Freedom From Fear Is Your Reponsibility

To be sure, there are possible reasons for fear: false-flag “terrorist” strikes, which could lead to attempts to impose “martial law” and to invoke new “emergency powers,” which could result in the suspension of elections and the setting up of a dictatorship, which could bring about the submersion of the United States in a North American Union, to name a few. Nonetheless, these possibilities, although real, are quite often exaggerated: • Any false-flag, or even an actual, “terrorist” strike will necessarily be on a small scale, compared to the massive fire-bombings of real warfare, such as incinerated Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, and other great cities. A country as large, wealthy, and well-organized as the United States will not be—or at least ought not to be—driven into socio-political chaos by anything less horrific than death and destruction on or beyond that level. • Outside of theaters of actual military combat, or perhaps areas suffering from the massive devastation of natural disasters or swept by virulent epidemics, so-called “martial law” cannot legally come into play unless all of the courts, both of the States and of the General Government, are closed and cannot conduct their normal business—which is at least implausible, if not impossible to imagine. • Absent some utterly catastrophic event that prostrates the entire country, elections can be held everywhere outside of the affected areas, and maybe even there. And where elections cannot be held, or are not scheduled to be held in the near term, the States can fill any voids in Congress that result from a “terrorist” strike; and then a reconstructed Congress can fill any voids in the Executive Branch; and then those two Branches can fill any voids in the courts of the United States—all in the regular course of law. See U.S. Const., Article I, § 2, cl. 4 (House of Representatives); Amendment XVII, 2 (Senate); Article II, § 1, cl. 5, Amendment XX, §§ 3 and 4, and Amendment XXV (President and Vice President); and Article I, § 8, cl. 9, Article II, § 2, cl. 2, and Article III, § 1 (courts). • The Constitution itself absolutely removes Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney from office on 20 January 2009, no matter what happens theretofore. See Article II, § 1, cl. 1, and Amendment XX, § 1. No legal way exists for them to continue in office, let alone to assume the positions of “dictators,” “deciders,” or even squatters in the White House, simply because some supposed “emergency” has occurred. After high noon on 20 January 2009, they will enjoy no more power in the General Government than any two bag-women plucked randomly off the streets of New York City. • The North American Union is patently unconstitutional. See my commentary, “ Will the North American Union Be American Patriots’ Last Stand?” It is also probably unworkable, for cultural and social, as well as political and economic, reasons. In fictive literature, the genius of Dr. Victor Frankenstein could cobble together a working monster from parts of various cadavers. But, in the real world, the muddle-headed kakistocracies that now temporarily misrule the United States, Canada, and Mexico will require extensive remedial studies in political anatomy before they can hope to emulate his experiment. (Which, one should recall, failed horribly.) Yet the Internet is replete with dire prognostications that these and other disasters are about to descend upon the United States—and Americans can do next to nothing to forefend them. As these oracles proclaim the future, we are all doomed, doomed, doomed! Beyond doubt, a dark purpose lurks behind not a few of these prophecies. Experts in disinformation and agents provocateurs spread mindless fear in order to impede Americans’ critical reasoning and thereby to foster political panic and self-destructive behavior. They attempt to condition people to accept the ruination, even disappearance, of their country as inevitable, if not imminent, and so to remain passive and apathetic, acquiescing in their victimization, because supposedly “nothing can be done.” They even try to convince Americans that, notwithstanding Representative Ron Paul’s candidacy, they have no choice but to saddle some swaybacked politician from the Republican or Democratic stables as President in 2008... Full article: http://newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin64.htm [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 27, 2007]

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