November 2012: How will your vote change America?

American values are that government exists to protect our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Self-government is the best way to achieve this protection, since the governed are the stakeholders.

When our rights are protected by government, it is up to us to decide how we exercise them.

Modern history is full of examples that show what happens when well-meaning people support politicians and movement leaders who proclaim that government should provide for our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. See Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom. When our rights are provided for, they are no longer rights because then it is up to government (the guys with the guns) to decide how we exercise them.

The history of the American people is that of forming voluntary associations, both to define problems and to organize solutions. The key words are voluntary associations. This was observed and recorded by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America.

When we look to government to define the problems and organize the solutions, the activity is no longer an act of voluntary association, but rather, it is an act of coercion. de Tocqueville also makes this point.

When government defines a problem and organizes a solution, the entire process becomes a point of law, and therefore, a process initiated and implemented by the full force of the police state.

More Americans are waking up to the fact that they have given up too much ground to government in the name of doing good. They have followed politicians and movement leaders down the garden path.

The election of November 2012 is an important step in the process of restoring government that exists to protect - not provide for - our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How you vote matters.

Read the Declaration of Independence