by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Government shall have no power other than that what has been given to it by the people and this also means that government does have no – legitimate – power, and cannot have such power, unless such power come from the people.
However, wherever we look government takes it upon itself, more often than not without proper referral back to the people, to lord it over its citizens and subjects, the latter the true title of a Brit.
Dependent on which nation in some places this is not as strong as in others but what the people must remember that, theoretically, in a democracy and especially a constitutional republic such as the United States they should be the one that decide what their representatives can and cannot legislate.
But, because people seem to like to have leaders rather than to do and think for themselves they have handed over, knowingly or out of ignorance, a lot of this to the state and therefore lost control of their countries and their governments.
People, as a whole are lazy and rather have others do things for them that they – in reality – are supposed to do themselves and this also goes as far as running their own affairs, dealing with crime in their way, and such like.
If the people had their way, I am sure, governments would have no way of waging war on other people (then again, seeing the nature of man one might wonder there too) and nations and we would not need standing armies.
It has to be said that neither the USA nor the once mother country Britain ever were meant to have a standing army and the USA certainly not as far as the Constitution is concerned, and militias should be good enough to defend if we all would play by the same rules.
In Britain, which is somewhat a rather different system to that of the United States, the latter being a constitutional republic while the former is a “constitutional” monarchy, government is all pervasive and invasive nowadays.
It was, however, the people to a great degree and extent who allowed it to become what it is today.
The majority of the people are just nor prepared, it would seem, to do things for themselves and they rely on the government for everything.
The government needs to provide more police, the government needs to make sure there are CCTV cameras around to make the streets safer, the government needs to do this and that for me; that is what we keep hearing all the time.
Much like the sort of joke about inefficiency of the social services for the elderly that goes “our dad shat himself last week and the council still hasn't come and cleaned him up”.
People have to come to rely on government and in that way abrogated their own responsibilities to local and central governments and in that way made a rod for their own backs for, as soon as governments are given such a free reign by having been given the little finger they will grab both hands and enslave the people.
While it is true that man has always worked with governments of one kind or another and many of them have been neither democratic nor benign there have been and still are tribal democracies in operation where the people really rule though also have a “leader” and the Romani People of old are one of those.
While the Romani (Gypsy) system of tribal government may have faults, and especially that one where there are so-called “kings” and “emperors”, the system of the elected headman, the Sherengro, who has no power other that that what the family elders bestow upon him may be one that could and should be looked at more closely.
However, while we are dealing with government on a nation state level we, the people, must learn to take control again of our lives and of the running of the country and not just by leaving supposedly elected officials, whether they are members of parliament or presidents, etc. “in charge”.
They are not in charge unless we allow them to have that “charge” and we must learn the we must take more control of everything, and if need be via much more direct action than now.
In fact, the truth is that we, all nation states, need a new way of doing things. We must reform our political system(s) in such a way that the people are in control, once and for all. If need be we must break down our current system(s) and set up a new one, one that will serve the people and not professional politicians.
Only if the people change the way that the system works presently into a system where they govern rather being governed will people ever be free and the world become a better place.
© 2009
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