Buchanan Does Not Use The Word Oligarchy, But US Sen. Jeff Sessions Does

In ancient Greece, the democracy was overthrown by an oligarchy. But the rule, of the forty was also overturned and the democracy was restored. In The United States the oligarchs who run the US government do not announce its anti democratic control. Just as George Soros pretends he does not pay demonstrators for Black Lives Matter and other leftist groups and causes. It appears that Soros with the support of the White House works to destroy the United States, economically, politically, socially and militarily in order to establish one world government run by wealthy business elitists. The EU was formed for the benefit of the same power hungry few, using money as the unifying glue. It is not working well. A similar effort was proposed by former MA Governor Weld to make the United States, Canada and Mexico into one large political entity. The open southern  border is part of that, trying to make it happen without any notice to the people of the United States. It is what George H.W. Bush was referring to, when he spoke about the New World Order.

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In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states, the most delegates and the most votes — by nearly two million.
He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for huge wins in the largest states of the East, New York and Pennsylvania.
Yet, there is a growing probability that the backroom boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in Cleveland.
Over the weekend, Colorado awarded all 34 delegates to Ted Cruz. The fix had been in since August, when party officials, alarmed at Trump’s popularity, decided it would be best if Colorado Republicans were not allowed to vote on the party’s nominee.
After all, these poor folks might get it wrong.
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In state after state, when Trump wins, and moves on, the apparatchiks arrive — to thieve delegates for Cruz.
“This is a crooked system, folks,” says Trump, “the system is rigged. … I go to Louisiana. I win Louisiana. … Then I find out I get less delegates than Cruz because of some nonsense. … I say this to the RNC. I say it to the Republican Party: You’re going to have a big problem, folks, because the people don’t like what’s going on.”
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Sanders seems to be shorted every time he wins a primary or caucus. And the insurmountable hurdle he faces was erected against folks like Sanders some time ago — the 700-plus superdelegates.
These are Democratic congressmen, senators, governors and Party officials. By more than 10-1, close to 500 of these superdelegates have lined up to back Hillary Clinton and stop Sanders.
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The Democratic Party believes in democracy, up to a point — that point being that Democratic voters will not be permitted to nominate a candidate to whom the party elites object.
Richard Nixon’s 49-state triumph in 1972 cured the Democrats of their naive belief in democracy. Henceforth, the George McGoverns and Bernie Sanderses can run. But they will not be allowed to win.
Yet, since it is Trump and Sanders who have stirred the greatest passion and brought out the biggest crowds, if both are seen as having been cheated by insiders, then the American political system may suffer a setback similar to that caused by the “corrupt bargain” of 1824.
Andrew Jackson ran first in the popular vote and the Electoral College, but was short of victory. John Quincy Adams, who ran second, got Speaker Henry Clay to deliver the House of Representatives, and thus make Adams president. Clay became Adam’s secretary of state.
In 1828, Jackson got his revenge, winning the presidency. Clay would never make it. On his deathbed, Jackson confided that among the great regrets of his life was that he did not shoot Henry Clay.
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Sanders has rallied the young and working class, turned out the biggest crowds and generated the greatest enthusiasm.
But on the Republican side, the Party has had the largest turnout in American history. And the reason is Trump.
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If Sanders and his revolution are sent packing in Philadelphia, and Trump is robbed in Cleveland of a nomination Americans believe he won, political disillusionment, and political realignment, may be at hand.

http://buchanan.org/blog/will-trump-swindled-cleveland-125107

Will Trump Be Swindled in Cleveland, Too?
Monday - April 11, 2016 at 10:53 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan

Magna Carta 800 Years Old, Born June 15, 1215

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The Constitution did not merely create, form and “constitute” American government. It is law governing what the legislature, the executive, the courts, and even the states may or may not do. Unlike the English political institutions, American institutions may not alter or amend our Constitution without following that paramount law itself. Violations of this paramount law are not mere overreach or lawlessness; they are “illegal.”
The Constitution is not simply the rule of law over government; it truly governs government. The Constitution is intended to protect against arbitrary power through the trampling of rights by whims of the majority and their representatives, or the aggressions of the executive. Deference of the judiciary to government’s unconstitutional acts is neglect of its own legal duty.
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At the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta we cannot but be concerned by how much its spirit of limiting rule and providing freedoms and immunities has been eroded. Often this erosion came by using the very words of its provisions, especially those of “rights,” to increase the power of government over citizens, to limit freedom of religion and speech, and to subject citizens to laws and customs much more regimenting than most people in the feudal order might have imagined possible

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/magna_carta_and_the_law_that_governs_government.html

June 15, 2015
Magna Carta and the Law that Governs Government
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons

