A RAMBLING DISCOURSE ON THE STRUCTURE OF AMERICA

By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport
January 24, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

American government—a skyscraper whose foundation is a square city block. But each floor added on has become wider and longer than the last. Can you picture it?

What planner would allow this?

And if the building falls, will the memorials and remembrances claim the foundation was the fault?

Why haven't the inhabitants of the building noticed the evolution of its upward shape is dangerous?

Keep in mind that the process by which the Constitution was originally ratified involved the states. That, in fact, was the whole process. The states had to cede part of their power to a new federal government. Ratification was never intended to mean federal engorgement.

The central government was not only limited through the unique system of checks and balances among the three branches. It was limited by the enduring strength of the states.

And that strength was secured by the ability of the states to nullify any federal law that exceeded boundaries laid out in the Constitution.

This has been forgotten.

These days, the memory is returning, though.

The comatose patients in their beds are waking up.

It's causing outrage among liberals, who had assumed the upward progress of skyscraper floors would proceed as they have for the last 200 years—each floor wider and larger than the last.

Their building code is simple: expand dispensations. Always and forever.

Service an ever-growing definition of need.

It's hard to convey the flavor and feeling of swollen bloated government. You have to be there and you have to take notice. On a few occasions, I've sat in droning committee rooms and watched hearings. There is a clear sense of the pecking order. The participants are keenly aware of who sits higher and who sits lower. The subject of the deliberation itself is a minor fact. Whether it's transportation, or drug safety, or financial malfeasance is almost beside the point.

What's important is who is in the room. What titles they wear. To whom they are superior.

It is really government that is suffering from amnesia—a far deeper coma than the public is battling.

They have no memory of their origins, from whence they sprang.

They are conducting business, and they are without a Constitutional rudder. They're muscling in and around their own bureaucratic hierarchies, aiming for an advantage here and there, trying to “get things done.â€