Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

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Where have we been?

Thomas Jefferson it has been a long time. You were one of my finest students. I was very proud of your work on the Declaration thing. What do you think about this corruption in Pickerington? In our day, when a wench showed poor social behavior we shackled her to the front of the jail for a few hours of public humiliation. Pickerington prolongs the humiliation for days. I like their style. That will keep her frm that kind of activety for a while.

Thomas did they ever find out who poisoned me? If Williamsburg had a police chief like Fuller I am sure he could have pinned the murder on that nephew of mine. Anyway Tom I hope you enjoyed the books.

Tom I have been thinking about old Patrick Henry. Remember how he fired us up about that Stamp Act? He didn?’t like all the taxes the King was levying against the colonies. If he would have remained silent I may have died a rich man, leaving an enormous estate to my heirs. What I saved in taxes from Great Briton I lost by corruption of my land holdings.

John Adams, you still the liberal you were back in ?“99.?” Did any of your kin marry into the Kennedy clan? Look at all the great wars we have fought over the years. Is that Sam Adams related to you? Maybe we can stop for a cold ale one day. You can actually get drinks cold now.


It has been nice talking with you gentlemen again it about as hot as it was back in ''76''.


By George Wythe
Your queries --

George,

In our day the stocks and public humiliation would suffice against the likes of twisted people whom trample upon liberties. However; more severe cases, which I believe this has become, would call on the combinations of tar ?‘n feathering followed by being run out of town on a rail. It is saddening to see the abuse of authority these officials continue to demonstrate.

The Police levy versus Stamp Act comparison makes for good discourse over a tankard of ale. Sending the monies off to what amounts to positioning our Constable?’s facility in Columbus demonstrates more stupidity and graft than the purchase of Manhattan Island for a few beads to keep the locals happy. My century?’s populace would have risen up in arms over the theft of our hard-earned monies. How this mindless offspring of our generation could have fallen for a $3 million dollar project turning into a $4.5 million dollar swindle takes the kink out of my wig. The topper is that the stupid thing is leased ?– today?’s and tomorrows Pickeringtonites won?’t even own it after they pay all these taxes, duties and tariffs.

John and his cousin Sam would be cooking there own little tea party here for the oppressive acts of this public swindling, I?’m sure.

Could the oppressive heat be some form of signal from above to wake up or get used to the scourges of a perpetual under world-like future here?


By Thomas Jefferson
Our form of Government

When I proposed the bill of rights I suggested

''That there be prefixed to the constitution a declaration ?–
That all power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from the people.
That government is instituted, and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right of acquiring and using property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government, whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purposes of its institution.
Power, wherever lodged, is liable, more or less, to abuse. In governments organized on Republican principles it is necessarily lodged in the majority; which sometimes from a deficient regard to justice, or an unconscious bias of interest, as well as from erroneous estimates of public good, may furnish just ground of complaint to the minority. But those who would rush at once into disunion as an asylum against offensive measures of the General Government, would do well to examine how far there be such an identity of interests, of opinions, and of feelings, present and permanent, throughout the states individually considered, as, in the event of their separation, would in all cases secure minorities against wrongful proceedings of majorities. A recurrence to the period anterior [prior] to the adoption of the existing Constitution, and to some of the causes which led to it, will suggest salutary reflections on this subject.


Under every view of the subject, it seems indispensable that the mass of the citizens should not be without a voice in making the laws which they are to obey, and in choosing the magistrates who are to administer them.

As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights, and of giving it a form without example, which, as they believe, unites the greatest national strength with the best security for public order and individual liberty, they owe to themselves, to their posterity and to the world, a preservation of the system in its purity, its symmetry, and its authenticity.

The two vital characteristics of the political system of the United States are, first, that the Government holds its powers by a charter granted to it by the people; second, that the powers of government are formed in two grand divisions -- one vested in a Government over the whole community, the other in a number of independent Governments over its component parts. Hitherto charters have been written grants of privileges by Governments to the people. Here they are written grants of power by the people to their Governments''

Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were the rebels in our time. The principals that I laid out in 1789 since hold true today, if only Dolly could where we are today. I believe Pickerington needs change in its government.


By James Madison
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