The Liberal-Democratic wing of the ruling Establishment Party pushed through a climate-change bill that upset members of the Conservative-Republican wing of the same Establishment Party. The Republicans squawked that the voluminous bill was not even available for reading at the time of the vote, forgetting that the same complaint was offered when the Democrats were on the receiving end of the Republicans “Patriot Act” measure a few years back. That proposed legislation need not be in completed draft form seems to be no objection to either gang, as long as the general idea (“saving the planet” or “patriotism”) is the announced purpose! The details will be filled in by the day-to-day whims of a unitary president.
Perhaps bipartisan support for a fascist state could also be advanced by copying a piece of legislation enacted by another Western government. The statute in question read:
“Whoever commits an action which the law declares to be punishable or which is deserving of punishment according to the fundamental idea of a penal law and the sound perception of the people, shall be punished. If no determinable penal law is directly applicable to the action, it shall be punished according to the law, the basic idea of which fits it best.”
This measure was enacted on June 28, 1935, by the government of Germany. As can be readily seen, the language is general enough not to require hundreds of pages of detailed prohibitions. It is certain to please both the green-shirts and brown-shirts in Washington, as well as members of the mainstream media who need not be troubled by reading, understanding, and analyzing arcane language. For all of the above reasons, Boobus would also cheer its enactment as a “practical” means for solving all of the nation’s ills!
