Posted on 03/01/2002 6:04:09 AM PST by blam
It's not secret. We know about it.
Fun, but they come at a very high cost, I'm afraid. Right this minute, sink is pasting our pictures (that he's drawn) onto his cubicle wall and scrawling ENEMY! BAD! underneath them.
Gasp! Shudder! Can you bear the burden of that knowledge?
Well, he will anyway, as soon as all the puffing goes out of his chest.
Ya' just gotta laugh sometimes, ya' know?
This is the part where he says something noble, like "Tis not for thine ears to hear nor eyes to see. But trust not thee, trust in me."
You don't even know who's involved, yet you insist on making SWAGs that support your Birchite hysteria.
Its not a secret. We know about it.
So which is it sink-a-link-a-ding-dong?
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting sinkspur, the only man who has managed to figure out how to both have his cake and eat it too!
Gratz man, good job, you da' man!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be in town all week. Tip the help.
Right this minute, sink is pasting our pictures (that he's drawn) onto his cubicle wall and scrawling ENEMY! BAD! underneath them.
I hope he uses something other than Red Ocre crayons, it just doesn't do justice to my complexion.
[High Five Slap!]
You seem to be very confused. It's the location of where the Gov is that is Secret, not who our leaders are. The COG plan Does Not change the succession of power that is spelled out in our Constitution. Who cares what the names of the Federal workers are.
So, what is your point of contention with this emergency contingency.\?
It wasn't Lumberjack who was mumbling about underground conspiracies and posting pictures of people dressed up as Morlocks. He raised the question, okay, if "the government" is going to be 150 people from the executive agencies, how does this preserve the republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution?
If the numbers cited here don't allow a Congressional quorum to be convened in order, then what is the purpose of summoning a rump Congress, and who has the right to say who gets invited, and who gets left to burn up in the firestorms? Do RiNO's get invited, and congressmen from large, urban districts? Will the Black Caucus be invited, or do they get to take their chances? Who's on the list -- is it Pamela Harriman's old "A" list? Names drawn by lot?
And where is the President? Presumably, flying around in "Kneecap", he would remain in communication with this group. But would it really be a constitutional government, or an emergency junta? And if there is a constitutional arrangement to be made for contingencies, what harm is there in our knowing it, at least to the extent of a sanitized public Plan? Why all the hugger-mugger, unless it is to conceal the settled opinion of knowledgable and responsible people, that constitutional government simply couldn't continue under general thermonuclear attack?
As far as I can remember from documentaries, magazine articles, and newsreel items propagated in the Fifties and Sixties, government planners always told the public that constitutional government would continue, and that the Congress and the Supreme Court would be preserved to continue governing. I think Lumberjack is confronting the possibility that we may only have been told that, while something more.....modest......that didn't meet constitutional scratch, may have been planned for instead. It wouldn't be the first time an Administration planned a switcheroo: Abraham Lincoln did it, and his pretext was another emergency.
It's a fair question. Care to have a go?
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