While this is not by any means a political diatribe, I think it is necessary that I state how I came to be an expatriate and why. 

I am not one of those seeking to blame America for the world’s problems. I do not hate America.  Far from it, I love the country and the base principles under which it was founded. I suppose you could classify me as a Federalist by nature.  I believe in the constitution and I believe the Federalist papers. I also believe in many of the things that were written in the Anti-Federalist papers.

Would a Jeffersonian federalist be an oxymoron or a misnomer? Would anybody these days truly be able to understand what I meant if I correctly explained to them that in truth, I am actually a classical liberal?



If few Americans are familiar with the constitution of the US, even fewer still are familiar with the Federalist papers. In these pages, our forefathers spoke very clearly of the problems we are facing in the world today and spoke with great foresight of what our country is going through now. I think that the base principle of the constitution has been perverted and twisted by both sides of our two-party system.



The base principle was to create a Constitutional Republic with very limited government interference or rule. To quote Ronald Reagan; “Big government is not the solution, it is the problem.” It is my view that we have socialists on one side of the fence and nationalists on the other. Far from the concept of a government “Of the people, by the people and for the people” we have become a people ruled by a governing body of career politicians.



Ben Franklin, a very wise man indeed (Although not without his own vises as history has shown) wrote into the constitution the preventative means of having anyone of title eligible to hold office. This provided that no person of title could EVER hold public office. This referred mostly to the title “Esquire” …. an attorney.



He stated (very accurately) that once we had lawyers making our laws, the law[s] would become so convoluted that eventually they would destroy any chance of a constitutional republic remaining as such. To me at least, letting lawyers take office signaled the beginning of the end for our great nation. It has been an uphill battle and a downward spiral ever since.



“Our” (The people’s) government continues to make unconstitutional laws and implement unconstitutional programs under the guise of social well-being and security. This does not lessen in any way the impact it has on our rights as citizens. Perhaps I should say on the continued forfeiture of our rights.

Being an independent, I am not clouded by party lines, nor do I follow blindly in my belief that one party or the other will make everything right. Sadly perhaps but in all honesty, this also means I do not share in their optimism or faith if you will that our great nation will ever be able to return to where it once was, much less become the great nation our forefathers hoped it would be.



Many people will claim and believe that the American Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. While that was indeed the major issue in question, the real reasoning was that (as is clearly stated in the Federalist papers and the tenth amendment in the bill of rights) the powers of the federal government are few and well defined, any powers not specifically granted to the federal government by the constitution are relegated to the states.



In today’s society we have a federal government that holds states hostage with illegally gotten “federal” money that, in reality, belongs to we the people. This money collected through a system of taxes by an Internal Revenue “Service” (If that is service do we really want to be served?) that is already so far out of control that even most members of the government that employs it are not able to understand its structure, much less how it works.



Votes of the people are overturned by governments that think the people were asleep at the polls or unaware of what the bills actually meant or stood for. When the government begins making decisions regarding the life and death of individuals, (With the exception of those incarcerated for heinous crimes they have committed) I cannot help but believe it is out of control. To me at least, these do not seem like the actions of a limited government but of one that is far overstepping its bounds.



While many people on both sides of the political fence do have enough belief in their parties to think that things will all be back to normal or as they should be someday, I am personally unencumbered by this view. I see America as it is today as something reminiscent of ancient Rome before its downfall. In the absolute worst case scenario I see it very much resembling Germany in the mid to late nineteen thirties. That however, is one resemblance I shudder to even consider too seriously though.



I did my time in the military in order to serve the country that had given me such great opportunities with nothing but golden roads leading to silver spoons my whole life, (I hope the irony is not lost on anyone reading this) as did most of the men in my family. While my personal military service was limited in scope and nature, many men and women have fought and died for the rights we are so anxious to give to the rest of the world.

To see the country so many fought, bled and even died for turn around and spit on the very people who gave it the power it has is frustrating at best. To see that same government, take those rights away from its own citizens ….. worse yet to see those same citizens thank and even encourage the government to do this gives me great pause to consider the true future of our beloved nation.

However, as we said while I was in the military; “ America , love it or leave it.” While I love the country it was created as, what it has become saddens me greatly. Where I live now I can be politically apathetic and not worry about the political happenings around me.



I chose the latter option.



Think of me as you will, but I pride myself on being a person of actions and deeds as well as a man of words. I took the very same actions so many of our American social “elite” promised during the campaign for the presidency in 2004. Unlike those social elite, I had nothing to lose by leaving. I am no poorer or worse off in a third world country than I was in the USA. I cannot sit idly by and watch as the USA destroys itself from within but neither could I, as a single poor individual do anything to put things back in their proper place.

Are you ready to get involved?

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

-- Samuel Adams --