DDL -- Bush-Cheney Proto-Despotism

Bush-Cheney Proto-Despotism

Under cover of their super-vague Constitution and arbitrary-ruling judges, the elites have continually profited from our keeping ourselves in the game. They've profited in our demands for a species-mature governance of rights, equality, and the rule of law -- all the while slamming and jolting us with the corruptions that break down our Constitutional governance and promise to carry us into despotism.
Now, in 2006, we're very close to absolute despotism, and certainly closer to it than we've ever been before.

The dual-party, three-branch, Bush-Cheney Illegitimacy is a world-class, fascist, proto-despotism. It has usurped the presidency and entrenched its power with highly placed, traitorous individuals in all three branches, working in mutual-protection collusions that have collapsed the Constitution's vague and weak checks and balances.

The Bush-Cheney proto-despotism has hit our electoral system with a lethal one-two punch. First, they've privatized the electoral system with corporate windfall profit machines dependent on the proto-despotism for their profits. Second, they've crashed the electoral system with the easily hacked vote-counting software provided by those corporate profit machines, software from the corporate predators at Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia.

Under the color of law, the proto-despotism has treasonously cheated us out of our democratic elections. Having suppressed our electoral system to meaninglessness, there is no reason to suppose that the proto-despotism's players will give up their ill-gotten power in any future controlled election. Predators do not give back their profits and power because somebody sits down and reasons with them. They stop grabbing when they are stopped by overwhelming force. Powerful predators in all three branches are deeply involved in this electoral system treason.

The proto-dspotism's hack-o-matic vote counting software will own our elections until we figuratively kill that software and its predatory controllers with overwhelming force.

The Bush-Cheney proto-despotism is not politics as usual. It is the 2nd largest unconstitutional anti-law regime in our national history. It is an anti-law regime begun by traitorous fascist thugs masquerading as US Supreme Court judges, ruling in Bush v. Gore, December 2000.

1. In Bush v. Gore, five of the Supremes (Kennedy, O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas), failed to protect the rights of US citizens, violated the Constitution, created a massive unconstitutional anti-law regime, and violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution. Collectively, those things are established acts of treason, defined in the findings of treason for the 1860s secessionist state legislators.

Additionally, Bush v. Gore began the 18 USC 241 conspiracy felony against the rights of all citizens to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution.

As with legislative immunity, judicial immunity does not extend to cases of treason or felony. The five co-conspirator Supremes are all treasonous Constitutional criminals and felons-in-waiting. Their only rightful place is in federal prison.

By January 2001, the co-conspirators in the Bush-Cheney Illegitimacy's 18 USC 241 felony against the nation included the five Supremes, Clinton and many members of his administration, and Bush-Cheney and many members of the Illegitimacy. They are all treasonous Constitutional criminals and felons-in-waiting. Their only rightful place is in federal prison.

The co-conspirators' protection from imprisonment is only in the unconstitutional collusions that exist now between powerful individuals in the three branches of the national government. Those collusions unconstitutionally elevate the treasonous Constitutional criminals and felons-in-waiting above our rule of law.

The December 2000 usurpation of the presidency was done by the "independent judiciary", an 18th Century elitist mechanism obviously intended to benefit the class-race elite. The "independent judiciary" has obviously and massively failed us. Given pervasive governmental corruption that we cannot control, the time of zero judicial accountability to the sovereign people is past. Nonpartisan election and the possibility of recall, both by majority decision of the citizens of the court's jurisdiction, are in order.

The proto-despotism has bankrupted our nation morally, financially, and legally -- at home and internationally.

The proto-despotism has unconstitutionally and illegally made a war of aggression in Iraq. It has unconstitutionally and illegally maintained a torture-murder gulag. It has done those things for the purposes of Empire, war profiteering, and power.

In April 2006, some of the proto-despotism's retired generals tried to point the people away from the guilt that Bush-Cheney and Rumsfeld share with many generals and admirals for the felony murders of our soldiers in Iraq. The original six of the retired generals were Zinni, Odom, Newbold, Trainor, Eaton, and Batiste. They called for Rumsfeld's too-little-too-late resignation.

