  I	
  could	
  build	
  an	
  Atomic	
  Bomb.	
  	
  	
  I	
  also	
  learned	
  considering	
  the	
  
enormous	
  size	
  of	
  this	
  project,	
  all	
  of	
  the	
  science	
  that	
  had	
  to	
  be	
  invented,	
  the	
  sheer	
  
number	
  of	
  highly	
  gifted	
  physicists,	
  chemists,	
  engineers	
  and	
  out	
  of	
  the	
  box	
  thinkers,	
  
the	
  building	
  of	
  the	
  infrastructure,	
  it	
  could	
  not	
  have	
  been	
  built	
  in	
  peacetime.	
  	
  It	
  could	
  
not	
  have	
  been	
  built	
  by	
  Germany.	
  	
  	
  
	
  
I	
  personally	
  spoke	
  to	
  one	
  of	
  the	
  architects	
  of	
  the	
  Hydrogen	
  Bomb.	
  	
  I	
  was	
  his	
  
anesthesiologist.	
  	
  I	
  asked	
  him	
  in	
  retrospect	
  would	
  he	
  have	
  helped	
  build	
  a	
  bomb,	
  one	
  
thousand	
  times	
  as	
  powerful	
  as	
  the	
  original	
  weapon	
  dropped	
  on	
  Hiroshima.	
  
He	
  emphatically	
  said	
  no	
  way	
  on	
  earth!	
  
	
  
There	
  continued	
  role	
  supervising	
  the	
  development	
  of	
  nuclear	
  technology	
  is	
  
controversial.	
  	
  I	
  think	
  we	
  need	
  a	
  nation	
  wide	
  discussion	
  of	
  the	
  future	
  of	
  nuclear	
  
technology	
  both	
  for	
  peaceful	
  and	
  military	
  uses.	
  	
  Considering	
  that	
  these	
  weapons	
  can	
  
result	
  in	
  the	
  destruction	
  of	
  the	
  planet	
  its	
  importance	
  cannot	
  be	
  emphasized.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Education	
  
	
  
This	
  is	
  a	
  euphemism	
  for	
  the	
  department	
  of	
  propaganda.	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  
	
  
All	
  kidding	
  aside,	
  it	
  has	
  no	
  place	
  in	
  Federal	
  Government.	
  	
  	
  It	
  violates	
  our	
  freedoms	
  
and	
  our	
  pursuit	
  of	
  happiness.	
  	
  This	
  department	
  just	
  represents	
  the	
  way	
  our	
  whole	
  
executive	
  branch	
  is	
  bringing	
  us	
  closer	
  and	
  closer	
  to	
  total	
  central	
  government	
  
planning.	
  	
  I	
  know	
  we	
  are	
  still	
  far	
  away	
  from	
  being	
  able	
  to	
  compare	
  our	
  executive	
  
branch	
  to	
  the	
  old	
  Soviet	
  Union	
  which	
  collapsed	
  because	
  of	
  central	
  planning,	
  but	
  that	
  
is	
  the	
  direction	
  we	
  are	
  headed.	
  
	
  
Department	
  of	
  Veteran	
  Affairs	
  
	
  
Well	
  we	
  all	
  should	
  have	
  heard	
  recently	
  of	
  the	
  failures	
  of	
  this	
  department.	
  	
  	
  I	
  
personally	
  worked	
  for	
  many	
  months	
  in	
  the	
  West	
  Side	
  VA	
  hospital	
  in	
  Chicago	
  both	
  as	
  
a	
  medical	
  student	
  and	
  as	
  a	
  resident.	
  	
  	
  It’s	
  basically	
  a	
  place	
  where	
  our	
  veterans	
  are	
  
treated	
  as	
  guinea	
  pigs	
  for	
  the	
  training	
  of	
  our	
  physicians.	
  	
  It	
  needs	
  to	
  be	
  replaced.	
  	
  
Part	
  of	
  the	
  benefits	
  we	
  should	
  give	
  our	
  armed	
  forces	
  for	
  their	
  service	
  should	
  be	
  life	
  
long	
  private	
  care	
  by	
  the	
  best	
  of	
  our	
  medical	
  system.	
  
	
  
Shortly	
  before	
  the	
  2004	
  election,	
  	
  the	
  New	
  England	
  Journal	
  of	
  medicine	
  had	
  	
  a	
  
description	
  of	
  the	
  new	
  state	
  of	
  care	
  for	
  battlefield	
  injuries	
  in	
  the	
  Middle	
  East.	
  	
  It	
  was	
  
amazing	
  to	
  see	
  how	
  the	
  new	
  policies	
  saved	
  more	
  lives	
  then	
  in	
  all	
  previous	
  conflicts.	
  	
  
But	
  the	
  graphic	
  pictures	
  were	
  heart	
  breaking.	
  	
  If	
  Kerry	
  had	
  used	
  these	
  pictures	
  in	
  
the	
  presidential	
  campaign	
  he	
  would	
  have	
  had	
  a	
  great	
  shot	
  of	
  winning.	
  	
  Anyway	
  the	
  
long-­‐term	
  care	
  for	
  these	
  gravely	
  injured	
  soldiers	
  should	
  be	
  on	
  the	
  same	
  level	
  as	
  the	
  
treatment	
  that	
  saved	
  their	
  lives.	
  
	
  
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Michael Fiedler for president version three

