Cut Straight In

Legality is no longer a question of rightness or law, but of acronym, of title. This is seen in our latest update to the NSA Spying Scandle (the official media title, whose perfect design assaults the sensibilities with feelings of violation at the mere thought) and I cannot help but be reminded of Allen Ginsberg's mighty Howl. Where stand the duties of the American Public as it is stated in the Constitution of the United States, for the removal of a president who becomes a liability? The original pen holding men who signed that document were not idealists, but the process by which a king is removed is still a biased and only partially systematic set of laws.

Final determination must be left to the High Court of the Land. Another has joined the ranks of those in opposition to the confirmation of Judge Alito to the Supreme court, but it seems all but assured. A failing of the High Court system is that the duration of a judge's term is only determined by their lifespan. This has the disadvantage that a President, appointing the independant judicial body designed to keep checks and balances may thereby influence both his own legal status and the future of the country for many many years beyond his tenure.

If Congress too is in a conservative phase, this may tip the otherwise finely tuned balance of state powers and create a closed government. We already have a closed presidency. The ideas presented to the President are only those left to his staff and filtered through purely conservative outlets. Still, in a Democracy, the people are the only rulers, in the end and make no mistake, this is not a Republic.