WITH OCHLOCRACY, UP WITH WHAT'S LEFT
Kelley, John
D o w n W i t h O c h l o c r a c y , U p W i t h W h a f s Left BY John Kelley In the sibling days of the American empire (circa 1789), near-sighted elements in the House of Representatives...
...Briefly, economic planning requires coercion...
...a steady and systematic adherence to the same views...
...D o w n W i t h O c h l o c r a c y , U p W i t h W h a f s Left BY John Kelley In the sibling days of the American empire (circa 1789), near-sighted elements in the House of Representatives attempted to destroy N e w England's thriving international commerce by imposing an excessive import duty on molasses...
...When Negroes have been denied their rights it is because government has failed in its duty to treat people equally — providing some the protection of the law while refusing it to others...
...What effective measures can interested groups take to rectify this sad situation...
...Further, with the evanescence of capital punishment all excitement has drained from adjudication, leaving it to dull fellows...
...He can, if he chooses, select a mauve-colored, insolent chariot, decked with fins, fake air scoop and acres of chrome...
...It can be as banal as the wedding-cake architecture of Stalin's Russia from which no deviation was allowed — Stalin obviously possessed no knowledge of architecture, but his barbaric tastes nonetheless were inflicted on the people who paid for such monstrosities as the University of Moscow...
...The founding fathers allowed the masses to elect members of the House, but realizing the masses lacked both the wisdom and subtlety to deal effectively with foreign affairs, the members of the Constitutional Convention provided a higher body, the Senate, to deal in this realm...
...And it shall be malum prohibitum only if your punishment exceeds the hippie's just deD O W N WITH OCHLOCRACY Continued from Page 3 the usurpation of the senatorial prerogative by the executive branch...
...Claiming to create freedom for Negroes through Federal intervention, liberals are enslaving blacks and whites alike in an omnipotent state...
...It is time to hold the line, less the Republic go imder...
...In the latter case he starves...
...a nice and uniform sensibility to national character...
...Today the President disciplines those who oppose him, while appealing to the people for support in much the style of a neo-divine right monarch...
...while the sanctity of the Senate chambers has been breeched by the egregious likes of a Huey Long and the populist antics of a "Bankrupt-Evansville" Vance Hartke...
...It was not by accident but design that the founding fathers, in drafting the Bill of Rights, stated in Article I that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
...I N C I T E S BY George Nathan Recently I offered possible names for those future asinine organizations Americans are so wont to concoct, and the response was thunderous...
...Then too, with the forebearance of anti-vivisectionists, we might dissect them for science...
...Wanton enthusiasm for egalitarianism generated by the progressive era, however, destroyed this wise balance with one bloody shriek of the vox populi: the 17th Amendment in 1913...
...He and the new class would uplift people's taste (whether they liked it or not...
...M y system will circumvent these Boobs of the Bench...
...If government can compel one to work, it also can deprive that individual of a job if he does not please the state...
...Since the state controls production, the individual must produce for the state or not produce at all...
...These clods generally, rather than render a wrong doer inoperable, levy a fine...
...Ironically, American history has made a complete reversal in the period 17891968...
...The last Republican president...
...In 1858 Abraham Lincoln spotted a conspiracy embracing two presidents, a chief justice, and an Illinois senator...
...Those of tender sensibilities might decry this a calloused approach, but does there exist for us other recourse...
...As a consequence of this judicious limitation of the discussion of foreign affairs to a small body of m e n insulated from the fancies of the multitude, America experienced more than a century of imprecedented expansion with relative peace...
...The ambition of Page 10 serts (let your conscience be your guide...
...After cautious development we might even allow the civic-minded to exterminate all youths exhibiting the S D S syndrome after a specific age, say seven...
...In 1789 John Adams, Federalist extraordinaire, proposed to address the President as "His Highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of their Liberties...
...Take jerry silverfish, the campus' leading anti-semite...
...A study by Lloyd A. Free and Hadley Cantril, The Political Beliefs of Americans (New Brunswick, 1967), noted that "a surprising number of Americans are abysmally ignorant of the specifics of international affairs, even at the most elementary level...
