Muddy Waters – Sanctions Bundle Signed by Trump

Question; Is there anything left that we’ve not yet sanctioned?

Historically when a Kahn, Emperor, Caesar, King, Dictator or yes, even a President wanted to impress authority over another an actionable force would be charged with enforcing a prohibition-by-imposition. We’ve come so far in as much as now, in the age of one-world technocracy, we’ve become more efficient. Have we?

Take, for example, the most recent effort of the U.S. Government, H.R. 3364 – the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” (CAASA) represents a modelled mass of short-straws so entirely global in its reach, so open-ended in its duration it’s quite evident that the U.S. Government has, in effect, codified a mechanized process whereby a perpetual state of war may exist primarily due to the fact that by taking this approach we compel the targeted, ostensibly Adversaries of the U.S., to perpetually progenerate tactics and strategies to counter its reach.

Having, over the years, participated in various policy development efforts (“studies”) often a foundational premise is offered upon which the policy study/structure develops examples of which would loosely appear, for example, in the following form(s):

“our stated objective is to develop a structure for drawing investment into inner-city development”

“there is a need to better monitor currency manipulation [invasive] in Pacific Rim currency markets”

“to develop a comprehensive mechanism for affecting strategic liberation(s) of resources for stabilizing [favorably] the volatile market-matrix [energy] of and relating to the expanding E.U. marketplace.”

They sound so benign and yet remain devoutly equivocal. Newton’s Third Law however, quickly becomes contested by the ultimate form and accompanying hubris. As these “studies” evolve into actionable, real world polices primarily because of the Law of Unintended Consequence which I define as the following:

Realm 1: There are those things you know you know with measured predictability.

Realm 2: There are those things that you know you don’t know each of which associated with measured predictability.

Realm 3: There are those things you don’t know with 100% predictability that you haven’t a clue what they may be, in what form they might take or when (or if) they will occur.

Washington, with routine and reckless abandon, deliberately avoids perusing Realm 2 inquiry and prefers to remain wholly ignorant of Realm 3. The application of Sanctions, as they’re presently used, operate on a premise that “present consequence is the result of an unknown condition(s) not of our making”. Clearly a deeply flawed foundation well imbedded as an across-the-board bureaucratic norm ever-expanding the dark void of government.

The end result is that once the script of opaque language becomes law the American Public loses every element of procedural-transparency and becomes ignorant to the fact that many nascent crisis (Realms 2 & 3) are the result of these Policies effectually justify or otherwise endorse unending intervention.

The condition is now so prevalent that though most Americans (including the Political Elitists) quickly acknowledge the excesses if not out-right abusiveness of the governmental process most have become so entangled within the tentacles of governance they are no longer able to distinguish themselves apart from it. The waters have become so muddied that working with any level of clarity or precision thru the process, creating a practicable solution or even daring to walk-back from these predatory entanglements becomes an exercise in futility.

The compounding effects of the reckless policy missives have had a most devastating effect on this Nation and its once sacred ideal of Sovereignty which, having been much maligned, vilified and squandered, now seems to gone the way of most of our Founding Ideals. They’re no longer fashionable primarily because they interfere with impulse. Still, when the need becomes sufficiently strong, the ear and voice of grace is ever a willing advocate. By the way, a link to both the text of CAASA and the Presidents Signing Statement appear below.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3364/text

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-statement-trump-made-while-signing-russian-sanctions-bill-2017-08-02

Curtis C. Greco, Founder

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