  • 1. Patrick  Henry  ‘s  famous  quotation  “Give  me  liberty  of  give  me  death!”  was  credited   as  the  deciding  motivation  delivering  Virginan  troops  and  George  Washington  to  the   Revolutionary  War.  How  many  of  you  today  would  be  willing  to  give  up  you’re  lives   to  defend  our  constitution?    Well  we  know  that  hundreds  of  thousands  of  men  and   women  have  risked  their  lives  defending  this  country  in  the  immediate  past.    But  are   they  defending  this  country  and  its  symbol  the  Statue  of  Liberty  and  all  it  represents   or  the  United  States  Constitution?    I  wonder  how  many  of  those  people  who  have   taken  the  oath  to  defend  our  Constitution  have  actually  read  it.      I  wonder  how  many   of  them  have  reflected  on  the  possibility  that  the  Constitution  may  have  been   fundamentally  flawed.        We  know  that  the  constitution  was  a  compromise  between   two  basic  fundamental  theories  of  government.    Thomas  Jefferson  believed  in  strong   State  rights  and  a  weak  Federal  Government,  no  Federal  bank,  and  very  limited   associations  of  the  Federal  Government  with  businesses.  Alexander  Hamilton   believed  in  the  opposite.  The  constitution  should  have  been  designed  to  follow  the   precepts  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of   happiness.    The  question  is  has  it?    Let  me  ask  you  to  be  patient  and  suspend  you’re   disbelief  when  I  say  our  country  is  great  despite  the  extremely  harmful  effects  of  our   Constitution.      That  the  Constitution  needs  to  be  erased  and  replaced!     Wow!    After  this  opening  statement  people  are  going  to  think  I’m  nuts.      I  like  that   phrase  “nuts”.      It  was  said  at  a  critical  stage  in  US  history.    At  the  moment  of  the   greatest  crisis  for  American  soldiers  near  the  end  of  World  War  Two.  At  a  place   called  Bastogne,  Luxembourg  in  the  Ardennes  forest,  a  German  army  surrounded   our  forces.    The  German  commander  asked  for  our  surrender.      Our  general  replied   with  one  word  “nuts”.     So  I  say  nuts.    I  will  use  the  oratory  of  our  great  second  to  last  president,  Barrack   Obama.      I’ll  have  to  say  he  does  have  a  pretty  cool  name.      I  wonder  if  he  knows  in   Hebrew  his  first  name  means  lightning?  Anyway,  I  believe  I  can  design  a  transition   of  our  federal  government  without  affecting  any  of  the  beloved  social  programs   presently  in  existence.    So  in  the  words  of  our  dear  president,  you  can  have  the  same   Doctor  now  as  in  after  my  changes     In  order  for  you  to  continue  reading,  I  must  make  you  aware  that  I  don’t  believe  any   of  our  politicians  past  or  present,  republican  or  democrat  intended  any  harm  to   befall  on  our  great  nation.      I  take  no  sides.    I  am  neither  a  Democrat,  a  Rebublican,  a   Libertarian,  a  socialist  or  an  anarchist.      I  share  many  principles  supported  by  all  of   our  parties  present  and  past.      But  I  say  none  of  us  have  the  right  to  enforce  our   principles  by  politics  on  our  fellow  citizens.    That  is  simply  not  consistent  with  why   our  country  was  miraculously  created  by  long  gone  patriots.    When  I  mention   disparaging  remarks  about  any  politician  current  or  historic,  I  am  using  it  to   emphasize  a  point.    I  have  nothing  against  any  of  these  people.    They  are  fellow   Americans.    I  have  to  believe  that  all  of  them  thought  they  were  helping  our  country.   Almost  all  of  the  damage  they  have  created  to  this  country  and  world  were  just   unintended  consequences.        
  • 2. While  it  is  true  that  in  the  history  of  our  planet  that  there  have  been  many   civilizations  that  have  enjoyed  some  measure  of  individual  freedom  under  various   forms  of  government.    Their  economies,  their  arts  and  sciences  have  flourished.     Some  have  even  enjoyed  “Golden  Ages”  where  there  have  been  monumental  giant   accomplishments  in  all  areas  of  human  endeavor.      But  they  have  all  fallen  to  a   morass  of  corruption,  been  uprooted  by  violent  upheaval,  suffered  a  “coup  de   d’état”,  or  were  swallowed  in  part  or  whole  by  war  with  a  stronger  foreign  power.     We  have  been  FED  a  load  of  crap  (pun  intended).      That  our  nation  has  become  a   beacon  of  liberty  because  of  the  beauty  of  our  form  of  Democracy  as  defined  by  the   perfect  balance  of  power  of  our  unique  constitution.      If  we  could  bring  those   gentlemen,  the  writers  of  our  blueprint  of  freedom  to  our  present  time  they  would   be  aghast.      Simply  the  mountain  of  devastation  that  was  caused  directly  or   indirectly  by  our  nation  since  it’s  founding  would  have  left  them  crestfallen.      The   power  usurped  by  our  heads  of  state  would  have  made  them  befuddled.      The   volumes  of  laws  passed  by  their  perfectly  balanced  congress  that  have  destroyed   much  of  our  individual  liberty  would  have  stricken  their  hearts.         The  truth  is  that  our  country  has  become  great  despite  our  constitution  and  our   democracy.    It  has  been  a  beacon  of  hope  and  amazing  accomplishments  because  of   our  wonderful  people  born  here  and  those  that  have  sacrificed  everything  to  travel   to  our  beloved  and  awesome  country.      The  truth  about  Democracy  is  that  it  is  only   as  good  as  its  citizens.    If  all  our  citizens  present  in  America  today  would  truly   believe  in  their  hearts  give  me  liberty  or  give  me  death  it  wouldn’t  matter  what  form   of  government  we  had.  None  of  what  has  occurred  over  the  last  two  hundred  years   would  have  happened.      But  that’s  an  impossible  dream.         It  shocks  me  to  think  that  the  tens  of  thousands  of  scholars  who  have  become   educated  in  Political  Science  have  blinded  themselves  to  the  reality  that  Democracy   and  freedom  go  hand  in  hand.      Show  me  a  democracy  that  over  time  individual   freedom  has  not  declined.    In  point  of  fact  some  democracies  become  totalitarian   states  shortly  after  their  formation.      An  extreme  example  of  this  was  Adolph  Hitler   who  was  elected  democratically.      All  of  the  other  Democracies  including  ours  have   become  less  free  as  time  goes  on.        It’s  inevitable.    By  definition  in  Democracy  the   majority  rules  and  the  minority,  the  individuals  lose.  It’s  the  majority  who  choose   representatives  that  continuously  pass  laws  that  are  suppose  to  correct  some   injustice  or  benefit  the  people  that  elected  them.    They  all  lead  to  unintended   consequences  that  require  more  rules.    Over  time  this  endless  loop  of  laws,  rules,   and  taxes  to  pay  for  the  laws  and  rules  leads  to  an  exponential  decline  in  freedom.     Albert  Einstein  once  said  the  most  powerful  force  in  nature  is  compound  interest.    If   you  went  back  in  time  to  1776  and  could  invest  $1000  at  4%  interest,  it  would  be   worth  about  eight  million  dollars  in  2015.      I  say  the  same  force  works  in   government.  If  we  started  with  one  hundred  laws  in  1776  it  has  become  80,000  laws   today.    
  • 3. The  United  States  constitution  is  unique.    The  founding  fathers  brilliantly  conceived   of  a  system  of  checks  and  balances  to  prevent  this  political  decay.    But  it  only  has   delayed  the  inevitable.    It  should  now  be  as  plain  as  the  nose  on  all  our  faces  that  the   check  and  balance  system  has  failed.    Think  about  what  has  happened  in   Washington  since  the  start  of  the  great  depression  in  1929.    An  incoming  President   has  been  elected  sometimes  even  without  a  popular  majority.    He  announces  a  new   sweeping  policy  change  to  our  system  of  life.    Sometimes  we  are  lucky  that  he  can’t   garnish  enough  support  to  get  his  new  policy  made  law.    But  usually  some  form  of  it   is  passed.  These  policies  are  especially  easy  to  get  passed  immediately  after  a  period   of  economic  downturn  when  our  citizens  are  desperate  for  a  quick  fix,  or  as  the   result  of  a  scary  terrorist  attack.    Congress  passes  a  bill  that  has  so  many  pages  that   none  of  them  probably  even  read  it,  much  less  analyze  the  consequences  to  our   people  individually,  our  national  economy,  or  the  world  at  large.    Parenthetically,  we   know  that  in  our  congress  these  new  laws  in  order  to  be  passed  are  a  shadow  of   what  their  constituents  desired  and  almost  definitely  not  what  the  minority  desired.       Then  of  course  most  of  these  bills  have  many  pieces  of  unrelated  special  interest   “trick  or  treats”  commonly  called  “Pork  Barrel”  additives  that  are  required  to  insure   that  the  main  bill  will  be  passed.          These  representatives  hand  deliver  the  bill  to  our   great  and  powerful  wizards  of  presidency  and  who  with  great  fanfare  sign  them  into   law.    So  the  first  check  of  the  balance  of  power  created  by  our  founders,  the   presidential  veto  is  only  employed  when  the  president  doesn’t  get  most  of  what  he   wants.    