DEMOCRACY V. REPUBLIC
Dieter Dahmen
I enter
into this epistolary effort not without fear and trepidation, because I intend
this to be a lecture and I do not have the gift of teaching. To have knowledge
is one thing, but to demonstrate it to
others is something entirely different. I can bring knowledge to paper,
but not to another’s mind. That is why my writings are intended to reveal
rather than to teach. So if I seem to miss the mark and appear inadequate, you
will know the reason. However, before I
begin this prelection, I want to thank you for your accolades, which I hope
were mostly intended to reflect appreciation
for my
demonstrating the overpowering significance of sovereignty. Sometimes I am fortunate and meet someone who
understands what I am trying to convey and you appeared to have understood.
In
following the communications between all you latter day Sons of Liberty, I
could not help notice that some of you are beginning to use the word “Republic”
and I believe that also included you. No one, however, elaborated on its
definition and only one other made mention of the Founding Fathers’ deep
disdain for democracy. I thought it, therefore, appropriate, since some of you
appear piqued with interest, that I should discuss the make-up of the only true
republic to have ever decorated the pages of human history, because a thorough
understanding of all tenets of the American Republic will be essential in order to understand everything that went
wrong with our Nation.
It will
explain the obscene contempt of our government now so readily shown us, it will
explain why the “weenies” are in control, why conspiracies, why Stalags
(STrafArbeitsLAGer, German meaning “forced labor camp”), why the very people,
who swore a solemn oath to defend the instrument that allowed them power, do
openly impugn the Author of Liberty and in His name destroy the land in which
their cradle stood, how freedom in the name of freedom becomes slavery, why we
have one crisis after another, and then, above
all, it will show how incredibly crucial our sovereignty is, if we are
to have hope to ever recover our land.
There
are basically only three different forms of government - monarchy, socialism,
and republic. The first two, although different and distinct from one another,
have something in common - governmental control over people. But I will forgo
discussing monarchy and define only republic and socialism.
But
first we should keep in mind that for the Framers many of the elements so
crucial for a republic were in place and a given. Regrettably, for us these had
became lost and must, therefore, now reflect a significance they then did not
have. For instance, the Founders did not call themselves “sovereign”, they
called themselves liege. The word liege means to be sovereign, but implies
owing allegiance to a feudal overlord, and for them that overlord was justice.
This then was the condition that prevailed in their day and gave birth to a
form of government, the American Republic, that in all likelihood will never be
equaled by any other until God Himself will rule.
Since
there was ever only one true republic, the American Republic, I will describe
that institution only and let the obvious difference between it and the pseudo-republics, e.g. SPQR, the
Russian, or the Chinese, be self-explanatory.The basic constituent of a
republic is that two or more sovereign and autonomous governments conglomerate
under the aegis of a central power structure. The distinguishing feature of the
American Republic is that its conglomeration was voluntary and the central
power structure separate from it and
subservient to it, while all others republics came to exist through conquest.
Not only was conquest their congealing force, but the conquering nation also
maintained hegemony over the conquered. Former East Germany could possibly be construed
to be an exception.
There is
one additional constituent endemic to the American Republic only, it is in fact
the very essence of its soul. It is the assertion that all, including those
vested with the authority to govern, are subject to a Law Giver beyond man. Him they called the Author of Liberty and
anyone, even with only a cursory look,
will discover they meant Christ the Redeemer
and that it was He Who played an intimate part in structuring the
American Republic. How anyone is able to overlook this intimacy and then go
on to espouse the ridiculous notion
that this Nation’s ascendance to glory, power, and wealth is solely
attributable to coincidence is a most profound display of absurdity. What is even
more astonishing is the Framers’ equally profound distinction between religion
and Christianity, one in favor of
Christianity, for they knew these were two inimical perceptions, not
even remotely the same, were indeed opposites. It was this simple recognition
that produced a government in chains and levied obedience upon it.
To
ensure continued obedience, the Founders made certain that no state in the American union would ever achieve
hegemony over another or, even more important, that the states would always
maintain their hegemony over the central government. This they assured by
encoding two concepts into the supreme law of the land, which together were to
reinforce the states’ supremacy. Both have been destroyed, one completely and
the other nearly so. The first is States Rights and the second is our Second
Amendment.
It
should be obvious, and it was so to the Founders, that each society has two
components - people and government. Both, they said, should be represented in
that central power structure and either should have the right and the authority
to choose those who would represent it there. The people would choose their representatives and the legislatures
theirs, Representatives and Senators, respectively. It was this concept coupled
with the insistence that each American had a God-given, not a man-given, right
to keep and bear arms, that should have assured eternal longevity of the
people’s dominance over their government.
But it
did not! In April of 1913, the 17th Amendment disenfranchised the states of their right to appoint their
representatives and election for Senators was committed to public elections.
With that insidious mutation States Rights were lost and the ensuing void was
filled by the central, i.e. federal,
government. Thus that which once had been designed to be a servant, became a master.
By the
way it was this disastrous disenfranchising the state legislatures of their
natural right to appoint their representatives that rendered the Clinton
impeachment process impotent. When Andrew Johnson was impeached, Senators were
beholden to their respective legislatures, but now they are beholden to the
people of each state. Thus the people are involved in all three phases of the impeachment procedure and the House
Managers’ referring to the Senators as jurors instead of judges, even though
the impeachment code requires it, was, therefore, correct and Justice Renquist
should never have sustained Senator Hawkin’s request to enjoin the managers to
call the Senators jurors.
