The administrative state, corporate control, and the Common Law. Coming out of today's previous broadcast, What Really Happened with Michael Rivero, I'd like to address the issue this statement: breaking the 'law'. The statement was made - but what do we mean when we say this? Not seeking to cast aspersions or get hung up on semantics, it is nonetheless important to define terms - particularly so in a society and era increasingly defined by 'post-truth' politics and propaganda - i.e. Machiavellian intrigue and deception, i.e. lies. What most fail to realize is; in today's America, there is no longer 'law' - there is only 'administrative procedure' - i.e. a 'feudal' system of feuds, rampant 'winner take all' militarism, and perpetual conflict.
Some may ask, “Why isn't anyone talking about this, and 'blowing the whistle'?” Well, many have over the years and decades - and this system under which we suffer is not a new issue, as is well established by even a cursory read of the Founding Fathers' documents and correspondence. In fact, the system under which we currently suffer was foreshadowed, and has been well documented along the way. A few noteworthy quotes along these lines:
Quotes
“The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government…”
— Who Owns the Federal Reserve Banks | In Plain English | St. Louis Fed
“…paper is poverty, … it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington (May 27, 1788)
“For those who hold the Constitution of the United States in high regard and who are concerned about the fate of its principles in our contemporary practice of government, the modern state ought to receive significant attention. The reason for this is that the ideas that gave rise to what is today called "the administrative state" are fundamentally at odds with those that gave rise to our Constitution. In fact, the original Progressive-Era architects of the administrative state understood this quite clearly, as they made advocacy of this new approach to government an important part of their direct, open, comprehensive attack on the American Constitution.”
— Ronald J. Pestritto, The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government (November 20, 2007)
“The post-New Deal administrative state is unconstitutional, and its validation by the legal system amounts to nothing less than a bloodless constitutional revolution.”
— Gary Lawson, The Rise and Rise of the Administrative State, Harvard Law Review Vol. 107, No. 6 (Apr., 1994), pp. 1231-1254
“If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”
— Smedley Butler, reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize military support for a fascist-coup, as related by Butler to Congress (1934)