The more we learn about this nation’s CEO’s, the more they fit the role of mini-monarchs, figureheads like the king or queen of England we escaped from, or just publicity fronts like Ronald Reagan or the Bushes were for the real behind-the-scenes-monarch, Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney.

For an interesting Internet sojourn, Google Dick Cheney and follow the links and leads of his history and associations. Then connect the dots to get a picture that will probably surprise you. He also was an advisor or principal in the Nixon, Reagan, and Ford teams. Then ask yourself how in eight short years we got into war with nearly every Arab nation in the world?

As complex a document our Constitution is in defining democracy, it doesn’t take a Rhodes Scholar or more than cursory reading by a middle-school kid (well, if they can read old biblical-style King James English), to know that our nation’s Constitution forbids any such dominating or privileged people in America. You can’t get past Section 9 of the very first Article without noticing it.

That being the case, business leaders as we know them — and their Jack Abramoffs — must be as separate from government and political domination as it decrees religion must be.

It’s all right there in the Constitution if anyone wants to read it. Reading it could start a much needed uplifting spiritual revival. Observing and enforcing it could well be the real bailout our nation needs.

Al Williams

Oak Harbor