DREIZIN FREEBIE: Dreizin wastes our “Constitutional order”, and lays down Excommunication

I am republishing this long response of mine, to an annoying commenter (bless his heart.) I am anonymizing his name, although it may not be his real name, but nonetheless. Here it is:

The Biggest Lie of American Mythology is that the USA is “free”, prosperous, etc., due to the superiority of its national-level political organization, and its Constitution in particular.

This Mythology discounts the contribution of Decentralized Management (joint Federal-state sovereignty and shared state-county authority) and a prosperous, literate “middle class”, capable of generating and exercising political will (up to and including well-armed insurrections or the threat/potential thereof)…..

…..both of which features were (in one way or another) inherited from Colonial times.

In short, the Mythology discounts the role of competing interests in checking (limiting) each other, throughout EVERY level of government, society, economy.

The “everyone limiting everyone” phenomenon, is what gives us our “freedoms”, NOT some ancient scrap of parchment, the majority of the signers of which (even Ben Franklin!!!), were slaveowners.

“Pluralism” exists because of plural (multiple) business/economic, professional/trade, social-ideological, regional, etc., interests capable of “competing” and defending themselves and their prerogatives, through aggressive will and through means to funding (because causes eat A LOT of money.)

Pluralism is simply the “natural state” of “affluent” societies.

(We can know that the early USA was “affluent” by looking at surviving Yankee commoner homes from the early 19th century. Many of those families had as much “floor space” as middle class households TODAY.)

You can have pluralism with no written constitution at all (and some countries do!!!)

Pluralism does NOT come from “on high.” It did not come to us from a scrap of parchment, signed by slaveowners.

The USA is NOT “great” because of its Federal Government, nor any associated documents.

Yankee (northern state) societies were the world’s greatest, BEFORE there was a Federal Government.

Their greatness merely carried over into the USA… for a while.

Sadly, those societies are long, long extinct.

(All that remains is a few of the worst features, such as, the tendency towards periodic/cyclical bouts of messianic fanaticism/hysteria, as we saw most recently in 2020.)

As for the scrap of parchment…..

Lawlessness and political expedience… and after-the-fact legalization-codification of lawlessness and political expedience… form the BASIS of U.S. Constitutional Law.

The American concept of a constantly-reinterpreted “Living Constitution”… is no law at all. It’s all just politics and the needs of the moment.

This is key to understanding the Biggest Lie of American Mythology.

“Judicial Review” (Federal court power to overrule the Acts of Congress, Executive Branch officials, and the States) is NOT in the U.S Constitution. To defend U.S. Judicial Review, U.S. Constitutional Law relies on a few scant, prior writings by several of the Founding Fathers, as well as (don’t laugh!!!) on interpreting the ABSENCE of Judicial Review as PROOF of the Constitution’s “deliberate vagueness” on the topic, which was “clearly intended” to “let the issue be worked out later.”

A CYNIC might say, the Supreme Court’s 1803 claim (13 years after the Constitution was ratified by all of the original states) to Judicial Review, is a usurpation… and a convenient one, as it happens to form the basis of U.S. Constitutional Law, providing lucrative employment to two centuries worth of Constitutional lawyers.

And it just so happens, the “usurpation” view, has long been conventional wisdom among American historians of that period. As for Constitutional lawyers… Well, they MIGHT be a bit biased.

Moving on… Direct taxation of income is expressly prohibited under the Constitution’s original language. Moreover, very similar to the 2020 presidential election lawsuits, Federal courts have NEVER ruled on the substance of legal challenges to state ratification of the “Income Tax Amendment.”

The claims—e.g., of procedural violations, to include, no record of six state governors ever signing their respective state ratification bills—of the ONLY book ever written on the Amendment’s passage, have never been substantively challenged.

Courts have “copped out” of the matter, by claiming that it’s up to Congress to rule on an Amendment’s validity, or, that many decades of income tax collection, and prior court refusals to challenge it, establish “precedent” that modern courts are in no position to challenge (fully circular cluster-tard logic, but essential to the U.S system.)

In short, this is the GREATEST “HOT POTATO” OR “CAN OF WORMS” IN U.S. HISTORY… just as it was in 1913. No one wants to touch it. Please, show me the judge who will claim that his paycheck is funded illegally!!!

As for military conscription (which remains today in a vestigial form, and which will likely be reactivated in the event of a war with China)…..

It is an obvious violation of the plain text of the 13th Amendment’s clause against “Involuntary Servitude.” Naturally, conscription was “legalized” by the Supreme Court in January 1918, when, it just so happens, there was a “war fever” hysteria ongoing, and a massive draft (several hundred thousand men per month) ALREADY ongoing, and, many scores, perhaps even several hundred, Americans who had openly criticized the war, were LOCKED UP IN JAIL.

