The People and Individual Accountability

“The people” are mentioned in the Constitution. They have almost unlimited power. Who are these people? They are the ordinary citizens of America. That’s the secret of the Constitution. With proper clearance and vetting, you could give “the people” almost complete and unfettered access. I use the word “almost” because I don’t know if there is an absolute. Perhaps that is the point of surveillance. You don’t know who is watching. The people might be watching. The people are always watching. These are catch phrases. Homilies. Yet the larger point remains: if everyone is surveilled then the things they do knowing that might be different than the things they do, if they didn’t know.

I have said this many times over many different posts. It was simply time to say it yet again. Surveillance by itself doesn’t do anything. There have to be measures and justice awarded against the findings. Whether that is being actively done: either overtly or covertly is the bigger question. I do not know the answer to that other than people are dying mysteriously and at younger ages. A Thai princess dies at 47 after years in the hospital as an example. The princess used to be perfectly healthy. A Lee from Exxon dies a couple of days after I find license plates that explicitly mention ANG and LEE and I attribute that to a pie in the sky idea that perhaps it’s contact from the film-maker.

The Constitution is based around the idea of “Checks and Balances”. Yet you will notice that these checks and balances are institutional. The reason “the people” are given such extraordinary access is because of a complementary or a superseding idea of Individual Accountability. Institutions can be captured. An institution comprises of individuals. In order to preserve a functioning republic, each individual must be held accountable and if all institutions are captured then individuals of “the people” are allowed to act. Or rather, they must act. The people are entrusted with restoring order and balance when insitutions cannot. We are living in one of those times. Perhaps we will always live with that going forward.

San Diego, California.
June 13th 2026.
8:06 am.