Revolt!

By G. Lewis Bauman

Though this offering of a 28th amendment to the US Constitution may appear as arrogant, brazen, and too monstrous in size to be viable, a start has to be made somewhere. Our beloved country is racing toward economic, social, and military collapse. Citizens must rouse themselves from their stupor and seek answers to the following:
The nation's political beliefs drift aimlessly this way and that, defined as they are by terms that are devoid of hard and fast meanings, such as conservative, liberal, left wing, and right wing etc. Is it possible for political understandings to be less ambiguous than the terms used to describe them? Where is political bedrock? Shouldn't our political believes, some of the most important we have, rest on a firm foundation? How much do we really understand about politics?
The US government has run uninterrupted deficits for a mind-numbing procession of decades and has issued and continues to issue, mountains of debt certificates that everyone understands are hopelessly beyond repayment— yet not a word is spoken about bankruptcy. Are we a nation of fools to think we can remain prosperous as we sink deeper and deeper into a sea of unpayable debt? Where is reality? Where is sanity?
The Federal Reserve steals the interest on our savings from us and we do nothing! Why are we so docile in the face of this obviously criminal institution? Where is our rage? If a gun wielding thief-in-the-night did the same, would we not be enraged? Whatever happened to the biblical commandment Thou shalt not steal?
A huge body of convincing evidence demonstrates the 9/11/2001 buildings were brought down by controlled demolition, while the government maintains they were brought down by crashing airplanes and fires. Where are our investigative reporters? Where is integrity, commitment, and duty in the mass media industry.
As difficult a task as it may be, US citizens must open their minds to their nation's sordid behavior and leadership as well as their own sorry understanding and lack of responsibility at the voting booths. Truly informed people search the internet for unfiltered news, and read books written by studious investigators who fearlessly and diligently pursue the truth. They attend seminars and support those who are building truth coalitions. When choice warrants, they do not hesitate to vote for third party candidates.
Unrestrained currency printing and debt accumulation, criminal leadership, an irresponsible electorate, mindless wars, and aggressive policies foreign and domestic, cannot go on forever without ruinous consequences. Surely, in the not too distant future, the United States will find itself on its knees. War may explode in our home territory. A whole population of savers, investors, and retirees, will see their wealth disappear in the dust of collapsing fractional reserve banks and investment houses, and tens of millions in our beloved country will find themselves staring destitution and death in the face.
Our military activities around the world will be severely disrupted. Disengagement from our numerous wars is bound to be messy. Indeed, thousands upon thousands of military personnel, and vast stores of munitions and military hardware, including nuclear warheads, may be suddenly stranded abroad, with no working means of either protecting them, or bringing them home.
Great advances have been made in economic and political theory since the Constitution was set to paper. These advances are not reflected in its pages, and its brevity is such that it fails to provide citizens with the knowledge they need to defend it from crippling abuse by those in power.
This book will provide remedies and pave the way toward a more promising future for all. It will provide common citizens with a means of wringing the criminality out of their government and placing it back on the path of reality, honesty, integrity, and sanity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G. Lewis Bauman
• Release date: Sep 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370885992

G. Lewis Bauman

I am a ninety-one-year-old retired avionics technician. My specialties were troubleshooting and repairing, and things had to work when I signed off on them. That has been my approach to the things I write about. I identify problems, make repairs, offer additions, and construct workable solutions. I have also been a life-long student of the Austrian school of economics, have read many hundreds of relevant books and papers, and have attended numerous Austrian economic seminars. It is my firm belief that no one can understand how a democratic government should be structured without a working understanding of this most rigorous though least popular school of economic thought. In tandem with my studies, I have watched over many decades and with great dismay, our government’s descent into its present state of madness. My humble writings are my contribution to a hoped for future United States marked by peace and prosperity, and free of government, banking, corporate, mass media, military, police, and voter corruption. I live in an assisted living facility in Edina, MN.

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Revolt!

