Author Archive | Keith Broaders

Contrary to the notion that Supreme Court Justices are appointed for Life, the truth is that the Constitution indicates that they shall hold office during times of good behavior.

The question that needs to be asked is what constitutes bad behavior and who determines if the Justices on the Supreme Court are doing their job satisfactorily?

Justices that demonstrate their competency are ones making judgments that are aligned with the Constitution. When Justices deviate from the Constitution and make decisions that expand the power of the Congress and the President they are reveal their bad behavior. Continue Reading →

Our Founding Fathers went to war to stop the tyrant King George III. The King had issued a series of Royal Decrees or Proclamations without receiving the consent of the people. The Colonists knew that the King was violating their rights and that the King was going to continue to do so as long as they remained silent.

After petitioning the King for many years for a redress of their grievances, the people finally decided to take action.

When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, it was their intent to prevent the president from abusing their rights like the King had done. They prohibited him from creating his own laws by granting to Congress ALL legislative powers. Congress has allowed the presidents to circumvent the Constitution by allowing him to make his own laws without the consent of people. Continue Reading →

The Doctrine of the Equality of States, (also called Equal Footing), is based on Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which says:

“New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

Additionally, since the admission of Tennessee in 1796, Congress has included in each State’s act of admission a clause providing that the State enters the Union “on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.” Continue Reading →

Freedom was illegal in the Colonies in 1776 and Freedom is still illegal in America today. Those that signed the Declaration of Independence knew that a tyrannical government would never relinquish its power without resistance.

Governments are supposed to protect the rights of the people, but if they are not held in check, they will begin to abuse the people that they were created to protect. Rather than protecting the people, governments tend to protect the ruling class and enslave everyone else. This scheme will work as long as the people cling to the illusion that they are free. Continue Reading →

Contrary to the notion that Supreme Court Justices are appointed for Life, the truth is that the Constitution indicates that they shall hold office during times of good behavior.

The question that needs to be asked is what constitutes bad behavior and who determines if the Justices on the Supreme Court are doing their job satisfactorily?

Justices that demonstrates their competency by making judgements that are aligned with the Constitution. When Justices deviate from the Constitution and make decisions that expand the power of the Congress and the President they are reveal their bad behavior.

How can we expect our Supreme Court Justices to serve with integrity if their behavior is never evaluated? Without accountability the Justices possess an unlimited amount of power to do whatever they please.

If you were the owner of a business, would you from evaluate your job performance of your employees? If their job performance indicated that they were incompetent would you terminate them or let them destroy the financial integrity of your company?

The Supreme Court Justices are nominated based upon their political ideology rather than their knowledge and devotion to the Constitution. Isn’t it about time that we regained control of the Supreme Court and started the process of evaluating their behavior?

In Frederick Bastiat’s “The Law” he defines the principles for sound government. One of his premises he advocates is that man can only delegate to his government powers that he possesses. Since a man can not initiate force against another unless he is defending his life, liberty or property, he can not delegate to his government to the right to violate the unalienable rights of people living in a foreign state. A nation that initites force against it must be in the defense of their rights. Pre-emptive strikes are a violation of the principles of sound government.

Read what Frederick Bastiat had to say about the subject:

What Is Law?

What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Each of us has a natural right — from God —to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. Continue Reading →

The real enemies of the American people are not living in the Middle East. They are residing in the halls of Congress. These men in women that we have elected to serve us have been more injurious to domestic peace and prosperity than all of the Arabs on the planet. Those in Congress take their marching orders from the financial elite that control both political parties and are pretending to represent us. While the government continues to grow, the deficits and the national debt continue to sky rocket. As our standard of living falls, the net worth of our elected officials soar. Asking a wolf the guard the sheep is not a good idea and electing traditional Republicans and Democrats produces the same tragic results.

According a Supreme Court Ruling the Federal Government does not have the Constitutional Authority to dictate to the County Sheriff. He has sworn an Oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constititution and is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in the County and takes his marching orders from the People he serves and the Constitution. Is in under no legal obligation to anwer to Federal Agencies or Bureaus or their rules, regulations, and ordinances. Please check out this video and support Sherrif Mack in his effort to restore the liberty that our founding fathers fought and died for.

Either the people control the government or the government controls the people. Either we have rights granted to us by our Creator or we have privileges granted to us by our government. In a dicatorship the leaders seek to control the people, while in a Republic, it is the responsibility of the people to control the government.

As the creators of the government, we the people can only grant powers to our government, that we already possess. We do not have the authority to take another man’s life, liberty or property, so we can delegate this power to our government. When a government possesses the power to do things that individuals are prevented from doing, that government is operating outside of its lawful authority.
When a person takes property that belongs to his neighbor and then gives it to someone else, he has commited a crime. When the government uses the color of law to take the property on one individual to give to another they too, have commied a crime.

When we were granted the unalienable rights from our Creator we were also given the responsibility to honor the life, liberty and property of our fellow men. A crime occurs when one person or group initiates force to take the life, liberty or property of another.

It is the responsibility of a referee in a football game to make sure that the players abide by the rules of the game. Our government should be there to makes sure that no individual or group will violate our life, liberty or property.

The idea that initiating force against someone that you think might seek to injury you is not a defensive act. It is clearly an act of agression and is not permitted in the Constitution.

According to Karl Marx a government should do what is best for the greater good of the greater number. Unfortunately, there are many elected officials in our Country that have embraced his philosophy

In a totalitarian state the government controls the people whlle in a Republic the people control the government. Dictators can not enslave a people without first deceiving them. They invariable will convince the people that they must voluntarily give up a portion of their individual liberty in order to achieve public safety.

In a Republic the people are subject to laws that protect the life, liberty and property of the people while in a totalitarian state, the government controls the people with rules, regulations and ordinances. In a Republic, the people are free to do whatever they want as long as they do not violate the rights of others. In a totalitarian state the people must be given permission or granted a license before they can exercise on of their unalienable rights.

In a Republic a crime is commited when one party is injured by another. No crime can be commited unless there is a victim. In the totalitarian state a crime occurs whenever a person breaks one of their rules.

The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution to prevent the abuse of power by elected officials. Even though their intentions might be honorable, an elected official can not lawfully deprive the people of their rights under the pretense of taking care of them. Officials that put the best interest of their community ahead of the rights of the individual plant the seeds of tyranny.

A statesmen is a public servant that represents the people and defends the Constitution while a politician’s says whatever he needs to say to get elected and follows the Constitution whenever it is convenient to do so.

We need to separate the sheep from the goats. We need to identify those the truly believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility and those that the liberty of the individual must be sacrificed for the greater good of the community.