Patrick  Henry  ‘s  famous  quotation  “Give  me  liberty  of  give  me  death!”  was  credited  as  the  deciding  motivation  delivering  Virginan  troops  and  George  Washington  to  the  Revolutionary  War.  How  many  of  you  today  would  be  willing  to  give  up  you’re  lives  to  defend  our  constitution?    Well  we  know  that  hundreds  of  thousands  of  men  and  women  have  risked  their  lives  defending  this  country  in  the  immediate  past.    But  are  they  defending  this  country  and  its  symbol  the  Statue  of  Liberty  and  all  it  represents  or  the  United  States  Constitution?    I  wonder  how  many  of  those  people  who  have  taken  the  oath  to  defend  our  Constitution  have  actually  read  it.      I  wonder  how  many  of  them  have  reflected  on  the  possibility  that  the  Constitution  may  have  been  fundamentally  flawed.        We  know  that  the  constitution  was  a  compromise  between  two  basic  fundamental  theories  of  government.    Thomas  Jefferson  believed  in  strong  State  rights  and  a  weak  Federal  Government,  no  Federal  bank,  and  very  limited  associations  of  the  Federal  Government  with  businesses.  Alexander  Hamilton  believed  in  the  opposite.  The  constitution  should  have  been  designed  to  follow  the  precepts  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness.    The  question  is  has  it?    Let  me  ask  you  to  be  patient  and  suspend  you’re  disbelief  when  I  say  our  country  is  great  despite  the  extremely  harmful  effects  of  our  Constitution.      That  the  Constitution  needs  to  be  erased  and  replaced!    Wow!    After  this  opening  statement  people  are  going  to  think  I’m  nuts.      I  like  that  phrase  “nuts”.      It  was  said  at  a  critical  stage  in  US  history.    At  the  moment  of  the  greatest  crisis  for  American  soldiers  near  the  end  of  World  War  Two.  At  a  place  called  Bastogne,  Luxembourg  in  the  Ardennes  forest,  a  German  army  surrounded  our  forces.    The  German  commander  asked  for  our  surrender.      Our  general  replied  with  one  word  “nuts”.    So  I  say  nuts.    I  will  use  the  oratory  of  our  great  second  to  last  president,  Barrack  Obama.      I’ll  have  to  say  he  does  have  a  pretty  cool  name.      I  wonder  if  he  knows  in  Hebrew  his  first  name  means  lightning?  Anyway,  I  believe  I  can  design  a  transition  of  our  federal  government  without  affecting  any  of  the  beloved  social  programs  presently  in  existence.    So  in  the  words  of  our  dear  president,  you  can  have  the  same  Doctor  now  as  in  after  my  changes    In  order  for  you  to  continue  reading,  I  must  make  you  aware  that  I  don’t  believe  any  of  our  politicians  past  or  present,  republican  or  democrat  intended  any  harm  to  befall  on  our  great  nation.      I  take  no  sides.    I  am  neither  a  Democrat,  a  Rebublican,  a  Libertarian,  a  socialist  or  an  anarchist.      I  share  many  principles  supported  by  all  of  our  parties  present  and  past.      But  I  say  none  of  us  have  the  right  to  enforce  our  principles  by  politics  on  our  fellow  citizens.    That  is  simply  not  consistent  with  why  our  country  was  miraculously  created  by  long  gone  patriots.    When  I  mention  disparaging  remarks  about  any  politician  current  or  historic,  I  am  using  it  to  emphasize  a  point.    I  have  nothing  against  any  of  these  people.    They  are  fellow  Americans.    I  have  to  believe  that  all  of  them  thought  they  were  helping  our  country.  Almost  all  of  the  damage  they  have  created  to  this  country  and  world  were  just  unintended  consequences.        

While  it  is  true  that  in  the  history  of  our  planet  that  there  have  been  many  civilizations  that  have  enjoyed  some  measure  of  individual  freedom  under  various  forms  of  government.    Their  economies,  their  arts  and  sciences  have  flourished.    Some  have  even  enjoyed  “Golden  Ages”  where  there  have  been  monumental  giant  accomplishments  in  all  areas  of  human  endeavor.      But  they  have  all  fallen  to  a  morass  of  corruption,  been  uprooted  by  violent  upheaval,  suffered  a  “coup  de  d’état”,  or  were  swallowed  in  part  or  whole  by  war  with  a  stronger  foreign  power.    We  have  been  FED  a  load  of  crap  (pun  intended).      That  our  nation  has  become  a  beacon  of  liberty  because  of  the  beauty  of  our  form  of  Democracy  as  defined  by  the  perfect  balance  of  power  of  our  unique  constitution.      If  we  could  bring  those  gentlemen,  the  writers  of  our  blueprint  of  freedom  to  our  present  time  they  would  be  aghast.      Simply  the  mountain  of  devastation  that  was  caused  directly  or  indirectly  by  our  nation  since  it’s  founding  would  have  left  them  crestfallen.      The  power  usurped  by  our  heads  of  state  would  have  made  them  befuddled.      The  volumes  of  laws  passed  by  their  perfectly  balanced  congress  that  have  destroyed  much  of  our  individual  liberty  would  have  stricken  their  hearts.        The  truth  is  that  our  country  has  become  great  despite  our  constitution  and  our  democracy.    It  has  been  a  beacon  of  hope  and  amazing  accomplishments  because  of  our  wonderful  people  born  here  and  those  that  have  sacrificed  everything  to  travel  to  our  beloved  and  awesome  country.      The  truth  about  Democracy  is  that  it  is  only  as  good  as  its  citizens.    If  all  our  citizens  present  in  America  today  would  truly  believe  in  their  hearts  give  me  liberty  or  give  me  death  it  wouldn’t  matter  what  form  of  government  we  had.  None  of  what  has  occurred  over  the  last  two  hundred  years  would  have  happened.      But  that’s  an  impossible  dream.        It  shocks  me  to  think  that  the  tens  of  thousands  of  scholars  who  have  become  educated  in  Political  Science  have  blinded  themselves  to  the  reality  that  Democracy  and  freedom  go  hand  in  hand.      Show  me  a  democracy  that  over  time  individual  freedom  has  not  declined.    In  point  of  fact  some  democracies  become  totalitarian  states  shortly  after  their  formation.      An  extreme  example  of  this  was  Adolph  Hitler  who  was  elected  democratically.      All  of  the  other  Democracies  including  ours  have  become  less  free  as  time  goes  on.        It’s  inevitable.    By  definition  in  Democracy  the  majority  rules  and  the  minority,  the  individuals  lose.  It’s  the  majority  who  choose  representatives  that  continuously  pass  laws  that  are  suppose  to  correct  some  injustice  or  benefit  the  people  that  elected  them.    They  all  lead  to  unintended  consequences  that  require  more  rules.    Over  time  this  endless  loop  of  laws,  rules,  and  taxes  to  pay  for  the  laws  and  rules  leads  to  an  exponential  decline  in  freedom.    Albert  Einstein  once  said  the  most  powerful  force  in  nature  is  compound  interest.    If  you  went  back  in  time  to  1776  and  could  invest  $1000  at  4%  interest,  it  would  be  worth  about  eight  million  dollars  in  2015.      I  say  the  same  force  works  in  government.  If  we  started  with  one  hundred  laws  in  1776  it  has  become  80,000  laws  today.    

