National
Security and the President of the United States
In the United States, disagreements between people
are to be settled through the intermediation of the courts of law if necessary.
When the day-to-day parameters of what is good for the well being of the majority
of our people comes into question, laws get enacted by the legislative bodies
at the local, state and national levels. When the security of our people and
our way of living, which taken together is the essence of what our country
is, is at stake; and really it is always at stake, the safeguarding and the
defense of that security is, according to the plan laid down by the founding
fathers, the responsibility of the President.
The President is to be at the direct receiving end of all
the best information input from all of the far-flung agents of that office
with nothing coming between that person, the President, and the divisions
within the executive branch of the government. The placement of anyone else
to serve as a gatherer of facts from the different executive sectors leading
up to the President is to insulate the President from those sources and to
isolate the Executive Office from the realities of the situations to be pondered
and evaluated and, thereby, in a very real way, to remove the President from
that office and to make it impossible for the President to "protect and
defend" as the oath of that office requires.
The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security has
done just what the founding fathers fought so hard to avoid doing. It has
made the Office of President once removed from the place in which it needs
to be; that is, with the Presidential finger directly on the pulse of the
National Heartbeat.
This Campaign for Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
calls for the repeal of the Law which created the Department of Homeland Security
and, thereby, calls for the return of the Office of President to it proper
and most effective position; where it truly belongs; in front and leading
rather than at the rear and manipulated.
The Department of Homeland Security, since its inception,
has come to mean and to be just the opposite of what one would expect it to
mean. Our country is less secure now largely because of the existence and
effect of that office and because of the work it does in filtering, sheltering
and generally keeping unaltered information from reaching the President so
the President is unable to feel and perceive the actual threats or understand
the actual situations and to then act and decide accordingly for the greater
good of our Nation and its people.
Whether the President elected to do that job is up to the
job itself is another subject. There are means of dealing with incompetent
Presidents or Presidents who chose to act outside the law. But, to have established
such a ridiculous governmental entity as the Department of Homeland Security
is to have effectively muted the flow of vital information both from the field
to the President and from the President to those to whom orders from the President
are to be conveyed.
We call upon our legislative leaders to wake up and correct
their error in having created such an anti-defense mechanism as it has and,
if they will not do so, then we call upon the people of our Nation to take
the matter to the courts to test whether or not the establishment of the Department
of Homeland Security was actually done outside the intent of the founding
fathers and should, therefore, be determined to be unconstitutional.
The Department of Homeland Security, in our opinion, was a
disaster waiting to happen. We have already seen its inappropriateness to
the task on several occasions, and in a sense, we continue to see it as such
on a daily basis. Do we have to have a wall fall on us before we learn when
we have allowed mistakes made in haste to continue too long? The answer to
that question should be clear. Do what needs to be done and do it now; get
rid of the Department of Homeland Security, before we all have to regret it
again and again and again.
