http://dickmorris.rallycongress.com/7175/gun-control/?m=3284896

Check up on DICK MORRIS' feelings on the treaty.

July 27 2012 has come and gone and we have won a minor skirmish over the UN gun control treaty. Hillary didn't sign and so we have a brief respite from the diminution of our self government and freedom from outside interference. This war is still not over but merely postponed until after the November election. Listen and act with Dick Morris.

Government — Oh yeah I know what that is.

Government

Wow! Now that's big. What a big concept. So What is it? What is it's purpose and what are it's responsibilities and duties? Let's start with some basics. First a definition:

government |ˈgəvər(n)mənt| noun

1. [treated as sing. or pl. ] the governing body of a nation, state, or community : an agency of the federal government | [as adj. ] government controls.
                • the system by which a nation, state, or community is governed : a secular, pluralistic,
                  democratic government.
                • the action or manner of controlling or regulating a nation, organization, or people : rules for
                   the government of the infirmary.
                • the group of persons in office at a particular time; administration : the election of the new
                  government.
                • another term for political science .
                • (governments) all bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury or other federal agencies.
2. Grammar the relation between a governed and a governing word. DERIVATIVES governmental |ˌgəvər(n)ˈmentl| adjective governmentally |ˌgəvər(n)ˈmentl-ē| adverb ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French governement, from governer (see govern ).

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Okay now we all know what government is, right?
   My understanding is like this; we, the governed, grant to the governing power(s) certain limitation(s) of our basic rights for their providing to us certain protection(s) or service(s.) So, the government provides protection - police, military, fire departments etc. It also provides such services as providing a money supply, highway systems, garbage collection, basic universal education etc. It now provides for public housing, public welfare, radio and television broadcasting, implementing and controlling the internet. Now it is extending into the area of universal health care, mandatory insurance. Food safety is now including what is good for us not just safe. How much sugar, fat, meat, exercise — on and on and on ad nauseum. So what is really needful for the government to do. Here is a quote from president Coolidge.


As quoted from Calvin Coolidge http://calvincoolidgequotes.blogspot.com/p/duty-of-government.html


Duty Of Government
   The first duty of a government is to be true to itself. This does not mean perfection; it means a plan to strive for perfection. It means loyalty to ideals. The ideals of America were set out in the Declaration of Independence and adopted in the Constitution. They did not represent perfection at hand, but perfection found. The fundamental principle was freedom. The fathers knew that this was not yet apprehended. They formed a government firm in the faith that it was ever to press toward this high mark. In selfishness, in greed, in lust for gain, it turned aside. Enslaving others, it became itself enslaved. Bondage in one part consumed freedom in all parts. The government of the fathers, ceasing to be true to itself, was perishing. Five score and ten years ago, that divine providence which infinite repetition has made only the more a miracle, sent into the world a new life destined to save a nation. No star, no sign foretold his coming. About his cradle all was poor and mean, save only the source of all great men, the love of a wonderful woman. When she faded away in his tender years from her deathbed in humble poverty, she [endowed] her son with greatness. There can be no proper observance of a birthday which forgets the mother. Into his origin, as into his life, men long have looked and wondered. In wisdom great, but in humility greater, in justice strong, but in compassion stronger, he became a leader of men by being a follower of the truth. He overcame evil with good. His presence filled the nation. He broke the might of oppression. He restored a race to its birthright. His mortal frame has vanished, but his spirit increases with the increasing years the richest legacy of the greatest century. Men show by what they worship what they are. It is no accident that before the great example of American manhood, our people stand with respect and reverence. In Abraham Lincoln is revealed our ideal — the hope of our country fulfilled. He was the incarnation of what America was to be. Through him, the Almighty bestowed upon the nation a new birth of freedom that this dear land of ours might be returned to the health of its fathers. We are the beneficiaries of a life of surpassing service. Wise in wisdom and gentle in gentleness. Freedom has many sides and angles. Human slavery has been swept away. With security of personal rights has come security of property rights. The freedom of the human mind is recognized in the right to free speech and free press. The public schools have made education possible for all and ignorance a disgrace. In political affairs, the vote of the humblest has long counted for as much as the vote of the most exalted. We are working towards the day when, in our industrial life, equal honor shall fall to equal endeavor. Duty is collective as well as personal. Law must rest on the eternal foundations of righteousness. Industry, thrift, character, cannot be conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects; do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people; whatever the opposition; do that. Expect to be called a stand patter, but don't be a stand patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people, a faith that men desire to do right;that the government is founded upon a righteousness which will endure.

And from George Washington http://washingtonquotes.blogspot.com/
    If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
   Government is not reason, it is not eloquent, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.   I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States, and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.


John F. Kennedy http://johnkennedyquotes.blogspot.com/
   The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.


Ronald Reagan  http://ronaldreaganquote.blogspot.com/
   Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged...

Andrew Jackson  http://andrewjacksonquotes.blogspot.com/
   As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will, as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

   The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Thomas Jefferson  http://jeffersonquotes.blogspot.com/
   A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned, this is the sum of a good government.

   Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add within the limits of the law, because law is often but the tyrant's will; and always so when it violates the right of an individual...   Experience has shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
   Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

And finally from President Thomas Jefferson
  All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

  Cherish the great opportunity, freedoms, and abilities we have available to us as citizens of this the greatest of all nations ever. Remain ever vigilant. Do something.
                                                                                                                T.O.G.