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Book
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Book review: Hologram of Liberty
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Hologram of
Liberty
The
Constitution's Shocking Alliance with Big
Government
by
Kenneth W. Royce (a.k.a.
Boston T. Party)

Reader praise for
Hologram of Liberty
Love it!
-- R.C.,
California

I met Mr. Royce at an expo a month ago where
I purchased Hologram of Liberty. I was amazed and pleased with
his work. I enjoyed it very much.
L.G.E., Upland,
California

I'm halfway through Hologram. Outstanding!
Am enclosing payment for 10 more copies.
-- R.W.T.,
Charlotte, North Carolina

Hologram of Liberty strikes
me as a very good, and too rare, criticism of that egregiously
flawed document known as the U.S. Consitution. And...last
year...[author Kenneth Royce] delivered a superb talk on the
same subject.
-- Bob Kephart, Florida

I finished
Hologram of Liberty...and could not put it down once I started
reading. I have many people that I will share this with in
different parts of the country. This should be required
reading for everyone in America. Enclosed is payment for 40
copies.
-- D.C., Spokane, Washington

Your Hologram
of Liberty is eye opening, sir! I'm up to page 5/17 of the
book. It's great! You are wonderful!
-- R.P., Edison,
N.J.

Civic Belief
#1
The Congress was given few specific powers.
All else was left to the States and to the people under the
10th Amendment. Ample checks and balances protect the Republic
from federal tyranny.

Civic Belief
#2
The Federal Government has become so powerful
only because despotic officials have overstepped their strict,
constitutional bounds.

If #1 is true, then how did
#2
happen?
The Constitution has either
authorized such a government as we have had,
or has been
powerless to prevent it. -- Lysander Spooner; No Treason
(1870)

Think about that. By either the Constitution's
purposeful design or by its unintentional weakness, we suffer
under a federal colossus which takes a third of our lives and
regulates everything from alfalfa to xylophones. This is
Freedom?

So, why aren't
Americans free?
Perhaps we weren't really meant to
be!

hol· o· gram (häl' e gram) n.
[< Gr. holos, whole + gramma, writing] 2. a document
falsely representing itself as an accurate metaphor

lib· er· ty (lib'er tee) n. [< L. liber, free]
1. freedom from slavery

Hologram of Liberty--The Constitution's Shocking
Alliance With Big Government--is a cold splash of water on our
civic mythology. Hologram's main contention is that the 1787
Convention, its Constitution and Federal Government was the
most brilliant and subtle coup d'etat in political history.
While the majority of Americans then were Jeffersonian in
nature, a few Hamiltonian Federalists eradicated our
Swiss-style Confederation and replaced it with a latent
leviathan. The Federal Government was given several escape
keys to the putative handcuffing by the Constitution. Using
the "necessary and proper" and "general welfare" clauses in
conjunction with congressional powers under treaty, interstate
commerce, and emergency, the "Founding Lawyers" of 1787
purposely designed a constitutional infrastructure guaranteed
to facilitate a future federal colossus. While such a massive
government was impossible to erect in the freedom-conscious
1780's, the "virus" of tyranny was cunningly hidden within the
Constitution to foment the eventual federal behemoth we are
burdened with today. The feds take in a third of economic
activity and regulate everything from the price of corn to the
size of chimneys and it's all constitutional! " Oh, it's only
'constitutional' because autocratic Supreme Court Justices say
it is!," some would reply.

Yes, but the Framers allowed the Supreme Court, without
any check or balance, to approve of federal encroachment on
the States and on the people. There is no constitutional
avenue for overturning a despotic Supreme Court ruling--and it
was designed that way. The feds are allowed to
"monitor" themselves, like students grading their own tests.
Had the Framers wanted to really check the Supreme Court,
they'd have at least created an appellate court (activated by
petition) staffed by justices from the States. Had the Framers
wanted to really hamstring Congress and the President, they
would have given the people a "no-confidence" device to remove
traitorous officials in midterm. Had they wanted to,
the Framers could have (as did the Swiss) easily confined the
Federal Government--but they didn't want to. In
their opinion, a strong central government--independent of
real popular approval--was best for America. The Framers left
the federal fleas in control of their own flea powder, and
that's why we have such an unchallengeable government
today.
Most
conservatives and libertarians believe that the Constitution
and its Framers were Jeffersonian and laissez-faire. They were
not, and they never claimed to be. This Jeffersonian gloss
is echoic of two things: 1) What the Constitution was sold
as to the people through The Federalist, and 2) How the
Constitution, according to Jefferson, should have been
interpreted under strict constructionism. Add the Red, White,
and Blue, July 4th, the Founding Fathers and George Washington
and you've got a civic religion with its unique parchment
worship. There are but three ways to view anything, including
the Constitution:

1) The way you see it.