By G. Lewis Bauman

Copyright 2017 G. Lewis Bauman

Fifth Revision (2022)

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This book is dedicated to a future United States marked by peace, prosperity, zero debt and consistently balanced budgets, a gold referenced money, a freely evolved price edifice, meaningful economic calculation, and free of government, military, banking, corporate, mass media, and voter corruption.

Author's Preface

It is not within your author’s abilities to provide a thorough account of the reforms that are needed, nor can he provide a reliable account of how the revolution will play out. To try to delve into every detail would quickly challenge his patience and the reader's as well.

Your author has chosen a more generalized approach, and it is his fervent hope that the following will be accepted as an arrow that points the way toward a peaceful reorganization of the U.S. financial system and government, within the framework of a single amendment (Article XXVIII) to the U.S. Constitution.

This work anticipates a large majority of at least forty-five states joining in peaceful revolt. With such a powerful show of will, we must hope that cool heads will prevail in Washington, DC and among the military’s general staff, so the well-publicized restructuring work of the Revolution Congress can be accomplished without serious resistance.

In contemporary times, the U.S. Constitution has lost a good portion of its former reverence. Many people have lost faith in it. They understand it has failed to prevent the nation from descending into full blown fascism, incessant war-making, and bankruptcy. Economic and foreign policy makers ignore it completely, and orations of freedom and democracy by political hacks and their patriotic minions, reek of pretense.

None-the-less, there is much to be gained by retaining the Constitution. It has over two hundred and forty-five years of history behind it, and that continuity is too important to discard. Many fine and universally admired words and commentary would be lost, and given the acrimony of modern times, the risk of writing a new constitution from scratch would be high.

Though the following offering may appear as arrogant and brazen, your author believes it is something the founding fathers would approve of, given their original efforts have clearly failed to preserve the nation.

Citizens must rouse themselves from their stupor and face a hard reality. Our beloved country is racing toward political, economic, moral, and social (PEMS) disintegration (Chapter Five, Section 2).

A surprising statement? It shouldn’t be.

With only minor exceptions, our national debt has expanded, year after year, and decade after decade. Though it is rarely spoken of these days, it has never been a secret. In your author's youth, our annual federal deficits were counted in the millions of dollars, followed by billions of dollars. Now, our deficits are running in the trillions of dollars. Can there be any doubt about what is going to happen at the end of this essentially one-way and dead-end street?

Again, year after year, and decade after decade, the so-called Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department have conspired to add prodigious amounts of currency to the nation’s currency stock. Along with debt, it is used to accommodate the difference in tax receipts and government spending.

When the government prints new fiat currency to help pay the government's bills, it is not adding a single ounce of wealth to the economy. It is only printing more of that which represents wealth.

As the new currency is injected into our economy, it slowly dilutes the value of all previously existing currency and everything denominated in terms of it, for example, savings and debt. The result is a commensurate evaporation of savings and debt, and a general increase in the cost of all goods and services. The latter is what we call inflation.

Our thoughts about inflation, however, are inverted. The value of our goods and services are remaining fairly constant in terms of gold. Prices trend upward, mostly because our currency is losing its value. Our currency is being printed into oblivion right in from of our noses, but nobody sees it, or talks about it–and make no mistake, it’s another one-way and dead-end street!

The judgement of history is emphatic; nations unable to resist these ignoble practices always, always, fall into ruin. Surely, in the not too distant future, the United States will find itself on its knees. A whole population of savers, investors, and retirees, will see their wealth disappear in the dust of collapsing fractional reserve banks, and many tens of millions in our beloved country will find themselves staring destitution and death in the face.

Our military activities around the world will be severely disrupted. Disengagement from our numerous wars is bound to be messy. Indeed, some two hundred thousand military personnel, stationed at over seven-hundred, outside of the U.S., military bases scattered around the globe (References, List Three, Numbers 1 and 2), not to mention family members, civilian contractors, and vast stores of munitions and military hardware including nuclear warheads, may be suddenly stranded abroad, with no working means of either protecting them or bringing them home.

