Road Warrior Radio with Chris Hinkley 7.23.18 Hour 2

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By RBN July 23, 2018 13:36

What percentage of legitimate voters would you say have met their elected representative(s) outside some politically opportune moment? I dare say scant few. Considering it takes a lifetime to cultivate relationships, and a knowledge of someone, how could we presume someone who has never met a broad contingent of ones so-called constituents, could possibly properly represent the best interests and intentions of those unknown constituents?

“There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.”
— John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (May 17, 1776)


“… the security of these rights to life, liberty, and property, had been the object of all those struggles against arbitrary power, temporal and spiritual, civil and political, military and ecclesiastical, in every age. … and we … were not to be cheated out of them by any phantom of “virtual representation,” or any other fiction of law or politics, or any monkish trick of deceit and hypocrisy.”
— John Adams, letter to William Tudor (June 1, 1818)

Callers

  • James – KS
    • Army ‘head count’: had to say what my service number prefix was.
    • QUESTION: Does this pertain to the difference between the United States Army, and the Army of the United States, specifically regarding an end run on Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution (i.e. Congress has the Power to “raise and support standing Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years”)
  • William – MT
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