The  United  States  constitution  is  unique.    The  founding  fathers  brilliantly  conceived  of  a  system  of  checks  and  balances  to  prevent  this  political  decay.    But  it  only  has  delayed  the  inevitable.    It  should  now  be  as  plain  as  the  nose  on  all  our  faces  that  the  check  and  balance  system  has  failed.    Think  about  what  has  happened  in  Washington  since  the  start  of  the  great  depression  in  1929.    An  incoming  President  has  been  elected  sometimes  even  without  a  popular  majority.    He  announces  a  new  sweeping  policy  change  to  our  system  of  life.    Sometimes  we  are  lucky  that  he  can’t  garnish  enough  support  to  get  his  new  policy  made  law.    But  usually  some  form  of  it  is  passed.  These  policies  are  especially  easy  to  get  passed  immediately  after  a  period  of  economic  downturn  when  our  citizens  are  desperate  for  a  quick  fix,  or  as  the  result  of  a  scary  terrorist  attack.    Congress  passes  a  bill  that  has  so  many  pages  that  none  of  them  probably  even  read  it,  much  less  analyze  the  consequences  to  our  people  individually,  our  national  economy,  or  the  world  at  large.    Parenthetically,  we  know  that  in  our  congress  these  new  laws  in  order  to  be  passed  are  a  shadow  of  what  their  constituents  desired  and  almost  definitely  not  what  the  minority  desired.      Then  of  course  most  of  these  bills  have  many  pieces  of  unrelated  special  interest  “trick  or  treats”  commonly  called  “Pork  Barrel”  additives  that  are  required  to  insure  that  the  main  bill  will  be  passed.          These  representatives  hand  deliver  the  bill  to  our  great  and  powerful  wizards  of  presidency  and  who  with  great  fanfare  sign  them  into  law.    So  the  first  check  of  the  balance  of  power  created  by  our  founders,  the  presidential  veto  is  only  employed  when  the  president  doesn’t  get  most  of  what  he  wants.    Not  because  he  believes  its  wrong  to  put  more  burdens  on  our  citizens.    (Presidents  have  begged  for  a  line  item  veto  for  decades  to  prevent  these  artificial  additives.  Good  luck  on  that!)    Of  course  now  we  need  tens  of  thousands  of  new  bureaucrats  that  interpret  and  execute  the  new  policy.    Because  these  bureaucrats  are  individuals  and  not  a  mindless  hive  of  ants  that  march  exactly  to  the  orders  of  the  queen  ant  (The  President)  the  hundred-­‐page  bill  becomes  a  thousand  regulations.    Oh  by  the  way  isn’t  interesting  that  in  the  insect  world  it  s  the  female  that  rules!    The  new  beurocrats  cost  money.    Taxes  must  be  increased.    Then  over  time  our  individual  freedom  of  choice  becomes  more  and  more  limited.      And  of  course  each  new  regulation  has  unintended  consequences  that  require  more  bills  and  more  regulations  to  “fix  them”.    And  from  small  acorns  to  the  giant  oak  tree  of  our  great  country  it  increasingly  rots  from  the  inside  out.    Congress  has  a  duty  to  watch  how  their  new  bill  is  working.    But  with  the  size  of  our  present  federal  government,  which  has  three  to  four  million  people,  that  doesn’t  include  the  department  of  defense  or  our  armed  forces  or  our  security  agencies.    (No  one  seems  to  know  exactly  how  many!  But  it  is  at  least  ten  times  the  number  of  people  who  ran  the  country  in  1932.    How  can  a  few  hundred  members  of  congress  monitor  the  progress  of  their  legislation?    They  are  all  too  busy  checking  how  good  they  look  on  the  Internet.    Oh  and  by  the  way  we  are  supposed  to  be  a  free  society.    But  we  have  no  idea  how  many  people  work  for  the  CIA  or  NSA  or  homeland  security.    

Oh  and  where  is  the  Supreme  Court  the  third  check  to  the  balance  of  power.    Guys  these  are  just  twelve  men  and  women.    When  the  country  was  created  this  might  have  seemed  sufficient.    But  now  how  can  it.    There  are  so  many  disputes  outside  the  arena  of  politics.    How  can  they  devote  much  time  to  monitoring  the  behavior  of  Congress  or  the  President?    But  if  they  are  handed  a  political  football  to  judge,  do  you  really  think  they  judge  laws  by  the  constitution  or  by  their  personal  political  biases?    I  think  they  are  more  interested  in  who  is  the  quarterback  (the  guy  who  writes  the  majority  opinion)  that  scores  the  touchdown.    He  or  she  gets  in  the  history  book!    Supreme  court  decisions  have  many  times  changed  the  law  of  the  land.    The  constitution  never  intended  for  that  to  happen!    They  are  supposed  to  be  judges  not  law  makers.    Ob  you  might  say  we  did  have  presidents  where  policies  restricting  individual  liberty  were  reversed.      How  about  President  Reagan?    Yes  we  do  have  occasional  winds  that  blow  our  government  back  towards  liberty.    Fewer  taxes.    Fewer  regulations.    But  that  trend  is  inevitably  reversed  with  the  next  administration.    In  actually,  it  matters  not  if  republicans  or  democrats  are  in  power.    The  degradation  of  liberty  sometimes  crawls,  sometimes  marches  and  sometimes  runs  towards  eventual  disaster.        Enough  said  of  the  sad  state  of  affairs  of  our  political  process.    Let’s  examine  the  constitution  in  light  of  the  three  principles  that  our  county  declared  independence.    LIFE    This  principle  expressed  here  by  our  Founding  Fathers  is  the  belief  that  individual  life  is  sacrosanct.    That  at  that  times  a  King  living  in  Britain  could  theoretically  sentence  to  death  anyone  at  his  whim.    But  I  think  the  idea  is  more  universal.    Those  of  us  who  believe  in  a  supreme  being  who  has  commanded  us  in  the  bible  that  murder  is  a  sin  whether  done  by  an  individual  or  a  group  have  an  appreciation  for  that  fact.    But  I  think  for  them  it  should  be  more  clear  because  as  a  Supreme  Being  God  could  have  created  our  planet  with  millions  of  human  beings  not  just  one.          Jewish  lore  states  the  reason  God  created  the  world  with  just  Adam  was  to  show  that  causing  the  death  of  one  man  is  as  if  that  person  destroyed  an  entire  world.    On  the  opposite  side;  the  atheists,  the  evolutionists,  and  those  that  agree  with  Stephen  Hawking’s  that  all  of  creation  can  be  explained  by  modern  physics  without  resorting  to  an  all  powerful  God  whatever  their  reason  for  a  moral  stance  that  human  life  is  sacrosanct,  they  too  must  realize  the  beginning  of  humankind  must  have  been  started  with  just  a  handful  of  individuals.      So  that  there  too  if  those  first  intelligent  self  aware  beings  had  been  murdered  it  also  would  have  been  like  destroying  the  whole  world.    They  also  must  understand  that  causing  the  death  of  one  human  being  

could  result  in  an  Einstein,  a  Graham  Bell,  a  Thomas  Edison,  a  Gandhi,  a  Martin  Luther  King  or  any  of  the  greater  or  lessor  people  never  having  been  born.    Therefore  how  can  we  have  a  government  that  a  president  without  any  oversight  launches  a  drone  strike  and  murders  a  group  of  people  half  way  around  the  world  and  maybe  one  or  several  of  them  are  would  be  terrorists?    But  as  we  all  know  there  is  always  collateral  damage  the  euphemism  for  the  senseless  slaughter  of  innocent  women  and  children.    As  citizens  of  this  country  all  of  us  are  responsible  for  his  actions.    If  this  happened  in  the  1960’s  spontaneous  protests  would  occur  all  over  our  nation.    I  guess  as  a  nation  we  have  become  numb  to  the  evil  perpetrated  under  our  name.    That  of  course  is  just  the  smallest  of  outrages  committed  by  our  Presidents  over  time.    But  that  fault  lies  with  our  founding  fathers.      It  was  written  in  a  Constitution  that  created  the  authority  for  this  possibility  to  happen.    Our  founding  fathers  drenched  all  of  us  with  the  responsibility  for  a  sea  of  blood  and  pain  from  the  very  beginning  of  the  creation  of  our  great  county.    Can  any  of  us  now  have  let  a  constitution  be  written  that  allowed  slavery?    Think  of  all  the  lives  destroyed  by  this  act.    It  would  have  been  better  if  we  had  remained  a  loose  association  of  states  then  to  give  a  moral  blessing  for  such  an  outrageous  miscarriage  of  justice.    Don’t  forget  that  women  were  not  even  considered  to  be  citizens  when  they  wrote  the  Constitution.  They  had  no  representation.    They  could  not  vote.    Yet  we  got  what  we  deserved.    The  saying  “What  comes  around  goes  around”  hit  us  with  full  force  during  the  civil  war.    Six  hundred  twenty  thousand  of  our  US  citizens  died.    Another  five  hundred  thousand  were  severely  injured.    That  doesn’t  even  scratch  the  surface  of  the  property  loss,  the  economic  devastation  and  the  long-­‐term  consequences.    Let’s  discuss  the  creation  of  a  single  person  as  the  head  of  our  executive  branch  in  the  constitution.    Lovingly  called  POTUS  by  our  secret  service.    Parenthetically.  Just  the  act  of  our  nation  creating  a  body  of  men  called  the  “Secret  Service”  should  strike  fear  in  our  hearts.    What  secret  acts  have  these  men  and  women  done?    Our  free  society  should  have  no  room  for  secrecy.    But  lets  leave  that  aside  for  now.  What  are  some  of  the  highlights  of  the  history  of  our  early  Presidents?        Between  1801  and  1805  the  United  States  became  involved  in  a  war  against  the  so-­‐called  “Barbary  Pirates”  of  North  Africa.    The  war  was  fought  on  the  behest  of  American  merchantmen  that  were  captured,  enslaved  and  held  for  ransom.    The  negotiated  ransom  first  paid  was  one  million  dollars.    That  was  10%  of  the  entire  US  budget.    The  USA  continued  to  pay  it  for  fifteen  years,  until  Thomas  Jefferson  built  the  US  navy.      Self-­‐defense  is  a  righteous  and  appropriate  use  of  Federal  power.    But  in  this  case,  our  navy  and  marines  were  used  in  a  way  to  protect  special  interests.      The  merchantmen  knew  that  the  Mediterranean  was  an  unsafe  place  to  travel.    But  the  profits  were  high  and  worth  the  risks  involved  at  least  to  the  owners  of  these  ships.    But  when  their  sailors  were  enslaved  they  cried  to  our  government  to  take  

