The argument from exceptionalism must be subject to ruthless questioning and relentless public scrutiny. It is the argument of tyrants,liars and political opportunists! The assertion that a republic can be predicated upon secrets: ‘secret laws’, ‘secret courts’, ‘secret evidence’, ‘secret presidence for evidence collection’, ‘secret interrogations’ all these are dubious at the least and destructive at the worst of a basic respect for constitutional governance. The ‘crisis’, the ‘exception’ is the rationalization made infamous by Carl Schmitt, the crown jurist of the Nazi’s: it has no place in a functioning, healthy republic.We find its root in Kierkegaard’s intellectual/moral monstrosity ‘the teleological suspension of the ethical’, an ex post facto rationalization of male/tribal power and imposition of will without consent. We have the “Bush Restoration’ in the Obama Administration. The manufactured paranoia of ‘the ticking time bomb’ is the ever present companion of our political discourse along with the ‘unseen enemy’, who lurks just out of our sight and more importantly out of the reach of duly constituted authority: however that can be defined.The facts of the malfeasance at the governing center in the American Political Melodrama make WikiLeaks or something like it a political necessity, if we are to survive as a republic.
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