Florida’s Amendment 6...will your State be next?

In the absence of government or its authority, and in a natural state of being in which all people are free in their daily intercourse with each other, those who now support Amendment 6 on Florida’s ballot, http://www.smokefreeforhealth.org/ who threaten to forbid smoking in all restaurants which are owned and operated by others, and likewise threaten to ban smoking in the enclosed workplaces of all businesses owned and operated by others, would be free to avoid all establishments they find so objectionable, and also be free to express their feelings and collectively bargain with each and every individual business owner to achieve their goal.

In addition, and in the above mentioned natural state of freedom, all those who find smoking enjoyable, or are not offended by the smoking of others, would likewise be free to pursue their happiness as each sees fit by selecting those establishments they favor and avoiding those they find objectionable.

But mankind’s above mentioned natural state of being is not the case! Government is in existence and its force is very real and available to be exercised, and some now threaten to uses the force of government to make the freedoms of others, which existed in mankind’s natural state of being, illegal. Was this the vision and intent of those who surrendered part of their natural freedoms in the creation of our government___ to allow one group of people to use their vote to make the natural freedoms of others illegal?

The answer to these questions are not difficult to find. Unlike those governments of the past, in which those who governed were free to impose their whims and fancies upon their “subjects”, the founding fathers of our governments, state and federal, believed that mankind, by his birthright, ought to be free and was endowed by his maker with certain unalienable rights; the right to life, liberty, and property rights e.g., to be free to pursue individual happiness!

In respect of these beliefs our nations’ Founding Fathers intended purpose in the creation of government was to achieve a fundamental goal___ to protect the life, liberty and property rights of its citizens from any third party who would dare to attempt to deny the unalienable rights of mankind to those living under its protection.

But the supporters of Amendment 6 are not content with this system of government in which its force is intended to be used to protect the life, liberty and property rights of its citizens from those who would encroach upon these unalienable rights____ they wish to change the fundamental purpose for which our government was created so its force may then be used by some to impose their will upon others and intentionally make illegal the unalienable rights of those who they can outvote…an intention quite different from those who framed and ratified our constitutions, state and federal.

This group is a very dangerous group indeed. But not because of any physical force they themselves are capable of exerting. As a matter of fact, they are a spineless group of cowards, fearful of freedom, fearful of mankind’s natural state of freedom, fearful of individual liberty, fearful of freedom of choice, fearful of the responsibility to succeed or fail at their own doing, and fearful of the advantages of a free market which the Founding Fathers intended to protect by the adoption of written constitutions. And so, they now conspire to use a hollow illusion to accomplish their goal___ the illusion of legitimate government force, the amendment process, which, when one considers the intent under which our government was created, is in fact not legitimate at all but subversive and contrary to the very cause for which our founding fathers surrendered part of their natural freedoms in the creation of our governments.

Having stated the above, it is only too obvious that this group (the promoters of Amendment 6 and those who think alike when it comes to the question of individual liberty and property rights) must be confronted with the same fury our founding fathers were willing to exercise or the torch of liberty will surely be extinguished, and a once freedom loving people will again be resigned to their previous state of serfdom through a never ending train of measures declaring each and every one of their unalienable rights to be illegal!

Make no mistake, this group is attempting to accomplish with their vote that which terrorists have been unable to accomplish using violence, overturn the fundamental principals for which our system of government was agreed upon___ the protection of life, liberty and property rights from all third parties who would encroach upon such rights ___ whether by vote or by legislative pen.

Amendment 6 is not so confusing when put into its proper perspective and understanding the false premise under which its advocates labor and conspired, which is the false premise that our government was intended by the founding fathers to allow one individual, or a group of individuals, to use the force of government, or their vote to authorized the force of government, to make their unalienable rights illegal___ a premise which is not only absurd, but a very dangerous one if allowed to prevail! As Benjamin Franklin clearly stated, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”