A high priority of the revolution, must be to bring home the full inventory of our nuclear warheads stationed abroad, including seaborne. Considering the precarious state of our economy, it is pure madness to think we can afford them future security.

Your author can see no plausible way of avoiding the painful future that awaits us. When the absolutely necessary repudiation of the U.S. federal debt of some thirty-one trillion dollars, and unfunded liabilities of some one-hundred and seventy-one trillion dollars (References, List Three, Number 5), a rejection of all U.S. dollars held abroad (Chapter Seven, Item 22), global warming, COVID-19, the seething controversy of Roe vs Wade, the war in Ukraine, and the lunatic idea of expanding the NATO military alliance to Russia’s doorstep are added to the mix, the pathway between point A, where we are now, and point B, where we want to go, disappears in a cloud of uncertainty, and the question of how best to get to point B is obscured by doubt, danger, anxiety, and fear.

The best guess, in spite of the chaos and suffering that will ensue, is for the U.S. to abandon the old order of doing business forth with, and start building a new order so the nation’s recovery process can begin, and our sins and other sins of the world can be put behind us. Even so, we must make the best use we can of existing structures.

U.S. citizens must open their minds to their nation's sordid behavior and leadership, as well as their own sorry understanding and lack of responsibility at the voting booths.

Truly informed people search the internet for unfiltered news, and read books written by studious investigators who fearlessly and diligently pursue the truth (References, List One, Numbers 1 through 6, List Two, Number 2). They attend seminars and support those who are building truth coalitions. When choice warrants, they do not hesitate to vote for third party candidates.

Great advances have been made in political, economic, moral, and social (PEMS) theory since the Constitution was set to paper. These advances are not reflected in its pages, and the constitution’s brevity is such that it fails to provide citizens with the knowledge they need to defend it from crippling abuse by those in power.

The following offering will provide remedies and pave the way toward a more promising future for all. It will provide common citizens with a means of wringing the criminality out of their government and placing it back on the path of reality, honesty, integrity, and sanity.

Although the globalist, mega-wealthy bankers and their minions in presidential palaces, parliament buildings, and gleaming offices of military hardware manufacturers, are worthy of all the distain that can be heaped upon them, there is little to be gained by going after them. Time and effort will be better spent finding our way out of the ruin they have bequeathed to us, while actively and totally rejecting any further domination by them. Our struggles will be waged on the political, economic, moral, and social fronts.

The ideas portrayed in this book are not your author's ideas. They derive from nature and have been expressed in various ways in large numbers of other books. Extensive references and credits, however, are omitted because they would disrupt the purpose and format of this book, and prevent the reader from focusing on undiluted ideas.

References infer additional research may be advantages, and it is time to turn away from endless research to focus on desperately needed action. Even so, I have included a brief list of references at the end of the book.

Readers will notice a considerable amount of repetition throughout this work, mostly as certain ideas are explored from different vantage points. Repetition in important matters however, should not be disparaged. Repetition strengthens connections between brain neurons and promotes learning, and teaching readers to learn the material contained herein is the prime function of this book.

It is the dream of your author that the information presented will assist you, the reader, in fashioning your beliefs and behavior such that when you are old and look back on your life, you can rest content that you were a positive force in the world, and have left a legacy worthy of your progeny's love, admiration, and gratitude.

With alterations and rearranging, much of the content of this book has been extracted from a previous and more extensive eBook entitled The Desideratum (that which is wanted and needed). Your author hopes Revolt! will attract more U.S. readers as a shorter, stand-alone book.

Your author will accept no remuneration for the publication of this work

Note: For the benefit of EPUB readers, Section numbers are designated by Roman Numerals.

