J. B. Shurk has an article today at the American Thinker that tells us just how far away from the founders Constitution we have wandered, and how far we must go to get some semblance of it back. The article is entitled Master Thieves Stole the Constitution, and in fact that is exactly correct. Some of them thought they were doing what was in our best interests, but on balance they were not. Others though knew precisely what they were doing, and why. We, the citizens who were being duped too often where unaware of just exactly what the thieves had wrought.
Everyone has a favorite adventure novel or movie in which a daring thief swaps something of immense value with something terribly fake. A forged painting hangs in lieu of the original on a museum wall. A bag of sand takes the place of a bag of jewels inside a pressure-sensitive safe. Lead bars are substituted for gold bullion in Fort Knox.
The American people are the victims of a similar kind of heist. Over the last century, master thieves have stolen their freedoms, representative government, and constitutional protections. Cheap knockoffs have replaced priceless American treasures.
The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Internal Revenue Service. It says nothing at all about the hundreds of other administrative agencies and regulatory bodies that compose the federal bureaucracy. On the contrary, the Constitution is a blueprint for a small government with limited powers. Those powers are explicitly enumerated, while all other powers are explicitly reserved for the American people and the individual states.
I remember talking to someone who was planning to vote for a certain Democrat because he had made a statement about education, and she was very concerned about education having young children. I explained that education was a state and local issue and was nowhere in the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution had listed a very limited number of powers, among which education was not one. No matter.
One of the things the Department of Education does is grant money, which was taken from the taxpayers in the first place, back to the states. But of course, the grants have strings attached. You may wonder why schools now have so many adminstrators, couselors, and other non-teaching adults on the payroll. Well, blame it on the DOE. The grants government gives effectively give it control. Why would you give control of your schools and what they teach to some bureaucrat in D.C? This was supposed to be one of the things left to the states and the people.
The Environmental Protection Agency knows what’s best for your land. The Department of Education knows what’s best for your children. The Department of Health and Human Services knows what’s best for your body. Should you disagree with their “experts,” the Department of Homeland Security is eager to censor your social media messages as “disinformation.” Should you decide to defend your family and property from government intrusion, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is ready to commandeer both. The Transportation Security Administration keeps a naughty list of citizens whose luggage must always be tossed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation loves to organize pre-dawn raids of citizens who too publicly oppose government overreach. Unelected government bureaucrats advise citizens which parts of the Bill of Rights remain in effect.
However else this system of government is described, it cannot accurately be called “representative,” “constitutional,” or “democratic.” It is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is of, by, and for the bureaucrats. It is a system that operates in secrecy and justifies its secrecy as the prerogative of “experts.” It looks nothing like the U.S. Constitution. It is a cheap and unimpressive forgery.
Please read all of Shurk's article. Trump appears to be taking a wrecking ball to the deep state, but remember that we may only have a few years to undo what others have wrought.
