CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
The Rarest of Glimpses
by
M. E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
Miss Constitution hopes each of you remembers the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz where, at the end, the curtain is pulled back by Dorothy’s little dog Toto and the wizard is revealed to be all too human. Dorothy realizes the wizard is nothing but a trickster; she demands to know how to get home, in a tone revealing more annoyance at her own gullibility, than anger at the wizard.
Well, here we are as Americans, trying to sort the whole societal mess out and many feeling a little bit embarrassed by their own gullibility. And yet, this is the rarest of glimpses at our Constitutional Republic and how its Constitutional rules and structure are holding up under great stress by three seemingly unrelated occurrences:
- A pandemic begun in China and transferred world-wide
- A revelation of corruption so pervasive in the Executive branch of the United States government that otherwise serious citizens are stunned into disbelief
- A revelation of lack of stewardship by the Legislative branch of the United States that shows the transference of Sovereignty and wealth, in collusion with the private sector, that in other times would fit the definition in the treason clause, Article III, section 3 of the United States Constitution, of “adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort”
These events are not unrelated and require the full attention of We the People (also known as the Sovereign or ultimate authority) to sort it all out.
Starting with the last, first, after Americans lived through the Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the mid to late 1960’s, and the still mysterious assassinations of President Kennedy (1963) and his brother (1968), our nation went into a kind of self-loathing, that we are just awakening from, like a coma. The American psyche needed time to absorb what it had learned about itself and how and why we got so off-course internationally. Like a person with a traumatic brain injury, rest was needed, time was needed, and analysis would have to come when the brain could actually think again. The assumption was that there were genuine public servants who would keep the ship steady in the water while the public healed. We had a racist past to shed, a new inclusive social order to embrace, and, after a brutal war against Germany (1941-1945), our ally, the Soviet Union, turns out to be a very formidable and dangerous foe. China, too, was lost to Communism (1947). Were we betrayed by our leadership at that time or did we just make massive mistakes in our thinking? While the Sovereign (We the People) was otherwise recovering others were busy transferring our wealth, our strength, and our nationhood to a global social and legal order run by bureaucrats whose view of the United States was malignant at best. In alliance with a once-vaunted American higher education system that turned against our Constitutional system, the blood was drained from the body politic. There were too few real public servants in either political party as there was too much money to be made in betrayal.
We are now treated to an up close and personal view of a corrupt Executive branch establishment of highly paid and pensioned civil servants whose arrogance, guile, impudence, smugness, dishonesty, and treasonous behavior is seen by them as business as usual. None has shown any shame so vile are their hearts. The public is stunned. Commentators are now trying to portray these individuals as a small cabal of the debauched at the top but we all know that the rot must go much deeper and the leadership of that rot must come from entities so powerful that no one fears being exposed. The virtuous public servant is there but seemingly without support. It is Dorothy, caught by the Wicked Witch on the stairs of her castle, surrounded, no one to help, and ready to be disposed of. “How shall I do it” Margaret Hamilton ponders; “a ha the little dog first!” The American people are on that stair trying to figure out what to do.
If all of this is not bad enough a virus so contagious and so violent that any Americans with either age or respiratory issues are in grave danger of losing their lives. It was spread to the world by China, deliberately or not, and has brought the American economy to its knees – a goal China has had for some time. Now we get a glimpse of public servants at the state and local level.
Has the corruption at the national level slowly engulfed the states? Have any of these Governors actually read the Constitution of the United States? No, you do not have dictatorial power; no, you cannot order anything you want in the name of safety; no, you cannot have police on the street throw people to the ground with a foot on their neck and handcuffs on their wrists because they were four not six feet apart; no, you cannot deny a family the means of support while you are paid and in your bubble of temporary fame. You, Governor, cannot set the scarecrow on fire; you cannot make the lion cry; and you cannot rust out the tin man.
Our Constitution gives We the People rights against government overreach of power – federal or state. You may suggest; you may persuade; you may order very briefly, and you may lead. Period.
Miss Constitution thinks we have been given, as a nation, a wonderful opportunity to wake up from our decades-long coma, to declare ourselves healed, to examine what the supposed stewards of our country have done, and to realize that all the years We the People have been in a coma have really hurt our nation. We simply must take some responsibility for what has happened, and We must fix it. A global world order simply means the corruption is on a higher scale and more devastating to the rights of individual people everywhere. To go back to the Wizard of Oz our oil can is civic and personal virtue; our medal of courage is un-election and prosecution of the seditious and the criminal; and our diploma is based on real knowledge and intellectual achievement not political brainwashing. Throw Dorothy’s bucket of water on the whole corrupt thing until it melts into the hell it deserves. Make this moment one of the Holy Times.
The United States Constitution still stands — tattered, like our flag at Ft. McHenry in the War of 1812, but here for now, symbolizing LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all.
Copyright©2020 by M. E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
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