Bob on the Issues

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beyond the limits of Federal Property such as the BATF, the Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act, should be rescinded and new Acts such as the NAU should be voted down.

A Republic, 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).

Winning the Peace

• 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)