Of course, ruling against conscription at that time, was NOT an option. As I said, politics and the needs of the moment.

As for the U.S. central bank (the “Federal Reserve” and its governing board, the “Federal Open Markets Committee”)…..

“Modern legal scholarship” holds that “the Fed” is constitutional because Congress has the power to both (1) outsource its constitutional prerogative to create and regulate money, to an independent agency, and (2) to create independent agencies, in general.

This is “disingenuous” on its face, as the Fed is not merely an agency, rather, it has become a separate and co-equal branch of Government, now directly or indirectly responsible for ***ALL*** economic and financial policy (including protecting holders of bank bonds/stock from losses) and even non-monetary indicators (employment, the stock market, GDP growth), as well as for backstopping the Executive’s taxation capacity through the purchase of Federal debt (in some years, the MAJORITY of such debt)…..

…..thus, in fact, giving the Fed (whether it chooses to exercise it or not) ***POWER OVER CONGRESS.***

Yeah, sure, that’s some “agency.”

Well, look… Perhaps the question, “Is the Fed constitutional?”, can be answered as follows:

“Whether or not it is constitutional, would we not HAVE TO assume or pretend (and create “modern legal scholarship” to convince ourselves) that it is so, in order to fund all of our beloved Government paychecks and welfare benefits, as well as our wars and the Ukraine and so forth?”

If the answer to this question is “yes”… Well, what did I say about expediency and the needs of the moment?

As for the wars, the Constitution DOES NOT grant the U.S. Government the power to engage in foreign (not an invasion of the USA or a domestic insurrection) armed conflict SHORT OF declared war, EXCEPT as regards the “letters of marque and reprisal” clause of the Constitution, which refers to licensing pirates to attack and plunder foreign shipping.

Yes, later laws and “legal scholarship” have (FWIW) “established” the President’s authority to carry out certain foreign military operations under a declaration of “national emergency.”

HOWEVER, EVEN IF that is “constitutional”, it must be DECLARED.

Believe it or not, the “marque and reprisal” clause, was once proposed by U.S. National Security Council lawyers as justifying foreign “special operations”, “black ops”, covert wars, etc.

Is that total bullshit? Of course it is!!!

Is there a constitutional basis for these operations? To include, what the USA is doing inside the Ukraine, right now? Of course, there is NOT.

But, it happens anyway.

If you were to challenge it in a Federal court, you’d be told, you have no “standing”, because you’re not impacted… and, oh, by the way, the court defers (as almost always happens) to the Executive on “matters of national security”, so, take a hike.

Folks, on matters of so-called national security, “the court defers”, “the court must defer”, “it is not within the court’s competence”, and “the court defers.”

In short, they don’t want to touch this stuff, as they don’t want to get blamed if maaaaybe one U.S. soldier gets killed, or one terrorist “gets through”, or whatever. They just don’t need it.

As long as it’s only FOREIGNERS being screwed over, the Constitution does not apply, AT ALL.

The courts will (and do) say, it’s up to the President and Congress to decide. Next issue, please!!! Tranny rights, whatever!!! Something, anything else!!!

Folks, I could go on. Instead…..

I will merely summarize, that the U.S. Constitution does NOT govern, nor has EVER governed, the USA.

The USA has ALWAYS been governed by politically convenient/expedient “interpretations” (or ignore-ations) of its Constitution…..

…..which almost always involve matters that were not, and could not even remotely have been, foreseen by the Founding Fathers.

No, Constitutional lawyers are not scammers or bullshitters. They are among the smartest people around. But, like income tax accountants… or most Government contractors in Washington, DC… or the Vatican’s College of Cardinals… they are working a SYSTEM that is fundamentally bullshit.

Just bullshit piled atop bullshit.

If you don’t mind using Leftist language, you may call it “a construct.”

As for you, “XXX XXXXX”…..

I granted you a GENEROUS opportunity to recite The Tard’s Prayer, so as to atone for spewing crypto-supremacist, “the glory of Western civilization… the individual is sovereign”, liber-freak-a-tarian HORSESHIT theory on my “No Propaganda Zone” blog…..

But instead, you chose to CONDESCEND unto me, and MOCK me. Me, a living god!!!

You also continue to spew propaganda on this other matter, namely, that the USA is awesome because the U.S. Constitution reigns supreme.

You have communicated your conviction that Critical Thinking, which I teach here, does not apply to you. You have aggressively polluted the world’s only spot, this blog, where Propaganda and Conditioning of every sort is prohibited. You have brought Mind-Filth into this Holy of Holies. You have committed a DESECRATION.

Therefore, “XXX XXXXX”, you are, hereby and forthwith, cast out from behind My Holy Paywall…..

…..and into the Dark Screaming Pit of Tardation.

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