Steve Tanner
1. Samuel Adams said “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” That time has come. The Supreme Court continues to base its opinions upon political correctness, not upon the original intent of the Constitution. Last year’s “gay marriage” decision was another watershed issue in our nation’s clear descent away from truth and right. The state has become the mother that seeks to provide cradle to grave. America was found- ed by men who believed in absolutes, they lived knowing who created them and were not only grateful to Him for life and liberty but knew someday they would an- swer for their actions or inactions. (a day of judgment)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said the communists murdered 60 to 65 million, and it happened to the Russian people because “we forgot God.” To paraphrase his warning to the West — “You do not think it can happen to you, but it can.” We are on a suicidal course and must alter it. We cannot survive without rekindling the knowledge that God is our Creator, lawgiver and that all of life is governed by His absolutes.
Our current senator voted for issues like Obamacare on a state level, and the recognizing of “gay” marriage, when it is expressly prohibited by the Idaho Constitution. These are only a few of the votes that our current senator has supported that are totally at odds with what is right. I further believe the Supreme Court has violated its proper role and it Is the citizen as well as each elected officials duty to go by the original intent of the Constitution no matter what the majority of nine black-robed judges decide. Our form of government will not stand unless each branch exercises its check on unlawful court rulings.
2. I have lived in District 1 longer that any of the legislative candidates, not only growing up here but being involved in multiple private enterprises. I have operated businesses in a logging, construction, log home building / timber frame and manufacturer of timbers, and timber and log products. I have seen firsthand the waste and abuse of the forests by the federal government in our district. My wife and I (mostly my wife) have home schooled our 8 children.
I believe that understanding that our nation and state were founded upon the recognition that we are “grateful to Almighty God for our freedom” is paramount. I recognize it is the responsibility of each citizen to live in the fear of God and that the government’s proper role is to do justice, ruling in the fear of Him. It is not the duty of government to be a big brother or mother to the people, and those forms of government that have done this produce slavery not freedom. Freedom has a risk and that risk is far more palatable that slavery.
3. Rule of law. There is a huge lack in our current government as to its proper role. That being to do justice, both in the criminal area as well as economically. The current status quo is concerned with tax and spend. The U.S. Constitution prohibits the states from using anything but gold and silver coin. (Article 1 Section10) A hard currency provides just weights and balances, and promotes honest industry. Most do not know that our nation was on the verge of collapse following the Revolutionary War prior to the adoption of the Constitution. The colonies had unbacked paper currency, the monetary system was inflated to the point in some cases it was worthless. This all changed when the Constitution established a hard money system and prohibited the state from using anything else. The current Federal Reserve system is not only unconstitutional but a corrupting influence on all commerce, while allowing the few to manipulate the wealth and policies of the nation, and even the world. We need to return to constitutional monetary system to provide a just and stable economic system. “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Thomas Jefferson
• Justice. We need to establish justice, that means for those who steal paying back what they have stolen, and in some cases multiple times. For those who have committed capital offences they would be executed speedily. Our prisons are full and there should be little or no place for prisons, when justice is done. Warehousing people has not worked and will not work.
• Education. The basics of education must inculcate into the youth that they were created in His image, that His law is the guide for life and they will some day answers for their actions. The foundations of humanism and communism is the religious teachings of evaluation, in which man is evolved from slime or monkeys, thus there are not absolutes, no day of accountability, only the survival of the fittest, or might makes right. The last century millions upon millions have been murdered by man acting on this lie. Our public schools have rejected God thus have become little more than incubators for socialism. They consume about 60 percent of the total state budget and are for the most part producing the economic and social problem of today. These man-centered philosophy will only produce slavery and death.
4. Most know there is a problem but do not know what to do about it. It is not the government’s duty to raise and teach the children, it is the parents. The school system needs to have its budgets slashed while at the same time teaching in the fear of God. Proper state and local government must demand from the federal government to abolish the Federal Reserve and again coin silver and gold coin thus removing the control of the international bankers.
