"Will You Be The Government's Next
Target?"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues for over 10
years
©
Copyright Sunday, May 15, 2016 - All Rights
Reserved
Hage, Hiatt, Webb, Kelo, Strouss, Miller, Amos,
Sackett, Lakin and Kilpatrick are just a few of the names of the tens of
thousands of Americans who have had to fight alone against government abuse,
arrogance and irrational and draconian laws, passed by out-of-touch lawmakers
that don't read the bills they pass, or take the time to determine whether those
new laws, or even all the old ones, are constitutional. Or, they had to fight
against government agents working under the color of law with no legal
authority, or in some cases, actually breaking the law. The government and
special interests know that most Americans won't or can't fight back. They just
go on their merry way as if the general population doesn't exist and for the
most part, it doesn't.
And if you don't think that government does
whatever it pleases, view this "
Fox
News" segment on AIG, Goldman Sachs, Timothy
Geithner, current Treasury Secretary under Obama and Hank Paulson, previous
Treasury Secretary under Bush, during the financial meltdown in 2008. Talk
about double dealing with the public treasury, someone or several someone's
should have gone to jail. Will Hillary?
So they just pick us off one by one. They have
all the resources to fight us, including the law. They have high-paid lawyers
to challenge us in court, paid for by your tax dollars. In other words, they
use your money against you.
They have aggressive prosecutors anxious
to make a political name for themselves in their pursuit of higher
office. (Do your remember the Duke LaCrosse case?) They have aggressive
law enforcement to intimidate you, fine you, or throw you in jail on the
slightest provocation. The government has been given its head for so long that
now nothing will stand in its way, unless people use common sense "tools" against government. Many believe we have gone past the
point of no return and that going back is virtually impossible. They may be
right. We emphasize the words "may be".
The courts are essentially corrupt,
so you are not apt to find justice there. Since 1938's Erie vs. Thompkins U. S. Supreme
Court decision,
constitutional common law is no longer practiced in our courts. They are
governed by admiralty/merchant, or precedent law and under the Uniform
Commercial Code, or UCC. Lower trial courts are a crapshoot and appellate, U.
S. District and Supreme Courts usually come with a significant left-leaning bias
that supports what government is doing, or has done. Any redress for
grievances, or recourse for justice in America's legal system, is simply out
of reach for most people. There are some exceptions and occasionally the
people win, but wins are rare.
Attorney's fees and court costs will exhaust
even significant savings in short order. Way too many Americans have lost
everything when they use the legal system to take on the government, at any
level. And the thousands of court rules can leave justice buried in the dust,
or open to endless appeals. Cases drag on forever while attorney's fees and
court costs mount. Constitutional justice is just an unreachable mirage on a
distant horizon.
We know! We were sued for $1,800,000 by a
silver spoon back in the early 90's who thought we and some doctors had done him
wrong over the sale of a medical building. It was a totally frivolous lawsuit
that cost us $35,000 in attorney's fees to defend against. Sure we won, but at
what cost? We're not wealthy so we had to mortgage our home to pay the damn
attorney who was reaching into our back pocket with every telephone call he
made, every motion or court document he submitted without our permission and a
whole host of other actions he took which we had not approved. Justice in the
American legal system comes at a severe cost, if at all, to anyone who finds
them selves in court. But in our case, we hadn't done anything wrong. That
didn't make any difference. The only "justice" we got from the experience was
knowing that the "silver spoon" lost the medical building and over a half a
million dollars by his own negligence.
That was our first encounter with the court
system. From that costly experience, we were forewarned and forearmed. We were
determined to not let that happen again. In fact, in another later case, where
we were the plaintiff, we won against a multi-national corporation, pro se. In
a third case, we challenged and won against a federal agency. We backed down an
attorney who tried to black mail us over the telephone and reported him to the
state bar association. He almost lost his license. We did this all on our own
without an attorney because you see, we are not afraid to challenge "goliath" if
he will not leave us alone and if his unwarranted advances are,
illegal, unjust ..... or unconstitutional.
Ladies and gentlemen, the
government knows you can't fight back all alone effectively, unless you are very
wealthy, or unless you have the "tools". They tip toe around those that are wealthy for fear that
some court case the rich guy might win, will set a broad precedent that
the not-so-wealthy guy can use in his defense. Confidential high-end
settlements are reached with the wealthy, without trial, to avoid setting such
legal precedents.
