HOW CAN WE UNDO IT?

By Ron Ewart© Copyright July 15, 2009 - All Rights Reserved

Row after row, shelf after shelf and volume after volume, of law, after law, after law, fills the libraries in Washington DC and in major libraries across America. We are a country under the rule of law alright, but we have taken law and rule making to the extreme edge of absurdity, if not insanity.
The Federal Register represents 80,700 pages, as of 2008. The United States Code is perched on multiple shelves and is 16,845 pages, according to the government printing office. The United States Tax Code, Title 26, part of the United States Code, is 3,387 pages all by itself. This doesn't even begin to cover the millions of pages of state and local laws, regulations, restrictions and ordinances, or the number of laws we add to the mix each year. But what is even worse, most of these laws, regulations and ordinances are patently without constitutional authority.
How the Hell can we undo all of that? It took 234 years to get where we are today. How long will it take to roll back this lawmaking-gone-mad insanity, to where what is left is somewhat constitutional, should somehow we gain the power to do so? How do we undo all of the court decisions (supreme, appellate and lower courts) that have created more law? The answer is decades and that is if we start today, before any more new laws are passed.
But tell that to the current President and the U. S. Congress who are poised to pass Cap and Trade legislation (1,400 pages) and a National Health Care bill that who knows how large it will be? Then there is food legislation, gun control legislation, amnesty for illegal alien legislation, the Clean Water Restoration Act legislation and God knows what other lengthy laws these dolts are promulgating in the back rooms of Congress and the White House, that will be added to all the other laws already in existence.
We have been done in by the unconscionable perversion of the very thing that was supposed to set us free ..... a Constitutional Republic, where the rights of the minority are protected from the majority (mob rule), under the "RULE OF LAW". But under the rule of law, America has gone virtually berserk. It doesn't always take chains to bind a person. Invisible chains lurk in the shadows of too many laws.
The 64,000 dollar question is, how do you reverse the ongoing perversion and how long will it take, even if you could do it? You can't stop an airplane in mid flight. You can't bring a supertanker to an instantaneous halt on the high seas. You can't bring a satellite circling the globe to a complete stop in orbit. In the case of the airplane, the supertanker and the satellite, each has what is called inertia and it takes a considerable amount of energy to oppose or reverse it. Depending on the amount of energy used to oppose the inertia, will depend on how much damage is done to that which is moving. Do it too fast and all hell breaks loose. Do it too slow and change takes too long. All of these principles of motion and inertia apply directly to government.
Americans who know and cherish freedom, are feeling the chains of too many laws and something has got to give ..... but what? If it is an awakening of liberty on a grand scale, we may have a chance to bring the inertia of the current government to a stop without inflicting too much damage. If we arise all at once and demand instant action, or else, it could trigger chaos, anarchy, or a total breakdown in civil order. All of these actions could set in motion greater control by government, more laws and maybe even martial law, with the suspension of constitutional liberties. Certainly not a result any sane person would want.
But let's just say we are successful and we can turn government around and get it to abide by its constitutional limits. What then do we do with all the existing laws that are now in volume after volume of federal, state and local law? Which of these laws would we choose to repeal and which would we choose to keep? What test would we apply to each law to determine the action of repeal, or the action to keep? Would we choose to gut all environmental law? Would we choose to repeal all social law, like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and welfare? Surely we would have to phase them out over time, if we determine these laws would have to go. Who would sit on the committees that would have the power to make the decision to repeal or keep a law? Would legislatures in the process of their own debates, even listen or take heed of the decisions of the committees? The debates could turn into arguments and the arguments could turn into brawls and the brawls could last for years. These are the questions we must ask ourselves. How can we do it? As always, the devil is in the details.
It is one thing to wrest control from the "dictator", but then who gets to decide how the people are to be governed and what rights they should have after the dictator has been exiled? Americans already did this once in 1776 and the document produced out of that battle set a blue print for us to follow. It was an excellent blue print. Unfortunately, those that governed by that blueprint have seriously strayed from it (error No. 1) and the "Consent of the Governed", whose duty it was to watch the governors, turned a blind eye to what the governors were doing (error No. 2).. These double errors are an infallible recipe for rising tyranny and where we are today is the direct result of both errors. That is a mistake we must promise ourselves to never make again, because if we do, we may not be able to bring down our "Airplane of freedom" from the blue skies without crashing and crashing could very well mean civil war, outright revolution, or even worse, abject slavery. The outcome of civil war, or revolution is too iffy to even predict and it should be the last of all possible solutions. We either get it "right" peacefully, or suffer the dire consequences and horrors of war, without any guarantee such a war would produce greater freedom.
In our most recent YouTube video entitled "The Coming Civil War", (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Ewwmikc9Q) we touch on the reasons why such a war is possible. Nevertheless, we must exert every effort within our power to make sure that civil war or revolution, are never the final solution. We won the American Revolution and our freedom at great cost, by what has been described as pure luck and help from the French. Others have invoked providence. But whatever the reason, we can't be sure of the same outcome in another American revolution.
Still, we are faced with the same nagging question, "..... how can we undo what has already been done and who gets to make the decisions to do, or undo, as the case may be?" The tasks we face are daunting, but what are our alternatives?