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Save the Constitution 

By Kevin Barrett, BarrettForCongress.US 

"You can almost today take the Constitution and throw it in the trash. Because nobody's paying attention to it, none of our elected officials...it's almost like they view it as an outdated document that has no bearing on what our country is supposed to be." -Governor Jesse Ventura, interviewed by Meria Heller 

The Constitution tells us what our federal government is allowed to do. Whatever is not explicitly permitted, the government has no business doing.  

The problem is that over the years, the government has started doing all kinds of things that are not explicitly permitted in the Constitution.  

For example, Congress, not the President, has the power to declare war. Until Congress declares war, the President and his military have no right to shed one drop of American blood—or foreign blood, for that matter. But since Harry Truman abolished the Constitution, and created the National Security State, in 1947, presidents have shed the blood of millions of innocent people. That makes them mass murderers, plain and simple. Korea was mass murder. Vietnam was mass murder. Grenada and Panama were mass murder. Afghanistan and Iraq are mass murder. They are not wars, because Congress has never declared war against any of those countries. And Congress has been right. We have had no legitimate reason to go to war against any of these countries. 

I think we need to read the Constitution far more strictly than our judges are reading it now. I don’t think the federal government has any business telling people which mind-altering drugs are okay (like alcohol and tobacco, which together kill more Americans in three days than terrorists have killed in all of our history) and which ones aren’t (like marijuana and mushrooms, which kill virtually nobody). I don’t see anything in the Constitution saying the federal government is allowed to do that. 

I don’t think the federal government has any business imposing its views on abortion on us. That’s the business of individuals, communities, and, maybe states. Where in the Constitution does it say the federal government is supposed to regulate women’s bodies? 

You ask: What if the federal government turns out to be the best candidate for getting something done that needs to get done? If the Constitution doesn’t authorize it, then we need to push through a Constitutional amendment specifically authorizing the federal government to do it. For example, I favor abolishing the income tax for ordinary people, and keeping it for wealthy people and corporations. But the Constitution does not give the federal government the authority to impose an income tax. So I favor amending the Constitution to allow such a tax. Likewise, I favor national health care and social security, because they are by far the best, most efficient way to keep our country healthy and take care of old people. But there is nothing in the Constitution that specifically allows this. So I would like to see the states band together voluntarily and do it. If that cannot be accomplished, I would support a Constitutional amendment allowing national health care and social security.  

The bottom line is: The federal government is no longer obeying the Constitution. This is unacceptable. We need to get the government back under Constitutional rule. 

I think it is past time for Americans to sit down together and decide just what is and what is not authorized under the Constitution, and what we want the federal government to do for us. That’s why I support the Article V Convention.