EXCLUSIVE: Don Ruane and Term Limits

At a time when the political landscape in the United States of America is undergoing change, it has been decided to present a special report and interview that has not been discussed in the US Mainstream Media.

The concept of unlimited reelection in America after the proposal by Jose Serrano of New York have many people wandering is the United States of America heading towards a dictatorship.

I have invited D.S Miles and his campaign for One Six Year Term to be interviewed. He politely declined the offer but offered Mr. Don Ruane of Voter Imposed Term Limits Inc. to present the case against reelection.

Mr. Duane Ruane gladly accepted my invitation and here is the interview by E Mail.

1. A previous article published in Now Public dealt with the proposal by Jose Serrano [D-NY] called H.J Resolution Number 5 to be presented before the 111th Congress 2009-2010. H.J. Resolution Number 5 calls for a Constitutional Amendment to repeal term limits on Presidents. What would be the positive and negative impact of removing term limits from the President? The link to the article is below the question.

 

http://my.nowpublic.com/world/serrano-wants-term-limits-us-president-removed

 

First, Our Constitution is not broken. 

The limits set out for the Presidency has worked very well since 1951.  Before that there was only an “Unwritten Rule‘, started

by George Washington, that no President would serve more the 2 terms.  That worked up till 1940.

 

I see no positive aspects of removing the Constitutional Term Limit imposed on the Office of the President.  I see all kinds of negative results from an action of this nature.

 

The repeal would destroy another of the Checks and Balances established in the  Constitution to safeguard the Rights of the People and the States.  The State have already lost there Rights and Voice, with the passage of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution.

 

We only need to return to the Presidency of FDR to see what would happen if the 22nd Amendment was repealed.   FDR was elected in 1932 just as the Free Market was reviving the stalled <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />US economy.  His massive spending drove the US and world economy into a prolonged Depression. The entire world was affected.  The same spending pattern we are seeing by the Obama administration  and the Congress that he controls.  

 

This  depression allowed  an elected German to make changes to the German Constitution that made him The Fuehrer for Life. His name was Adolph Hitler.  I would think that many of us remember the Second World War.  The death of 100 million people, the destruction of Europe, China, Japan and many other countries.

FDR’s term in office should have ended in the election of  1940. . Europe was at war.  It was the Congress, that he controlled, which allowed FDR to run for a 3rd and 4th term.  The Congress and the Courts had the power to stop him, but choose not to use that power.  

 

FDR was given sweeping wartime powers that allowed him to deny the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to All American citizens.  I can see another President, using wartime, to grab, for the GOOD of THE PEOPLE and THE GOOD of THE CHILDREN, sweeping power to control our lives, right down to the details on our medical records and the ability to fire private citizen from there jobs.  Also to destroy the Free Market System, which is the greatest freedom we are granted by the Constitution. And a freedom that someone, with unlimited terms as the President, would  find very limiting of his/her quest for more power to CONTROL.

 

In other words, the repeal of the 22nd Amendment,  is a disastrous idea only benefiting individual seeking to enhance then power to control us.

 

George Washington got it right the first time, no man or woman has the right to hold the office of the President of the United States for more the 2 terms.  The office CORRUPTS because the office has Absolute Power to control.

 

2. What is the reasoning behind the formation of an organization that proposes one six year term for all politicians?

 

First of all Term Limits, Voter Imposed is only seeking to limit the terms of the Congress.  Although Term Limits is not a bad idea for all elected officials’.

 

 I have been working on term limits since 1994 and firmly believe that Congress is, by nature and duties, a corrupting  and corrosive environment, to anyone we send to Washington.  It is only a matter of time for the process to take full effect.  The powers we grant then, is so great, that no man can resist the corrupting influences

indefinately.  The need to get REELECTED assure that outcome.

 

Congress has the power of the purse and all that power Corrupts, even men with the strongest of characters.  All we have to do is look at the 111th Congress.   They are seizing powers not granted to then by the Constitution.  Powers  restricted to the States and the People.  The power to negotiate a contract in good faith is no longer the law of the land. The power to choose your work in life is not longer

the law of the land. 

 

3. How would One Six Year Term Limit function and will it apply at the Federal or at all levels including municipal, county, and state?

 

First of all Term Limits, Voter Imposed is only seeking to limit the terms of the Congress.  Although Term Limits is not a bad idea for all elected officials’. 

 

Six years and out eliminates the Professional Politicians and the Professional Politic Families. They have become the royalty, which is forbidden in the Constitution.

 

Six year and out would restore the Checks and Balances to our Federate Republic  so well crafted that is has taken our politicians over 225 years to mount a serious challenge to it validity .

 

 

We are only talking about the Federal Government.   The States have the power to regulate the term in office of elected officials in there give State.  I can  see the potential of the States losing that power under a long term President.

 

4. It appears that the Obama Administration has ordered the firing of the CEO at GM. Why has he not asked for the resignation of Dodd, Geithner, and others involved in the AIG Scandal?

 

Your question is good, but it does not go far enough. The question should be “Why are we not prosecuting the Members of Congress,  that are responsible for the regulations,  which caused all these problems in the first place.

 

To answer your question, they are Obama’s appointee and are doing his will and following the plan outlined, to them, by their Boss

 

5. Is Obama or the Governing Elite in America preparing for a dictatorship by Washington?

 

All indications are that hey are gearing up the war so they can and will use the war going  badly,  as a pretends to repeal the 22nd Amendment  and creating a dictatorship and a total gutting of the Constitution and it’s Protections of our rights.

 

 

6. Why have career politicians of both parties been tainted with corruption? The question is based on the fact that two of Obama's nominees have had problems related to taxes.

 

It is the System and the length of time we allow people to serve that  creates the ability to become corrupt.  Everybody has his/ her  price.  It is only a matter of time,  before  the need to get reelected takes over and dictates there needed course of action.  Find more money, the money to get reelected and stay in Power.

Power corrupts and absolute Power corrupts absolutely.

 

7. Why does the US Government not allow the privatization of labour unions, and political parties so that they can contribute to a true rescue of the American Economy?

 

I do not understand your question.  Labor Unions and Political Parties are private organizations or more correctly corporation.  There is no bar to these organizations contributing to the American Economy.

 

 

 

8. What is the future of the United States of America if it continues the same path of career politicians?

 

Socialism, Communism and destruction of the American Way of Life.

 

The destruction of the Free Market System and massive unemployment and Poverty.

 

9. What can be done at the present time to avert disaster?

 

In 2010, the American people forget party allegiance and exercise there God Given Right to have a Complete rotation of all our Federally Elected officials  All 435 members of the 111th Congress should be defeated and replaced with Citizen Legislators,  who sign a contract to only serve 3 terms, if they are reelected at all.

The 33 Senators, who will be running for reelection should also be replaced with Citizen Senators and sign the same contract.

 

I would like to thank Mr. Don Ruane for taking time from his busy schedule to be interviewed.