The Tenth Amendment request

Today I start a new feature on this ever-expanding, ever-so-vital link to reality. To be called "Today's Tenth Amendment request," it will be in the form of a request on behalf of what may be our firmest relationship to Federalism and the ideas that formed this country, the Tenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. This request will be for a change from the horrors visited upon the Constitutional system since the elite of our nation found their solution to the temporary economic downturn of the late 1920's, which was unmitigated governmental power, control, and interference in the lives of ordinary Americans. Whether those who would use the government to visit these harms upon the free American citizen are called socialists, collectivists, statists, liberals, elitists, or just plain trash doesn't matter. What does matter is beginning the change back to honest conduct of the affairs of the United States of America so that we may regain our place as a beautiful city on a hill. I want to recall - even help - the spirit of Ronald Reagan in making it once again morning in America.

Today's request relates to something we all had such hopes for, the Endangered Species Act - although a perfectly fraudulent violation of the Tenth Amendment from its beginnings. What happens to wild animals was never planned to become a part of the federal government, but is of course one of the great majority of matters the Constitution demands be left to each state to decide. The most the denizens of the drained swamp off the Potomac River should have done is issue a recommendation to each state to enforce such rules, but no more than half the states rightly would have even given it the time of day.

The Endangered Species Act has done us a favor by alerting us to what creatures are becoming depleted in their native populations. That's what sold everyone on this huge government investment of money and freedom. However, in the hands of legal whores and the angry people who hire them, the Act has become a threat to property owners who still have rights to develop or use their own property. Americans never agreed to give up their property rights so that varietal alterations of owls' feathers could be falsely considered species, thus throwing thousands of Americans out of work in the lumber industry. Time after time, the Act has been used as a political tool , and as President, a true American needs to lead the way to abolish it. Neither of the men running for the President from the two major parties in 2008 has the brains or courage to do this, but we've survived challenges before.