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Should Texas Declare Independence?
An Interview with Jim Davidson
by Alberto Mingardi
"All political power is inherent in the people, and all governments exist by
the will of the people.(...) Every individual has the inherent right of life
from physical conception to natural death. (...) Every individual has the
inherent right of liberty, which is the unrestrained exercise of free will,
which shall never be infringed provided the exercise thereof does not violate
the rights of any other individual. (...) Every individual's body, life,
labor, ideas, thoughts, and possessions that the individual has lawfully
created or acquired are that individual's property. Every individual has the
inherent right of the ownership, non-coercive acquisition, and use of
property. (...)Every individual has the inherent right of defending the life,
liberty, or property of any individual using whatever force is necessary,
through whatever means available, including the use of deadly force. (...)
Every individual has the inherent right of owning, using, and carrying arms
of any description."
It isn’t an extract from a new, exciting libertarian book. These lines are
from the "Texas Constitution 2000", a libertarian-leaning document for an
independent Texas that anyone can read on the website of the Texas
Constitution Ratification Fund, http://www.tcrf.com .
Why independence for Texas? The Laissez Faire City Times interviewed Jim
Davidson, chairman of the TCRF. Well-known in libertarian circles, Davidson
has been a part of the Libertarian Party in Texas and elsewhere.
He worked for a while for the Atlantis Project, writing The Atlantis Papers
explaining and justifying the constitution of Oceania. He’s worked with a
Dutch diplomat from East Africa, Michael van Notten, and has been active in
the Liberty Round Table since roughly 1995. He recently started the Gold
Dollar Ranch project.
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What are the links between Texas independence and libertarian ideas?
The links are very strong. Texas Constitution 2000 is a pro-liberty document.
Read it to see more of what I mean. It clearly states: no taxes, no war on
drugs, no war on sex, very limited government, no warfare state, no welfare
state. It runs to over a dozen pages of closely spaced type, and the links
are all through it.
There's only one type of crime other than violating the constitution if you
work for the Texas government under Texas Constitution 2000. That type of
crime is intentionally harming another person or his property. There will be
no more "victimless crimes."
About half the Texas prison population will be released, because they are
serving terms for non-violent "offenses" which aren't offenses under the new
constitution.
As a Texan, what is your judgment of the work of George W. Bush jr. (maybe
the next US President)?
He isn't "jr." His father was George Herbert Walker Bush, and he is George
Walker Bush, or George W. Bush. And he's a fraud. He uses his influence to
help his rich buddies, like Waltrip, and to keep his taxes low while the
sticking it to the rest of Texas, in my view. I believe he's a hypocrite, who
was not willing to go to war, so he had a family friend get him into the
national guard, and I believe he used cocaine and marijuana, but now wants
"stiffer penalties" for drug-related crimes.
In other words, I have about as much use for him as for his father: not much.
What are the reasons that you work for Texas independence?
The independence of Texas will not be recognized by other nations without our
efforts. It is barely recognized by most Texans. We mean to make Texas
independent and Texans free.
What’s wrong with the US, from a Texan’s point-of-view?
Let me speak about regime. The history of the present regime in power is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over Texas. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world.
The regime in power has refused its assent to adhere to the Constitutions of
Texas and the United States.
Give us please some examples.
The regime declared an emergency as of 9 March 1933 effectively suspending
these Constitutions, and has maintained that emergency declaration in effect,
in spite of the end of the Great Depression, the end of World War Two, and
the end of the Cold War, which have intervened in the meantime. Then, it
denied forcibly the right of freedom of speech through regulations
controlling so-called commercial speech, so-called obscene speech, broadcast
amplification of speech, and in other ways made laws and enforced laws and
regulations to abridge and deny free speech.
In what sense has the US denied free speech?
They denied forcibly the right of freedom of the press by taxing certain
forms of printed matter, by imposing permits and regulations on printed
matter, by limiting through laws and regulations so-called commerce-related
printed matter, and by imposing limitations on the use of the Internet.
In fact they denied forcibly the right of the people peacably to assemble
through permits, regulations, taxes, fees, injunctions, court orders against
protesters near certain types of clinic, and other unconstitutional
abridgements of the right to peacably assemble.
What about religion and religious tolerance in the US?
The regime denied forcibly the right of the people to freely exercise
religion through prohibitions on traditional ceremonies, various forms of
marriage, and by gassing, burning, crushing, mutilating, shooting, and
killing dozens of men, women, and children in their church, establishing
instead a religion through the construction of a "National Cathedral" funded
by taxpayers and in other ways.
