A POWERFUL ARTICLE BY BARRY CHAMISH I WISH TO PUBLISH ON THIS BLOG!

Dear Friends,

Here is a short article by investigative journalist Barry Chamish which I would like you all to read:

"In the September-October 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, the Council on Foreign Relations calls for “some sort of major external shock”, “a major shock to the political order,” “a large shock such as a war or a revolution” to concentrate power in the executive branch. It argues that the judicial and legislative branches have “usurped many of the proper functions of the executive,” that “these days there is too much law and too much democracy,” and supports “delegating more authority to President Barack Obama” in imitation of the “democratic dictatorship” that works so well in Britain.    

The CFR’s call for such a shock to the American political system should be taken very seriously since the CFR is peopled with the same personalities as is the Project for a New American Century, which in September 2000 famously called for “a new Pearl Harbor” to enable the US to dramatically increase military spending to “fight and decisively win multiple simultaneous major theater wars.” The catalyst it was calling for helpfully occurred just one year later on September 11, 2001.

And in case any reader fail to understand the scope of the shock that the CFR is calling for, the author refers three times admiringly to the French Revolution. Napoleon became hugely popular with the French masses by waging a military campaign against the Holy Land in 1798-1799. Then within four months of his victorious return to Paris in October 1799, he had overthrown Congress and rewritten the Constitution. Could something like that happen here?
Not only is the Council on Foreign Relations talking about how great it would be if Obama were dictator, as outlined in Tuesday’s e-mail, but The Economist is doing the same. See its interview with President Obama below, dated August 2, 2014.

Note that the context is the same in the Economist article as in the CFR article. Both lament the restraint that Congress places on presidential power.

The September/October 2014 issue of the CFR’s periodical Foreign Affairs had this to say about Congress and the courts, which together comprise the checks and balances designed by the founding fathers to constrain the power of the executive: 

·        “The US political system has decayed over time because its traditional system of checks and balances has deepened and become increasingly rigid.” 

·        “The American system of checks and balances compares unfavorably with parliamentary systems when it comes to the ability to balance the need for strong state action with law and accountability.” 


·        “…the US political system presents a complex picture in which checks and balances excessively constrain decision-making on the part of majorities…”

BRIAN.