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Contempt of Congress, Why Not.
The success of any nation governed by legislation is determined by luck, which, fortunately for most, tends usually to average out. When I use the "l" word there, that is to note that laws can be changed or superseded by spurious legislation crafted by the opinionated, the biased, or in the worst cases, the bought off. In my time in Washington, D.C., my own investigation uncovered the startling possibility that it may be that in most cases, it is not even the elected official that determines legislative policy in his or her office, but rather the unelected aids that remain with that office for entire careers spanning two or three decades. When elections are held, everyone from the candidate to the janitor should be on the same ticket. And that includes the consultants, who should not have any affiliations direct or otherwise with any organization or social institution, overt or covert. The nation should ideally be governed by an executive operating within the framework of law. The law makers and legislatures are degenerated to the position of executive prestige, and the self-designated authority to operate inquisitions with impunity, even though they are completely untrained as investigative bodies. They can bring up issues at whim, often issuing tomes of complex frivolity, forcing all concerned, directly and indirectly to conform to their practically arbitrary writ of law. Meanwhile their real job of maintenance of the Nation's laws goes undone or tampered with or unchanged when needed at the whim of the rich and the powerful without accountability to other investigatory bodies to render them accountable. In short, the legislation in the federal arena has overstepped the bounds of the balance of power established by the Constitutional Convention of the founders. But they are subject to higher authority, the peoples their obvious mismanagement has affected. The peoples of the world adversely affected by the executive antics of the legislative house and congress. These will retaliate, ultimately, either by belligerence or by lack of diplomatic co-operation in eventual cumulative outrage to damages done to them by a nation plugged-up by frivolous, extemporaneous, and annually accumulating laws and legal strictures. They are not as important as they have made themselves out to be, largely ignoring both the Court and the Presidency. There should be a fourth balance of power, the Branch of Governmental Investigation, presided over by The National Sheriff, with the power to reign in any of the other three branches that overdoes their Constitutional authority. As well as to subpoena any individual member thereof that acts or behaves beyond the bounds of authority, integrity, or ethical coherence. Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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