Posted on 10/26/2009 9:20:12 AM PDT by RogerFGay
Lord Christopher Monckton has issued a dire warning about a proposed international agreement on climate change, which is supported by Barack Obama and many Democrats along with some Republicans in Congress. The treaty will be the subject of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.He notes that international treaties take precedence over domestic application of the Constitutional. The climate agreement aims to create broad politically malleable mandates to be imposed on industry and individuals, managed from the top by an unelected world government. It would result in unlimited undemocratic government power, much of which will be in the hands of foreigners, with no mechanism to impose restraint against intrusion of any kind – thus, eliminating entirely the nation defined by the Constitution and the American way of life.
I'm not the first to ask. What happens when the employees put in charge of government operations rebel and refuse to play by the rules? It is more than our reasonable expectation that the Constitution remains in force, that the federal government operates within limits, and that our sovereignty remains intact. Every office holder has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution as a condition for holding office. We have a contract and natural rights should they choose to violate it.
We have not yet effectively demanded those rights. It seems at times that we have become convinced that in practice the United States operates as a “pure democracy” in which the will of the majority in Congress cannot be held in check. In our system, merely being elected or having a party majority does not in any sense offer a mandate for unconstitutional dealings. We have been given that impression because, regardless of which party is in control, the other party desires a return to power over all else. The only solution they offer is to vote for them in the next election. Once elected, they follow the same general course of increasing their own power. Clearly, the element of democracy that is in our system – represented in fact by a “two-party system”– has failed.
Even if elections provided such a powerful mandate – and they do not – the choices voters made were the result of blatant fraud.
Over the past three decades, party bosses have operated in secret to engineer a dramatic restructuring of government and a complete transformation of its relationship with the people. It was not done formally as prescribed by the Constitution. Party politicians controlling the national purse used public funding to, in effect, purchase “states' rights” from state party politicians. State party politicians take the money in part, as a surreptitious increase in state taxes (collected in the form of federal taxes). Party judges, who have also received money in connection with these transactions, have transformed the laws so that they fit rules of federal jurisdiction.
Federal government does not operate by the same rules and relationships as state governments. The tasks assigned to the federal government by the Constitution require broad political discretion, while those left “to the states and to the people” are subject to more stringent checks and balances designed to protect liberty. The greatest cost of unconstitutional federalism is civil rights. The best known example is the federalization of marriage and family law, which resulted in the legal destruction of marriage and family as fundamentally private institutions in the eyes of corrupted law. Marriage and family are now defined as components of government programs, completely under arbitrary political control.
Did you learn that from msnbc? No. CBS? No. Time, Newsweek, New York Times, … It is obvious that the political class has used the established communications networks for deception. And we continue to see it now. Were we told openly about the decades long effort to establish a One World Government? No – politicians continuously denied it. We also know that there is no climate catastrophe requiring political action. Yet when voting, many people were convinced that there was. The so-called “mainstream media” maintained the hoax in support of party politics. The people were deceived. The politicians in power simply ignore criticism and continue to lie.
I respect Lord Monckton's understanding of the Constitution when he says; “If that treaty is signed, your constitution says that it takes precedence over your constitution, and you can't resile from that treaty unless you get the agreement from all the other states' parties.” However, I must assert that the people of the United States are in a position to declare any such agreement null and void. Its purpose is deception, to achieve goals that are not within the Constitutionally authorized powers of government. The People do not agreed to cede national sovereignty. The effect of such an agreement would amount to a coup – an act of war.
Beyond that, it is the American struggle to terminate the public employees who have so despicably violated their contract to that end; and to restore a proper relationship between government and the people.
This why the state of emergency was called. Obama can now sign the US over to the UN. During emergency the president does not need the bill to be ratified by congress. The redistribution of wealth will begin, trillions of American dollars will be turned over to the IMF.
It’s interesting to see that this is becoming more mainstream. Apparently, more than just conservatives are displeased with the way the government is acting.
Let the unfinished business of 1861 begin anew!
Yep, wipe the slate clean and start all over with something closer to what the founders wanted.
If a reboot does not fix it, we may have to reformat and reinstall the Operating System (Constitution).
Thee and me, Captain, thee and me!!!
Nations get into trouble when they violate the Unalienable, Natural Rights of the citizens.
From 1789 to 1932 our government more, rather than less, followed the philosophy set forth in our Declaration of Independence, “That to secure these (unalienable) Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, . . .” Our liberty and property were secure and we grew from an agricultural backwater to a major world power.
Tyrannical governments violate Natural Law at every turn to retain power. Man's right to property, conscience, free expression of religion, press, making an honest living, self-government, self-defense, free association and more are limited or eliminated.
The United States, the nation that put into practice the highest ideals of Western Civilization is on a glidepath to tyranny.
I am actually stunned that this topic would only garner 11 replies including mine. The main question is this: WHAT IS AMERICA (WE THE PEOPLE) GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS?????? CO
Is this about the COP-15 meeting?
We'll see if the constitutional solutions will work in 2010. Granted, irreparable harm may have been done by this current congress and president.
Many of us have a longer view. Democratic systems usually self-implode under their own fiscal mismanagement. (Although we are a Constitutional Republic, we've been acting like a de facto mobocracy). That's a "reset" of sorts. The smart folks will prepare for this eventuality. It's not going to be pretty. My guess is that there is not a sufficient number of people who even know what is necessary to correct the problem. The public socialist indoctrination system has been very effective over the past few decades. A violent reset won't produce a large enough majority to make a difference. At some point the people must be informed (my focus) and give their consent, if we are to preserve self-government. Until that time it is a nervy middlegame.
Exactly.
I read, "push for [this congressional candidate], "let's hope for Sarah in 2012," or "let's kick out all the RINOs," and I just have to wonder what they're thinking.
Newt Gingrich is providing all the evidence needed that reform "in the system" is worse than hopeless.
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