Bob Kingsbury’s Blog

To Support Your Local Police, Vote Down the Patriot Act

In the United States (essentially) all ‘lawful’ police work is local. For a host of good reasons, and from centuries of trial and error, “government” has been given a monopoly (other than for self defense) on police work.

However to prevent misuse of the monopoly, police power has been divided into a nine way split in the United States.

At the Federal level, the Federal government can enforce “the law” on the high seas (Article I. Section 8, item 10); in Washington DC and on Federal Property (Article I, Section 9 item 17) and per the 9th and 10th Amendments, nowhere else.

Similar articles in State Constitutions limit the State Police (of the many States) to doing police work only on State property, mostly State Highways.

Therefore other than in Federal property like Washington DC and State Highways, all other police work is ‘lawful’ only when done by local police.

At each of these levels, law enforcement is further split into three departments: legislative, executive and judicial. This three by three split results in an overall nine way split in police powers. As a result, essentially all (lawful) police work is local.

‘Government’ has no monopoly on the other functions of government. For example, citizens are free to educate their own children, or they are free to do snow removal but they are not free to hop into their private automobile and chase down speeders (or to do any other police work).

Due to these circumstances, all acts of Congress extending Federal Police authority beyond the limits of Federal Property such as the BATF, the Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act, should be rescinded and new Acts such as the NAU should be voted down.

We should be supporting a “Republic” in Iraq, not a “Democracy”
“Supporting Democracy” declares a sign in the front window of the Republican Headquarters in Concord NH. And therein lies the death knell of the Republican Party, because all Republican Party Office Holders in promoting “Democracy” have betrayed the Republican Party.

Secondly, they have betrayed their oath of office (that our nation is a Republic and is to have a Republican form of government - a government where minorities have rights and most of the functions of government are local).

And third, they have betrayed our military who are facing death in Iraq. Our Nation’s Leaders (be they Republican or Democratic, alike) only have the “right” to install a Republican form of Government in Iraq. In a Republican form of government, the minority Shiites and minority Kurds would be protected under a Constitution that would say (as ours does) “Congress shall make no law”.

The Constitution shall also say (as in our 9th and 10th Amendments) that all police and police work shall be local. That Kurds will do the police work among Kurds, that Shiite police will do the police work among Shiites and Sunni police among the Sunnis.

Supporting our troops requires us to also support installing a Republican form of government in Iraq (not a Democracy where “majority rule” can destroy a minority and not a “parliament” on the British model which has unlimited powers to do anything and whose clearly unlawful parliamentary excesses caused our War for Independence).

Dear Sir:

For the past hundred years, those in our armed services have won all our wars on the battlefield, but:

Our politicians lost WW I at the Peace table,
Our politicians lost WW II at the Peace Table
Our politicians lost Korea at the Peace Table
Our politicians lost Vietnam at the Peace Table.
Our politicians lost the First Gulf War at the Peace Table.

Currently our politicians are again giving away the battlefield victories we won in Iraq by installing a “Democracy” (which is the worst form of government ever invented), by installing a “Parliament on the British model”, (which destroys any limits on governmental power); by installing a National Police Force, (which destroys freedom for all citizens).

We could still win the Peace in Iraq because; with a Constitution similar to ours, the minority rights of the Kurd and Sunni minorities could be protected. By installing a “Congress”, like ours, which has, rules that state “Congress shall make no law” (violating the rights of a minority), and by installing a police force with all police powers at the local level, (as the 9th and 10th Amendments do in our Nation).

Since we are the only ones at the Peace Table we can still win this Peace. The Peace for Iraq will be won, or lost, in Washington DC. The first step in winning the Peace is to elect some new faces to serve our Nation in Washington DC.

Sincerely,
ROBERT KINGSBURY
(ONCE A RIFLEMAN FOR GENERAL PATTON, A VETERAN OF THE WAR IN KOREA AND THE COLD WAR, AND NOW LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE FOR US CONGRESS, NH 1ST DISTRICT)

Attorneys are the Referees of Life, and as such they cannot both be referees and “play the game”

Attorneys are the referees of life, as such they cannot both Referee and “Play the Game” without the appearance of favoring one side over the other.