What is the importance of the Second Amendment, the right to carry guns?
It was also violated by the regime (the right of the people to keep and bear
arms) through taxes, licenses, permits, fees, dealer registration, and now
individual gun owner registration under the guise of instant background
checks, and by killing, maiming, torturing, and imprisoning men and women, as
well as their children, for bravely failing to yield this sacred right.
Denying this right, they have destroyed the right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches
and seizures—by conducting searches without warrants, without probable cause,
without support of oath or affirmation, and without describing the places to
be searched and the persons or things to be seized. In one particular, the
so-called income tax system denies the right of the people to be secure in
their papers by falsely and maliciously placing the burden of proof on the
accused. In another particular, numerous warrants have been issued on false
or misleading claims by prosecutors and law enforcement officials, and many
have been served unsigned by any judge.
The US has however assured legal rights for Texans in its constitution.
We’re not speaking about the US Constitution, but about facts.
The regime has denied the right of the people to a trial by an impartial jury
of the State and district wherein the crime had been committed, often
transfering cases to distant districts or other States for pretended
purposes, sometimes denying any jury trial at all, and invariably denying the
jury its right to be fully informed and to judge both the law and the facts.
It also has denied forcibly the right of the people to be informed of the
nature and cause of the accusation against them, often holding them for days,
weeks, months, or even occasionally years without this information, and
denied the assured right of the people to be confronted with the witnesses
against him, through elaborate "witness protection" schemes, artful barriers
and all manner of "anonymous informants" even to the point of trying persons
in absentia.
They denied the right of the people to have compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses in his favor, often refusing certain lines of defense, generally
refusing defenses on constitutional grounds, and invariably pretending to
authority and honor not granted under any constitution.
What are the crimes of regime with respect to fees, fines, and taxes?
Of course, the regime denied forcibly the right of the people not to have
excessive bail set, often setting bail in amounts exceeding the average
annual income of individual Texans. And so with the right of the people not
to have excessive fines imposed, often setting fines in amounts exceeding the
average annual income of individual Texans.
The government has also given preference, by regulation of commerce or
revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another, obliged vehicles
and vessels bound to or from one state to enter, clear, and pay duties in
another, drawn money from the treasury without consequence of appropriations
made by law and failed to publish periodically a regular statement and
account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money, claiming that
certain "black" projects must be kept secret even to the details of their
budgets.
What are the worst consequences of this regime interventionism on individual
(US) States?
It encouraged States to pass bills of attainder and ex post facto laws, and
forced them to adopt uniform commercial codes impairing the obligations of
contracts.
The regime denied to the States the power to engage in war when actually
invaded or in such imminent danger as would not admit of delay.
How has the regime influenced the freedom of enterprise?
By denying the right of the people to have access to free markets—by the
granting of unconstitutional monopolies to utility companies, to licensing
boards, and to quasi-corporate entities such as the Postal Service and
AMTRAK.
And they have constrained the people to use licenses, permits, fees, union
memberships, and compliance with a myriad of regulations.
It sounds as though, for Texans, the real enemy in daily life is the state
(in the general sense of "state").
The state has combined with others to subject us to the jurisdiction of the
so-called United Nations and to subject us to the jurisdiction of myriad
Federal agencies, both jurisdictions foreign to our Constitutions, and
unacknowledged by our laws; has given its assent to their acts of pretended
legislation for quartering large bodies of armed foreign troops and diplomats
among us; has protected them by mock trials from punishment for any murders
or crimes they should commit on the inhabitants of Texas; has cut off our
trade with various parts of the world (e.g., Iraq, Cuba); has imposed taxes
on us without our consent and without benefit of constitutional authority;
has deprived us, in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury (especially
in tax matters); has taken away our individual rights; has abolished our most
valuable laws; and has altered, fundamentally, the relationship between the
people and government.
What should be the future strategy of Texans?
In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the
most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated
injury. A regime, whose character is thus marked by every act which may
define a tyranny, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our American brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislatures to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the
circumstances of our settlement here. We have appealed to their native
justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common
kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our
connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of
justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity
which denounces our separate status, and hold them, as we hold the rest of
mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends.
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Alberto Mingardi lives in Northern Italy (Padania). Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, No 41, October 18, 1999
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