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| “Governments are instituted among Men, |
| deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” |
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| When the Liberty Bell rang out on July 4th, 1776, it heralded the birth of a nation whose people granted limited power to the government, rather than the government granting power to the people. There was no king or nobility, instead an acknowledgement that “all men are created equal”. To go from the written word to the physical nation cost the Lives and Fortunes of many, but not their sacred Honor. |
| President John Quincy Adams sent a message to those of us who would live in the nation the men of his time built. He wrote “Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” Have we preserved our freedom, or squandered it? Do our lives show gratitude to those that fought and died to form this nation, or do we spit on their graves? |
| Over the years organizations and parties have formed to take a collective stand on issues. Many of these causes are good, but the organizations typically become self-perpetuating solely to maintain their power and income. In President George Washington’s insightful farewell address in 1796, he stated, “sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty”. In other words people with a lust for power or sheer ineptitude will invariably use an organization to the detriment of liberty. |
| Organization Paradox |
| If organizations and parties result in less liberty, then how can we strive for liberty without forming an organization? This is an interesting paradox. |
| The concept for ShofarGov™ is to develop a consortium, not an organization. The difference is more than semantics and is made viable because of computers and communication abilities that were not present during our nation’s founding. Our ultimate goal is an informed populace, not a manipulated one. |
| Lord Lytton inspired many with the line, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Countless authors have used the pen as a mighty weapon. Our weapon is not the pen but the government forms we fill out. By providing tools and resources to electronically fill out, manage and store the simple form, we can achieve multiple goals including the saving of time and money. Those goals alone have the potential of saving billions of taxpayer dollars and massive amounts of time, which make ShofarGov™ a worthwhile endeavor. |
| There is a greater goal. We seek to place in the hands of the individual electronic copies of all of the forms the government has for them as well as a complete transaction history of all who accessed that information. When done on a large scale using an opt-out subscription method, we have a virtual army of citizens who know what the government knows and when they know it. As an informed populous, we have a distributed army of individuals that are no match for any organization or party, resulting in a government bridled by “the consent of the governed”. |
| “…with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, |
| we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” |
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