“Six Days from Sunday” and the Continuity of Government 1/2
October 27, 2024 | Sundance |
Incredible as it seems, at least to me,it is the four-year anniversary of this outline[GO DEEP].
During the rushed debate over the Patriot Act, waswhen I first heard political officials talking about the importance of “continuity of government.”
I immediately recognized what all these DC voices weredescribing was a construct of a post-911 government that would exist and maintain itself without the elected representatives of WeThe People.
The intelligence gathering and homeland security system put into place after thePatriot Act was passed, is a bureaucratic administrative state without the presence of elected officials controlling the apparatus. That leads to the following question:
How can a constitutional republic function without elected officials in control of it?
That question is at the heart of our current situation.
That question is at the epicenter of this “new American democracy” that no one seems to understand.
The simple answer is it cannot.
We have been fighting this three-headed IC monster (DHS, DNI, DOJ-NSD) ever since.
This reality the underlying predicate behind why Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Special Counsel charges against Trump.This reality is also the underlying framework behind why the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the plenary power of the Presidentwith control over the executive.
In the post-9/11 system that was created by the Patriot Act, our Constitutional Republic was inextricably fractured, placing systems and silos in charge of government under the auspices of “continuity of government.”
From that moment forth, elected representatives no longer held authority or oversight over the national security apparatus. Instead, the Patriot Act flipped the actual system of democratically elected representative government.
The RESULT:Our elected officials became subservient to the institutional interests of unelected agency officials. As Senator Schumer calls them “the six ways from Sunday” coalition.
This reality empirically surfaces with people likeformer AG Bill Barr saying the President does not have unilateral authority over the DOJ. Also, the Lawfare approach and narrative that a President is not the arbiter of governing power.Both statements are constitutionally false, as affirmed by SCOTUS– Thank God.
Understand this. This is the root of the cancer that was always present, silent and lurking in the background institutions prior to 9/11.After the Patriot Act passed, that cancer fully metastasized and entered the bloodstream of American governance.
What was previously a slimy bag of institutional snakes, kept in place by a tenuously worn nylon bag – sewn from the remaining fabric of our constitution, was released by the Patriot Act….
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/10/27/six-days-from-sunday-and-the-continuity-of-government/