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The Simple-Ideas Occasional

A publication dedicated to the study and celebration

of common sense and repeatable experiments

Robert L. Nuckolls, III

Medicine Lodge, KS

Number 104, Rev B, August 28, 2010

Does any of this make sense to you?

Take this job and shove it. I got free health care!

Last May 12th, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was

speaking before the Asian American and Pacific Islanders

Summit(4)

. Speaking of the health care reform package she

was heard to offer the following words:

W e see it as a entrepreneurial bill, Pelosi said,

a bill that says to someone, if you want to be

creative and be a musician or whatever, you can

leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill,

your passion, your aspirations b ecause you will

have health care. "

An entrepreneurial bill? One of the highest officials of

government told folks it is perfectly okay to throw

responsibility for independent self-sufficiency onto the

shoulders of fellow citizens. She suggests that it doesnt

matter if your daily efforts do not go to production (a job)

which you trade for value (money) with which yo u providefor your ow n creature comforts including health care.

Of course Ms. Pelosis assertions did not speak to housing,

food, clothing or transportation. No problem. All that stuff

will no dou bt be offered future legislation being crafted by

Congress. Taken at face value, it appears that Speaker

Pelosi is encouraging individuals to become clients of a

welfare state financed from the productivity of the

independently self-sufficient citizens.

I dont read legislation, I just talk a lot

and promise more.

On Augu st 25, Senator Max Bacus and Secretary Kathleen

Sebilius attended a town hall meeting in Libby, M T(5)

. A

local citizen, Judy Mattot, asked the Washington duo, if

either of you read the health care bill before it was passed

and if not, that is the most desp icable, irresponsible thing.

Mr. Bacus (who claims major authorship of the bill)

replies,

I dont think you want me to waste my time to

read every page of the health care bill. You know

why? Its statutory language, Baucus said. We

hire experts.

Mr. Baucus offers one of countless examples where the

Congress of the United States has crafted thousands of

pages of law that give rise to hundreds of thousands ofpages of regulation where even the self-acclaimed author

of a bill has delegated constitutional duties to hired

experts.

These so-called experts are expected to produce a

voluminous work . . . after all. the taxpayers want to

receive fair value for their mo ney from these exorb itantly

paid public servants. Never mind that the work product

requires the ordinary citizen to hire lawyers to advise him

how to b e in compliance with laws that have a profound

effect on their liberty and the future of the nation.

According to the founding fathers, federal law wasintended to protect liberty and to deliver justice when

liberties were violated. Laws that protect liberty are

simple, direct, easily crafted. Laws that promote tyranny

are voluminous, crafted in arcane language and written so

that citizens affected most by their passage are ignorant of

the consequences. Congress sets their experts to the task

of creating, administrating and punishing transgressors of

law while they reap astounding per sonal benefit.

The top and the bottom are riding

while folks in the middle push the wheelbarrow

Its not a great stretch of imagination to suggest that themajority of Congressional members are also clients of a

welfare state. Pelosi, Bacus, Sebelius and most of their

colleagues produce nothing of merchantable value. In

other words, if they established a storefront to offer

products of their labors, who might we expect to walk in

wanting to make a purchase? They produce nothing of

value. Their only saleable commodity is favors granted at


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the expense of others. Like all welfare recipients,

government depends on the productivity of others. The

only difference between individuals in the employ of

government and Pelosis hypothetical entrepreneurs is

that governments slice of the American pie is

astronomically larger and more secure.

Finally, let us consider this under-reported bit of news

from the city of New York .(3)

It seems that the government

of Mexico has announced through its United Nations

consulate that it will begin patrolling the New Y ork City

borough of Staten Island to safeguard its nationals

there.Consul General Ruben Beltran emailed the Staten

Island Advance to say, We are working hand-in-hand

with local authorities on all levels.

Church Lady Dana Carvey would say, Well, isnt that

special! With the state of New York teetering on the edge

of financial disaster, they are unable to fund police

department staffing sufficient to insure goo d order in theirown house. So b eing remiss in their duty to the public, the

administration allows a body of foreign police to put boots

on the grou nd to assist the locals.

A substantial burden to the state of New Y ork (and many

other states) includes funds and services to non-citizens

on welfare rolls. Now we read that these same non-citizens

will benefit from forceful pro tection by more non-citizens.

I wond er how muc h of the potential violence is initiated by

non-citizens of other nationalities who are jealously

guarding their particular slice of the pie. Nonetheless,

conditions described in this situation offer a r isk of a US

citizen being subjected to force on American soil wieldedby foreign police. Isnt this what we went to war about in

1775? How is it that a foreign force is operating in our

country with permission if not by invitation of

government? Other foreign forces have staked a claim to

territory in sou thern Arizona. Ah, but of course, THOS E

forces are criminals. THESE forces are ou r friends.

Forgive me but I think our founding fathers would call

BOT H groups cr iminal invaders. They would also call for

enablers to be investigated for traitorous behavior in the

perpetration of overt violations of national sovereignty and

the security of our citizens.

