the proposed resolution

 

The liberty we hold ultimately does not belong to us.  It was a gift from our Creator and secured with the sacrifices of principled men and women.  It is merely our duty to safeguard this fragile crucible of liberty which has been forged in blood, iron, and gunpowder, and pass it on to our descendants.

We, the faithful citizens of the constitutional government of Virginia, have watched with a close eye as our foundation of government has been slowly eroded and usurped by the political establishment.  The unifying cause of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has given way to power struggles between factions, guided by the common follies of historical tyrants, including ignorance, arrogance, ego, pride, greed, lust for power, and fealty.

Our governmental system of checks and balances, designed and intended to counter these follies, has failed.  The legislative branch disregards the constitution entirely, the executive branch selectively enforces law, the judicial branch distorts language to alter truths which we regard as self-evident, and local constitutional offices are bribed into submission by our taxes being laundered through the state.

Considering the history of the repeated injuries and usurpations, let the following facts be submitted in relation to the intolerable acts of this current government:

• The establishment has failed to fortify any common trust in elections, which should be amenable and agreeable to all honest parties.
• The establishment has decided to disenfranchise the faithful and permanent citizens of the Commonwealth through gerrymandering and repugnant voting laws in favor of pursuing newly minted voters to achieve and secure ultimate tyrannical power.
• The establishment has disenfranchised the entire Commonwealth of Virginia through a Popular Vote Compact.
• The establishment attempts to pass 1,500 new laws per year, making it impossible for citizens and representatives of the people to readily give input on, or keep up with, the new laws of the Commonwealth.
• The establishment maintains control over an education system where citizens increasingly cannot read and therefore have no hope to read law which ought to be understandable to all citizens of a civil society.
• The establishment deprives us of judicial review of constitutionality not based on the merits of cases, but by the ridiculous treasure that must be forfeited to merely bring cases forward, resulting in a judicial system only accessible to some, and where the state has unlimited funds to protect their own tyranny.
• The establishment trains and installs justices who interpret law based on the shifting sands of a “living Constitution” where they can make law mean whatever they would prefer it to mean.
• The establishment installs justices who broadly deny standing to impacted citizens of unjust and unconstitutional laws.

Let the following facts be submitted in direct relation to the Virginia constitution:

• Article 1, section 1 – The state has repeatedly deprived and divested our posterity of the enjoyment of life and liberty.
• Article 1, section 2 – Local governments have been made amenable to only the state, creating an environment of Taxation without Representation through Financial Manipulation.
• Article 1, section 3 – Instead of government being used for the common benefit, it has been made to issue specific benefits to specific groups.
• Article 1, section 4 – Emoluments and privileges are bestowed upon government officials and government positions are commonly hereditary to only those who show fealty to those in power.
• Article 1, section 5 – The legislative branch routinely considers the employees within the executive branch to be expert witnesses and considers those bureaucrats to be more knowledgeable than the people themselves when considering legislation.
• Article 1, section 6 – People with a temporary, uncommon interest to a community have overtaken those with a permanent, common interest in the same community.  When this fails to be the case, the establishment changes the boundaries of the community to make it so.
• Article 1, section 8 – government has crafted law to force employers to pick a semi-religious sect, thus forcing them to prosecute people in private trials without a jury of peers or due process, and then to deprive them of life and liberty
• Article 1, section 11 – government has taken taxes (property) for private use through economic development
• Article 1, section 12 – speech which disagrees with certain narratives is labelled “discriminatory” or “hate speech” and the General Assembly passes laws to curtail these free expressions of speech.
• Article 1, section 13 – The right of the people to keep and bear arms is being infringed
• Article 1, section 14 – The proper government of Virginia, which abides by its own constitution, shall be made uniform
• Article 1, section 15 – The establishment seeks to criminalize the dutiful citizens in favor of the entitled citizens.  The establishment pursues the narrowest possible diffusion of knowledge, forsaking all who disagree with them, and requires the education system to pursue their vision even as it has become less effective at educating the citizens of the Commonwealth.
• Article 1, section 16 – The establishment has embraced a semi-religious sect repugnant to the majority of people, enforceable by law, within all parts of government and private enterprise.

After repeatedly petitioning the usurpers for redress and pacific measures, they have only answered with repeated injury and further infringements on the liberty for which we are to be the guardians.

It therefore falls upon the faithful citizens of the constitutional government of Virginia to be the final check and balance, and to consider a revocation of the consent of the governed, pursuant to Article 1, section 3 of the Virginia Constitution, and pursue the right to dramatically alter this usurpation of constitutional government.

Adoption of this resolution signals our resolve for our constitutional government of Virginia.  It is a formal call to our brethren across the mountains, plains, and beaches of our great Commonwealth.