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In Truth, I do not believe that, beyond the obvious prohibitions against Murder, Rape, Theft, and the like, any person or group has the right to tell anyone what to do. To me, the supreme arbiters of my interaction with others are the agreements I make of my own volition with individuals and groups. The farther any Power lies from those agreements, the less Control it should exert. While I do recognize the necessity for a tiered governmental structure, the Power should lie closest to the People as possible, with the Top Most layer having the least direct Power over the People.

I am a firm believer in the Revolution of 1776, and, in particular, the reasons why that Revolution came about. Germaine to the point of this discussion is a quote from the Declaration of Independence: "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." Those prudent words were not lightly written, and the Declaration of Independence was a truly momentous document. By signing that document, 56 men put their lives, families and fortunes on the line, and became instant Criminals in the eyes of the Law of the Land at that time. None were rich by today's standards, nor by the standards of their time.

What began with the signing and publishing of the Declaration of Independence did not end with the full ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Those Founding Fathers warned us that vigilance is the duty of the citizenry in keeping what the "Declaration of Independence" began. It is truly unfortunate that much the same conditions afflict the people in the United States today, as spurred the penning of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We are, essentially, back where we started, only with new names and titles on the doors. We, the People of the United States, are frogs in a pot of water and that water is getting mighty uncomfortable.

Every single living person makes decisions every day that affect their relationship with their governmental power structure. No one obeys every Law, we all pick and choose which Laws to obey, and when to obey them. That, in itself, is a fundamental problem as Cesare Beccaria described in "On Crime and Punishment" (1786). Our Leaders have inundated us with such a myriad of Laws that no one can possibly obey them all

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