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Idaho - You Can See New America From Here
by Edgar J. Steele

April 15,
2009

"Between the silence of the mountains
"And the crashing of the
sea
"There lies a land I once lived in
"And she's waiting there for
me."
--- Moody Blues, Question, from A Question of
Balance (Justin Hayward, 1970)

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"The Bill of Rights is a
born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the
face of constituted authority ... it is the one guarantee of human freedom to
the American people."
---
Frank Cobb, Editor, New York World  (1920)

My name is Edgar J.
Steele.

America is sick.  No news there.  Like a patient with a
fever, America seems dazed and confused.  She knows that there is something
gravely wrong, but just can't quite seem to put her finger on the root
cause.

We are way past the stage when rest and a little medication will help
America's natural immune system to overcome her problems.  As with a
severely disease-ravaged body, the time has come for surgery.  Just as a
ruptured appendix will kill you, so will America's current malady kill her
without radical surgery.  We must excise the real problem.

Government is the Problem, not the Solution

And what, exactly, is the problem, you ask?  Easy.
Government.  Federal government, in particular, though government at
all levels has come to be part of the problem.  Like a cancer left
unchecked, the disease has metastasized to all parts of the body politic.

Today's "Tea Parties," held throughout America, merely are a symptom of
America's disease, much as a patient's lunatic ravings are symptoms of an
advanced fever.  And, like the lunatic ravings of a fevered patient, these
public meetings, protests and outcries will do little good.
Petitions?  A total waste of time.

Nor will the media do justice to the public protests.  The media is part
of the disease, you see.  It is no accident that flagship newspapers
throughout America are running aground and ceasing operations.  They lost
their way and stopped reporting the news, becoming mere parrots for
establishment thinking.  Little wonder that we stopped reading them.
Less wonder that TV news has become a mere parody of its former self, becoming
primarily entertainment for the masses of unfurrowed brows now populating
America's vast wasteland.

However, like a patient slipping in and out of the grip of a mounting fever,
there are pockets of lucidity apparent throughout America.  The Tea Parties
are symptoms of those lucid moments.  More substantial, though, is the
growing anti-Federal-overreaching sentiment being expressed in state
legislatures, best exemplified by Idaho's recent sovereignty and
anti-gun-confiscation legislation.

I rail against the bureaucratic and mindless nature of Idaho government at
all levels, but the fact is that Idaho is light years ahead of such bastions of
communism as California, Massachusetts and New York.  Nor is it a
coincidence that those three states are among the most financially troubled and
corrupt states in the country.

Idaho - You Can See New America From Here

Idaho isn't ideal, by any stretch of the imagination.  Idaho needs a
major overhaul, beginning with the way in which she bows to Federal
pressure.  Idaho certainly isn't New America, but you can see New
America from here.

Recently, I posed the following question to the primary list that receives
these rants of mine:  Should I seek the Constitution Party nomination
for Governor of Idaho in the 2010 election?  The response was
overwhelming and uniformly positive.  In fact, you were wildly
supportive.  What I didn't expect - what came as a real shock to me - was
the high percentage of out-of-state respondents who stated that they would move
to Idaho if I won the Governorship.  A great many said they would move here
if I simply ran, then offered to help in the campaign.

I have tried to respond to each and every one of those email replies,
something I simply cannot normally do, because of the sheer quantity of
them.  Thank you so much for your outpouring of support.  Know that I
read your emails - all of them - every single week.  Please
understand that I simply cannot answer or acknowledge but a handful.
Again, however, I read them all and they all have influence upon my
thinking.

But it is the obvious yearning for real change that is apparent in the many
hundreds (well over a thousand) of emails I received, particularly those who
expressed a desire to move to Idaho.  That desire for change is what
elected Obama, of course.  And that is what is beginning to sink his poll
numbers, as America realizes that his rhetoric about change was simply that -
rhetoric.  I find it particularly ironic to listen to MSNBC news anchors
report that Obama's poll numbers exceed 75% when MSNBC's own on-line poll
clearly shows 60% of Americans disapproving or outright hating the man's
performance as President.

Bush on Steroids

It is a relief to be rid of Bush, to be sure, but we still have the Bush
mentality astride America.  We still are in Iraq and we are there for good,
too, as Obama's administration finally has admitted.  Any Iraqi troop
drawdown will be sent to Afghanistan, where we actually are expanding the war,
not to mention north Pakistan where America now is conducting extensive bombing,
as well.  Gitmo still operates.  The Bush doctrine of pre-emptive
warfare lives on.  Domestically, personal liberty shrinks daily while the
Department of Homeland Security operates more and more like the new Gestapo.

Probably, it is just coincidence, but have you ever noticed:  Rearrange
the letters in the name "Barack Obama," drop a couple, add a few others and you
end up with the phrase "George W. Bush on steroids."  Coincidence?
You be the judge.

