Backtalk from a disgruntled reader

And that's a good thing -- 'cause we're basically in agreement. In response to my previous post on the expanding imperial presidency, anonymous wrote:

"To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the president calls them 'enemy combatants,' would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution... and the country."

Judge Motz continues, "For a court to uphold a claim to such extraordinary power would do more than render lifeless the Suspension Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the rights to criminal process in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments; it would effectively undermine all of the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. It is that power – were a court to recognize it – that could lead all our laws to go unexecuted, and the government itself to go to pieces."

Dare I say 50 pieces?

A true secessionist would welcome any effort on the part of the government to destroy itself and set us free.

No argument here. I've said before that if we really want to reverse the loss of liberty inherent in a rapidly centralizing autocracy, we have to give up trying to reform a reform-proof system. So instead of voting for John McCain and wishing and hoping he'll one day realize he's a Republican and will support a conservative agenda, we should vote for Obama. Why? Because McCain will impose his globalist, Neocon, Open Border agenda while invoking the language of conservatism, which will more deeply entrench these measures in society and therefore do more harm to our culture. The openly radical Obama, on the other hand, will impose an openly hostile agenda that will galvanize a genuine conservative revolt.

In a nutshell, an open assault will rally people together, making them stronger, while a Trojan Horse will destroy them.

Here's just one example of what Obama will do to further cripple an already dysfunctional political system. He's in favor of the Akaka Bill, which will recognize native Hawaiian sovereignty over the lands wrongfully taken by a rapacious US, and jump-start the break-up of the empire. Here's what the Akaka Bill will do:

Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, addressed the substance of the second amendment in debate on the bill. Abercrombie assured Flake and other Western state lawmakers that the Akaka Bill is not dedicated to the seizure of land by government, but to Native Hawaiian control of existing land assets long ago ceded to them.

"This is inherently a very conservative bill ... What we're trying to do in Hawaii is get the government out of the lives of Native Hawaiians so that they can make their own decisions. The bottom line here is that this is a bill about the control of assets. This is about land, this is about money, and this is about who has the administrative authority and responsibility over it."

Let's see -- Hawaiians can make their own decisions about land, money, control of assets, and administrative authority. Sounds like sovereignty to me.

And, like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, once one state regains control over its own affairs, the others will want it too.

So, yes, let's cheer on the empire's self-immolation. And we can even nudge things along by supporting Barack Hussein Obama ... for Last President of the United States.