Not  because  he  believes  its  wrong  to  put  more  burdens  on  our  citizens.     (Presidents  have  begged  for  a  line  item  veto  for  decades  to  prevent  these  artificial   additives.  Good  luck  on  that!)     Of  course  now  we  need  tens  of  thousands  of  new  bureaucrats  that  interpret  and   execute  the  new  policy.    Because  these  bureaucrats  are  individuals  and  not  a   mindless  hive  of  ants  that  march  exactly  to  the  orders  of  the  queen  ant  (The   President)  the  hundred-­‐page  bill  becomes  a  thousand  regulations.    Oh  by  the  way   isn’t  interesting  that  in  the  insect  world  it  s  the  female  that  rules!    The  new   beurocrats  cost  money.    Taxes  must  be  increased.    Then  over  time  our  individual   freedom  of  choice  becomes  more  and  more  limited.      And  of  course  each  new   regulation  has  unintended  consequences  that  require  more  bills  and  more   regulations  to  “fix  them”.    And  from  small  acorns  to  the  giant  oak  tree  of  our  great   country  it  increasingly  rots  from  the  inside  out.     Congress  has  a  duty  to  watch  how  their  new  bill  is  working.    But  with  the  size  of  our   present  federal  government,  which  has  three  to  four  million  people,  that  doesn’t   include  the  department  of  defense  or  our  armed  forces  or  our  security  agencies.    (No   one  seems  to  know  exactly  how  many!  But  it  is  at  least  ten  times  the  number  of   people  who  ran  the  country  in  1932.    How  can  a  few  hundred  members  of  congress   monitor  the  progress  of  their  legislation?    They  are  all  too  busy  checking  how  good   they  look  on  the  Internet.    Oh  and  by  the  way  we  are  supposed  to  be  a  free  society.     But  we  have  no  idea  how  many  people  work  for  the  CIA  or  NSA  or  homeland   security.    
  • 4. Oh  and  where  is  the  Supreme  Court  the  third  check  to  the  balance  of  power.    Guys   these  are  just  twelve  men  and  women.    When  the  country  was  created  this  might   have  seemed  sufficient.    But  now  how  can  it.    There  are  so  many  disputes  outside  the   arena  of  politics.    How  can  they  devote  much  time  to  monitoring  the  behavior  of   Congress  or  the  President?    But  if  they  are  handed  a  political  football  to  judge,  do   you  really  think  they  judge  laws  by  the  constitution  or  by  their  personal  political   biases?    I  think  they  are  more  interested  in  who  is  the  quarterback  (the  guy  who   writes  the  majority  opinion)  that  scores  the  touchdown.    He  or  she  gets  in  the   history  book!    Supreme  court  decisions  have  many  times  changed  the  law  of  the   land.    The  constitution  never  intended  for  that  to  happen!    They  are  supposed  to  be   judges  not  law  makers.     Ob  you  might  say  we  did  have  presidents  where  policies  restricting  individual   liberty  were  reversed.      How  about  President  Reagan?    Yes  we  do  have  occasional   winds  that  blow  our  government  back  towards  liberty.    Fewer  taxes.    Fewer   regulations.    But  that  trend  is  inevitably  reversed  with  the  next  administration.    In   actually,  it  matters  not  if  republicans  or  democrats  are  in  power.    The  degradation  of   liberty  sometimes  crawls,  sometimes  marches  and  sometimes  runs  towards   eventual  disaster.         Enough  said  of  the  sad  state  of  affairs  of  our  political  process.     Let’s  examine  the  constitution  in  light  of  the  three  principles  that  our  county   declared  independence.     LIFE     This  principle  expressed  here  by  our  Founding  Fathers  is  the  belief  that  individual   life  is  sacrosanct.    That  at  that  times  a  King  living  in  Britain  could  theoretically   sentence  to  death  anyone  at  his  whim.    But  I  think  the  idea  is  more  universal.    Those   of  us  who  believe  in  a  supreme  being  who  has  commanded  us  in  the  bible  that   murder  is  a  sin  whether  done  by  an  individual  or  a  group  have  an  appreciation  for   that  fact.    But  I  think  for  them  it  should  be  more  clear  because  as  a  Supreme  Being   God  could  have  created  our  planet  with  millions  of  human  beings  not  just  one.           Jewish  lore  states  the  reason  God  created  the  world  with  just  Adam  was  to  show   that  causing  the  death  of  one  man  is  as  if  that  person  destroyed  an  entire  world.    On   the  opposite  side;  the  atheists,  the  evolutionists,  and  those  that  agree  with  Stephen   Hawking’s  that  all  of  creation  can  be  explained  by  modern  physics  without  resorting   to  an  all  powerful  God  whatever  their  reason  for  a  moral  stance  that  human  life  is   sacrosanct,  they  too  must  realize  the  beginning  of  humankind  must  have  been   started  with  just  a  handful  of  individuals.      So  that  there  too  if  those  first  intelligent   self  aware  beings  had  been  murdered  it  also  would  have  been  like  destroying  the   whole  world.    They  also  must  understand  that  causing  the  death  of  one  human  being  
  • 5. could  result  in  an  Einstein,  a  Graham  Bell,  a  Thomas  Edison,  a  Gandhi,  a  Martin   Luther  King  or  any  of  the  greater  or  lessor  people  never  having  been  born.     Therefore  how  can  we  have  a  government  that  a  president  without  any  oversight   launches  a  drone  strike  and  murders  a  group  of  people  half  way  around  the  world   and  maybe  one  or  several  of  them  are  would  be  terrorists?    But  as  we  all  know  there   is  always  collateral  damage  the  euphemism  for  the  senseless  slaughter  of  innocent   women  and  children.    As  citizens  of  this  country  all  of  us  are  responsible  for  his   actions.    If  this  happened  in  the  1960’s  spontaneous  protests  would  occur  all  over   our  nation.    I  guess  as  a  nation  we  have  become  numb  to  the  evil  perpetrated  under   our  name.    That  of  course  is  just  the  smallest  of  outrages  committed  by  our   Presidents  over  time.     But  that  fault  lies  with  our  founding  fathers.      It  was  written  in  a  Constitution  that   created  the  authority  for  this  possibility  to  happen.    Our  founding  fathers  drenched   all  of  us  with  the  responsibility  for  a  sea  of  blood  and  pain  from  the  very  beginning   of  the  creation  of  our  great  county.    Can  any  of  us  now  have  let  a  constitution  be   written  that  allowed  slavery?    Think  of  all  the  lives  destroyed  by  this  act.    It  would   have  been  better  if  we  had  remained  a  loose  association  of  states  then  to  give  a   moral  blessing  for  such  an  outrageous  miscarriage  of  justice.    Don’t  forget  that   women  were  not  even  considered  to  be  citizens  when  they  wrote  the  Constitution.   They  had  no  representation.    They  could  not  vote.     Yet  we  got  what  we  deserved.    The  saying  “What  comes  around  goes  around”  hit  us   with  full  force  during  the  civil  war.    Six  hundred  twenty  thousand  of  our  US  citizens   died.    Another  five  hundred  thousand  were  severely  injured.    That  doesn’t  even   scratch  the  surface  of  the  property  loss,  the  economic  devastation  and  the  long-­‐term   consequences.     Let’s  discuss  the  creation  of  a  single  person  as  the  head  of  our  executive  branch  in   the  constitution.    Lovingly  called  POTUS  by  our  secret  service.    Parenthetically.  Just   the  act  of  our  nation  creating  a  body  of  men  called  the  “Secret  Service”  should  strike   fear  in  our  hearts.    What  secret  acts  have  these  men  and  women  done?    Our  free   society  should  have  no  room  for  secrecy.    But  lets  leave  that  aside  for  now.  What  are   some  of  the  highlights  of  the  history  of  our  early  Presidents?         Between  1801  and  1805  the  United  States  became  involved  in  a  war  against  the  so-­‐ called  “Barbary  Pirates”  of  North  Africa.    The  war  was  fought  on  the  behest  of   American  merchantmen  that  were  captured,  enslaved  and  held  for  ransom.    The   negotiated  ransom  first  paid  was  one  million  dollars.    That  was  10%  of  the  entire  US   budget.    The  USA  continued  to  pay  it  for  fifteen  years,  until  Thomas  Jefferson  built   the  US  navy.      Self-­‐defense  is  a  righteous  and  appropriate  use  of  Federal  power.    But   in  this  case,  our  navy  and  marines  were  used  in  a  way  to  protect  special  interests.       The  merchantmen  knew  that  the  Mediterranean  was  an  unsafe  place  to  travel.    But   the  profits  were  high  and  worth  the  risks  involved  at  least  to  the  owners  of  these   ships.    But  when  their  sailors  were  enslaved  they  cried  to  our  government  to  take  