...Though for utter absurdity I am unable to match such fustian as the 1823 "Society for Distressed and Decayed Harbor Pilots," "The National Council of Churches," and "The Black Panther Party," genuflecting before almost two hundred years of imbecility I submit the following: SURFERS CLUB OF GREATER BOISE COMMITTEE FOR A SAVAGE NUCLEAR POLICY (SANE) EDSEL RACING DIVISION WOMEN CONCERNED WITH TURNING-ON UBANGIS (WCTU) ADDLEBRAINS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION (ADA) BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD FEATHERBEDDERS FRATERNAL ORDER OF ARTICHOKE HEARTS BROTHERHOOD OF WINE TESTERS, SEED SPITTERS AND GRAPE PICKERS OF DELANO, CALIFORNIA Continued from Page 5 FREEDOM which the direction of economic activity requires...
...Perhaps Galbraith has superior tastes, but the elite can have tastes as gross as they are pervasive...
...Defending the indirect election of senators by the state legislatures...
...Twentyeight per cent of the American adult population had never heard or read of N A T O . Incredibly, 4 2 % did not know that America was a member, while 6 2 % thought Russia also belonged...
...the human heart grasps at more...
...Or, he can buy a black V W beetle...
...What Senator J. William Fulbright deplores, political scientist James MacGregor Bums applauds — the slippage of power away from the Senate towards the Executive...
...Yet going beyond mere excavation of the problem, I have devised a method for dealing with the conspirators whose logic tugs irresistibly...
...Asserting that Bank of the United States' Nicholas Biddle was constricting that institution's ample tentacles to subvert republican government, Andrew Jackson joined those with a yen for good conspiracy...
...Free and Cantril concluded: "In short, two-fifths of the American public appear to have too little information about international matters to play an intelligent role as citizens of a nation that is the world's leader, and only one-fourth are really adequately informed...
...Capitalism, on the other hand, can cater to a variety of tastes...
...In the Federalist Papers we find accurate commentaries by Jay and Hamilton on this concept of the Senate...
...Since the 1930's it has begun to move dangerously close to mobocracy, the welfare state, with all its attendant evils...
...Upon encountering a conspirator, any intelligent thinking person shall administer whatever punishment he deems fitting, independent of our archaic legal system...
...The country will be the beneficiary if Nixon learned something from his association with the General...
...In experimenting on him, doctors might possibly cure his illness with a transplant, assuming they could obtain a brain small enough to fit his cranium...
...Government must coerce people to work at certain jobs or the plan fails, thereby restricting the freedom of the individual to work where and how he wishes...
...The popular and antiFederalist elements in the government shouted down these monarchial airs...
...The absolute ignorance of the masses of all things foreign to beer, broads, and bacchanals was demonstrated in a 1964 study conducted by the University of Michigan...
...For years liberals have been telling us that this glaring defect could be corrected by a massive educational effort...
...decision, secrecy and dispatch, are incompatible with the genius of a body so variable and so numerous...
...McLuhan has replaced McGuffey while the din of the call for "bread and circus for the masses" has veiled the wind of reality...
...Thus the judge takes a bribe and the recusant heads for dark doorways, there to recoup his losses...
...While exclaiming profusely a concern for the individual's rights, liberals are generating governmental power which is slowly strangling every man's freedom...
...First, American affluence, symbolized by the "boob tube", has prompted a decline in the percentage of the populace who are willing to make an extended effort to master issues...
...The Survey Research Center at Michigan in conjunction with the Coimcil of Foreign Relations conducted a study in the late spring of 1964 which revealed that about 2 5 % of those interviewed had not heard about the fighting in Vietnam, while another 2 5 % did not know that mainland China was ruled by a Communist government...
...In fact the first party holding a national convention, the Anti-Masonic Party, charged the Masons were conspiring to assassinate all their enemies...
...General Eisenhower, understood this fact and confined his actions to the role of a "whig" president...
...T he delegates — Continued on Page 11 D O W N WITH OCHLOCRACY Continued from Page 10 to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, under Adams' sway, accomplished what no similar body before or since has mastered: they stopped that historical cycle from "tyranny back to tyranny" at midpoint — between oligarchy and mobocracy...
...or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...
...Naturally the Senate reduced the molasses duty from five cents to 2.5 cents/gallon, prompting that illustrious High Federalist, Fisher Ames of Massachusetts, to exult the Senate: "God bless them, as if designated by Providence to keep rash and frolicsome brats out of the fire...
...So it is that I stand humbly with Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Welch to elucidate yet another conspiracy — the conspiracy of stupidity...
