Hydeism
Jedrzej Polak
jpolak at it.pl
Mon Dec 21 11:42:04 CST 1998
The matter before the House is a question of the
willful, premeditated, deliberate corruption of the nations
system of justice. Perjury and obstruction of justice cannot
be reconciled with the office of the president of the Unted
States.
The peoples trust has been betrayed. The nations
chief executive has shown himself unwilling or incapable of enforcing
its laws for he has corrupted the rule of law the
rule of law by his perjury and his obstruction of justice." "The
President is the trustee of the nations conscience and so are we here
today.
Nothing I can think of more clearly illustrates that
America is a continuing experiment, never finished; that our
democracy is always a work in progress. Then this debate
today for we sit here with the power to shake and reconfigure the
charter of our freedom, just as the founders and framers did. We can
strengthen our Constitution by giving it content and meaning,
or we can weaken and wound it by tolerating and thus
encouraging lies under oath and evasions and breaches of
trust on the part of our chief executive.
The phrase rule of law is no pious aspiration from a
civics textbook. The rule of law is what stands between all
of us and the arbitrary exercise of power by the state. The
rule of law is the safeguard of our liberties. The rule of law is
what allows us to live our freedom in ways that honor the
freedom of others, while strengthening the common good.
This is not a question of perfection; its a question of
foundations. This isnt a matter of setting the bar too high;
its a matter of securing the basic structure of our freedom
which is the rule of law.
In creating a presidential system, the framers invested
that office with extraordinary powers. If those powers are
not exercised within the boundaries of the rule of law, if the
president breaks the law by perjury and obstructs justice by
willfully corrupting the legal system, that president must be
removed from office.
To Hyde Or Not To Hyde?
Jedrzej Polak
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