This might be my last blog page for awhile, maybe my last one ever. Ever since the Chinese Virus was released from a bio-weapons lab in the city of Wuhan, various governments around the world have used whatever legal authority they have, and in some cases, assuming legal powers that they don't have, with thegoal of containing this viurs.
There are several problems with this approach. The expectated numbers of confirmed cases and deaths from this disease were wildly inflated at the start of this health crisis, yet many national presidents and the lower-ranking governmental officials, such as Governors and Mayors, used these false numbers as the basis for taking away the freedom of their people to do a wide variety of activities, including shopping for food, having parties in private homes, and even attending worship services at Christian churches and Jewish temples.
The rights that were stolen from the American people in particular are named explicitly in a document that has a very special place in American history for two reasons. It's a list of amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the ratification of this document was deliberately delayed in order to secure the votes that were needed to ratify the Constitution itself. This is a copy of a painting that depicts the moment when America declared itself to be a new nation.
Because the British Empire still considered us to be thirteen colonies, when they heard the news, much later, they sent armed troops to enforce the harsh laws that we had just rebelled against. Our own people trained and armed ourselves as much as we could, and it was good enigh to win a war that cost many lives on both sides, but we did win, so we began the process of establishing a new government, based on the best principles that we knew. Fortunately for us, many of our leaders were highly-educated and faithful to a religion that taught good principles, like personal humillity and the love of others..
The United States Constitution has seven parts to it, called Articles. The first three Articles explicitly give some power to three separate parts of a brand-new government. America needed a new government because we had fought and won a war against the world's strongest army and navy at that time, the British Empire.
Any power that hasn't been given to one of the three branches of the U.S. Government is a power that the people retain. This is explicitly mentioned in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.
I have seen enthusiasm growing among America's elected Mayors and Governors for political power that the U.S. Constitution doesn't give them. In short, they have become dictators, which I wrote about in this essay, written in July 2012 and in this essay, written two years later, in August 2014. The first page states some universal political science principles tnat can be applidd to any country. The second page applies those prinvciples to the United States.
These are the first paragraphs of an April 5, 2020 news story published by the NBC affiliate in Boston.
Just like a shocking number of other Mayors and Governors in America, he has either forgotten or deliberately ignored the immortal words of one of America's greatest Presidents, who has the honor of being one of only four men whose face is carved into Mt. Rushmore. These are the last sentences from a speech he gave at the dedication of a new cemetary whose first bodies came from a rencent battle.
Government of, by, and for the people must sometimes be fought for because dictators like the Mayor of Boston are eager to have power that they should never have.
This is one of many links to the text of this speech. The full text is also carved into the back wall of the memorial to this great man, whose actions I am not worthy to try to copy.
I do not know whether I will be safe, walking through the streets of Boston and Cambridge tonight. A lot of things can happen, including the possibility that I could be arrested or killed, but whatever happens, I am doing this because I must do it. I named my Twitter account (@BennyTheKite) so that it would honor this man, who has been called the greatest American who was never a U.S. president.
This is his biography on the Biography Channel website.
There are several problems with this approach. The expectated numbers of confirmed cases and deaths from this disease were wildly inflated at the start of this health crisis, yet many national presidents and the lower-ranking governmental officials, such as Governors and Mayors, used these false numbers as the basis for taking away the freedom of their people to do a wide variety of activities, including shopping for food, having parties in private homes, and even attending worship services at Christian churches and Jewish temples.
The rights that were stolen from the American people in particular are named explicitly in a document that has a very special place in American history for two reasons. It's a list of amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the ratification of this document was deliberately delayed in order to secure the votes that were needed to ratify the Constitution itself. This is a copy of a painting that depicts the moment when America declared itself to be a new nation.
Because the British Empire still considered us to be thirteen colonies, when they heard the news, much later, they sent armed troops to enforce the harsh laws that we had just rebelled against. Our own people trained and armed ourselves as much as we could, and it was good enigh to win a war that cost many lives on both sides, but we did win, so we began the process of establishing a new government, based on the best principles that we knew. Fortunately for us, many of our leaders were highly-educated and faithful to a religion that taught good principles, like personal humillity and the love of others..
The United States Constitution has seven parts to it, called Articles. The first three Articles explicitly give some power to three separate parts of a brand-new government. America needed a new government because we had fought and won a war against the world's strongest army and navy at that time, the British Empire.
Any power that hasn't been given to one of the three branches of the U.S. Government is a power that the people retain. This is explicitly mentioned in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.
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It isn't well-known, but the original proposal to add amendments to the U.S. Constitution was a list of 12 propsed amendments. The elected representatives of the new American government voted on these proposals, one at a time, and 10 out of the 12 proposals received a majority of the votes that were cast. |
I have seen enthusiasm growing among America's elected Mayors and Governors for political power that the U.S. Constitution doesn't give them. In short, they have become dictators, which I wrote about in this essay, written in July 2012 and in this essay, written two years later, in August 2014. The first page states some universal political science principles tnat can be applidd to any country. The second page applies those prinvciples to the United States.
These are the first paragraphs of an April 5, 2020 news story published by the NBC affiliate in Boston.
As evidence of the enthusiasm of the Mayor of Boston for the power of a dictator, this is the 11th paragraph of the same news story.Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Sunday issued a recommended curfew of 9 p.m. and asked all residents to wear a mask when leaving the house after the city saw its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases.The recommended curfew extends through 6 a.m. each morning and applies to all residents except essential workers, the mayor said. People are encouraged to utilize delivery services as much as possible after 9 p.m.
There is nothing that I won't do as Mayor of the City of Boston to protect our residents, and at this very critical time, we must do everything we can as Bostonians to protect one another. This is bigger than any one person - this is about the greater good of our people. Stay safe, stay inside, and let's get through this together."He has no self-imposed limits on his power, which means he has no self-discipline. In addition, he has no respect for his own Oath of Office, which requires him to support and defend the United States Constitution
Just like a shocking number of other Mayors and Governors in America, he has either forgotten or deliberately ignored the immortal words of one of America's greatest Presidents, who has the honor of being one of only four men whose face is carved into Mt. Rushmore. These are the last sentences from a speech he gave at the dedication of a new cemetary whose first bodies came from a rencent battle.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."... we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Government of, by, and for the people must sometimes be fought for because dictators like the Mayor of Boston are eager to have power that they should never have.
This is one of many links to the text of this speech. The full text is also carved into the back wall of the memorial to this great man, whose actions I am not worthy to try to copy.
| Tonight, I will defy this dictator. I will walk through Boston and the next-door city of Cambridge, the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). I will do it after 9pm, which is a violation of the Mayor's curfew, and I will blow a coach's whistle, similar to the one on the right. |  |
This is his biography on the Biography Channel website.
