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Imperium: The Imperial Presidency

Rome Loves To Focus On the Interpretation of the Law:

Torture, the Unitary Executive, Statement Signings, Surveillance

Rome’s Focus: The Interpretation of the Law

The answers that Judge Samuel Alito gave to the attacks from the Left in the Senate hearings, made it clear that he has honed his ability to fine-tune the interpretation of the law to arrive at a certain result.

In the expert testimony of witnesses, many of them law professors, finally some substance emerged in the hearings. These men had definitive analysis and penetration of the issues to present.

What emerged is that Alito is a brilliant man, but he uses his brilliancy in cleverly generating results-driven decisions, in support of government privilege against the rights of the individual.

Papal Goals

Rome likes to:

1.      Concentrate power in one man, and then control that man for her purposes. The unlimited expansion of executive power poses a clear and present danger to freedom.

2.      Destroy personal privacy by developing a surveillance state for control, as did in Paraguay from 1600 to 1750, as in Nazi Germany, and Soviet Russia.

3.      Gradually eliminate personal liberty.

Unitary Executive and the Imperial Presidency

“Dana Milbank, the former White House reporter for the ‘Washington Post,’ wrote in an October 11, 2004 column profiling David Addington, Vice- President Cheney’s counsel, about an obscure theory of presidential power that permeated the Bush White House. The article described the detail to which Cheney and Addington had paid to preserving presidential power, from the now-famous ‘torture’ memo to international law governing torture…. Milbank wrote: ‘Even in a White House known for its dedication to conservative philosophy, Addington is known as an ideologue, and adherent of an obscure philosophy called the unitary executive theory that favors and extraordinary powerful president.’…

“Since President Bush came to office in 2001, he has used the term 95 times.” –Christopher S. Kelley, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Miami University, “Rethinking Presidential Power-The Unitary Executive and George W. Bush Presidency,” a paper prepared for the 63^rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 7-10, 2005, Chicago, Ill.  (Emphasis mine)

Torture Memo: President Above the Law

In the March 6, 2003, Memo, the ‘Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism: Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy, and Operational Considerations,” appears the following:

“In light of the President’s complete authority over the conduct of war without a clear statement otherwise, criminal statutes are not read as infringing on the President’s ultimate authority in these areas.” –The Torture Papers, 256.

In other words, the President is above the law, a concept that is anathema to the entire system of Anglo-Saxon law, from the Magna Carta on down to today.

Julius Caesar: Rome Becomes An Imperium

Rome for hundreds of years was a republic, until Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched with his legions toward Rome. His terrified enemies fled precipitously. As he pursued them, the remains of the Senate declared him Dictator. He was elected Consul without opposition. Legal government was restored. Caesar set out to recover the rest of the Senate. Pompey, head of the opposition army, was murdered in Egypt and beheaded. When Caesar came back to Rome, his enemies became his most servile flatterers. They made him Dictator for a whole year.

Caesar, the Demi-god

After another campaign subduing opposition forces in Africa, the Senate voted in his favor a national thanksgiving for 40 days, along with not one, but four, triumphs, with his triumphal car pulled by four white horses. They made him inspector of public morals for three years, voted him dictator for ten years, and then voted him among other things, father of his country, liberator, imperator, commander-in-chief of the army for life, in full charge of the treasury and dictator for life. Every conceivable honor and flattery was heaped upon him, including statutes with the inscription of “Caesar, the Demi-god” and “To The Invincible Deity.” After years of sycophancy, they finally declared that he was Divus Julius, a god, and that a temple should be built for the worship of him.

Julius Caesar ‘it is said had fought and won fifty battles, taken one thousand cities, and slain one million one hundred ninety-two thousand men.” –Uriah Smith, Daniel and the Revelation, Daniel 11:19.

“He Shall Stumble and Fall, and Not Be Found”

Then, the Roman Senators were so profoundly troubled by the loss of their republic; twenty-two of them stabbed Caesar to death on the Ides of March 44 B.C, as he sat in the Senate. So significant was the event that it was prophesied five hundred years before the event: “Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.” Daniel 11:19. It was too late to save the republic. The damage was done, Octavious, Caesar Augustus, completely deepened the Imperium. Rome was never the same again.

