The
American people have suffered a coup d’etat, but they are hesitant to
acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks
constitutional and legal legitimacy.
Americans are ruled by usurpers
who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US
Constitution is a mere “scrap of paper.”
An
unconstitutional government is an illegitimate government. The oath of
allegiance requires defense of the Constitution “against all enemies,
foreign and domestic.” As the Founding Fathers made clear, the main
enemy of the Constitution is the government itself. Power does not like
to be bound and tied down and constantly works to free itself from
constraints.
The
South African apartheid regime was more legitimate than the regime in
Washington. The apartheid Israeli regime in Palestine is more
legitimate. The Taliban are more legitimate. Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam
Hussein were more legitimate.
The
only constitutional protection that the Bush/Obama regime has left
standing is the Second Amendment, a meaningless amendment considering
the disparity in arms between Washington and what is permitted to the
citizenry. No citizen standing with a rifle can protect himself and his
family from one of the Department of Homeland Security’s 2,700 tanks, or
from a drone, or from a heavily armed SWAT force in body armor.
Like
serfs in the dark ages, American citizens can be picked up on the
authority of some unknown person in the executive branch and thrown in a
dungeon, subject to torture, without any evidence ever being presented
to a court or any information to the person’s relatives of his/her
whereabouts. Or they can be placed on a list without explanation that
curtails their right to travel by air. Every communication of every
American, except face-to-face conversation in non-bugged environments,
is intercepted and recorded by the National Stasi Agency from which
phrases can be strung together to produce a “domestic extremist.”
The
president of the united states has declared that he possesses these
constitutionally forbidden rights, and his regime has used them to
oppress and murder US citizens. The president’s claim that his will is
higher than law and the Constitution is public knowledge. Yet, there is
no demand for the usurper’s impeachment. Congress is supine. The serfs
are obedient.
The people who helped transform a
democratically accountable president into a Caesar include John Yoo,
who was rewarded for his treason by being accepted as a law professor at
the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt school of law. Yoo’s
colleague in treason, Jay Scott Bybee was rewarded by being appointed a
federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. We now
have a Berkeley law professor teaching, and a federal circuit judge
ruling, that the executive branch is above the law.
The
executive branch coup against America has succeeded. The question is:
will it stand? Today, the executive branch consists of liars, criminals,
and traitors. The evil on earth seems concentrated in Washington.
Washington’s
response to Edward Snowden’s evidence that Washington, in total
contravention of law both domestic and international, is spying on the
entire world has demonstrated to every country that Washington places
the pleasure of revenge above law and human rights.
On
Washington’s orders, its European puppet states refused overflight
permission to the Bolivian presidential airliner carrying President
Morales and forced the airliner to land in Austria and be searched.
Washington thought that Edward Snowden might be aboard the airliner.
Capturing Snowden was more important to Washington than respect for
international law and diplomatic immunity.
How
long before Washington orders its UK puppet to send in a SWAT team to
drag Julian Asange from the Ecuadoran embassy in London and hand him
over to the CIA for waterboarding?
On
July 12 Snowden met in the Moscow airport with human rights
organizations from around the world. He stated that the illegal exercise
of power by Washington prevents him from traveling to any of the three
Latin American countries who have offered him asylum. Therefore, Snowden
said that he accepted Russian President Putin’s conditions and
requested asylum in Russia.
Insouciant Americans, and the young, unaware of the past, don’t know what this means.
During my professional life it was Soviet Russia that persecuted truth
tellers, while America
gave them asylum and tried to protect them. Today it is Washington
that persecutes those who speak the truth, and it is Russia that
protects them.
It is not the US that is damaged by Snowden’s revelations. It is the criminal elements in the US government that have pulled off a coup against democracy, the Constitution, and the American people who are damaged. It is the criminals who have seized power, not the American people, who are demanding Snowden’s scalp.
The Obama Regime, like the Bush/Cheney Regime, has no legitimacy. Americans are oppressed by an illegitimate government ruling, not by law and the Constitution, but by lies and naked force.
Under
the Obama tyranny, it is not merely Snowden who is targeted for
extermination, but every truth-telling American in the country. It was
Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano, recently rewarded
for her service to tyranny by being appointed Chancellor of the of the
University of California system, who said that Homeland Security had
shifted its focus from Muslim terrorists to “domestic extremists,” an
elastic and undefined term that easily includes truth-tellers like
Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden who embarrass the government by
revealing its crimes. The criminals who have seized illegitimate power
in Washington cannot survive unless truth can be suppressed or redefined
as treason.
If Americans acquiesce to the coup d’etat, they will have placed themselves firmly in the grip of tyranny.
