We live in a insane world... But that doesn't mean we need to go insane...

The world we live in isn’t what it appears to be, there are a great deal of forces at work behind the scenes that make it appear to be something it is not. It is not a rational world, it is an irrational one.

This is primarily because: One, most people are ignorant of facts; Two, people have been taught to make decisions based on emotions rather than logic; Three, they have been handicapped by a public school system and media that serves as propaganda distribution networks and indoctrination institutions rather than serving as education or information outlets.

Luckily, we have the internet. And, similar to the time of the introduction of the printing press, which resulted in a period of turmoil and enlightenment we have an opportunity to break from the current paradigm into something much more beneficial to the common man and woman than anything before.

I will use the current gun debate as an example. First of all, the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution as well as all the other ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights does not grant anybody any rights… it is recognizing the rights that people have and making it clear to those in government that in the conduct of their duties to govern, they have boundaries. The federal government was granted the authority to defend the nation from attack, set up a legal system, coin money, “regulate” (make regular) trade and commerce between the states and other nations and to impose taxes in the form of tariffs that are direct but also equally distributed as to be fair… and a few other minor things… and that’s it!

To make it even clearer to those in the Federal government, the Bill of Rights was added that in carrying out those duties there were things that were completely off limits. Was the Constitution perfect? No. But it was very restrictive to those in power.

By comparison, let’s say you have a pool and you hire a pool company to clean your pool once a week. You give them the authority to enter your back yard once a week and clean the pool and for that you will pay them an amount. You might add a few extra stipulations like the pool company’s representative is not authorized to enter your house, or drive your car, or eat your food, or use your credit card… etc.. Obviously, those things would generally be obvious but just to prevent any misunderstanding you make it clear. Essentially that was the function of the Bill of Rights.

Unfortunately, as Lord Acton said many years ago, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And as John Marshall (one of our famous Supreme Court justices) stated “The power to tax is the power to destroy.” Put those two together and you can see where we are headed.