James Moran (VA) said in a recent quote disdaining property rights: “Now, in the last 7 years we have had the highest corporate profit ever in American history; highest corporate profit. We have had the highest productivity; the American worker has produced more per person than at any time. But it hasn’t been shared, and that’s the problem. Because we have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in a simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it, and they have an antipathy towards the means of redistributing wealth. And they may be able to sustain that for a while, but it doesn’t work in the long run.”

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Now I must admit to not being remotely fond of the power grabs made by the current President George Bush, in all candor. Yet regarding Moran’s comments, last time I looked the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution includes conspicuous protection and respect for property rights. This is not to suggest the proverbial camel didn’t poke its nose in the tent, what with increasingly loose interpretations of what the “due process” clause meant. In the era when our US Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, two notable Founding Fathers had this to say:

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God ... anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST" - John Adams

"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort .... This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,... nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has ... is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest." – James Madison

Our Constitutional Republic, imperfect though it was, did acceptably well paying for federal obligations through 1913 at which time the federal government saw fit to start taxing our income. This was done in a manner of very questionable constitutionality (re: apportionment), but now look how bad things have become. Pick your own definition of “arbitrary” as used by Madison above, but realize that the “tax target” lands on your back the more you allow for letting it land on your neighbor’s back. It really is time to think outside the box, and awake to the ever-growing tyranny aimed towards us against which our Constitution was designed to protect us. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments were never repealed, though the net effect of post-Civil-War legislation set in motion a large number of anti-Constitutional maladjustments in power.

A re-awakened Patriot ~ Michael Ennis