G. Lewis Bauman

Start of Article XXVIII

(See the End of Article XXVIII at the close of Chapter Seven)

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Revolution Beckons

Chapter Two: Thirteen Foundation Stones for Democratic Government

Chapter Three: Understanding Government (Additional Aspects)

Chapter Four: Understanding Government (The Siren Calls)

Chapter Five: Understanding Government (Revelations)

Chapter Six: Revolution

Chapter Seven: The Revolution Congress (RC)

Chapter Eight: The Decriminalization and Restructure Commission (DRC)

Chapter Nine: Judicial Branch Expansion and Restructure

Chapter Ten: Executive Branch Downsizing and Restructure

Chapter Eleven: Legislative Branch Expansion and Restructure

Conclusion

References

About the Author

Chapter One: Revolution Beckons

I. The Declaration of Independence

For purposes of edification, the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence is repeated here.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

The following sentence is particularly significant: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The above paragraph is as binding today as when it was voted into existence on July the 4th, 1776. Originally the government of Great Britain was the offending party. Today our own government is the culprit.

The meaning could not be more direct. Given the rot and corruption that permeates the United States government in this year of 2022 it is the absolute right, indeed the duty, for the citizens of this country to rise up in rebellion against it.

The Declaration goes on to list a series of Facts against the government of Great Britain.

The following Facts are pertinent here in the U.S.

II. Modern Day Facts

Whereas the elected and appointed members of the United States government; (1) do not understand that government is a component of the division of labor; (2) have usurped authority onto themselves not given them by the citizens or by the Constitution; (3) do not accept that they are bound by the same rules of moral behavior that govern the interactions of every citizen; (4) do not understand the difference between real and honest money, and artificial and dishonest currency; (5) have used massive currency production and debt accumulation to finance the government’s day-to-day operations and have, thereby, made themselves parties to deceit, theft, and swindle when viewed through the eyes of future generations; (6) have allowed our government to become the agent for the depreciation of its own debt, with the result that all of the government’s debt certificates (U.S. bonds), are rendered fraudulent; (7) have caused or allowed interest rates to be criminally manipulate in the downward direction, thereby stealing interest owned by the citizenry and holders of all U.S. bonds, falsifying all of business calculation, and robbing our economy of its efficiency; (8) have allowed a nefarious, profit, and power hungry illuminati to plunge the nation into mindless and unnecessary wars; (9) whereas the basis for U.S. foreign policy, fashioned by the same illuminati, has for several decades, been forceful world hegemony rather than peaceful collaboration among nations; (10) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government and the privately owned Federal Reserve System have generally brought the nation to the brink of political, economic, moral and social (PEMS) disintegration; (11) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government have failed to inform the citizenry that the so-called Federal Reserve System is not a part of the U.S. government, rather it is a banking cartel owned by a group of mega-wealthy bankers who collect interest on all issued U.S. currency and debt; (12) whereas the same group of bankers have given the United States a highly leveraged and inherently unstable system of banking that emphasizes profit above all else; (13) whereas the Fed has never been audited; (14) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government regularly engage in the corrupt and immoral practice of selling their influence for money and votes; (15) whereas the campaign money they accept often comes from from foreign sources; (16) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government have, through legislation, made promises to the citizenry they cannot hope to deliver long term and have, thereby, deceived the citizenry; (17) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government have failed to inform the citizens that the nation is running on the fumes of currency printing and debt accumulation and is, for all intents and purposes, a bankrupt nation; (18) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government have allowed the secret and unregulated Exchange Stabilization Fund to engage in wide-spread criminal and murderous activities; (19) whereas the elected and appointed members of the federal government have allowed the secret and unregulated Central Intelligence Agency to engage in wide-spread criminal and murderous activities; (20) and whereas the government has issued bald-faced lies regarding the killing of President John Kennedy in the fall of 1963, and the so-called Nine/Eleven Attacks in the year 2001, representatives of consenting states shall agree to meet in congress to consider whether a state of peaceful rebellion shall exist between the citizens of the various states represented at the congress, and the established government of the United States.

