please, pardon me, but ...

Well … Inauguration Day is over, and the fireworks have begun. Except, in the race to exit and the other to begin, the stupidity of party still reigns supreme. But I get it: The Constitution’s back. I wonder. Take Biden (he’s no longer president) and two days before Christmas, he pardons 37 men on death row, yet misses three. His conscience unable to allow child killers and mass murderers to face the same sentence they freely handed out. Only, his conscience couldn’t have been that troubled because he left the three on death row to maybe someday face the same fate they gave: Death. Ponder: Did he give the families who suffered through the atrocity of losing a loved one a modicum of thought. Or was his legacy the overriding purpose: Leave something for history to remember him by.

Although, I guess if one looks at the handling of the Kabul evacuation and the repatriation of those killed, and how he apparently had something better to do while waiting, he really doesn’t care one iota. I believe Special Counsel Robert Hur said it best during Biden’s classified document scandal: Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. What I call a doddering old fool. Bottom line though: Those lives did not matter. Not even the service members at the Kabul airport. The political expediency of party over right, begging the question: Who was running the country?

But wait, there’s more. If he’s so against the death penalty, why the push allowing abortion at any time during pregnancy? But that’s for another time, even though I’m going to digress a little here as the Facebook fireworks are unbelievable. So much, I wonder if individuals who post idiocy (both sides) actually see their own contradictions. Example: One had a litany post with two sentences out of a plethora:

I will not “work together” to eliminate a woman’s right to choose her own reproductive healthcare.

I WILL stand for honesty, love, respect for all living beings, and for the beating heart that is the center of Life itself.

Two sentences, the contradiction of the other: The beating heart. Yet, every other “will not” and “will” sentence in the post tells me one literally does not know or understand the Constitution. Only Party over any truth the winner at the cost of those yet to grow up or be born.

So, with the power transfer done, heads are exploding from the political left, similar to the political right when Biden took office. But in pardoning, Biden didn’t stop at the Christmas party. Minutes before surrendering power in the supposed “peaceful transition” thereof, he preemptively pardons his entire family and others. Why? Were those pardoned guilty thereof? Because if not, why pardon. On the other hand, was the political lawfare against Trump up to winning the election their reason for doing such. And then President Trump in his melee to write Executive Orders (I believe them not in the president’s power), pardons all the J6 participants. At a minimum, I believe each should have been charged and prosecuted for felony trespassing. Which begs, what about all the 2020 “mostly peaceful” riots and the destruction wrought. Or the campus antisemitic hate approved by the college deans?

But … pardoning and wording, including the power of the President in the realm of such: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. (Article II/Section 2/First Clause)

Except, read the italicized words again. Then again and again until you get it. And like everything else, how did the Framers feel about the power of the pardon and why: He is also to be authorized to grant "reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, EXCEPT IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT." Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel. As the sense of responsibility is always strongest, in proportion as it is undivided, it may be inferred that a single man would be most ready to attend to the force of those motives which might plead for a mitigation of the rigor of the law, and least apt to yield to considerations which were calculated to shelter a fit object of its vengeance. The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat, would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; the dread of being accused of weakness or connivance, would beget equal circumspection, though of a different kind. On the other hand, as men generally derive confidence from their numbers, they might often encourage each other in an act of obduracy, and might be less sensible to the apprehension of suspicion or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency. On these accounts, one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy of government, than a body of men.

But the principal argument for reposing the power of pardoning in this case to the Chief Magistrate is this: in seasons of insurrection or rebellion, there are often critical moments, when a welltimed offer of pardon to the insurgents or rebels may restore the tranquillity of the commonwealth; and which, if suffered to pass unimproved, it may never be possible afterwards to recall. The dilatory process of convening the legislature, or one of its branches, for the purpose of obtaining its sanction to the measure, would frequently be the occasion of letting slip the golden opportunity. The loss of a week, a day, an hour, may sometimes be fatal. If it should be observed, that a discretionary power, with a view to such contingencies, might be occasionally conferred upon the President, it may be answered in the first place, that it is questionable, whether, in a limited Constitution, that power could be delegated by law; and in the second place, that it would generally be impolitic beforehand to take any step which might hold out the prospect of impunity. A proceeding of this kind, out of the usual course, would be likely to be construed into an argument of timidity or of weakness, and would have a tendency to embolden guilt (Federalist 74).

Obduracy: Invincible hardness of heart; impenitence that cannot be subdued; inflexible persistency in sin; obstinacy in wickedness

Dilatory: Literally, drawing out or extending in time; hence, slow; late; tardy; applied to things; as dilatory councils or measures. (Both definitions: Webster’s 1828)

Now, if I read the power of pardon correctly, it’s only covers “offences against the United States.” What has become the black and white of obfuscation, like the now proposed battle over “birthright citizenship” and the fourteenth amendment: The slave amendment and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” So, for one to present the notion of an illegal having a baby born in the States being an automatic citizen, negates the original purpose of the amendment, making slaves citizens. The writer himself proposing: This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons (emphasis added). It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great issue in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country (Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan/fourteenth amendment author). Which begs the questions of nation, borders, sovereignty, and why one would want to destroy country. Especially by those who have sworn to uphold and protect it.

Which brings us full circle back to Biden and President Trump and of the two: Which was more right in pardoning and birthright. I guess one’s answer all depends on party affiliation. But in this case, Trump was more right even though he’s also misguided. And Biden: He’s definitely wrong. Anyway, when I see and hear the absurdity of the constitutional malfeasance that runs rampant throughout every facet of our society, I propose: Pardon me, but is everyone really this stupid? And those preemptively pardoned by Biden: Were their crimes against the country? Kind of looks that way, no. But I’ll leave you with these words and I hope you can catch the multi-purpose drift:

Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation. The People can never err more than in supposing that by multiplying their representatives beyond a certain limit, they strengthen the barrier against the government of a few. Experience will forever admonish them that, on the contrary, after securing a sufficient number for the purposes of safety, of local information, and of diffusive sympathy with the whole society, they will counteract their own views by every addition to their representatives. The Countenance of the government may become more democratic, but the soul that animates it will be more oligarchic. The machine will be enlarged, but the fewer, and often the more secret, will be the springs by which its motions are directed (Federalist 58).