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U. S. Attorneys

CONGRESS, with its characteristic short-term view, is excited over Bush 43 having dumped a handful of U. S. attorneys in various States. But the Congress is straining at a gnat, having swallowed a camel! The States are guaranteed a republican form of government: how can there be any officers who are unelected? Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of . . . inferior Officers . . . in the President alone [Art. II, Sec. 2, para. 2] but there is nowhere the slightest hint that any such officer should act in only a part of the States. Recall that the only crimes Congress can punish are treason [Art. III, Sec. 3, para. 2,] piracy, and counterfeiting the current coin [Art. I, Sec. 8, paras. 6 and 11;] these are crimes that affect all of the States, and crimes of that kind can perfectly well be prosecuted by someone from a different State or the District of Columbia.

What is happening now is that the U.S. is prosecuting crimes that do not threaten all of the States. The most obvious example was the Rodney King case; a Californian citizen was attacked by Californian public servants within California. No citizen of any other State was concerned in the slightest: the citizens of California, or at least those of Los Angeles County, should have called a general strike when the U. S. attempted to interfere (Los Angeles/Long Beach is the busiest port on the Pacific Ocean: the people of the other States would soon have missed their contribution!) If it is true that justice does not reign in California, then the citizens there have the right to pick up their bags and walk . . . . (My observation, back in the twentieth century, was that Nevada was filling up with erstwhile Californians - even from such attractive places as San Diego.)

Notice also that these arrogant attorneys have subverted laws going back through the centuries. We all know that you can be found guilty only if twelve of your equals are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt after you have had the opportunity to call evidence and argue your case. But the grand jury hears only the prosecutors accusation, not the accuseds defense; to the grand jury, the case must sound true beyond any possible doubt. Why, then, should U.S. juries have more than twelve members, and be allowed to bring charges without being unanimous? The U.S. grand jury procedure is designed to allow the prosecutors to terrorize the citizens of the States: the State governments should be charged to defend any of their citizens accused in these kangaroo courts. For what do you pay the State taxes, except to be defended?

Another U.S. outrage that is allowed to go unpunished is that not only those convicted of treason, but also those accused of other - presumably, lesser - crimes, do not have any property that has been forfeited to the U.S. restored to their estates at the end of their lives [Art. III, Sec. 3, para. 2.] This vicious predation would disgrace even England; at Runnymede, King John agreed to restore forfeited property after only a mere year.