OBAMA’S GODFATHER: CHAPTER 11: THIS NEW ROME

Editor’s Note:

This chapter discusses what the New Rome would like. We can turn to history and political science for partial answers. But those answers are destined to be imperfect, because other factors come into play. Two of them seem are salient to me. One is the fact that in this New Rome a unitary view of the world would emerge. The paradigmatic expression of this comes from Cicero: “there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and one ruler, that is God, over all of us, its promulgator and its enforcer”. The problem with this unitary view of government is that it begets absolute power and thus leads to tyranny as de Montesquieu opined. The other concern is that the relentless march of technology will change human beings in ways that are not entirely predictable. Those of us who did not grow up with the computer look at those who did with a sense of awe and the certain knowledge that they are different from us in ways that have nothing to do with age. Some readers may live to see the New Rome, others will not and 100 years from now fate will know which group was the lucky one.

CHAPTER 11: A NEW ROME

According to Hobbs, our ancestors found life in the state of nature “nasty, brutish and short”. So they formed Civilization for their mutual aid and comfort. But this entailed a corresponding loss of freedom. When that loss became intolerable they moved on or they revolted. The Exodus is one example of this. The Barons at Runnymede gave us the Magna Carta, Western Europeans gave us the Enlightenment and the Founding Fathers of this country gave us the Constitution and Bill of Rights which protect our freedom within certain tolerances. When those rights are violated and a court of competent jurisdiction provides an effective remedy, the fabric of society is maintained. Those rights were bequeathed not only to us, but to all nations who wish to adopt them.

That is the great edifice which megalomaniacs like Soros aim to tear down. They begin by assuming a unitary view of the world, and arrogate to themselves vast powers to reconstruct it as they see fit. When you have such powers at your disposal the temptation to use them for your own gratification can be irresistible. You become like a maniacal child. The human beings whose lives you are playing with become insignificant, as you become desensitized to their fate. Your perspective is like that of a bombardier flying over enemy territory dropping bombs on people you will never meet this side of the grave. It is no use to have a picture of Rita Hayworth on the bomb. Your quarry will be just as dead when you are through.

Whether the megalomaniacal Soros, the absurd Chairman Mo or the messianic Obama realize it or not, the New World Order will end in Rome not Athens. It will be a dictatorship as opposed to a democracy. The experience of the last century provides good and sufficient notice of what will occur when a Messianic leader with a cult following takes over the collective mind of a credulous population through mass movement politics, propaganda and scapegoats . . . human nature being what it is. In essence, these fools are dabbling in political black magic and sooner or later the entire proposition comes down to this:

“The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We are different from the oligarchies of the past. They pretended and even believed they had seized power unwillingly or for a limited time, and just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seized power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” (Note: those words were written by George Orwell in the classic book 1984. However, they could just have easily come from the mouth of Rahm Emanuel)

In this New Rome, the American People would be disenfranchised- again- as they were the 2008 Democratic Primary. And the words of the Poet Juvenal in the 1st Century AD would ring true: “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the people have abdicated their duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out high civic office, military command, Roman legions-everything, now restrains itself and hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”

The New World Order would preserve the fiction of the nation state for a period of time, but as the forces of global consolidation accelerated the nation state would be superseded, except for those matters which were local and had no global impact. The argument for global consolidation would be we must now do X in order to save the planet, to rectify global imbalances of one kind or another, and/or to promote global harmony. We would become Citizens of the World and a new set of legal rights and responsibilities would attach. Most likely, our existing rights would diminish and our obligations would increase. International courts would assert jurisdiction over matters now considered to be national in scope. The Constitutional structure we have in the United States would not be the model because it limits government and gives the individual power to challenge its edicts. The UN Charter and the tenets of International Law would not work either because they are predicated on the continuity of the sovereign state which would lapse over the course of time. The Bill of Rights would become a dead letter with respect to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to sovereignty, the right to fully participate in the process. Political power would be vested in what Learned Hand called “a Bevy of Platonic Guardians”.

The countervailing argument in favor of the unitary view was given to us by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1913. It suggests among other things genetic engineering and population control. Mr. Justice Holmes, Civil War veteran, Captain in the Massachusetts Regiment Union Army, left for dead on the defeated battlefield of Antietam, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, appointed the Supreme Court of the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt is widely regarded as the best legal mind this country has produced, and-dare I say it- better than even. . . Sotomayor. Yes, I know, that is hard to believe. In any event, here is what Holmes told us a hundred years ago:

“If I am right, it will be a slow process for our people to reach rational views, assuming that we are allowed to work peacefully toward that end. But as I grow older I grow calm. If I feel what are perhaps an old man’s apprehensions, that competition from new races will cut deeper than working men’s disputes and will test whether we can hang together and fight; if I fear that we are running through the world’s resources at a pace we cannot keep, I do not lose my hopes. I do not pin my dreams for the future to either my country or even my race. I think it probable that civilization will last as long as I care to look ahead—perhaps in smaller numbers but perhaps also bred to greatness and splendor by science. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it has never seen but is to be—that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth I catch the dreaming glimpse of peace.”

CHAPTER 12: THE GHOST OF PAUL REVERE

EPILOGUE…

Author: Bill Boe 11/03/2009

THE GHOST OF PAUL REVERE

First they called us racists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a racist;

Then they called us a mob, and I did not speak out—because I was not a mobster;

Then they threatened a news network, and I did not speak out—because I was not a journalist;

Then they destroyed our country, and I did not speak out—because I wanted to believe their lies;

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me. . . . .

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