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Impeach often
Letter to the editor;
Congress should be watching the actions of every incoming President very closely. Should he break laws, violate the Constitution, or abuse his power, citizens should urge Congress, early and often, to start impeachment proceedings in earnest.
Realizing that Abraham Lincoln did not actually have TIME to say all the wise things that are attributed to him, he is reported to have said a President should be authorized to hang five men a year without having to answer a lot of questions.
A member of his Cabinet supposedly said that five was way too small a number.
Then Lincoln is alleged to have answered, "Yes, but we could get the word out to two or three hundred that they were being CONSIDERED for the honor."
Every President, Vice President, Supreme Court Justice, Member of Congress and federal bureaucrat ought to be continually under the pressure of "being considered for the honor" of impeachment.
It is not a Constitutional crisis to impeach a federal official. It is specifically provided for, in detail, in the Constitution. It even specifies that when the President is being impeached, the Chief Justice is to preside over the trial in the Senate.
A real Congress, representing the States and the People, ought to continually maintain itself ready to impeach somebody, and should, in fact, impeach some lying low-life politician or bureaucrat every few days just to keep in practice.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Showing posts with label Treason. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Are governments above the law?
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The that government must obey
Letter to the editor;
Every level of government passes laws -- and forces people to obey them.
What law do governments have to obey?
Municipalities have to operate within the bounds of their charters.
States – and the national government – have to obey their constitutions.
They don’t obey. But they still have to. The fact that they daily violate their charters and constitutions does not nullify them. Those documents remain the law -- and the violations remain crimes. Only, nobody punishes crimes that are committed by governments.
Government agencies commit crimes against people they are supposed to protect.
Politicians foment wars against countries that never did us any harm.
Our Beloved Leaders make secret deals with foreign leaders in violation of the Constitution.
Judges get so friendly with prosecutors that defendants are utterly ignored in their courtrooms.
Municipal land-use bureaus get so interested in making their cities beautiful that they deliberately grind the faces of the poor to force them to move out of town.
Close decisions are decided by giving nice jobs (that do not involve showing up at work) to worthless, do-nothing relatives.
Judges decree that nobody has standing to challenge acts of government. Worse; they invented “judicial immunity” to protect themselves from accountability.
I don’t know how to hold government to account for disobeying the law. Does anyone? I want to know. Answer me at glenn3@frontiernet.net.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
Permission is granted to edit, print and/or broadcast these weekly polemical essays.
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The that government must obey
Letter to the editor;
Every level of government passes laws -- and forces people to obey them.
What law do governments have to obey?
Municipalities have to operate within the bounds of their charters.
States – and the national government – have to obey their constitutions.
They don’t obey. But they still have to. The fact that they daily violate their charters and constitutions does not nullify them. Those documents remain the law -- and the violations remain crimes. Only, nobody punishes crimes that are committed by governments.
Government agencies commit crimes against people they are supposed to protect.
Politicians foment wars against countries that never did us any harm.
Our Beloved Leaders make secret deals with foreign leaders in violation of the Constitution.
Judges get so friendly with prosecutors that defendants are utterly ignored in their courtrooms.
Municipal land-use bureaus get so interested in making their cities beautiful that they deliberately grind the faces of the poor to force them to move out of town.
Close decisions are decided by giving nice jobs (that do not involve showing up at work) to worthless, do-nothing relatives.
Judges decree that nobody has standing to challenge acts of government. Worse; they invented “judicial immunity” to protect themselves from accountability.
I don’t know how to hold government to account for disobeying the law. Does anyone? I want to know. Answer me at glenn3@frontiernet.net.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Sunday, July 27, 2008
How nations ruin themselves
National suicide
Letter to the editor;
Looking at the history of the world, some historians have concluded that all great nations die by suicide.
How do nations commit suicide?
They borrow more than they can possibly pay back. Then they borrow yet more.
They engage in wars that do not directly concern them.
They pour tremendous sums into trying to buy foreign friends – and end up supporting the treasuries of rabid enemies.
They try to police the world.
They let in more immigrants than they can assimilate.
They let people immigrate who have no intention of becoming loyal citizens.
They make treaties undermining the nation and tying it to foreign governments.
Worse than all the idiocies by the government, the people lose their faith, their virtue and their sense of being one united people. This is what permits the rest.
(No. No. I’m not talking about our own country here. Um, ah, this is about all those OTHER ruined hulks of former nations in the dust-bin of history.)
We should only learn something from their example already.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Letter to the editor;
Looking at the history of the world, some historians have concluded that all great nations die by suicide.
How do nations commit suicide?
They borrow more than they can possibly pay back. Then they borrow yet more.
They engage in wars that do not directly concern them.
They pour tremendous sums into trying to buy foreign friends – and end up supporting the treasuries of rabid enemies.
They try to police the world.
They let in more immigrants than they can assimilate.
They let people immigrate who have no intention of becoming loyal citizens.
They make treaties undermining the nation and tying it to foreign governments.
Worse than all the idiocies by the government, the people lose their faith, their virtue and their sense of being one united people. This is what permits the rest.
(No. No. I’m not talking about our own country here. Um, ah, this is about all those OTHER ruined hulks of former nations in the dust-bin of history.)
We should only learn something from their example already.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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