Where’s that switch?

I enjoyed what Ed Bradford posted in the TCOT Action Projects Constitutional Classroom, today.

Ed posted, in part:

"We're soon going to have too much to talk about. Cap and Tax is another interesting "issue". I have declared it to be a "law respecting an establishment of religion". I say that because CHIGW (pronounced "chig-wa") is the Church of Human Induced Global Warming as established by the EPA Administrators beliefs! I found this in the EPA reports on CO2.

Since a known relationship between CO2 emissions and weather is missing, any actions (laws) based in that have to be based on simple beliefs. When this country was in its infancy, governments paid the salaries of local church leaders. It wasn't until the early 1800's that most of the paid positions were eliminated in rewritten state constitutions. Note, however, the US Constitution was silent on the issue at the time."

I like the thinking on the establishment of religion issue, but I think that the collusive association of media, Wall Street, and Government has sufficiently watered down direct accountability. They are all hiding behind the other. I like the premise though and feel it might resonate with voters if added to the enumerable reasons to demand Al Gore be tarred and feathered. If only the "green" thing could have been somehow associated with Jesus Christ. California's willing embrace of "green" gimmickry will someday be its most egregious folly and "gift" to the rest of the Union, along with wide open borders and antichristianity.

Allan Hampton, another fellow classmate queried about what part of TCOTUS provides specifically language to enforce and punish elected officials that violate their oaths of office.

I'm afraid if you are seeking an on/off switch or a silver bullet solution to enforce or correct unethical behavior from within TCOTUS, you will have spent a lot of time and energy for naught.

Generations of politicians have normalized hubris and have developed traditional violations of ethics. That is the real reason they have perpetuated the wall between church and state. Wiggle room. Mercurial issue positioning to pander to special interests and total avoidance of personal accountability or responsibility have become "savvy politics."

Gerrymandering, government enabled voter fraud, electronic voting with no paper trail, elections decided by a compromised judicial system… all being played out in real-time play by play live broadcasting TV among burger commercials and gadget pitchmen have mesmerized a nation.

It will take more than a single obscurity within the Constitution to set this all even close to right. It will take a many-pronged and orchestrated methodology of education and activation of the citizenry, made aware of how governmental exploitation of carefully cultivated fear has divided them one from another, preventing them as a whole from expecting oaths of office to be honored by the elected and appointed.

Most importantly, it will take leadership from within the body of this nation to emerge from outside of the existing political establishment, armed with the commitment to ALL of the principles and purposes written into the construction of the Constitution of the United States. It will not be because they have been chained to an oath. It will be because they have made an oath within themselves.

I watched the current president stand before the original documents of the Framers to read a speech from Teleprompters to a national audience. More was said by the media about his "stagecraft" than was said about his self-serving content. I found myself wishing that he'd just turn around and read the real news to the nation.