Interesting Article:
IDEAS: Why would policy makers hand over the national-security keys to unelected officials?
GLENNON: It hasn’t been a conscious decision….Members of Congress are generalists and need to defer to experts within the national security realm, as elsewhere. They are particularly concerned about being caught out on a limb having made a wrong judgment about national security and tend, therefore, to defer to experts, who tend to exaggerate threats. The courts similarly tend to defer to the expertise of the network that defines national security policy.
The presidency itself is not a top-down institution, as many people in the public believe, headed by a president who gives orders and causes the bureaucracy to click its heels and salute. National security policy actually bubbles up from within the bureaucracy. Many of the more controversial policies, from the mining of Nicaragua’s harbors to the NSA surveillance program, originated within the bureaucracy. John Kerry was not exaggerating when he said that some of those programs are “on autopilot.”
There is a Fourth Branch of Government not mentioned in the Constitution. You could say it is an Unconstitutional Branch of Government. They are mostly Democrats for two reasons. The ”Civil Service” was created when democrats were in power, so the first batch of permenant civil servants were the patronage workers placed in jobs by elected officials. The supervisors were then all democrats and they had the choice to hire whomever they wanted and they wanted democrats. Future supervisors were also appointed by the old supervisors so a continuation of the democrat civil service continued. Remember I said two reasons and the second one is that republicans tend to want to work in private industry where individual ambition is rewarded. The proof of all this is that 95% of all government workers take a democrat ballot in primary voting.
The IRS by its nature cannot be reformed or made nonpartisian, it must be abolished and never created again.
Not only will voting lead to no change, it may also likely screw up a past relinquishment.
Renounce, relinquish, just get off the plantation and do not look back. Be thankful you were one of the lucky ones to get out…..the epiphany will come and you will give thanks.
@George
For those of us that took another citizenship but then actions that negated relinquishment we have no other option but to renounce, and until we do that, we can vote (and be subject to the most complex and unfair tax regime for expats in the known universe). If you can vote, vote Republican because they have at least a published plan against CBT and FATCA. Will it change, well it took years before the ‘clowns’ in DC repealed Prohibition after loss of life and liberty of many innocents.
Not Obama. Obama is quite willing to go against unelected experts: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-20/cia-warned-obama-funding-rebels-doesn%E2%80%99t-work-%E2%80%A6-obama-decided-fund-syrian-rebels-anyw
…and from one of the comments:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pardon-us-for-our-countrys-existence-in-the-middle-of-your-military-bases-russian-foreign-minister-lavrovs-speech-at-the-un/5407937
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it” – Mark Twain
While the IRS is supposedly “focused” on the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, IRS Commissioner Koskinen says the emphasis should be on selling them to the public. “Bill of Goods” better applies to what he’s selling, but you decide.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwkm8aro1k&feature=youtu.be
Odumber has a good cast for his play:
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/15/73576/-Soviet-America-Bush-Hires-2-Former-KGB-Chiefs
“Bush has hired not one, but TWO former heads of the Soviet KGB to help spy on Americans.
You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security. Do you think he will share his expertise in “security” to prepare US citizens for domestic internal passports under the pretense of fighting the never-ending “War on Terrorism”?
Primakov has another old KGB friend working with him in the Department of Homeland Security, General Alexander Karpov, former KGB station chief of their Washington station at their embassy and the first director of the Russian Federal Security Service.” …..
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it” – Mark Twain
That’s a good one…haven’t heard it before.
Most of the folks on Brock have already given up or are in the process of giving up on the US. Voting with your feet is the only vote that counts with that government. It won’t make a difference down there but it will make a big difference in your own life.
But here in Canada, every dollar contributed to ADCS is a vote that actually has a chance of making a difference. And you can vote as often as you want!