Emergency Powers Declared!

When a national emergency is declared, FEMA assumes, what is, in essence, dictatorial power across the country. FEMA itself is likely unconstitutional, but, for now, that can't be helped. As an astute poster at Boston.com put it, "If you are an educated adult and have the ability to see through propaganda, this new "emergency" should frighten you, not H1N1 itself." Why, you may ask, should that be the case? Because part of FEMA's extraordinary powers include the ability to relocate large numbers of the citizenry, and to assume control over all private industries in the face of the declared emergency. In short, protections under The Constitution, which are precarious during normal times, become null and void during national emergencies.

Are You A Fan Of Karl's

Karl Denninger has done, and continues to do, very good forensic work exposing the profoundly corrupt practices engaged in by the purveyors of big banking and "high finance." He has helped uncover many of the more egregious crimes committed by all manner of actors operating both in and out of government, and along the way has caught many of them in a variety of prevarications and bad faith gestures. For his yeoman like efforts in this regard, we owe Mr. Denninger a sizable debt.

Unfortunately, despite all that he has exposed of the corruption in and around government as it relates to banking and finance, Mr. Denninger still operates within a world view that hews to the idea that our government as it is presently constituted is capable of acting as an efficacious servant of "We The People." Despite all the evidence that has surfaced to date that no reform is forthcoming of the sort that Mr. Denninger clamors for, and that many of us are passionate to see enacted, Mr. Denninger still appears to possess a seemingly bottomless reserve of belief and hope in the U.S. Government's potential to operate within the guidelines of The Constitution and on behalf of the general public.

For example, as of today, he appears heartened by apparent movement in Congress to confront illegal actions related to Angelo Mozillo's Countrywide Financial, almost certainly one of the more outstanding criminal enterprises of our time. American Revolution Today would like to suggest to Mr. Denninger that even now, in his present mood of hopefulness, he would do well to prepare for ultimate disappointment. We further advise that until the planks listed in the first post of this blog become centerpieces of government, the occasional meagre lurches towards "doing the right thing," will yield no substantial or lasting alteration in the present fundamentally corrupt functioning of government.

It's The Fundraising, Stupid.

President Obama has a full schedule over the next few days, and one of the reasons that it is as full as it is is that he is making visits to begging bashes on behalf of such fellow travelers as Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and Connecticut Senator and banking bagman extraordinaire, Christopher Dodd. This is our political system in a nutshell, regardless of party affiliation, an endless procession of what are euphemistically described as fundraisers.

Politicians would argue, self servingly, that they need to engage in these seemingly endless fundraisers because one needs lots of money to run a campaign. Of course one does, but the political class have, of their own volition, manufactured the endless night that constitutes political campaigns. They could just as easily cut election seasons in half or even by two thirds, (an initiative heartily endorsed here) but they choose not to. After all, given the incredible vapidity of the vast majority of political campaigns, where Republican and Democratic candidates fall all over one another trying distinguish their indistinguishable modes of governance, who needs more than six weeks to two months of a campaign. In short, there is far more fat and gristle than meat in the average campaign, and we should act accordingly.

Alas, the truth is that fundraisers are a gravy train for those who hold elected office, contacts are made, influence is peddled, and in the main, campaign finance laws are such that politicians stand to gain rather than lose as a result of the very system that they have put in place. So, the next time you read that a candidate will be mixing policy and politics, be sure that the mix is heavily weighted towards politics not policy.

Flue Vaccines Revisited!

I hope you find the videos illuminating.

We Are Of One Mind!

Charles Hugh Smith of the Of Two Minds blog, has made a vital point regarding the rapacity of local governments and what our response needs to be.

Barney Frank Again?

The week is book ended with more horrific tales of the vile legislator from Bedford, MA. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, if you are listening, if you are not utterly inured to the horrors being committed in your name by your duly if errantly elected politician, Congressman Frank, who is a blot on decency, a canker sore on the body politic, a foul, despicable whore for the worst elements of the big banking cabal for which he is entrusted to reign in, wake up and remove this ghastly charlatan immediately. It may already be too late for he has despoiled the landscape in ways that are hard, if not impossible to calculate. Regardless, in order to salvage some shred of self respect, it is imperative that those who are in a position to do so remove Congressman Frank from office at the first opportunity.

Barney Frank (and the rest of the U.S. Government) Must Go.

Not that we didn't already know this, but abundant and fresh evidence always seems to be available.

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1505-To-The-States-Should-We-Talk-About-Secession.html

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/10/policy-supporting-house-prices.html

http://truthingold.blogspot.com/2009/10/barney-frank-is-great-for-gold.html


Barney Frank, where ever you are, you are, without a doubt, one of the most most wantonly arrogant, (and yet stupefyingly) wrong headed jackasses of your, or, I suspect, any time.

And now a word from Thomas Jefferson:

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.