July 30, 2010 So, what is the plan? There are two types of unjust legislation that need attention. First is any law that uses force to take property from an innocent person and give it to someone who has no right to that property. Second is any law that deprives a person of their liberty when they have not committed an actual crime. Many of these laws restrict a person's activities to certain guidelines in an attempt to prevent a possible future crime. These two types of laws can be attacked as follows. 1. Vote against any such legislation that is introduced by another Wyoming legislator. 2. Introduce legislation refusing to enforce specific federal legislation in Wyoming that violates our natural rights. 3. Repeal Wyoming laws that are unjust, starting with the most recent encroachments on our liberties. This must be handled delicately. Our lives and livelihoods are deeply intertwined with programs and policies that have in many cases replaced our need to plan, decide, evaluate, and cooperate. Commitments must be kept, but new commitments to unjust action should be blocked. Of course, there is always more to do, but these three steps will go a long way toward renewing our liberty and our prosperity. July 7, 2010 My 90 second opening statement at the forum was something like the following: Here’s a quick story to illustrate a principle that I believe: Suppose you want a nice dog park for your pet to play in. You approach other dog owners about the idea and try to get together enough money to buy and landscape a small piece of property. Unfortunately, not enough people feel it’s worth the cost and the dogs are left without their own special park. Everyone can keep their money to spend on whatever they consider to be more worthwhile. But you don’t give up. You submit the idea to your legislators and they think a dog park is a wonderful idea. They pass a law to allocate public funds and begin construction. So, it has now been decided that anyone who wouldn’t contribute to the dog park should have their money taken by force. If they refuse to contribute to the dog park now, it is considered a crime. Our government is full of similar programs that take our earnings to fund someone else’s ideas. But we can regain our liberty and prosperity by always looking to Thomas Jefferson’s ideal of “a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits”. July 4, 2010 The truths found in the Declaration of Independence ought to be vivid in our minds: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these Rights, 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, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

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