action.    Our  president  Thomas  Jefferson  with  just  a  wink  from  congress  authorized  action.    So  American  and  foreign  blood  was  spilled  for  the  sake  of  a  few  American  businessmen.    A  very  dangerous  precedent  was  established.      There  were  many  alternatives  then  the  use  of  Federal  Governmental  power  and  it  violated  an  important  moral  precept.    It  was  the  beginning  of    “special  interests”  influencing  our  government  without  regard  for  its  people.    I’m  sure  the  mother’s  of  the  dead  and  wounded  sailors  and  marines  were  very  happy  that  it  was  now  safe  to  send  shipping  through  the  Mediterranean.      You  could  argue  that  protecting  commerce  is  an  important  part  of  our  Federal  Government.      I  agree.    I  also  agree  that  a  justified  use  of  our  armed  forces  gives  us  vital  training  in  the  art  of  war  unavailable  in  peacetime.    But  it  must  be  used  judiciously,  with  great  care,  on  a  voluntary  and  well  paid  basis  by  the  men  involved  and  the  costs  should  be  born  by  the  direct  beneficiary’s.        Just  shortly  thereafter  was  the  war  of  1812.    I  wonder  how  many  Americans  know  that  the  song,  our  national  anthem,  the  Star-­‐Spangled  Banner  is  about  the  war  in  1812?    When  it  mentions  the  rockets  red  glare  and  the  bombs  bursting  in  air.    Those  were  the  latest  weapons  of  the  British  Army!    Yes  ladies  and  gentlemen  we  were  stupid  enough  to  get  involved  in  another  war  with  the  greatest  military  power  on  the  planet!    It  was  just  a  couple  of  decades  since  we  miraculously  won  our  freedom.  Our  president  and  congress  risked  the  entire  existence  of  our  country  on  the  throw  of  the  dice  of  war!    It  doesn’t  matter  now  why  they  did  it.    Some  say  we  didn’t  like  them  taking  our  sailors  who  believed  had  deserted  from  the  British  navy  off  our  vessels  in  open  sea.    Not  that  it  matters,  but  I  think  most  historians  would  say  we  thought  the  British  were  tied  down  with  Napoleon  in  Europe  and  we  could  steal  Canada  away  from  the  British.    The  war  lasted  more  then  two  years.    Our  capital  was  burned  to  the  ground.      What  idiocy  it  was  to  allow  our  Federal  government,  mostly  just  at  the  whim  of  our  president,  the  power  to  start  conflicts.    There  are  always  alternatives  to  resorting  to  war.  “Violence  is  the  last  refuge  of  the  incompetent.”      Isaac  Asimov.    I  have  been  an  amateur  military  historian  for  most  of  the  forty-­‐five  years  of  my  adult  life.    I  have  spent  thousands  of  hours  reading  about  wars  and  battles  and  have  played  tactical  and  strategic  simulations  of  most  of  the  battles  from  the  level  of  the  platoon  all  the  way  up  to  simulations  of  the  entirety  of  World  War  One  and  World  War  Two.    There  have  been  relatively  small  battles  in  the  last  seven  hundred  years  whose  outcome  changed  the  course  of  history.    Each  of  these  battles  was  affected  by  random  events  that  could  have  turned  the  outcome  either  way.  They  were  all  mostly  preventable.      They  were  often  mishandled  at  every  level  of  the  conflict.    Especially  by  the  meddling  of  the  Politian’s  overseeing  the  military.      The  last  thing  a  country  wants  to  do  is  subject  its  citizens  to  the  fog  of  war.        

Let’s  talk  about  the  constitution  making  the  president  the  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief  of  United  States  Armed  Forces.    Maybe  back  in  the  late  1700’s  it  made  sense  that  a  President  without  any  military  training  becoming  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief.    Wars  were  still  relatively  unsophisticated.      Men  would  stand  in  a  long  line  pointing  their  muskets  at  the  enemies  line  fire  away  and  then  charge  with  bayonets.      The  strategy  and  tactics  of  such  a  war  were  easy  to  understand  and  easy  to  teach  an  incoming  president.    But  today,  the  complexities  of  our  world  and  the  varieties  of  weaponry,  strategy  and  tactics  are  vast.    I’m  sure  even  our  Joint  Chiefs  of  Staffs  after  a  lifetime  in  the  military  would  be  the  first  to  admit  they  are  overwhelmed  by  the  possibilities  of  warfare  in  our  time.    Yet  from  President  Roosevelt  to  the  present,  (with  the  notable  exception  of  President  Eisenhower)  all  of  our  presidents  have  been  eager  to  use  our  military  as  their  private  toy.      Hundreds  of  thousands  of  precious  American  lives  have  been  lost  in  the  last  one  hundred  years  directly  because  we  have  a  President  as  Commander-­‐in-­‐chief.    None  of  those  wars  had  to  be  fought  by  the  US.    Or  at  least  in  the  form  and  ill  preparation  they  were  fought.      From  the  extension  of  the  length  and  destruction  of  World  War  One  to  the  horrors  of  all  the  wars  that  followed  they  were  all  the  result  of  unintended  consequences  of  our  government.    Ladies  and  gentlemen  you  have  been  sold  a  bill  of  trash.  It  was  the  mishandling  of  the  US  government  that  got  us  involved  in  both  great  wars.    I  can  show  World  War  two  was  an  unintended  consequence  of  the  US  government!    When  you  begin  to  doubt  the  historians  eager  to  laud  the  US,  you  will  understand  that  our  government  also  created  most  of  the  evils  that  followed  World  War  Two.    I  will  discuss  each  one  of  them  individually  later.    Those  of  us  who  were  brought  up  in  the  50’s  and  60’s  experienced  first  hand  the  emotional  impact  of  the  worry  of  a  world  ending  in  a  nuclear  holocaust.    Every  hour  there  would  be  a  test  of  the  emergency  broadcast  system  in  the  event  of  a  nuclear  attack  on  TV.    I  remember  at  age  seven  a  fallout  shelter  for  sale  at  the  neighboring  gas  station  in  the  suburbs  of  Chicago.      My  whole  family  glued  to  the  seats  of  our  dining  room  watching  the  latest  news  of  the  Cuban  missile  crisis.    If  you  haven’t  seen  them,  you  should  watch  On  the  Beach,  Failsafe  and  Dr.  Strangelove.      At  the  age  of  twenty-­‐one  I  began  trading  stocks  by  the  side  of  my  broker  at  Rodman  and  Crenshaw  in  Chicago.    It  was  the  middle  of  the  Yom  Kippur  War.    Across  the  ticker  tape  came  a  message  that  as  a  result  of  the  Soviet  Union  mobilizing  its  airborne  division  to  aid  Egypt,  President  Nixon  raised  the  nuclear  threat  level.    I  guess  he  was  willing  to  play  the  Nuke  card  on  his  own  authority.      It’s  a  miracle  the  world  is  still  here.    But  giving  all  that  power,  the  so-­‐called  nuclear  football  with  one  man,  the  president,  who  can  destroy  the  entire  planet  at  a  moments  notice  is  insane.  (By  the  way  why  isn’t  it  called  the  nuclear  baseball  that’s  our  national  sport!)?    What  if  one  of  them  wakes  up  in  the  middle  of  the  night  with  a  sudden  medical  condition  that  makes  him  paranoid  and  sure  that  we  are  under  nuclear  attack.    And  he  orders  a  preemptive  strike.  I  assume  there  are  safe  guards  but  after  the  shocking  event  of  911  can  we  be  so  sure?    So  by  the  test  of  Life  as  an  important  precept  of  the  United  States  Constitution,  the  office  of  presidency  fails  miserably.  

