The Death of a Constitutional Republic

The Death of a Constitutional Republic

Kurt Nimmo | September 29 2005

â??President Bush yesterday sought to federalize hurricane-relief efforts, removing governors from the decision-making process,â?� reports the Moonie Times, otherwise known as the Washington Times. â??It wouldnâ??t be necessary to get a request from the governor or take other action,â?� declared White House press secretary Scott McClellan. â??Mr. McClellan was referring to a new, direct line of authority that would allow the president to place the Pentagon in charge of responding to natural disasters, terrorist attacks and outbreaks of disease.â?�

In other words, Bush wants to erase yet another constitutional amendmentâ??the Tenth, which states â??powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the peopleâ?�â??and he is using the misfortune of Katrina as an opportunistic wrecking ball. â??Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour declined the presidentâ??s offer to federalize the stateâ??s National Guard troops in the aftermath of Katrina. So Mr. Bush wants Congress to consider empowering the Pentagon with automatic control.â?� In other words, the misery and suffering of the people of Louisianaâ??deliberately exacerbated by FEMA and the Ministry of Homeland Securityâ??will serve as a red carpet for Bush to systematically dismantle the cornerstone of the United States, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is, at minimum and as a start, a death knell for Posse Comitatus.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, according to the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâ??s delegates to the Convention, a woman approached Benjamin Franklin and asked: â??Well, Doctor, what have we gotâ??a Republic or a Monarchy? to which Franklin famously replied, â??A Republic, if you can keep it.â?�

As members of the Constitutional Convention understood, the enemy of liberty and the people is unrestrained and unchecked government. Our Constitution limits the power of government. But as Franklin suspected, the people would be unable to keep a Republic, and eventuallyâ??as is its rapacious natureâ??government would usurp all power and relegate the Constitution to the dustbin of history.

Bush and his fascist cronies are determined to usher in an authoritarian state, a nightmarish high-tech police state, Orwellâ??s hobnail boot smashing a face forever. And the word â??fascistâ?� applies because, as Mussolini declared, â??fascism is reactionâ?� against the social and political theories of the 1789 French Revolution (and indeed the Magna Carta), whose early formulations had a major influence on our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

â??Currently, the lead federal agency responsible for disaster relief is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has just 2,500 employees and is a division of the Homeland Security Department,â?� the Moonie Times continues. â??Mr. Bush has suggested that a more appropriate agency is the Department of Defense (DoD), which has 1.4 million active-duty troops.â?� Bush spelled out, in his inimitable way, his plan to attack the Tenth Amendment: â??I was speculating about was a scenario which would require federal assets to stabilize the situationâ??primarily DoD assetsâ??and then hand back over to Department of Homeland Security.â?�

When Julius Caesar and the Roman army crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, this act of defianceâ??for standing armies were forbidden by law from entering Romeâ??ushered in the brutal military rule of Rome and set the once great empire on its path toward ultimate destruction, prompting Suetonius to utter his famous phrase: â??the die is cast.â?�

Bush and his neocon cronies have marshaled in the beginning stages of a neo-feudal future long planned for us by the global elite and the corporatist plutocracy. In order to realize this tyranny, they must first completely emasculate and finally destroy the Constitution and convince the massesâ??most sufficiently dumbed-down through sub-standard education and anesthetized by an amoral consumerist cultureâ??to accept military occupation and slavery. In a nation no longer anchored to a bedrock of set constitutional principles, it is a relatively small task to convince millions of people the government will protect them from evil terrorists and natural disasters (the former created in large part by the government and the latter at least scientifically possible for the government to unleash). As the horror show of military occupation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (and to a lesser extent, Hurricane Rita) demonstrates, Bush and his global elite masters have decided now is the time to pull out all the stops.

As John Trenchard and Thomas Gordonâ??who served as inspiration for the foundersâ??wrote in their collaborative work (Catoâ??s Letters, 1720-23), â??corrupt ministersâ?� (such as Bush and the neocons) engage in â??fantastical warsâ?� in order â??to keep the minds of men in continual hurry and agitation, and under constant fears and alarms,â?� and thus frightened people â??will agree to every wild demand made by those who are betraying them.â?�

As for standing armies, Trenchard and Gordon wrote:

It is certain, that all parts of Europe which are enslaved, have been enslaved by armies; and it is absolutely impossible, that any nation which keeps them amongst themselves can long preserve their liberties; nor can any nation perfectly lose their liberties who are without such guests: And yet, though all men see this, and at times confess it, yet all have joined in their turns, to bring this heavy evil upon themselves and their countryâ?¦.

Great empires cannot subsist without great armies, and liberty cannot subsist with them. As armies long kept up, and grown part of the government, will soon engross the whole government, and can never be disbanded; so liberty long lost, can never be recovered. Is not this an awful lesson to free states, to be vigilant against a dreadful condition, which has no remedy.

Unfortunately, as a nation and a people, we are no longer â??vigilant against a dreadful condition.â?� Most of us know little if nothing about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and we are all too willingâ??when confronted with terrorism so patently fabricated and falseâ??to relinquish our liberty. Few of us recall the words of Thomas Jefferson: â??A free republic will never keep a standing army to execute its laws. It must depend upon the support of its citizens.â?�

Sadly, we are no longer a citizenry capable of understanding the foundation and underlying principles of the Constitutionâ??government will, if not checked, always endeavor to steal our freedom and hold us in slavery.

No doubt, if Franklin returned and witnessed our ignorance and stupendous intellectual laziness, he might likely declare: since we are no longer capable of upholding a Republicâ??let alone comprehend what it isâ??we do not deserve one.

hmm...so its the states responsibility, yet they bitch and moan at the Fed Gov for not helping them..then they want the Fed Gov to pay for everything...Yes i think the Fed Gov should have absolute control of management of a Disaster

Kiss the constatution good bye, and your freedoms too. You no longer have any rights and freedoms, anything you do will be monetored by the government. If you go beyond the laws and guidelines that the officials have set for you, you will be punnished. You will not have your own mind, you will be told what to think about at any time. We will watch and monetor your thoughts, and we will kill you if we see that you're mind is different from everyone else's. Any political dicidence will be stamped out immediately, and if you make any attempt to take the chips out of your skin, you will be dealt with by one of the death squads.
It might be paranoia, but it can easily become a reality.

I like you Pisshead. Good stuff.
I find the paralells between Rome and the U.S. very interesting. I once saw Gore Vidal say that Bush Jr. reminded him of Caligula. I guess he WAS vastly underqualified and too inexpierienced to be a leader. Oh yeah, he was also evil. Does W. bang his sister?
W. might be more like Nero though. Nero burned down part of Rome and blamed it on the Jesus peeps while W. burned down part of N.Y. and blamed it on Muslims.
If we are like Rome, shouldn't "Jesus part two" be coming soon? I knew they shouldn't have killed David Koresh, D"OH!

If this is all true, don't you think the underlying source of this evil goes beyond just Bush? The guy can't even talk properly... you know?

absolutely it goes way beyond bush, and goes back many generations...lord bush is just a puppet...he ain't making the decisions here...he's following orders...