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To: long-gone who wrote (78854)	10/25/2001 12:18:16 AM
From: ubetcha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116752

Taking the chance of being lambasted! Would that really be a bad thing. No government. WOW! OK, back to reality. Yes it would be sad, but is that not what the postal employees are crying all over themselves about. The government will take care of themselves, and the postal employees are just cannon fodder. How sad. We cannot get a new constitutional amendment for this, as it will open the door for all kinds of other amendments, and end up in a free for all in the constitutional caucus. That is why it has not been tried for a long time. Why the right wing wacko's and left wing commies will all be out of the closet to get their agendas put in place. What a constitutional crisis? Seriously, I think that we would survive either way. Terry

To: long-gone who wrote (78854)	10/25/2001 11:20:29 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

In my opinion, (all the preceding types with one hand) and it should be yours, Congress, or what is left of it, should run as a committee in cahoots with the Senate, the judiciary and the appointed department heads of the civil service and military in a war coalition until normal suffrage by accelerated elections can take place. If people can show up at a recruiting station they can show up at a polling booth. Even write in or phone in. (Perhaps email should be made more secure for this. Finally a good reason to tell people to do PGP.) Appointed representatives are not needed for government to function, as Congress is only ratifying or legislative, not executive or ministerial. The President can go to war for long enough under this Constitution for the elective process to catch up to where he needs their approval. No matter how badly government personnel have been decimated, it is the intent of the Constitution that is paramount, not its pro-forma expression or inherited tradition of procedure. That inherent ideal and intent is that the people's general will and its public acclamative expression is the basic underlying process of US government. There is no need to sieze, concentrate, or assume power as it has already been siezed permanently to the hands of the people at large. The manufacturing of their assent, however expeditiously, must be bowed too as it is the keystone of the security of the system in itself. The executive has 17 members of succession, so it is largely protected from total disaster. In the event that they are absent then the tradition of wartime collegial mututal security has been to call emergency assemblies from amongst the States. This is what bound the States together in the first place since Mecklenberg. It's even in the name, the United States of America. Don't stop a good thing. EC<:-}