We constantly receive e-mails from people
who finally discovered what it meant to come up against an intractable, arrogant
and fearless enemy ..... our American government, at any level. It might be an
eminent domain case where the government is putting a foot on their neck to
steal their property at the lowest possible cost, so that the government can
sell or lease the land to a developer, to increase the tax revenue from the
property. (Kelo vs. New London,
CT) This happens
all too frequently in spite of the clear intent of the Founding Fathers when
drafting the 5th Amendment to the Constitution that requires a clear government
purpose, due process and just compensation in eminent domain cases. Today, a
clear government purpose, due process and just compensation are whatever a
biased, liberal judge decides.
We’ve had calls or e-mails from domestic
animal farmers that just had all of their animals confiscated by authorities
because some neighbor called in an anonymous complaint that the animals were
being abused, or were making too much noise. When the authorities arrived it
made no difference that the animals were being cared for properly. They took
the animals anyway and in some cases filed criminal charges against the animal
owners, even though they hadn't done anything wrong. In most cases, fighting
the government was futile and the kennel or animal farmer exhausted everything
they owned to defend them selves in court, or get their animals back. Most
didn't and most won't get their animals back. Many have gone to jail. We know
of one that is currently on the lamb. Perhaps if they had used the right
"tools," they could have prevailed.
We had a call from a lady a couple of
years ago that had the misfortune of living on a river where salmon spawned each
year. Under the Endangered Species Act, the Salmon Recovery Act and armed with
millions of taxpayer dollars, two non-governmental environmental agencies and
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife came on her property in the middle of the night and
tore out the tide gates that protected her property and replaced them with
13-foot diameter culverts, all in the name of restoring salmon habitat. At the
next high tide, her land and her home were flooded. When the tied went out,
fish were flopping around in her fields. Her home was flooded eleven times.
She tried to fight them but to no avail. She simply didn't have the resources.
The floods destroyed her home and she has now abandoned her property and moved
to Idaho where she is trying to reclaim her life and her dignity. The
government picked her off and they won. But she might have turned the tables on
the government, if she had employed the right "tools."
Stories like these are going on all across the
country but you never hear about them. If all of these tens of thousands
of stories were taken in total, made public and told all at once, the outcry
would spark a revolution. This isn't just a matter of a little injustice, this
is outright intimidation, domination and condemnation under law, or color of
law, one American at a time, by an out-of-control, narcissistic and cold-hearted
government that has lost all allegiance to its solemn duty to protect our
individual liberties and to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States, so help them God!
Americans now stand at the threshold of
running from or avoiding the law because every American has now become a
lawbreaker. (See "I Must Keep
Running") But we cannot fight
the government one at a time, without the proper "tools".
In the natural world, the young are eventually
weaned from mother's milk and become self-reliant adults. But it is not so for
humans in America and other socialist countries. The question for America is,
how do you wean millions of fully grown children who have become totally
dependent on mother's milk (government) and have no intention of leaving
"her" side, especially when they can vote to keep the "mother" alive and keep
her udder full? And for those self-reliant folk who have been fully weaned from
"mother's milk", they stand a good chance of being picked off by the "mother",
one-by-one, for daring to criticize her dependent children, or suggesting that
those children take a course in becoming responsible adults!
In both cases of the dependent children and the
self-reliant adults, each is a slave. The dependent child is a slave to and
dependent on the government and the self-reliant adult is a slave to the
dependent child whose vote enslaves the self-reliant adult to keep the dependent
child in an ample supply of "mother's milk." Guess who the puppeteer is that is
enslaving the dependent child and the self-reliant adult? If you don't know the
answer, well then, you are probably part of the problem.
This is what America has become and it
will be up to the self-reliant, freedom-loving adult to save freedom ..... that
is if there are enough of them. There probably are enough of them, if they
could ever unite as one, on the true principles of freedom and quit squabbling
over petty differences, as is happening in the Republican Party today between
Trump and the "Establishment."
Is this the America you want? Will you
allow your government to pick you off, like it has so many other Americans, or
will you draw a line in the sand and be fully committed to defend that line with
the right "tools?"
Your decision and the decision of millions of other Americans to hold firm, will
determine her fate. The fight to preserve a free and prosperous America is
going to get very ugly. Will most freedom-loving Americans just fade when
confronted with the ugliness, the danger, the ridicule, the threats, or the
intimidation, or will they stand tall in the face of the enemy ..... for
freedom? Or, will they wait until it is too late?
If you have an ounce of self-respect
left, we urge you not to capitulate to government aggression. If government
comes calling, fight back. Question their authority and the legality of their
laws. Show government you are not a push over. Don’t give in, "Get Even With Government,
Legally."
You could be the next victim. It’s not a matter
of "if", only "when." Either defend yourself, or be resigned to remain the
victim!
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban
and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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