“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself? Murray Rothbard in Anatomy of the State

When you think of whistleblowers, the name that comes to my mind is Eric Snowden. When James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, lied to Congress and said that the NSA was not spying on phone calls and other communications of Americans, Snowden leaked documents proving that the NSA was in fact doing just that and doing it at on a massive scale. The State came down on him hard and he sought exile in Moscow to avoid imprisonment for the rest of his life for telling Americans the truth.

Not so with the State’s whistleblower who reported information regarding president Trump’s phone call with the new leader of Ukraine. No, I will not reveal his name as I have worked real hard in building up this blog’s twitter following (presently at 26) and do not want to be de-platformed. He has remained in the shadows and it looks like he will not even testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry hearings.

A president’s primary job is to defend the constitution as each president swears an oath to do just that. I find it curious the things the media says about the impeachment inquiry. They say that Trump endangered our national security by withholding the aid. How is something that happens 5000 miles from the coast of the US relevant to its national security? You also hear a lot of comments that what he did was against US foreign policy. That’s curious as the constitution clearly states that foreign policy, other than the ratification of treaties, is the job of the president.

A lot of the outrage is due to the Russian phobic view of the elites. To them, Russia is the evil empire who is our prime rival. As we just passed the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one can remember when that was the case. Not so now as the Russian GDP and defense budget are minuscule compared to the US not to mention all of NATO. To quote President Obama in his debate with the statist Mitt Romney when Romney identified Russia as the chief adversary “the 1980’s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back”

I think that presidents should be impeached when they are violating their oath of that office. If the Democrats want to impeach president Trump, I think there are a lot more substnative reasons. For instance, his continuing of president Obama’s participation in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war against Yemen. The deficit is now more than a trillion in a economy. That one may be problematic in that Congress appropriates the funds. Heck, the payment of the military aid to Ukraine would be a good one in that it is clearly unconstitutional. The founders were quite clear that the US should not be involved in entangling alliances.



