Czarist America

Accuracy in Academia ^ | July 1, 2010 | Bethany Stotts

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Czarist America

Bethany Stotts, July 1, 2010

At Accuracy in Academia’s June 21 Author’s Night Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski discussed the premises of their book The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency.

“That is a very provocative title,” noted Blackwell, the former Ohio Secretary of State. The book does not, he cautioned, say that President Barack Obama is a “tyrant” or “evil,” but that his actions have undermined the principles of the U.S. Constitution and that “…Team Obama is determined to change the balance of power achieved through the separations of power and our American federalism.”

“He is attempting to concentrate power in the executive branch, giving him the power of a monarch,” argued Blackwell.

One method is through the appointment of czars, argue the two Kens. They outline three different types of “czars,” in their book. The first two types have some connections with Congressional authority but “The third—and most dangerous—are officials named by President Obama to certain posts that Obama fashions out of thin air,” they write in The Blueprint.

“Almost all are White House staff officials exercising the sort of power found in Cabinet secretaries or undersecretaries (which are Senate-confirmed positions), but were simply named to the brand-new positions by President Obama,” the write. “These officials, and even the offices they fill, were simply created by executive fiat.”

“This president has over two dozen czars,” said Klukowski, who is a senior legal analyst for the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), at the event.

Blackwell maintained that, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence, all persons are endowed with rights by their creator, not by government. In contrast, czars like former

University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein argues that citizens’ rights come from the government apparatus....

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Each day I can relate more and more to the fears the anti-federalists had over ratifying the constitution and the centralization of federal government power over the states. America has become a quasi fascistic corporatist oligarchy.

[OneWingedShark]

In Soviet Amerika the banks own you!
(And the Government owns the banks...)