Donald K. Allen for President

Top of the Week

August 11, 2008

Citizen legislators. That’s what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they formed this great Nation. There were farmers, merchants, craftsmen, and physicians, some intellectuals and others simply patriots. They represented their individual states to form a legislature, a Congress, and served in this capacity for several years before returning home to take up their previous occupations. They were citizens first, and politicians second. What would they think of today’s Congress, with members serving 30, 40, and even 50 years?

The first Congress under the Constitution convened in New York City in 1789. In the following 219 years the citizen legislator was lost, being eventually replaced by what now constitutes an “elite ruling class.” The rejuvenating effect of new members and new ideas, fresh thought and different aspects is now subject to powerful dominance by senior legislators with party and personal agendas.

It’s time to take back our government. We have the means in the Declaration of Independence’s second paragraph, “it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it,” “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends.” This refers to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” which we will all lose with the creation of a North American Union and eventual New World Order.

People throughout our country, no matter what walk of life, must seriously commit themselves to serve in government as independent, unaffiliated candidates for office, either at local, state, or federal level. You must truly believe Edmund Burke’s words, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Good men and women are what America needs right now, good people with common sense and patriotic spirit to make this a better place. It will take a commitment very much like those that signed the Declaration of Independence, “with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Our government must once again become “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” as Lincoln referred to in his Gettysburg Address.

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My wife and I went to the Ohio State Fair in Columbus to campaign and get signatures again to get on the ballot. Of the scores of people I talked to, the consensus was real dissatisfaction with the choice of McCain or Obama. Absolutely amazing! Where are these two candidates and the media getting their polls from? They must be only talking to lists of party loyalists.

Paula was enlightened while listening to the All-Ohio State Fair Youth Choir singing several songs that included reference to God. She was overwhelmed and happy to hear them sing about God, and at the same time concerned about the oppressive enforcement of separation of church and state that is ongoing in America. She felt she is being conditioned by the media to avoid mentioning God or religion in public, and that religion is “progressively” being pushed out of our lives.

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If you have access to Sirius Satellite Radio this week, try to listen in on Wednesday to the Mike Church Show at 10:30 a.m. I was invited to an interview and call-in session — his first with a presidential candidate!