The retired generals' grounds for demanding Rumsfeld's resignation were obviously substantial. Rumsfeld has clearly demonstrated gross incompetence at every imaginable level. However, the retired generals' pseudo-revolt ignores the obvious fact that Rumsfeld's gross incompetence is exactly the competence that Bush-Cheney and the PNAC dolts depend on to further their program of whole-world financial rape hinged on military power. This obvious fact, all by itself, marginalized to nothingness the Rumsfeld-must-go revolt.

The retired generals surely know that Bush-Cheney and Rumsfeld, along with many generals and admirals, can and should be criminally prosecuted under 18 USC 241 for violating their soldiers' rights to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress. When we hold them responsible for having knowledge of that simple Constitution-and-laws situation, we see that the Rumsfeld-must-go revolt is even further marginalized to nothingness.

No president has war powers under the Constitution, and everybody in the felony conspiracy of the unconstitutional invasion of Iraq knows it. No military or naval officer swears loyalty to any president or to any Congress.

2. The officer's oath of loyalty is to the Constitution, not to the President, and not to the Congress. "I ... solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ...".

The Constitution clearly gives war powers ONLY to the Congress. There is no Constitutional provision for any branch to re-assign its specific powers to any other branch or individual. The federal statute that allows for Congress to give away its war powers to the president is unconstitutional. Any use of that federal statute creates a massive unconstitutional anti-law regime.

Had the generals and admirals been honorable men loyal to the Constitution, they would have rejected the illegal order from the President to invade Iraq, resigning or being fired, as necessary. As it is, they dishonorably defiled their oath and sworn allegiance, complied with the illegal order, and violated the citizen rights of their soldiers to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress. In so doing, they violated 18 USC 241, felony conspiracy against rights. 18 USC 241 defines any death resulting from the rights violation as felony murder. It calls for convicted co-conspirators in murderous rights violations to be sentenced to life imprisonment or to death.

Note that there is no statute of limitations on conspiracy to commit felony murder.

Note that the co-conspirators facing the possibility of life imprisonment or the death penalty for the Iraq invasion include Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Powell, Rice, Ashcroft and Gonzales, as well as the 373 Senators and Member of Congress who voted to unconstitutionally give Bush the war powers that are the exclusive prerogative of Congress. Felony forfeits legislative immunity. Making it a three-branch hat-trick, US District Court Judge Joseph Tauro rejected a request for a preliminary injunction to prevent Bush and Rumsfeld from initiating the unconstitutional and illegal Iraq invasion. (John Doe I, et.al., v. Bush & Rumsfeld, 03-1266, 13 March 2003. The list of plaintiffs included six Congressmen.) Tauro also faces the possibility of life imprisonment or the death penalty.

If the retired generals had called for massive prosecutions under 18 USC 241, there would be truth to tell. But this gibberish of a Rumsfeld resignation for mere incompetence can only be a smoke screen.

The retired generals were obviously staging a battlefield misdirection, all the while trumpeting propaganda about our "worthy" and "great" task in Iraq needing better leadership. Clearly, there is no worthy or great task in Iraq. There is only profit and power. Clearly, the retired generals knew that the invasion of Iraq was both unconstitutional and every bit as internationally criminal as any Nazi invasion of another country during WW2. "Regime change", then and now, is just another term for "war of aggression" and "crimes against humanity".

No matter what their intentions, if the retired generals manage to avoid criminal prosecution and life imprisonment or the death penalty for Bush-Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the culpable generals and admirals, their pseudo-revolt will become one of the great misdirection con-jobs in the history of predator elitism. Certain rebuke of the revolt's demands by powerful members of the proto-despotism will mean that any future mention of the issue can be instantly pooh-poohed into nothingness. Oh, pooh, we've already settled that issue. The effective rebuke's precedent will ensure all of the revolt's leaders greatness and life without consequences, forever -- or until we rip the despotism and its treasonous perpetrators out of existence.

Around the edges of the pseudo-revolt, Republifascists like Senator Chaffe and Rep Shays have defended Bush and Rumsfeld by switching from the old-school sophistry of 'damning with faint praise' to the new-school sophistry of 'praising with faint damns'. Bush and Rumsfeld are too arrogant, chimes the Republifascist chorus. But, hey, they're in there and its their choice.

