There is not one single mandatory statement in any constitution of the “several states” (or the Union) that says a legislature (or Congress) — or any sub-division of a state — MUST pass laws.

Would it not be wonderful if for several years Congress and all other legislative bodies just sat in their chairs and played cards online? Or just stayed home? We would all be safer, and our monetary reward would be ZERO inflation, and the security in knowing that we were not to be the prey of charlatans and their running dog enforcers. Just saying... (For all those for whom this shoe fits, consider it next time you are in committee or session!)

I submit to you that it is not “the people” who should be “put down” during an insurrection against government mistakes, intentional misdeeds, or outright tyranny, but rather those who incited the riots and insurrection in the first place: the lobbyists, politicians, elected officials and bureaucrats who promulgate rules and pass statutes that make felons of one group after another until we are all branded as felon by one or another or a group by the cumulative effects of those “legislations” and “regulations.”

It is time we, the people of the several states, held them ALL to account for their “incitements,” which make all of us fear for our safety and liberty, one way or the other, due to THEIR threats and the “incentives” they wield to bring US “to heel” under their boots.

And, yet, while they exhort themselves as saviors and excoriate those who disagree with them, there is not ONE of those pusillanimous paragons that votes for despotism who has the courage or the willingness to do, by him or her self, the very tyrannical enforcement or arrest that their “laws” invoke. Not one has ever come to my door for a tax or to tell me I “must buy into” Obamacare. Not one.

Instead they hide behind “authority” of their own creation, and the protection of the cadres of appointed and hired “law enforcers” to do their dirty deeds. Remember, not a single police officer or deputy in any state other than the sheriff is elected by “the people.” All others are politically hired “public” servants. They serve themselves first, their masters second, and down a line of lesser service, they may deign to serve a tray of bread and water to the rest of us, at their own convenience or time. And WE pay for this?

There are none so evil as those who do not trust the people who elected them to be our representatives, our bulwark against despotism, and expend their entire careers making us less free, themselves more powerful.

Jim Greaves, Thompson Falls