An unconstitutional government is an illegitimate government.
Paul Craig Roberts
The executive branch coup against America has succeeded. Illustration: David Dees
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 basis of the regime in Washington is
nothing but usurped power. 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. Those in government see the US Constitution as a “chain that binds our hands.”
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.”
If throwing an American citizen in a
dungeon is too much trouble, the citizen can simply be blown up with a
hellfire missile launched from a drone. No explanation is necessary.
For the Obama tyrant, the exterminated human being was just a name on a list.
For the Obama tyrant, the exterminated human being was just a name on a list.
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 Assange 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.
The American public has not, this time, fallen for Washington’s lie that Snowden is a traitor. The polls show that a majority of Americans see Snowden as a whistleblower.
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.
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.
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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father
of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of
Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously the editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating.
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