At bottom, I think what we "refuse to accept" is the deliberate, fully conscious gutting of the Constitution — the foundation of our rule of law, and the means whereby the sovereign people delegated authority to the federal government to carry out a very limited set of responsibilities on our behalf. Nowadays, however, 90 percent of what the federal government is doing is being done without any constitutional warrant or authority whatsoever. And so the question becomes: Which is the "nullity" — the federal government as presently constituted, or the Constitution itself?
My own view is that the president is clearly acting in violation of his Oath of Office — to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and, by implication, the People of the United States. He is, therefore, acting wholly without constitutional authority and thereby is actively violating the will of the people so eloquently expressed in the Preamble of that document.
The Framers had a word for a president (or congressman or senator or any other public official) who would do such a thing: usurper.
In short, this is an unconstitutional president who is clearly eligible for impeachment on the basis of a litany of specific unconstitutional acts.
Not that Congress can be expected to act in this regard. For Congress is presently just as unconstitutional as the president, in the degree to which it acts without clear constitutional authority. Which is most of the time nowadays. There are very few, if any, Congress critturs who have not themselves willfully and knowingly breached their own oaths of office.
What would the Framers say about a situation like this? They would likely say that if the federal government is acting outside the scope of its constitutionally delegated powers, it is usurping the God-given rights of the People. It is acting as a tyrant. To the extent that it ignores the Constitution — which is the foundation, not only of our rule of law but also of the very framework of our government, and the only basis of the legitimate authority of our public officials — then we are technically in a state of anarchy — of "no government." That being the case, any and all unconstitutional edicts and regulations are "nullities" having no force of law; they simply are not binding on citizens.
The Framers would have concluded that, under such circumstances, only the sovereign People themselves can restore a just public order. We'd once again be fully justified in saying, "...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security...." [emphasis added]
Well, that pretty much looks like our present situation to me. The big, so far unanswered question is: What will the People do about it?
Then there is yet another nagging question: Do the People feel they have any responsibility in this regard? How that question is answered likely will determine whether we Americans and our posterity are to live as free men or as slaves.
True.. The people have the government they want and deserve NOW...
It takes only a few to revolt.. as it did the first time..
Major parts of the fascists’ playbook that are already being realized:
We’re into the ‘create a diversionary demon’ (a sub-heading of several of the above) stage now, so beautifully described by betty (once again following Saul Alinsky's credo that, in order to seize increasing power, one must 'frame a villain'):
What makes this tactic even more surreal is the fact that they are programming us (well not actually us, but the tens of millions of useful idiots among whom we live) to believe that we must punish those of our leaders who have caused undue physical and emotional pain to our enemies.
And who are these enemies that we must protect (by handcuffing our own protectors)? They’re people whose principal membership includes those who relish gassing their own countrymen, and decapitating (sometimes via sawing), burning alive, and disemboweling those who don’t believe as they do.
And to think that, a mere decade ago, we thought the Wag the Dog diversion was ludicrous!
Betty’s simple, yet profound, question needs to ring in our hearts every minute of every day, until the answer becomes apparent:
I know how I believe that question will be answered. And I pray, daily and fervently, that I am wrong.
~ joanie
Truly, few of the elected officials seem to take their responsibilities seriously - much less as sacred duties.
And the average voter is probably preoccupied with his personal life, complacent where he can be and ignorant of the ramifications of things happening in government now.
I don't know what the wake-up call will be, but there must be one before the voters will demand a roll back of these usurpations of power.