| policy and communiqué emanating from the top down. I was in a county trial a few weeks ago and the county Judge, an elderly woman, asked only that we stand when the jury entered the court, and not at all for her, a very appropriate and Constitutional approach since the jury consists of sovereign citizens selected for an awesome task. This last week, I was in a federal court and things were very different indeed. The Federal judge not only required us to stand whenever he entered the room, he also conducted himself in an imperious and officious manner at every possible instance. We referred to the county judge as “judge” (she thought Gladys a bit too informal even though she preferred it) and the federal judge as “your honor” and had to speak to him in the second person as though not worthy to address this public servant directly! This judge was not the exception, he was in fact the norm for judges. This anecdotal comparison of mine is, I believe, a snapshot of the entire police state. Your county Sheriff for instance, is an elected public servant, and since he has to run for election on a regular basis, he tends to conduct himself with some vague understanding that he is a public servant (at least every four years or so). Sadly, many of these Sheriffs are elected by masses of ignorant voters who, because they personally have not been the victim of police state brutality (yet), don’t’ see anything wrong with authoritarianism and militaristic tendencies in the police. Here in Conroe, I have noticed that the local Sheriff’s are now wearing their trousers bloused into their SWAT looking boots for routine patrol duties, a bad sign indeed. Juxtapose the behavior of the local Sheriff to that of the average, run of the mill, appointed for life Federal Police Agent. Federal bureaucrats in general have the distinct misimpression that they have been appointed as our betters, our superiors and rulers whose every order must be obeyed. This is evident not only in their officious and rude behavior but also in the copious amounts of controlling regulations that we must follow when entering one of “their” facilities. Why for instance must we the law abiding (the assumption is that the presumed or convicted criminals are being brought before the judge in chains) be treated with suspicion, searched and restricted from bringing in legally owned and carried weapons? This lack of accountability is the result of many factors, the most major one being the total ignorance and propagandizing of the American people. Watch any popular movie or television show such as the repulsive series titled “CSI” and you will see smarmy, rude and often vindictive public servants throwing their weight around as if they were some medieval king. Is it any wonder then that this societal ignorance, yes even glorification of the jack booted thug, has now transformed itself into a systemic police state mentality? If we are to win this war for our freedom, an essential ingredient is going to be the transformation of the public consciousness from the attitude of serf to that of a sovereign citizen. A serf grovels and a sovereign commands (with dignity and aplomb of course). Any of us who have conducted ourselves as a sovereign, aware of our rights and the fact that the “authorities” who confront us are in fact our public servants, can testify that this will engender the most belligerent and often brutal behavior from said servants. And yet we must be mindful of this fact, that any time anyone who is in fact a public servant speaks or acts, it must be constrained by the Constitution, else it is nothing more than lawlessness and brigandry. Let me say it another way, when a public servant exceeds their proper authority (and I am not speaking of the authority illegally granted them by their own supervisors through some official sounding but legally hollow directive or decree), they are in fact nothing more than a lawbreaker. I like to issue friendly challenges from time to time and will do so now with you all, my readers. Start referring to all government employees as public servants in your thinking and conversation, and see if it does not create change in your thinking. While this alone is not going to rectify the current situation, it can be instrumental in changing the thinking and behavior of the person who can do the most to help us restore our Constitutional Republic, namely you. |
| Police State: Public Servants? By Al Lorentz I want to first thank my readers for their overwhelming response and let you all know that I am currently researching my paper on arms. These past weeks, I have been working as a trial consultant, most recently on a case that was being heard in a Federal Court. I have made the correlation that the public servants at county level are vastly different than the public servants at the federal level. The fact is however, few if any of them regardless of level, conduct themselves like public servants at all and resent heavily any inference that they are indeed servants. Most public servants, that would be anyone who is employed by any governmental entity, conduct themselves as though they are part of some controlling mechanism of authority and that we, their employers, are in fact their servants. This is not simply attitudinal at the employee level, it is an institutional mindset that is evident in every memorandum, directive, |
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| ------------------------------------- Al Lorentz is a Fundamentalist Christian, father and devoted husband, state chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas. Al has served as a Marine Sniper and later as an Airborne Ranger in the Texas National Guard. He welcomes your comments at allorentz@truevine.net. ------------------------------------- PRISON PLANET.com INFOWARS.com |
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