We need to start the process of revamping the “justice” system to real justice by getting ride of bad law, while requiring just punishment for crime and restitution to those wronged.
Free men must resist the temptation to let go of their duty, for it has always been easyer for man to silp into slavery than extersizing the virtue to remain free. Again to quote Jefferson: “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
?5.? America was known as the great experiment of freedom, can man govern themselves or do they need masters? Virtue and faith are indispensable to be free. We often here that America gets it strength from being a melting pot of diversity, but this is not true. America was great because we were good, that our virtue and faith required for freedom was rooted and grounded in knowing we were endowed by Christ with not only rights but duties to honor and obey, and doing what was right. The father of the American revolution, Samual Adams said: “The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation — enlightened as it is — if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.” If we do not respond to the present attacks on absolutes and what is right — when will we?
6. I believe that if the Legislature was doing its proper job of being the “law maker” it would not be needed, but they are not, they are allowing the agencies to make law?, ?and they should not. Proper checks and balances on what is law must be exercised.?
7. The government schools have become the “sacred cow” of America. These schools consume 60 percent of the total state budget and in many county budges consumes huge portions of those budgets also. It has become the religion of the state, ?and i?s teaching doctrines that are at war with our nation’s foundations.
8. I think use fees are the proper way to fund roads. ?When the sacred cow, the government schools money gets cut there will be more than enough for fix the roads.
9. Yes. The Constitution does not grant the power or authority to the federal government to own this land. It can only retrain land a very limited use.
10. Yes it should repeal because government has no legitimate authority to force the people to buy a particular product. In totalitarian states they do, but not for a free people.
Again to quote Jefferson: “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
11. No. This is clearly not a proper function of government.
?12. Shawn Keogh has voted for and promoted the ever increasing bureaucratic government. She has voted for implementing state ‘Obama care”, the state recognizing same sex “marriage” in the tax code, voted for state control and licensing in many areas like, midwifes, massage therapists and contractors. Voted against parental notification for minors having abortions. Voted against legislation criminalizing the killing or injury of an unborn child during a brutal attack on its mother — Noah’s Law. Voted against protecting unborn children from pain.
https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2016/H0425.htm [1]; https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2013/H0248.htm [1]; https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2005/H0163.html [1]; https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0185.htm [1]; https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/S1295.htm [1]; https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2007/S1082.html , and http://www.rtli.org/legislation.html[1]; https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2002/S1344.html. [1] Voted against S1165 in 2011. https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1165.htm
Her voting on these issues is totally at odds with what is right.
13. Todays Legislators talk mostly of tax and spend while they are sought after by those seeking to use government to gain their “portion” of the “spoils” of government. It has become the modern way of operating government, to be a big brother and or mother, to provide cradle to grave guidance and protection. Socialism is alive and well in Idaho and it is opposite of the principles our government was founded upon. The top priority is to reestablish the basis of a government of a free people. It is a priority to only make and apply legitimate law. Law to be valid must have its foundations in the law of God; if it does not, the legislature is just playing god, and declares war with justice, and the people. It’s past time to change the legislature from being the pawn of governmental agencies, or special interest groups; to doing justice and operating under law. Government is to be a terror to evil and protect that which is good. We need to execute those who are guilty of capital crimes and allow those who have stolen to work to repay those wronged. I believe in and support the original intent of the Constitution, pro life, Second Amendment, hard monetary system, traditional marriage, and justice.
14. My harshest criticism will be because I understand that the very nature of government, law, education, and all of life is religious and that we have adopted the religion of man being his own God. (Humanism, communism and their ilk) This will clearly lead only to slavery and death. Those who have adopted the modern religion of the state are diametrically opposed to this and will be at war with truth.
15. We must return to a constitutional, hard monetary system. Less government intrusion into our lives and businesses.?
16. What is the proper role of government and what is valid Law? James Madison said “We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” I concur with his statement.