  • 6. action.    Our  president  Thomas  Jefferson  with  just  a  wink  from  congress  authorized   action.    So  American  and  foreign  blood  was  spilled  for  the  sake  of  a  few  American   businessmen.    A  very  dangerous  precedent  was  established.      There  were  many   alternatives  then  the  use  of  Federal  Governmental  power  and  it  violated  an   important  moral  precept.    It  was  the  beginning  of    “special  interests”  influencing  our   government  without  regard  for  its  people.    I’m  sure  the  mother’s  of  the  dead  and   wounded  sailors  and  marines  were  very  happy  that  it  was  now  safe  to  send  shipping   through  the  Mediterranean.       You  could  argue  that  protecting  commerce  is  an  important  part  of  our  Federal   Government.      I  agree.    I  also  agree  that  a  justified  use  of  our  armed  forces  gives  us   vital  training  in  the  art  of  war  unavailable  in  peacetime.    But  it  must  be  used   judiciously,  with  great  care,  on  a  voluntary  and  well  paid  basis  by  the  men  involved   and  the  costs  should  be  born  by  the  direct  beneficiary’s.         Just  shortly  thereafter  was  the  war  of  1812.    I  wonder  how  many  Americans  know   that  the  song,  our  national  anthem,  the  Star-­‐Spangled  Banner  is  about  the  war  in   1812?    When  it  mentions  the  rockets  red  glare  and  the  bombs  bursting  in  air.    Those   were  the  latest  weapons  of  the  British  Army!    Yes  ladies  and  gentlemen  we  were   stupid  enough  to  get  involved  in  another  war  with  the  greatest  military  power  on   the  planet!    It  was  just  a  couple  of  decades  since  we  miraculously  won  our  freedom.   Our  president  and  congress  risked  the  entire  existence  of  our  country  on  the  throw   of  the  dice  of  war!    It  doesn’t  matter  now  why  they  did  it.    Some  say  we  didn’t  like   them  taking  our  sailors  who  believed  had  deserted  from  the  British  navy  off  our   vessels  in  open  sea.    Not  that  it  matters,  but  I  think  most  historians  would  say  we   thought  the  British  were  tied  down  with  Napoleon  in  Europe  and  we  could  steal   Canada  away  from  the  British.    The  war  lasted  more  then  two  years.    Our  capital  was   burned  to  the  ground.      What  idiocy  it  was  to  allow  our  Federal  government,  mostly   just  at  the  whim  of  our  president,  the  power  to  start  conflicts.    There  are  always   alternatives  to  resorting  to  war.  “Violence  is  the  last  refuge  of  the  incompetent.”       Isaac  Asimov.     I  have  been  an  amateur  military  historian  for  most  of  the  forty-­‐five  years  of  my  adult   life.    I  have  spent  thousands  of  hours  reading  about  wars  and  battles  and  have   played  tactical  and  strategic  simulations  of  most  of  the  battles  from  the  level  of  the   platoon  all  the  way  up  to  simulations  of  the  entirety  of  World  War  One  and  World   War  Two.    There  have  been  relatively  small  battles  in  the  last  seven  hundred  years   whose  outcome  changed  the  course  of  history.    Each  of  these  battles  was  affected  by   random  events  that  could  have  turned  the  outcome  either  way.  They  were  all  mostly   preventable.      They  were  often  mishandled  at  every  level  of  the  conflict.    Especially   by  the  meddling  of  the  Politian’s  overseeing  the  military.      The  last  thing  a  country   wants  to  do  is  subject  its  citizens  to  the  fog  of  war.        
  • 7. Let’s  talk  about  the  constitution  making  the  president  the  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief  of   United  States  Armed  Forces.    Maybe  back  in  the  late  1700’s  it  made  sense  that  a   President  without  any  military  training  becoming  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief.    Wars  were   still  relatively  unsophisticated.      Men  would  stand  in  a  long  line  pointing  their   muskets  at  the  enemies  line  fire  away  and  then  charge  with  bayonets.      The  strategy   and  tactics  of  such  a  war  were  easy  to  understand  and  easy  to  teach  an  incoming   president.    But  today,  the  complexities  of  our  world  and  the  varieties  of  weaponry,   strategy  and  tactics  are  vast.    I’m  sure  even  our  Joint  Chiefs  of  Staffs  after  a  lifetime   in  the  military  would  be  the  first  to  admit  they  are  overwhelmed  by  the  possibilities   of  warfare  in  our  time.    Yet  from  President  Roosevelt  to  the  present,  (with  the   notable  exception  of  President  Eisenhower)  all  of  our  presidents  have  been  eager  to   use  our  military  as  their  private  toy.      Hundreds  of  thousands  of  precious  American   lives  have  been  lost  in  the  last  one  hundred  years  directly  because  we  have  a   President  as  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief.    None  of  those  wars  had  to  be  fought  by  the  US.     Or  at  least  in  the  form  and  ill  preparation  they  were  fought.      From  the  extension  of   the  length  and  destruction  of  World  War  One  to  the  horrors  of  all  the  wars  that   followed  they  were  all  the  result  of  unintended  consequences  of  our  government.     Ladies  and  gentlemen  you  have  been  sold  a  bill  of  trash.  It  was  the  mishandling  of   the  US  government  that  got  us  involved  in  both  great  wars.    I  can  show  World  War   two  was  an  unintended  consequence  of  the  US  government!    When  you  begin  to   doubt  the  historians  eager  to  laud  the  US,  you  will  understand  that  our  government   also  created  most  of  the  evils  that  followed  World  War  Two.    I  will  discuss  each  one   of  them  individually  later.     Those  of  us  who  were  brought  up  in  the  50’s  and  60’s  experienced  first  hand  the   emotional  impact  of  the  worry  of  a  world  ending  in  a  nuclear  holocaust.    Every  hour   there  would  be  a  test  of  the  emergency  broadcast  system  in  the  event  of  a  nuclear   attack  on  TV.    I  remember  at  age  seven  a  fallout  shelter  for  sale  at  the  neighboring   gas  station  in  the  suburbs  of  Chicago.      My  whole  family  glued  to  the  seats  of  our   dining  room  watching  the  latest  news  of  the  Cuban  missile  crisis.    If  you  haven’t  seen   them,  you  should  watch  On  the  Beach,  Failsafe  and  Dr.  Strangelove.      At  the  age  of   twenty-­‐one  I  began  trading  stocks  by  the  side  of  my  broker  at  Rodman  and   Crenshaw  in  Chicago.    It  was  the  middle  of  the  Yom  Kippur  War.    Across  the  ticker   tape  came  a  message  that  as  a  result  of  the  Soviet  Union  mobilizing  its  airborne   division  to  aid  Egypt,  President  Nixon  raised  the  nuclear  threat  level.    I  guess  he  was   willing  to  play  the  Nuke  card  on  his  own  authority.      It’s  a  miracle  the  world  is  still   here.    But  giving  all  that  power,  the  so-­‐called  nuclear  football  with  one  man,  the   president,  who  can  destroy  the  entire  planet  at  a  moments  notice  is  insane.  (By  the   way  why  isn’t  it  called  the  nuclear  baseball  that’s  our  national  sport!)?    What  if  one   of  them  wakes  up  in  the  middle  of  the  night  with  a  sudden  medical  condition  that   makes  him  paranoid  and  sure  that  we  are  under  nuclear  attack.    And  he  orders  a   preemptive  strike.  I  assume  there  are  safe  guards  but  after  the  shocking  event  of   911  can  we  be  so  sure?     So  by  the  test  of  Life  as  an  important  precept  of  the  United  States  Constitution,  the   office  of  presidency  fails  miserably.  
  • 8.   This  is  why  I  am  not  only  running  for  president  but  I  am  running  to  be  the  final   president.      I  will  write  the  presidency  out  of  our  new  constitution.  I  will  discuss  the   presidency  in  light  of  the  other  precepts  of  our  great  country  as  we  go  on.    I  assure   you  the  office  of  presidency  fails  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness  as  well.     In  my  constitution  I  will  also  describe  a  more  rational  method  that  involves  as  much   of  our  citizenries  approval  as  possible  in  the  use  of  our  military  power,  the  power   over  life  and  death.     LIBERTY     The  idea  of  liberty  in  the  Declaration  of  Independence  meant  that  Americans   demanded  the  right  of  individual  freedom  of  choice  and  freedom  of  will.    The  former   meaning  that  all  Americans  wanted  the  right  to  choose  whatever  course  of  action   they  desired.    The  freedom  of  will  meant  that  all  Americans  wanted  the  right  to   choose  to  think  anyway  they  pleased.     So  the  founding  fathers  believed  they  had  created  a  constitution  that  supported  this   precept.    How  well  do  you  think  they  have  done?     Well  let’s  leave  the  glaring  mistake  of  allowing  slavery  aside  for  now.      They  believed   they  had  created  an  ingenious  document.      A  document  where  there  would  be  three   branches  of  government  that  would  balance  out  each  ones  power  over  the  other.      A   congress  that  would  be  represents  each  state  according  to  their  size  (The  House  of   Representatives  based  on  the  population  of  a  state)  and  their  existence  (The  senate   with  two  members  per  state).      An  executive  branch  composed  of  the  President  and   the  cabinet.    And  the  watch  dog  Supreme  Court  with  just  twelve  old  wise  men  and   women  in  power  for  life  answering  to  no  one.     So  our  nation  is  created.    Let’s  look  at  the  function  of  our  Congress  the  legislative   branch.  We  already  had  states  that  had  been  in  existence  for  decades.    The  States  all   had  a  detailed  set  of  codes  of  laws.      The  States  were  further  broken  down  to   Counties  that  had  their  own  set  of  laws.      The  counties  were  further  broken  down  to   municipalities  with  their  own  laws.    The  lawful  governing  of  our  citizenry  was   already  in  place.    It  was  working  well  with  no  great  burden  to  life,  liberty  and  the   pursuit  of  happiness.     So  what  did  the  founders  think  the  Congress  would  do  to  enhance  the  freedom  of  its   individual  citizens?    Well  the  main  function  of  congress  is  to  legislate.      That  means   to  write  even  more  laws.    Does  anyone  believe  that  another  law  on  the  federal  level   would  help  create  more  freedom  for  its  citizens  or  less?    If  the  writers  believed  it   would  cause  more  freedom  why  did  they  amend  it  so  quickly  with  the  bill  of  rights?   What  else  does  congress  do?    They  watch  over  the  budget.    They  decide  the   allocation  of  Federal  money.    Considering  that  the  debt  is  now  18  trillion  dollars   they  have  done  a  crackerjack  job!    What  else?      They  are  supposed  to  have  exclusive  