Remember Kosovo? Plotting present trends into the

future, how long will it be before a foreign p ower of some

name storms the state capitol of New York to launch a

humanitarian war ostensibly to protect poor, innocent

squatters on American soil?

Its not what you say, its what you D O!

For thousands of years, mankind has been aware if not

fully understanding of a fact that some individuals just

don't act right". Cavemen prob ably had to ignore, banish

or even dispatch an individual whose behaviors put the

tribe at risk. Shamans of old devised tools for boring holesin heads . . . to allow evil spirits to escape. Modern

investigators of such maladies understand a much more

than our ancestors. But the ability to cure an individual of

their affliction hasn't really improved much.

Our courts have recognized certain human behaviors as

being dangerous to the victim, to others or both.

Legislatures have crafted law that allows "due process"

upon the liberty of certain individuals when they've lost

control of their faculties for honorable behavior.

In some in stances, the courts say the aberran t individual

KNOWS the difference between right and wrong. Theirbehavior is deemed a "crime" and becomes justification

for punishment (jails that look like jails) and treatment

intended to promot e a modification of behav ior (isolation

from society and a restraint of privilege, deprivation of

certain comforts, etc).

Those judged incapable of understanding right from wrong

are deemed "sick". Their crimes are downgraded to

"actions over which they had no control."Liberty of these

individuals also yields to "due process" in the form of

restraint (jails that look like hospitals) and treatment

(drugs, electroshock, talk therapy, etc, etc).

Unfortunately, humankind's success at fixing either

manifestation of dishonorable behavior is spo tty at best.

But some folks attempting significant behavior

modification of both conditions do make a lot of money.

So much money in fact that truly honorable endeavors in

both psychiatry and criminal corrections are becoming

diluted with practitioners who make a living at tasks for

which there is no merchantable good or service, no

warranty for failure to deliver, no acco untability for those

failures.

It would be interesting if the American Psychological

Association would consider the value of adding a newcategory of mental pathology to the Diagnostic and

Statistical Manual. I am convinced that there is a class of

human behavior that might be called dishonorable

behavior syndrome (DBS) . I did a Google search on the

phrase with no hits. So this idea may well be previously

unconsidered.


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Behavior by members of our government at all levels,

from local beat cops to the office of president are

demonstrating a peculiar variant of DBS, despotic

progressivism (despro). A few years observation of their

behavior confirms a certainty that they operate under a

delusion that what they do is appropriate, just and worthy

of perpetual and unrestrained progress. However,THEIR form of progress is achieved at the cost of

someone's liberty.

When confronted with the byproduct of their tyranny,

theyll look soulful. In a soft and soothing voice, "Ah yes,

most regrettable. But necessary for the greater good..

Dont forget, were doing it for the . . (insert beneficiary

du jour here)." How many despotic progressives with too

much power hav e uttered that phrase over the centuries?

Individuals most afflicted by this disorder are those

awarded positions of power over other individuals. The

greater the power, the greater the potential forinstitutionally promu lgated opp ression and subjugation o f

our nations citizens. Legislators, regulators and enforcers

of law infected with despro demonstrate behaviors that

would get you and I jailed or hospitalized.

Just imagine what would happen if you tacked a notice on

your neighbors door claiming a right to spend money

using his credit cards . . . along with the cards of his

children and grandchildren. At the bottom of the note you

admonish your neighbor, Resistance is futile. Ill send

MY children over with guns if you fail to comply. I

suggest this is exactly what transpires in the U S Congress

every day. What despro legislators choose to do IS lawful. . a matter of law which they craft for their own

convenience!

It has bec ome obvious that agencies originally chartered to

defend the honorable citizen from all dishonorable

individuals have become the majority perpetrators of

dishonorable activity. Those who should be inmates and

patients are now running the country. Our own gove rnment

has beco me the most feared institution in the nation. The

emperor had no clothes. But by reason of illness or just

plain evil, these folks have no honor.

The antidote . . .

Try confronting any despro infected individual with the

simple-ideas of honorable beh avior, liberty, justice under

constitutional law, limited government, and free-market

capitalism for the ultimate good. Their reaction is

instantaneous and o ften spectacular. Their crippled minds

lapse into a frenzied sense of attack that causes most

victims of despro to stammer, hat-dance, obfuscate,

attempt to change the subject, argue over irrelevant

minutia or simply walk away. Its also a certainty that

theyll have unkind things to say about you. The

thunderstorms of fear crashing around in the heads of

these poor people causes them to bolt from behind facades

of honorable p ublic office that took them years to erect.

We're going to see still more spectacular instances of these

wretched souls stepping into buckets of crap. The

honorable way to rid mankind (and particularly our nation)

of their influence is to excite them into diving head-long

into the bucket. This needs to hap pen on television or in

front of crowds of citizens. The goal is to first get the

attention and support of honorable citizens to remove

despros from office. We probably cannot cure them of

their torment but we can risk of injury to their persons and

immediate family. Most important, their behaviors become

a matter for the attention of local law enforcement as

opposed to tools of national destruction protected bydespotic law.

