Posted on 06/29/2015 4:58:27 PM PDT by Ray76
Since being inaugurated in 2009, President Barack Obama has issued 30 Presidential Policy Directives (PPD), 19 of which he has ordered to be kept secret from Congress and the American people.
The existence of these documents — along with the scores of executive orders and signing statements — represent a corpus of presidential fiats masquerading as laws. As demonstrated in the history of these directives, for generations, presidents have carried out a plan to consolidate all functions of government into the hands of one “unitary” executive, aggrandizing the office of the president and reducing Congress to mere plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging that all but unlimited authority.
James Madison, writing as "Publius," wrote in The Federalist, No. 47: “The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. “
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Secret laws and decrees are only the beginning.
FTA
Whatever they’re called, Obama has been less prolific than his predecessors. George W. Bush issued 66 such orders, plus 25 more Homeland Security Presidential Directives. President Reagan issued at least 325.
Some, going back as far as the Lyndon Johnson administration, remain classified.
one thing,
not only would most Americans be disinclined to obey any tryannical dictats parading as ‘laws’
but
it is abjectly IMPOSSIBLE for anybody who may wish to obey a secret ‘law’...to do so .... since, after all, it is being kept ‘secret’ from him/her
even a “good sheep” can’t obey what his Master won’t tell him to do, or not do
this whole thing is a farce.
a dangerous one, yes
indeed.
but still, a farce
Where can this be verified if they are classified?
We are not a Republic. We are not even a Democracy. We are not even a Tyranny. We are not even a COUNTRY.
Difference is, I totally trusted Reagan. I slightly trusted W. I totally distrust Obama.
I suppose so. But government by secret diktat is a discomfiting thought.
Either way, the Duplicitous Party leaders in BOTH parts of the Legislative Branch will do nothing ... as usual.
Secret laws.
Secret treaties.
Secret courts.
Secret agencies.
This is not a free country. This is not the Founders country.
We need to get back to the Founders country. Small federal govt. Big state governments. Don’t like what a state is doing, you can either try to change it, or move to another state.
Enough of this macromanaged big brother bullsh1t.
It will be Katie bar the door time.
It's remarkable how unsurprising this kind of thing has become. Thanks Ray76.
"You can't go away when you're under arrest." "That's how it seems," said K. "And why am I under arrest?" he then asked. "That's something we're not allowed to tell you. Go into your room and wait there. Proceedings are underway and you'll learn about everything all in good time.
Huh?
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