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IMPEACHMENT
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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