Posted by
Corthell on Friday, December 04, 2009 2:50:08 PM
''Organizations intended to keep people safe from harm become instead the basis for governments that threaten them with harm unless they toe the line dictated by some factional leader or agenda.''
Every
now and then a comment by one of the Obama faction's "puppet media" figureheads reveals more than intended about the faction's deeply inimical view of America. Commenting on the West Point venue for Obama's transparently deceptive speech on the deployment of additional U.S. troop to Afghanistan, MSNBC's Chris Matthews observed that Obama "went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case." Though a storm of criticism has led to the usual expressions of sorrow and phony repentance for his use of the term, it was, at the very least, a telling "Freudian slip," offering a glimpse of the core mentality that alone makes sense of the Obama faction's otherwise incomprehensibly destructive policies for the nation.
Like all other members of the U.S. military, the students and other military personnel at West Point take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States. The American military's respect for civilian authority is one of the hallmarks of our nation's history. It is doubtless also one reason the American republic (government of, by and for the people) has until now defied the fate predicted by political philosophers since ancient times for governments based on the sovereignty of the people. The president and indeed all the other officials in the different branches of the U.S. government derive their authority, and the deference the military shows for it, from the U.S. Constitution. They can nowhere feel more certain that their enunciation of policy will be respectfully received and dutifully followed than when they are on the grounds of the institution where this tradition of loyal respect and obedience is first ingrained as part of the honorable professional ethic of our military leaders (something Obama exploited by going there to explain his inexcusable and unpopular dithering with the lives of our troops.)
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Of course, the present occupant of the White House has expressed and seems intent on implementing an understanding of government that rejects both the basic moral premises of the U.S. Constitution and the institutional arrangements it establishes in light of them. (For much more on this read through the articles under the topic "Design for Despotism" on my Loyal to Liberty blog.) For a faction that intends to implement its agenda without regard for constitutional requirements, the U.S. military's proven record of constitutional loyalty may seem more hostile than reassuring. After all, the military oath commits our armed forces to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As the folks in Honduras have learned, even the highest civilian officials of a constitutional republic may take it into their heads to defy the clear and plain requirements of a written constitution. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117850