What Robert Kraft wrote to student protesters about the March for Our Lives
I see it as more positive than negative that students are standing up, speaking out and getting involved in the democratic process.
What better way to learn why the Bill of Rights was put into writing to define and enforce the natural rights of people in a civilized society?
The 2nd Amendment was never intended to justify any manner of abuse by taking it out of context with the rest of the Bill of Rights. All 10 articles were added to the Constitution as a condition of agreeing to endorse it. These laws include not only freedom of speech and of the press, and the right to petition for redress of grievances, but also right of security in our persons houses and effects from unreasonable searches and seizures without warrants based on probable cause, and the right not to be deprived of life liberty or property without due process to prove a crime was committed for which the law prescribes a set penalty. Even the govt cannot violate these rights and liberties, but must prove first a compelling interest and that any regulations are the least restrictive.
It is time for all students and citizens to learn these laws, and understand that to have our rights protected, that means respecting and enforcing these same laws for everyone.
The natural laws, the Golden Rule of Reciprocity, means that if we want rights and freedoms, we cannot abuse them to violate the same rights and laws for others; in order for the people as "law abiding citizens" to invoke the authority of government, that means we must commit to follow and respect the same laws we seek to enforce.
Thus, we become the check on our own government.
By petitioning "each other" for redressing our own grievances,
we the people invoke the very authority we give to government by natural law.
www.ethics-commission.net
The people as the body of the church use Scriptural laws to check church authority against abuses.
The people as the Government use Constitutional laws to check against govt abuses.
The key to Equal Justice Under Law and Restorative Justice to establish peace, law and order for all, civilly by the democratic process, is empowerment by Knowledge of the Laws, so that all people participate equally in enforcement. When arms are used properly for defense of the laws, there is no abuse to violate laws or deprive life or liberty. The proper use of police and military defense serves as a Deterrent, and never as a punishment. We can stop collective punishment and collateral damages caused by war, by collective responsibility for enforcing laws in the first place.
That's how we are going to end political abuses of power, economic oppression that denies these same rights to petition, due process, and representation to individuals without legal resources to defend their interests, and all manner of criminal abuses and corruption that violate civil rights.
As we unite on the common cause of public education and enforcement of equal civil standards and protections of the law for all people of all beliefs, we shall Reclaim Rebuild and Refinance our nation and economy, by investing our time and taxes more wisely in sustainable education, jobs and services based on serving together, not fighting each other and wasting our resources.
This "March for our Lives" should be expanded into a national campaign to teach all people how to defend Rights by practicing them. Not depending or fighting others, but exercising our rights and freedom to build, fund, and run our own programs and own solutions. Not through DC or depending on federal govt, but reforming our own state prisons and local schools to provide services and create jobs in education, health care, social services, and economic development so every community can become self-governing and financially self-sustaining.
By teaching civic responsibility, financial independence and healthy living and relations, the money saved from preventing crime and disease from abusive or addictive disorders can then be invested in paying for education and health care for all. Instead of spending $50,000 per person incarcerated, or billions more on mentally ill people or criminally ill addicts stuck in prisons or on drugs, legal or illegal, we can pay for mentors and interns at 30,000 and 20,000 a pair to teach and learn professional skills and fund more jobs to solve problems and provide services with the taxes we spend now on failed systems of criminal justice and mental health that don't cure the causes.
The Students and Dreamers who want better ways to pay for education need support by more experienced teachers, business leaders, and professionals in every field to make these reforms.
Instead of parties fighting each other politically for power, why not reward citizens and taxpayers for investing in business loans and plans to convert failed govt programs and waste into cost effective sustainable solutions. We can do better, and for the sake of the next generation of taxpayers and leaders, we need to start now to set up more sensible solutions, which don't take away anyone's rights, liberty or labor and freedom of choice of our political and religious beliefs about God and Government, but allow all people of all beliefs and creeds, including political beliefs by party, to invest in running and funding their own solutions, not abusing Govt to impose that on anyone else.
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