 This  is  why  I  am  not  only  running  for  president  but  I  am  running  to  be  the  final  president.      I  will  write  the  presidency  out  of  our  new  constitution.  I  will  discuss  the  presidency  in  light  of  the  other  precepts  of  our  great  country  as  we  go  on.    I  assure  you  the  office  of  presidency  fails  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness  as  well.    In  my  constitution  I  will  also  describe  a  more  rational  method  that  involves  as  much  of  our  citizenries  approval  as  possible  in  the  use  of  our  military  power,  the  power  over  life  and  death.    LIBERTY    The  idea  of  liberty  in  the  Declaration  of  Independence  meant  that  Americans  demanded  the  right  of  individual  freedom  of  choice  and  freedom  of  will.    The  former  meaning  that  all  Americans  wanted  the  right  to  choose  whatever  course  of  action  they  desired.    The  freedom  of  will  meant  that  all  Americans  wanted  the  right  to  choose  to  think  anyway  they  pleased.    So  the  founding  fathers  believed  they  had  created  a  constitution  that  supported  this  precept.    How  well  do  you  think  they  have  done?    Well  let’s  leave  the  glaring  mistake  of  allowing  slavery  aside  for  now.      They  believed  they  had  created  an  ingenious  document.      A  document  where  there  would  be  three  branches  of  government  that  would  balance  out  each  ones  power  over  the  other.      A  congress  that  would  be  represents  each  state  according  to  their  size  (The  House  of  Representatives  based  on  the  population  of  a  state)  and  their  existence  (The  senate  with  two  members  per  state).      An  executive  branch  composed  of  the  President  and  the  cabinet.    And  the  watch  dog  Supreme  Court  with  just  twelve  old  wise  men  and  women  in  power  for  life  answering  to  no  one.    So  our  nation  is  created.    Let’s  look  at  the  function  of  our  Congress  the  legislative  branch.  We  already  had  states  that  had  been  in  existence  for  decades.    The  States  all  had  a  detailed  set  of  codes  of  laws.      The  States  were  further  broken  down  to  Counties  that  had  their  own  set  of  laws.      The  counties  were  further  broken  down  to  municipalities  with  their  own  laws.    The  lawful  governing  of  our  citizenry  was  already  in  place.    It  was  working  well  with  no  great  burden  to  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness.    So  what  did  the  founders  think  the  Congress  would  do  to  enhance  the  freedom  of  its  individual  citizens?    Well  the  main  function  of  congress  is  to  legislate.      That  means  to  write  even  more  laws.    Does  anyone  believe  that  another  law  on  the  federal  level  would  help  create  more  freedom  for  its  citizens  or  less?    If  the  writers  believed  it  would  cause  more  freedom  why  did  they  amend  it  so  quickly  with  the  bill  of  rights?  What  else  does  congress  do?    They  watch  over  the  budget.    They  decide  the  allocation  of  Federal  money.    Considering  that  the  debt  is  now  18  trillion  dollars  they  have  done  a  crackerjack  job!    What  else?      They  are  supposed  to  have  exclusive  

power  to  declare  war.    Well  it’s  estimated  that  before  1970  the  president  has  ordered  military  actions  149  times  without  congressional  approval.        And  we  all  know  it’s  been  even  worse  since  then.  This  should  have  been  a  clear  impeachable  offense  by  the  president,  which  is  another  power  of  congress.    It’s  been  threatened  but  never  used.      What  else?    They  are  supposed  to  regulate  commerce  between  states  and  foreign  powers.    Does  anyone  believe  that  any  congressmen  has  the  know  how  to  run  even  the  simplest  of  businesses?      So  how  do  we  expect  them  to  help  run  the  biggest  economy  in  the  world?    What  else?    They  are  supposed  to  watch  over  the  executive  branch  to  make  sure  everything  is  Kosher.      Well  during  my  lifetime  there  has  been  scandal  after  scandal  in  the  executive  branch.    I  can’t  remember  a  single  time  that  congress  made  the  slightest  difference  after  months  of  hearings  except  maybe  when  they  caught  tricky  Dick  Nixon  at  Watergate.        They  approve  nominations  by  the  executive  branch.  I  doubt  that  matters.    The  executive  branch  ultimately  gets  what  it  wants.          They  are  supposed  to  approve  treaties  with  other  nations.        Well  firstly  our  present  President  has  been  side  stepping  this  power.    And  second  of  all,  treaties  by  their  nature  are  an  agreement  that  excludes  the  freedom  of  choice  of  some  of  our  citizenry.    The  United  States  should  not  make  a  treaty  with  anyone  because  they  contradict  the  principle  of  individual  Liberty.  Ah  the  US  Post  office  enough  said.      Patents  and  copyrights,  I  doubt  a  single  congressman  has  ever  been  involved  in  reviewing  these  very  important  ideas.    Oh  taxes.    Wow  there  they  have  created  the  most  complex  tax  code  in  the  history  of  the  world!  Big  Kudos!    Congress  grants  approximately  thirty  billion  dollars  of  foreign  aid  given  yearly.    I  don’t  know  where  they  got  the  authority  from  the  constitution  to  conduct  this  policy.    But  forcing  our  citizens  to  give  this  vast  some  of  money  with  little  oversight  to  regimes  that  are  hardly  similar  to  our  own  is  a  huge  travesty  of  justice  and  individual  liberty.  In  point  of  fact  private  charitable  foreign  funds  greatly  exceed  government  aid.  That’s  because  we  are  the  kindest  and  most  generous  group  of  individuals  on  Earth.    I  refer  you  to  read  the  excellent  article  written  by  the  former  house  representative  and  former  presidential  candidate  Ron  Paul  in  an  article  online  in  Antiwar.com.    So  in  the  constitution  that  I  will  write  there  will  be  no  congress!    It’s  totally  unnecessary  and  extremely  harmful.    Besides  in  present  day  United  States  the  president  has  stolen  most  of  the  power  of  the  congress  anyway.    The  great  benefit  of  no  Congress  is  no  federal  taxes  in  my  constitution!    Don’t  stop  reading  now.    The  United  States  Federal  government  has  many  ways  to  finance  itself  without  confiscatory  power.    I  am  not  a  lunatic.      Well  since  it  isn’t  the  full  moon  while  I  am  writing  this  maybe  you  should  be  worried.    (That  was  a  joke.  Humor  always  has  a  place  in  life.    One  of  my  greatest  teachers  told  me  to  be  truly  wise  you  need  a  good  sense  of  humor.)    

Let’s  turn  our  attention  to  the  executive  branch.    We  are  a  modern  people  now  so  lets  examine  the  cabinet,  as  it  exists  today  not  at  the  time  of  the  constitution.    How  well  does  the  cabinet  function  and  how  should  it  really  practice  in  protecting  our  lives  and  liberty.    THE  MAJOR  CABINETS  AND  AGENCIES    Office  of  the  Vice  President.    Well  there  will  be  no  President  so  any  need  for  an  office  of  the  Vice  President.    Secretary  of  State.        Serves  as  the  President’s  principal  advisor  on  U.S.  foreign  policy.    Well  again  no  president  so  no  need.    Conducts  negotiations  with  foreign  governments.      Well  we  are  the  United  States  of  America  the  most  powerful  nation  on  the  planet.    And  do  we  have  5000  nuclear  warheads  or  ten  thousand?    In  all  this  confusion  I  forgot.  We  don’t  negotiate  we  dictate.    Besides  we  are  a  nation  of  individuals,  no  one  person  can  make  decisions  that  we  all  must  abide.    Please  my  fellow  citizens  remember  the  military  draft  still  exists.    If  a  treaty  gets  us  involved  in  a  major  war,  you’re  children  may  be  forced  to  fight  and  die.    Grants  and  issues  Passports.    Ok  we  need  that  to  travel  and  reentry  our  land.    Advises  on  what  foreign  emissaries  can  reside  or  visit  the  USA.        Well  we  are  a  free  country.    Anyone  should  be  allowed  to  visit  our  country  and  stay  as  long  as  they  wish,  and  work  in  the  US  as  long  as  they  are  not  criminals  or  violate  our  laws.    (As  noncitizens  there  would  be  a  much  higher  standard  they  would  be  held  to  for  remaining  in  our  Country.)    So  this  is  an  important  function.    Every  law-­‐abiding  person  that  visits  or  works  in  our  country  not  only  increases  the  wealth  of  our  nation,  it  brings  back  our  culture  to  foreign  lands.    Parenthetically,  President  Hoover  blocked  immigration  right  after  the  onset  of  the  great  depression.  That  certainly  did  not  make  the  economy  better.    I  think  to  keep  our  ports  of  entry  running  as  smoothly  as  possible.      We  should  make  all  foreigners  visit  one  of  our  overseas  consuls  and  be  preapproved  to  visit  the  US.  The  granting  of  these  Visas  would  be  totally  done  on  the  authority  and  investigation  of  our  State  Department.  We  can  never  be  one  hundred  percent  sure  that  no  evil  doers  will  slip  through  the  cracks.      But  we  need  to  keep  attracting  the  best  and  the  brightest  and  the  most  freedom  loving  people  in  the  world  to  increase  our  wealth  and  opportunity.      Once  this  policy  is  in  effect,  going  through  immigration  should  be  a  breeze.    We  should  allocate  as  much  resources  as  necessary  to  review  all  applications  overseas.    We  should  greatly  increase  the  size  and  personnel  overseas  

