Many Christians believe that a return to Constitutional government would solve America’s problems.

If the year were 1965, when the federal government threw open America’s doors to mass immigration, I would agree with them. If this were 1973, when the federal government legalized the crime of abortion, I might still agree with them.

But more than forty years has passed since the first of those two offenses, and neither has been corrected. Waiting always exacts a cost; usually, the longer the wait, the higher the cost. In the case of the attack on the United States Constitution, the failure of the American people to perceive it and promptly repel it has resulted in the Constitution sustaining mortal instead of merely transitory wounds.

The injury has not been to the Constitution alone. If that were the case, the injury might be redressed by Constitutional amendments.

But during that forty years, a greater injury has been inflicted - upon the identity and integrity of the American people. It is this deeper wound that will prove fatal to the Constitution. For though the Constitution is written on paper, were the paper to be ripped apart, the Constitution would survive. But a law must also be written on the hearts of the people. Jeremiah 31:33 Rip apart the people, and their Constitution dies with them.

In 2006, we have a divided, fractured and fractious American people. And because we have allowed the American people to become divided and conquered by their government, the restoration of our Constitution and our Republic may be impossible.

The Constitution created the federal government, but was also designed to contain and control it. In the 1930s, the federal government under Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to resent the Constitution and wanted to break its bonds. But FDR feared that the States and the people would not agree to that government's unbounding.

So instead asking the States and the people to change the Constitution, as its own Article V provided for, FDR attempted to pack the Supreme Court and use the Court to change the Constitution. Yet even in the throes of the Depression, the American people of 1937 voiced outrage over FDR’s court packing plan, and Congress rebuffed it.

Frustrated in its attempt to change the Constitution, the federal government bided its time and contemplated how the Constitution could be changed or even abolished without the consent of the people.

Perhaps inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s 1953 poem, the federal government soon decided that in order to change the Constitution the way it wanted to, it would have to change the American people.

“Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?”

By 2006, the Constitution appears moribund, and the ripping apart of the American people has been largely accomplished. Since the Constitution is itself ordained by “We the People,” the proposition that it can be revived is accordingly most doubtful.

How the federal government elected a new and different people:

The use of demographic tactics to achieve political objectives was pioneered by National Socialists. The Nazis used deportation, internment, abortion and sterilization to strengthen their national identity against the then growing threat of international Communism.

By deporting or interning those who were racially different, such as Jews or Gypsies, the Nazis sought to create ethnic solidarity and national stability. In 1933, the Nazis legalized abortion for eugenic purposes under guidelines established by the Berlin Chamber of Physicians. Together with sterilization, the Nazi’s intended these population control measures to produce a physically stronger Germany.

Unlike Communists, who use infiltration and subversion to bring about political revolution, the Nazi’s proceeded openly and achieved political power by winning democratic elections. But like the Communists, the Nazis eventually imposed their own brand of dictatorship, Fascism, in order to accomplish their political objectives.

Today, its appears that pure forms of Communism and Fascism are being abandoned in favor of other forms of tyranny. But the methods they used have not been abandoned. On the contrary, they have been refined and are being used to ruin America.

Like the Nazis, the federal government uses demographics to achieve its political objectives. But instead of using demographics to strengthen the American people, the federal government is using demographics to break them apart.

The demographic opposite of deportation is immigration. In 1965, the federal government enacted the “Immigration Reform Act,” eliminating all national quotas on immigration. The Act opened America up to mass immigration from non-Christian, non-European nations. Also, for decades, the federal government has shirked its Constitutional responsibility to execute the laws and repel an invasion of illegal immigrants. The result is that America is flooded with a tide of immigrants, legal and illegal.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, more than 30 million legal and illegal immigrants have entered the United States since 1970. Foreign-born residents as a percentage of the US population rose from 4.7% in 1970 to 10.4% in 2000.

Under cover of propaganda extolling “diversity” “tolerance” or “multiculturalism,” most immigrants have refused to assimilate into America’s political or religious culture. Many have refused even to adopt America’s English language. The federal government’s Voting Rights Act encourages their cultural separatism, as it currently requires election ballots to be printed in Spanish, Chinese Japanese, Vietnamese, Tagalog and assorted American Indian tongues.

These immigrants fill a vacuum created by the suppression of America’s native population. Like the Nazis, the federal government legalized the crime of abortion. Unlike the Nazis, the federal government lied about its reasons for doing so, which were demographic and had nothing to do with the Constitution.