Young Americans Lack Civic Engagement, Knowldege of Governmental System

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Of all I read about July 4 on that celebratory day, by far the most important and not otherwise mentioned anywhere else was an article titled "Celebrating History We Don't Remember" by Ashley Bateman of the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia, which startlingly appeared in the New York Post that very day.
Its essence -- which surprised even me, who has been reporting on this frightening failure of American public education for years:
"Last administered in 2010, the last national civics assessment showed that less than half of eighth-graders understood the purpose of the Bill of Rights and only 10 percent displayed age-appropriate knowledge of our government's system of checks and balances" -- that's the constitutional separation of powers which bars any one of our three branches of government from reigning over the other two, as President Obama has kept doing most voraciously.
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An especially knowledgeable source of information on the actual effective teaching of civics in our public schools is CIRCLE: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, located at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff070914.php3#.U-stG90--yM

Jewish World Review

July 9, 2014 / 11 Tammuz, 5774
Dangers to U.S. liberties we missed on July 4
By Nat Hentoff

Respect for Constitution and Laws Essential for Democracy

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What distinguishes an institution from a flash mob is that its rules endure. They can be changed, of course. But only by significant supermajorities. That’s why constitutional changes require two-thirds of both houses plus three-quarters of the states. If we could make constitutional changes by majority vote, there would be no Constitution.
As of today, the Senate effectively has no rules. Congratulations, Harry Reid. Finally, something you will be remembered for.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-democrats-outbreak-of-lawlessness/2013/11/28/3184b6f2-579b-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html?hpid=z3

An outbreak of lawlessness
By Charles Krauthammer,
Published: November 28, 2013

Obama's Direction Apparent in IRS Targeting of Tea Party

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What was sold to the American public as a low-level scandal perpetrated by a few rogue employees – a scandal stopped after senior officials became aware and asserted control – is now (to borrow a Watergate phrase) “no longer operative.” Instead, we detail a long-running assault on the Tea Party, beginning shortly after its emergence in 2009, that is empowered, encouraged, and orchestrated not only by senior IRS officials in Washington, but also through outright targeting by the White House, Congressional Democrats, and the mainstream media.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/20/obamas-fingerpints-all-over-irs-tea-party-scandal/


Obama’s fingerprints all over IRS Tea Party scandal
By Jay Sekulow
Published October 20, 2013
FoxNews.com

Liberal Abuses of Police Powers, Pervasive Even in Cambridge MA

In Cambridge over the past 25 years, city, state and US officials have permitted crime families and Communists to harass a 70-year-old white man with a legal disability. Complaints to appointed and elected officials were ignored openly and insultingly. The City of Cambridge is run by an appointed  one man autocracy, with no oversight from elected officials. Limousine liberals claim they always speak for the most vulnerable. They do not explain that it is only the most vulnerable who are useful idiots for the liberals. The state is run by limousine liberal homosexuals from Harvard University. Harvard promotes diversity along with the Cambridge wannabes. But they are intolerant in the name of tolerance. US Offices in Massachusetts take their standard of behavior from the white-hating racially biased protocols of Eric Holder and his BFF Obama. Holder refuses to enforce laws in a race neutral manner. Obama and his BFF, and fellow Harvard Law School Graduate,  MA Gov. Patrick, choose which laws to enforce. So it is either the US government imitating Cambridge and Harvard's behavior, or the small minded city officials and Harvard are imitating Obama and his contempt for the Constitution and individual rights. In recent days the Cambridge Police Commissioner is alleged to have joined in the criminal harassment of the same man. IRS, Associated Press, Fast and Furious, Pigford farm subsidy scandal, New Black Panther Party, Benghazi, is not enough to remove the deceiving contemptuous of the Constitution hooligan from office? 

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All of these IRS actions took place in the years leading up to the 2012 election. They constitute the use of governmental power to intrude on the privacy and shackle the political freedom of American citizens. The purpose, obviously, was to overwhelm and intimidate—to kill the opposition, question by question and audit by audit.
It is not even remotely possible that all this was an accident, a mistake. Again, only conservative groups were targeted, not liberal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323582904578487460479247792.html

Updated May 17, 2013, 6:43 p.m. ET
This Is No Ordinary Scandal
Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.
By PEGGY NOONAN
Wall Street Journal

Short Term Greed Defeats Democracy

[From article] I am all too afraid that Benjamin Franklin correctly saw our nation’s destiny when he said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/the-end-of-the-republic/

THE END OF THE REPUBLIC?
Walter E. Williams applies 'tragedy of the commons' phenomenon to U.S. debt
WMD
May 28, 2012

Two Party System Better Than Eliminating House

Mr. Bernstein shows a lack of knowledge or dislike of Constitutional democracy, which requires two strong parties. Democracy fails in MA because it is a one-party system. Is it better to change the state constitution than to build up a strong opposition party? A one-chamber legislature allows for greater abuses. The Phoenix contributes to legislative dysfunction. Its one-sided reporting is propaganda for liberals, instead of factual reporting to keep the voters informed. The legislature and the executive showed their disdain for citizen initiatives, by ignoring them.

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/122818-in-the-wake-of-the-latest-corruption-scandal-let/

In the wake of the latest corruption scandal, let's just torch the offending chamber
Burning Down the House
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
Boston Phoenix
June 22, 2011