in  our  counsels.  The  only  disqualification  should  be  a  check  of  crimes  on  previous  visits  to  the  US,  or  crimes  overseas,  or  serious  illness.    But  traditionally  the  Department  of  State  has  its  own  intelligence  division.    They  should  give  the  final  approval  of  any  visas.    It’s  a  dangerous  world  out  there  they  should  reject  those  they  suspect  of  harmful  activities.  But  there  should  be  an  appeal  process  if  someone  states  they  have  been  unjustly  accused  or  convicted  of  a  crime  outside  the  US.    They  would  have  to  pay  for  the  investigation  or  there  could  be  a  charitable  fund  created  in  the  US  to  help  these  people  that  may  live  in  sketchy  countries.        We  should  not  grant  diplomatic  immunity.    Half  of  these  diplomats  are  spies.    And  do  we  really  want  foreign  powers  being  able  to  smuggle  dangerous  items  in  their  diplomatic  pouches?    And  screw  them  taking  parking  places  illegally  in  Manhattan  and  getting  away  with  it.  Oh  and  by  the  way  did  you  know  that  during  World  War  two,  some  of  our  scientists  betrayed  nuclear  secrets  to  the  Soviet  Union?    Stalin  started  building  his  own  weapon  before  ours  was  completed.  However  the  Soviet  Union  had  no  source  of  Uranium  until  they  occupied  the  Czech  republic  in  1945.  And  that  source  they  didn’t  start  mining  it  until  1947.      Guess  where  they  got  their  Uranium  before  that.    They  stole  it  from  the  United  States  in  a  diplomatic  pouch,  two  tons  worth.    That  must  have  been  some  big  Kangaroo.      Anyway  if  you  allow  a  legal  and  significantly  less  costly  and  dangerous  way  of  arriving  at  our  country  without  crossing  deserts  with  coyotes;  Or  being  stuck  in  cargo  containers  for  long  voyages;  or  before  they  just  opened  Cuba  small  boats  across  the  Florida  straits;  we  wouldn’t  have  to  build  a  wall  on  the  Mexican  border.    We  aren’t  the  Soviet  Union  that  walls  people  in  or  out.    We  are  a  country  of  people  who  have  come  here  to  seek  freedom.    Are  we  going  to  allow  a  Nazi  like  action  and  round  up  11  million  mostly  hard  working  people  and  throw  them  out?  Almost  all  the  people  that  have  come  to  the  United  States  have  helped  to  build  it.    There  were  two  and  a  half  million  people  in  this  country  1776.      Now  there  are  three  hundred  and  twenty  million.    If  we  had  not  let  the  country  be  built  by  immigrants  we  would  be  a  third  of  the  size  we  are  now.      Let’s  not  forget  that  this  country  and  world  owes  it’s  greatness  to  just  a  handful  of  immigrants.    I  invite  you  to  explore  the  biography  of  Nikola  Tesla.    He  was  the  greatest  inventor  of  modern  times.    (Yes  that’s  the  guy  whom  Elon  Musk  named  his  company  after.)  It’s  a  fact  that  the  economy  and  opportunity  go  hand  in  hand  with  freedom  and  size  of  population.    If  they  can,  people  tend  to  stay  where  they  were  raised  with  their  friends  and  family.    It’s  only  the  biggest  risk  takers  and  hardest  workers  that  struggle  to  travel  to  the  freedom  of  the  US.    By  allowing  all  people  almost  unfettered  use  of  our  ports  of  entry,  we  will  be  a  more  secure  country.    Anyone  that  law  enforcement  becomes  aware  of  trying  to  enter  the  country  illegally,  by  crossing  the  desert,  using  Canadian  wilderness,  or  entering  illegally  by  sea,  we  can  assume  they  are  criminals  and  are  dangerous  and  act  accordingly.    

I  will  have  much  more  to  say  about  the  issues  surrounding  customs  and  immigration  laws  and  border  safety  when  I  write  my  suggested  constitution.    What  else?  They  are  supposed  to  negotiate  treaties.    Well  we’ve  seen  how  well  that  has  gone  with  Iran.    Again  treaties  are  against  the  principal  of  liberty.    Our  citizens  should  not  have  to  abide  by  an  agreement  with  a  foreign  power.    Treaties  can  be  very  dangerous  to  the  safety  of  the  world.      It  was  a  network  of  treaties  that  entangled  the  world  in  the  First  World  War.    Helps  our  citizens  abroad.      This  is  a  proper  and  important  function  of  the  State  Department.    So  yes  to  a  limited  form  of  the  Secretary  of  State.      But  I  think  all  the  proper  functions  I  have  described  above  can  be  administered  by  the  second  in  command  at  office  of  Secretary  of  State.        The  most  important  part  of  the  state  department  is  the  Secretary  of  State  himself  or  herself.    That  being  the  resolution  of  important  disputes  with  foreign  powers  that  may  involve  us  in  military  action.      I  will  describe  later  in  my  suggested  new  constitution  how  this  person  should  be  selected.    We  shouldn’t  have  a  secretary  of  states  that  have  had  no  experience  with  diplomacy  like  Hillary  Clinton  whose  only  use  of  her  position  was  to  travel  around  the  world  more  times  then  any  of  her  forbears.  A  person  who  enriched  her  family  to  the  tune  of  over  a  billion  dollars  by  misuse  of  her  position.      A  person  who  authorized  the  sneaky  ploy  that  allowed  the  Soviet  Union  to  steel  one  sixth  of  the  world  supply  of  Uranium.      Oh  and  by  the  way  I  never  had  sex  with  that  woman  (Hillary)!    Department  of  Treasury    The  United  States  of  America  has  the  largest  collection  of  assets  in  the  world  and  also  the  largest  debt.  So  of  the  executive  branches  this  should  be  one  of  the  most  important.  It  is  also  the  most  hated.      What  do  they  do?    Manage  Federal  finances.  That  seems  to  be  a  very  vague  duty.    I  guess  it  means  they  write  all  the  checks  to  the  other  departments.      Anyone  with  a  checkbook  could  do  that.    What  else?  Collect  taxes,  duties  and  any  other  money  due  to  the  US.        Should  be  a  no  brainer.    But  they  manage  to  foul  it  up  completely.    They  make  everyone  hate  them.    I  guess  one  of  the  sneaky  things  they  do  is  let  you  pay  them  on  the  installment  plan.    I  think  most  people  know  that  we  have  to  work  the  first  three  or  four  months  for  the  IRS  until  we  get  to  pocket  the  rest  of  our  dollars.      If  they  

acted  like  the  tax  collectors  in  the  Middle  Ages  where  they  came  to  you’re  home  the  first  three  months  of  the  year  and  took  all  your  earnings  the  country  would  have  an  immediate  revolution.    Because  when  you  look  at  income  taxes  in  this  light  you  realize  that  income  tax  is  outright  slavery.      They  print  currency  and  make  coins.    This  is  called  counterfeiting.    Some  would  say  that  if  the  government  does  it,  it  cannot  be  called  counterfeiting.    But  forcing  our  citizens  to  use  pieces  of  paper  and  numbers  in  our  bank  account  that  cant  be  redeemed  from  the  government  with  something  objective  what  else  can  you  call  it?    We  were  once  on  the  Gold  standard.    Every  dollar  created  by  the  Federal  Government  was  backed  by  gold.      But  for  United  States  citizens  in  1933  the  right  to  change  our  paper  money  to  something  physical  and  valuable  like  gold  was  taken  away.  But  it  was  worse  then  that,  all  American  citizens  had  to  turn  in  their  gold  for  paper  money.      Most  of  you  probably  don’t  know  or  remember  but  it  was  illegal  to  for  us  to  own  gold  until  1975.      Only  foreign  countries  could  redeem  US  dollars  into  gold  until  1971.      Can  you  believe  that  under  our  beautiful  constitution  a  President  not  only  stole  our  gold,  but  he  took  away  our  right  to  own  it!    The  government  had  many  rationalizations  for  this  brutal  attack  on  our  rights.    But  the  government  insists  they  have  been  granted  this  power  from  god.    Congress  passed  this  act  in  1861.    “Our  nation  under  God”    They  supervise  national  banks  and  institutions.    Well  gee  they  did  a  hum  digger  job  of  this  the  mid  2000’s.      They  almost  succeeded  in  destroying  the  entire  world’s  financial  institutions.    And  now  of  course  they  are  doing  equally  just  as  great  a  job.    The  Federal  Reserve  is  supplying  almost  unlimited  funds  to  the  banking  system,  but  the  Department  of  Treasury  is  making  sure  very  few  people  can  borrow  any  money.  So  basically  the  Department  of  Treasury  are  Chinese.    They  believe  in  Yin  and  Yang.    They  tried  Yin  letting  everybody  borrow  money  even  if  they  weren’t  credit  worthy.  That  ended  with  the  housing  crisis.    And  now  Yang  only  the  insiders  the  big  boys  can  buy  out  other  companies  with  all  this  extra  cash.      Everyone  else  you  have  shown  you  cant  be  trusted  with  debt.    This  is  one  of  the  real  reasons  the  economic  recovery  has  been  so  slow  the  last  five  years.    All  the  small  businesses,  the  small  startups  that  could  normally  get  loans  are  not  able  to  get  anything  until  they  prove  themselves.    Our  citizens  believing  in  themselves  and  getting  loans  from  banks  built  America.      We  need  to  close  shop  on  the  Treasury  as  far  as  administering  our  financial  institutions.      Oh  they  are  the  ones  that  will  take  you’re  property  when  you  don’t  pay  you’re  taxes.    They  will  also  put  in  jail  if  you  print  your  own  money.      As  Rand  Paul  said  don’t  steal  from  the  government  they  don’t  like  competition.    They  also  run  the  following  services.    The  secret  service.    They  protect  the  president  and  have  large  booty  parties.  

