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Quack Off
by
Free
Market Duck
Where in Hell did Our 3
Branches of Government Go?
(Jan 22, 2007)
Washington, DC –
Newspaper headlines: Bush continues "warrant-less" wire-tapping.
How?
With secret
"warrants" OK'ed by secret "national security court" authorizations, that’s
how.
Hey, are you the
Executive Branch and want to expand your powers past the 3 branches of U.S.
Government? That's easy. All you gotta do is create your own secret
Judicial Branch within the Executive Branch and call it the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Created in 1978,
the 7-member FISA Court in the Executive Branch grants itself secret
judicial powers to save everybody from "terrorists." American
revolutionaries were “terrorists” to the British in 1787. Do we have real
“terrorists” out there in 2007? Yes, we do, but why can’t we obtain search
warrants legally through the Judicial Branch of government?
Our Forefathers
created 3 branches of government for checks and balances so we would not
fall into the same governmental quagmire of secret courts and abusive powers
as the Brits did to their own people, which were us, at that time. It
appears that we are cycling back around to do exactly what we, as previous
British citizens in America, did to ourselves in the 18th century
and thus had to revolt against our British government. (Remember, Americans
were not Americans, they were British citizens in the 1700s.)
Unfortunately, 250
years later, we have thrown away the concept of checks and balances by
creating multiple versions of the 3 major branches of government and
embedded them within each of our main branches. We now have IRS tax courts
and secret FISA courts within the Executive Branch of government. We have a
private banking corporation, the Federal Reserve, unconstitutionally
“authorized” by the Legislative Branch and operating under Executive Orders
of the Executive Branch to (1) repeal the gold standard (FDR), (2) redefine
money as paper instead of “gold or silver coinage” as required by the U.S.
Constitution, and (3) manipulate America’s fiat paper money and credit.
Constitutionally,
the Legislative Branch can no more “delegate” its powers of checks and
balances such as voting on Bills or creating money to other branches of
government (or private corporations) than the Judicial Branch could delegate
Supreme Court decisions to the Legislative or Executive Branches of
government -- or to a private entity such as Wal-Mart or Joe’s Supreme Court
Company. To delegate Congress’ money-making responsibilities to a private
banking corporation is not only illegal, it is a complete travesty of
ethical justice, worse than hiring coyotes to guard the hen house.
As if the above
wasn’t enough to breach checks and balances of the 3 branches of government,
how about creating a secret legislative branch (and simultaneously a
judicial branch) within the Executive Branch called the National Security
Agency and CIA? These secret service branches get to vote themselves
unlimited budgets of billions of dollars annually to do with who knows what,
in direct contradiction to the Legislative Branch’s responsibility to
initiate all budget appropriations.
Note something
ominous here: the secret budget for our NSA and CIA first required the
illegal creation of the Federal Reserve monetary manipulators in order to
effectively fund them. How ingenious. Americans have now lost direct
control of their government by having the relationship between paper money
stripped from gold. If you don’t like what your government is doing, you
can’t withhold funding from them by refusing to pay taxes or withholding
funding because all the Feds have to do is print up more paper money, the
only legal tender allowed. He who controls the definition of money,
controls the nation.
The upshot: the creation of the Federal Reserve
has essentially dumped the concept of checks and balances in America, and
perhaps the entire world. Gold money is a moral contract expressing
individual property rights between free market traders. Destroy gold money
and you destroy the moral epistemological basis for the U.S. Constitution
and Bill of Rights. All we now have left are the political power brokers in
Washington scampering for total control of American citizens through the
implementation of a totalitarian welfare state, a dictatorship under the
guise of altruistic state collectivism called a mixed economy, socialism,
communism, or fascism. At the other end of the political spectrum is total
anarchy. In between is what economist Nelson Hultberg calls “The Golden
Mean,” a limited government, much like our initial U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights, whose only function is to objectively protect a priori
individual rights.
Now that we have
all 3 branches of government re-created multiple times, embedded within each
of the 3 major branches of government, the concept of checks and balances
has become a sick joke. Additionally, we have created a hundred thousand
independent bureaus, committees, commissions, boards, and agencies, all of
which are now implementing their own brand of executive, judicial, and
legislative branches of government, complete with Orders, Rulings, and
pretended law.
We have IRS
Rulings, FDA Rulings, EPA Rulings, HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the DOE,
and, well, the list runs into millions of rulings and volumes of
contradictory bureaucratic statutes.
So, when President
Bush and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claim that the secret FISA
Court created by the Legislative Branch and placed under the Executive
Branch grants them jurisdiction over our Judicial Branch of government to
eavesdrop on Americans to save us all from terrorists, which court within
which branch supersedes and where the hell did “checks and balances” between
the 3 major branches of government go? – FM Duck
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