Self Defense....Congo Style

Are you ever in a situation where you have roving armed rebels coming into your neighborhood and no hope for police or the military? A village in Congo is.

Congo Town Mounts Own Defense Against Rebels

Instead of crying for help from their government or from outside sources, they solved the issue with their own hands

Many people may think I am out to lunch on this one, but this hits the core of self-reliability and sufficiency. When government fails (and it does) people will have to fight for themselves. While this here may be about defense, it occurs in all aspects of government, including economy, health care, and education.

Hence another important goal of government: get people to rely on themselves instead of the government, since one day it won't be there to take care of everything.

I love New Hampshire

I've only been to New Hampshire once, and I technically never made it off I-95. So I can't really say I love New Hampshire. But I do love the 4 NH State Representatives who introduced HCR 6: A Resolution affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html

Basically, it is a statement saying that the Federal Government only has authority which is specifically detailed to them in the constitution. Anything and everything else should be left to the states.

To understand this, we must first see the powers of the federal government. These are those powers specifically given to Congress, which are detailed in Article One, Section 8. These powers are:

• to levy and collect taxes needed to pay debts, provide defense, and support the general welfare,
• to coin money and regulate its value,
• to provide for common defense and promote the pursuit of liberty,
• to regulate commerce with foreign nations and amongst states,
• to create post office and post roads
• to promote progress of science and useful arts
• to create courts inferior to the Supreme Court
• to define and punish piracies and felonies
• to declare war, raise and support the military
• to exercise exclusive legislation in the District of Columbia,
• and to make laws necessary and proper to execute the powers of Congress.

Anything that the Federal Government does that are not included in this list (and a few others from the executive and judicial branches), are clearly unconstitutional.

Anything about stabilizing the economy and creating jobs? Nope.

Anything about regulating education? Can't seem to find it.

And what about regulating firearms? Hum...not there either.

That's why I love those four state reps from New Hampshire.

FEMA Doing Good? Interesting

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm_fema

This is for Travis who wanted to hear something good about the government. This article shows that the agency can do it's job when the politicians be quite and stay out of the way of the trained professionals.