That's the easy part . . .

It is insufficient to simply achieve an ho norable majority

in Congress. The entire population of despro infected

judgeships, federal administration, and congress must be

purged. Then comes a dismantling of the DBS machine

that despros have erected ov er the past five generations.

An alphabet soup of no-value-added regulatory agencies

and despro infected unions must be expo sed for w hat they

are, de-funded and allowed to exp ire. Nearly a century ofatrocious legislation

(2)needs to be rescinded. Despro

infected teachers in our schools must be quarantined to

prevent spread the disease to our children.

The ho norable treatment of any ill person calls for reason

and compassion. But we must take care lest our

compassion overshadow the risks. The disease these folks

carry is more dangerous than a virulent flu, eb ola, black

plague and HIV combined. Despotic progressivism

propagates by the spoken and written word. It is easily

shared and if allowed to thrive, it is terminal. Inoculation

against the disease is honorable pr ogressivism. It canno t

be offered by physicians. It must be offered andadministered by hono rable teachers and parents.

We have forsaken our ch ildren . . .

It is not WE who are tasked with the greater part of this

effort. It's our children and grand children's fight. We can

start the ball rolling next November. The battle cannot and


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will not be won until after we're long dead. We are in

essence sending our children off to a terrible war within

our own borders. The battle to be joined is a classic

example of civil war exacerbated by attacks from without

our borders. The b est we can strive for is to make certain

our children possess intellectual weapons sufficiently

powerful to keep the war "civil". For surely, if due processat the ballot box fails, the alternative will force Americans

to look down the b arrels of guns at other Americans.

The founding fathers gave us intellectual tools to

guarantee it never happens again. The tools include but are

not limited to these ideas:

# Nobody has the right to tell any hono rable citizen

to do anything.

# The PRIMARY role of government in our

representative republic is to restrain the actions

dishonorable behav ior against citizens promotedfrom within or outside our borders.

# Every law enacted and enforced by a

constitutional government is equally app licable

to all citizens . . . especially those citizens who

make law!

Someplace along the way we have failed our founding

fathers. We have failed our children, We have failed

ourselves. The US Government and cour ts have taken unto

themselves the power to violate constitutional principals

with brazen im punity.

We read the Constitution. We read the words of our

founding fathers. We compare those ideas and first

principals with the be haviors of those presently in power.

The honorable conclusion is inescapable. These folks in

Washington just dont act right. The question is whether

or not we can make amends . . . and will it be enough?

What would Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Bastiat(1)

,

Thomas Paine, or even OUR high school civics teachers

have to say about what is transpiring today in our nationtoday? What would we suppos e the modern high school or

college civics teacher has to say . . . or do they even teach

civics any more?

The antithesis of despotic progressivism is honorable

progressivism. The recipe for success crafted by our

founding fathers is honorab le progressivism in a state of

free-market liberty. The recipe served us well for 200+

years but the alarm bells are more numerous and louder.

The experiment worked once, let us use it to our advantage

again. If every citizens right to be left alone is exercised

by that citizen and je alously guarded b y their government,

then well see a resurgence of prosperity under honorableprogressivism never before demonstrated on this planet.

The task is not complicated - liberty is an exceedingly

simple-idea. But its wont be easy. The enemy has

amassed a formidable force of allied despros, some of

whom are able and willing to apply deadly force. Be they

mentally ill o r just elite criminals, they have used d eadly

force against citizens and will use it again if not disarmed

before they are removed from office.

Our founding fathers suffered the effects of bloody

combat but ultimately prevailed. An advantage they

enjoyed was that the enemy was truly a foreign force. Ourdisadvantage today that the enemy is not a foreign force:

We hav e met the enemy, he is us. Out of ignorance, apathy

or both it is WE who sent the despros to W ashington.

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(1) The Law a p amphlet published in 1860 by Frederick B astiat. Copies available at http://bastiat.org/en/ and

http://www.freelythinking.com/The_Law.pdf

(2) Undermining the Constitution: A history of lawless government by Thomas James N orton.

http://www.barefootsworld.net/nortonuc.html

(3) Mexican Police Patrol New York? http://tinyurl.com/33ffbda

(4) Pelosi to Aspiring M usicians: Quit Your J ob . . . http://tinyurl.com/25nxtps

(5) Baucus o n Reading Bill: We Hire Experts for That http://tinyurl.com/36vh7t9
http://bastiat.org/en/http://www.freelythinking.com/The_Law.pdfhttp://www.barefootsworld.net/nortonuc.htmlhttp://tinyurl.com/33ffbdahttp://tinyurl.com/25nxtpshttp://tinyurl.com/36vh7t9http://tinyurl.com/36vh7t9http://tinyurl.com/25nxtpshttp://tinyurl.com/33ffbdahttp://www.barefootsworld.net/nortonuc.htmlhttp://www.freelythinking.com/The_Law.pdfhttp://bastiat.org/en/

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