“PATHOLOGICAL CASES”
by OPOVV, ©2015
(Apr. 24, 2015) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We’re here at the ‘Good Vibes Clinic’ located across the street from the amphitheater, home of many a nominee for political office. The idea for this facility is the brainchild of Dr. Joseph W. Weiss, the bestselling author of “Who’s That Looking at Me in the Mirror?”
“And look who just crawled out from the window on this little strip of concrete that looks to be ten or so inches above the ground, the good doctor himself.
“Excuse me, Dr. Weiss, Roving Reporter here. Mind if I ask you a couple of questions?”
“Mind? Why should I mind, unless you’re from the government, then I mind. Want to see me ‘mind?’ I can become ‘not your so-nice neighbor shrink’ and charge double, so you better watch your step, young man. Go ahead, ask a question, I’m ready.”
“I’ve heard some strange stories about your clinic, here. One story is that you have an aspiring politician stand on the ledge here and, what I heard, correct me if I’m wrong, ‘threaten to jump.’ Jump? Jump, what, ten inches.”
“It is so. Yes, it is. They come to me from all over. We give them what they want: absolution. We give them a second chance. We give them life! They pay, in cash, the best way to pay. I give them discount! They happy; me happy. Everybody happy!”
“That’s fine, but, really now, how does it work?”
“I know what you’re thinking: you’re thinking ‘scam!’ For shame. Honest businessman here, working hard in America. I pay my taxes. You sure you not work for government? Government bunch of crooks. Remember that Nixon guy? He right, he wasn’t the crook, it was everyone around him who were the crooks.
“What goes on here? Simple. First we get aspiring politicians who would like to be able to come across as ‘speaking-from-the-heart’ and ‘telling the truth.’ Sometimes the government sends us people who are about to testify in front of a Congressional Committee.
“Step #1: We ask level of office. County Commissioner rates one policeman with 7 bystanders, while a Senator requires 10 policemen, 4 fire trucks and 60 bystanders.
“Step #2: Candidate crawls through window and steps on this here ledge. Soon we bring a few bystanders in. You know there’s a ‘Bystander Union?’ Then a couple of cops show up, and then the fire trucks and more of our ‘bystanders.’
“One of the cops has a bullhorn and asks the crowd to stand back, stop yelling ‘Jump! Jump!’ Meanwhile, I stick my head out and start to ask questions.”
“Questions? Like what kind of questions do you ask?”
“Let me give you an example. Last week we had this, ah, mature lady who kept on mumbling something about ‘Benghazi.’ So she gets out here on our ledge, but get this: she’s going for the ‘Double Deluxe Good Vibe’ nighttime package; you know, nighttime with the spotlights? She hands me the cash and a ‘Senior Citizen Coupon;’ can you believe it? She wants 10% off on a ‘Double Deluxe Good Vibe’ session? So I point, right there on the front, the very front, of the coupon book: ‘No Discounts for Specials.’ What does she think nighttime is, if not a special? So, what the heck: I charge her double and take off 15%. ‘Because you my pick for 2016,’ I say to her.
“She happy. Me? I’m happy too.”
“Okay, so this lady is standing on the ledge, it’s nighttime and there’s the crowd, the cops, the fire trucks, the spotlights, and what happens next?”
“I say, ‘So tell us the truth about your Vatican Slush Fund and what happened in Benghazi. Who gave the stand-down order?’ and she starts yapping about a ‘ridiculous video, that people should’ve bought into the narrative but didn’t and why don’t they just forget about Benghazi.’ And then she looks at me and says: ‘I’m cured. Thank you.’
“And that’s it. She steps off the ledge and is whisked away in a dark SUV.”
“No kidding? And you have it all on tape? I mean, you filmed it, didn’t you?”
“Of course we filmed it, but her handlers confiscated all of our films. But I have recording, that I do have.”
“So can you tell me more about what she said about Benghazi?”
“Doctor cannot violate doctor-patient confidentiality relationship, but I’ll tell you this: she isn’t cured, this I know.”
“Not cured? How do you know that?”
“I know because the ones that are cured, they just don’t walk off the ledge! And she just stepped off as if it was no big deal. She just got bored or else she convinced herself that she can still lie through her teeth and believes that people will believe her.
“The ones that really get cured are those who climb back through the window!”
“Are you trying to tell me she climbed out of the window in the first place?”
“No, no no. For her, no window. She just steps up to the window, here, and starts talking through the window. Says, ‘Okay, let’s get this over with so people will believe me when I lie to them, the ingrates.’