2) The way you would
like it to be.

3) The way it really is.

Friends of
freedom have gazed dreamily at the Constitution for two
centuries, fusing #1 with #2 to create a false #3. We need to
snap out of our parchment worship and coldly study the
predicament of Liberty--before it's too late. Liberty-loving
folks need to quickly understand that freedom is not
well-served by the current Constitution. Neither is tyranny.
It is Royce's firm opinion that the Constitution will be
radically amended, if not abolished altogether, by "us" or
"them" within 10 years. Royce proves that the States and the
people were politically "checkmated" at ratification, and
discusses his three peaceful solutions prior the imminent
insurrection now brewing. The goal of Hologram of Liberty is
to spark an active synthesis of Libertarians, Patriots, and
Conservatives to prevent a 21st century Dark Age in
America.
There hasn't
been an innovative theory about the Constitution in 84 years,
since Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation. We are long
overdue for a paradigm shift to political reality. It's time
to complete the story with Hologram of Liberty, the
Jeffersonian/anti-federalist epilogue. Our window of
opportunity for reestablishing freedom is quickly running out
and we simply don't have time for comforting old fantasies.
Hologram of Liberty is the freshest research on the
Constitution since 1913.

Table of
Contents
Preface by Kenneth W. Royce

1
Political Magic
UNCLE
SAM IS REALLY HOUDINI     1/2

SOME SAW WHAT WAS COMING
1/6
But the
Constitution was inspired by God!    1/12

But the Founders were
free-market guys!    1/12

"Sacred cows make the best
hamburgers"    1/12

The "Constitution for the Newstates of
America"     1/17

2
"What Have Ye Wrought?"
1770's
to 1787    2/2

Committee of Correspondence    2/2

The First Continental
Congress    2/2

The Second Continental Congress
2/3
1781-87: The
Articles of Confederation    2/3

September 1786: The Annapolis
Convention    2/8

Autumn 1786: Shay's Rebellion
2/8
MAY-SEPTEMBER 1787: THE
CONVENTION     2/10

Overview of the Constitution
2/16
The quiet
revolution over time    2/19

The wide range of government
2/21

3      The Slam-dunk

1787-88: CONTEST FOR RATIFICATION
3/1

Cleverly bypassing the State legislatures
3/2
The fast
break     3/2

The Federalist: A fantastic propaganda
effort!    3/5

The people were suspicious and nervous
3/9
The
federalists' dirty tactics    3/11

Dirty politics pays off
3/13

4      Feds Are
On-line
30 April
1789     4/1

Congress (predictably) balks at Bill of
Rights    4/1

The Judiciary Act of 1789    4/5

THE "HAMILTONIAN" YEARS
4/9
An
overview of Hamiltonianism    4/9

Rewarding speculators and stiffing
veterans    4/10

"a national debt...a national blessing"
4/13
The
coup de grâce--the Bank of the U.S.
4/16
The effect
of Hamilton's measures in toto    4/21

1798: The Alien and
Sedition Acts    4/22

The 1800 election: Freedom or Tyranny?
4/24
1803:
Marbury v. Madison    4/27

So, what is my point?
4/27

"Welcome" to the Union...    4/28

5
Concerns Then...Nightmares Today

Federal "supreme" law
gutted state authority    5/2

Regulating interstate commerce
without end    5/6

"and all treaties made, or which shall be
made..."    5/10

Justices decide on their own federal
brethren    5/18

Supreme Court "interprets" Constitution
5/19

States and people have no real political recourse
5/23

Constitutional amendments difficult
5/24
Feds control
both the military and militias!    5/24

Executive orders
5/28

Other misc. details of the rigged Constitution
5/28
"But the
feds can do it!"    5/30

Some thoughts on the Constitution in
general    5/31

The anti-federalists foresaw today's
tyranny    5/33

6
Trickery's Origin
CONVENTION
DRAFTS    6/1
THE
CONSTITUTIONAL TRIALITY OF THE "U.S."
6/2
From the
"u.S.A." to the "U.S."    6/3

