Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / October 2008

Cross City, FL

                                                                           
   October 25, 2008

Before I begin let me preface my statement by saying, it is not my intention
to offend anyone, I just feel this needs to be said.

I believe we, as American citizens, have become so embroiled in the Obama
vs. McCain, Democrat vs. Republican, conservative vs. liberal battle that we
have failed to see a looming threat. A threat so incredible none of us can
afford to ignore it.

Should, as some polls show, Senator Obama win the White House and the
Democratic Party gain the predicted strength in the Senate, we will have a
governmental situation that has never, to my knowledge, existed before. We
will have an absolutely liberal democrat as president, a staunchly liberal
and basically "bullet proof" Senate in conjunction with a near super
majority rubber stamp in the House of Representatives. Does the word
totalitarian ring a bell? Liberal is not all bad, just substitute the word
conservative for liberal in three places and the result is exactly the same.
Danger of this magnitude is not party line affiliated!!!

What I am speaking of nearly happened in 2000 and again in 2004 with the
Republican Party and President Bush. All of us have now seen the
unsatisfactory result of a nearly unstoppable juggernaut in the person of
the Republican Party for six of the last eight years. I qualify my "nearly"
statement by noting that the senate was never filibuster proof, the
Democrats maintained enough control to stop quite a bit of "conservative
excess".

Remember the wise words of historian and moralist John Emerich Edward
Dalberg Acton (1834-1902): "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts
absolutely" (1887).  We have all seen the effect of power and corruption in
Government at all levels. How much more are we willing to tolerate?

We must not allow this power structure to exist, via Republican or
Democratic control, now or in the future. To do so would shred the very
fabric of the foundation of our Nation. The founders of our Nation designed
a form of government based on a specific system of checks and balances. To
have the legislative and executive branches in a parallel position of
absolute power would be extremely dangerous. Within such a situation the
judicial branch would soon follow as the appointment of impartial judges
would become an impossible task. And to enhance the impartial point, both
parties are complicit to the appointment of partial judges. Now, if that
statement is not true, why do we rail so vehemently about the type of Judge
President X or President Y will attempt to appoint? These railings indicate
that both parties are complicit to the bastardization of the judicial
selection process.

In the legislative arena,  if a piece of legislation is worth its salt it
should not be an impossible task to garner 60+ bipartisan votes to get it to
the President. If the legislation is not worth its salt it should be
impossible to garner the required votes. We have watched several instances
where the Republicans were unable recently to push legislation through the
Senate because, with the near 50/50 split, there were not enough votes to
insure cloture. This is a good thing; we probably did not need what they
pushed. By the same token, we must act within the next ten days to insure
the Democrats (in this particular instance) cannot gain that level of power.

James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) explained this concept with great
clarity.

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what
to have for dinner."

Should the Democrats (or at another time the Republicans in concert with a
Republican President) emerge with a filibuster-proof 60+ votes in the
Senate, one of the brilliantly conceived checks and balances will be
negated. In a short time the judicial branch could easily be converted to
the Democrat (or Republican) line of legislation through the unstoppable
fiat of Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation.

At this point;

You and I lose any semblance of control over our government.

You and I face the very real prospect of becoming totally subservient to
that government!

There is NO REVERSAL possible, the Constitutional Government of United
States of America as we know it will be HISTORY!

Thomas Jefferson recognized this possibility nearly 200 years ago
expressing:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
to take everything you have."

The reason I write this is that I cannot comprehend how an American citizen
would willingly and knowingly present their elected representatives with
such a level of unrestrained power.

We must act decisively in this election and then we must pressure our
elected officials to enact legislation that will forever prevent the
potential for this threat to reappear.

This election is no longer an expression of disdain for the Bush
administration. This election is about change. We must be very cautious of
the change we select. In our fervor to change something we may unleash
forces we cannot control.

Never before in the history of America has your vote had such an enormous
implication. The future of our nation could well be decided by one vote.

I strongly encourage everyone, regardless of party affiliation or political
inclination, to carefully consider the ramifications of your vote. THEN
VOTE!!!

Donald E. Warhurst

Cross City, FL