“I take her money. I pay the off-duty cops and fire fighters. The fire trucks just seem to materialize, you know? I pay the ‘crowd,’ all in cash. I get paid in cash, did I tell you? That way I make sure how honest I want to be with the government wasting my money.
“Sorry, don’t want to sound rude, but I’ve cash to take in; I mean, I’ve got a full schedule with all of these people running for president next year. They all want to come across as ‘honest,’ you know?”
“You ever have Bush here?”
“Father, son and son. Last Bush wanted his ‘love’ statement erased from the memory of the voters. He asked me if he could, as he said, ‘Hypnotize the ingrates.’ Told him to talk more like Hillary if he wanted to do that. Hillary or Hitler.”
“Well, thanks for your time, Dr. Weiss. Quite an interesting concept you are trying to sell here. A ‘ledge’ that the candidates threaten to ‘jump’ from to cure themselves of lying.
“No, not ‘cured!’ They still lie like a fish, but it is they who cure themselves that they are lying, which they are, but they don’t know it. We make them pathological cases. Now you understand?”
“Got it. Thanks again. This is Roving Reporter saying goodnight from a very unique clinic for any of our politicians who think they have a problem with lying, as far as I can make out. Thanks for watching. Goodnight.”
From Talbot v Janson 3 US 133 1795 SCOTUS Chief Justice Rutledge term;
It is the law of nature, and of nature’s god, pointing to “the wide world before us, where to chuse our place of rest, and Providence our guide.”
2 Bynk. 125. Wickefort, b. 1. c. 2. p. 116. Grot. b. 2. 5. s.24. par. 2. 3. Dig. de cap. ex post. Law. 12. 8. 9. Wick. b. 1. 8. 11. p. 244. Puff. b. 8. 1. c. 11. s.3. p. 862. 1 Fred. Code. 34. 5. 2. vol. 10. 1 Gill. Hist. Greece.
With this law, however, human institutions have often been at variance; and no institutions more than the feudal system, which made the tyranny of arms, the basis of society; chained men to the soil on which they were born; and converted the bulk of mankind into the villeins, or slaves of a lord, or superior.
From the feudal system, sprung the law of allegiance; which pursuing the nature of its origin, rests on lands; for, when lands were all held of the Crown, then the oath of allegiance became appropriate: It was the tenure of the tenant, or vassal. Blac. Com. 366. The oath of fealty, and the ancient oath of allegiance, were, almost the same; both resting on lands; both designating the person to whom service should be rendered; though the one makes an exception as to the superior lord, while the other is an obligation of fidelity against all men. 2 Bl. Com. 53. Pal. 140.
Service, therefore, was also an inseparable concomitant of fealty, as well as of allegiance. The oath of fealty could not be violated without loss of lands; and as all lands were held mediately, or immediately, of the sovereign, a violation of the oath of allegiance, was, in fact a voluntary submission to a state of outlawry.
Hence arose the doctrine of perpetual and universal allegiance. When, however, the light of reason was shed upon the human mind, the intercourse of man became more general and more liberal: the military was gradually changed for the commercial state; and the laws were found a better protection for persons and property, than arms.
But [p141] even while the practical administration of government was thus reformed, some portion of the ancient theory was preserved; and among other things, the doctrine of perpetual allegiance remained, with the fictitious tenure of all lands from the Crown to support it.
Yet, it is to be remembered, and that whether in its real origin, or in its artificial state, allegiance, as well as fealty, rests upon lands, and it is due to persons.
Not so, with respect to Citizenship, which has arisen from the dissolution of the feudal system and is a substitute for allegiance, corresponding with the new order of things.
Allegiance and citizenship, differ, indeed, in almost every characteristic.
Citizenship is the effect of compact; allegiance is the offspring of power and necessity.
Citizenship is a political tie; allegiance is a territorial tenure.
Citizenship is the charter of equality; allegiance is a badge of inferiority.
Citizenship is constitutional; allegiance is personal.
Citizenship is freedom; allegiance is servitude.
Citizenship is communicable; allegiance is repulsive.
Citizenship may be relinquished; allegiance is perpetual.
With such essential differences, the doctrine of allegiance is inapplicable to a system of citizenship; which it can neither serve to controul, nor to elucidate.”
The true basis of U.S. Citizenship is “CONSENT”.
Consent in the 1st instant as expressed most eloquently in the Preamble to the COTUS, and in “Tacit consent”, as Vattel noted, with the birth of a child to Citizen parents.
True Freedom is owing nothing, True Fidelity is in the willing Consent.