I found this while doing my morning reading on line and decided to share it in it's entirety. I'd LOVE to take credit for this piece, because it is so well done, but the kudos's must go to Mr. Pat Boone. Yes THAT Pat Boone! (For those of you old enough to remember anyway) SO! Without further delay I give you Mr. Boone's thoughts on Treason..... and who *might* just be guilty..... if only our congress could find it's brains and balls.
“The traitor rots the soul of a nation,
he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of
the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A
murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century B.C.
I’ve recently read a biography of Benedict Arnold, American history’s
most notorious traitor. Though he was beneficiary of our young
country’s opportunities and honors, rising through the military to the
rank of major general, historians record he was arrogant and impatient
with civilian deliberateness and legislative oversight. He courted the
favor of British loyalists, angering the patriots – and exhibited such a
love and need for money that he lined his pockets with questionable
side ventures.
He decided he wasn’t sufficiently appreciated by his fellows and
formulated a treasonous plan to crush the Revolution and revenge himself
on Congress. When, amazingly, he was given the command of West Point,
he plotted with British Gen. Clinton to surrender the fort for 20,000
pounds! The plot was discovered, and Arnold barely managed to escape to
England, where he lived out his life as a social outcast … and infamous traitor.
Is it remotely possible such a terrible thing could happen in America
today? What would one of our leaders have to do to be accused of
treason? Well, let’s create a purely hypothetical scenario.
Suppose America elects a charismatic young president who makes all
kinds of brave promises and sweeps into the White House. This young man
not only has little political or governmental experience, but none at
all in business or administration. Curiously, his upbringing is never
closely examined or evaluated; it’s just assumed that anybody elected
president must love America – but this young man had been
trained by parents and others to consider this country a colonial
oppressor and unfit to be a world leader! In college, by his own autobiographical account, he sought out Marxist professors, in not one but three colleges.
Once elected, he uses his new found executive authority to seal off
all his early school, passport and travel records, lest his true intents
be uncovered. He eventually has a fake “copy of a birth certificate”
created and exhibited on the White House website, complete with glaring
errors that betray its falsehood. Somehow Congress seems mesmerized and
intimidated from confronting him, so he creates a phalanx of legislative
“czars” to regulate and virtually stifle all business and energy
progress, and these “czars” – among them known Muslim and Marxist and
homosexual activists – report not to Congress but directly to him!
Having declared that he considered the U.S. Constitution a “flawed”
document, he proceeds as president to ride roughshod over the document
and its establishment of three separate and equal branches of our
government, declaring openly if Congress won’t give him what he wants,
he “has a phone and a pen” and will make executive decisions and even
change laws he has crammed through the legislature, determined to
effectively dismantle the two-party system and the separation-of-powers concept.
Now, theoretically, many might call all this treason. But wait.
Suppose that this increasingly arrogant young man, having become
commander in chief of the military, begins to quietly fire and replace
full admirals and generals who object to his decisions to withdraw from
territories gained by the lives of 4,000 brave young Americans, and to
issue more orders that will weaken the whole defense system and cost
more young American lives. Treason? Wait …
Suppose this pompous man also appoints an attorney general who
announces with him that they not only will enable hundreds of thousands
of illegal aliens to invade the country – but that they will not enforce the immigration laws themselves!
This, knowing that among those undocumented aliens there would
certainly be trained enemies of the United States, whose sole purpose
for crossing our borders is to destroy the country he had learned to
despise as a young man. And what if this attorney general concocts a
scheme to furnish thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels and
potential terrorists? Treason? The case is building.
Now suppose that this Manchurian (or Indonesian) Candidate, never
having any business or economic experience, but knowing that one vital
reason for America’s world dominance is its giant economy, forces
through a weak and compliant Congress decisions that add trillions of
dollars of unpayable, inexcusable debt, piling up three times more debt on American taxpayers and businesses than all past presidents combined!
In this unthinkable scenario, he is systematically crippling,
bankrupting and discrediting his country. And in all of this, he’s
following the plan he had learned from a famous Communist Party
organizer.
Now, in this imagined story, we can add the deliberate dividing of
the citizens along racial, economic and political lines. We can add his
awarding billions of dollars of speculative contracts to party donors
and even family friends. We can toss in his leaving his command post
while a U.S. ambassador and other Americans are under fire and
eventually dying … to pack his bags and fly to Las Vegas for a political
fundraiser. A definite Benedict Arnold comparison.
And, to leave no doubt whatsoever, while our nation is slipping into
all-out war against inhuman killers who behead innocent people, this
pretender in chief makes the personal decision to release known
murderers from a military prison and to send them back to the Mideast,
all expenses paid and with no penalty for their crimes, to supposedly
“rehab” – and then certainly re-assume leadership positions with our
murderous enemies. No consultation with, or consent from, Congress. Just
his own decision, knowing brave young Americans will face these beasts again in a battle to the death. If there’s a clearer definition of treason, I can’t think of it.
All this is theoretical, of course – but I think if such an
interloper and subversive impostor were to somehow arise and become our
president, if he weren’t eventually exposed, prosecuted and impeached,
America should apologize to Benedict Arnold. And his picture should be posted in Webster’s alongside the words “treason” and “traitor.”
About the only thing this hypothetical scenario left out was the possibility that such a person might also use various government agencies to selectively target and persecute his political opposition in a clearly unconstitutional fashion.
Granted it's a wild flight of fantasy...... but who knows..... it could happen some day.
