By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--November 7, 2023
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Wrapping up this series about RESPECT, there are more fundamental requirements for a civilized culture and society. The next requirement is absolute RESPECT for laws men have enacted for a peaceful and orderly society. RESPECT for laws are the voluntary sideboards a culture has decided will allow for maximum individual liberty without infringing on the liberty of others within that society. Each individual must be held accountable should they choose not to RESPECT established standards of behavior. Failure to RESPECT the law results in chaos, anarchy, and tyranny.
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." ~ James Madison
Canada and the United States of America have founding documents to guide their citizens for a peaceful and orderly society. A mandatory requirement to achieve and maintain those societies is RESPECT for those documents by all those governing these nations. The citizens of both countries have RESPECT for their government officials as long as those officials demonstrate RESPECT for the founding documents and all laws legally promulgated based on those founding documents. Sadly, in both Canada and the United States, government officials, elected and hired as civil servants, demonstrate every day a lack of RESPECT for the law and the citizens who are paying their salaries. When government officials become so arrogant that they think they know more than the people who pay them, that government is in a process of collapse. When officials become self-appointed tyrannical dictators, they lose the RESPECT of their citizens.
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." ~ James Madison
"To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." ~ Thomas Jefferson
I feel I have a pretty good handle on what is going on in the United States in regard to the present government. Too many American government officials have no RESPECT whatsoever for the United States Constitution and the laws developed from the Constitution. These American government officials have no RESPECT whatsoever for the taxpaying citizens of America. Sadly, this lack of RESPECT is also the case with many city and state jurisdictions as well. The reality in the United States of America is that lawlessness rules the federal government and many cities and states. Equal justice under the law is dead in those jurisdictions that have abandoned the Constitution and the rule of law. The federal government has become a Stalin/Hitler type police state where equal rights cannot exist. It is now a police state where federal government officials use federal resources against their political enemies, just like Stalin, Hitler, and communists all over the world today. These government officials RESPECT nothing but their own power and how they can use that power to enrich themselves. Where lawlessness prevails, civilization has collapsed.
"A sacred RESPECT for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government." ~ Alexander Hamilton
Civilization and our respective cultures have not yet totally collapsed in America and Canada. Most of the American and Canadian provinces are holding on tightly to prevent the total collapse of our cultures and society. However, we are only one small misstep away by the government that will bring down consequences neither government is prepared for. I don’t know what that misstep might be, but I am convinced that Canadians and Americans are not prepared to live in a world of anarchy that lawlessness will bring on.
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Please take the time to reflect on the words and wisdom of American leaders of the past. How do these thoughts apply to life in America today?
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." ~ John F. Kennedy
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” ~ Thomas Paine
"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual." ~ John Hancock
"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one." ~ James Madison
"If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." ~ Samuel Adams
"When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government." ~ Alexander Hamilton
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." ~ Samuel Adams
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." ~ George Washington
Each and every one of us should RESPECT the words of the men who gave us the opportunity to have the most loving, civilized, free, giving, and prosperous nation to ever exist on the planet. We must also RESPECT that those who preceded us understood the foibles of human nature and heed their warnings about the dangers of a corrupt government!
If the United States of America’s culture is allowed to fail, misery for the human race is all that is on the horizon. The world-wide ruling class has told us what is in store for humanity if they are allowed to achieve their goal of total power. According to the human caused climate change extremist ruling class’ plan, in order to save the planet 90% of mankind must be eliminated. I RESPECT the reality that this is their plan, but I reject their premise.
"A revolution is coming…. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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After a 55 year career as a professional pilot in the military, in law enforcement, in the private sector, and in federal civil service, I am now retired.
In many of these positions I repeatedly took an oath to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.