An
important essay by constitutional attorney and author, John W. Whitehead, was
published on May 7, 2019. It’s entitled D
Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy and is available on his Rutherford
Institute site: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/d_is_for_dictatorship_while_america_feuds_the_police_state_shifts_into_high_gear
[The
essay was republished on May 17 by State of the Nation : http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=122704 ]
 |
John W. Whitehead, Esq.
|
Read it and weep, for it
catalogues in a nutshell the grotesque stagecraft that passes for normalcy; that
provides the gloss for a sham republic, as disconnected from its constitutional
underpinnings as it is divorced from the rule of law.
President
Donald J. Trump presides as the CEO of USA, Inc. And while “USA, Inc.” is a euphemism
for our lost republic, its incorporation is real; it is a fictional entity
controlling a population of straw men and women that hides behind the façade
of a representational democracy. (Don’t believe me?—go research it for yourself.)
USA, Inc. limps along as a schizophrenic nation of dumbed-down populants presided over
by actor-politicians, activist-judges and a freakazoid mélange of corporate/military-intelligence
operative/propagandists who give lip service to their (de facto superseded) Constitution..
Pres.
Trump has done a masterful job of managing this dual-track, schizoid nation. It
must require an almost superhuman effort to withstand the constant assault of
negative forces aligned against him, while balancing the interests of a fictionalized
USA with its façade of struggling Republic—and he must have some heavy-duty
back-up to stay alive and keep at it the way he does.
Trump’s
work is a heroic undertaking of an almost impossible task, viz., re-aligning
the nation under the rule of law while that nation is unbound from its lawful
moorings (thanks to an elitist, globalist/socialist cabal that’s been
systematically dismantling “America the Beautiful” by pre-planned degrees since
its inception). The particular genius of Trump is his ability to (apparently)
bifurcate his love of an idealized America
the Beautiful from USA, Inc. and
yet do everything within his power to have USA, Inc. serve a long-term, endpoint
attempt of restoring itself back to the Republic-as-originally-designed.
In
this respect, the work of our 45th president has established a new
mythological standard —Trumpian— which
perhaps surpasses the Herculean one of past ages. By these words, however, this author
is not, willy-nilly, condoning every act of the Trump administration. Far from it, especially its neocon-tainted foreign
policy. But taken as a whole, I commend the Trumpian dynamism
and vision, warts and all.
Listening
to Donald Trump valorize law enforcement (e.g., calling for the death penalty
for murdering a policeman) is a far cry from John W. Whitehead’s litany of
police transgressions resulting from a gutted U.S. Constitution. These two public
figures seem to hold antagonistic, competing views of law enforcement.
Given
Trump’s interest in maintaining law and order in the midst of onslaughts from unhinged
legislators, armed communist thugs, and their media enablers, I don’t think the comparison is quite
apt. Whitehead's interest is in protecting John and Jane Q. Public from an uber-zealous police force acting as the enforcement arm of USA, Inc's “national
security state gone wild.”
Is
it hard to delineate between criminals deserving
of punishment and innocent constituencies
in need of protection? Not at all.
For
this author, the bad guys are the enforcer
thugs, viz., those fascist, “politically correct,” lefty morons who have been mass-produced
by a debased university system, then subsidized by socialist NGOs and justified by radicalized Democrat apparatchiks; just
as bad, however, are those fascist, “politically expedient” enforcers acting under
color of law who abuse the God-given rights and sovereignty of the People.
The
good guys are those who seek to live
by the Golden Rule and the Rule of Law. Regardless of whether persons are
acting in privately organized groups or as paid government employees, as long as they are
acting on behalf of such “good guy interests” then they, too, are good guys.
The
apparent Trump/Whitehead dichotomy withers in the face of this analysis. Each
man has his overriding mandate: Trump, as the chief or unitary executive, is responsible
for maintaining law and order; Whitehead, on the other hand, is an attorney-author looking to preserve
the safety and welfare of We the People. As such, each has his part to play in
a national drama. It's essentially the regulatory law function of Trumpism v. the emancipatory law function embraced by Whitehead.
Trump,
we must always remember, occupies a dual, schizoid role as CEO of USA, Inc. and
as (the would-be) president of the United States of America, if the republic was more viable at the moment. It is because Trump must wear the CEO hat that he leans heavily on the regulatory side of law and order.
Whitehead, too, must participate in the charade that the U.S.
Constitution has not been completely abrogated by illegitimate statutes. To the
extent attorney Whitehead can find sympathetic judges whose rulings must hold
up to public scrutiny he helps to resuscitate our trampled constitutional
rights with each case he wins. Emancipation from the restraint of law's regulatory properties belongs more properly in the domain of a constitutional republic, the persistent and resilient existence of which Whitehead presumes as the premise of his work.
Both
are dealing with the heroic-yet-schizophrenic task of saving the nation while
holding it to account and guiding it toward its better manifestation: a constitutional
republic operating under the rule of law. Each man deserves credit
and our respect for doing the right thing (in a time during which “doing the
right thing” seems quaint at best and hopeless at worst). I offer my support and admiration for both these men and their
efforts.
In closing I thank one other great American:
Ray Charles sings America the Beautiful in 1972. He would sing it again, live, at the opening of the 2nd game of the World Series in October 2001, during a time of national mourning.
No comments:
Post a Comment