The below video should be watched before you read "Not Yours to Give", taking  particular note of Ted Poe's remarks, (The Republican Representative 2nd District Humble Beaumont Texas) when he holds up a copy of his pocket Constitution , and says " I have read this Constitution through and through, and I don't see anywhere in the US Constitution where it gives the Government the power to control the types of light bulbs in dime box Texas or any other place in the United States", and with Rep Poe's remarks comes now the essence of where all Governmental Tyranny in America currently resides -- achieved only because the majority of Americans are illiterate and lack even a thimbles full of desire to remedy this most self damming condition. This current state of mental stasis also guarantees their perpetual servility, as long as they remain complacently ignorant of their rights, and responsibilities in taking an active role in making sure that their government stays within the bounds of the Constitution.

After having viewed the below video -- you might very well have concluded that Rep Ted Poe's oral remarks on the house floor were about Light Bulbs. . . but you would be 100% in error, if you thought that.


One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.

Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:

"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.

"The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but as I thought, rather coldly.

"I began: 'Well friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates and---

"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again."

"This was a sockdolger...I begged him tell me what was the matter.

"Well Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting you or wounding you.'

"I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.

But an understanding of the constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the honest he is.'

" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by fire in Georgetown. Is that true?

"Well my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just the same as I did.'

"It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.

What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he.

If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give at all; and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.'

"'Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this country as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have Thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.'

"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'

"'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'

"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:

"Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'

"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'

"If I don't, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'

"No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. 'This Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.

"'Well I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name."

"'My name is Bunce.'

"'Not Horatio Bunce?'

"'Yes

"'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my friend.'

"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence, and for a heart brim-full and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote.

"At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before.

"Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before."

"I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.

"But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me.

"In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:

"Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only."

"I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:

"And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.

"It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'

"He came up to the stand and said:

"Fellow-citizens - it affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'

"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'

"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'

"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday. "There is one thing which I will call your attention, "you remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $20,000 when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it." Comprehension/Discussion/Research Questions

1. What was the House of Representatives proposing to do for the wife of a distinguished naval officer? (see paragraph one)
2. Rather than spending money from the treasury, what did Representative Crockett (i.e., Colonel Davy Crockett) propose?
3. Did this bill for the widow go through the House of Representatives? Why?
4. What happened in Georgetown? What was the impact on the people living there?
5. How did the House of Representatives deal with Georgetown?
6. Colonel Davy Crockett waited to speak to a man in the field. Why did this man tell Davy Crockett he would not vote for him again?
7. How did Davy Crockett respond to this man?
8. Why do you think the farmer did not want Colonel Crockett to pay for the barbeque?
9. What was the name of the farmer Crockett spoke to?
10. What was the principle the farmer was concerned about?
11. What does it tell you about Crockett's character that he was able to admit he was wrong? Moreover, Colonel Crockett admitted he was wrong prior to knowing how important this farmer was in his district. In light of this, how would you assess the sincerity of Davy Crockett's sincerity?
12. What did Horatio Bunce's neighbors think of him? Do you think this was a well-founded assessment? Why?
13. What happened at the barbeque?
14. Explain Colonel Crockett's statement: "I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he [Horatio Bunce] does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm."
15. What did Colonel Crockett tell those at the barbeque? What did Horatio Bunce say about Colonel Crocket? How did the listeners respond? Why do you think they responded this way?
16. How did Colonel Crocket describe his response to the support of the farmers?
17. Did the members of the House of Representatives voluntarily give up one week's salary to provide for the widow of a distinguished naval officer?

Discuss this story in light of the following statements:

1. If you were given the opportunity to speak with Colonel Davy Crockett about Not Yours To Give, what would like to tell him about his decision and conversation with Horatio Bunce?
2. Does Not Yours To Give, remind you of any event, personage, or verse in the Bible? If so, what, who, where? Why?
3. Does Not Yours To Give, remind you of any event or personage in history? If so, what, who, where? Why?
4. Does Not Yours To Give, remind you of any current event or personage? If so, what, who, where? Why?
5. What lessons have you learned from Does Not Yours To Give? How will you teach your children and grandchildren the lessons you have learned?

