CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
One Sun
by
M.E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
For the last two weeks Miss Constitution has been discussing the importance of a free investigatory press including questions that need to be investigated immediately regarding the Wuhan virus. Should the reader wish to review, the columns were called Truth and Consequences and Wandering the Great Ocean of Human Affairs. Miss Constitution defines “truth” as emerging from verified facts corresponding to reality. Let’s dig a little deeper.
To verify facts, the beginning of the beginning, the right questions must be asked by persons truly seeking the answers who are fully in touch with reality. The reality the world faces is another pandemic that simply carries away large numbers of persons and brings whole economies to their knees. Those persons marginally surviving are particularly in despair and Pope Francis in his Easter homily asked us all to remember the most vulnerable from this disease and the economic fragility many find themselves in. It would seem logical, then, that the first questions would be, is Miss Constitution correct in calling this the Wuhan virus or is its origin elsewhere? If elsewhere, where? If not a virus, what then?
And yet, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States thinks the first inquiry should be at the Presidential level and that a 9/11 type commission be immediately impaneled to determine if judgments made by the President during this pandemic crisis are wise, warranted, wasteful, stupid, deliberately malevolent, a justification for his xenophobia, weak, partisan, late, the product of dementia or some personality disorder, meanness, causing a collapse of the stock market for personal gain, secret investments in possible cures or treatments, incompetence, corruption, a “hidden” agenda, or racism so out of control the President secretly wishes the disease target certain populations and is deliberately not giving it his full attention until it reaches those populations?
The analogy Miss Constitution hopes illuminates the absurdity of the Speaker’s proposal would be if the Speaker of the House on July 6, 1944, Sam Rayburn, called for an inquiry regarding Presidential decision-making regarding D-Day on June 6. There were storms, who decided to go? Who decided on what beaches? Was the President not aware there were German machine gun installations on those beaches? Did the President give permission for the Supreme Commander of Allied forces to make his own mind up regarding tactics and strategy? Did he relinquish his role as Commander in Chief because he was incompetent or afraid? Did he care more about the Pacific than Europe? That the invasion was still going on; that General Eisenhower and President Roosevelt had to make on the spot decisions as the death toll mounted; that the equipment we had may or may not have been equal to the Germans; that America was not fully militarily prepared for WWII; were all good aspects of an inquiry, but not at the moment of the battle! Now is not the time for the Speaker’s inquiry.
VERIFIED FACT: The United States of America has been attacked and its economy brought to a halt. When under attack all Americans have a high duty to support its leadership, elected and otherwise, and to do all that is reasonably asked as part of each citizen’s responsibility. If asked to stay in – stay in. If asked to wear a mask – wear a mask. If asked when sick to call a physician instead of going to the emergency room – call a physician. If asked not to travel to another state even if one has the wealth to do so – do not travel to another state. If asked to stay six feet from any other person – stay six feet from any other person. If asked to wash one’s hands often – wash one’s hands often. If asked not to hoard – do not hoard. If asked to get off the beach – get off the beach. If the nation needs ordinary citizens to do all each one can to help out, the least we should be able to expect is the same from our elected and appointed representatives. For now, our nation needs to know and needs to accumulate all the information it can regarding how this started and why. The fact that we were attacked is not enough. The question is: were we deliberately attacked by a nation-state? There will be time after the battle, if not the war, to inquire as to the efficacy of Presidential and bureaucratic leadership and decision-making in a particularly fluid situation similar to the very risky decision to invade Europe and the German occupation of Europe in June of 1944.
Miss Constitution is very concerned that our nation may have made past decisions by past Presidents, policy makers, Congress and corporations, that have compromised our ability to look clearly at China. Eventually, an inquiry needs to address decisions that amount to going to bed with the devil, that Miss Constitution has said before changes us, does not change the devil. China is a Communist totalitarian regime that represses its people and whose stated goal is to be the One Sun. Some policy makers and some Presidents have made decisions to bring China into the world of civilized nations as a developing country, with the advantages that brings to them, without strictly enforced controls and mindful oversight. Miss Constitution would support the Speaker beginning this inquiry in earnest and beginning it now. Hong Kong and Taiwan would be happy to send witnesses regarding their experiences with China and now the rest of the world can add facts about the current crisis that can help us reach the truth. That the Speaker chooses to inquire of the victim and not the possible perpetrator speaks only to the motives of the Speaker.
China wants to be the world’s One Sun. For America, the One Sun is God, and In God We Trust.
Copyright©2020 by M. E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
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