Sipsey Street Irregulars: The rise of the fourth branch of government

Saturday, May 25, 2013

The rise of the fourth branch of government

In the new regulatory age, presidents and Congress can still change the government’s priorities, but the agencies effectively run the show based on their interpretations and discretion. The rise of this fourth branch represents perhaps the single greatest change in our system of government since the founding. We cannot long protect liberty if our leaders continue to act like mere bystanders to the work of government.

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Dr.D said...: I've been making the argument for years that the IRS is effectively the fourth branch, a branch that has no place in the checks and balances of the traditional three and hence few limits and no accountability.

For the Republic, III%
Dr.D; May 25, 2013 at 8:21 AM
bondmen said...: Here's a perfect case in point that this is the 4th branch and has a life on its own separate and apart from adult supervision by The People's representatives: Rep. Trey Gowdy Questions Fmr. IRS Commissioner Shulman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIpHuAh0sOI&NR=1&feature=endscreen; May 25, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Anonymous said...: Leaders?

When did "leaders" becom part of a constitutional government? I thought we elected representatives.; May 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Enact the FAIRTAX and eliminate the damned IRS!

- Old Greybeard; May 25, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Happy D said...: Time for some pruning?; May 25, 2013 at 1:05 PM
BadCyborg said...: For a delightful description of what SHOULD be the fate of all such bureaucrats, I suggest you read Niven and Pournelle's excellent "Inferno" wherein a SciFi writer dies and ends up in Dante's hell. While trying to get out - yes you can get out of this hell but you have to go through hell to do it - he comes upon Hammurabi's Scribe, the first bureaucrat. Let's just say the punishment is absolutely appropriate.; May 25, 2013 at 9:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Senator Mcfadden knew the IRS would eventually become the collection thug for the Federal Reserve. He even brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON.
The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to the Judiciary Committee and has
YET TO BE ACTED ON.
Here is his speech in 1934. Read this and you'll never be the same, as you will understand the nature of our corrupt financial system, including the IRS.

http://hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html

Note the name "becraft" in the link. Research it, and you will discover WAY more about the 16th Amendment and the prosecution of American citizens by virtue of the so called "tax code", than you could learn in a lifetime. In reality, "becraft" is an attorney who has fought and investigated the Income tax and IRS for decades. It is he who keeps that link on the internet. Thank god.; May 26, 2013 at 10:26 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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The rise of the fourth branch of government

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