Enough Is Enough

It’s even worse than I thought.  The rot in the federal house in this country has set in so far that it’s building on itself.

After posting my blog last night I got some reading in before going to bed - in the wee hours of this morning - and happened to include in it the latest mailing from Larry Klayman, of Freedom Watch, wherein he dealt with a subject that I had never heard of before.  Quote:

“Could anything be as bad for America as President Barack Hussein Obama’s treaty with the Islamic Republic of Iran announced July 13, 2015?  Well, Congress shredding the Constitution by passing the ‘Iran Nuclear Review Agreement Act…is the worst!  Obama signed INARA into law on May 22, 2015.  The contempt of official establishment Washington for our Constitution should be a major scandal.  The outrages are coming fast and furious…

“The Constitution says that ‘He [the president] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur,…’ Article II, Section 2, Paragraph 2, U.S. Constitution.  Scouring through the Constitution, one does not find any other power for the president to enter into agreements binding on the USA.

“The Constitution links the existence of the president’s power to depend on the Senate’s ‘advice and consent’ by a two-thirds vote to ratify.  Without such ratification, the president is powerless.  With no two-thirds vote, no power.  With no power, no treaty. Secretary John Kerry’s ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’ (JCPOA) is an expensive souvenir for Kerry’s junkets to Europe, but it is not a valid international agreement.  Clearly, if the Senate were permitted to vote on ratification, the two-thirds required vote wouldn’t be reached, and the treaty with Iran would be killed.”

Sounds right, and very clear.  So, what’s the question???  Oh:

“Yet our Republican-led Congress voted to change the Constitution, without of course an actual, formal amendment.  The U.S. Senate voted 98-1 in March and the U.S. House of Representatives voted in May 400-0 to create a new and different system for ratifying international agreements.”  

What???!!!  

“Republican so-called ‘leaders’ are simultaneously thumping their chests for political purposes with their opposition to Obama’s Iran treaty even while they passed the INARA law that makes it virtually certain.  (Congress will likely vote to disapprove, knowing that Obama will veto their joint resolution.  And the veto will likely stand, as there are not enough votes in the Congress to override it.)…”   

And on the outrageous report goes, into the murky legalistic details.  But let me say right here and now:

What the hell do you people think you are doing?  That is the Constitution that you are trifling with.  What is this crap???  You can’t just vote amongst yourselves to change the Constitution.  It is a contract; between the federal government and the States.  If you are going to change it substantively, you need to amend it, by the amending process called for, and allowed for, within its terms.  

As Larry says, in his word of warning to the public:     

“Is Obama’s JCPOA with Iran a treaty?  It is widely believed that the president can enter into non-treaty agreements.  But nothing in the Constitution says that.  If an agreement is binding upon the United States, then it has to be ratified as a treaty.”

Just so.  A treaty, according to the dictionary, is “an agreement between governments”.  Binding law between governments.  Klayman again: “Because it purports to be binding on our country, it is a treaty requiring ratification to have effect.”  (my emphasis)  

How could it be otherwise?   

Q: When is an international ‘agreement’ not a treaty?  A:  When Congress simply says so.  When it is simply called an ‘agreement’ instead…

This is shoddy, shyster-lawyer stuff; an end-around ploy and play on the rule of law in this country.  You people are playing with fire.  You ‘simply’ need to go.*

When I was in junior high school (now called, for whatever reason, ‘Middle School’), we on the Student Council, although given a fair latitude to make decisions, were always subject to the veto of the principal.  We were considered too immature to handle the responsibility with integrity.  We couldn’t be trusted ‘simply’ on our own.

Neither - off considerable evidence in by now - can this current U.S. Congress.

'Oh.  Well.  Merely a housekeeping trifle...'

So, they need to go. 

Like, Now.  Before they do any more damage to the fabric - the letter and the spirit - of the Constitution

of the Republic of the United States of America.  

Now under siege.

From within. 

By artful - and sometimes, granted, clueless - deceivers.

Also known as 

traitors.

Remember the film ‘A Few Good Men,’ where the character played by Tom Cruise says to the character played by Jack Nicholson, standing arrogantly at the witness stand, “I want the truth!”, and Nicholson replies to him, “You can’t handle the truth!”

The sitting U.S. Congress seems to be unable to handle the truth, seems to be able only to deal with, and in, deceit.  Chicanery.  Fraud.

And so,

as Larry Klayman says, 

t’s time for  

the Second American Revolution.

—

* Congress was apparently assured that Obama would not be able to slip the ‘agreement’ through as a treaty just by saying that it wasn’t one.  And then they all headed off, happy - and blissful - as can be, for their four-day weekends. 

   Leaving their advisors snickering up their sleeves, as the artful vipers that they are.


P.S. It's time anyway.  This, from Bix Weir today:

"We are headed into a Global Monetary Meltdown with our Eyes Wide Open. Hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil hit the streets today to protest their corrupt leaders and this is just the beginning. Watch what happens in the US when the banks come begging for another bailout after the September crash!!

"Again - we have seen it coming from a mile away and we are much better educated about everything related to bank bailouts. Simply put, we were not ready to stand up to them in 2008 so we backed down.

"Since then we have been put on a crash course on topics such as manipulated markets, the Federal Reserve System, the attempts to take our Liberties and our Rights to own a gun to protect ourselves FROM OUR GOVERNMENT! All this knowledge will come in handy the next time they come begging on the floor of Congress.

"This time the answer will be NO!

"Don't believe me? This is what US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had to do last time when he "begged" for a bailout...HE LITERALLY BEGGED ON ONE KNEE TO THE CONGRESS!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/paulson-warns-of-fragile-economy/

"There's not a chance in the world another bailout will be given. We the People know too much now.

"The coming weeks will be very, very frightening to those who are still in the system but it will be nothing compared what we will face at the end of September and the beginning of October.

"Buckle up!!"

Bix Weir
www.RoadtoRoota.com

PS - For answers to the million questions you have right now it is all in my books!!

Book I: "Silver, Gold, Bitcoin...and God!"
http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/1530.cfm

Book II: "Out of The Darkness"
http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/1584.cfm