"U.S." or "U.S.A."--so what?
6/4

Federal citizenship vs. state Citizenship
6/5
Back to our
"U.S." story    6/8

"We the People of the United States"
6/12
ARE THERE TWO
CONSTITUTIONS?     6/13

The very curious Presidential oath
6/13

Correcting the VI:3 discrepancy    6/16

Did federalists make a
separate constitution?    6/17

SOME FINAL THOUGHTS
6/20

7     Hamilton...Covert Bankster
Agent?
Hamilton's
unexplained comings and goings    7/1

A setback for the
Federalists    7/8

8      The
Hard Truth
DEATH BY
"DEMOCRACY"     8/7

The myth of "the people"
8/11
The madness
of modern "law enforcement"    8/13

On the Study of Law
8/14
THE CONSTITUTION'S
FUTURE     8/16

9
Cure The Patient, Kill The Doctor

WHAT CAN BE DONE NOW?    9/2

Dramatic reversals by the current
officials     9/2

Impeachment of Congressmen and
Justices    9/3

New President using beneficial executive
orders    9/5

Virtuous constitutional amendments
9/6
Virtuous
Constitutional Convention    9/12

Well, what about the 10th
Amendment?    9/14

A 3rd party Renaissance
9/22

Peaceful nullification by counties, juries, etc.
9/24
Secession of
the states     9/26

Are we headed for a civil/race war?
9/31
Gee,
what's the good news?    9/34

10
Answers, Please!
2 POSSIBLE
POLITICAL SOLUTIONS     10/2

Earlier proposed constitutional
amendment    10/2

Exposing the sham 16th Amendment
10/4
CIRCUMVENTING THE
RULES    10/5

Here's my idea     10/8

The Liberty
Amendment    10/8

SAVING US FROM "DEMOCRACY"     10/9

FREEDOM TECHNOLOGY
10/11
FREEDOM GOVERNMENT
10/12

Defense, Congress, and the courts
10/13

11    And Now, Back To
Reality...
One
small problem...     11/5

Introducing...Patriot Light!
11/6
A
third less courage than the regular Patriot!

The First American
Revolution    11/7

There were no "Patriot Lights" in
1776
11/9

Appendix

Index

5½"x 8½" --
262pp.   Published August 1997.   ISBN
1-888766-03-4   LCCN 97-73818   Æ20

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Re:
Book review: Hologram of Liberty

« Reply #1 on:
2008-December-06 12:29:16 AM »

From: DennisLeeWilson-Ariz-Wyo Sent: 9/23/2003
8:45 PM

Note to
myself:

"The only legitimate use of [government]
power is ... to prohibit and punish such acts as murder,
assault, robbery, rape, kidnapping, and fraud. ... However,
insofar as the government steps beyond this narrowly
circumscribed, strictly delimited domain of legitimate
activity, it acts as a destroyer in the same manner as private
criminals."

The above is quoted from an article
by Dr. George Reisman. It restarted me thinking about the
possibility of defining the ENTIRE proper role for a new
government, EVERYTHING that is needed for a free society,
including the
laws and prohibiting the making of new laws.

One of the ways that our government got out of
control was granting it the ability to create laws. But once
the laws for violent acts have been defined, politicians no
longer have any real job left, and so, rather than disband,
they expand their law making powers into areas where laws are
not needed.

With the experience of the last 225
years in this country, it should NOT be necessary to make any
additional laws regarding such acts as murder, assault,
robbery, rape, kidnapping, and fraud. Nor should it be
necessary to leave this responsibility up to state and county
level governments. A constitution for a new government should
INCLUDE the body of proper laws and should restrict the
government to enforcing those laws and none other. It should
be possible for an individual to know everything about all the
laws, and they should be unchanging and unchangeable.
.

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Re:
Book review: Hologram of Liberty

« Reply #2 on:
2008-December-06 12:31:56 AM »

From: DennisLeeWilson-Ariz-Wyo Sent: 1/24/2004
6:10 PM

Thinking more about my comments in the
previous note has led me to the conclusion that the
Covenant of Unanimous Consent would serve as the
"Constitution" or founding/governing document (i.e. Covenant)
for a proper society of freedom loving people.

Link to
Covenant: http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=7.0

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Re:
Book review: Hologram of Liberty

« Reply #3 on:
2008-December-06 12:35:58 AM »

From: DennisLeeWilson-Ariz-Wyo Sent: 5/25/2007
1:59 AM

While reviewing some
of my previous postings, I realized that the thought process
mentioned in the previous message (#3), resulted in the two
following articles:

My article “A personal journey from Objectivist
morality to political "anarchy" by way of L. Neil Smith's
Covenant of Unanimous Consent!”

THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE Number 379, August 6,
2006

Re-posted at my site: http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=10.0

and my article “…to
Institute new Government, laying its
foundation…”

THE LIBERTARIAN
ENTERPRISE Number 381, August 20, 2006,

Re-posted at
my site: http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=8.0

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