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Show April 7, 1972 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 3 . Recode its ufrflook Continued from Page 2 It is time we emphasized not the differences between nations, races and people; but rather their similarities. There are many, many things in common between our own people and those of any ethnic group on earth than there are differences. All men share the same drives, the same or equivalent appetites, essentially the same dreams and aspirations . . . So, my friends, there is one place where I have thought the matter through very thoroughly and think you are soaking wet; as are all who think like you! Dont misunderstand me! I hold no grudge in this! You are as entitled to your opinions as I am to mine; further, you are entitled to express those opinions publicly. That is one of the many things this nation is supposed to be all about! All I ask is that you consider my viewpoint and do some reasoning before making the sweeping statements that have been published in your paper . . . I believe very deeply that the time has come to . . beat our swords into plowshares and our spears into pruning hooks and study war no more . . Narrow nationalism parading as patriotism is the worst possible way to promote understanding between peoples. I love the United States of America. I love it deeply enough to want to see it survive; not be destroyed for the sake of some cockeyed narrow idea that we have an absolute corner on all that is good and virtuous in the world. As a nation, we have done some things that are right quite a few that are very and some few questionable that are outright wrong. So far as philosophy is concerned, the idea of taxing producers to feed the world over is socialistic and nothing else but. In other words, we are probably closer to practicing real socialism in the USA than they are in the Union non-produce- rs of Soviet Socialist (not Communist, please note) Republics. How long this can go on without the whole mess going smash, I cant say. In fact, as things look now, it might well be an even race as to which konks this land of ours off first: inflation to the point of having a worthless currency nuclear war. A third or alternative is bloody revolution which is becoming more of a frightening possibility all of the all-o- ut time. The great crying need not only in this nation, but in the world as a whole is some force .to motivate people to make common cause; to cooperate one with the other. This applies not only between the various factions in our own nation; but even more so between the various nations of the world. If the U.N. does even something toward that end, it has paid its way; and I say, God bless it! David A. King Layton, Utah Politicians part of the plunder. This sytem is leading to the destruction of the moral fiber of our country and to complete government control over the lives of all Americans. I say it must be stopped immediately. Buying Votes and Selling Liberties PART II by Joe H. Ferguson Joe H. Ferguson What Is Tyranny? Black's Law Dictionary defines tyranny as follows: or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler, or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers. And tyrant is, A despot; a sovereign or ruler, legitimate or otherwise, who uses his power unjustly and arbitrarily, to the oppression of his subjects. No American need be a legal genius to clearly Arbitrary understand that many of the action by the establishment against the American citizens constitute tyranny. While many see that it is happening, they do not understand why it can happen in' America. The reason is that our system of laws has been subverted. Those provisions of the Constitution of the United States that protect the individual against arbitrary and tyrannical actions of the tyrants in government have been either weakened or completely destroyed. When tyrants scheme to use the force of government for their own advantage, they know that they first must set up a system whereby they can deprive the citizens of their liberties and properties without the embarrassing inconvenience of due process of law. They also must deny the citizens access to the courts for redress for these crimes committed against them. The first step in this plan for dictatorship has been accomplished in America by the implementation of administrative agencies such as the Department of Labor that administers the dictatorial Health and Safety Act. All decisions regarding the rights of the citizens are made right within the confines of the offices of the administrative agency , in a completely arbitrary and dictatorial manner, and denying the citizen the right to trial as guaranteed by the Constitution. The fact that such action is illegal and unconstitutional is clear to any objective observer, and so the offended citizen should have a right to trial in the courts of justice for redress agains the person who violated his constitutional rights. Any American can see this. The tyrants see it also, and have implemented into our system the doctrine of sovereign immunity to provide protection for their criminal actions. We Americans have been remiss for having allowed this doctrine to be established in the first place, and to continue in the second. What Is Sovereign Immunity? Sovereign immunity is a concept designed for no other purpose than to protect tyrants in government from court action when they have committed criminal acts against a citizen. It is a throwback to the times of the kings and means that the king was immune from suit because, the king can do no wrong. I do not believe that these tyrannical bureaucrats are either gods or kings, or that they should be protected from legal action for their crimes. I believe that no person has the right nor should have the power to commit wrongs against others with impunity. This doctrine of sovereign immunity is was never legally established, and completely is one of the important means that the tyrants are using to impose complete and dictatorial government control over the people. I think it must be abolished immediately for the preservation of America and Americans. - Government Meddling in Private Affairs Such schemes as those promoted by the nefarious Planned Parenthood Association which is financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity with monies confiscated from the taxpayers is another part of the plan to destroy the moral fiber of America and impose complete, government control. Parents should be free to use their income to support their family and determine their course in life. Instead, their incomes are confiscated from them to support programs which are repugnant to their moral and religious values and way of life. This puts the parents at an extreme disadvantage in being able to raise their children by their (the parents') moral standards and values. With tremendous financial resources, the promoters of these meddling schemes can hammer away incessantly at the moral structure of the citizens, supported by the monies of the citizens taken from them by confiscatory taxation. I believe this should be fought vigorously and eliminated entirely as quickly as possible. Gun Control When one understands that the bureaucrats are planning to impose complete government control over all Americans, and that Americans won't stand for it when they fully realize it, it is no small wonder that these same tyrants, desperately and fanatically want to disarm the entire American populace, Gun registration is merely the to gun confiscation. There is no other reason for it. Neither can ever be legal. Gun registration is an invasion of privacy. It is none of the bureaucrat's business who owns a gun unless crime has been committed with it. Gun ownership is a right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. No law can be legal that contradicts the Constitution because the Constitution is superior. Even if the Second Amendment were repealed, gun confiscation would never be legal because it is property and it is illegal to seize property without compensation. Even if there were compensation, it would be with monies confiscated from the people by arbitrary taxation. So there is no way gun registration or confiscation can be legal, and I am diametrically opposed to illegal government action against the citizen. foot-in-the-do- or I Will Neither Buy Your Vote nor Sell Your Liberty Any person who expects me to promise him something from the government treasury, taken from other American citizens, in return for a vote is going to be disappointed. While I realize that there will be vigorous opposition to me because of this very fact, I also believe that there will be vigorous support for my platform. I believe that the overwhelming majority of Americans want liberty more than complete government control over their lives and are now ready to stand up and say so. I ask for your support in this vigorous campaign that I have planned, and I give to you the promise that, 7 will neither buy your vote nor sell your liberty. Remember, you live with yourselves more than with Be true to youranyone else. Be your own best company. selves. - J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Ezra Taft Benson to Speak in Idaho Falls un-Americ- an, Collectivists in Our Government Encouraging Immorality It is shameful, but true, that it is easier today to live by taking from the government than it is to work for a living. The collectivists in our government that are trying to impose complete government control are not only not discouraging dishonesty, they are actively promoting it. I believe it is a sin and a crime to steal, and that this fact is neither altered nor modified by using the force of government to do the taking rather than doing it individually or directly. The collectivists encourage this stealing because they get control of its distribution and those who receive it must support them or be denied their Elder Ezra Taft Benson will speak at a public meeting Apr. 14 at the Civic Auditorium in Idaho Falls at 8 p.m. on the subject of Stand Up for America. The meeting is being sponsored by various civic, farm, and veterans organizations. Elder Benson is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. He was for eight years the U.S. secretary of agriculture and' is widely known for his devotion ta his church and for his outspoken y |