Often concern arises concerning the abuse of power in various
Presidential administrations. Accusations are made but no one is
ever prosecuted leaving the public to presume such proceedings mere
political maneuvering. Is there anything really to it?
The Autocratic Privilege
I assert that the privilege of the Presidential pardon creates an
autocracy under many circumstances. As specified in the
constitution, this privilege has one limitation: that it cannot
block impeachment proceedings. Article II, Section 2 of the
United States Constitution says:
And he shall have Power to grant
Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in
Cases of Impeachment.
This text does not prevent the standing President from pardoning
himself, his staff, anyone committing a crime on his behalf, or anyone
whatsoever, so long as the crime involved falls under Federal
jurisdiction.
Accomplices
However, the President cannot assume autocratic powers without
accomplices, unless he has the character to attempt a ruthless coup of
some kind. He needs at least one branch of Congress on his side
to prevent any attempt at impeachment. The rule of law too can be
an accomplice if pardons and the exercise of other mechanisms of power
can be concealed by State Secrets Privilege, known specifically
regarding the Presidency as Executive Privilege. The lies
permitted by the current legal status of political free speech becomes
another accomplice to autocracy by subterfuge. The voters simply
no longer believe anything said on the public stage unless they are
already predisposed to do so.
Propaganda
Even if both Houses of Congress are adversarial to the standing
President, a public perception that an autocrat is instead a good ruler
creates a great deal of difficulty for Congressmen minded to stop
tyranny at the expense of loosing voter support. For this reason
the aspiring autocrat requires propaganda support first among members
of his own staff, his own party, and any friendly media. It is
regrettable that those who would violate our democracy in this way are
aided by an interpretation of political free speech that enables them
to lie without legal consequences if convenient to their designs.
Historical Acts of the Abuse of Power
Having established that the legal and political structure enables an
autocratic presidency, does one actually exist in practice. Known
history reveals significant instances of abuse of power:
Some time back, a historical documentary represented
Ulysses S.
Grant to have arranged a murder. General Custer had always
opposed him and a time came when Grant wanted him gone. As a
result, Grant arranged Custer's death by arranging for support be
pulled back from him in the middle of battle.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had already gained enough war powers
for
history to record him a quasi-dictator. Most notable of his acts
was an attempt to force the retirement of Supreme Court justices in
order to install new ones to create a court entirely favorable to him.
Who can forget Richard Nixon? His grab for power
failed
because he did not have the necessary accomplices outside of his own
administration.
Bill Clinton gained the White house under such a cloud of
criminal suspicion that fear of an executive takeover swept the
Republicans into power in the House of Representatives in 1994. I
myself have seen the Clinton machine in action because my enemies set
it against me in 1994. You should view the Clinton Chronicles for
yourself.1
It is remarkable in light of the vicious liberal media war
against George Bush that they could not produce anything of substance
against him other than the pardon of Scooter
Libby to vilify him. However, the issue raised poses an important
observation: if conflicted pardons were not the normal practice
of past presidents, Bush would have met with legal opposition rather
than just media exposure for this deed. Otherwise, if the liberal
media had focused their powers of vitriol
on Clinton or Obama they would have induced a successful impeachment
instead.
The Obama Administration
It is incredible that the American voters should put this much power
into the hands of radical and one trained in the Chicago political
machine at that? As a result we have seen the following
autocratic activity.
David Manning speaks out against the election of Obama
resulting in a visit by the Secret Service. Why? Because he
heard shocking allegations from Trinity United Church of Christ where
Obama attended, ones that Obama did not want told: Obama is or
was gay.2
Larry Sinclair who claims to be one of Obama's homosexual
lovers filed an affidavit with Chicago authorities concerning contacts
he received from another man who also claimed to be Obama's
lover.
The affidavit was occasioned by the death of the the man in question,
Donald Young. In his book published in 2009, Mr. Sinclair
attributes the death of Young and others to a cover-up of Obama's gay
past.