I do not
wish to elaborate on how the Civil War laid the foundation for the destruction
of States Rights, except to say that it was those Southern swine, democrats to
a man, who, in the name of States Rights, however true that was, sought to
vindicate slavery. How anyone could ever justify getting high on power that
allowed him to demand obedience from another, is beyond me. This very
monstrosity, so reflective of democracy, is one of my reasons for not being
overly fond of democratic belief. Trust me, this madness is still alive and
raging, and was so especially during reconstruction. All opposition to extend
equal rights to the Negro via the 14th Amendment came from democrats
only and that from those on both sides of the Mason-Dixie line.
The
attack and near destruction of the Second Amendment had to wait another fifty
years. It was just as simple, swift and certain. We allowed government to ban, i.e. forbid, something it
had no prerogative to do. We granted government the power to forbid. Assault
weapons provided the legerdemain. It could have been anything - marbles, sugar,
forks and knives - anything, but it was weapons, the jugular of the Second
Amendment. Our government has neither power nor rights. It had been granted
authority to act and that only in certain areas, where for obvious reasons the
people’s consent was not required. For everything else it must acquire that
consent. But, because of that one careless moment, we now have a monster on our
hands, a monster that had its birthplace in good. Remember he who forbids is
the sovereign and he who is forbidden is the slave. Our government is now
unchained and an unchained government metamorphoses, it has no choice.
Chains
are an essential elements of our republic. Break them and government is unchained and an unchained
government cannot be a republic. What
then can it be? What choice is there then? Only a monarchy or socialism
and it obviously cannot be a monarchy.
That
brings us to socialism. What then is socialism? Not all that long ago socialism came in six versions: Nazism,
communism, fascism, democracy, liberalism, and the estate of moderates. Nazism
is socialism imposed on a single people, communism is socialism imposed on more
than one people, fascism is a hybrid of these two, democracy is socialism mixed
with altruism, and the remaining two are are slightly modified versions of
democracy.
Nazism
and fascism are now discarded versions. Communism is slowly disintegrating. But
some of their most virulent elements are still
present, present in democracy and that should not surprise us, if we recognize
the fact that democracy’s most significant constituent is socialism. And how is
it that socialism and altruism so readily amalgamate? Both are predicated on
the notion to help others. However, while altruism implies one man helping
another, socialism is helping a man but at the expense of another and to
implement that makes robbing both of their free will necessary and to secure
that it must kill. Socialism then first steals a man’s free will and then his life. This is the epitaph of
democracy, for any amalgamation will assume the characteristics of the worst
element from which it acquired its best parts.
He Who
is the Foundation of our Republic admonished “not to let the right hand know
what the left hand is doing.” Americans then understood it and so it came to be that giving your
neighbor a helping hand was a natural outgrowth of the American character,
which demonstrated them to be a new
specie of humans. But a contrived crisis intruded into their lives and
converted helping into altruism, turning into a religion what once was the
evidence of their greatness. Thus socialism and altruism became complicitous in
giving us democracy, where all final authority and responsibility are vested in man himself.
We then
see that of all the versions of socialism, democracy is the most vicious and my
attempt to demonstrate the utter helplessness of unchained government in
gravitating to this level of unmitigated brutality and total tyranny is not an
attempt to diffuse that viciousness, but to show how deep this form of depravity is, how profound its violence, and
how monstrous its imposition on the people and, therefore, the enormous
resources required to subdue it. Socialism is a religion. Religion’s predicate
is “good”, and “good” is the birthplace of evil.
I sought
to show that we need to do more than to alert one another to the existence of labor camps, rogue police
officers, provocateurism, contempt for
the people, etc. All these and all remaining maladies now afflicting our Land
will dissipate upon restoring our sovereignty. Without it we cannot succeed.
Without it we are only trying to kill a Hydraistic snake by removing pieces
from it beginning at the tail and accomplishing nothing more than making it
bigger, because it replaces each piece removed with one twice as big as the one
taken. Even if we could by any means at all remove every politician from office
and replaced him with an angel, but left government unchained, within weeks or
months, but certainly not more than past the next election, everything would be
as it was before. And government, to be a republic, must be chained and those
chains can only be affixed by the
people and that only, if they insist on being liege and in vassalage to
justice
only.
In
conclusion let me make a final observation. One would have to be near the fringes of insanity not to see,
even with only a perfunctory look, that Americans of today are still afflicted
with the same fears and helplessness
imposed upon them at birth. Their average IQ, especially their philosophical
IQ, is so terribly regressed that a door stop could easily compete with it.
Only one compulsion promotes response - hedonism. Hedonism either toward sex or
possession. But they seem to sense something is not the way it ought to be and
that has produced a pronounced sense of frustration, which in turn has evoked
in them an incredible expression of rage. Road rage, fear of death, school
shootings, serial crimes, hate for God, and a host of other cerebral
malfunctions, including unbelievable displays of absurdities: saving owls,
lizards, flowers, even in places where no one but a handful of people would ever go.
Restore
the euphoria of sovereignty and you will restore the Republic.
Dieter Dahmen