Constitution? What's that?
Posted on 12/17/2015 3:16:24 PM PST by SetFree
Carson went on liberal radio host Alan Colmes’ radio show...He said that there may not even be elections in 2016; when pressed to explain further, Carson said,
“If in fact we continue to have all these decrees being made the way they’re being made, if in fact we don’t fight the kind of war that needs to be fought in order to really put an end to the threat that is brought on by ISIS, if we continue along a pathway of financial irresponsibility, if we continue along a path of envy, greed, and hatred — what happened with Occupy Wall Street will be a cakewalk compared to what will begin to happen in this country.â€
When Colmes pushed Carson further on the possibility of cancelled or postponed elections, Carson responded, “I don’t want to find out, I really don’t want to find out. I don’t want to continue down this pathway that we are going down. This pathway where everything is framed in a political sense and our representatives are not working for the people, they’re working for their party.â€
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But something is different this time around —
Obviously the Democrats would like to keep Obama in beyond his allotted time.
And this time, the GOP (the *cough* “opposition party”) would love to find a way to keep Trump out of the White House.
Bottomline: if both major political parties want the election to be suspended, I think it will be suspended. No Civil War would erupt because there would not be two sides to that argument.
But perhaps grassroots rebellion would be likely.
Of course they can.
“If he doesn’t follow the law now, why would he suddenly do it in January 2017?”
My guess is that he will wait until October 2016 and let the hammer drop on the hildabeast, then jump in to save the rat party. Media, house, senate would all back his executive order nullifying the twenty second amendment.
We won’t have long to wait to see if you are right or I am right. I don’t want to be right. And I sure don’t want to be saying: “Told you so.”
But the real question is, play a fantasy game with me for the moment and say he does do it. Do you really know anyone that would take up arms? Not B.S. or false bravado. Do you know ANYONE that you are sure would actually fire a shot in protest?
I know a lot of big talkers and big posters, but I don’t know anyone that would fight an Obama dictatorship.
You and scores of other FREEPERS
I agree with you.
And note — if anyone did take up arms, the media would be instantly full of stories about “the crazy guy” in Wisconsin, or Maryland, or Nevada. There would be heart-wrenching stories about the grief-stricken families of the federal judge or IRS agent that was gunned down by the violent extremist.
And 99.9% of the public would *tsk*tsk*tsk* and say “That’s not who we are. There’s no need for violence. I’m sure that — one of these days — we will be allowed to have another election. And then we can all vote for change, like good Americans.”
Huh?
I don’t think it would mean civil war—just a little housecleaning in D C.
I don’t think it would go that far. I doubt anyone would enforce such a decree. Even most Democrat politicians and DC bureaucrats wouldn’t stand for it. I’m sure you think I’m naive, but there is still such a thing as going to far for the American people to swallow.
Carson is right.
All it would take is a big enough crisis for Obama to declare martial law. Once he does and has had time to implement his order, it would be simple for him to “postpone” the election.
Obama has already given himself ample authority to do everything that would be needed to implement this. He has even built the “domestic army” he talked about prior to his first election (even the NOAA has it’s own SWAT teams now). Obama has poisoned race relations, and primed his “gimmee dat” army to help make sure he gains and keeps control.
The military would NOT stop him. He has already purged the military of those leaders who would be most likely to oppose him.
All Obama needs is the crisis.
Manufacturing a crisis is child’s play. Despots have done so throughout human history.
Those who think “it could never happen here” are living in fantasy land. There is nothing whatsoever to keep Obama from trying and he has put all the pieces in place to do so. So why wouldn’t he?
It’s really easy:
1. Build a support base that will back you.
Done.
2. Purge military leaders who might oppose you.
Done.
3. Manufacture a crisis.
Easy to do.
4. Declare martial law.
All needed authority is in place.
5. Postpone the election.
Child’s play once step 4 is in place.
Voila! President for life! If you’re Obama, what’s not to like?
You say you wouldn’t stand for it? With Homeland “Security” and the NSA’s surveillance technology, finding and disappearing opposition leaders would be child’s play. Absent organization and leadership, what are YOU going to be able to do about it?
Scattered opposition is almost certain, but he could deal with that easily.
If you think this is far fetched you simply have not studied history. Despots have followed this basic approach over and over and over (the Reichstag fire set by Hitler in 1933, for example). It works.
The only difference is that now the technology to suppress opposition is better.
You’re kidding, yes?
God, I hate public schools..!
Oh this Patriot will.
Lol. My point was, there WAS an election, despite the war of northern aggression. The fact still remains that an election was held. That’s all I was trying to point out. Odumbo, OTOH, would be very likely to stop the election.
I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the possibility of it happening. The Left hasn’t been zealously working for generations subverting America without a goal in mind.
Watch it now. To some, that’s close to blasphemy in these here parts.
There’s a few ‘invalid’ Amendments about that same time too. Real hard to argue, IMO, how a few under duress of, “You want to get out from occupation and join ‘the club’ again...” are in any way valid....
My view is Obama wouldn’t keep at the helm in 2017. He will be extremely powerful and his minions will still be in power but he will not be seen. He knows how bad things are going to get. He knows Iran will be testing nukes soon. He knows we are throttling to a true world war. He does not want his name on any of it. One thing Obama’s massive ego will not allow is responsibility for anything bad.
He has no authority to suspend elections. Even if he does suspend elections, the Constitution says the state legislatures can appoint electors to the electoral college.
And he still has his term ending in January 2017. No matter what, Obama will not be President past January 2017.
Constitution? What's that?
Right. Just click your heels together and say "There's no place like home...there's no place like home...there's no place like home"
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