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Capitalism Magazine
The Slide Into Dictatorship
By Paul Craig Roberts (November 2, 2000)
[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] Will the United States disappear on Nov.
7 -- not physically, of course, but morally and ethically as a
nation of law? Everything would still look the same, but personal
rule would supplant the rule of law. We could become what we
never before have been -- a land of arbitrary power.
Americans are preparing to vote without having heard any debate
on the critical issue at stake. Al Gore has bet his future on
instilling fear of Republicans in the elderly and in racial
minorities.
George W. Bush has bet his chances on coming across as a
compassionate, reasonable person.
Choose Al Gore and vindicate eight years of lawlessness:
Whitewatergate, Filegate, Travelgate, Monicagate, Campaign
Finance and Buddhist Templegate, "missing" Rose law firm and Al
Gore e-mail documents, Justice Department stonewalling of law and
investigations, the Waco massacre -- the list goes on ad nauseum.
Topping it all off is the latest Gore scandal -- a secret deal
between our vice president and a Russian prime minister. Did you
know that Gore illegally exempted Russia from the economic
sanctions that the U.S. imposes on all countries that sell arms
to Iran? In addition, Gore violated the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Act by keeping Congress in the dark about Russia' nuclear
cooperation with Iran. Is this another instance of "no
controlling legal authority"?
Here we see the true colors of Clinton Gore: The law means
nothing if a political purpose is served by ignoring it. No
matter how powerful his office, no U.S. official has the power to
grant exemptions to U.S. law, regardless of the end served. As
deplorable as Clinton's morals are, the real beef Americans have
with his administration is its lawlessness.
This lawlessness is dictatorial in character. The dictatorial
inclinations of the Clinton Gore administration manifest
themselves in the ways the executive branch ignores the powers of
Congress and federal courts and in the use of propaganda to
silence facts. This administration has financed the
implementation of treaties that Congress has not ratified, and it
has made presidential appointments in open defiance of the
Senate's right to confirm the appointments of sub-Cabinet
officers. The Clinton Gore administration hides its illegalities
by ignoring subpoenas and by issuing executive orders that assert
new powers for the president.
Wherever one looks in the Clinton Gore administration, one finds
illegalities perpetrated in the name of one Clinton Gore cause or
another. Take for example, gun control. Under orders from the
White House, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is
abusing its power, and using intimidation and harassment to
create a de facto federal registration of gun owners. Despite
protests from Congress and a U.S. District Court order, BATF is
using raw power to force gun dealers to comply with BATF's
illegal collection of surveillance data.
This is the way the National Socialists turned Germany into a
dictatorship during the 1930s. When German courts ruled against a
policy of Hitler's government, the government ignored the court.
Similarly, defendants acquitted in court trials were seized and
carried away by police when they left the courtroom.
Annoyed by judicial resistance to his policies, Hitler did what
Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to do: He "packed" the court system
by creating new courts that would do his bidding.
Hitler did not come to power in a coup that overthrew democracy.
Germans elected Hitler because of unemployment and disgust with
the Weimar Republic. Hitler was not elected to be a dictator or
to start World War II and conduct a genocidal policy against
Jews. He became a dictator because the German parliament gave the
executive branch the power to make laws. Hitler then made the
laws that made him a dictator.
Once government becomes large in size, the executive branch gains
the upper hand, because it has the bureaucracies that make
the rules and the enforcement agencies that interpret and
implement the rules. Other branches of government can protest but
are impotent unless the legislature takes extreme measures, such
as impeachment or refusal to fund an offending agency.
Such extreme measures are unlikely to succeed. Democrats in the
House and Senate have made it clear that their loyalties are
party loyalties, not loyalty to the institution of Congress or
the Constitution. Unlike Republicans three decades ago,
congressional Democrats stand firmly with their president, at
great expense to the prerogatives and powers of Congress.
The United States cannot become a dictatorship overnight like
Hitler's Germany. But eight years of Clinton Gore have created,
both in attitude and deed, an executive branch that is becoming
independent of law. After another term or two of Clinton Gore,
law would issue from the mouth of the executive.
�2000 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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