President Gone Rogue: Part I

[earthboundmisfit]

From a GREAT read at blog Museum of the Bourgeois:

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"Let us recall one of the great lessons of 1776: in the final analysis, the power of the State rests upon the power to coerce obedience to its dictates, which is to say, on the viability of police and military power. It is for this reason that the Constitutional Convention hedged in the powers of the Executive so closely, for the Founding Fathers had seen what had been done when absolute police and military power rested in the hands of monarchs...

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This is, of course, only one skirmish in a far larger war: the Bush Junta’s war to emasculate the Constitution and subvert the Republic into a society dominated solely by the federal Executive power. A society in which the Executive is free to go to war on personal whim, without a Constitutional declaration of war, and on fabricated evidence, free to illegally wiretap, kidnap, and torture, free to sign bills into law while simultaneously issuing public statements boasting of his “right” to ignore those laws, etc..."

more at: http://www.museumofthebourgeois.blogspot.com/

[OneBlueSky]

1. in the real world, "unitary executive" = "dictatorship" . . . n/t

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