III. Adjustments will not Suffice

The items listed in Section II are mortal wounds. The patient is dying. The national government is a criminal entity from top to bottom and has lost its legitimacy. It is no longer worthy of anyone's respect or support. We are betrayed! Sweeping changes must be undertaken, and those changes will be accomplished only through revolt!

The spine of government rot and corruption must be broken, as must the stranglehold the wealthy banking families have over the nation's financial and political systems.

Even so, the more smoothly this task can be accomplished the better. One of the tactics restructuring personnel will use, amid the dust and turmoil of tearing down and rebuilding, is to find ways of blending collapsed financial institutions into the rebuilding process, and existing government institutions and departments, etc., together with their trained bureaucrats, into the reformed government. It will speed and smooth the transition to a new beginning and help minimize the suffering of citizens.

It should be noted that the Declaration of Independence preceded the Constitution, and a revolt would, therefor, supersede Article 5 of the Constitution (Mode of Amendment) and any legal or forceful effort on the part of the established government to deny this peaceful rebellion its legitimacy, including a declaration of martial law.

If the United States government should somehow find success in sidetracking or defeating this peaceful rebellion by a minimum of forty-five states, all bets are off.

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Chapter Two: Thirteen Foundation Stones for Democratic Government

Chapters Two through Five describe the theoretical underpinnings for Democratic Government. The information they contain is generally not taught in the nation's school systems and is not part of the knowledge base the vast majority of voters carry to the voting booths. Hopefully, presenting the information in this manner will provide students and voters with the ready resource they need to help them cast responsible and moral ballots in the future.

I. Government is a Component of the Division of Labor

Government is not an ordained entity to be used by a privileged few to lord over the many, nor is it the property of any exalted individual or group of individuals. It does not exist of its own accord, nor does its authority exist of its own accord. Government derives its reason for being from the people it governs and does not stand apart from them. It arises as a component of the division of labor and must always be thought of in that sense.

The division of labor within a community leads naturally to the concept of government. In the same way morality springs from the ruin that ensues when people fail to practice it, the concept of government springs from the confusion and lack of cohesion of a disordered human community.

People gather to form communities because they find safety in numbers, and because they quickly discover the division of labor makes life easier and better for all concerned. Living in community, different groups can specialize in making shoes, clothes, shelters, tending domesticated animals, raising crops, enforcing agreements, policing unruly members, and guarding against encroachments by those who would do harm. Everyone benefits from this naturally occurring phenomenon as the social structure becomes more efficient in satisfying the communal needs.

It is soon realized that it is useful to have an authority higher than the local governing functions for governing the broad community, maintaining the peace, and establishing relations with neighboring communities.

A leadership entity must be established to clarify the social framework and set it on bedrock. The standards of moral behavior that allow people to live and thrive together in peace and security must be integrated into the social framework so the standards may take on the force of law.

Therefore do people willingly surrender a measure of the authority they have over their own lives, for the convenience and benefits of a broad layer of government. The broad layer exists only because the people will it to exist. Its role is that of the servant, not the master. Its purpose is to serve, to serve equally, and to dominate only to the degree necessary to fulfill the functions surrendered to it by the people, including the responsibilities owed to future generations.

Community members do not agree to the establishment of a broad leadership entity so it may enslave them. They want the leadership entity to be the very embodiment of righteousness. That is the only reason moral and thoughtful citizens will agree to its establishment. The broad layer of government must be constrained by the same moral system that guides the inter-actions of individual citizens. It follows that a moral and just government is divinely sanctioned in the same way the Universal and Unifying Morality is divinely sanctioned (Section 3).

With a hard and fast social framework in place and a system of moral behavior set firmly within that framework, well-meaning and moral people are able to interact with each other in safety, and with the expectation that exchanges agreed to will be honestly and forthrightly consummated. People are able to become future oriented, and work together to build their community, husband scarce resources, and preserve the beauty of the earth.