It's sophistry writ subtle. Find the lie and the sophistry unravels. Bush and Rumsfeld are in there unconstitutionally, illegally, and treasonously. Whatever their choice, it is unconstitutional, illegal, and treasonous. And whoever the Republifascists or Demofascists in support, they speak unconstitutionally, illegally, and treasonously. They are felons-in-waiting under 18 USC 3 -- accessory after the fact.

We have the law needed to crush all three branches of the proto-despotism. It's just law enforcement and justice itself that we're seriously short of.

The inter-agency and inter-branch collusions, wrecking our checks and balances, short us on law enforcement. The federal bench shorts us on justice.

One of current anti-justice trends of the fascist-thug Supremes is the crushing of emergent rights -- those rights being tested and developed in the crucible of state-level law and jurisprudence.

The recognition of emergent rights is reflected in our Constitution's 9th Amendment, a part of our 1791 Bill of Rights. "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

All rights benefit ordinary people against the corruptions, expediencies, and conveniences of money-power. Rights have had that function since the dawn of the species. Politicians who represent money-power see any rights as excessive rights. Emergent rights, those not yet firmly establihed, are just naturally the easiest to stamp out.

Throughout our national history, many powerful politicians have worked to bury any hint of an emergent right resulting from the 9th Amendment. The fascist thugs of the Supreme Court are the current anti-emergent-rights all-stars.

When California passed the first medical marijuana provisions -- a statute initiative (petition process) approved by the sovereign people -- a new set of 9th and 10th Amendment emergent rights were legitimized.

Money-power could not allow those emergent rights to become established. If the large numbers of sick people across the nation who would benefit from relatively inexpensive, homegrown medical marijuana stopped buying expensive prescription medications, the pharmaceutical death industry would lose billions of dollars every year. Money first, people last. The emergent rights to medical marijuana had to be squashed.

Never mind that medical marijuana has a roughly 5,000 year track record of safety and is untouchable by the FDA because of its wide use as a drug before the advent of the FDA. The same is true of many other drugs, including insulin. Never mind that the whole herb has multiple beneficial effects on many serious, life-threatening conditions -- beneficial effects that are unmatched by any prescription medicine.

Never mind that medical marijuana's safe, socializing effects on the skyrocketing population of autistic children eases their confusion and anti-social impulses. Never mind that the agonies of thousands of families raising autistic children can be eased by medical marijuana's socializing effects. Never mind that the early socializing will make the autistic child more self-reliant in later life. Never mind that such early socializing yielding later self-reliance means that society will spend much less money helping those individuals as they age through normally long lives.

Nearly a decade of unconstitutional rulings from lower federal courts on medical marijuana held the line of pharmaceutical death industry profits and entrenched the bureaucratic empires that feed off the war on drugs' misguided supply-side fighting, when we should be fighting it with demand-side solutions. Reversal of those unconstitutional rulings should have happened at the Supreme Court level. Instead, the fascist thugs masquerading as Supreme Court judges covered them up with an unconstitutional, illegal, and treasonous ruling in Gonzales v. Raich , 06 June 2005, case number 03-1454.
The constitutional criminals of the lower federal bench can go right on living their lives without consequences. The pharmaceutical death industry can go right on sucking every penny of profit possible out of the society. And the politicians can go right on pumping money into drug-fight hierarchies of their predator elitist buddies -- hierarchies that have no business drawing a paycheck.

The fascist-thug ruling in Raich equated homegrown medical marijuana with the interstate commerce of illegally trafficking in illegal drugs. It's the equating of apples and oranges. It denied the states' 10th Amendment rights to both define legitimate medical practice and to care for the welfare of their citizens. Those 10th Amendment rights denials are, among other things, straightforward violations of the federalism that is the basis of our national government. They are also violations of the rights of all citizens to that federalism and, consequently, violations of 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against rights.

This is not constitutional governance. This is fascist thuggery masquerading as constitutional governance.
All six assenting Supremes -- Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Scalia -- have violated the Constitution and committed treason. They should have been impeached and removed immediately. They also violated federal statute 18 USC 241. They are all felons-in-waiting. Felony forfeits judicial immunity. Their criminal prosecutions in federal court are long past due.