Imperial Presidency: The Concept That the Constitution Supports Virtual Unlimited Power of the President

In short, the Unitary Executive Theory is what lies behind the grave concern that has been developing in the nation over the emergence of the “Imperial Presidency” in the last 25 years. Basically, the Unitary Executive is being used to support the concept that the constitution supports virtually unlimited power for the president to be above the law.

Support of Illegal Wiretapping

Just one example of the promotion of the expansion of government power is found in a wire-tapping case. “As a member of the Solicitor General’s Office, Judge Samuel Alito argued that cabinet officials who authorized wiretaps of Americans to gather intelligence about possible terrorist activities were entitles to absolute immunity from liability. The Supreme Court rejected this claim in Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511 (1985) (ruling that such officials were entitled to qualified immunity).” –Save the Court.org.

Incredible Testimony by a Quaker Organization

A Quaker organization in Florida, called the Truth Project, was illegally wire tapped, and the government produced a 400 page document declaring that they were a threat to the war effort.

There is an enormous amount of surveillance and disturbance of peaceful groups by Bush agents, said Richard Hersh, head of the Quaker organization. A Florida non-profit organization of religious and other groups to educate high school students about military service. Quakers invited them into their church.

Military Intelligence – Unfamiliar Faces in the Congregation in the Quaker Church

There were unfamiliar faces in the church. Later it was learned that they were agents of the 902^nd Military Intelligence unit. They filed a report that “Truth Project” was a credible threat.

NBC aired the report, and then other churches and groups came forward-churches, etc. Agents went through trash, listened in to phone conversations. Lists have disappeared. They monitored US to US calls. It emphatically was not only calls to Al-Qaeda overseas. The Quakers were spied on in a house of worship and private homes engaged in constitutionally protected activities. They listened to his calls, photographed him, and recorded license numbers of his cars, read his e-mails. It is all on government files by members of the Joint Terrorism task force, the NSA, and military intelligence. The extent of domestic spying is enormous.

Military Infiltration of Citizen Groups

Now we are seeing the infiltration of groups, such as the Quaker group, is being done by military organizations.

“It Can’t Happen to Me”

The president exercised his discretion, Rumsfeld has exercised his discretion, the officers exercised their discretion, and the enlisted men followed their orders, when the military infiltrated the Quaker church.

Who Was At the Quaker Church?

In the congregation was: Hersh, incapacitated with a neurological disease, a 79 year old grandma, a student, an Indian mother and a nurse, a pharmacist and retired attorney, an African American, a web designer, a legal attorney and real estate person, a number of Quakers, none of whom have traveled outside the country, none had made phone calls outside of the country, just people interested in getting at the truth, and educating their children. It had nothing to do with terrorism.

When there is no necessary court approval, then the president is free to spy on whomever he desires. The Department of Defense has labeled the Quaker group, “A credible threat,” said Hersh, the head of the Quaker group.

The Unlimited Discretion of Inherent Authority

If the violation of law is committed to the discretion of the executive branch based on the President’s inherent authority, that discretion is without limit, for the courts normally do not question national security judgments by the president, warned Turley.

Turley said that the Fourth Amendment is the most explicit part of the Constitution, yet it has been whittled down over the years. Here are the people who claim to be “strict constructionists” who are completely violating the Fourth Amendment.

An Example

An amazing open and public case just emerged: The President demanded of the Internet Giant “Google” that it hand over the records and names of all who accessed the Internet for one week using Google, Google refused, and prepared itself for the legal battle to fight a subpoena.

Rome Uses the Interpretation of the Law to Defeat Liberty

The issue is the clever manipulation of the focus of the law itself-in plain terms-the issue is the interpretation of the law. This is the area where Rome has historically sought to defeat liberty-as in the case of Bohemia.

As Rome insists on the right of her clergy alone to interpret the Scriptures, so it is in the field of law, she often relies on the power to interpret the law to achieve her purpose:  “The Roman Church reserves to the clergy the right to interpret the Scriptures.” GC 596.