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The following is an adaption of something Mr. Dickey puts out each year to educate the public.
An Oblivious Nation: Happy July 4th
Boca Raton, FL, July 4,
2009: Karl Dickey, Palm Beach County Commission candidate for district 4
will be spending July 4th assessing the loss to the most basic of rights
promised in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. July 4th represents the
beginning of our separation from England and the start of our independence
via the Declaration of Independence. So whereas many this holiday weekend
will be praising the freedoms afforded by our government, others will be
contemplating how we can regain our lost rights and the greatness of the
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Our
Constitution was designed to protect
we the people from the government and
offered the ability for us to change the government when it became too
abusive of its powers.
The people of the United States wanted to be left alone and
live in peace. The conception of the United States was decidedly
libertarian; that is individual liberty to be protected above all else.
Thomas Jefferson’s quote sums up what America is suppose to be: “We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What a sad deterioration from those words we have come.
Government can now remove American citizens from their private property and
give the property to another private citizen in order to obtain more tax
money for the government. Thank goodness our state legislature resolved this
issue in May, 2006 however most other states lack this protection. Since
1985, federal, state and local governments have seized the property of over
200,000 Americans under asset forfeiture laws often without evidence of a
crime. Our citizenry can no longer keep money in private financial
institutions without fear of the government viewing their private
transactions. The FDA continually kills American citizens with burdensome
and ineffectual testing, resulting in great delaysof life saving drugs being
made available to us. The FDA continually prevents cancer patients from
learning about legally approved drugs that could save their lives solely
because the drug makers have not spent the millions of dollars necessary to
satisfy the FDA’s certification process to advertise a drug’s additional
uses. Government officials have asserted a de facto right to search almost
anybody, anytime, and on almost any pretense. Americans’ freedom of speech
and the press has greatly been eroded resulting in Free Speech Zones on our
American universities and the paying of outlandish fines imposed upon
private radio and television stations. A free speech zone should be anywhere
an American is standing on American soil, not designated areas. Local police
are conducting programs in over 200,000 classrooms that sometimes result in
young children informing police on their parents. The Federal Bureau of
Investigation tries to prohibit the development of new types of phones that
would be more difficult for them to wiretap. The government cannot even keep
drugs out of its fortified prisons but chooses to spend American’s tax
dollars by the billions to try and keep drugs off American streets and even
goes so far as to go onto foreign soil to confiscate drugs being grown
overseas. The federal government chooses to regularly prosecute American
citizens on federal charges, even though federal prosecutors know that no
law has been broken.
Total government spending has increased to well over 48% of
the national income. Just complying with governmental regulations costs the
private sector in excess of $450 billion annually.
Government now appears more concerned with dictating personal
behavior than with protecting citizens from murderers, muggers, and rapists.
In 1990, for the first time in history, the number of people sentenced to
prison for victimless drug violations exceeded the number of people
sentenced for violent crimes. The number of people incarcerated in federal
and state prisons in 1992 was almost triple the number incarcerated in 1980
and America now has a higher percentage of its population in prison than any
other country. Unfortunately, the more government has tried to control
people's behavior, the more out of control American society has become.
Violence is at an all-time record high: over five million Americans were
robbed, assaulted, raped or murdered in 1992. When our Florida legislature
has the opportunity to alleviate the pain and suffering of our AIDS &
cancer patients as well as our elderly by finally allowing our doctors to
prescribe medicinal marijuana they soundly rejected it.
Is this the direction our forefathers had in mind? I
certainly do not think so. It is important for American citizens to stand up
for their rights when they see them being eroded as we have seen over these
many years. It may be happening slowly; however, it IS happening. Our
elected officials have failed their Oaths of Office and continually vote
against our Constitution.
Karl Dickey is running to be the next Palm Beach County
Commissioner in District 4 and is serious about his commitment to the United
States & Florida Constitutions and the Libertarian values he knows most
Floridians possess but may not use the word "libertarian". Some popular
Libertarians are Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck, Kurt Russell, Penn & Teller,
Mojo Nixon, John Stossel, Dave Barry, William F. Buckley, and many more. A
Libertarian is one that chooses to live their life as they choose and not to
impose their values on their neighbor. A Libertarian believes in individual
choice and rejects the use of force except in response to force. A
Libertarian believes and promotes compassion for his or her neighbor in
their time of need. Libertarians believe we need government, just not one as
large and intrusive as ours has become. Libertarians desire for smaller
government, less taxes, and more freedom. This is what Karl Dickey stands
for and will bring to to the dais of the county commission when elected in
November, 2010. It is what he believes most people in Palm Beach County are
looking for in their county commission.
Please take some time out of this weekend to read the document we are celebrating: The Declaration of Independence (below)
hen in the
Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among
the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, 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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But 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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.