Political Causes and Effects II

Internal Non-Intervention

I was thinking about starting a business based on providing security and logistics for a group of companies that have common interests. In order to do this I knew I would have to come up with a contract that would state exactly what I would do for the companies and what I would expect out of them in return. I figured the best way to start would be with a mission statement of sorts, a statement of the overall goal of the services my company would provide stated in a way that would show the benefit to the companies.

The goal of the our company, which I will call SecLog for clarity, would be to provide external security to companies and to establish logistic services for commonly used and manufactured items between the contracted companies and those companies that operate outside our contract. Providing these services would enable the pooling of resources into one point in order to provide better services in these common areas. The companies under SecLog contract, while they may maintain their own internal security forces as they see fit they, will not have external security forces that could interfere with the SecLogs services. The contracted companies would also be restricted from forming their own contracts with companies outside the contract to prevent possible conflicts of interest within the SecLog contract. Additionally, SecLog would provide an arbitration and oversight service that would provide two additional services. First off, SecLog would provide for arbitration of issues that arise between companies within the SecLog contract. Secondly, they would have the responsibility to ensure all members within the SecLog contract, to include SecLog, operate within the confines of the contract. Any member of the contract that believes SecLog has overstepped the bounds of the contract or have not performed the services SecLog is contracted to perform may use this arbitration and oversight service to lodge a complaint and have it reviewed and resolved without fear of reprisal to the complainant. Other then the above restrictions on the companies within the contracted services there would be no other restrictions placed on the signers of this contract. SecLog will not interfere in the conducting of business within the individual companies under the SecLog contract. The fee for SecLogs services will be based on the number of employees each company employs.

After thinking about this I realized that what I was proposing was generally what the founders had done when they wrote the Constitution and formed the United States. The differences were minor; there was not a CEO that could not be fired, they provided for the election by the States of a head of the newly formed union, a President that could be fired if not performing the duties that were assigned to him. The restrictions that were placed on the States were like those that I placed on the companies that would the SecLog contract, no going outside the contracted companies and SecLog provide for overall security. The States are not permitted to enter into treaties with foreign Nations since it could undermine both the general welfare of the United States and the Nations security as a whole. The States were free to write their own laws and operate their States as they wished. The monetary cost to the States was also addressed in the Constitution, it states that Congress has the power to collect revenues to pay for the debts and provide for the common defense, but all revenues shall be uniform throughout the United States. That was the intention of the census, to determine population in order to determine the uniform distribution of taxation. Of course the 16th Amendment changed this. The 16th Amendment basically gave Congress the power to tax in any method they wished without regard to being fair; of course it is worded in legalese that makes it seem like the right way to do things.

Since the States sent representatives to Philadelphia in 1787 to write the Constitution and form the Government of the United States, the representatives saw fit to include the Congress. Congress consists of two separate organizations that would represent both the individual States and the People of those States independently; this ensured that the actions taken by the whole were the best for all concerned. Being the best for all concerned does not always mean that it will make everyone happy; it means that it will be the best for the majority. The 17th Amendment effectively removed the voice of the States. Initially, the individual State legislators would select Senators to represent the State in Washington; the 17th Amendment changed this to a popular election by the People. In theory this would give the People a voice in both houses of Congress. The greed for power created the career politician, combined with lack of attention by the People, silenced the voice of the People. This has left us with no voice for the People, no voice for the States and complete voice for a strong central Government. Over the years, anyone with a complaint they felt they could turn into either power or cash, have created a special interest group under the guise of helping some group that supposedly can’t help themselves. There have been special interest groups that were started with good intentions but they went the way of all political institutions, the way of power and greed. The corruption of the Constitution, combined with the silencing of the States and the People while giving voice to special interest groups, has created a monster that is bent on destroying the individual States, making them nothing more then large counties within the State of the United States.

The SecLog contract contains no provision for implementing rules that all the companies under contract must follow, rules that a single company has imposed on its employees and wishes to have imposed on all the other companies’ employees. We have done just that in the United States, it called incorporation. The Mayor of New York City has a problem with individuals owning guns, which is within his rights, it’s not right for the Federal Government to try and force that type of law on all the States. Same is true with almost every law that Congress has recently written, healthcare for example. In the SecLog contract there was no mention of additional fees to be paid by the companies to provide for services to companies that were not under contract with SecLog. Any businessperson would tell you they would not pay for pro-bono actions provided to others by a security force they had hired, that would be bad business. It amazes me that the States within the Union called the United States of America allow just such actions by the Government of the United States. This further reduces the powers that the States are supposed to have retained when they joined the Union. This is just another part of the incorporation doctrine that the Federal Government has been following. The involvement of our Senators and Representatives in the affairs of foreign countries is another contributor to incorporation and it is not in their job descriptions; not to mention the cost to the taxpayer.

Of course the contract with SecLog is just an analogy I use it to describe what is happening to the relationship between the States and the Federal Government. If we continue to allow the Federal Government to run roughshod over the States and continue to abuse the powers granted to it by the Constitution, we will no longer have a country; we will have something more akin to kingdoms of the past; this means we will be the serfs that support the Lords and Ladies of the Kingdom.

Steve Avery
10/2/2011