Posted on 11/16/2001 1:14:55 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Ever really wonder why the republican revolution fizzled out fairly quickly, and why the klintonistas more or less are still walking around free? That's just one of many glaring examples, it goes way, way back. Think about the irs whistleblowers testifying in front of the de-nutted congress, they had hoods over their heads and talked through voice changers. There's some reasons for that.
Congress still has to (publically) go through the motions, but look what just got passed, and is being enthusiastically supported-if you are a whistleblower in government, you simply must have more evidence than just talking about it. You got to have documents, etc, hard evidence for your whistelblowing of abuses to be of any practical use. Well, what just got passed and is being widely accepted as 'cool" is this deal now if you are in government and present anything like that you are automatically a terrorist badguy. Catch 22 there, comp[letely obvious. They "say" they have whistleblower protections, but if you can't present evidence without breaking the so called "law" and running afoul of years of incarceration, what does that mean? And who is doing this again, clinton? He's still prez? Nope, he ain't, someone else is, but "there's a war on ya know, and etc, etc, etc".
No, there ain't a war on, congress did not declare war, there sure is shooting going on, but what is reality here is they rubber stamped a dictatorial edict, that onlyuu has the appearance on the surface lwevel of being legal. Arguing about this justification or that is still that, arguing in favor of an excuse to ignore our real law. Our government was set up to accept occassional discomfort and slightly less security in favor of a clear cut separation of powers and very clear cut limits on what this or that person in office is lawfully authorised to do or not do. Now, right now, it won't matter as long as the violent actions are directed towards the murderous mad jihaders, no one will really care, because they deserve it, but the manner it's being done-now that's a different story, because chances have a high probability-real dang high really- it will be expanded into all sorts of interesting areas and directed towarts all sorts of people who aren't murderous mad jihaders from boogorillavile someplace.
BUT, it won't be universally acknowledged until it's way, way, way too late.
What's the old cliche, the road to heck and perdition is paved with good intentions? that fits here I think.
I find nothing there to disagree with. If your implication is that the government such as per #16 shouldn't be doing foreign policy or fight wars, it doesn't follow. It only follows that they will go about any task badly, even when the task is legitimate.
We discuss those all the time here, listing the apparent discrepancies is redundant at this point, they are myriad.
I am really a normal simple person. This is really an easy concept to "get". In a nutshell, I wish and advocate straight talk, honesty, and a return to constitutional government as originally outlined, not this complex mess of who knows what stuff we have now. And it takes every individual inside and outside governmental employ and service to accomplish this.
And the only way to do that is through human to human talk and education and knowledge sharing. The setup now is heavily skewed towards governmental secrecy where they hide the 'badstuff" that goes on, a rigged election system with the two dominate political organizations douing what they can to make it almost impossible for anyone not in one or the other dominant party to get elected to national office, and a controled mass media which has an agenda of mantaining their dominance in information sharing, using again, their contacts with government to insure their near monopoly in mass communications. They "use" the system, to what is apparent on many levels an immoral if not outright illegal levels. This symbiotic system rewards them with their near monopolies from their help in maintaining the obfuscation of certain abusive aspects of government and of certain events. One criminal gang has traded with another gang for years, in other words.
Fortunately, the internet is now helping to correct some of those situations.
Like I outlined, people want to be part of a group, the way the country is designed in theory, we are the worlds largest ever "group" or collection of soverign individuals, united for a few specific functions. We hire-on people to serve for a certain time frame, and they constitute what we call "the government", although we should never forget, they are the real government's-that would be all of us-employees. They work for us, not vice versa.. None of them were ever elected, appointed, or hired to be a king, or to be a personal or foreign power/interest mercenary, or to be a subchief little more local despot. There's the big difference..
They work for us, they serve us, we don't work for them, and we don't serve them. We are not supposed to have to beg and grovel for relief, or to actually have to file suit or something like that to get them to actually do their jobs lawfully.
And when they mess up, when a combination of their peers in governmental employment notice it, or the people notice it, they are supposed to be removed, post haste, immediately, not re-elected, laterally transferred, or promoted to an even higher office. They do not stay on the clock and keep collecting checks. What we have now is bass ackwards of what it should be.
They are never supposed to hide behind their temporary employment and whichever position they temporarily occupy that we allow them, and tell lies, or refuse to do their legal jobs they were hired for, or to help cover up each other's malfeasances, or especially to just assume more power and authority than what they are supposed to have. That's the deal as originally arranged, I think it's a good idea to stick to it.
A lot of blind flag-wavers have to be un-brainwashed!
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