Therefore it is wrong for an attorney to hold governmental office outside of the Court System.

It did not use to be that way, because in the old days lay persons could and did serve as Judges and as Attorneys. That all changed with the adoption of the “Unified Bar’ in 1969, with the elimination of lay judges in 1981 and the addition of (the substituted for other wording and never voted on wording of) Part II, Article 73a which says, “The Chief Justice…shall make rules…The rules so promulgated shall have the force and effect of law.” These three changes eliminated the ability of an attorney to do anything but to referee the problems of life.

For an attorney to hold office outside of the Court System, is like a New York Yankee player calling balls and strikes in a ball game with the Boston Red Sox. All ball games have a number of close calls. With a Yankee player masking the calls, even if they did a perfect job of calling balls and strikes, no Red Sox fan, or player would always agree that a close call was also a fair call.

As a result, attorneys and their spouses, should not hold office outside of the Court System.

All kinds of “conspiracy” theories abound. There is the now out-of-date communist conspiracy theory, the “mafia” conspiracy, the “old boy” conspiracy and others.

One conspiracy that is never mentioned is the “hand in the cookie jar conspiracy”. This one starts when a 5-year-old boy watches his mother bake cookies and put the cookies in a “cookie jar”. Then when no one is looking, the 5-year-old pushes a chair to the counter, climbs up on it, and grabs cookies out of the cookie jar. The child had nothing to do with either getting the ingredients for the cookies, or of baking the cookies, so “putting one’s hand in the cookie jar” is a form of “stealing”.

When those 5-year-old boys get to be adults, far too many of them continue to grab cookies out of the “Cookie Jar”, thus making themselves members of the “COOKIE JAR CONSPIRACY”. The “COOKIE JAR CONSPIRACY” holds no meetings, and there is no “membership” list. However, the “members” recognize each other and do all they can to protect each other’s cookie grabs. As Congressman Tip O’Neil said about the “cookie grabbers” in Congress, “You go along to get along”, and so the cookie grabbers “go along” with each other.

While “grabbing cookies” sounds like child’s play, the overall impact on prices due to “cookie jar grabbing” is damaging, very damaging. For example, in the 1950’s I bought a new house for $12,500 today a similar house costs about $350,000. Essentially all of the increase in housing costs (and the costs of every other item in the economy) is due to “cookie grabbing”. “Cookie grabbing” occurs when “no one is looking”.

The solution to cookie jar stealing is to “start looking” and to keep looking.

The Bataan Doctor and Easter

The Japanese captured over 24,000 young healthy Americans on Bataan. Included in that group of Americans were a dozen or more Doctors (every Battalion had a Battalion Surgeon). One of the “Bataan Doctors” (who by 1960 was a Pediatrician in Detroit) was called to testify to Congress in 1960. He started off his testimony by saying that when he graduated from Medical School, he was a “typical Medical School Atheist.”

In their three years of Japanese captivity, the Bataan Doctors saw over 13,000 of those healthy young American Soldiers die. On averages, that is about one death, every working hour, for every day of the week, for all 150 weeks, in those three years. All of them dying in agony from one form of Japanese mistreatment, or another.

This (formerly Atheist) Bataan Doctor testified that the American soldiers who had kept the faith (with the other Americans) that about a half hour before they died, that all forms of pain left their faces, that an expression of joy came over them, and that they had a view of where they were headed, that there was a life after death., and for those who kept the faith, a glorious future life.

One the other hand, he said those Americans who had betrayed their fellow Americans (such as betraying escape plans to the Japanese, causing the deaths of those Americans, for an extra bowl of rice or other small favor), Those betrayers died with a look of terror on their faces of the view (of the next life) to which they were headed).

Next Sunday is Easter. Easter is a celebration of a new beginning. This Easter, a new beginning is available to all who would wish to have a new beginning. This Easter, why not begin to “keep the faith” (with the Americans whom our Nation has sent into harms way and to their possibly violent untimely deaths.) Why not sustain things American and begin to set aside anything and everything that leads to the betrayal of Americans?