Asia Times: The cost of 'no government'

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The cost of 'no government'
By Julian Delasantellis


In the inky blackness of the night, I hear them. Here in the US Pacific Northwest, with the sun no longer ionizing the upper levels of the atmosphere, I can hear AM radio signals from stations up to 3,000 kilometers away, all the way to Chicago and beyond. For the most part they carry the buzz of call-in political talk shows, and it all sounds pretty much the same from one end of the radio spectrum to the other - when it comes to the financial system bailout bill that went down to defeat on Monday in the US House of Representatives, a violent, vitriolic, passionate, deeply visceral opposition to events transpiring in Washington, DC, can be heard.

If I didn't know better, I might have thought that I was listening to voices being broadcast from behind the borders of some oppressive dictatorship; it's citizens, like resistance fighters in World War II Europe, desperately calling out for help from the free world. So great is the alienation of the government from its people on this issue, you might have thought that the callers were making one final testament of the truth, for surely they believed that come the next dawn would also come the trucks to carry them off to the re-education camps.

One caller wants to know how the Congress can do the bailout; it's not in the constitution. Another says that her brother-in-law is the deputy sheriff in a small Minnesota town; he wants to issue arrest warrants for all 535 members of Congress, and the police authorities in the Nation's Capital would have to enforce them, for "it's in the constitution" (so is Article 1, Section 6, granting members of Congress protection from arrest while Congress is in session). One caller observes that the Second Amendment to the constitution, the provision that guarantees the private citizenry the right to own handguns, was "God's law, not man's law" - then she comments that what's needed is an armed citizen posse to be formed in the US heartland and then go to Washington to "take down" the perpetrators on Capitol Hill.

Is US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the author of the bailout plan that went down to defeat in a spectacular Gotterdammerung of financial market catastrophe in the US House of Representatives on Monday, the face that launched a thousand mobile homes? ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JJ01Dj03.html

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1. ... the private citizenry the right to own handguns, was "God's law, not man's law"

That's just bizarre.
Especially since guns are not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

I hope this woman was joking, otherwise she's an idiot.