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Date: August 17, 2007 5:56:50 PM PDT
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Subject: "We the People" -- People Who Need People
Whatever Happened to
"We the People"?
by populistamerica
Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 06:04:14 PM EST
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/8/17/17157/2958
...Thomas Jefferson once said, "The two enemies of the people are
criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the
chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the
legalized version of the first."
I've been trolling the "blogosphere" rather heavily the past few
days, trying to make sense out of the Congress' passing of the
secret FISA Modernization Act, its failure to call any of the
Executive to account for the latest bunch of Constitutional
atrocities perpetrated by the Cheney/Bush gang, its failure to put
a stop work order out on their Iran pre-emptive nuke attack plans,
etc. I fear the problem may well be worse than just Democratic
stupidity, fear, or inertia.
Think about it for a moment. In the past seven-plus years, we have
seen the Cheney/Bush gang forge a "Unitary executive," virtually
unchallenged by the congress of either party. Lip service, yes, to
keep the voters pacified, but the Constitutional remedies readily
available are routinely "taken off the table" even in the face of
overwhelming evidence. We now have an Executive that routinely
makes its own laws, which are rubber stamped by the Reichstag,
excuse me, Congress. It vetoes anything it doesn't like with little
more than token protest from the Congress.
The Congress has approved the appointment of unqualified party
hacks as Supreme Court judges over the strong protest of the people
and the legal community.
The Supreme Court was intended to be the Constitutional watch-dog
over legislation and edicts by the Executive or the Congressional
branches. The reason for lifetime appointments was to keep them
free from any possible political pressure or contamination. Look
back on earlier Supreme Court nominations. At one time, some of the
finest judicial minds in the country were considered. There was
even a lot of soul searching as to whether they were qualified to
be a Supreme Court judge. The Senate often carefully considered the
nomination, and thoroughly questioned the candidate. His background
was meticulously checked, and his judicial decisions examined.
Usually, those judges worked hard to live up to the trust that We
the People put in them. They were Constitutional scholars.
Look at the current process. Any party hack with a law degree from
a recognized school, with an impeccable record of following his
party's line, regardless of legal precedent, may be proposed as a
candidate. The Senate carefully avoids asking any potentially
embarrassing questions and, unless the candidate has done something
absolutely obscene or illegal, in public, the Senate rubberstamps
the appointment.
As a result, the court has transformed over the years; from one
that upheld Constitutional values, to one that, in 2000, abrogates
an election rife with fraud to appoint by one vote, a president.
In doing so, they virtually disenfranchised the entire United
States Electorate. The Supreme Court has now descended into one
that is favorable to a Unitary Executive, or to put it in less
euphemistic terms, a dictatorship. It has worked hand in hand with
the other branches of government to steadily roll back much of the
civil and human rights legislation that We the People worked so
hard to achieve over the past half-century or so.
Most of the above is obvious to about seventy percent of the
American People, many of whom have been steadily writing, phoning
and e-mailing their alleged representatives, asking that they
reverse this - that they take the lead and impeach this gang before
they can do more damage. No, they are told, it is "off the table,"
it "would be divisive," it would "take time away from more
important things." What could be more important than curbing a
dictatorship and reaffirming the Constitution and Bill of Rights,
our raison d'etre as it were? Let's look at this from a
congressional perspective for a moment and perhaps we'll see a reason.
Assuming that the Bush Gang doesn't perpetrate a black op, declare
martial law, cancel elections for the "duration of the emergency"
which Cheney/Bush have already said will last long after we are
gone, what have we got in place?
Since Congress has not curbed these excesses in the past seven-plus
years, has allowed the executive to shred and burn the Constitution
which it swears to protect and defend; since Congress has not
forbade the unilateral cancelling of treaties which, once ratified
became part of the law of the land; since Congress seems to allow
anything to be covered up by "executive privilege" or claims of
national security, we are left with a staggering bunch of legal
precedents.
Assuming we have elections in 2008, and assuming they will not be
fraudulent charades like the last few were, the new President will
inhereit all these powers intact and functioning. The new "leader"
will have legal precedent for using these new powers at will. The
dictatorship will have just been passed into new hands.
Can you imagine Clinton or McCain with the powers that Cheney/Bush
have usurped?
I think the Democratic Party is not about to do anything to curb
the Cheney/Bush gang's power grab because they expect to inherit
it, to use for their own ends!
Thomas Jefferson said, "The two enemies of the people are criminals
and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of
the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized
version of the first."
In the past seven plus years, the Congress has carefully allowed
the links of those chains to be severed so they can inherit the
legalized, criminal version of government that Washington DC has
become.
What can We the People do about this?
Thomas Jefferson also said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed
from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its
natural manure."
Short of a bloody revolution in which We the People must take to
the streets in the face of the dictator's Blackwater mercenaries
with almost unlimited firepower, backed by the enormous wealth and
power given to their owners from our treasury, and the probable use
of whatever military force can be spared from foreign conquests,
our recourse is to unite as a people, regardless of "race, creed or
national origin," as we once united to drive fascism from European
shores, and drive it from our shores.
We must unite and search for people who will put the good of the
nation, the good of We the People before personal greed and power.
Then, we have to elect them overwhelmingly, not as Democrats or
Republicans (They are just part of the same two-backed beast. One
back has a "D" on it and the other has an "R" and in between is
corporate wealth and power, pulling the strings), but as
Independents, as Americans, dedicated to the task of returning the
Constitution and Bill of Rights, intact and functioning, to the
Halls of Government; dedicated to the repeal of the "Enabling
Acts," the mis-named Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act;
dedicated to the return of habeas corpus, and the posse comitatus act.
In short, We the People must find members of We the People (not
members of the ruling elite). We must find people dedicated to
returning to us the Constitutional form of government that once
made this country great, and also dedicated to ensuring that this
will never again happen to the United States of America.
If we can accomplish this, I'm sure we can then begin to rebuild
trust and confidence in the United States throughout the world.
That, too will take an enormous amount of effort, but it will be
worth it.
Remember, on September 12, 2001 the entire world put its collective
arms around us. It would have done anything to help us recover. It
would have sought out the perpetrators and brought them to justice.
The only thing that destroyed that support is the same thing that
has destroyed the United States. The Bush gang and the neocons with
their dream of bloody conquest, shock and awe, and world
domination. That and, the long-developing establishment of a
dictatorship over the American People.
It is We the People, not the Congress, that can bring about this
change, for Congress has proven itself part of the problem. The
solution has got to come from us, We the People, or we shall surely
fail and the forces of wealth, greed and power will take over for
many more years.
by Stephen M. Osborn [click here for more articles], who is a
freelance writer living on Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest.
He is an "Atomic Vet." (Operation Redwing, Bikini Atoll 1956, ) who
has been very active working and writing for nuclear disarmament
and world peace. He is a retired Fire Battalion Chief, lifelong
sailor, writer, poet, philosopher, historian and former newspaper
columnist.
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