  • 9. power  to  declare  war.    Well  it’s  estimated  that  before  1970  the  president  has   ordered  military  actions  149  times  without  congressional  approval.        And  we  all   know  it’s  been  even  worse  since  then.  This  should  have  been  a  clear  impeachable   offense  by  the  president,  which  is  another  power  of  congress.    It’s  been  threatened   but  never  used.      What  else?    They  are  supposed  to  regulate  commerce  between   states  and  foreign  powers.    Does  anyone  believe  that  any  congressmen  has  the  know   how  to  run  even  the  simplest  of  businesses?      So  how  do  we  expect  them  to  help  run   the  biggest  economy  in  the  world?    What  else?    They  are  supposed  to  watch  over  the   executive  branch  to  make  sure  everything  is  Kosher.      Well  during  my  lifetime  there   has  been  scandal  after  scandal  in  the  executive  branch.    I  can’t  remember  a  single   time  that  congress  made  the  slightest  difference  after  months  of  hearings  except   maybe  when  they  caught  tricky  Dick  Nixon  at  Watergate.         They  approve  nominations  by  the  executive  branch.   I  doubt  that  matters.    The  executive  branch  ultimately  gets  what  it  wants.           They  are  supposed  to  approve  treaties  with  other  nations.         Well  firstly  our  present  President  has  been  side  stepping  this  power.    And  second  of   all,  treaties  by  their  nature  are  an  agreement  that  excludes  the  freedom  of  choice  of   some  of  our  citizenry.    The  United  States  should  not  make  a  treaty  with  anyone   because  they  contradict  the  principle  of  individual  Liberty.  Ah  the  US  Post  office   enough  said.      Patents  and  copyrights,  I  doubt  a  single  congressman  has  ever  been   involved  in  reviewing  these  very  important  ideas.    Oh  taxes.    Wow  there  they  have   created  the  most  complex  tax  code  in  the  history  of  the  world!  Big  Kudos!     Congress  grants  approximately  thirty  billion  dollars  of  foreign  aid  given  yearly.    I   don’t  know  where  they  got  the  authority  from  the  constitution  to  conduct  this   policy.    But  forcing  our  citizens  to  give  this  vast  some  of  money  with  little  oversight   to  regimes  that  are  hardly  similar  to  our  own  is  a  huge  travesty  of  justice  and   individual  liberty.  In  point  of  fact  private  charitable  foreign  funds  greatly  exceed   government  aid.  That’s  because  we  are  the  kindest  and  most  generous  group  of   individuals  on  Earth.    I  refer  you  to  read  the  excellent  article  written  by  the  former   house  representative  and  former  presidential  candidate  Ron  Paul  in  an  article   online  in  Antiwar.com.     So  in  the  constitution  that  I  will  write  there  will  be  no  congress!    It’s  totally   unnecessary  and  extremely  harmful.    Besides  in  present  day  United  States  the   president  has  stolen  most  of  the  power  of  the  congress  anyway.    The  great  benefit  of   no  Congress  is  no  federal  taxes  in  my  constitution!     Don’t  stop  reading  now.    The  United  States  Federal  government  has  many  ways  to   finance  itself  without  confiscatory  power.    I  am  not  a  lunatic.      Well  since  it  isn’t  the   full  moon  while  I  am  writing  this  maybe  you  should  be  worried.    (That  was  a  joke.   Humor  always  has  a  place  in  life.    One  of  my  greatest  teachers  told  me  to  be  truly   wise  you  need  a  good  sense  of  humor.)    
  • 10. Let’s  turn  our  attention  to  the  executive  branch.    We  are  a  modern  people  now  so   lets  examine  the  cabinet,  as  it  exists  today  not  at  the  time  of  the  constitution.    How   well  does  the  cabinet  function  and  how  should  it  really  practice  in  protecting  our   lives  and  liberty.     THE  MAJOR  CABINETS  AND  AGENCIES     Office  of  the  Vice  President.    Well  there  will  be  no  President  so  any  need  for  an  office   of  the  Vice  President.     Secretary  of  State.         Serves  as  the  President’s  principal  advisor  on  U.S.  foreign  policy.    Well  again  no   president  so  no  need.     Conducts  negotiations  with  foreign  governments.       Well  we  are  the  United  States  of  America  the  most  powerful  nation  on  the  planet.     And  do  we  have  5000  nuclear  warheads  or  ten  thousand?    In  all  this  confusion  I   forgot.  We  don’t  negotiate  we  dictate.    Besides  we  are  a  nation  of  individuals,  no  one   person  can  make  decisions  that  we  all  must  abide.    Please  my  fellow  citizens   remember  the  military  draft  still  exists.    If  a  treaty  gets  us  involved  in  a  major  war,   you’re  children  may  be  forced  to  fight  and  die.     Grants  and  issues  Passports.     Ok  we  need  that  to  travel  and  reentry  our  land.     Advises  on  what  foreign  emissaries  can  reside  or  visit  the  USA.         Well  we  are  a  free  country.    Anyone  should  be  allowed  to  visit  our  country  and  stay   as  long  as  they  wish,  and  work  in  the  US  as  long  as  they  are  not  criminals  or  violate   our  laws.    (As  noncitizens  there  would  be  a  much  higher  standard  they  would  be   held  to  for  remaining  in  our  Country.)    So  this  is  an  important  function.    Every  law-­‐ abiding  person  that  visits  or  works  in  our  country  not  only  increases  the  wealth  of   our  nation,  it  brings  back  our  culture  to  foreign  lands.    Parenthetically,  President   Hoover  blocked  immigration  right  after  the  onset  of  the  great  depression.  That   certainly  did  not  make  the  economy  better.     I  think  to  keep  our  ports  of  entry  running  as  smoothly  as  possible.      We  should  make   all  foreigners  visit  one  of  our  overseas  consuls  and  be  preapproved  to  visit  the  US.   The  granting  of  these  Visas  would  be  totally  done  on  the  authority  and  investigation   of  our  State  Department.  We  can  never  be  one  hundred  percent  sure  that  no  evil   doers  will  slip  through  the  cracks.      But  we  need  to  keep  attracting  the  best  and  the   brightest  and  the  most  freedom  loving  people  in  the  world  to  increase  our  wealth   and  opportunity.      Once  this  policy  is  in  effect,  going  through  immigration  should  be   a  breeze.    We  should  allocate  as  much  resources  as  necessary  to  review  all   applications  overseas.    We  should  greatly  increase  the  size  and  personnel  overseas  
  • 11. in  our  counsels.  The  only  disqualification  should  be  a  check  of  crimes  on  previous   visits  to  the  US,  or  crimes  overseas,  or  serious  illness.    But  traditionally  the   Department  of  State  has  its  own  intelligence  division.    They  should  give  the  final   approval  of  any  visas.    It’s  a  dangerous  world  out  there  they  should  reject  those  they   suspect  of  harmful  activities.  But  there  should  be  an  appeal  process  if  someone   states  they  have  been  unjustly  accused  or  convicted  of  a  crime  outside  the  US.    They   would  have  to  pay  for  the  investigation  or  there  could  be  a  charitable  fund  created   in  the  US  to  help  these  people  that  may  live  in  sketchy  countries.         We  should  not  grant  diplomatic  immunity.    Half  of  these  diplomats  are  spies.    And   do  we  really  want  foreign  powers  being  able  to  smuggle  dangerous  items  in  their   diplomatic  pouches?    And  screw  them  taking  parking  places  illegally  in  Manhattan   and  getting  away  with  it.  Oh  and  by  the  way  did  you  know  that  during  World  War   two,  some  of  our  scientists  betrayed  nuclear  secrets  to  the  Soviet  Union?    Stalin   started  building  his  own  weapon  before  ours  was  completed.  However  the  Soviet   Union  had  no  source  of  Uranium  until  they  occupied  the  Czech  republic  in  1945.  And   that  source  they  didn’t  start  mining  it  until  1947.      Guess  where  they  got  their   Uranium  before  that.    They  stole  it  from  the  United  States  in  a  diplomatic  pouch,  two   tons  worth.    That  must  have  been  some  big  Kangaroo.       Anyway  if  you  allow  a  legal  and  significantly  less  costly  and  dangerous  way  of   arriving  at  our  country  without  crossing  deserts  with  coyotes;  Or  being  stuck  in   cargo  containers  for  long  voyages;  or  before  they  just  opened  Cuba  small  boats   across  the  Florida  straits;  we  wouldn’t  have  to  build  a  wall  on  the  Mexican  border.     We  aren’t  the  Soviet  Union  that  walls  people  in  or  out.    