18 USC 241 says that convicted co-conspirators can be fined and imprisoned for up to ten years -- unless the rights violated lead to death, which is a distinct possibility in the removal of medical marijuana's positive effects from terminally ill patients. As we've already seen for the felony murders of our soldiers in Iraq, the text of 18 USC 241 calls for sentences of live imprisonment or the death penalty, if the rights violation results in death.

Both of the 10th Amendment states rights -- defining legitimate medical practice and seeing to the welfare of the state's citizens -- were "settled law", recognized by many federal rulings over our national history. Again, the Supremes demonstrated their confidence that -- in this dual-party, three-branch, Bush-Cheney fascist despotism -- they can, with impunity, issue unconstitutional, treasonous rulings that criminally violate citizen rights and federal statute 18 USC 241. It was not the first such demonstration by this particular bunch of Supreme Court fascist thugs, and it certainly was not the last.

In the past five years, money-power's Bush-Cheney proto-despotism has made the rule of law selectively and arbitrarily invisible. Especially through the Supremes, it has elevated all manner of treasonous, constitutional criminals above the law.

Additionally, our national government, acting in an orchestrated conspiracy against the constitutionally-defined process of emergent rights, has hammered another societal hot button, further dividing we the sovereign people against ourselves. This is the single most divisive national government in our national history.

The precedents established by Raich can be used arbitrarily in many other legal topics. Those unconstitutional and treasonous precedents will stand with the force of law until we change the Constitution.

The fascist-thug Supremes have reduced federalism and equity in law to only that which any arbitrary future ruling of theirs will allow.

Until we can begin impeaching, removing, and criminally prosecuting administration officials and federal bench judges again, social justice and any equity in law that is offensive to money-power is dead. Money-power first, ordinary people last.

The three-branch proto-despotism's rights violations reach out across the nation in chain reactions that shroud we the sovereign people in money-power's corruption.

The three-branch, Bush-Cheney proto-despotism secures itself with a world-class fascist secrecy, and it is fascistly criminalizing dissent. It fascistly listens to no reasoning. It has already proven that it will not stop any of its fascist thuggery until it's intentions are figuratively killed by overwhelming force.

Proofs: the squashed Harriet Miers SCOTUS nomination and the stumble-down run on the privatization destruction of Social Security. Stop the criminal Congress from spending SSA trust-fund monies on every superrich and corporate welfare program they can find and Social Security will suddenly get financially healthy. I'm a former Social Security field rep. I've watched the politicians crush the trust funds for too many decades.

The use of today's Social Security Number as a de facto national ID number for the expediency and convenience of big government and big business -- violating our Constittutional privacy rights and the FDR administration's promise that the SSN would never be an ID number -- is the paradigm of anti-emergent-rights machinations by Post-WW2 politicians.

The SSN's privacy rights were emerging, but not yet established. Through a series of Congressional, SSA agency, and federal bench abominations, the SSN's privacy was forever shattered. Today, we have databases containing hundreds of thousands of SSNs being lost or compromised all over the country by corporations who don't give a rat's butt for the welfare of ordinary people. Money first, people last. Let's replay the Enron tapes, just for giggles. Those energy traders knew how to get their money.

The Bush-Cheney proto-despotism was made possible by the systemic problems and weaknesses of the Constitution. The political dynamic resulting from the Constitution locked the people out of the political processes, leaving us powerless to confront the massive corruptions of the Bush-Cheney depravities. We need to crush this one and ensure that it can never happen again. We have no alternative other than constitutional renewal. Democracy blues.

The proto-despotism will not go away by itself. It must be figuratively killed with an overwhelming force of impeachment and removal.

It should happen in Election 2006. We should organize interstate citizen action groups to help recapture our electoral system, throw out the rascals, and elect the impeachment and removal Congress that we need. Done well, such a Congress could remove the Constitutional criminals from the executive and judicial branches and begin the ripping out of the depraved laws of the Bush-Cheney proto-despotism.

We're way past due for Reform Era II.

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