IMPEACHMENT
The Dance of the Damned


This article was written for The Thought, but was rejected for publication. However, it was written about 6 weeks ago, so that many of its predictions that came true may seem to re-iterate what has already been in the press. More significantly, at the time this piece was written, impeachment did not look likely. That all changed on 19 December, 1998, when the House of Representatives voted in favor of 2 of the 4 articles of impeachment that reached the House floor. Now the president will go on trial in the Senate, only the second president in the history of the republic to actually go on trial. But remember, fair reader, that something far more precious is at stake as the president goes on trial, the REPUBLIC itself must go on trial, for it is the bickering and partisanship of the republic's two major parties that has brought us to this point. And don't let anyone tell you that we are stuck with the republic.


(CNS) The topic that most people appear to be obsessed with, if one was to judge from the focus of the media, is whether or not the Congress should proceed and impeach the President. Impeachment pushed all other issues aside for a legalistic dispute that on the one side bored the hell out of the average American, and on the other side, gave new impetus to efforts to oust Bill Clinton, whose rise to power resulted in his stepping on more than a few toes. The fact that Clinton has been able to successfully enlist the people who answer opinion polls, in his efforts to defend himself from real personal enemies he made, poignantly illustrates the depths of the corruption that now permeates the republic.

Every time a gaggle of so-called "constitutional law scholars" argue over the trivialities of the opinions of the Founding Father-Slavemasters, the fact that they are virtually making it up as they go along is readily apparent to anyone who didn't lose their mind in college. In the end, we are supposed to defer to the intentions of deceased men who had no problem imposing a police state upon the American people, in which only rich white men had a vote. Of course, we understand that today the vote has been extended beyond that narrow electorate, but the discussion of what the Founders meant should not ignore the fact that at the time, they were consciously and deliberately constructing a police state precisely because men of their class were afraid of revolution from the lower classes, especially since the upper class was itself the living example of the benefits of a violent revolution.

The current Impeachment debate has roots in various sources. First, the Clinton's have had ethical problems from the start. The Whitewater investigations, above all, reveal that the Clinton's are experts at covering their tracks, which should surprise no one since they are both attorneys. However, this is not a partisan attack upon a Democrat; it is a remark about the Clinton's as people. Mrs. Clinton, for example, made a profit of $100,000 from a $1000 investment, in one year. Tell me where I can sign up! If there is no evidence of wrong-doing, it's only because she's that good (an attorney).

Bill Clinton has been successfully involved in Arkansas politics for about 20 years. It may sound cynical to state that the only way for a politician to stay in office for 20 years is to cut some corrupt deals, but that is the state of the nation under the government of the republic. If you want to put up a porch, you have to know the right bureaucrat to apply for a license. When Clinton exploited every weakness in the republic's electoral system to overcome better qualified candidates, it was only because he was a compromised politician, who the ruling powers felt they could control. Men and women who are too independent never get too high in the political parties, because power is never entrusted to anyone who is not heavily encumbered with obligations to the institutional status-quo.

Yet just when the pundits of the republic thought they were going to have another lackluster mid-term election, in which the total number of Americans casting ballots would continue to decline, the president's sex scandal exploded onto the national consciousness. Ironically, the polls expressed the confusion the American people were feeling, in opinion surveys that revealed that those polled wanted the president to stay in office, but they wouldn't leave him to babysit their kids. Then the Republicans (who also have plenty of skeletons in their closets), pushed their hand too far, and a backlash developed, threatening to derail their Impeachment train. And immediately the news was dominated by the controversy surrounding the potential removal of the president of the republic.

The news was full of legal experts discussing the Federalist Papers, and the arcane meanings of the various clauses of the Constitution of 1787, as if they were discussing the Bible. The logic of the republic is a self-contained, self-proving circle, which Americans are trained in before they are out of diapers. The fact that the republic exists outside of the legal tradition, is not discussed by media opinion makers. The truth, however, is that there is no reason for anyone to read the Federalist Papers. They have nothing to do with the real ancient constitution that underlies all law in America. What the Federalist Papers are, in fact, is pure propaganda selling the republic, in the same way that the Communist Manifesto is pure propaganda selling Marxism. Of course, propaganda has a function, but it is a disservice to label advocacy materials as objective scholarship.

The topic that dominates the airwaves is what constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors." "High crimes and misdemeanors" are anything the political party in the majority in Congress says it is. Which reminds us that the bottom line is that these politicians are making this up as they go along. They are trying to cloak it all in tradition and ceremony and continuity, but they are so bad at it, that the whole nation has seen through it, almost collectively. Yet even while the polls show that Americans do not want to undergo the trauma of the removal of the Supreme Leader, the President, the fact that the drape concealing the Wizard of Oz at the levers has been removed by the little dog Toto (Monica Lewinsky?), is a genie no one can put back into the bottle.

