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There's a lot going on these days in the fight for devolution and local self-government as Leviathan continues to collapse under its own weight. With so much to talk about, you won't want to miss any of our posts. Things are starting to get REAL interesting! So hold onto your hats, and be sure to check Rebellion every day.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Monday, August 18, 2008
6 Comments
6 Comments:
Please keep in mind when talking about the virtues of "local self-government" that such MUST occur at the state and not the county level. See our Tuscaloosa County Property Rights Alliance website to see how we (property rights activists) are fighting "limited home rule" which is touted as "self-government" or "self-governance".
However, this agenda, which comes out of the U.N. agenda 21 (sustainable development, smartgrowth, radical environmentalism) is actually creating another level of bureaucracy that threatens property rights, freedom from search and seizure, due process, trial by jury, etc.
Because of our struggles in Tuscaloosa County, I shudder when I hear the words, "local self-government". It means one thing to you; and quite another to the usurpers of freedom known as "county commissioners"
"Home Rule" is sweeping across the country. But it means "Rule by County Commissioners" Please check out our website.
Jean Allen, Chairman
Tuscaloosa County Property Rights Alliance
Mike,
For many years I held to the notion that if we could restore the national government to its proper, limited role, political power would devolve to the states and to local government.
My hope was that because a citizen has some real chance to influence things locally, and to a lessor extent at the state level, there would be more citizen participation in politics. In theory, this would lead to less intrusive, more honest government.
Over the past few years I have begun to see that local and state governments are just as greedy for power, just as inefficient and corrupt, and just as shortsighted as Washington. From the tyranny of zoning and land use regulation to the incompetence of public education, the cancer of government has metasticized to every level of our culture.
I don't have the answer, but I agree with Jean Allen that any hope we have in local government is misplaced. I don't see that things are better at the state level.
We must not only regain our freedom from the Monolith, but we must also find some way to raise children and grandchildren who are capable of governing themselves.
Wow. Two strong posts. And both raise legitimate questions.
Jean Allen,
This strikes me as another stealth attack by the globalists. They're very market-savvy, which is a nice way of saying that they lie about their actual purposes.
Just because a program is sold to the public under the name of "home rule" doesn't mean that's what it's actually designed to implement. It's like the Department of Homeland Security, whose actual effect is to make Americans LESS secure in "in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
steve kropelnicki,
The sad truth is that our local governments, including city, county, and State, have been transformed into administrative units of the Federal government. The principle this country was founded on, of the sovereignty of the people, was crippled and tamed in 1865, and has been steadily eroded ever since.
Is it feasible to reform the system from the top down? Or do we have a better chance to reform from the local level? That's the real issue.
As R.J. Rummel has documented, centralized power kills. The more centralized, the deadlier and more authoritarian it becomes.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WHY.HTM
That's why devolution remains the best strategy to restore and preserve liberty and property.
"Is it feasible to reform the system from the top down? Or do we have a better chance to reform from the local level? That's the real issue."
I have just read an interesting little book by Jan Kozak describing how Communism took Czechoslovakia in 1948 without a shot being fired. In it, he states that revolutionary change must be created with "pressure from above" and with "pressure from below."
Applied to our situation, that means that we elect officials who support our agenda, but also organize the citizenry to put pressure on those (and the other) officials to make the changes that need to be made.
harold thomas,
Exactly. That's why we need a pro-autonomy political movement working within the existing system.
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