OCR Text |
Show T gpaEWW"TTi 'mm nr&y&rzsarzmr . Page 4 The UTAH INDEPENDENT June 11, 1971 FROGS AND FREEDOM There's an old story that says you can't kill a frog by dropping him in boiling water. He reacts so quickly to the. sudden heat that he jumps out before he's hurt. But if you put him in cold water and then warm it up gradually, he never decides to jump till it's too late. By then he's cooked! Men are just as foolish. Take away their freedom overnight, and you've gpt a violent revoluy tion. But steal it from them grad-uall- (under the guise of peace, or progress) and you can paralyze an entire generation. Look at the income tax. It started out at a harmless sounding It would have been easy to jump out oi water as tepid as this, but like the frog, we waited while it climbed ever higher. Today it is 14 to 70 security,' 1. Try jumping now! Out of a love of God and limited government came a great nation. Individual spiritual decay and big government are now rot- ting its foundation. Worst of all, we never learn. Even today we cannot believe that Medicare is the same warm water that will one day boil us in Socialized Medicine. We see no connection between farm price supports and Nationalized Agriculture. And if we draw a parallel between subsidized teachers' pay and federal control of education, we are called extremist. There is little difference between farm price supports and national agriwhich has not worked culture in Russia or anywhere else. Trying to buy friendship with foreign aid to unfriendly nations simply helps the enemy. The growing tendency to allow Communists (and their fellow travelers) to spew their lies on college campuses is not Free its treason! Juvenile Speech deliquency reflects the immorality in government. Politicians must be replaced by honest statesmen. 5 TIGHTLY -- Anyone acquainted with political procedures will immediately recognize the powers of this Overseer as being completely authoritarian and his assigned duties are set up to the exclusive advantage of those already in power. The possibility of an opposition party being allowed to rise up and promote strong alternatives to established governmental policies would be not only remote but virtually impossible. Residence requirements for voters would be no more than 30 days which means that the Government could arrange to have sympathetic voters move into a particular district for a months vacation and then DO TO US? lI BUYER MEMBERSHIP SALES I I I WANT HELP I'm tired of interviewing people who do not want to earn money. I'm tired of talking to people who won't work. Men who will work and follow directions can earn $270 weekly comm, and salary. If you think you can quali9 for fy call Mr. Howard Cox at I two republics while Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho. Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Arizona would find themselves all lumped together for one republic. There would only be three republics down south in addition to Texas. The New England republic would include Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. A single republic would have to include North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas. New I I I I 364-182- Life Auto O a rtTT'dhrSi' Office Rtik 487-57- 89 !QUtH0IHIi5 Bonds Selection BEACON INSURANCE agency PHONES: I 1I i I i I i I i .1 m All Kinds of Insurance 30 $ CONTROLLED ELECTIONS jravaMiiiijHiMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiMiiiitMiatiiiiiMtiiimiiuiiiaaiiiifcaaiaiiatitfiiiiiiiii Keith B.lnap f- issue. lics to begin with. California would probably become Group Medical S i The Overseer turns out to be quite a man. He would have charge of all elections, be responsible for the formal recognition of any political party, control the expenditure of all campaign funds from the public treasury (no private contributions would be allowed), provide the necessary facilities for discussions and conventions by each of the parties, supervise the selection of candidates in each of the parties, and draw up the boundaries for each of the voting districts. Most importantly, he would have authority (in fact, duty) to have a representative at ALL political meeting to present the Governments point of view on any An analysis of this proposed "model" federal charter reveals a whole new concept of government in fact, the very concept of the founding fathers repudiated in Philadelphia during the summer of 17S7. No longer would we be a federation of sovereign states. In fact, the new constitution would do away with all of the states. In their place we would have republics like the Soviet Union. Each republic would have no less than 5 of the population or ten million people as present. This would mean around 20 repub- Business ; Article II provides a new department of government to be called the Electoral Branch. The head of the department is to be given the title of overseer of electoral procedures. There is provision for a massive bureaucracy to help him carry' out his If not, the whole crescendo of propaganda and agitation which these organization arc planning is supposed to attain some resounding dimensions before the presidential election of 1972. .These new constitution people have even met to probe the possibilities of creating a new political party in case they are not able to compel at least one of the national parties to do their bidding bv 1972. Whether we like it or not, y this movement is pregnant with ominous meaning for the future of the United States. Home r r republics because it turns out that they are merely administrative departments which arc totally subordinate to the sufferance of Washington. These republics would have no independent state.; rights as the founding fathers envisioned them. The name of the United States would be changed to the United Republics of America. That, of course, would not be too different from the United Republics of Soviet Russia. THIS IS WHY WE TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. WHAT WOULD THE NEW CONSTITUTION s gions left-win- Many of the most difficult problems facing America today were precipitated by these same people in this same way. Their objective has been to restructure the entire American culture with a hard twist to the collectivist left. They are directly responsible foi many of the domestic and international crises in which the American people find themselves today. Public indifference in the past has permitted these people to achieve many of their purposes with a minimum of resistance, but the attack on the Constitution may be a rallying point around which the indignation of an aroused American public can be mobilized. ' Mexico and Oklahoma. Illinois and Ohio could each be a republic but Michigan and Indiana would have to combine to qualify. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa would also have to give up their individual identities in order to meet the requirements of the new constitution. In a sense, it is deceptive to call these various re- Under this rather startling headline, the Fund for the Republic and the Center for the Study of Demo-criti- c Institutions launched a nationwide campaign on January 4, 1971, for a new U.S. Constitution. These two organizations even had an answer for their own question. They not only demanded that w e adopt a new Constitution hut they had already written one and had it ready to submit. After 37 drafts, they had produced what they called a "model" constitution which is guaranteed to be a big improvement over the U.S. Constitution of 1787. If a person has been looking for it, this campaign for a new constitution is receiving considerable pubcircles of the country. It licity in the opinion-moldin- g is backed by the radical rich whom we have discussed g in our last two articles and by the pockets of power in the government and the mass communications media. mid-weste- Continued on P. ? A NEW CONSTITUTION (Unj? ifo East Kensington Ave foe Gdss esaansiexaiOit Salt Lake City, Utah wan annn litoma gift aaaa &anudia?(!JRv 295-17- 54 t I 8 I I I t I i i r i i i ' |