Activities

Reenactment: Re-enact Not Yours To Give before your Sunday school class or other civic groups.

Poster: Review newspaper articles / stories for the next week. Entitle one side of the poster Not Yours To Give attractively pasting these articles under the title using the entire side of the poster board. Entitle the opposite side of the poster Appropriate Appropriations pasting those articles in agreement with how the Constitution states funds should be spent. Present your poster to your Sunday school class or other civic groups after reading the story Not Yours To Give.

Campaign Brochure: Create a campaign brochures for Colonel Crockett. If possible, incorporate the lessons Davy Crockett learned from Horation Bunce in your brochure.

Radio / Television Ads: Either with a tape recorder or the family camcorder, create a 30-second, 60-second, and 90-second political ad for Davy Crockett. Keep your appeal short, sweet and to the point while remaining sincere and genuine.

Campaign Buttons: Create Davy Crockett for the House of Representatives.

Election Slogan: Create an election slogan for Colonel Crockett to use while running for the House of Representatives.

Jingle: To the tune of Yankee Doodle, create new lyrics showing why Davy Crocket should be re-elected to the House of Representatives.

Illustrations:
a) Illustrate the farmer leaning on his plow talking to Colonel Crockett on his horse.
b) Illustrate the barbeque.
c) Illustrate Davy Crockett speaking before the farmers at the barbeque.
d) Illustrate the farmers cheering Davy Crockett.
e) Illustrate the Georgetown Fire.
f) Illustrate the House of Representatives voting for the naval officer's widow and the Georgetown Fire.
g) Illustrate Davy Crockett telling his friend the story of Not Yours To Give.


Reacting to the tsunami disaster from his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, President Bush said he and Laura were shocked and saddened by this terrible loss of life. He said: “We pledged an initial $35 million in relief assistance.” He noted, proudly, that in 2004, the U.S. Government had provided $2.4 billion in food, cash, in humanitarian relief, to cover disasters the previous year. He said that providing 40 percent of all the “relief aid” given in the world in 2003 shows “we’re a very generous, kindhearted nation.”

“We?” Did Mr. Bush mean he and Mrs. Bush have pledged $35 million? No. Mr. Bush meant that $35 million worth of your hard-earned Federal tax dollars and mine have been pledged. In an interview on the CBS “Early Show,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said that to deal with the tsunami disaster the U.S. was sending nine P-3 reconnaissance planes and a dozen C-130s. He added: “I think a lot more aid is going to be needed.”

In another interview, on NBC’s “Today” show, Secretary Powell was asked: Is the United States prepared to send aid which might be as much as $1 billion? He replied: “I can’t answer that yet.” In yet one more interview, on the Cable News Network, he said: “The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.”

At the risk of being misunderstood, and being falsely accused of being a cruel, hard-hearted person, I must say what must be said. The issue here is not whether America is “stingy.” And the issue is certainly not whether Americans are a “generous” people. We are.

The real issue here is whether such so-called Federally-funded disaster “relief” is Constitutional. And the answer is very clear: No, it is not. There isn’t the slightest Constitutional authority for Federal tax dollars to be spent for disaster “relief.” Thus, any such expenditure of Federal tax dollars for disaster “relief” --- foreign or domestic --- is illegal, unlawful.

As I pondered what Mr. Bush and Secretary Powell had said, I thought about Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett. In the early 1800s, Congress was considering a bill to appropriate tax dollars for the widow of a distinguished naval officer. It seemed that everyone in the House of Representatives favored it.

Then Rep. Crockett spoke. He began by expressing his respect for the deceased. But, he insisted, such respect must not lead to an act of injustice against those still alive. He continued:

“I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity, but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

“Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Sir, this is no debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”

There was silence on the floor as Rep. Crockett took his seat. When the bill came to a vote, instead of passing unanimously as had been expected, it received only a few votes.

Well, that was then and now is now. President Bush has said what he said and is doing what he’s doing. Mr. Bush, however, is wrong and Rep. Crockett was right. To spend Federal tax dollars on disaster “relief” is the grossest corruption because it is blatantly un-Constitutional. It has not the semblance of any Constitutional authority. We must pray that God raises up more Davy Crocketts to serve in our Congress and all other branches of all our civil governments.

