| By Administrator on Uncategorized It’s curious Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has excoriated the neocon controlled Justice Department for violating the Constitution. Bush neocons have trampled the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for years and Mr. Hastert has not said boo. Hastert is upset over an FBI raid of Louisiana Democrat Rep. William Jefferson’s congressional office. Jefferson is a garden variety Congress critter, corrupt from top to bottom, and on the take, as a videotape of him taking a $100,000 bribe from an informant for a Nigerian official reveals (other members of Congress, meanwhile, take legal bribes, known as campaign contributions, selling the nation down the river to corporate interests). “The actions of the Justice Department in seeking and executing this warrant raise important Constitutional issues that go well beyond the specifics of this case,” said Hastert in a statement released earlier this week. “Insofar as I am aware, since the founding of our Republic 219 years ago, the Justice Department has never found it necessary to do what it did Saturday night, crossing this Separation of Powers line, in order to successfully prosecute corruption by Members of Congress. Nothing I have learned in the last 48 hours leads me to believe that there was any necessity to change the precedent established over those 219 years.” “The Founding Fathers were very careful to establish in the Constitution a Separation of Powers to protect Americans against the tyranny of any one branch of government,” Hastert continues. “They were particularly concerned about limiting the power of the Executive Branch. Every Congressional Office contains certain Legislative Branch documents that are protected by the Constitution. This protection-as the Supreme Court has repeatedly held-is essential to guarantee the independence of the Legislative Branch. No matter how routine and non-controversial any individual Legislative Branch document might be, the principles of Separation of Powers, the independence of the Legislative Branch, and the protections afforded by the Speech or Debate clause of the Constitution must be respected in order to prevent overreaching and abuse of power by the Executive Branch.” More specifically, it appears the Justice Department ignored the following, as enumerated Article I, Section 6, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution: “The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.” Again, it is curious Hastert is outraged about this incident and yet has remained mute over Bush’s other violations of the Constitution, from the obviously illegal NSA snoop program to ignoring the McCain amendment against torture. Hastert only recognizes tyranny when it touches his fellows. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” declared James Madison. “Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with a mixture of powers, having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system.” Unfortunately, this “universal reprobation of the system” is nowhere to be found in the halls of Congress, that is until it descends on the coven. It appears, Article I, Section 6, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution not withstanding, a deal will be brokered. “What’s likely to result from the contretemps is that Hastert will receive some assurances regarding future potential FBI actions in Congress, Republicans will resume their bovine complacence toward executive branch steamrolling of the legislature … and no one will have any assurance that the FBI isn’t being or won’t be used to advance partisan or parochial executive branch agendas,” opines BTC News. Bush, or rather the fascist neocons, who at least in part base their view of government on the totalitarian philosophy of the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, may continue to abrogate the power of the legislature and continue to trash the Constitution. Recall Bush’s quip that if “this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier—just so long I’m the dictator,” a statement roundly considered a joke. Bush made this remark on December 18, 2000, while speaking with a group that included Trent Lott, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, and the recently outraged Dennis Hastert, all who had a good laugh. It is common knowledge Bush is not a reading man, but if he bothered to pick up a book on occasion, he might find solace in the words of Julius Caesar, as imagined by William Shakespeare: “When could they say, till now, that talk’d of Rome, that her wide walks encompass’d but one man?” Bush is no Caesar, as the latter is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, as well as an accomplished politician and one of the ancient world’s prominent leaders. Bush, on the other hand, is simply a cardboard cut-out, an alcohol and drug enfeebled wreck from a crime family guilty of collaborating with the Nazis. Dubya is nothing more than a front man for the Straussian neocon cabal responsible for the ongoing eradication of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As the neocons are Jacobin radicals, tutored in the authoritarian politics of Trotsky, Strauss, Schmitt, Plato and Machiavelli, all of this about as surprising as a fox slaughtering chickens upon gaining access to the coop. |
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