SPENDING vs. spending

W's tax and spend has become TAX AND SPEND under Obama.  We have gone
beyond simply saddling future generations with debt to be repaid for our current
profligacy.  Now America has sailed into uncharted (for her) waters by
assuming debt that clearly never can be repaid.  Debt that will
bankrupt America with even a nominal increase in interest rates, in fact.

Depression?  Yes, this is a Depression, though they will not admit it
until it becomes all too obvious to more than just a few of us.  Now,
however, we have laid the groundwork for inflation akin to that experienced by
Germany between last century's major wars - what is known as Weimar
inflation.  In the process, America's entire middle class will be dropped
down to the poverty level.  We have no more than another three years, in my
opinion, before the real financial troubles grip all of us.

You know this, of course.  You have read my rants and, possibly, my book
by now.  You have read others', as well.  You know what is coming,
though you may yet have hope that the worst can be averted.  It
cannot.  The time is past for normal measures.  Now the time has come
for major surgery.

Two Choices:  Count 'em - Two!

We have two choices:  revolution or secession.  We cannot
work within the system because the system has frozen us out and refuses to allow
us back in.  Our "elected" representatives view us with disdain and more
than a little fear.  Why else do you think they are strengthening the
enabling legislation for the woefully-named Patriot Acts and, now, openly
discussing gun registration and confiscation?

The Federal government is lost to us and running full force into the arms of
the New World Order, per the orders of the real masters of America:
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), composed of some of the most evil
men and women ever to inhabit Washington, DC.

Why else do you think that CFR-member bankers are being bailed out right and
left while we are left to flail hopelessly in an ever-rising tide of debt and
regulation?  Why else do you think that AIG, which still pays its
executives million-dollar bonuses for failing, is given billions upon billions
of our tax dollars, which it then dutifully funnels to the banks and
congressional pension funds that it insures?  Why else do you think that
major corporations that should have gone under long ago are being shored up with
your tax dollars?  Not to save the workers' jobs, because our "leaders"
certainly care nothing for them, but to save the banks and insurance companies
who have propped up those failing corporations.

Just as Russia was looted late last century and left for dead, so is America
now being looted - and by the same tribe of people.  America will be left
just as hollowed out as was Russia, unless we do something about it and do it
quickly.

I sometimes come in for criticism for not advocating revolution in America,
which is something that our founding fathers, if alive today, certainly would
foment.  I like to visualize George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel
Adams and Thomas Paine magically transported to this time, then setting off for
Washington, DC in a red Cadillac convertible with a road map in one hand and a
bazooka in the other.  However, I cannot espouse violent revolution,
folks.  First, it goes against my basic, non-violent nature.  Second,
it is illegal and would get me arrested in a heartbeat.  Just how much good
would I be able to accomplish from a jail cell?

Used to be, I advocated change within the system.   Then, when it
became apparent, during the Bush administration, that such change was
impossible, I began to advocate preparing for the inevitable collapse, both
financial and, possibly, militarily at the hands of those that we have offended
internationally (which includes everybody else in the world by
now).  Picking up the pieces was my new strategy for New America, which I
envisioned rising, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of a fallen America.

While I still believe in preparing for the worst, I have become hopeful of a
new avenue:  secession on a state-by-state basis.  Call it
wishful thinking, if you like, but secession still strikes me as a viable
alternative to simply waiting for the coming apocalypse.

Yes, Lincoln seemed to foreclose the possibility of secession with his War of
Northern Aggression (you may know it as the Civil War), wherein he oversaw the
wholesale slaughter of brothers by brothers in pursuit of his unconstitutional
objective of "preserving the Union," which didn't then deserve to be preserved,
as proven by the manner in which the North manhandled the South during the
period we laughingly call "The Reconstruction."

I submit that today's Union - today's America - has lost its legitimacy even
moreso than did Lincoln's and I call for a modern wholesale secession by the
various States now making up the United States.  I call for this to be
an orderly, lawful and peaceful secession.  A non-violent revolution of a
sort, in fact.

The United District of America

Just imagine, for a moment, the result if all 50 states were to secede at
once, leaving the Federal government to preside over merely the District of
Columbia.  The states then could recall all of their men in uniform from
wherever posted, seize all federal property within their boundaries and demand
that all federal employees either throw in their lot with the state or move to
the District of Columbia.  There literally would be nothing the Federal
government could do about its well-deserved predicament, particularly with its
major tax revenue sources cut off.

Secession is Our Legal Right

The Constitution certainly has the legal basis for secession still in
place:  It resides within the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the states
and the people all "powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states."   You see,
because secession is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution or its
Amendments, such power resides still within the states themselves and the
people.  This is a crucial fact that we must keep in mind at all
times.

Similarly, the legal precedent for secession is laid out in America's
Declaration of Independence:  "Governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.  That whenever
any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government ... when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their
future security."

