"When your grandparents were born, the government generally stuck
to the job as defined and described in the U.S. Constitution.
However, ever since the days of the Great Depression, the government
has assumed the responsibility for everyone's health, for people's
retirement plans, for the environment, for every single aspect of life
in America. And it is not authorized to do any of this."
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You are right on target, dead solid perfect!
You are getting to the very heart of the matter, which so few
seem to understand.
I call attention to your words above:
"...ever since the days of the Great Depression"
When people are under great pressure, they will do things they
wouldn't ordinarily do.
When people have lost their jobs...
When people have lost their homes...
When people have lost their farms...
When people have lost their life's savings...
When people see their children going hungry...
During such times, people will agree to and accept things which they
would not agree to in normal times.
This is precisely why the "Great Depression" was intentionally created!
It was no accident, no "act of God"....not some unfathomable result of
"business cycles".
The "Great Depression" was designed and engineered to put the
American People under terrible stress and economic pressures.
It was under these conditions that the people agreed to accept
Roosevelt's "New Deal".
Indeed, America has been a very different country since then.
The following information about a Senate Committee investigation
into the "Emergency Powers" gives further explanation.
The introduction to Senate Report 93-549, entered into the Congressional
Record
in 1973 states:
"A majority of the people of the United States have lived all their lives
under emergency rule....For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures
guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by
laws brought into force by states of national emergency....And, in the United
States, actions taken by the government in times of great crisis have from,
at least, the Civil War, in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a
permanent state of national emergency."
Following the introduction the report's opening statement goes on to say:
"Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared
national emergency....This vast range of powers, taken together, confer
enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal
constitutional processes. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the
President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production;
seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law;
seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the
operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of
particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."
Not overlooked by those drafting the Constitution was the possible need to
address national emergencies. The document contains certain provisions
indicating that its signatories conceived of the possibility that some
guarantees of personal liberties may, in the national interest, require
suspension.
Article 1, Section 9 states: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus
shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion [an internal
occurrence] or invasion [external] the public safety require it." This grants
the citizen the freedom from imprisonment or detention without due process.
The proviso "unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety
require it" indicates the necessity to provide for some contingencies that
may also carry with them the possibility for abuse. No document of liberty,
however, could possibly proscribe all potential for misuse of those liberties
without actually eliminating them in the process. It has been said that
communism is nothing more than democracy with all potential for abuse
legislated out.
As a result of the Executive Orders listed above, in concert with the War
and Emergency Powers Act, there exists within the United States a government
within a government. It is hidden, semi-covert in nature, and does not
recognize the U.S. Constitution or its constraints.
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