Monday, October 14, 2013

Congress Must Stop Exceeding Its Powers

Article I. Section 8. of the American Constitution specifies the powers vested in the congress, and gives it authority to legislate in specific areas, then ends the list like this: “And; To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

So now we ask the question: Would the congress – for some specified or unspecified reason – pass a law stating that on a given day of the year, all members of the congress and the president shall perform the yoga ritual of standing on their heads for a period of five minutes? The answer is probably not. And now this question: But does congress have the authority to pass such a law? And the answer is no.

What section 8 does, is give congress the authority to make the laws that will apply to the general public and to other institutions. It can make the laws that will facilitate the execution of those laws. And it can make the laws that will facilitate the exercise of the powers vested in the government, its departments and its officers. What that section of the Constitution does not do, however, is give congress the power to make laws that will bind itself or bind a future congress. Neither does it give the congress powers to make the laws that will bind the current president or future ones.

Thus, congress can try to legislate the yoga ritual all it wants, but the legislation will be as good as null and void if the members choose to ignore it. And if the congress passes a legitimate bill that contains an illegitimate rider binding itself, a future congress or the president, and even if the president signs it into law, the rider can be considered null and void, and can be ignored by everyone concerned. Thus, when the president solemnly affirms that he will faithfully execute the Office of President, preserve and defend the Constitution, he does not affirm standing on his head even if the congress says he must do so.

What this means is that the congress cannot put the governing of the nation on automatic pilot, and have it run by a program it conceives now to resolve circumstances that have not happened; that no one knows if they will happen or how they will happen if they ever do. To play the role of the all-knowing prophet with the future of the nation is such an absurd notion, it is like a mentally affected general positioning his artillery pieces in the field, programming them to shoot in a given direction at a specified time of the day then telling his gunners to go to the barracks and have a snooze.

And if you want to see the effect of such madness on the congress, the American nation and the world, you have only to look at the current situation where a continuing resolution to raise the debt ceiling combined with a “sequester” that is already in effect – have plunged America and the world into a turmoil that has the potential to end very badly. All this can happen at a time when the world is only beginning to recover from the 2008 near letdown of the financial institutions.

The habit of passing non-binding resolutions morally tying the hands of future congresses or presidents, and passing binding resolution that “legally” tie the hands of future congresses or presidents were virtually unknown in America till the Jewish organizations started using them to implement an agenda they formulated thousands of years ago and brought to America a little more than half a century ago. The result has been that the chaos we now see unfold at the local level has been unfolding on the international level for several decades – almost unnoticed by the American public.

Using the method of governing the country by way of predicting what it will need in a future that has not come is probably the most devastating trick that the Jewish leaders have injected into the American system of governance. It must be erased right away; and this can be done by the president ignoring all that was passed, and running the nation the way it should be run.

And let the unhappy take the case to the Supreme Court where it will certainly be affirmed that congress cannot tie the hands of itself, those of future congresses or presidents.

People elect warm-blooded human beings to govern them; they do not program computers to pilot them to predetermined destinations before knowing what the destinations will have to be.