Like Davy Crockett, I admire and appreciate the charity of Americans. But Congress is not authorized to be “charitable” with your money. Only you are.

For God, Family and the Republic,
Michael A. Peroutka

I was wondering today if the American people are really prepared to live within the originally cast Constitutional Framework -- which by the way, no past generation has ever done since the formation of this country.

Before you decide whether or not you would like to try it, contemplate this:

There is no Constitutional authority for any of the Federal Police or Regulatory Agencies now in existence. Which means that if they were all dissolved tomorrow, which they would be, at least 10 million people would be out of work; that figure being much higher when taking into account all of the additional parasite companies that service their host.

There is no Constitutional authority for any standing army to be activated, except in the instance of an unprovoked attack on the contiguous land mass known as The United States of America, which has never officially happened. Not even the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was technically on American soil, as Hawaii had not yet been tricked into surrendering their sovereignty to International Jewish money interest until their official absorption into the fraudulent so called Reconstituted Abraham Lincoln Union, in 1959 ― well after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Even if the United States of America were ever really attacked by a foreign entity, understandably necessitating a lawful reason for constituting needed organized resistance to repel such an invasion, after the threat had been neutralized, that standing Army could not be held together for more than 2 years after the fact.

United States Corporate imperialistic expansionism policies, having their birth during the Lincoln administration under the Leiber Code, along with countless proclamation executive orders by all subsequent administrations, have continually managed to impose extra constitutional authority dictates not only on poor hapless eunuchs called U.S. Citizens, but on the rest of the world as well by an ever growing occupation of U.S. Military Police bases. Estimates are that if all four branches of our Military were dissolved that well over 30 million people would be out of work, along with their custodial surrogate caretaker companies as well.

So where are we at this point, 40 million out of work, give or take one or two? Keep in mind folks that we are only just getting started here, we haven't even begun to dismantle the current Federal Mafia, and its accomplice agencies; consisting largely of the most incompetent work force since the dawn of mankind.

There is no Constitutional authority for any Social services programs, meaning direct payment to the eunuchs via Social Security credits, Medicare, Food Stamps, HUD Housing, entitlement programs of every color and stripe, grants, ad-infinitum.

Ok, where are we here now. . . 100 million people with no monthly check coming, no access to any Socialized health care, "which by the way would be a blessing for most grain fed eunuchs, as they would immediately be forced to take direct responsibility for their own health instead of surrendering it to a big-brother mind-control medical establishment, who is currently using them as lab rats in the largest DNA altering chemical experiment in history".

There is no Constitutional authority for paper money, none ― like 7Up, never had it and never will. Think about just this one huge violation of the Constitution for a moment, and think about the ramifications if you will of having to carry around gold and silver coins in your pocket in order to partially participate in acts of widespread commerce. It would mean no more inflation with strong potential for honest weights and measures, no banks as we have come to know them, no credit or debit cards, no arbitrary devaluation of your portable medium of worth could ever take place again. The ramifications of a lawful money are mind boggling to say the least.

There is no Constitutional authority for any so called Bar Association, nor for any one in public service to have had, or having now, a title of nobility -- meaning that every lawyer and every judge, with maybe the exception of clerks and paralegals, would not be able to practice in Constitutionally approved courts. So how many black-robed, blood sucking vampires, with their attendant army of sycophant bar attorneys would be out of work ? 10 million ? Maybe more ? The thought of just this one small ramification of having to live within the confines of a strict Constitutional framework might very well elicit more than just a passing sober moment.

With all of the aforementioned, do you really still want a lawfully organized working Constitutional government ? I say that after being presented with the direct affects of dismantling almost every aspect of government, "as it has now become to be viewed and interacted with", that most will summarily reject the notion as being far to traumatizing for the most part, opting rather for the more preferential medicated-state, of the nanny-state-dependency-nation, consisting largely of entitlement junkies, bed-wetter's, and whining crybabies.