“Revolution [is] a denial of the permanent things.” ~T.S. Eliot

The Idaho state motto is Esto Perpetua, meaning, “it is perpetual”. This invocation of things permanent was, in a not too distant past, understood by the American people as necessary to the justification of the rule of law and licit government.

Aside from ‘things of permanence’ providing the contextual preconditions for objective justice, the state, and even the very mechanisms of representative government would be reduced to aught else than an expression of arbitrary force — organized crime at best.

But this is why our Idaho state constitution describes the state’s authority originating thusly:

We, the people of the state of Idaho, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and promote our common welfare do establish this Constitution.

The assumption is that we, having been imbued with natural liberty by “Almighty God” (a term derived directly from the 1611 King James Bible), loan to government the authority which is natively vested in our people; and that the servile nature of that government is limited and constrained by Law in the interests of “securing the blessings of liberty and to promote the common welfare” of our people.

Now, with that fresh in the Reader’s mind we ask, are representative government, and local and state sovereignty still means to secure the ‘blessings of liberty’ and do they indeed still promote the ‘common welfare’? 

While the answer is easily answered in the affirmative by the average man, those who occupy the halls of power apparently say otherwise.

You may have heard that there is a metro-merger in the works for Spokane and Kootenai County. It has been long debated and, to the credit of our local leaders, resisted by the city of Coeur d’Alene and the government of Kootenai County as far back 1990. Seeing as how it spelled an immediate loss of independence for the people of Kootenai County, the choice was easy. 

In 2002 Kootenai County rejected the notion of a metro-merger with Spokane because it was being pushed by remote industrial interests, and promised an increase of federal involvement.   Interests quite contrary to our own, obviously.

But, in that instance, we read that it was never truly our choice anyway. It was dictated to us from above — by the U.S. Census Bureau. 

“‘If the region opts to maintain status quo [local and state sovereignty], Spokane and Kootenai counties are likely to be automatically combined after the next U.S. Census in 2010,’ the chamber white paper says.” 

And again, here we read:

“[I]f Kootenai County does not voluntarily sign on to the CSA, the designation will likely be forced on the area as a result of the 2010 Census anyway.”

So, let me get this straight — the governments of Coeur d’Alene and greater Kootenai County have been repeatedly asked to approve this measure and, rightly looking to the interests of our people, declined, only to be threatened that the merger was to be forced upon us anyway? Really?

… and we’re supposed to consent to this? 

But now, adding insult to injury, after having been told that it is to be forcibly implemented regardless of our opinion and interests, the story changes and we are suddenly (and quite conveniently) told that the merger is strictly of statistical import, and devoid of any tangible economic or governmental ramifications.

That warm feeling you’re experiencing is the spin of controlled media running down your leg.

No, obviously this is an occasion in which it behooves the state of Idaho to invoke our 10th Amendment right of Nullification and for the Coeur d’Alene/Kootenai County community to assert our endemic right of “rule by consent of the governed”. 

And if this measure is not routed certain consequences are sure to follow: 

1) There will be ever more draconian and abstruse interpretations of the Interstate Commerce Clause brought to bear in our daily lives. Mark my words. It is a certainty.

2) Local government will become less responsive to its constituency in favor of the Industrialists and the federal government’s social engineers. 

3) Remote programs based in Spokane, D.C., and beyond will artificially reorganize the demographics of our population.

4) Rezoning will be influenced or outright controlled by these same remote powers which will result in our people’s being denied yet more of their God-given rights to the use of their own property.

Think well on these things, my countrymen, and contemplate the mathematical certitude of the consequences which I’ve outlined. 

Or you could just take the media’s word for it that “everyone considers Coeur d’Alene and Spokane to be one community anyway” and “the merger is merely for the purpose of statistical analysis”. 

… just remember, the same media reported the opposite again and again throughout the decades long pitched resistance to the merger — that no one considered Coeur d’Alene and Spokane to be the same and that the merger was being spurred by Industrialists and social engineers intent upon bringing more federal involvement into our lives. 

But most importantly, remember the permanent things. Esto Perpetua.