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I guess I need to clear up a misconception. Every one I get ripped by thinks I am a shill for the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. NOT!  I am not a Democrat nor am I a Republican. In truth, I am a dues paying member of the Constitution Party. Neither mainstream party represents my views on the role of government in our lives. As for being extreme right wing, since when is supporting the Constitution as written extreme?  I am an originalist as I have said before. The Constitution is not a living document. The founders wrote the instrument to state their beliefs exactly as intended. There was no ambiguity or misunderstanding as to what it said or meant. Only in more modern times have we streched the vocabulary of the text to the proverbial point of breakage. I read the words and understand them to mean exactly as they would have been understood in 1785. It is when we start to interpret these documents by today's lexicon that we get into trouble. Never, by any stretch of the imagination, would the founders have recognized the federal government as it is today; nor would they have supported it's actions. To them (and myself) our current government would seem an abomination and a Frankensteins Monster of bits and pieces of the govenment they bequeathed to us. We, not they, are the ones who have made the mess. It is we who will have to clean it up. I have also been mildly accused of formenting rebellion. Not so. I support revolution not rebellion. There is a difference. Even Thomas Jefferson recognized that a little revolution is good for governments. It keeps them from believing their own rhetoric and visions of divine granduer. Even while authoring the Declaration of Independence, he never advocated rebellion. Instead, he made the case for revolution. Revolution is the logical and legal response of an oppressed people. Rebellion is the response of a lawless mob. Granted, the distinction is fine, but it is there none the less.