It is important to remember that the characterization of the republic as a democratic institution is intrinsically flawed. It was designed and imposed by slavemasters, who were the only people allowed to vote, out of mortal fear that they might lose their property. It became the captive of corporations, who used it to industrialize the homeland, at the expense of the population, which gained no benefit from the republic's ownership of public property. Under the auspices of the slavemaster republic, the population was reduced to a mass of servants under statutes actually called the Master and Servant Laws. And when taxation was finally imposed directly upon individuals, these Servants were actually taxed for working!

The President of the United States is the senior law enforcement officer of the republic, which is why the debate has focused on his deceitful statements, and the possibility that the president perjured himself in a lawsuit. And his supporters are cheered by the spin that the President was guilty "only" of adultery, which is not a criminal offense. Yet to the majority of Americans who are not obsessed by the rigid partisan positions maintained by the Democrats and the Republicans, what they see is just another policeman. That's because in a country of 250 million people, only 95 million vote for the president, and only about half of those who vote actually feel involved in making the president, less than 20% of the population. The remaining 80% feel that the president is imposed upon them, without their consent. And this imposition is reacted to the most harshly by the youth, who feel powerless to influence a system that has its hands most firmly upon them.

Reform programs, like Affirmative Action, were failures not because Americans did not want to compensate the victims of the republic's class system, but because the republic itself offered these programs in order to avoid changing. Rather than admit that the republic itself was flawed, Affirmative Action (for example), bought off the justified hostility of the minorities, and women, as a palliative measure, which came short of real material changes in the political system. That is the real resiliency of the republic, its hold on the wealth of America, which it can use to buy off dissent. (Of course, only after attempts to kill off dissent have failed).

Legal scholars who prosecute cases every day in the United States watched the president's video tape, and knew immediately that he had not committed perjury by his testimony, largely because a defense against perjury is that the person actually believes that what he is saying is true. As stupid as it may sound that oral sex does not constitute sex, it was obvious from the tape that the president really believed that sex only took place when two individuals literally engaged in copulation. Additionally, his testimony began with a formalized admission to sex with Lewinsky, so when the president later appeared to be denying having "touched" Lewinsky's breasts, etc., this was not perjury because the testimony had begun with an admission. This is very technical, but the president taught law, and knew perfectly well that he was creating sufficient doubt that he could not be prosecuted for perjury in a court of law.

But politically, the whole spectacle does not play well for the political system of the republic, because it only increased the real scale of disconnect taking place among the American people. Everyone knew that the president had had an affair with Lewinsky long before he admitted it, and to observe him squirming in front of a grand jury, admitting that he had lied to the whole world, not only humiliated himself as a man, but the presidency as an institution. This is what it has all come to. Of course, the politicians will pull back from the abyss of deposing Clinton from office, but only because they will fear pushing the country into uncharted waters at a time when the Federal Government is particularly unpopular with average Americans.

The republic is built around the cult of the president, which only became more focused in the age of mass media. Journalists and pundits actually talk about the "desecration of the flag," which is semantically impossible since the republic is a secular institution, and in order to desecrate anything it must be holy and sacred to begin with, a characteristic that is notoriously absent from the flag as a symbol of the republic. However, the American people have an emotional connection with the symbol of their nationality, which transcends any kind of loyalty or allegiance to the republic. This transcendent loyalty is built on the bedrock of the nation, the ancient constitution of the American kingdom.

In the end it doesn't matter if you are for or against the impeachment, so long as you partake in the discussion, because this channels the discussion in directions that the politicians, pundits and the bureaucrats can manipulate. The same holds true when people are encouraged to vote, regardless of political party. It doesn't matter if your candidate wins or loses, if you play the game you will feel bound to abide by the outcome, and obey the dictates of "your" representative. You will also feel attacked if he is attacked, and you will defend him to others, something you might not do for some close members of your own family. Ironically, many women who would have thrown their own husbands out if they admitted what President Clinton admitted to his wife, supported him.

This only illustrates the unnatural relations the republic engenders, and the entire sordid scandal can be solidly attributed to the republic as a political system, precisely because these kinds of things have occurred regularly since George Washington set up the Federal Government. The mindset of the Federal Republic was set in stone by slavemasters, who endowed it with a virtual DNA to carry out their purposes even beyond the grave. While its scandals have been characterized by the century they took place in, what unites them is the environment of wanton corruption and legalistic hypocrisy that are the calling card of the republic. Every time some pseudo-scholar invokes the words of one Founding Father or another, it obscures the fact that the crime the founders committed was to break the law, and invent a system of government out of thin air.

