Tuesday, January 15, 2019

the ultimate question we frequently face here in the empire is, are we a nation of laws, or a nation that bends its laws to favor the fever of the moment;


The terrorists had just fire-bombed the German Parliament building. Even worse, it turned out that the terrorists were communists. German leader Adolf Hitler sought emergency powers to deal with the crisis. After heated debate within the German Reichstag, the German legislators gave Hitler the emergency powers that he was seeking.
The legislators made it clear, however, that the grant of these extraordinary powers was only temporary. Hitler dutifully returned to the Reichstag until the day he died to secure a periodic renewal of what became known as the Enabling Act.
President Trump is now threatening to declare an immigration emergency, which, he says, will give him the omnipotent authority to build his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional authority.
That would, needless to say, constitute classic dictatorial conduct.
We live under a governmental system in which Congress enacts the laws and the president carries them out. No matter how badly the president wants his wall, it is up to people’s elected representatives in Congress to make the decision. So far, they have said no.
And yet, here is Trump declaring that he might just build his wall anyway, America’s democratic system be damned.............https://www.fff.org/2019/01/14/trump-hitler-and-the-enabling-act/

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