Governments maintain their divinely sanctioned status only as their structure and philosophy remains soundly rooted in the foundation stones of this chapter. Woe onto citizens, when those roots are broken and government becomes a force onto its own. It easily happens in mass societies where government can become very bureaucratic and distant, and especially where the roots of democratic government are not widely understood or accepted in the first place.

Logically, all governments should be democracies. Of course, any democracy rooted in the division of labor presupposes voters are knowledgeable and moral people, who will cast their ballots on the basis of true economic and moral principles, rather than some selfish desire or need. When that is not the case, and when there are no checks in place to prevent the misuse of the ballot, democracy slides easily onto the path leading to omnipotent and criminal government.

II. The Providential Laws of Reality and Truth

God (the cause of existence) radiates reality and truth and is the sole source of reality and truth. Reality and truth radiate down upon humans through the otherwise opaque curtain of the understanding boundary and the incomprehensible and awesome occurrence of divine creation. Reality and truth are givens in the same sense that existence is a given. Since reality and truth issue directly from God, they are divinely sanctioned and are among the most powerful of godly messages.

The Providential Laws of Reality and Truth are as old as the time of creation, predate the emergence of life in the universe, and are omnipresent. Though mystery abounds, they underpin all of divine creation. The universe exists because it is real and true. The galaxies and stars are synonymous with reality and truth. The mother planet is held in orbit about the sun by reality and truth. The oceans, forests, mountains, and plains exist because they are real and true. Earthly life exists because of reality and truth, as does everything that living beings see, touch, hear, and smell.

Indeed, can it be otherwise? Was divine creation permeated with the unreal and untrue? Do time and space exist because they are unreal and untrue? Would matter, energy, gravity, and magnetism exist in the absence of reality and truth? Is life based on the absence of reality and truth?

The answers are inexorable. The natural world, reality, and truth, are as one. They are an inseparable blend. They are factual and irrefutable. Even the mysteries of nature are real and true; otherwise they would not be obstacles to understanding.

Since reality and truth constitute laws that issue directly from God, they are entities that demand obedience. They are part of the sacred world and are not to be denied or abused by humans. As radiant messages, they are omnipresent and available to all who would but be aware of them.

The Providential Laws of Reality and Truth, radiate down upon the political, economic, moral, and social (PEMS) world as well. People who are enamored with unreal and untrue PEMS beliefs are in violation of godly intent, and will eventually suffer severe penalties for their defilements.

To be sure, what is real and true can sometimes be difficult to discern. Reality and truth are sometimes partially or wholly hidden from view. Mistakes will be made. There is, however, no excuse for disregarding reality and truth in the most elemental and obvious of circumstances. All matters that are important to the spiritual and social well-being, particularly those regarding PEMS understandings, must be consistent with the Providential Laws of Reality and Truth. It is as a call from God.

III. Moral Duty

Moral Duty, defined as the urge to be good and do good, is a human manifestation of the radiant laws of reality and truth and the desire to survive, which appear to the human soul as powerful triad spirits.

The essence of Moral Duty is comprised of a series of truisms that arise from the spirits of reality, truth, and the desire to survive. Among them are: peace is better than war, friendship is better than animosity, love is better than hate, safety is better than danger, cooperation is better than conflict, prosperity is better than destitution, security is better than insecurity, kindness is better than cruelty, trust is better than suspicion, and a long life is better than a short one, etc.

These and similar truisms are concomitants of human life, for surely a secure and content life is not possible in a human community where assault, murder, theft, contempt, hatred, vengeance, irresponsibility, and all things hateful and dreadful, are social norms practiced by all. The people of such a community would murder each other off until only one individual was left, and that individual would perish of a broken heart.

There exists in every human soul, therefore, an innate desire to defend the truisms and make them the basis for behavioral standards. Bound together, the truisms provide the powerful impetus for Moral Duty. Like eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing, Moral Duty is an essential feature of human life and a prime requirement for successful social interaction and living. It is an inherent spirit, however weak or strong, in every human soul.

Moral Duty evokes powerful emotional sets that tug at the soul