Wednesday.....Culture.....When Power Vanishes

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of tribunals held by the victorious allies beginning in 1945. The trials were not only for the military but for those in other professions who committed crimes. We already know but should keep it fresh in our minds that power corrupts and that those corrupted seem to act as if they will always be in power. But alas, time goes by, things change, and the advantages once had disappear along with the protection. Government officials, corporate officers and others in authority often fail to recognize that a time will come when others hold the keys to the file cabinets, or more appropriately today, the passwords to the computers. What we have experienced in the past twenty months is so dramatically opposed to our heritage, traditions and a strong national defense that when a new Congress convenes, should it be led my men and women as outraged as the public, we may find ourselves in our own series of trials that will make Watergate look insignificant. Should new editors eventually take over we may find a resurgence of legitimate journalism. Books tend to come from authors who were in the administration that are revealing of the inner-workings of the decisions that were made. Authors that are outside of the administration are no longer stigmatized as those criticizing an administration protected by the media. In short, the armor will then be off. Some questions that may be answered after this group in Washington D. C. leaves are "Where did the money go?", "Who gained from the decisions that were made?", "What figures given to the public were distorted?", "What deals with either world elites, corporations or foreign governments were made for political reasons and endangered the American economy or national defense?", "Was there, as many say today, an ideology foreign to America that was pursued by stealth and deception?", "What were the covert reasons behind pushing global warming and illegal immigration amnesty?",   "Was our constitution knowingly and effectually abrogated by a small army of czars and judges placed in their positions specifically to nullify laws made by the states?". If Barack Obama's many documents such as a birth certificate and college transcripts eventually are discovered and indicate that he applied for a position with a false resume with the result being two Supreme Court justices with strong biases but weak credentials, will we just pass this off as "a lesson learned" or will the courts then challenge the many changes swiftly and deftly brought upon us without public support? The President is currently trying to rejuvenate his base but they may respond with Fool me once...shame on you, fool me twice...shame on me!  Messrs. Axelrod, Emanuel, Geithner and others may move on but their decisions and actions may come back to haunt them and it would be wise for those replacing them to know off the bat that a new Congress may not care one iota about the Newsweek's cover stories, New York Times' editorials or Saturday Night Live skits but only adherence to a constitution that the people once procured and are now defending with the same fervor as Washington, Jefferson et al.