Here Sinclair gains more credibility than Obama's unhindered
propagandists by risking his allegations to possible charges of perjury
if he had lied.3
Before the election of 2012, the stories of Obama's gay
past resurfaced on the basis that members of Trinity United Church of
Christ were just now speaking up out of concern about what has become
of Obama's presidency.4
Just as I was beginning this article Obama met with liberal
journalists favorable to him while specifically excluding any from FOX
News. In attendance were three from MSNBC: Rachel Maddow,
Al Sharpton, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Ed Schultz. I am sure you
realize these are all liberal. Rachel was outed as a lesbian in
college. Lawrence O'Donnell is known to have said "I am a
socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere
liberals." Also in attendance was Arianna Huffington, one of
O'Donnell's "mere liberals." The official press release
submitted by Josh Earnest revealed that this was a propaganda strategy
meeting when it stated that "the President met with influential
progressives to talk
about the importance of preventing a tax increase on middle class
families, strengthening our economy and adopting a balanced approach to
deficit reduction."5,6
Whether Obama is or was gay is
not the issue here, at least not
legally. Someone who believed the story that he was gay suggested
that he may have went straight in conjunction with getting
married. Rather the question is: why the cover-up?
The 2012 Presidential election showed many signs of a machine election.
The election carried throughout a comprehensive and
ruthless propaganda campaign made successful by liberal media
help. The observation that the Democrats and their allies
consistently told the same lies, in the same way, with largely the same
words suggests the liberal line was deliberately planned and then
carried out by all the participants. The Republicans in contrast
appeared to argue their point of view independently from zeal for the
logic and validity of their beliefs.
If this observation passed the notice of some, the debates
were a clear revelation. Questions posed by Obama-friendly
moderators were targeted to put their favorite in the best light and to
draw the conservative debater into a calculated controversy. The
vice-presidential debate which was moderated by an ally of Obama whose
wedding Obama had recently attended was appalling. Biden
calculated juvenile laughter to befuddle his opponent and the moderator
joined his humor as the debate continued its one-sided course. In
the second presidential debate, the moderator contended against Romney
on
behalf of Obama in a clear display of partiality at one point even to
asserting her own liberal lie. I thought at that point that
Romney would win the election on the basis of sportsmanship
alone. However, tyranny cannot rest.
Now if Obama was concerned that things were slipping, he
could buy votes. An executive grant of short term amnesty for
illegals would buy him Latino votes. And win them he did.
I gave some thought that Hurricane Sandy was the wrath of
those occult supporters of Obama who were angry that Romney might
win.
Who could prove such a thing? Obama seemed to gain some
propaganda advantage from it anyway.
If these were not enough, election day itself produced
credible reports of widespread voter fraud favoring Obama.7
Although I believe Pastor Manning in the following video, I suspect the
contacts he said were made with him here were meant to discredit him
with disinformation perhaps to cover for the Secret Service visit that
preceded and his allegations that motivated it. CIA
and
Obama tried to kill Pastor Manning. Obama worked for CIA in 80s
1The
New Clinton Chronicles May
21, 2010. A must view for the evaluation of the health of our
democracy. Hurry, while Google is still showing entire video! 3Coroner's report of Donald
Young's death and Larry Sinclair's affidavit. PDF
file. 4Jerome R. Corsi, "Claim: Obama hid
'gay life' to become president," World News Daily, September 11, 2012, link. 5"Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade
Outraged MSNBC Hosts Invited To White House," The Huffington Post,
December 5, 2012, link. 6Jack Mirkinson,"Lawrence O'Donnell
Calls Himself A 'Socialist,' Slams Glenn Greenwald On 'Morning
Joe'," The
Huffington
Post, November 6, 2010, link. 7Michael Snyder, "22
Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A
Sham," Market Daily News, November 13th, 2012, link.
Document History
December 6, 2012 Created.
December 6, 2012 Reformatted and added more detail to some
footnotes. Changed "not" to "now" where misspelling might have
confused meaning.
December 6, 2012 Expanded last section under
Historical Acts of
the Abuse of Power. Added missing reference in text and improved
some wording.
