When Citizens Are Zeros to the Left of Unity

“In Mathematics, a zero to the left of unity does not count, is not meaningful. A zero to the right of unity does count and is meaningful.” (Zero to the Left 000,000,1 vs 1,000,000 Zeros the Right). We are 300 Million+ citizens complaining about the Government WE voted for?

The Facts

The self-serving, nonmalleable, and undefinable mass of government has rendered us to be zeros to the left. This is in contrast to citizens to the right of one government — Each of us is supposed to count. Citizens, “we the people,” are all zeros to the left as far as the government is concerned. The 4th Branch of government has turned us into “Serfs” at best. We complain about “the” government. The fact is WE voted for the government we have. The Problem is we are not letting our “representatives” know what they are doing wrong.

What are we doing?

This is what has driven the people into despair; COVID is just an accelerant. We are now looking for ANYTHING that may be better through all the unrest we are going through. Unbeknownst to all of us, the way people have spoken is what the Declaration of Independence is — “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, …” the “ends” being, our “unalienable rights.” Since the Vietnam war, any government that has been formed has not pursued any of the rights of the people in a meaningful way. The opposite is true; the process of alienation accelerated since then.

• “Alter,” we understand. That would be writing to your representatives and senators, letting them know what they are doing wrong and what we want.
• “Abolish,” is tougher. I don’t think a clause in the Constitution specifies how to do this. Because we need Congress to do our bidding, and we don’t have a process to impeach Congress (our influence there is nil).

Governments are now self-serving

Government after government, regardless of philosophy or spoken purpose, has become more and more self-serving.

• When our Republic is a parliament serving a single sovereign (like a King/Queen, themselves) in which estranged politicians sign documents of law and tell speeches on our behalf declaring the goodness of that law;
• When economics is a political market in which estranged aristocrats make deals and lobby for policy on behalf of corporations, knowing full well these policies, applied to corporations, violate the people’s Constitutional rights;
• When the politicians approve corporate technology that is designed with spying capabilities for its citizens, the people and furthermore,
• When the administrative government, “civil servant” agencies, use that data without our knowledge against us — think, “The Patriot Act;”

The Government AND Corporations become self-serving extensions and we are hopelessly alienated.

We are not “subjects” we are “Citizens”

As opposed to a system where we are “subjects” approved by the government, “liberties” (that is what the 4th Branch thinks). We are sovereign citizens with “unalienable rights,” some clarified, but none declined or limited by the Constitution, even less by a government as they are today.

• For example, the “Patriot Act,” the fact that it restricts OUR freedoms constitutionally, should have been an amendment for us to approve. It was NOT.

Rights and liberties are not the same

Our Declaration of Independence (our Moral Law) specifies, and as a foundational document that it is accepted by all citizens in the United States, that people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In that statement, liberties are subservient to rights. Further, it specifies that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, …” Liberty within the context of our rights is permission with certain constraining parameters. We have already been “liberated.” This was done by our forefathers, with their blood. We have been declared to have “unalienable rights.” That has not been respected.

The government, as specified by the Declaration of Independence, “derives its just power from the consent of the governed.” Further, the government is constrained and is subservient to the laws and principles of the Constitution and our foundational documents.

As Ralph Barnett clarified, “The Constitution is not the law that governs us. The Constitution is the law that governs those who govern us. They should not be able to change the meaning of the laws that govern them without going through the amendment process, any more than you or I can change the laws they make to govern us without going through the legislative process.”

We need to learn to vote for solutions, not ideology

How do we, the people, get to, “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ….., in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” That would be the question we need to find the answer to. It is OUR right.

Do we need a Citizens Convention?

As of right now, based on our rights, we need to define a new system of government. We, the people, need to endeavor to work together and agree to lay a new foundation, based on our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A government that works for us and respects its citizens’ rights.