We  are  a  country  of  people   who  have  come  here  to  seek  freedom.    Are  we  going  to  allow  a  Nazi  like  action  and   round  up  11  million  mostly  hard  working  people  and  throw  them  out?   Almost  all  the  people  that  have  come  to  the  United  States  have  helped  to  build  it.     There  were  two  and  a  half  million  people  in  this  country  1776.      Now  there  are  three   hundred  and  twenty  million.    If  we  had  not  let  the  country  be  built  by  immigrants   we  would  be  a  third  of  the  size  we  are  now.      Let’s  not  forget  that  this  country  and   world  owes  it’s  greatness  to  just  a  handful  of  immigrants.    I  invite  you  to  explore  the   biography  of  Nikola  Tesla.    He  was  the  greatest  inventor  of  modern  times.    (Yes   that’s  the  guy  whom  Elon  Musk  named  his  company  after.)  It’s  a  fact  that  the   economy  and  opportunity  go  hand  in  hand  with  freedom  and  size  of  population.    If   they  can,  people  tend  to  stay  where  they  were  raised  with  their  friends  and  family.     It’s  only  the  biggest  risk  takers  and  hardest  workers  that  struggle  to  travel  to  the   freedom  of  the  US.     By  allowing  all  people  almost  unfettered  use  of  our  ports  of  entry,  we  will  be  a  more   secure  country.    Anyone  that  law  enforcement  becomes  aware  of  trying  to  enter  the   country  illegally,  by  crossing  the  desert,  using  Canadian  wilderness,  or  entering   illegally  by  sea,  we  can  assume  they  are  criminals  and  are  dangerous  and  act   accordingly.    
  • 12. I  will  have  much  more  to  say  about  the  issues  surrounding  customs  and  immigration   laws  and  border  safety  when  I  write  my  suggested  constitution.     What  else?  They  are  supposed  to  negotiate  treaties.    Well  we’ve  seen  how  well  that   has  gone  with  Iran.    Again  treaties  are  against  the  principal  of  liberty.    Our  citizens   should  not  have  to  abide  by  an  agreement  with  a  foreign  power.    Treaties  can  be   very  dangerous  to  the  safety  of  the  world.      It  was  a  network  of  treaties  that   entangled  the  world  in  the  First  World  War.     Helps  our  citizens  abroad.      This  is  a  proper  and  important  function  of  the  State   Department.     So  yes  to  a  limited  form  of  the  Secretary  of  State.      But  I  think  all  the  proper   functions  I  have  described  above  can  be  administered  by  the  second  in  command  at   office  of  Secretary  of  State.         The  most  important  part  of  the  state  department  is  the  Secretary  of  State  himself  or   herself.    That  being  the  resolution  of  important  disputes  with  foreign  powers  that   may  involve  us  in  military  action.      I  will  describe  later  in  my  suggested  new   constitution  how  this  person  should  be  selected.     We  shouldn’t  have  a  secretary  of  states  that  have  had  no  experience  with  diplomacy   like  Hillary  Clinton  whose  only  use  of  her  position  was  to  travel  around  the  world   more  times  then  any  of  her  forbears.  A  person  who  enriched  her  family  to  the  tune   of  over  a  billion  dollars  by  misuse  of  her  position.      A  person  who  authorized  the   sneaky  ploy  that  allowed  the  Soviet  Union  to  steel  one  sixth  of  the  world  supply  of   Uranium.      Oh  and  by  the  way  I  never  had  sex  with  that  woman  (Hillary)!     Department  of  Treasury     The  United  States  of  America  has  the  largest  collection  of  assets  in  the  world  and   also  the  largest  debt.  So  of  the  executive  branches  this  should  be  one  of  the  most   important.   It  is  also  the  most  hated.       What  do  they  do?     Manage  Federal  finances.   That  seems  to  be  a  very  vague  duty.    I  guess  it  means  they  write  all  the  checks  to  the   other  departments.      Anyone  with  a  checkbook  could  do  that.     What  else?  Collect  taxes,  duties  and  any  other  money  due  to  the  US.         Should  be  a  no  brainer.    But  they  manage  to  foul  it  up  completely.    They  make   everyone  hate  them.    I  guess  one  of  the  sneaky  things  they  do  is  let  you  pay  them  on   the  installment  plan.    I  think  most  people  know  that  we  have  to  work  the  first  three   or  four  months  for  the  IRS  until  we  get  to  pocket  the  rest  of  our  dollars.      If  they  
  • 13. acted  like  the  tax  collectors  in  the  Middle  Ages  where  they  came  to  you’re  home  the   first  three  months  of  the  year  and  took  all  your  earnings  the  country  would  have  an   immediate  revolution.    Because  when  you  look  at  income  taxes  in  this  light  you   realize  that  income  tax  is  outright  slavery.       They  print  currency  and  make  coins.    This  is  called  counterfeiting.    Some  would  say   that  if  the  government  does  it,  it  cannot  be  called  counterfeiting.    But  forcing  our   citizens  to  use  pieces  of  paper  and  numbers  in  our  bank  account  that  cant  be   redeemed  from  the  government  with  something  objective  what  else  can  you  call  it?     We  were  once  on  the  Gold  standard.    Every  dollar  created  by  the  Federal   Government  was  backed  by  gold.      But  for  United  States  citizens  in  1933  the  right  to   change  our  paper  money  to  something  physical  and  valuable  like  gold  was  taken   away.  But  it  was  worse  then  that,  all  American  citizens  had  to  turn  in  their  gold  for   paper  money.      Most  of  you  probably  don’t  know  or  remember  but  it  was  illegal  to   for  us  to  own  gold  until  1975.      Only  foreign  countries  could  redeem  US  dollars  into   gold  until  1971.      Can  you  believe  that  under  our  beautiful  constitution  a  President   not  only  stole  our  gold,  but  he  took  away  our  right  to  own  it!     The  government  had  many  rationalizations  for  this  brutal  attack  on  our  rights.    But   the  government  insists  they  have  been  granted  this  power  from  god.    Congress   passed  this  act  in  1861.    “Our  nation  under  God”     They  supervise  national  banks  and  institutions.    Well  gee  they  did  a  hum  digger  job   of  this  the  mid  2000’s.      They  almost  succeeded  in  destroying  the  entire  world’s   financial  institutions.    And  now  of  course  they  are  doing  equally  just  as  great  a  job.     The  Federal  Reserve  is  supplying  almost  unlimited  funds  to  the  banking  system,  but   the  Department  of  Treasury  is  making  sure  very  few  people  can  borrow  any  money.   So  basically  the  Department  of  Treasury  are  Chinese.    They  believe  in  Yin  and  Yang.     They  tried  Yin  letting  everybody  borrow  money  even  if  they  weren’t  credit  worthy.   That  ended  with  the  housing  crisis.    And  now  Yang  only  the  insiders  the  big  boys  can   buy  out  other  companies  with  all  this  extra  cash.      Everyone  else  you  have  shown   you  cant  be  trusted  with  debt.    This  is  one  of  the  real  reasons  the  economic  recovery   has  been  so  slow  the  last  five  years.    All  the  small  businesses,  the  small  startups  that   could  normally  get  loans  are  not  able  to  get  anything  until  they  prove  themselves.     Our  citizens  believing  in  themselves  and  getting  loans  from  banks  built  America.       We  need  to  close  shop  on  the  Treasury  as  far  as  administering  our  financial   institutions.       Oh  they  are  the  ones  that  will  take  you’re  property  when  you  don’t  pay  you’re  taxes.     They  will  also  put  in  jail  if  you  print  your  own  money.      As  Rand  Paul  said  don’t  steal   from  the  government  they  don’t  like  competition.     They  also  run  the  following  services.     The  secret  service.    They  protect  the  president  and  have  large  booty  parties.  
  • 14.   Alcohol,  firearms  and  Tobacco.     Alcohol  department  enforced  the  Volstead  act  made  the  Kennedy  family  very  rich.   Oh  we  in  Chicago  got  three  great  pieces  of  entertainment  out  of  it.      The  TV  show  the   Untouchables.    The  movie  the  Untouchables,  and  a  piece  of  the  series  Boardwalk   Empire.           (I  am  going  to  be  liberal  in  the  use  of  idea’s  and  themes  created  by  Hollywood  films   and  fictional  writers.    I  am  using  these  ideas  to  emphasize  points.    I  know  they  are   fiction.  but  Hollywood  movies  represent  American  culture.      Aspects  of  Hollywood   films  have  undeniably  even  shaped  our  culture  and  our  patterns  of  thought.      There   are  many  instances  of  fiction  in  films  and  books  predicting  real  life  events.)       Firearms.      They  are  good.    They  ran  Project  Gunrunner  also  known  as  “Fast  and   “Furious”.        That  worked  out  real  well.    Guns  sold  by  our  government  were  used  in   numerous  crimes  on  both  sides  of  the  border.    Well  I  guess  this  violates  our  sanctity   of  life  test.     Tobacco     Well  I  guess  they  do  a  very  good  job.      American  cigarettes  are  prized  all  over  the   world  especially  Marlboros.     Department  of  Defense     Oh  my  god  this  department  is  stuffed  with  so  many  functions  I  am  not  going  to  bore   you  with  an  analysis.  The  following  is  copied  from  the  defense.gov  website.         Major elements of OSD Start_Module_618 ▪ Secretary of Defense ▪ Deputy Secretary of Defense ▪ Executive Secretary of the Department of Defense ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) ▪ Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer (USD(C)/CFO) ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (P&R)
