Hope Against Hope

Since the dawn of the human enaction of structural governing systems, man has subjected fellow man to the perils of the dark heart of power abuse. For every tier, level, check, balance, senate, consensus, etc etc. there has been an appointed man bent on manipulating it toward an end other than for the intended governed.

On September 20th 2008, a government gone wild were soundly thwarted in an effort to disguise this manipulation. Right here in the Good 'Ol USA (tm).

Dick Cheney has been fighting like a wolverine to shape the definition of his office and of his responsibility to the country he claims to protect. His counsel has been attempting to recast the Office of the Vice President as OUTSIDE of the Executive Branch originally created in our crumbling Constitution. By this definition he would not be required to preserve most of his records of his years in the office. Anyone smell something rotten in Denmark?

Article II reads as follows in its opening paragraph:
"The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:..."

Clearly, unless you are a dark hearted lawyer, our Founding Fathers intended the Executive Branch to consist of a President TOGETHER with a Vice-President.

Thanks to a group of equally wolverine-like citizens called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), this case has made it all the way to the U.S. District Court. On September 20th Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (a Patriot) ordered Cheney that he must preserve records of his office under the law of the Presidential Records Act.

A victory for the people of the United States.

September 20th should be made a National Holiday. National Citizens Day.

We really do have the power. They really do not want us to have it.

Now the fight begins to see what's in the notebooks...