Super Congress? More Like Super Despots
“I do verily believe that…a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.” Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800
While most Americans swallowed the lies and propaganda being fed to them by the media in regards to the battle to raise the debt ceiling, our Congress took a giant leap forward towards despotism. Little to no attention was given to the entity which now goes by the name Super-Congress, yet it is a huge step towards consolidation of all powers in the hands of a few, the exact definition of despotism. In his Notes on Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The concentrating [all the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.”
Our founders created a system of government that gave the people a voice in the affairs of our government by virtue of the House of Representatives. The states also had a say in government by virtue of the members of the Senate were to be appointed by the various state legislatures. In 1913, with the ratification of the 17th Amendment, the states lost their say in how our government was ran with the members of the Senate being elected directly by popular vote of the people. Now, when Congress agreed to the idea of a Super-Congress, the voice of the people has been given to a small handful of people, 12 to be exact.
Some are saying this new Super-Congress is just another committee and that we have nothing to fear. Either they are naïve, or they are stupid, or maybe a combination of both. To quote from an article in the Huffington Post, “Under the reported framework, legislation the new congressional committee writes would be fast-tracked through Congress and could not be filibustered or amended.”
So, now this committee of 12 can write legislation to which the body of Congress cannot amend. They will be left out of the loop in the forming of laws and will only be able to vote yea or nay. So let me get this straight, if this Super-Congress is going to be comprised of 12 people, I would guess that 6 are going to be from the Senate and 6 from the House. That means that 429 members of the House, and 94 members of the Senate are not going to have any say in what goes into proposed legislation. That would really piss me off if I were one of those who had lost their say in what goes into a bill. In fact, I would vote no on every bill that this so called Super-Congress presented to me just because I was left out of the decision making process.
I have heard from some that they think this Super-Congress is nothing to fear. Yet in statements made on the Senate floor, Harry Reid said, “The joint committee — there are no constraints…They can look at any program we have in government, any program. … It has the ability to look at everything.” Sunday morning, on CNN’s State of the Union, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “In the early stages of this discussion, the press was talking about another commission. This is not a commission. This is a powerful, joint committee with an equal number of Republicans and Senate — equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and, to make recommendation back to the Senate and House by Thanksgiving of this year for an up or down vote.”
So, this is to be a powerful committee, that can look at any government program, and make changes to them, and the main bodies of the House and the Senate can only vote yea or nay, the CANNOT make changes to the recommendations by this Super-Congress.
I cannot emphasize how strongly I feel opposed to this idea of a body of men entrusted with that much power. Before I finish up I would like for you to read a series of quotes by Thomas Jefferson to help you in understanding how the idea of this Super-Congress goes against all that which our founders believed in.
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“It [is] inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty, and contrary to the natural rights of the other members of the society, that any body of men therein should have authority to enlarge their own powers… without restraint.”
“Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression…”
“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
“Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”
Hopefully what I have said will have lit a fire under your ass and pissed you off as much as I am pissed off. With our presidents ruling by decree, i.e. Executive Order, and the legislative authority of our Congress confined to 12 members, your voice in how our government runs has become almost nonexistent. In other words, what you have to say no longer means shit. What good is a letter to your Representative or Senator going to do if they are not one of the chosen few who are part of this Super-Congress? How is your voice going to be heard if your representative is not allowed to participate in the legislative process?
But I honestly think that most people probably won’t give it another thought. To those people I dedicate the following quote from Thomas Jefferson, “If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
They have all become wolves all right, and guess what wolves eat? Sheep, or in this case, the inattentive sheeple who would rather drink their beer and watch their TV without paying the slightest bit of attention to what their government is doing.
In closing I’d like to leave you with one of my favorite quotes, from the leader of the Sons of Liberty, Samuel Adams, “The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
August 4, 2011
~ The Author ~
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Two blind animals meet in the woods one day:a Rabbit and a Snake. the Snake feels around and says…”You have soft fur, long ears and a cotton tail, you must be a Rabbit.” The Rabbit feels around and says…”Your cold and slimy and have no balls, you must be a Lawyer.”
The Communist Central Committee has arrived.
The more one studies the history of our country, the more evidence comes to light that we have been beguiled from birth about the Constitution of the United States of America and our personal sovereignty. Given the magnitude of the Bankers plans it has taken them over two hundred years to make their actions comprehensible to anyone conscious and alert. Unfortunately, the majority of our countrymen have been lulled to sleep by an inferior education, the media industry, and a consumerism economy, but most of all by a traitorous National Federal Government. Their lying and skullduggery has so bored the people for so long that one can hardly stay awake when watching them in action. Incompetency has been accepted as the norm in government, and for good reason, as they do not work for the people, they work for the bankers. One can only wonder at the genius required to make this system work so well, and fool so many millions of emotional patriots. I was one of them for most of my life, and now, at seventy and too old to fight, I live in a rage waiting for the day when my countrymen will wake up and take back our freedom from the bastard Bankers. I live in self-chastisement for being impotent and have to publish the works of others more articulate than myself.
This endeavor has turned into an 80-hour workweek, after seven years of this grind, I have finally passed thirty thousand hits on my web-sites, with absolutely no idea of how many people have really learned something. Apathy has America in a death grip, and complacency will bury it. On those days when I first discover things like the so-called super-congress and the Balance the budget amendment, and compose my rants to my newsletter recipients without receiving back any replies, it feels like part of me has died.
Where has common sense gone? Why don’t the people rise up and rebuke those bastards in congress? There is so many great websites in operation; even a child could discover the danger to our freedom and become inspired to fight back, but all I see in this country is people captivated by their own personal desires. I should think that the federal observer would be on every tongue in America, and people every-where would be talking about what they learned there.
http://larouchepac.com/node/18977 The Super Congress is Obama’s latest unconstitutional effort to work with Wall Street and the corrupt credit rating agencies of London to collapse the U.S. economy. This is a foreign-led British coup against the U.S. Constitution and our sovereign nation. It is unnecessary to sell government bonds to raise capital, when there is a clear directive of the Federal Constitution to have an economic policy based on a credit system. The U.S. government needs a credit system to directly fund the real physical economy in areas of agriculture, industry, transportation, and scientific research.