  • 15. ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ▪ Deputy Chief Management Officer ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A)) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs (APSA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (GSA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (HA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (ISA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (LA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness (L&MR) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Chemical & Biological Defense Programs (NCB) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs (OEP&P) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (PA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering ASD(R&E) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (RA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities ▪ General Counsel of the Department of Defense ▪ Inspector General of the Department of Defense ▪ Director of OSD Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) ▪ Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) ▪ Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight (IO) ▪ Director of Administration and Management (DA&M) ▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and Concepts ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy
  • 16. ▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (I&E) ▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Readiness ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy       I  can’t  find  the  data  of  how  many  of  the  people  in  these  multitude  of  sub   departments  are  actually  serving  member  in  the  military.      But  for  certain  the   Secretary  of  Defense  is  a  civilian.      There  is  no  requirement  that  this  person  has   served  in  the  military  or  that  he  has  gone  through  our  various  war  colleges.     Anyway  this  is  the  guy  that  is  supposed  to  advise  the  president  on  the  preparedness   and  the  use  of  military  power.    So  now  we  have  at  least  two  levels  of  Bozos  the   clown  deciding  the  fate  of  our  nation.    I  have  no  idea  how  many  other  personnel   without  any  military  training  theoretical  or  actual  work  in  this  department.      Ladies   and  Gentleman  the  most  important  people  in  our  lives  are  our  physicians.      Would   you  want  decisions  that  affect  your  life  determined  by  non-­‐physician  Hospital   administrators  or  the  physicians  themselves?     If  you  really  want  an  inside  look  at  the  functioning  of  the  Department  of  Defense   during  a  crucial  time  in  our  history,  I  urge  you  to  watch  the  documentary  “Fog  of   War”.    You  tell  me  if  this  makes  you  feel  sanguine  of  the  way  our  Department  of   Defense  conducts  itself.   I  have  to  mention  one  quote  from  that  movie  because  it  is  just  so  poignant.     General  Tecumseh  Sherman  was  one  of  the  most  revered  generals  in  the  history  of   the  United  States.    He  was  under  the  direct  command  of  Abraham  Lincoln  the   second  most  revered  president  after  Washington.         Sherman  came  with  his  forces  to  the  city  of  Atlanta  Georgia.    The  mayor  begged  the   general  to  spare  his  city.      Sherman  responded  “War  is  cruel”.    And  then  Sherman   torched  the  city  and  burned  it  down.    (I  have  been  told  that  this  quote  in  the  fog  of   war  is  inaccurate.    That  General  Sherman  said  this  to  his  aides  not  to  the  mayor.  I   don’t  see  much  difference.    He  said  it  and  he  burned  Atlanta.)  An  American  general   destroying  a  great  American  city!        Lets  contrast  this  with  the  Nazi  General  Dietrich   von  Choititz.    This  is  a  man  who  had  carried  every  order  of  his  beloved  Adolf  Hitler   including  the  extermination  of  Jews.      But  when  Hitler  ordered  this  general  to  burn   down  Paris  he  refused.    Food  for  thought.  
  • 17.   The  current  organization  of  the  military  could  certainly  use  vast  revisions.    There   also  definitely  needs  to  be  a  civilian  structure  that  supervises  our  military.    But  the   civilians  that  supervise  the  military  who  make  the  most  important  decisions   affecting  our  nation  the  conduct  of  military  force,  must  be  professionals  with  life   long  training  in  all  of  our  military  colleges.      They  must  be  independent  of  the   military  with  no  cronyism.    They  must  dedicate  their  lives  to  this  mighty   responsibility.    They  must  represent  as  closely  as  possible  the  individual  wishes  of   our  citizens.      They  will  get  no  glory  for  their  decisions.    They  will  never  have  or   develop  monetary  or  friendly  relationships  with  our  defense  industry.    I  will   describe  my  ideas  more  fully  later  when  I  write  my  replacement  constitution.           Department  of  Justice     The  principal  duties  Attorney  General    who  administers  this  department  are:     Represent  the  USA  in  legal  matters   I  see  no  harm  in  that.     Supervise  the  massive  bureaucracy  of  this  department   I  won’t  bore  you  with  a  case-­‐by-­‐case  analysis,    When  I’m  elected  I  would  ask  every   part  of  this  organization  to  justify  its  existence.     Represent  the  government  before  the  Supreme  Court.     I  find  no  fault  with  that.     The  drug  enforcement  agency  is  a  division  of  this  department.      It  was  established  to   stop  the  use  of  illegal  drugs.      To  date  it  has  spent  more  then  a  trillion  dollars  on  an   endeavor  that  has  had  just  as  much  success  as  the  Volstead  Act  that  required  a   constitutional  amendment.        (Can  you  believe  that  alcohol  was  illegal  for  seventeen   years!)?  It  has  criminalized  many  of  our  citizens,  violating  their  individual  liberty.     Jeopardy  problem.    The  enacting  of  the  War  on  Drugs.      Who  was  tricky  Dick  Nixon?     Last  year  the  Federal  Government  spent  25  billion  dollars  on  drug  control.    The  state   and  local  levels  governments  in  total  spend  35  billion  dollars.      Unbelievable.     Did  you  know  that  almost  1%  of  the  citizens  of  our  great  nation  are  in  prison.    It   would  be  a  lot  more  if  we  had  the  space.        Of  those  prisoners  about  20%  are  serving   time  for  drug  offenses.         Oh  by  the  way,  Afghanistan  is  the  source  of  almost  all-­‐illegal  opium  in  the  world.      If   we  had  just  opened  a  new  super,  super  big  Wal-­‐Mart  and  traded  nice  American   goods  for  the  opium  don’t  you  think  we  would  have  made  out  like  bandits?    For  a   few  items  of  cheap  Wal-­‐Mart  crap  we  could  have  cornered  the  whole  illegal  opium   market!    Then  we  bring  it  back  to  the  US  and  charge  a  comparatively  huge  amount   selling  it  to  our  drug  companies!    The  Taliban  would  have  gone  bankrupt.      We  
  • 18. wouldn’t  have  had  the  longest  war  in  US  history  that  probably  cost  us  1.3  trillion   dollars!      We  wouldn’t  have  lost  two  thousand  great  Americans  and  seventeen   thousand  wounded.    We  wouldn’t  have  fought  in  a  country  that  hasn’t  been   conquered  by  anyone  since  Genghis  Kahn.    If  you  don’t  know  this  if  Genghis  Kahn   had  died  six  months  later  then  he  did,  the  Mongols  would  have  controlled  the  entire   landmass  between  the  Pacific  Ocean  and  the  Atlantic  Ocean!        Only  Alexander  the   great  came  close  to  the  amount  of  territory  he  conquered!      Not  bad  for  little  guys  on   horses  with  bows  and  arrows!      Next  time  we  go  to  the  Middle  East  we  should  ask   our  native  tribes  to  fight!    The  US  cavalry  said  American  native  cavalry  were  the  best   cavalry  in  the  world!     We  all  have  read  accounts  or  seen  movies  of  the  billionaires  created  by  our  drug   laws.      I  think  anyone  reading  this  knows  the  same  thing  happened  during   prohibition.     Those  who  cannot  remember  the  past  are  condemned  to  repeat  it    (George   Santayana)     I  have  to  comment  on  the  injustice  of  our  justice  system  nationwide.      There  has  to   be  a  better  way  to  manage  crime  and  punishment.    We  spend  twice  as  much  per   year  keeping  someone  in  prison  as  we  do  educating  our  children.         I  will  describe  a  much  more  rational  way  to  manage  criminal  justice  that  does  not   involve  prisons  as  we  know  it.    That  can  actually  make  crime  pay  for  the  rest  of  us,   while  making  the  possibility  of  rehabilitation  much  more  likely.           Department  of  Interior     This  is  another  one  of  those  convoluted  departments  that  managed  relationships   with  the  native  tribes  of  America  and  Hawaii  and  all  federal  land.     This  department  has  been  totally  mismanaged  from  day  one.    What  our  country  did   to  the  indigent  population  of  America  was  criminal.      Hitler  used  our  behavior   towards  our  native  population  for  his  moral  justification  of  resettling  the  Ukraine   with  German  citizens.    So  you  know  if  Hitler  liked  the  activities  of  this  department   we  should  cheer  it  on  to  oblivion.     Department  of  Agriculture     Oh  great  a  bunch  of  non-­‐farmers  telling  farmers  how  to  do  their  job.    Then  there  is   that  program  they  subsidize  to  turn  corn  into  alcohol.      Hey  guys,  there  is  a  crude  oil   glut  in  the  world  right  now.    Stop  giving  our  money  to  farmers  to  help  fuel  our  cars.     We  don’t  need  it.    It  hurts  the  environment  too.  Handing  out  money  to  not  grow   crops,  its  ridiculous.    Keeping  a  silly  import  duty  on  sugar  so  that  all  citizens  have  to  
