Prosecute Bush? Good luck!

February 5, 6:41 PMDallas Libertarian ExaminerGarry Reed

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“Prosecute George W. Bush for Illegal Acts.” (Antiwar.com, January 24, 2009)
 

Prosecute Bush? Former President George Walker Bush? Forty-three? For illegal acts? Like violations of the Constitution type illegal acts?

Are you kidding? Impeachment is one thing. It’s what one political party does to the guy of the other political party. It’s rare, but it’s still just politics.

But prosecution? An actual trial with judge and jury and witnesses and prosecuting attorneys and defense lawyers and banging of gavels on wooden gavel-bangers type Judicial Branch prosecution?
  

Never happen. That’s a can of worms no BigGov operative would ever open. Because once opened the worms will wiggle all over everyone, including the opener of the can.

Every future president will qualify for criminal prosecution, just as virtually every past president has.

Tom Jefferson violated the Constitution when he went on a shopping spree and forked over 15 million taxbucks for his Louisiana Purchase. He even knew it was unconstitutional, allowing as how the Constitution didn’t expressly grant him the power to buy real estate. He said so to his advisers. His advisers advised him to just do it now and justify it later. So he did.

 
Rogue's gallery of prosecutable presidents? Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, F. Roosevelt, G.W. Bush, Obama (portraits from c-span)

Who would prosecute him anyway? His own Party? Hardly. The opposition party? Not if they wanted to get away with the same sticky tricks once they sat in the president’s chair, under the newly minted concept of “implied powers.”

Andy Jackson openly defied a Supreme Court justice.

Many Cherokees of South Carolina and Georgia saw the handwriting on the wall. They also saw the handwriting on the Constitution. Realizing they would eventually be driven from their land, they decided to switch rather than fight. They adopted the White Man’s ways. Wore his clothing, lived in houses like his, developed an alphabet and started a newspaper, farmed the land, became Christians. Then they asked the courts to recognize their rights and the Supreme Court agreed. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that they couldn’t be run off their land.

But Old Hickory, having established himself as an Indian hater and Indian fighter let the Whites of South Carolina and Georgia know that he would ignore the ruling.

“John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can.” (President Andrew Jackson, head of the executive branch of government required to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed.")

So the Cherokee, having become White Folk in every way but one – they couldn’t change their race - were run off their land and force-marched a thousand miles to Oklahoma in a despicable bit of history known as “The Trail of Tears.” Some 4,000 died along the way.

If that isn’t a prosecutable offense, what is?

Abe Lincoln didn’t merely violate the constitution, he crumpled it, ripped it, stomped it, trampled on it and spat on it in so many ways it takes an entire book to cover it all. The book “The Real Lincoln” does just that.

Was he ever prosecuted, or even accused posthumously after his little mishap at Ford’s Theater? No, quite the opposite. America’s greatest tyrant was glorified as “Honest Abe” and celebrated as “The Great Emancipator” and mythologized as a demigod and venerated as a martyr and worshipped as the holy patron saint of America.

Franklin Roosevelt was the Obama rock star of his day. Not only did his grandiose socialist invasions of the nation’s economy fail to end the Great Depression, most of his wet dream schemes actually made it worse while many, if not all, were unconstitutional to boot. So did any of his co-conspirators in either party demand his prosecution? Insert derisive laughter here.

“More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.” (full page ad in major U.S. newspapers signed by hundreds of economists, including Nobel Prize winners, January 28, 2009 (pdf format)
 

Prosecute Bush? Libertarians have long understood that criminals don’t prosecute fellow criminals, which is why so many libertarians have concluded that government per se is a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization as defined by the RICO Act of 1970, no matter how many checks and balances are checked and balanced or how separate the separation of powers are, and needs to be banned entirely. Which is why so many libertarians are anarchists at heart.

And perhaps, in the future, after the current president has had his run, having turned the United States into a third-rate Eastern European style Marxist hellhole, his former star struck extremists will scream, "Prosecute Barack Obama!"

You may disagree, but if you look at actual history vice the fairy tales that pass for history in our politicized government-run schools, you’ll discover the true nature of governments everywhere and everywhen.

And then you’ll puke.