Party Government - Part 1 of 2

Party Government - Part 1 of 2
by Ted Lang, Associate Editor

December 19, 2002

Columnist Ted Lang John Adams recognized early in this country's history the corruption of purpose that results when personal motives and ambitions are superimposed upon what is considered as a generally beneficial core of organizational motives. The resultant political intrigue we now accept as the norm in American politics nullifies all allusions to our nation as being one governed by a set of laws. Politics has not only subverted our purpose, the preservation and protection of individual human freedom intended by God, but has progressed to where public recognition of His beneficence is now judged as criminal.

We are no longer a nation with constitutionally legitimized government, but a nation based upon a "living constitution" that can be changed at will by the party and the politician currently in power. This was precisely the same legitimization employed by Adolf Hitler, who used constitutional and national legitimacy to subvert the legal entity of government and convert it to the subservient, destructive monster of the political party in power. It is an arrangement similar to that of the former Soviet Union. Both tyrannical, authoritarian regimes were sustained by political party domination. Both dictatorships were examples of party government.

Government service at the highest levels was intended by our Founders to be accessible to all citizens, with the highest office available to those born on American soil. This accentuates our founding principles, which ensure the propriety of American purpose as opposed to a dispersion of national sovereignty through politically motivated legislative arrangements deferential to aliens, legalized or otherwise, domiciled in Our Land. Hitler's Nazi Party was nationalized socialism; Stalin's Communist Party typified international socialism. Their nations' governments were of, by, and for their party. Deference to the rights of citizens was non-existent.

There is for all intents and purposes little difference between human organization as characterized by a political party or the government of a state or a nation. There is an ultimate head over an array of horizontally integrated offices and sub-offices comprising a vertically subordinate chain of command as to purpose and operation through the leader. Their organizational structure is dependent upon the mission and goals of the organization, and designed to most effectively address these. All corporate, charitable, religious and political organizations are similarly structured with their mission and purpose in mind.

This has never been the case with respect to the design and purpose of American government. Our Founders designed American government using a "destructuring" design to ensure that a unanimity of purpose, or a commandeering usurpation by either elected representatives of the people, bureaucrats, or politicians of every strain, could never rob or supplant the individual of his God-given freedom to chose his path in life.

And to that end, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights was designed and put into place. It is this document that represents Mankind's greatest design and dedication to individual freedom.

When taken together, the sovereignty of the individual American citizen is paramount. The sovereignty of either our government or our two main political parties is not. Clearly, in our time, both political parties and American government have totally subverted and virtually abolished our freedom protections under the constitutional, decentralized, limited government specifically structured for this purpose.

When individual sovereignty takes precedence over political parties and government, the right of the people, via each singular, separate, individual citizen to own and carry firearms to protect both free speech and assembly, becomes obvious. This God-given right is guaranteed to Americans recognizing precisely the desire by big government and dominating political parties to silence opposition - and silencing will take the form of government force, whether initiated by government officials or political parties.

It is becoming increasingly obvious, that we have reached a point where each and every American must assess both their government and their political party, and recognize how dangerously far we've wandered from our purpose. The time to reflect is now! ***

In addition to his work at The American Partisan, Ted Lang is a government analyst and a political freelance writer. He has written for numerous websites such as USA Daily, where he is a columnist, The Patriotist, Sierra Times, as well as New Jersey newspapers. Lang holds a BA in political science and an MBA.

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