  • 19. pay  a  higher  price  for  sugar  then  the  world  price.    The  United  States  has  no  strategic   interest  in  keeping  uneconomical  sugar  industry  alive.  I’m  sure  if  most  of  the  honest   remaining  US  farmers  knew  I  was  disbanding  this  department  they  would  certainly   vote  for  me.      Any  of  you  commodity  traders  like  me  know  that  this  department   makes  or  breaks  you  with  trading  grains.    Totally  manipulative  and  totally  pathetic.     Department  of  Commerce     These  guys  could  never  run  their  own  company.    Government  has  no  business   getting  involved  in  commerce.    This  is  clearly  a  department  opposed  to  individual   liberty.    They  do  collect  interesting  data.    But  this  is  certainly  a  function  better  suited   to  the  private  sector.     Delete!  Delete!  Delete!     Department  of  Labor     This  department  works  on  the  basis  that  there  is  a  war  out  there  between   employees  and  employers.    What  do  you  think?    I  think  not.    Get  rid  of  it.       Department  of  Health  and  Human  Services     Hmmm.      Human  services  does  that  mean  there  are  some  nonhuman  services  out   there?     I’m  a  physician.    I  have  a  huge  bias  against  Medicare,  Medicaid,  Obamacare,  the  US   Food  and  Drug  administration  and  governmental  health  research.    Basically  the   whole  shebang.    But  what  I  said  in  the  beginning  would  be  part  of  my  program.    I   would  delegate  all  these  programs  and  agencies  to  the  state  level.    If  a  state  wanted   to  keep  all  of  this  going  for  their  citizens  it  would  be  their  choice.    But  on  a  federal   level  no  more  no  more!     Department  of  Housing  and  Urban  Development     This  is  the  department  that  has  the  most  responsibility  for  the  housing  crisis  of   2008.      They  encouraged  people  to  go  over  their  heads  in  debt  to  own  a  home.    This   is  one  of  the  most  socialist  piece  of  crap  organizations  in  the  government.    I  would   get  rid  of  it  in  its  entirety.     Department  of  Transportation     What  a  joke.      These  guys  think  they  can  help  with  our  roads,  our  railroad  system,   and  airline  travel.      Most  of  our  roads  have  been  maintained  very  well  on  the  state   and  local  level.    The  problems  come  in  that  the  money  collected  by  all  of  us  when  we  
  • 20. buy  fuel  is  not  directed  at  keeping  our  highway  system  functioning.    It  goes  into  the   big  Federal  money  pot.    The  air  traffic  control  system  is  so  out  of  date  it’s  laughable.   We  would  be  much  better  off  if  the  airlines  themselves  created  a  private  association   that  would  take  on  this  responsibility.    The  airlines  are  the  experts  in  air  travel.     They  have  a  vested  interest  in  making  this  travel  as  efficient  and  safe  as  possible.        As  a  side  note  it  was  the  FAA  that  made  911  possible.    They  made  it  a  rule  that  the   pilots  had  to  let  hijackers  enter  the  cockpit.    The  use  of  an  aircraft  as  an  instrument   of  massive  destruction  had  already  been  published  in  a  novel  written  by  Tom  Clancy   in  1994  titled  Debt  of  Honor.    In  this  book  a  disgruntled  Japanese  pilot  flies  a  Jumbo   Jet  into  the  state  of  Union  address  killing  everyone  in  the  Capital,  basically   decapitated  our  entire  government.    Lady’s  and  gentlemen  what  a  failure  of  the  tens   of  thousands  of  governmental  bodies  that  are  supposed  to  prevent  just  this  type  of   attack.    Do  none  of  them  read  popular  fiction?    Simply  telling  our  pilots  never  open   their  door  to  terrorists  would  have  saved  thousands  of  lives  and  billions  of  dollars.     The  patriot  act  was  drafted  as  a  result  of  this  horror.    It  has  been  a  terrible   infringement  on  individual  liberty.     Yet  I  do  believe  there  is  a  role  of  the  government  in  the  interstate  highway  system.     This  system  was  ordered  to  be  built  by  President  Eisenhower  who  saw  how  difficult   it  was  transferring  our  military  forces  across  the  nation  in  a  time  of  crisis.      If  the   Japanese  in  world  war  two  knew  how  slow  our  response  to  an  attack  of  our  nation   would  be,  they  could  have  invaded  our  west  coast  and  would  have  been  very   difficult  to  dislodge.     I  think  Federal  control  of  the  interstates  remains  an  important  function  in   protecting  individual  liberty.    I  will  describe  why  in  my  constitution.     Department  of  Energy     This  august  body  were  the  people  that  ran  the  Manhattan  project.    The  story  of  the   building  of  the  Atomic  Bomb  and  later  the  more  powerful  hydrogen  bomb  should  be   required  reading  of  all  citizens  of  the  United  States.    We  are  the  only  country  in  the   world  that  has  used  these  weapons  to  kill  people.      I  personally  saw  the  monument   of  the  shadow  of  people  imprinted  on  a  building  in  Hiroshima.    It  made  me  very   emotional.    It  still  makes  me  sigh  when  I  think  about  it.    The  costs  and  benefits,  the   history,  the  betrayals,  the  espionage,  the  ethics  remain  important  topics  to  our   citizenry.  It’s  impossible  to  put  the  genie  back  in  the  bottle,  but  let  us  not  forget  that   the  architect  of  this  weapon  announced  after  the  first  nuclear  test  explosion  that  he   had  become  “Death  the  destroyers  of  worlds”.     Albert  Einstein  sent  the  letter  to  President  Roosovelt  advising  him  to  construct  the   atom  bomb.      Late  in  his  life,  Einstein  said  that  letter  was  his  only  regret.    I  studied   the  Manhattan  project  when  I  was  eighteen  years  old.    I  read  every  book  in  the   Library.      I  was  fascinated.    The  librarian  helped  me  look  through  periodicals  with   details  of  this  project.      As  a  result  of  my  extensive  research,  I  wrote  my  first  paper  in  
  • 21. college  titled  how  I  could  build  an  Atomic  Bomb.      I  also  learned  considering  the   enormous  size  of  this  project,  all  of  the  science  that  had  to  be  invented,  the  sheer   number  of  highly  gifted  physicists,  chemists,  engineers  and  out  of  the  box  thinkers,   the  building  of  the  infrastructure,  it  could  not  have  been  built  in  peacetime.    It  could   not  have  been  built  by  Germany.         I  personally  spoke  to  one  of  the  architects  of  the  Hydrogen  Bomb.    I  was  his   anesthesiologist.    I  asked  him  in  retrospect  would  he  have  helped  build  a  bomb,  one   thousand  times  as  powerful  as  the  original  weapon  dropped  on  Hiroshima.   He  emphatically  said  no  way  on  earth!     There  continued  role  supervising  the  development  of  nuclear  technology  is   controversial.    I  think  we  need  a  nation  wide  discussion  of  the  future  of  nuclear   technology  both  for  peaceful  and  military  uses.    Considering  that  these  weapons  can   result  in  the  destruction  of  the  planet  its  importance  cannot  be  emphasized.     Department  of  Education     This  is  a  euphemism  for  the  department  of  propaganda.             All  kidding  aside,  it  has  no  place  in  Federal  Government.      It  violates  our  freedoms   and  our  pursuit  of  happiness.    This  department  just  represents  the  way  our  whole   executive  branch  is  bringing  us  closer  and  closer  to  total  central  government   planning.    I  know  we  are  still  far  away  from  being  able  to  compare  our  executive   branch  to  the  old  Soviet  Union  which  collapsed  because  of  central  planning,  but  that   is  the  direction  we  are  headed.     Department  of  Veteran  Affairs     Well  we  all  should  have  heard  recently  of  the  failures  of  this  department.      I   personally  worked  for  many  months  in  the  West  Side  VA  hospital  in  Chicago  both  as   a  medical  student  and  as  a  resident.      It’s  basically  a  place  where  our  veterans  are   treated  as  guinea  pigs  for  the  training  of  our  physicians.    It  needs  to  be  replaced.     Part  of  the  benefits  we  should  give  our  armed  forces  for  their  service  should  be  life   long  private  care  by  the  best  of  our  medical  system.     Shortly  before  the  2004  election,    the  New  England  Journal  of  medicine  had    a   description  of  the  new  state  of  care  for  battlefield  injuries  in  the  Middle  East.    It  was   amazing  to  see  how  the  new  policies  saved  more  lives  then  in  all  previous  conflicts.     But  the  graphic  pictures  were  heart  breaking.    If  Kerry  had  used  these  pictures  in   the  presidential  campaign  he  would  have  had  a  great  shot  of  winning.    Anyway  the   long-­‐term  care  for  these  gravely  injured  soldiers  should  be  on  the  same  level  as  the   treatment  that  saved  their  lives.