Friday, July 27, 2007

Executive Privilege of the Unitary Executive?

Executive privilege does not over-ride the need of the people, who are the superior to every elected official (a lesson we apparently need to chastise them with), to know the actions the government takes and reasoning and motives behind these actions. Everything the President does in governing is done in the name, and for the sake of the People. If this is not the case then the President must be removed, the Constitution and the spirit of American liberty do not allow, but instead demands it.

Impeach the lot, now, for this nation will not survive another year under the rule of King George. The oligarchy is entrenched and fighting for it's survival, they will gladly maintain their power with the blood of American citizens, both soldiers and the general populace. Revolution is being forced upon those who would live with liberty and justice. The sooner the task of removing this cancerous growth from the Government is accomplished, the less suffering will be entailed, and the faster we as a nation will heal. Our President relies on his scope of power as Commander in Chief, not as President of the United States (when was the last time anyone recalls him referring to himself in that capacity). Since War has never been declared by this Nation since World War II his position is directly against American values and the Supreme Law of the Land. Yet this administration, led by the power-hungry and clueless, bases all of it's claims of the Unitary Executive powers on the fact that the nation is at war.... only Congress has the power to declare war, and they have failed to do so.

I would submit that those who sponsored the War Powers Act granting the current President the ability to invade a foreign sovereign nation, overthrow it's elected government, and use the armed forces of the United States of America to further an ill-defined and ludicrous agenda, which has accomplished nothing but fattening the coffers of certain corporate interests at the expense of Americas good will and reputation, are as guilty of treason as the current Administration and have placed themselves in peril of impeachment themselves, if by no other means than recall as our elected representatives.

The American people, those already awakened and alert, and those now awakening to the theft of our rights and liberties have had enough. It is up to us who are awake and aware to raise the alarm wherever we can. I would prefer my own children not know the pain and savagery of Civil War, but unless this insult to the Constitutional form of Governance that has kept this nation free of tyranny is addressed now, it will come. No American worthy of the title will submit to tyranny or the loss of liberty and justice. I fear that if we do not raise our voices now, and make our will known, we shall in the end have to raise arms against a form of governance every bit as unbearable and odious as the last King George who sought to treat the American people as chattel and vassals to the throne.

With liberty comes responsibility and the need to be alert to all enemies of that liberty, both foreign and domestic. Though he was not an American I still value the words and wisdom of Winston Churchill who stated:

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

We no longer have the luxury of time. When Congressional committee members who have oversight of Homeland Security are denied access to emergency plans for continuity of government this should be a rather significant danger signal. This Administration has surpassed all other previous Administration in paranoid distrust of Congress, and of the people of this nation. It is becoming glaringly obvious that the only thing this Administration fears and distrusts is... We the People.

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