...Internationalist or isolationist, advocates of "fortress America" or supporters of "the rule of world law," disciples of Taft or students of Vandenburg — wise m e n of the Senate must recoup their constitutional powers of examination, deliberation and formation of foreign policy, or else accept the logical extrapolation of the import of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: a Runnymede in reverse...
...And, more currently, the soil lay afresh John F. Kennedy's grave when murmurs of conspiracy began...
...Quite frankly I feel that there are few hopefuls paths of change, due mainly to — Continued on Page 10 Page 3 SILVERFISH Continued from Page 2 1800 Thomas Jefferson imputed conspiracy to John Adams in alleging his presidential opponent was conspiring to introduce monarchy...
...To that end they made the body more compact than the House, more difficult to enter by age restriction and citizenship requirements, and further from the whimsy of the masses by indirect elections and extended office terms...
...In his desire for a mixed form of government, with roles for a strong executive, an oligarchic Senate and a people's House, Adams, although not present at the Constitutional Convention, strongly influenced the decisions of that august body — for m a y present had read his Defence...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, a member of the new class, argues that people should not be allowed to waste money on insolent chariots...
...In America there is room for the gingerbread homes of the 1890's and the structures of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...But this argument fails to take into account important considerations...
...Adenauer I repeat his oft neglected aphorism, "God limited man's intelligence, why not his stupidity...
...Our dated legal system has failed ineffably...
...In the early days of the Republic, a rabblerouser who knew whereof he spoke, S a m Adams, slyly commented: "Few m e n are contented with less power than they have a right to exercise...
...As partial consequence of this tragic blimder the nation has experienced two world holocausts, fought or supported numerous guerilla wars, and financially supported an inter-nation debating society...
...Finally, it will appeal to all, for it represents the ultimate in participatory democracy...
...Fortunately the founding fathers had seen fit to introduce an aristocratic institution, the Senate, into their frame of government to curb the wild ravings of the masses...
...For nearly 150 years in a most remarkable feat, the United States froze the swing of that awful pendulum at its nadir...
...In No...
...For this is the normal cycle of history: tyranny to oligarchy to mobocracy and back to tyranny...
...Jay argued that this procedure would result in the selection of m e n "who have become the most distinguished by their abilities and virtue, and in w h o m the people perceive just grounds for confidence...
...From other sources we learn that at the time of the Kennedy assassination, 4 0 % of the populace could not identify L B J. At the time of the recent N e w Hampshire presidential primary, one television network determined that 5 0 % of those in the state who declared their support for McCarthy thought him a "hawk...
...of the right of people peacefully to assemble (militant demonstrators might note the word "peacefully") and to petition the govem— Continued on Page 12 Page 11...
...Capitalism is anathema to liberals because they cannot compel the individual to accept their ideas of what he should buy...
...Using two regular Gallup samples of around 1600 cases, each "representing national cross sections of the adult population," Free and Cantril encountered some not-so-startling facts...
...Otherwise he might just be sent off to the O R K I N man...
...John Adams clearly understood this process when he wrote his classic three-volume work, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, citing the many frailties of a republican form of government...
...Galvanizing community spirit and combatting apathy, m y solution will obviate our tired legal system and eliminate the conspiracy of stupidity...
...Asked to identify very generally four leading world figures, Sukarno, Ludwig Erhard, U Thant, and Charles de Gaulle, only 14, 36, 40 and 7 1 % respectively could identify them...
...Taking the epistomological ground of Dr...
...Conservatives have opposed the recent aggrandizement of power granted to the Federal government through the civil rights acts precisely because they fully comprehend that human rights cannot be preserved through the power of government but through its absence...
...America will return to those serene times when, wisely restricting the vote, we dispatched stupid people to the frontier and rather than fill our universities with stupid pupils sent them to battle Britishers, Latins, and Prussians, preferably with defective weaponry...
...Under m y benign system the conspiracy will fade to the obscurity of GauUism and Communism...
...75 Hamilton succinctly puts the case against allowing the House of Representatives to conduct foreign policy: "Accurate and comprehensive knowledge of foreign politics...
...Thus, happenstance your path is crossed by an underdeveloped intellectual or hippie it shall be malum in se for you to pummel, boil, tweak, gouge, maim, spay, burn, flay, bastinado or even wash the pediculous creature...
Vol. 2 • December 1968 • No. 3
