Unconstitutional Bailouts and an Unconstitutional Congress

October 3, 2008
by Stephen Neitzke

Richard C. Cook is a retired US govt analyist. Late of NASA, he blew the whistle on the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Yesterday, The Market Oracle, a web site in the UK, published Cook's amazingly well-informed and commonsensical, "Bailout Bill Marks the End of America as We Know It?" (It follows that a piece that informative of the US economic direction would not, could not, be published in the US. The Bush-Cheney nazis would never allow it, and would severely punish any American mainstream publication with any connection to it.)

Cook writes, in his intro paragraph -- before unpacking the progression of facts, related truth statements, and sound arguments which end in credit being the last economic engine of the American economy, and that engine being doomed in recession ebbing into depression --

"The Senate took up the [bailout] bill in order to pressure House members who voted against it to change their positions when it returns to a vote on the House floor on Friday. This procedure may be unconstitutional, because revenue bills must originate in the House, but there is no time or political will for anyone to mount a challenge on constitutional grounds. ..."

Unconstitutional Senate Origination Of Bill For Raising Revenue

Constitution, Article 1 (Legislative Branch), Section 7, Paragraph 1: All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives ....".

On Wednesday evening the Senate voted 75-24 to originate and approve the raising of $700 BILLION for the derivatives toxic paper bailout of banks and other financial institutions. (ed: still unconstitutional, Reid's "tacking on" to a previously-existing House bill, notwithstanding) The vote was unconstitutional. Every Senator who voted in favor is in violation of his or her oath to uphold the Constitution -- and we can hold every one of them responsible for knowing it. Every Senator who voted for this unconstitutional legislation is a Constitutional Criminal.

Additionally, the vote was a felony against our laws. All American citizens have the right to be governed by law that is passed in accord with the Constitution. The Senate's unconstitutional vote Wednesday evening is a felony conspiracy in violation of federal statute 18 USC 241.

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18 USC 241: "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same ... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both ...".

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The ten-year sentence makes violation of this statute a felony. Felony forfeits all immunities -- legislative, executive, and judicial. Every Senator who voted aye on Wednesday evening can be arrested anywhere he/she is found -- in the Senate or anywhere else -- jailed, criminally prosecuted, convicted, fined, and imprisoned for up to ten years.

Constitution, Article 1 (Legislative Branch), Section 6, Paragraph 1: ... They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance ...".

Every one of those Senators is a co-conspirator in this felony conspiracy to force American citizens to live under law not passed in accord with the Constitution.

If our Constitution and rule of law were intact and functional, the felony conspiracy would be criminally prosecuted. Seventy-Five US Senators, including the two Constitutional Criminals who are standing for election to the presidency next month, are felons-in-waiting, whose only proper place is in federal prison.

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Of course, the 3-branch fascist despotism masquerading as our national govt has trashed the Constitution and our rule of law. They and all their superrich cronies are above the law. They've done those things in plain sight of all Americans. And they've gotten away with it. Not a single one of those Unamerican Anti-Constitutionalists has been arrested and criminally prosecuted. The American people are just too ignorant of their Republic's principles and history to be distracted from their sex, lies, and video tape.

So a bunch of guys died in WW2 fighting fascists. So what? Somebody get me another brewski.

Those of us who want our Constitutional Republic-Democracy back are in a pressure cooker. The 3-branch fascist despotism and the predator elites have taken away all the safety valves for change -- including elections. Some small committee of the superrich will say who will win the Diebold Selection of Presidential Usurper for 2008. Will it be Constitutional Criminal Obama or Constitutional Criminal McCain?

The fascist thugs of the 3-branch despotism and the other predator fascists continue to crank up the heat on this pressure cooker. It's the formula for pressure-cooker blowup. And the first ones to die will be the fascists' only real problem -- those of us inside the pressure-cooker. Dead men wreak no justice.

The fascist thugs of the 3-branch despotism know their Americans. Most just don't give a damn what the govt does. Most Americans are so ignorant of our Constitution and laws that they are fascists themselves, completely free of any beliefs that might put them in the pressure-cooker.

Bail out a bunch of fraud-perpetrating financial corporation crooks? No problem. Just let us get back to our rap music, raves, and crack cocaine.

When the nazis of the 3-branch fascist despotism crash the national economy into the three-pot-pie of the North American Union and its Canadian-US-Mexican "Amero" -- and open up the Halliburton concentration camps for American political criminals -- American fascists everywhere will be astounded.

Now the revenue bill, unconstitutionally originated in the Senate, goes off to the House of Representatives, where another pack of Constitutional Criminals will unconstitutionally vote on the unconstitutionally origianted bill. Every one of those "aye" House voters will become co-conspirators in the felony conspiracy directed at forcing American citizens to live under law not passed in accord with the Constitution. And, somewhere down the road, we'll put all of them in federal prison, too.

Most Americans protesting the passage of the bailout bill are too ignorant to know that it is purely unconstitutional. However, they do know that it is devoid of any direct help to ordinary American households. Protesters hit the House with sufficient threats of dis-election to cause the no-vote last Monday. There is a slight chance that the same millions of protesters can push the same buttons for the House's probable Friday night vote.

However, the reality of Diebold Selection at the polls also means that those Republinazi and Demofascist House reps who are in trouble in their home districts will be given promises of Diebold Selection in return for bailout-passing votes.

The bailout goes into the law books, I think, anti-law regime that it is.

The resulting law, after it's signed by the Presidential Usurper and Constitutional Criminal Bush, will be anti-law, an unconstitutional anti-law regime. Every action taken under color of that law will be another felony conspiracy in violation of 18 USC 241, denying the people's right to governance by law passed in accord with the Constitution.

When there's no one around to criminally prosecute a felony in the jungle, does the falling tree make any sound?

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Stephen Neitzke [send him email] is the founder of the Direct Democracy League. He is the author of "The State of the Republic, 1776-2004" as well as a number of other works, which can be found at www.ddleague-usa.net and on his blog at http://ddrevival.blogspot.com/

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