November 17, 2016
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington D.C. 20500
President Donald Trump:
‘In times of such commotion as
the present, while the passions of men are worked up to an uncommon pitch,
there is great danger of fatal extreme.’ ‘When the minds of these
are loosened from their attachment to ancient establishments and courses, they
seem to grow giddy and are apt more or less to run into anarchy.’
–Alexander Hamilton
The irredeemable and deplorable
of Hillary’s worst nightmares have rebuked her in what are, in these
disorienting days, progressively rare echoes of lawful authority. The national
advantage to America’s citizens is thus anticipated with hope by your
adherents; may that hope be rewarded. For while globalization has produced
great aggregate wealth that wealth has not dribbled down; and American’s
don’t really want to be dribbled on by anonymous corporate giants, anyway. Much
better, it would be, for our leaders to create opportunity for more
participation in the national economy. This would benefit individuals and, in
an almost inconceivably interconnected world, holds the hope of ameliorating
international misadventures that unbuffered might further distress the national
condition. Properly conceived, the rise of domestic prosperity for all might
interpose a buffering ambit between the domestic and international spheres
making the nation more secure and hence redounding to your credit. American’s
would much rather make their way free of any booted authority that would turn
them into its footstools, intentionally or not—you will remember, we once made
this clear to the mother country by way of the war for our independence.
This
state of participation would, however, have perfervid ramifications unpopular
with the keepers of the status quo. For example, California, number one in
poverty when the cost of living there is counted, might experience an exodus of
citizens bent on taking advantage of economic opportunities elsewhere. Imagine
all those whiffet’s roaming to prosperity in other locales where earners might
become owners, leaving California’s one hundred plus billionaires to take care
of their poor selves. Mitt Romney’s 47% would not be there to wait on
them.
And
the incubus wouldn’t stop there, families would flee with their rosy bottomed
little boys and girls, distressing the establishment and retainers like Harry
Reid and Robert Mueller no end; upset their whole order. The system would break
down; empty holding pens of circumstance would mean nobody to feed off. With no
inventory, pimps that work for the schools would be unemployed pimps; they that
so carefully put little children into play—keeping track of them just like
government—would be out of work; marching them off to market, just like ISIS,
would be nothing but a memory. The whole food chain would be spoiled. Even
government might suffer; with many fewer persons to put in jail, and on parole,
bureaucrats would be disemployed from keeping track of that human inventory.
Business would really be off—ask Jim Comey if you don’t believe me.
So, you have your work cut out for you. Nonetheless, while you are at it, could
you do something about Montana’s democratic governor? The rascal has hoodwinked
the voters again. Greg Gianforte was a superb republican candidate, a good and
decent man, a model of merit and success, with a discerning mind, and in
the habit of using it. He would have been an invaluable asset in improving
the state’s economic performance, a cynosure that would have led us away from governor
Bullock’s identity politics in which he and anyone else so inclined would be
able to claim imaginings of girl-hood and jump in the showers or restrooms with
our daughters. And of course Bullock’s illiberal provincialism applied
only to Mr. Gianforte’s candidacy, it does not preclude tickling the sexual
fancies of out-of-state others. They are quite welcome to his party, he has
said so.
One more thing, would you do something about the purposed degradation of the
supremacy clause found in Article VI? Decentralized authority gives individuals
practical experience with liberty. Self-government insures the knowledge and
skills necessary to its execution do not deteriorate and allows freedom to be
exercised by free associations of individuals in community. Federalism, Lord
Acton wrote, preserves liberty in all our parts. But subverting the supremacy
clause destroys respect for the law and accustoms the perpetrators to the
illicit fruits of arrant rebellion making them thieves and criminals. This contemns
thus crumbles the very foundations of law, and is exemplified in state
marijuana laws that flout constitutional authority and hence makes criminals
superior to law. Moreover, government reticence in law enforcement acts as a
fillip for addiction—if these persons who clamor for their dope cannot simply
put it aside, forever, they are in fact addicted—the costs of which will be
externalized to the general society when they ought to be
borne strictly by the participants. And those same parties ought to be
made liable under civil law for any harm they cause others. In precis, mass
addiction unopposed by law due in part to leadership’s reticence and a large
part of society’s embrace of the perverse is a sure index of mass corruption.
Furthermore, Progressive’s fanatical support for egalitarianism have in this
particular subverted their own principle (don’t stop now), for the world will
of necessity be divided into addicts and the very serious persons who run the
world. Be that as it may, the clamor will continue.
This letter is a continuation of
letters sent over the last seven years, covering events of nearly thirty years,
and that are now historical documents. But more important they point up the
acceptance of and the defenselessness from government as terrorist unrestrained
by law; the perpetrators are exposed. Like animals caught in a sudden light
they are frozen, their only hope to hide in the darkness. There is, however, no
escape for them. History’s judgement has marked them, and will reign no matter
how they hide. It is hoped you will spurn their fetid company and restore
America’s rule of law.
These letters of length will now
come to an end. Hours by the hundred were invested in the longer ones and I am
no longer inclined to spending my time in this way. If you decide to follow the
example of your predecessor the shorter format will suffice to continue laying
down a paper trail; and I, no matter the hopes and schemes of government’s
representatives, have at least two terms left in me. It has been my experience
that those who pester never seem to go away; I can only hope my
adversary’s view me in the same way. To further this object I am going to address
myself to health concerns, and may even take a job if it is allowed—this is my
Talleyrand moment, do what is necessary and let others worry about the right
and wrong of it. Though Heaven knows Hamilton (and Eliza) was easy to love and
respect the slightest step taken toward the model of self-sacrifice, dedication
and honor that he brought to life has exhausted me. So, to a point, I shall
harken to his friend.
That is not to say my motives have been entirely altruistic—Pourvu qu’on ne me
fasse pas rire. I wanted attention, and a remedy; and still do! Yet if any
ideas are found in these letters to be useful then it will be an honor to have
been useful to my country.
For the sake of our country, I wish you the best.
I HAVE THE HONOR TO BE
LYNN SWARTOS
