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Show June 11, 1971 Continued from A . VICTORY m history. THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS Under the new constitution the President would not be allowed to run for two terms as at present but would be elected for one term of nine years. However, after three years in office he could be booted out if 60 of the people voted against him in a national plebiscite. The President is given tremendous powers under the new constitution. He is described as the head of the government, shaper of its commitments, expositor of its policies, and commander of its protective forces. He would be the cartaker of the nations resources, be responsible for the manner in which they are apportioned, and be expected to "pay attention to recommendations of the Planning Board, the Watch-keepof the Senate (we will cover him later) and the Regulator. Within prescribed limits the President would even be authorized to raise and lower taxes! As for the Congress, one gets the impression that it would represent the government rather than the people. In the first place, a hundred Congressmen are to be elected at large, which means that very few of these would be known to any particular voter. Significantly, it is from that congressman at large (who are least responsible to the people) that all chairmen of the Congressional committers MUST be er chosen. The Congress is given the duty of implementing all the broad ramifications of the collectivized society envisioned by this model constitution. Congress must provide federal insurance agencies or strictly control the private ones.. It must provide federal transportation as needed, federal schools, federal universities, federal libraries, federal communications, federal research, federal cultural activities, federal recreation, and federal banking facilities. The congress is authorized to vote foreign aid (which the present Constitiution does not) and assist in the maintenance of world order. The Congress can even grant jurisdiction and therbye subjugate the American people to any international legislative, judicial or administrative organizations as shall be consistant with the national interest. And the Congress will decide what is in the national interest. The Congress is also obligated to help control population by correlating the number of citizens with future resources. To prevent the Congress from meddling too much with the administration of governmental affairs it is provided that no government employee or military officer can be ordered to testify before a Congressional committee without the consent of his superiors. Labor leaders might be alarmed tom know that the new constitution would allow Congress to outlaw strikes as part of the bargaining process in any indusis difficult to try related to the public interest. It which could not be imagine any type of enterprise somehow identified with public interest! The new constitution would change the U.S. Senate into an American House of Lords. All members would be appointed rather than elected and all would be ' Page 9 7 CONSTITUTION board in charge of each type of industrial enterprise. He enforces the master planning of the Government, lie has complete charge of issuing charters to any corporations involved in public interest enterprises and may revoke the charter of any corporation which he feels is not complying with the requirements of the Regulatory Board. To most Americans, the most startling aspect of the powers delegated to the National Regulator is his on the financial operations of all legal choke-hol- d chartered corporations. He has the power to prescribe the distribution of profits to stockholders, allowable amounts or working capital, reserves and costs, and all other practices affecting the public interest. (section 3). The National Regulator would have policing powers designed to control prices, production and production processes (section 6). He would also maintain the surveillance of enterprises wholly or partly owned by the government (section 11). This whole context of regulatory powers is precisely what was imposed on Germany and Italy under Hitler 'and Mussolini. Both of these advocates of claimed that this centralization of regulatory power was all that was needed to solve their problems. Those unfortunate nations soon found they had completely lost control of their government and were saddled with the most profound conglomerate of problems they had ever known in their efttire fascist-socialis- P The UTAH INDEPENDENT pointed for life. Members would include high officials who had retired, Presidential candidates who had lost, former Overseers, Governors of the republics, judges, top military personnel, distinguished diplomats, etc. One of. the most significant things about the Senate would be its watchkeeper. He and his large staff would represent the Senate in the investigation of the adequacy, competence, and integrity of governmental agencies and their personnel, as well as their continued usefulness. . . . For these purposes, investigations may be made, witnesses xamined, made, and information require;. With Overseers, Watchkeepers, National Regulators and a host of other investigative agencies running around checking on everything (including each other!) it would make the life of a government administrator in Washington embarrassingly similar to a comparable assignment in Moscow. By this time the reader should havi1 little difficulty in determining what the new model constitution is designed to do to us. It is a giant stride toward the bleak existence described in George Orwells book, That was Orwell's warning Nineteen Eighty-Fouof what can happen to any free society if it does not stop the collectivization process. It is extremely significant that one will find hidden away in the model constitution the same kind of incipient perversion of police power as that which existed in the Russian OGPU and the Nazi Gestapo. It is in section 14 of Article IV. This section authorizes the appointment of a chief of Intelligence and Investigations who is called the Intcndant. This was the name of the officers or administrators under the French, Spanish and Portuguese monarchies who were the enforcers. They carried out the policies post-audi- ts r. of the crown . The ncwr constitution provides that the Intcndant will be directly under the President. As the enforcement arm of the chief executive, the Intcndant will not only maintain comprehensive intelligence reports and investigations on everything, but he will also coordinate scientific and cultural studies within the government and elsewhere . Obviously, there are no limits to the jurisdiction of this Presidential enforcer. This enforcement arm would no doubt be the big brother which is ahvays watching everybody in It would not only be Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Foulooking into criminal or espionage matters but would be equally zealous in matters relating to scientific and cultural developments. It becomes all the more ominous when one realizes that under Article I, section 10, there is a provision which permits total nationalization of all police power in the federal government. As far back as .33 years ago, J. Edgar Hoover warned the Congress that any nationalization of police power would toll the bell for democracy in America. But that is what the new constitution people have planned for us. Under this new Model federal charter the law enforcement profession would soon r. Continued D D D D D D D D D 0 0 D 0 D D D on P . PEACE AND ap- Continued P. from 8 Great cultures have come and the gone. The Mayan culture or culture of the Incas on this continent and the South American continent had great literature and great architecture. They were fruit and conquered like over-rip- e that great culture exists no more. The great Egyptian culture with its great architecture, great scientific advancements, our source for arithmetic numerals, embalming methods and great thinkers now exists no more. What happened to the great cultures of which history records at least seven each living about 1,000 years? The great western culture, of which we are a part, is now 1,000 years old. Are there worms and termites eating at the supports? Are the termites tearlove ing away at the fabric of the that marks our culture? Are the marches on Washington the signs of deterioration? Arc riots and killings the demands of equality without responsibility changing our culture to one of force and Iiale? Is wickedness and permissiveness creeping in to replace law and order? . . .as marked the downfall of other cultures? Oswald Spengler in his book The Decline of the West said 50 years ago that this western culture of love and intellectual achievement was at its twilight and a culture of force would replace it. If our culture is weakened to the point where we allow a rule by reason and the government of the moment to determine what the reason shall be in the common cause to replace rule by law. . .replacing our constitution. . .then our future Memorial Days will find us not only mourning for our departed comrades but for our deceased culture and these men who fought to preserve our freedoms will have died in vain. Continued on P . 11 10 Right now a bad report card can get your child some help. 0 D Free. 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