There is a way out of the impeachment mess, so that it never occurs again, but that would involve an admission on the part of the advocates of the republic that it has outlived its usefulness, and must be retired. When a corporation is disestablished, it is said that it must wind up its affairs for dissolution. That is what has to happen to the Federal Government. Why? Because no one is going to be able to get it under control. Right now, the Pentagon is suffering under embezzlement scandals that underscore the fact that the entire bureaucratic structure of the Federal Government is on automatic pilot. In a recent article in George magazine a retired Pentagon employee admitted to spying on the Nixon administration for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There are continuing suspicions that important sections of the intelligence community were collaborators in the assassination of President Kennedy. And no one is sure whose side the FBI is on.

At the same time the United States has more of its own citizens in prison and jail than any other country on the Earth, the most recent figure being 1.8 million prisoners. The impeachment debate constitutes a kind of theatre for political junkies, who learned about politics from Readers' Digest. They don't mind having their focus fixed for them, because they are unprepared to use their minds to comprehend ideas that have real gravity, because then they would be called upon to make choices, and the shock treatment all Americans undergo in school prepares them for submission to the choices made for them by institutional leaders. How many Americans today actually still believe that the Soviets were a genuine threat to the national security of the United States, even though the Soviets couldn't produce a decent hi-fi?

If the impeachment proceeds on a pure party-line vote, it will be open unrestricted warfare between the Democrats and the Republicans, with a scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners sense of mercilessness. That is not what a majority of the American people want to be subjected to every night on the news, when they have to look in on their government. But it's laying the groundwork for a new paradigm that is hate-free. The partisans, of course, refuse to admit that what drives their competition for power is hatred, rivalry and greed, but the people who are subject to their intrigues recognize these dark motivations in their leaders, and they despair of having leaders who are not dominated by such base drives.

Of course, the restoration of the ancient constitution will not remedy this flaw in men to serve themselves at the expense of the nation, but at least it establishes a constellation of legal institutions that are designed from the start to prohibit such treason, instead of rewarding it. The republic turns the law on its head, and to partake in the partisan warfare that is permeating the media, surrounding the impeachment issue, is to take a position in which the individual has no power. There are only two options, one offered by the Republicans ("Impeach"), and the other offered by the Democrats ("Don't Impeach"). The only action that would make a difference, that would guarantee that the country is never put through this horror again - the abolition of the republic - is never made available to the public.

Whatever happens, the politicians will declare it a victory for the republic, "The System Worked." That was what they said after Watergate, when it was apparent to everyone but the partisans that the SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK. The reality is that the media spends millions of hours discussing important things like Madonna's sex habits, or the menu at the White House, precisely in order to avoid important topics, like why the American people are so unhappy that they have one of the worst substance abuse problems of any nation on the Earth. While corporations cut down ancient growth forests, that are irreplaceable, the media runs ads portraying these corporations as conservationists. Distraction and avoidance are the means of the day for sidetracking a population that was ready to burn the country to the ground in 1992.

Ironically, before Clinton was elected president the media made the homeless an important front-burner issue all during the 1980s. Then, all of a sudden, after the Clinton inauguration, voila! The homeless crisis was seen no more! As if the whole problem had fixed itself, or at least it was no longer perceived by news directors and city editors as urgent enough to devote any further articles to it. This gave the whole country a false sense of security, along with the bizarre statistics coming out of the Commerce Dept. and the Stock Markets. Unemployment figures appeared to decline; but few people remembered that the reason was not that people had found jobs, but that their benefits had run out, and they were no longer counted in the official unemployment figures.

It is seriously misleading to imagine that a Democrat is a liberal, or that a Republican is a conservative. The give-away is when a conservative Democrat is the equivalent to a liberal Republican! The scratch and claw debates these partisans engage in represent the immature, tit-for-tat game that they love to play, but which is a turn off to anyone but the most devoted political activists. Of course, the restoration of the parliamentary constitution will not make political parties obsolete, but it will make them less central to the infrastructure of the country, so that they will have less power to destroy the nation in their rivalry for control of the state.

The draw of the impeachment issue is strong for many people, because the vast majority disliked Clinton even before he was elected president. He exuded a quality that can only be called the stench of corruption, something that made him ideally suited for the highest office under the republic. Yet even if he were removed from office, the bottom line is that another politician from the same swamp would rise up to take his place, and the police state will continue on without missing a beat. On the other hand, the impeachment issue is a perfect starting point to inaugurate discussions with strangers who have never been exposed to the existence of the ancient constitution.

Impeachment is the dance of the damned because it possesses and obsesses those who BELIEVE in the republic as an article of faith. There is no real historic evidence justifying the claims of the politicians of the republic that they, and their predecessors, have ever come to the aid of the ordinary American. The Presidency of the United States, as an institution, has caused more death and destruction in its short 222 year history, than any other institution made by man. The president is responsible for causing hardship to more Americans than any foreign tyrant, orchestrating the government of a regime that is one of the most powerful military dictatorships of all time. Yet even though this Supreme Leader is leading his followers into the depths of hell, they cannot help but follow him there, for they cannot stop once they have started to dance.




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