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Open letter
to Senator Lisa Murkowski
Rebuttal to “The Article 5 Con” A response to an article written in last months The People’s Paper
By Stuart Thompson I read with interest the article “The Article 5 Con” by “the Federal Father” in last month’s The People’s Paper. The author was quite articulate about the sources of risk attendant on holding a constitutional convention concerning supreme law for these United States. His recounting of instances of hypocrisy within constitutional convention history is worthy, as is his condemnation of the varied moral laziness of human beings. But he misses something that our real founding fathers were well aware of. And that is that any and all government would be unnecessary if the majority of citizens heeded God’s guidance (see multiple references in the book “The Five Thousand Year Leap”). A civilized anarchy would be possible if most everyone REALLY recognized God’s overlordship. But history proves they don’t. And despite angel visitations, prophets, saints, and blatantly faithful humans, history proves they won’t. Where does that leave us? It leaves us with the necessity of having government: 1) for those who want to try to use God’s guidance uninhibited by savagery; and 2) for those abandoning any attempt to heed God and be civilized—either out uncaring evil or from the cowardice of lusting for Armageddon. Naturally, the more moral and responsible most people are, the less government is needed. Consequently, all types of human government fall on a spectrum of intensity of required ruling proportional to the immorality and irresponsibility of those governed. On one side you have “government of the people” types: tyranny, despotism, absolute monarchies/ emperors, and dictatorships (including theocracies—rule by church authorities).
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This gradiently softens into “government of and for the people” types: elected monarchies, elected aristocracies (elites), and other benevolent/ “enlightened” ruler systems. This in turn gradiently turns into “government of, for, and by the people” types: republics, representative democracies, parliamentary democracies, pure democracies, and civilized anarchies. As you can see, the more moral and responsible most people are, the more true self-government is made possible. Conversely, the more corrupt and irresponsible most people are, the more
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despotic and dictatorial government has to be. The author was quite right to decry idol worship on the part of too many Conservative Christians in their attitudes toward US founding fathers. The most blasphemous aspect of this idolatry is that it is implies that the founders intended to use the force of government to replace community encouraged selfmotivation to practice the teachings of God and Jesus Christ. In other words, it’s blasphemous because it implies that God is a wimp for not using His supreme government Power to rule human beings, requiring “godly” government to force people to be moral. Some of these protheocracy Christians are thus out-and-out megalomaniacs that assert they know the mind of God. The only real problem with calling a US constitutional convention — particularly on the balance the budget issue — is that many of the problems complained about arise in the first place from failures to enforce the existing Constitution. The unconstitutionality of paper currency, the Federal Reserve, unsupervised use of the military, and certain departments of the Federal Government just requires leaders with the balls to do something about them. But that requires a more moral people who create leaders who have sufficient morality to stand up to the horrid corruption now swamping the US government. Consequently, that makes the agitation for a constitutional convention worthwhile as an expression of increased morality. Of course, if you believe that the majority of Americans have corrupted themselves too much to recover, let our current government of elected aristocracy (which our republic has already degraded into) further deteriorate into some form of dictatorship/police state. Ben Franklin actually predicated that this would eventually happen in his last speech to the US Constitutional Convention. Morality and responsibility is encouraged by family, friends, concerned citizens, neighbors, and religious leaders—without any recourse to the weaker power of government. How dedicated they are will determine our country’s fate. Stuart Thompson PO Box 870702, Wasilla AK 99687 1-877-950-7980 lookitover@att.net
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