Press Release
For Immediate Release
Author plans to rid nation of
congressmen and senators
Author Phillip Hathaway envisions
nation operating efficiently without
national congressmen or senators,
an IRS, income tax or foreign wars.
New York - "Congressmen and senators are representatives of the central government," says Phillip Hathaway. "They represent the central government to the people. They do not represent the people to their nation's capital. They listen and accommodate the lobbyist, not the people. They create trillions of dollars in debt and have no idea where the money went, so they say. Yet, the truth is, the country can operate with only state representatives much more efficiently. National congressmen and senators are simply unnecessary and a source of burgeoning bureaucracy."
Hathaway is talking about his new book, The Romantic Struggle, in which the fictional Republic of Sovereign States eliminates the office of national congressmen and senators. It is no surprise that his novel is getting a great deal of attention from people in the real world who are tired of being heavily taxed and then ignored.
This fictional country, once a free nation of sovereign states, was pushed into a civil war when some of the states tried to exercise their constitutional rights to succeed. Those who started the war flooded the media with false propaganda that fighting a war to keep the nation together is a just cause. But their true intent was to centralize the government thereby taking away state sovereignty and, ultimately, individual free will. Then a dictator was placed in charge and everyone's movements were tracked with biometric technology.
Shockingly, it's not too dissimilar from the United States where The Real ID Act of 2005 would enable government officials to use biometric tracking to monitor our every move anywhere on the globe. They could track our trips to the grocery store or when we go for a walk, too. The Obama Administration and Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano, are pushing for this bill and Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) introduced the Pass ID Act in July of 2009 which is a slightly adjusted version of the Real ID Act.
Hathaway addresses several other issues in his novel that presently cause anger and worry in the United States. When asked why he uses fiction to stimulate change, he said, "With his writings, Victor Hugo effected social change to the sometimes heartless legal system of France where he introduced the idea of mercy. If he had made an appeal to the courts, I doubt that he would have been nearly as successful. Yet, a good story can cause social change simply because people enjoy a good story and because it appeals to both liberals and conservatives. Gustave Flaubert was another writer that caused significant social change. And, of course, there is the enormously influential Ayn Rand."
Hathaway's fictional country, the Republic of Sovereign States, has 700 illegal military bases around the world, just like the United States. It, therefore, needs a huge central taxing agency, like our IRS, to take income tax from everyone's paycheck. The protagonist of the novel proposes closing all those unconstitutional military bases as well as stopping other unconstitutional spending. All the necessary revenue is generated through import taxes and tariffs. So, all the people are free of that crushing national tax burden.
We asked him if he thought the same thing could happen in real life here in this country. "Yes, of course. We simply need to stop all the illegal spending, which is, by the way, just about all of our spending, and align the value of the dollar with the value of gold."
Hathaway's ideas are unique but more and more people are beginning to feel they make sense.
The Romantic Struggle and Other Celebrated Stories (Hardcastle ISBN 978-0-9796844-6-3) will be available in the fall of 2009.
For Immediate Release
Author plans to rid nation of
congressmen and senators
Author Phillip Hathaway envisions
nation operating efficiently without
national congressmen or senators,
an IRS, income tax or foreign wars.
New York - "Congressmen and senators are representatives of the central government," says Phillip Hathaway. "They represent the central government to the people. They do not represent the people to their nation's capital. They listen and accommodate the lobbyist, not the people. They create trillions of dollars in debt and have no idea where the money went, so they say. Yet, the truth is, the country can operate with only state representatives much more efficiently. National congressmen and senators are simply unnecessary and a source of burgeoning bureaucracy."
Hathaway is talking about his new book, The Romantic Struggle, in which the fictional Republic of Sovereign States eliminates the office of national congressmen and senators. It is no surprise that his novel is getting a great deal of attention from people in the real world who are tired of being heavily taxed and then ignored.
This fictional country, once a free nation of sovereign states, was pushed into a civil war when some of the states tried to exercise their constitutional rights to succeed. Those who started the war flooded the media with false propaganda that fighting a war to keep the nation together is a just cause. But their true intent was to centralize the government thereby taking away state sovereignty and, ultimately, individual free will. Then a dictator was placed in charge and everyone's movements were tracked with biometric technology.
Shockingly, it's not too dissimilar from the United States where The Real ID Act of 2005 would enable government officials to use biometric tracking to monitor our every move anywhere on the globe. They could track our trips to the grocery store or when we go for a walk, too. The Obama Administration and Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano, are pushing for this bill and Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) introduced the Pass ID Act in July of 2009 which is a slightly adjusted version of the Real ID Act.
Hathaway addresses several other issues in his novel that presently cause anger and worry in the United States. When asked why he uses fiction to stimulate change, he said, "With his writings, Victor Hugo effected social change to the sometimes heartless legal system of France where he introduced the idea of mercy. If he had made an appeal to the courts, I doubt that he would have been nearly as successful. Yet, a good story can cause social change simply because people enjoy a good story and because it appeals to both liberals and conservatives. Gustave Flaubert was another writer that caused significant social change. And, of course, there is the enormously influential Ayn Rand."
Hathaway's fictional country, the Republic of Sovereign States, has 700 illegal military bases around the world, just like the United States. It, therefore, needs a huge central taxing agency, like our IRS, to take income tax from everyone's paycheck. The protagonist of the novel proposes closing all those unconstitutional military bases as well as stopping other unconstitutional spending. All the necessary revenue is generated through import taxes and tariffs. So, all the people are free of that crushing national tax burden.
We asked him if he thought the same thing could happen in real life here in this country. "Yes, of course. We simply need to stop all the illegal spending, which is, by the way, just about all of our spending, and align the value of the dollar with the value of gold."
Hathaway's ideas are unique but more and more people are beginning to feel they make sense.
The Romantic Struggle and Other Celebrated Stories (Hardcastle ISBN 978-0-9796844-6-3) will be available in the fall of 2009.
