From My Journal (XIV)

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Of course, the siren song of the Unitary State is calling to us to give us economic security at the sacrifice of our Liberty. Just as it was a founding principle to separate church and State, it was also considered essential to separate State from any authority to make laws favorable to particular interests. When the State makes such laws, like those favoring a bank or auto company, it has ceased to govern generally for the People in their political capacity and becomes instead the agent of particular interests. Authority becomes protection to the highest bidder, the richest and the biggest. Government becomes only another faction, on the side of some, and therefore opposing others. Instead of earning the loyalty of all through equal protection of the laws, it buys the subservience and acquiesance of the powerful and earns the enmity and scorn of the small and the proud who wish to keep their liberty and their dignity. Instead of being the arbiter, government becomes the interpolator, thus fissuring society instead of unifying it.

This is the national tragedy unfolding before our eyes. The Unitary State has chosen its friends and thereby made its enemies. Henceforth, loyalty will be demanded from the government but not earned by equal protection of law. The government is now in the habit of adhering to one group or faction within the society as opposed to gently and firmly standing aside and making general law as stipulated by artice 1 section 8 of the constitution.

I can think of no greater threat to the poor or the miidle class as it will not be they to whom the governing class distributes its largesse. The shrinking of the middle will accelerate, the unity of our nation imperiled. We must return to a separtion of state and specific interests, just we have a separtion of state and specific religions. The governemnt ceases to govern when it rewards some and therefore punishes others. Unless this ceases, it will not only be our economy in peril but our liberty and our unity.