William Jud
A Way to Throw the Bums Out
By William Jud
Jun 20, 2008 - 10:43:03 PM

Congress is corrupt. Political parties, Democrats in massive particular, show us daily that their emphasis is on staying in office and staying in power, not in working for the good of the American people.
 
Elections do not work. Folks back home continue to send the same Politburo political hacks to Congress every election, with implicit instructions to loot as much national treasure as possible to send home for pet projects.
 
Is there anything we can do to stop this headlong rush to national disaster?
 
Maybe there is.
 
In my novel, THE GREEN WAR CHRONICLES, A Novel of Ecoterrorism, Collectivism and Corruption in America, I ask "Why not address the problem of legislative corruption as a contract violation?"
 
If you hire a plumber to install pipes in your house and the plumber spends his time using your telephone to solicit donations for an animal shelter instead of installing pipes, the plumber has not followed your instructions and has not done what he was supposed to do. That is a Breach Of Contract situation. You fire the plumber and do not pay him.
 
Apply this situation to employees at all levels of government, particularly in the various legislatures. You hired (elected) people to represent your interests during various government activities such as making laws and regulations. Did your representatives follow instructions, or did they wander off into their own pet projects and alien political paradigms?
 
The U. S. Constitution is very specific concerning what government agencies and elected officials are allowed to do and not do.
 
Article 1, Section 8, of the U. S. Constitution lists the authority and responsibility of Congress with regard to what Congress is allowed to do.
 
Amendments 9 and 10 say, in effect, if a proposed activity isn't listed in Article 1, Section 8, then the President and members of Congress are PROHIBITED from doing that activity.
 
There also are general instructions to be followed. Article 6 says that all elected officials must "...support this Constitution; ...". Article 2 requires that the President "... will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
 
Returning to the errant plumber, fired for breach of contract because he did not follow your instructions, apply this idea to the situation in government.
 
There are very specific Constitutional instructions for elected officials. These Constitutional instructions are a formal contract between elected officials and the American people.
 
Currently, people in Congress are running hog-wild, proposing to tax American citizens to support Illegal Aliens, proposing to nationalize Oil Companies, attaching pork barrel spending "earmarks" to every piece of legislation, stealing private property, trying to trash the First and Second Amendments, and in some cases producing laws that are judged Un-Constitutional.
 
All these activities violate Constitutional instructions. All these activities constitute multiple, chronic Breaches Of Contract between elected officials and the American people and the American Constitution. These activities do not "support this Constitution."
 
Breach of Contract is a wedge that can be used to remove offending elected officials and repair the damage.
 
Look at the voting record and the record of bills authored, sponsored and co-sponsored by each elected official. Go all the way back to the FIRST VIOLATION by each elected official. The DATE OF FIRST VIOLATION is the date when the official violated his/her Oath to support the Constitution. That is the date when the official began to occupy his/her office illegitimately and Un-Constitutionally, and the date from which all pay, benefits, retirement pay, expense reimbursements and office rent, plus interest, must be returned to taxpayers through the U. S. Treasury.
 
The DATE OF FIRST VIOLATION also is the date from which all votes cast by that person became void, and the date from which all bills authored, sponsored, or co-sponsored by that person must have that person's name removed retroactively, all the way through the current term in office.
 
It is clear that corrupt politicians have raised a generation of corrupt voters who think that elected officials should be pirates who raid government to ship loot to the folks back home. With that mindset, the election process will nevermore remove turkeys from office.
 
But Breach Of Contract proceedings have a chance to clean up Washington D. C. and state and local governments.

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