 Alcohol,  firearms  and  Tobacco.    Alcohol  department  enforced  the  Volstead  act  made  the  Kennedy  family  very  rich.  Oh  we  in  Chicago  got  three  great  pieces  of  entertainment  out  of  it.      The  TV  show  the  Untouchables.    The  movie  the  Untouchables,  and  a  piece  of  the  series  Boardwalk  Empire.          (I  am  going  to  be  liberal  in  the  use  of  idea’s  and  themes  created  by  Hollywood  films  and  fictional  writers.    I  am  using  these  ideas  to  emphasize  points.    I  know  they  are  fiction.  but  Hollywood  movies  represent  American  culture.      Aspects  of  Hollywood  films  have  undeniably  even  shaped  our  culture  and  our  patterns  of  thought.      There  are  many  instances  of  fiction  in  films  and  books  predicting  real  life  events.)      Firearms.      They  are  good.    They  ran  Project  Gunrunner  also  known  as  “Fast  and  “Furious”.        That  worked  out  real  well.    Guns  sold  by  our  government  were  used  in  numerous  crimes  on  both  sides  of  the  border.    Well  I  guess  this  violates  our  sanctity  of  life  test.    Tobacco    Well  I  guess  they  do  a  very  good  job.      American  cigarettes  are  prized  all  over  the  world  especially  Marlboros.    Department  of  Defense    Oh  my  god  this  department  is  stuffed  with  so  many  functions  I  am  not  going  to  bore  you  with  an  analysis.  The  following  is  copied  from  the  defense.gov  website.        Major elements of OSD Start_Module_618 ▪ Secretary of Defense ▪ Deputy Secretary of Defense ▪ Executive Secretary of the Department of Defense ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and

Logistics (AT&L) ▪ Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer

(USD(C)/CFO) ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (P&R)

▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ▪ Deputy Chief Management Officer ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A)) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs

(APSA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (GSA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (HA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global

Security ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

(ISA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (LA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel

Readiness (L&MR) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chief Information Officer (DoD

CIO) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Chemical & Biological

Defense Programs (NCB) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and

Programs (OEP&P) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (PA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering

ASD(R&E) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (RA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low

Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities ▪ General Counsel of the Department of Defense ▪ Inspector General of the Department of Defense ▪ Director of OSD Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) ▪ Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) ▪ Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight (IO) ▪ Director of Administration and Management (DA&M) ▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and

Concepts ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Manufacturing and

Industrial Base Policy

▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (I&E)

▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Readiness

▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy

▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy      I  can’t  find  the  data  of  how  many  of  the  people  in  these  multitude  of  sub  departments  are  actually  serving  member  in  the  military.      But  for  certain  the  Secretary  of  Defense  is  a  civilian.      There  is  no  requirement  that  this  person  has  served  in  the  military  or  that  he  has  gone  through  our  various  war  colleges.    Anyway  this  is  the  guy  that  is  supposed  to  advise  the  president  on  the  preparedness  and  the  use  of  military  power.    So  now  we  have  at  least  two  levels  of  Bozos  the  clown  deciding  the  fate  of  our  nation.    I  have  no  idea  how  many  other  personnel  without  any  military  training  theoretical  or  actual  work  in  this  department.      Ladies  and  Gentleman  the  most  important  people  in  our  lives  are  our  physicians.      Would  you  want  decisions  that  affect  your  life  determined  by  non-­‐physician  Hospital  administrators  or  the  physicians  themselves?    If  you  really  want  an  inside  look  at  the  functioning  of  the  Department  of  Defense  during  a  crucial  time  in  our  history,  I  urge  you  to  watch  the  documentary  “Fog  of  War”.    You  tell  me  if  this  makes  you  feel  sanguine  of  the  way  our  Department  of  Defense  conducts  itself.  I  have  to  mention  one  quote  from  that  movie  because  it  is  just  so  poignant.    General  Tecumseh  Sherman  was  one  of  the  most  revered  generals  in  the  history  of  the  United  States.    He  was  under  the  direct  command  of  Abraham  Lincoln  the  second  most  revered  president  after  Washington.        Sherman  came  with  his  forces  to  the  city  of  Atlanta  Georgia.    The  mayor  begged  the  general  to  spare  his  city.      Sherman  responded  “War  is  cruel”.    And  then  Sherman  torched  the  city  and  burned  it  down.    (I  have  been  told  that  this  quote  in  the  fog  of  war  is  inaccurate.    That  General  Sherman  said  this  to  his  aides  not  to  the  mayor.  I  don’t  see  much  difference.    He  said  it  and  he  burned  Atlanta.)  An  American  general  destroying  a  great  American  city!        Lets  contrast  this  with  the  Nazi  General  Dietrich  von  Choititz.    This  is  a  man  who  had  carried  every  order  of  his  beloved  Adolf  Hitler  including  the  extermination  of  Jews.      But  when  Hitler  ordered  this  general  to  burn  down  Paris  he  refused.    Food  for  thought.  

 The  current  organization  of  the  military  could  certainly  use  vast  revisions.    There  also  definitely  needs  to  be  a  civilian  structure  that  supervises  our  military.    But  the  civilians  that  supervise  the  military  who  make  the  most  important  decisions  affecting  our  nation  the  conduct  of  military  force,  must  be  professionals  with  life  long  training  in  all  of  our  military  colleges.      They  must  be  independent  of  the  military  with  no  cronyism.    They  must  dedicate  their  lives  to  this  mighty  responsibility.    They  must  represent  as  closely  as  possible  the  individual  wishes  of  our  citizens.      They  will  get  no  glory  for  their  decisions.    They  will  never  have  or  develop  monetary  or  friendly  relationships  with  our  defense  industry.    I  will  describe  my  ideas  more  fully  later  when  I  write  my  replacement  constitution.          Department  of  Justice    The  principal  duties  Attorney  General    who  administers  this  department  are:    Represent  the  USA  in  legal  matters  I  see  no  harm  in  that.    Supervise  the  massive  bureaucracy  of  this  department  I  won’t  bore  you  with  a  case-­‐by-­‐case  analysis,    When  I’m  elected  I  would  ask  every  part  of  this  organization  to  justify  its  existence.    Represent  the  government  before  the  Supreme  Court.    I  find  no  fault  with  that.    The  drug  enforcement  agency  is  a  division  of  this  department.      It  was  established  to  stop  the  use  of  illegal  drugs.      To  date  it  has  spent  more  then  a  trillion  dollars  on  an  endeavor  that  has  had  just  as  much  success  as  the  Volstead  Act  that  required  a  constitutional  amendment.        (Can  you  believe  that  alcohol  was  illegal  for  seventeen  years!)?  It  has  criminalized  many  of  our  citizens,  violating  their  individual  liberty.    Jeopardy  problem.    The  enacting  of  the  War  on  Drugs.      Who  was  tricky  Dick  Nixon?    Last  year  the  Federal  Government  spent  25  billion  dollars  on  drug  control.    The  state  and  local  levels  governments  in  total  spend  35  billion  dollars.      Unbelievable.    Did  you  know  that  almost  1%  of  the  citizens  of  our  great  nation  are  in  prison.    It  would  be  a  lot  more  if  we  had  the  space.        Of  those  prisoners  about  20%  are  serving  time  for  drug  offenses.        Oh  by  the  way,  Afghanistan  is  the  source  of  almost  all-­‐illegal  opium  in  the  world.      If  we  had  just  opened  a  new  super,  super  big  Wal-­‐Mart  and  traded  nice  American  goods  for  the  opium  don’t  you  think  we  would  have  made  out  like  bandits?    For  a  few  items  of  cheap  Wal-­‐Mart  crap  we  could  have  cornered  the  whole  illegal  opium  market!    Then  we  bring  it  back  to  the  US  and  charge  a  comparatively  huge  amount  selling  it  to  our  drug  companies!    The  Taliban  would  have  gone  bankrupt.      We  

