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Showing posts with label constitutional crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitutional crisis. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2011

re: "TAX DAY"

Dr. Jerry Pournelle at Chaos Manor ("The Original Blog *") is exceedingly vexed about a Constitutional issue.


Money quote(s):


"I need to think on this. The Constitution is clear. This is an act of defiance by the President. He is defying them to impeach him.


Perhaps the Congress can order the arrest of any official who pays salaries to the Czars?


Control of the purse is the fundamental curb on monarchy, and is the oldest of the rights of Englishmen. We all need to think on this. Constitutional Crises are to be avoided but sometimes there is no choice."

Saturday, February 12, 2011

re: "Making Sense of Chaos "

Sean Osborne, Associate Director at Northeast Intelligence Network ("Investigating threats to our homeland") mixes good information with some obvious ideological axe-grinding.

Money quote(s)"

"(T)his administration’s blatant “ideologically motivated” incompetence and deliberate “strategic dementia” is leading the world down a path to an apocalypse which the Iranian Ayatollah and his sock puppet so fervently dream of. Indeed, all that will soon be left is for the Iranian’s to step in to fill the vacuum the Obama Administration is creating."

That's a little alarmist, at least in terms of Iran's ability (note, I don't say desire) to step up to anything.

"Unlike the Inept-in-Chief, his Ikhwan advisors and appointed incompetents in the U.S. State Department who have been attempting to micromanage the crisis in Egypt via remote control, there are other forces at work that have real boots on the ground in the former land of the Pharaohs."

Well, I suppose it's some progress that the author differentiates between the "appointed incompetents" at State from us career ones.

"When Obama & Company declared that the transition from Hosni Mubarak’s rule to whatever is supposed to come next had to begin “now” with Mubarak’s immediate resignation, they utterly failed to account for specific provisions of the Egyptian Constitution."

That, for me, echoed similar miscomprehensions about Honduras' constitution.

(Is it really too much to ask that States' country desk officers keep a translation of "their" country's constitution somewhere handy?)

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Thursday, April 2, 2009

JG - West Portland: Holding the balance in Jamaica's democracy

Jamaica Gleaner



West Portland: Holding the balance in Jamaica's democracy


Published: Sunday March 15, 2009


Robert Buddan - POLITICS OF OUR TIME


The 2007 general elections were not quite settled. They were only a partial settlement convenient in order to have government and offset a possible constitutional crisis. The unsettled issues went to court.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"The court was asked whether Daryl Vaz, who held dual citizenship, was qualified under the constitution to have a seat in parliament, and whether a by-election should be held or the seat awarded to Abe Dabdoub. The court decided that he should not have a seat and a by-election should be held."

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(T)here is a feeling in the PNP that the JLP had known before the elections that some of its candidates had held dual citizenship and had them nominated, believing them to be the persons with the best chance to win.
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&

"Dabdoub won't be in a position to get the seat he felt he deserved. But he has been vindicated by the court's ruling that Vaz was not qualified to be nominated and sit as a member of parliament. He has done Jamaica's constitution and the democracy it upholds a great service. In fact, this election might be seen as a battle for the integrity of the constitution."

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Robert Buddan lectures in the Department of Government, UWI, Mona Campus. Email: Robert.Buddan@uwimona.edu.jm or
columns@gleanerjm.com