Words Unspoken
by Carl F. Worden
Liaison Officer
Southern Oregon Militia
Ladies & gentlemen:
Of all the top radio talk show hosts, from Rush Limbaugh to Michael Medved to Michael Savage to Michael Reagan to our own Oregon mouthpiece Lars Larson, I have never, not once, heard any of them say these words. And I must demand why, since the issue is so very obvious.
On April 27, 2002, I was invited to speak at the Regional Gathering of the Oregon Mensa. The Mensa is an organization of those bright individuals who score in the highest 2% of IQ tests. They make up a cross section of Oregon and America indeed, from the staunchest conservative thinkers to the most liberal and everything in between.
I passed out booklets entitled the, "Citizens Rule Book", published by Whitten Printers of Phoenix, Arizona. The little booklet contains a handbook for jurors and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It even includes a copy of the Communist Manifesto and the Ten Commandments. It is a valuable and remarkably austere work that I highly recommend for every American citizen to read and digest. It should be required reading for every high school student in America, and they should be tested on it.
I began my presentation by pointing out Article X of the Bill of Rights, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States (government) by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I pointed out that the Constitution does not delegate to the United States government the power to regulate drugs, firearms, tobacco, alcohol, social welfare, the arts, education and a litany of other areas affecting public life that Article X clearly prohibits this government of ours from delving into.
Article X is a standing Amendment to the Constitution. It has never been repealed or in any other way modified by subsequent legislation.
With that fact firmly established, I told my listeners that our government is operating daily in direct violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Further, I declared:
"The government of the United States, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, has been overthrown."
Those are the words that I have never heard spoken by a single radio talk show host. Why? I think is high time we start asking them for an explanation for that. Are they afraid of addressing the obvious? Not a single listener in my audience questioned that premise after being confronted with Article X. With the exception of just a few, they just didn't know about it.
Further, I pointed out, even though everything appears normal and running somewhat smoothly on the surface, we are in fact operating as a government in a state of anarchy: We have a legally binding document that is being ignored and violated, yet we have no replacement document that defines how this government is currently operating. Our government is legislatively and operationally flying by the seat of its pants.
Article X prohibits the establishment of federal police agencies. Federal law enforcement isn't even addressed, therefore nothing in the Constitution confers federal authority to establish the bumbling FBI, the malicious BATF or the civil rights defying DEA.
Just once, I'd like to hear one of these brave, allegedly Constitution-loving commentators, address this issue and open up the telephone lines. Just once.
You see, we of the American Citizens' Militia have never advocated the overthrow of the United States government, because that has already happened.
We just want it back!
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by Carl F. Worden
Liaison Officer
Southern Oregon Militia
Ladies & gentlemen:
Of all the top radio talk show hosts, from Rush Limbaugh to Michael Medved to Michael Savage to Michael Reagan to our own Oregon mouthpiece Lars Larson, I have never, not once, heard any of them say these words. And I must demand why, since the issue is so very obvious.
On April 27, 2002, I was invited to speak at the Regional Gathering of the Oregon Mensa. The Mensa is an organization of those bright individuals who score in the highest 2% of IQ tests. They make up a cross section of Oregon and America indeed, from the staunchest conservative thinkers to the most liberal and everything in between.
I passed out booklets entitled the, "Citizens Rule Book", published by Whitten Printers of Phoenix, Arizona. The little booklet contains a handbook for jurors and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It even includes a copy of the Communist Manifesto and the Ten Commandments. It is a valuable and remarkably austere work that I highly recommend for every American citizen to read and digest. It should be required reading for every high school student in America, and they should be tested on it.
I began my presentation by pointing out Article X of the Bill of Rights, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States (government) by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I pointed out that the Constitution does not delegate to the United States government the power to regulate drugs, firearms, tobacco, alcohol, social welfare, the arts, education and a litany of other areas affecting public life that Article X clearly prohibits this government of ours from delving into.
Article X is a standing Amendment to the Constitution. It has never been repealed or in any other way modified by subsequent legislation.
With that fact firmly established, I told my listeners that our government is operating daily in direct violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Further, I declared:
"The government of the United States, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, has been overthrown."
Those are the words that I have never heard spoken by a single radio talk show host. Why? I think is high time we start asking them for an explanation for that. Are they afraid of addressing the obvious? Not a single listener in my audience questioned that premise after being confronted with Article X. With the exception of just a few, they just didn't know about it.
Further, I pointed out, even though everything appears normal and running somewhat smoothly on the surface, we are in fact operating as a government in a state of anarchy: We have a legally binding document that is being ignored and violated, yet we have no replacement document that defines how this government is currently operating. Our government is legislatively and operationally flying by the seat of its pants.
Article X prohibits the establishment of federal police agencies. Federal law enforcement isn't even addressed, therefore nothing in the Constitution confers federal authority to establish the bumbling FBI, the malicious BATF or the civil rights defying DEA.
Just once, I'd like to hear one of these brave, allegedly Constitution-loving commentators, address this issue and open up the telephone lines. Just once.
You see, we of the American Citizens' Militia have never advocated the overthrow of the United States government, because that has already happened.
We just want it back!
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