wouldn’t  have  had  the  longest  war  in  US  history  that  probably  cost  us  1.3  trillion  dollars!      We  wouldn’t  have  lost  two  thousand  great  Americans  and  seventeen  thousand  wounded.    We  wouldn’t  have  fought  in  a  country  that  hasn’t  been  conquered  by  anyone  since  Genghis  Kahn.    If  you  don’t  know  this  if  Genghis  Kahn  had  died  six  months  later  then  he  did,  the  Mongols  would  have  controlled  the  entire  landmass  between  the  Pacific  Ocean  and  the  Atlantic  Ocean!        Only  Alexander  the  great  came  close  to  the  amount  of  territory  he  conquered!      Not  bad  for  little  guys  on  horses  with  bows  and  arrows!      Next  time  we  go  to  the  Middle  East  we  should  ask  our  native  tribes  to  fight!    The  US  cavalry  said  American  native  cavalry  were  the  best  cavalry  in  the  world!    We  all  have  read  accounts  or  seen  movies  of  the  billionaires  created  by  our  drug  laws.      I  think  anyone  reading  this  knows  the  same  thing  happened  during  prohibition.    Those  who  cannot  remember  the  past  are  condemned  to  repeat  it    (George  Santayana)    I  have  to  comment  on  the  injustice  of  our  justice  system  nationwide.      There  has  to  be  a  better  way  to  manage  crime  and  punishment.    We  spend  twice  as  much  per  year  keeping  someone  in  prison  as  we  do  educating  our  children.        I  will  describe  a  much  more  rational  way  to  manage  criminal  justice  that  does  not  involve  prisons  as  we  know  it.    That  can  actually  make  crime  pay  for  the  rest  of  us,  while  making  the  possibility  of  rehabilitation  much  more  likely.          Department  of  Interior    This  is  another  one  of  those  convoluted  departments  that  managed  relationships  with  the  native  tribes  of  America  and  Hawaii  and  all  federal  land.    This  department  has  been  totally  mismanaged  from  day  one.    What  our  country  did  to  the  indigent  population  of  America  was  criminal.      Hitler  used  our  behavior  towards  our  native  population  for  his  moral  justification  of  resettling  the  Ukraine  with  German  citizens.    So  you  know  if  Hitler  liked  the  activities  of  this  department  we  should  cheer  it  on  to  oblivion.    Department  of  Agriculture    Oh  great  a  bunch  of  non-­‐farmers  telling  farmers  how  to  do  their  job.    Then  there  is  that  program  they  subsidize  to  turn  corn  into  alcohol.      Hey  guys,  there  is  a  crude  oil  glut  in  the  world  right  now.    Stop  giving  our  money  to  farmers  to  help  fuel  our  cars.    We  don’t  need  it.    It  hurts  the  environment  too.  Handing  out  money  to  not  grow  crops,  its  ridiculous.    Keeping  a  silly  import  duty  on  sugar  so  that  all  citizens  have  to  

pay  a  higher  price  for  sugar  then  the  world  price.    The  United  States  has  no  strategic  interest  in  keeping  uneconomical  sugar  industry  alive.  I’m  sure  if  most  of  the  honest  remaining  US  farmers  knew  I  was  disbanding  this  department  they  would  certainly  vote  for  me.      Any  of  you  commodity  traders  like  me  know  that  this  department  makes  or  breaks  you  with  trading  grains.    Totally  manipulative  and  totally  pathetic.    Department  of  Commerce    These  guys  could  never  run  their  own  company.    Government  has  no  business  getting  involved  in  commerce.    This  is  clearly  a  department  opposed  to  individual  liberty.    They  do  collect  interesting  data.    But  this  is  certainly  a  function  better  suited  to  the  private  sector.    Delete!  Delete!  Delete!    Department  of  Labor    This  department  works  on  the  basis  that  there  is  a  war  out  there  between  employees  and  employers.    What  do  you  think?    I  think  not.    Get  rid  of  it.      Department  of  Health  and  Human  Services    Hmmm.      Human  services  does  that  mean  there  are  some  nonhuman  services  out  there?    I’m  a  physician.    I  have  a  huge  bias  against  Medicare,  Medicaid,  Obamacare,  the  US  Food  and  Drug  administration  and  governmental  health  research.    Basically  the  whole  shebang.    But  what  I  said  in  the  beginning  would  be  part  of  my  program.    I  would  delegate  all  these  programs  and  agencies  to  the  state  level.    If  a  state  wanted  to  keep  all  of  this  going  for  their  citizens  it  would  be  their  choice.    But  on  a  federal  level  no  more  no  more!    Department  of  Housing  and  Urban  Development    This  is  the  department  that  has  the  most  responsibility  for  the  housing  crisis  of  2008.      They  encouraged  people  to  go  over  their  heads  in  debt  to  own  a  home.    This  is  one  of  the  most  socialist  piece  of  crap  organizations  in  the  government.    I  would  get  rid  of  it  in  its  entirety.    Department  of  Transportation    What  a  joke.      These  guys  think  they  can  help  with  our  roads,  our  railroad  system,  and  airline  travel.      Most  of  our  roads  have  been  maintained  very  well  on  the  state  and  local  level.    The  problems  come  in  that  the  money  collected  by  all  of  us  when  we  

buy  fuel  is  not  directed  at  keeping  our  highway  system  functioning.    It  goes  into  the  big  Federal  money  pot.    The  air  traffic  control  system  is  so  out  of  date  it’s  laughable.  We  would  be  much  better  off  if  the  airlines  themselves  created  a  private  association  that  would  take  on  this  responsibility.    The  airlines  are  the  experts  in  air  travel.    They  have  a  vested  interest  in  making  this  travel  as  efficient  and  safe  as  possible.        As  a  side  note  it  was  the  FAA  that  made  911  possible.    They  made  it  a  rule  that  the  pilots  had  to  let  hijackers  enter  the  cockpit.    The  use  of  an  aircraft  as  an  instrument  of  massive  destruction  had  already  been  published  in  a  novel  written  by  Tom  Clancy  in  1994  titled  Debt  of  Honor.    In  this  book  a  disgruntled  Japanese  pilot  flies  a  Jumbo  Jet  into  the  state  of  Union  address  killing  everyone  in  the  Capital,  basically  decapitated  our  entire  government.    Lady’s  and  gentlemen  what  a  failure  of  the  tens  of  thousands  of  governmental  bodies  that  are  supposed  to  prevent  just  this  type  of  attack.    Do  none  of  them  read  popular  fiction?    Simply  telling  our  pilots  never  open  their  door  to  terrorists  would  have  saved  thousands  of  lives  and  billions  of  dollars.    The  patriot  act  was  drafted  as  a  result  of  this  horror.    It  has  been  a  terrible  infringement  on  individual  liberty.    Yet  I  do  believe  there  is  a  role  of  the  government  in  the  interstate  highway  system.    This  system  was  ordered  to  be  built  by  President  Eisenhower  who  saw  how  difficult  it  was  transferring  our  military  forces  across  the  nation  in  a  time  of  crisis.      If  the  Japanese  in  world  war  two  knew  how  slow  our  response  to  an  attack  of  our  nation  would  be,  they  could  have  invaded  our  west  coast  and  would  have  been  very  difficult  to  dislodge.    I  think  Federal  control  of  the  interstates  remains  an  important  function  in  protecting  individual  liberty.    I  will  describe  why  in  my  constitution.    Department  of  Energy    This  august  body  were  the  people  that  ran  the  Manhattan  project.    The  story  of  the  building  of  the  Atomic  Bomb  and  later  the  more  powerful  hydrogen  bomb  should  be  required  reading  of  all  citizens  of  the  United  States.    We  are  the  only  country  in  the  world  that  has  used  these  weapons  to  kill  people.      I  personally  saw  the  monument  of  the  shadow  of  people  imprinted  on  a  building  in  Hiroshima.    It  made  me  very  emotional.    It  still  makes  me  sigh  when  I  think  about  it.    The  costs  and  benefits,  the  history,  the  betrayals,  the  espionage,  the  ethics  remain  important  topics  to  our  citizenry.  It’s  impossible  to  put  the  genie  back  in  the  bottle,  but  let  us  not  forget  that  the  architect  of  this  weapon  announced  after  the  first  nuclear  test  explosion  that  he  had  become  “Death  the  destroyers  of  worlds”.    Albert  Einstein  sent  the  letter  to  President  Roosovelt  advising  him  to  construct  the  atom  bomb.      Late  in  his  life,  Einstein  said  that  letter  was  his  only  regret.    I  studied  the  Manhattan  project  when  I  was  eighteen  years  old.    I  read  every  book  in  the  Library.      I  was  fascinated.    The  librarian  helped  me  look  through  periodicals  with  details  of  this  project.      As  a  result  of  my  extensive  research,  I  wrote  my  first  paper  in  

