By James Hufferd, Ph.D.
Founder, 911 Truth of Central Iowa
When I was living in Brazil as an academic two decades ago, the country’s
powerful military, after years of running the show, cut a deal with the ascendant
progressive civilian politicians giving them full latitude unimpeded within
a certain sphere, but leaving other aspects of the country’s affairs strictly
and permanently under military control. The result was Brazil’s new Constitution
of 1988, which made voting a compulsory duty of citizenship. As a result, no
non-progressive candidate for the presidency has gotten anywhere since. But
elective civilian power is strictly limited.
It strikes me that the relationship between the constitutional government
of the U.S. and its para-military security services, the tools of shadow dictators
of multinational mega-business, has gotten to be strikingly similar. If my observation
is correct, it would largely explain the seeming cowardice and complicit status
of the whole Congress, vis-à-vis the rogue executive branch and its repeated
trampling of the Constitution in recent years: Congress, including its progressives,
simply knows where the line is. And Congress knows, even in advance, that the
Executive, brought to heel by the shadow government’s board of directors,
will disdain the Constitution and public opinion in carrying out its ruthlessly
enforceable “agreement” with the true sovereigns of the United States.
I am as dismayed as anyone that our new, more progressive President has not
so far turned out to be a change agent in the vital sphere of civil liberties
and restoring accountability through due process. But, my take is a bit different
than most: I suspect that he doesn’t govern as an enlightened democratic
leader, responsive to the public will and constitutional mandates, because he
can’t. Like his recent “progressive” predecessors
(maybe more than them, because he was maybe not supposed to gain the presidency),
he governs with a gun to his head. Even so, he might have a scheme in mind and
make a dash to put it into effect at some point. Highly intelligent JFK, like
Lincoln earlier, tried a gambit (by way of disestablishing the Fed and introducing
the “Greenback”, respectively) to defeat the encroaching financial
masters. And, apparently, both paid.