Regardless of the government’s motives, more than 40 million unborn American children are dead. In addition to legalizing abortion, and similarly without basis in the Constitution, federal courts have protected and promoted homosexuality and feminism.

Not surprisingly, the federal government’s comprehensive antinatalist agenda has resulted in record low birthrates. The United States birthrate in 1957 was 25.3. By 2002 it had dropped to 13.9

The combination of suppressed domestic birthrates and mass immigration is designed to and has succeeded in creating a new American people.

In 1996, demographers Leon Bouvier and Roy Beck charted a projection of the United States population through 2050, based on current immigration and birth rates. They found that 90% of all population growth since 1970 will be attributable to immigrants and their descendants.

Their projection was that by 2050, out of a total population of 400 million, less than 250 million people will be the descendants of Americans in 1970.

In 2006, we are four years short of the halfway point between the America of 1970 and the demographically engineered America of 2050. All indications are that the federal government is well on its way to electing a new people and a new Constitution.

Bush II: Warrant? We don’t need no stinking warrant!:

Bush II recently ordered the wiretapping of American telephones without getting a warrant, in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

When someone reminded him of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, Bush II reacted dismissively, stating that warrants weren’t necessary, echoing a famous movie line about badges. And like the bandits in the movie, Bush II is holding many guns. This is a poor substitute for the rule of law, but so far, no politicians have seen fit to challenge Bush II or to call for his impeachment.

On another occasion, Bush II reportedly referred to the Constitution as a “just a goddamned piece of paper.”

Reaction to Bush II’s usurpation of the Constitution has been underwhelming. Instead of predictable outrage, the reaction has been an unpredictable apathy. A public opinion survey, of an admittedly questionable pedigree, reported that two-thirds of Americans believed the government didn’t need a warrant to spy on its citizens.

It would be unfair to blame immigrants for all the apathy about the Constitution. Many born citizens implicitly understand that the federal government has been out of control for some time, and that the Constitution is already in tatters. If the Supreme Court can flout the Constitution, why can’t the President? At least he’s elected. As one jaded observer put it, “what’s one more cigarette burn on the Constitution?”

But many immigrants are among those wondering what all the fuss about warrants is about. Immigrants from Latin America or Asia are accustomed to government by a “strong executive,” as it were. Of course “the premier” or “el presidente” can tap telephones whenever he wants! They come by their submissive attitudes naturally enough. The separation of powers, and many other of our Constitutional principles, are not observed in their countries of origin.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, approximately one in every three immigrants in the United States is from Mexico . The five largest foreign-born groups in the United States, including those from Mexico, the Philippines, India, China , and Vietnam, account for 44 percent of the total immigrant population.

Mexico recognizes neither trial by jury nor the writ of habeas corpus nor the right to keep and bear arms. Juries are required by four different provisions in the United States Constitution, but India abolished trial by jury. China is notorious for denying its citizens civil liberties; its government does not even recognize the right to bear children.

While legal immigrants are required to read the Constitution in order to become citizens, its separation of powers or right to trial by jury provisions are not thereby written upon their hearts.

To know the value of what you have, is it not necessary to know the price you paid? Unlike many born citizens, immigrants’ fathers and forefathers did not die defending the Constitution. Their families did not pay the price, and therefore they do not know the value. And when the federal government betrays or breaks that Constitution, they neither feel nor show outrage.

All polling is suspect. But one poll does confirm that the Constitution is on its deathbed: were the Constitution to be put up for a vote by today’s American citizens, it would survive by only the barest of majorities - 51%

Conclusion:

The death of the United States Constitution is to be mourned, but is not an occasion for despair. The Constitution legally created the federal government and therefore its passing signifies that government’s legal destruction. If, as Bush II said, the Constitution is “just a goddamned piece of paper” then ipso facto the federal government is illegitimate and rules by force of arms alone. Legally, the States and the people remain sovereign.

The federal government will continue to rule for the time being. But as the clash of arms and the fortunes of war are known for their unpredictability, it may one day have to reach for that Constitution as a shield. Unable to grasp what no longer exists, it will then hopefully meet the fate due every tyrant, which is to be slain by the sword.

X - In Hoc Signo Vinces

Luke Exilarch - luke@eXilemm.com
January 5, 2006