college  titled  how  I  could  build  an  Atomic  Bomb.      I  also  learned  considering  the  enormous  size  of  this  project,  all  of  the  science  that  had  to  be  invented,  the  sheer  number  of  highly  gifted  physicists,  chemists,  engineers  and  out  of  the  box  thinkers,  the  building  of  the  infrastructure,  it  could  not  have  been  built  in  peacetime.    It  could  not  have  been  built  by  Germany.        I  personally  spoke  to  one  of  the  architects  of  the  Hydrogen  Bomb.    I  was  his  anesthesiologist.    I  asked  him  in  retrospect  would  he  have  helped  build  a  bomb,  one  thousand  times  as  powerful  as  the  original  weapon  dropped  on  Hiroshima.  He  emphatically  said  no  way  on  earth!    There  continued  role  supervising  the  development  of  nuclear  technology  is  controversial.    I  think  we  need  a  nation  wide  discussion  of  the  future  of  nuclear  technology  both  for  peaceful  and  military  uses.    Considering  that  these  weapons  can  result  in  the  destruction  of  the  planet  its  importance  cannot  be  emphasized.    Department  of  Education    This  is  a  euphemism  for  the  department  of  propaganda.            All  kidding  aside,  it  has  no  place  in  Federal  Government.      It  violates  our  freedoms  and  our  pursuit  of  happiness.    This  department  just  represents  the  way  our  whole  executive  branch  is  bringing  us  closer  and  closer  to  total  central  government  planning.    I  know  we  are  still  far  away  from  being  able  to  compare  our  executive  branch  to  the  old  Soviet  Union  which  collapsed  because  of  central  planning,  but  that  is  the  direction  we  are  headed.    Department  of  Veteran  Affairs    Well  we  all  should  have  heard  recently  of  the  failures  of  this  department.      I  personally  worked  for  many  months  in  the  West  Side  VA  hospital  in  Chicago  both  as  a  medical  student  and  as  a  resident.      It’s  basically  a  place  where  our  veterans  are  treated  as  guinea  pigs  for  the  training  of  our  physicians.    It  needs  to  be  replaced.    Part  of  the  benefits  we  should  give  our  armed  forces  for  their  service  should  be  life  long  private  care  by  the  best  of  our  medical  system.    Shortly  before  the  2004  election,    the  New  England  Journal  of  medicine  had    a  description  of  the  new  state  of  care  for  battlefield  injuries  in  the  Middle  East.    It  was  amazing  to  see  how  the  new  policies  saved  more  lives  then  in  all  previous  conflicts.    But  the  graphic  pictures  were  heart  breaking.    If  Kerry  had  used  these  pictures  in  the  presidential  campaign  he  would  have  had  a  great  shot  of  winning.    Anyway  the  long-­‐term  care  for  these  gravely  injured  soldiers  should  be  on  the  same  level  as  the  treatment  that  saved  their  lives.    

President  Bush  should    have  personally  pinned  purple  hearts  on  each  of  these  soldiers.    Maybe  that  would  have  persuaded  him  that  our  troops  should  have  been  brought  home.    Department  of  Homeland  Security    When  President  Bush  coined  the  term  “Homeland”,    it  brought  up  thoughts  in  my  head  of  the  “Fatherland”  Nazi  Germany.    I  wonder  how  many  other  Americans  had  the  same  thought.  Shortly  after  world  war  two  the  Central  Intelligence  Agency  was  created  because  of  the  intelligence  lapse  at  Pearl  Harbor.  They  were  supposed  to  collate  all  the  intelligence  gathered  by  the  other  alphabet  soup  of  agencies  into  a  unified  outlook.      After  911  our  government  decided  that  wasn’t  enough.      This  policy  is  a  failure  of  the  understanding  of  the  psychology  of  individuals.    All  the  heads  of  our  law  enforcement  services  compete  with  each  other  for  money,  for  power,  for  attention.      That’s  why  they  keep  all  their  secrets  to  themselves.  This  has  to  stop.    All  these  agencies  need  to  be  either  disbanded  or  unified  into  one.      The  whole  subject  of  espionage,  counter-­‐espionage  and  the  medaling  in  the  affairs  of  other  nations  should  be  questioned.      My  favorite  quote  of  Benjamin  Franklin  is  “They  who  give  up  essential  liberty  to  obtain  a  little  temporary  safety  deserve  neither  liberty  nor  safety”.    This  quote  should  be  made  into  a  big  sign  at  the  entrance  of  all  of  our  federal  security  and  enforcement  agencies.      Finally  we  have  two  agencies  that  seem  to  live  in  a  world  of  their  own.    The  Environmental  Protection  Agency    I  graduated  as  a  Chemical  Engineer  in  1975.      I  actually  applied  for  an  internship  at  this  agency  as  a  sophomore.      I  was  way  too  honest  about  myself  on  my  application.    All  my  friends  at  least  got  interviewed.    I  was  ignored.    Maybe  even  put  on  a  watch  list!    The  Wall  Street  Journal  has  been  going  bananas  about  this  agency  in  the  last  few  months.    It  seems  they  want  to  destroy  all  use  of  fossil  fuel  in  our  country  and  use  windmills.    Well  maybe  that  would  work  in  Holland.      Also  it  could  work  where  I  spend  my  summers  in  Hood  River  Oregon  wind  surfing  capital  of  the  continental  US.    But  the  WSJ  states  this  will  at  least  triple  the  cost  of  energy  for  our  citizens  with  no  proven  benefit.    I  have  no  reason  to  disbelieve  them.    The  Federal  Communication  Commission      There  are  three  Democrats  on  this  commission  out  of  five  people.    They  fall  in  line  behind  Obama’s  agenda.    They  are  supposed  to  be  independent.    The  Wall  Street  Journal  also  hates  these  guys.    They  are  out  to  destroy  the  Internet.    Rub  a  dub  dub,  

Three  fools  in  a  tub,  And  who  do  you  think  they  be?  The  butcher    Jessica  Rosenworcel  probably  was  doing  her  nails  with  a  knife  when  she  passed  this  new  regulation.  The  baker  Mignon  Clyburn,  he  was  probably  stoned.  The  candlestick  maker  Thomas  Wheeler,  who  was  definitely  an  arsonist  as  a  child.  Turn  them  out,  knaves  all  three.    That  brings  us  to  the  Supreme  Court  and  liberty.    I  have  already  touched  on  there  proclivities.    I  would  say  that  the  Federal  Court  System  is  one  of  the  few  departments  I  would  greatly  increase  in  size.    But  I  would  rearrange  them  into  many  distinctly  different  areas  of  responsibility.    Stay  tuned  for  my  details.    Well  I  guess  that  brings  us  to  the  pursuit  of  happiness.    Happiness  is  the  most  elusive  goal  of  mankind.      Not  much  help  explaining  what  it  is  by  Webster.  One  site  on  the  internet  states  happiness  is  that  feeling  that  comes  over  you  when  you  know  life  is  good  and  you  cant  help  but  smile.      I  guess  that  person  believes  in  legalizing  pot.    Ayn  Rand  whose  philosophy  I  followed  from  age  16  to  21,  states  happiness  in  non-­‐contradictory  joy.    Well  I’  m  going  to  make  some  assumptions  of  what  the  founding  fathers  meant  when  they  went  to  war  over  the  pursuit  of  happiness.    Happiness  is  keeping  the  fruits  of  you’re  labor.      Those  guys  hated  taxes.  Happiness  is  being  able  to  practice  you’re  religion  without  interference.  Happiness  is  freedom  of  speech  and  thought.  Happiness  is  not  having  you’re  land  confiscated  for  any  reason.    Well  I  guess  the  founding  fathers  forgot  about  this  when  they  allowed  “eminent  domain”  in  our  constitution.  Happiness  is  being  able  to  raise  you’re  children  and  educate  them  without  interference.      Happiness  is  being  able  to  leave  the  fruits  of  you’re  labor  to  you’re  children  without  confiscation.    Inheritance  taxes  are  an  anathema!  Happiness  is  not  being  treated  like  a  slave  in  any  manner.    No  false  imprisonment.  No  involuntary  labor.  No  military  draft.    Well  I  guess  at  least  a  couple  of  these  joys  still  exist  in  the  US,  the  rest  need  to  be  returned.    That’s  all  I  have  to  say  before  I  start  writing  out  my  new  US  Constitution.    Aren’t  you  excited?      Oh  I  do  have  one  other  agency  I  forgot  the  Federal  Reserve.