Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the more you stir a stench the more it stinks, and the stench coming from Washington stinks to high heaven. The pending Obama care decision from the Supreme Court will in large part decide the future role of government in the lives of citizens. The looming contempt of Congress vote in the House of Representatives, will show if the republicans there have any real chutzpa, or if they are the poltroons we think they are. The continuing leaks of highly classified national security secrets to the unbiased press, historically, would have justified a special prosecutor, but today we are told, a supporter of Obama is sufficient to investigate this damming case. Despite the fact, there have been measurable diminishments in our national security, while all the evidence points to a high ranking official in the White House. These are momentous times we live in. We will either be called the most stupid generation or the most enlightened by posterity. They are the ones who will suffer the calamities our lack of wisdom will visit on them or the rewards of our virtuous action.
The role and nature of the US government going forward depends on the ruling of the Supreme Court. If the Court goes the way it did in Wickard vs Filburn then we are in dire shape. The role of government will forever be enlarged, to the point we as citizens have no control of our government, while our government has total control over us. We will live in fear of our government while they will have absolute antipathy for us. There is a term in the dictionary for this state of affairs… it is called tyranny. Benign tyranny is still tyranny.
The case of Holder’s contempt vote is less obvious yet carries just as much moment. The democrats are calling the vote a nakedly partisan attempt to paint Holder in a bad light. Nancy Pelosi has claimed it is only because Holder is suing several States to protect the “right” of dead people and non citizens to vote in our elections. The merit of dead people and non citizens “voting” is not even debatable, by allowing people not legally allowed to vote, to cast ballots, undermines the very nature of a representative republic. To claim that to scrub illegal votes from the roles is a partisan position, shows the pernicious sophistry of Nancy Pelosi’s rhetoric, and does nothing but misdirect the debate.
The claim it is merely a partisan attempt to vilify Holder is hypocrisy writ large. Even a cursory examination of recent history shows the underhandedness of this argument. Scooter Libby was sentenced to jail, for lying to a grand jury in a blatantly partisan attempt to vilify President Bush, over the outing of Valerie Plame, (which had no effect on national security unlike the recent leaks). The Special prosecutor already knew who had told the unbiased media, which should have put the matter to rest, but the democrats pushed until they got the conviction of a Bush appointee to jail. Regardless of the fact, known at the time, he had nothing to do with the original charge, and was simply confused about the specific wording of a conversation with a reporter, several years earlier. To have gone to such great lengths then, and to act offended today, is hypocrisy at best and outright criminal at worse.
These are truly important issues. The nature and role of the US government is at stake. Shall we remain a Constitutional Republic, with limited government, or shall we become command and control like North Korea, where the Constitution means whatever the Elite tell us it does. Like the side of Orwell’s barn… where some are more equal than others. Can the government send guns into a friendly country, to assist drug lords who are fighting an existential war with the legitimate government, resulting in the verified deaths of over 300 Mexicans and at least 1 US Federal Agent, with no investigation and no consequences. Can the government escape all oversight even when they put our national security at risk for political gain?
These questions will decide the fate of our own children, but moreover, they will decide the fate of the World at large. The US has been a force for good in the World despite the spurious rhetoric by those engaged in the slaughter of their own citizens. So, it is not only the children of the US Citizen that are at risk, it is the fate of children around the World, that hang in the balance. Will our elected officials and appointed judges, make the right decisions and protect the traditional US value of limited government, or will they change the course of history, rendering the US Constitution impotent and thrust the World into oppression? The cowardly politicians might back down, allowing corrupt politicians to win, destroying the Constitution and undermining the concept of free and fair elections, eliminating all oversight of elected officials, and empowering those that want a World despot. But, in the end, as Saint Agustin said, “People get the government they deserve.” Who is really to blame for this reek, them… or us?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
