National Association of Rural Landowners

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, can never willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the nidst of all their power, but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. Like political power, a massive black hole is an insatiable beast. It will literally absorb anything that gets too close. It eats surrounding gases, whole stars, star systems and planets, and as it eats, it grows more and more powerful. Its power reaches out deeper and deeper int the heavens and warps the very fabric of space and time. A black hole is a whirlpool in the universe, and its immense gravity powers entire galaxies while it clears the space around it like a giant vacuum cleaner inside its event horizon. At its center is a point of infinite density where the laws of physics no longer apply. It is, in its growing sphere of influence, the epitome of absolute power. Not even light can escape it. Since the dawn of human civilization, the masses have been and still are in a constant struggle against the ever-increasing power of centralized government. Whether it be kings, despots, dictators, or even democracies, centralized power grows and grows, like a black hole, until it envelops and consumes all those who attempt to break it up, or destroy it. Even though the Founding Fathers went to great pains to inhibit the rise of the federal government by limiting its powers in the US Constitution, every succeeding executive, legislative and judicial branch of government since George Washington has wriggled and finagled around its constitutional restraints into ever-increasing political power.