The Club Of Ariminium And Caesena 1

Ariminium and Caesena were towns on the Rubican River, the river which Caesar crossed to overthrow the Roman Republic. This post deals with the Defense Authorization Act of 2006, another step towards a dictatorship, which was ignored by the compliant Media and elected representatives. The Club of Ariminium and Caesena is a play on The Club of Rome, which keeps track of the time remaining before nuclear annihilation.

I believe I wrote about this bit of monstrous arrogance when it was being voted on, or soon thereafter. You may read about it again. Notice particularly that the Compliant Media, the officially embedded mentality of the observers of (1) the obvious, and (2) the trashy, did not give much space to it when it was being committed. April 23, 2007 IssueCopyright © 2007 The American Conservative  
Working for the Clampdown 
 What might the president do with his new power to declare martial law?
by James Bovard excerpt:  

" The Defense Authorization Act of 2006, passed on Sept. 30, empowers President George W. Bush to impose martial law in the event of a terrorist “incident,” if he or other federal officials perceive a shortfall of “public order,” or even in response to antiwar protests that get unruly as a result of government provocations. The media and most of Capitol Hill ignored or cheered on this grant of nearly boundless power. But now that the president’s arsenal of authority is swollen and consecrated, a few voices of complaint are being heard. Even the New York Times recently condemned the new law for “making martial law easier.” 

  http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_04_23/article4.html

Next, along the same lines, April 23, 2007 IssueCopyright © 2007 The American Conservative  
Sic Semper Tyrannis
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. excerpt:

 "And yet, from his own writings, the president in his vision of the Constitution is nothing more than a hired manager with few powers, and those not trivial are subject to the legislature. If he abuses power, he goes to the gallows in the republican fashion: he is impeached. How does this contrast with the view of the Bush administration? It is opposite in every respect. Consider the claim of John Yoo, author of The Powers of War and Peace, the bible of the Bush administration’s claim of totalitarian powers in war, and the reputed author of most of the Bush administration’s torture policies. Yoo’s book is a twisted mess, an attempt to justify reading the founding period in an opposite way from its historical reality. It’s like arguing that King Lear is a comedy, that Beethoven was second rate, or that the Bible endorses Satanism. There is always someone around to make any crazy claim you want, and if you are the ruling party, intellectuals will crawl out of the woodwork to say what you want them to say. "

The issues that try men's souls are not what they appear. The issues that try the Republic are not the incivility of public discourse. It is not Democrats and Republicans not working together. The issue is the undermining of the Republic by those powerful enough to do so. They are straining now in Politics, in Government, in the Media, in Business to overthrow the American Republic. 

Julius Caesar

It is like the Club of Rome: we are the Club of Ariminum and Caesena- present day Rimini and Cesena- within the final 100 steps (centum passus) to the Rubicon, and are now standing at the 95th; we are 5 steps (quinque passus) from entering the river to cross it and overthrow the Republic.