It is the utmost in irony that none other than Abraham Lincoln, who did more
single-handed damage to the US Constitution than, even, George W. Bush, rose up
in Congress in January 1848 before he became President and stated:  "Any
people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up
and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them
better.  This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we
hope and believe is to liberate the world.  Nor is this right confined to
cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise
it.  Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make
their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."  Mind you,
Lincoln meant even down to neighborhoods being able to secede from the
Union.

The US Constitution: a Breached Contract

View the Constitution as a contract between us, the States and the Federal
government.  The Federal government has breached that contract in more ways
than I have hours left in my life in which to recount its transgressions against
all of us, both individually and as States.

For example, though its duties are few, the Federal government simply refuses
to perform many of them:

Rather than "provide for our common defense," our Federal government
initiates foreign wars without provocation and without congressional declaration
- wars that actually heighten the danger of our being attacked from
without.  Similarly, it refuses to protect our southern border and declines
to protect us from the de facto invasion by countries to our south.

The Federal government has abdicated its responsibility to "coin money
(and) regulate the value thereof" by delegating to a private, foreign-owned
corporation (the Federal Reserve Bank) that duty, which has managed to steal 98
cents out of every dollar issued since its inception in 1913.  This single
failing is responsible for the current financial catastrophe now befalling
America.

Rather than "provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the
Militia...reserving to the States...the appointment of the officers and the
authority of training the Militia," the Federal government has done its best
to destroy anything resembling militias in America, preferring instead to
implement an unconstitutional and permanent "standing army."

"The privilege of Habeas Corpus" repeatedly has been suspended in
direct contravention of the US Constitution.

Our system of lobbying, campaign funding and proven election fraud on the
part of officials has robbed us of our constitutional guarantee of a
"republican form of government," accountable directly "to the
people."

We have installed as President a person who is not "a natural born
citizen" and, quite possibly, not even "a citizen of the United
States," incredible as that may be to contemplate, let alone comprehend.

Previously, I have written at length as to how each and every single element
of the Constitution's Bill of Rights has been abrogated or abridged by
unconstitutional legislation, ultra vires judicial decisions and by
executive fiat.  Very little remains of the original ten Amendments
comprising the Bill of Rights.  In particular, the Tenth Amendment has been
stripped of its mandate that "the powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people."

Remedies for a Breached Contract

I could go on almost endlessly, but the foregoing list alone more than
comprises the "substantial breach of contract" required by the law before the
non-breaching party to a contract may suspend its own performance and proceed to
elect a legal or equitable remedy.

Under prevailing law, an innocent party has a choice of remedies that it may
enforce against a breaching party:  monetary damages (including punitive),
rescission (and restitution), reformation and specific performance.

Specific performance seems foreclosed to us, as we have tried unsuccessfully,
both in the courts and by the ballot box, to force the Federal government to
perform its side of the bargain.  Its response has been to further oppress
us and to continue to refuse to fulfill its obligations under the
contract.

Reformation, or a simple rewording of the breached contract, similarly seems
foreclosed to us, as that would require an agreeing and capable breaching party,
particularly since we are lacking the judicial authority to supervise and then
enforce such a rewriting of our contract.  I think we all will agree that
the Federal government will be anything but agreeable to our demands for a
reformation of our contract and we certainly will not agree to its being
reworded to reflect the current reality of our arrangement.

That leaves to us monetary damages or rescission.  Since the Federal
government has no independent means to pay us our considerable damages, our only
effective remedy left is that of rescission.

Rescission refers to the cancellation of a contract and the return of the
contracting parties to their pre-contract status.  That means secession,
folks.  We have only secession on a state-by-state basis available to us as
a remedy for the substantial and egregious breach of contract that our Federal
government has foisted upon all of us.

A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have thought it possible.  I still
think it is a long shot.  But, the various states' rights, or "sovereignty"
bills introduced in a variety of states lately makes me think that a building
movement toward secession not only is likely, but inevitable.  Idaho is a
bit ahead of the curve in that regard, being one of the few bastions of
individuality and free thinking left in these "United" States of America.
I have a clear vision of what New America looks like.  While Idaho does not
yet even approach that vision, you can see New America from here.

Our Own Private Idaho

Thinking of moving someplace relatively independent and free thinking?
There's New Hampshire, but it just killed its own states' rights bill and,
besides, it is surrounded by states firmly in the grip of socialists and
communists.  There's Alaska and there is much to commend it.  There's
Montana.  There are parts of Texas and North Carolina and Arkansas.
From where I sit, though, there is little else.

Though I generally discourage others from moving to Idaho, so as to preserve
its relative lack of population and pristine condition, these are unusual
times.  Therefore, I hereby issue a call to all who are seeking somewhere
else to live within the United States - a place with greater freedom:
consider Idaho.  We need you, your independent nature and your open
mind.  Tough times are coming for all of America.  Come to Idaho
for the freedom - stay for the adventure.

New Idaho - you can see New America from here.

My name is Edgar J.
Steele.  Thanks for listening.  Please visit my web site, http://www.nickelrant.com/, for other
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