"Getting Even With Government,
Legally!"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org)
Last week in our article entitled, "When Government Comes Calling, What
Can You Do?
", we discussed how the American government, at every level, has evolved
into a police state by passing millions of laws requiring massive enforcement of
those laws, laws that the average citizen couldn’t possibly know in their life
time. Everywhere you turn, there is a policeman, a sheriff, or a code
enforcement officer looking at you as if you were a criminal, even if you
haven’t done anything illegal. But not doing anything illegal has become almost
virtually impossible because of too many laws. Many of those laws would never
meet a constitutional challenge, but no one ever challenges them, allowing
government to make thousands of unconstitutional laws every single day of the
year.
In Washington State for example, the
legislature, when in session, receives as many as 6,000 pieces of proposed
legislation to consider each session in a very short period of time. Out of
those 6,000, anywhere from 500 to 1,000 of them will become law. Now multiply
500 to 1,000 new laws in Washington State by 49 other states and the federal
government, year, after year, after year and you will get an idea of how many
laws have been passed in the last 100 years.
A law not enforced is a toothless law,
so government goes to great lengths and great expense to enforce every single
one of those laws, day in and day out, with you being the hapless victim. You
will comply, or else the long and abusive arm of government will reach out and
"get" you.
Unfortunately, the inescapable reality
is, government makes mistakes all the time. Government bureaucracies are staffed
with people who would find it difficult to get a job anywhere else. Incompetence
is the rule, not the exception. Why do you suppose that the cost of Medicare
waste, fraud and abuse is over 20% every year? 20% is a big number when applied
to an annual Medicare budget of $605 Billion, and that’s just Medicare. There
are hundreds of other government programs being run by government incompetents
at every level. Waste, fraud, abuse and endless mistakes by government
bureaucracies are caused by government negligence and an holeyer-than-though
attitude. Bureaucratic negligence doesn’t even include collusion, corruption and
crony capitalism.
It makes no difference whether it is a
city, county, state, or the EPA, BLM, USFW, DOE or the IRS. It has been reported
that the IRS harasses over 10,000,000 taxpayers, every year for mistakes the IRS
makes, forcing each taxpayer to spend a lot of time and money to convince the
IRS they are wrong. The IRS is very hard to convince because of its giant
bureaucracy, incompetent people, ancient computer systems and its almost
unlimited power to come after you and make your life miserable, or even throw
you in jail.
In addition, government employees are
predisposed to intimidating citizens and most people just lie down and roll over
for government without questioning their authority, or the legality of their
laws. Government does it all the time because they have ceased being the servant
to the people and have become the masters of the people.
Government has become tyranny itself,
but contrary to common knowledge, the people are not powerless to confront it.
It is up to the citizen to tame government, provided the citizen isn’t cowering
in a corner out of fear of government’s purposeful intimidation.
Nevertheless, there are ways to keep
government in bounds when it comes to each individual’s personal situation. But
first you must realize that you have the right to question the authority of any
government agent that appears in person, or is sending you a written notice, or
is demanding something of you, or is telling you that you are in violation of
some law, ordinance, code, or regulation.
Aren’t you just a little tired of being
pushed around by an out-of-control, rogue government that has no respect for the
law, owns the court system and has become irritatingly arrogant? Do you want to
regain your self-respect and feel like you are controlling your own destiny
instead of capitulating to government fear and intimidation? Do you have the
courage to push back against this vicious bully that has no master? If so, read
on. But if you fear government, the rest of this article is not for
you.
When confronted by government, many people
hire an attorney. But an attorney and the court to which he is loyal, is part of
the very "System" you are up against. Attorneys are very expensive
($250 to $600 per hour) and you owe them whether you win or lose. In just
10 hours of work on your behalf, an attorney can suck $2,500 out of your savings
account at $250.00 per hour and that’s the low end. Ten hours is nothing when
fighting government. How long do you have to work to make $2,500.00 after taxes?
Attorneys are taught how to squeeze every dollar out of each billable minute.
And because he is paid by the hour, an attorney has little incentive to resolve
your issue quickly. From a recent poll, 47% of the people couldn’t even come up
with $400.00 if they had to, much less $2,500.00. If you are an attorney reading
this, you know everything we have said here is true.
After over 30 years of coming up against
government intransigence and arrogance in business and on a personal level, we
have developed effective methods to challenge them. Our challenges either slow
them down, confuse them, hold them at bay, or stop them in their tracks. These
challenges come in the form of four (4) defenses contained in our "Getting
Even With Government" package.
These four defenses include our sample
30 (state & local) or 45-day letter (federal), sample
affidavits and cover letters to challenge specific allegations or code
violations against you, letters challenging government’s legal authority and a
letter accusing government of fraud, extortion, violation of your civil rights
and violation of state or federal laws and acts. The defenses are contained in a
"city, county, state" directory for state and local issues and a
"federal" directory for federal agencies.
Will you win against government using
our four defenses? We cannot guarantee that you will win every time but
you will have the distinct pleasure of poking them in the eye and forcing them
to burn up more time, or stopping a specific action against you, or confusing
the Hell out of them, or actually forcing them to prove their legal authority.
Just think what would happen if a thousand citizens decided to "get
even with government", using one or more of the defenses in our
"Getting Even With Government" package, or 10,000, or
100,000, or a million, or maybe even an avalanche of citizens. Since Congress or
the state legislatures won’t rein in government and their grossly negligent
bureaucracies, maybe a million angry "getting even"
citizens will.
Don’t be fooled. One man or a president cannot
stop government aggression and tyranny. Only the people can by one individual at
a time, defending his or her unalienable, individual rights. Fighting for your
rights is infectious and others will follow those with the courage to confront
their enemies.
Each of the four defenses in the
"Getting Even With Government" package is meant to be a
sample only and can be adapted to each individual’s own personal situation, at
their discretion. Instructions for the four defenses are included in the
package. Once again, the four defenses are samples. They are not meant to be, or
are they to be construed to be, legal documents in any manner whatsoever. But
remember this: each person has the full right to represent him or her self as
their own attorney in their own personal matters, provided they feel qualified
to do so. If you do represent your self against government, some will say you
have a fool for a client, but it was probably an attorney or a judge who came up
with that phrase.
With millions of laws on the books and the explosion
of code and law enforcement personnel, the chances of any American being
contacted by government for the violation of one or more of those laws, grows
greater by the day. If you are having trouble with government in this regard, or
think you are about to have trouble with government, you may find some specific
answers in our "Getting Even With Government" (GEWG)
package. Or, if you know of someone that is having difficulty with government,
forward this article to him or her. They will be glad you did. You or they can
check out our GEWG package HERE, or you
can view our new video HERE.
Don't wait for that knock on your door or the government notice in the
mail. Be prepared.
But remember this ladies and gentlemen, if you fear
government, in fact if you fear anything, they, or it, own you.
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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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