Reclaim Our Stolen Sovereignty

A visitor to America, say a modern Alexis de Tocqueville, might conclude that the American form of government is despotic. Considering we have presidential elections every four years, our imaginary visitor could further refine his observations and determine America 2016 to be an elective despotism.

And why not? Obama’s speeches ooze with “I” and “me.” His cabinet secretaries and party have demonstrated loyalty to his person and not the Constitution. Notwithstanding his oath of office, which is a solemn promise to see that the laws be faithfully executed, he pledged to fundamentally transform America. These are mutually exclusive, and we know which one he cherishes.

Sovereignty is defined as the source from which all governing authority flows, and the essence of sovereignty is law making. Alas, despite Article I § 1, our reps and senators no longer write laws; they draft enabling acts preapproved by the president. Recall that Obamacare was enacted entirely by democrats without debate or comprehension. Obamacare enabled Obama to write the healthcare regulations which have the force of law.

When challenged by over half of the states, Scotus dutifully rewrote a penalty into a tax, and ultimately determined that Obama can force you and I to purchase a service we may not want.

In short, Obama is exercising arbitrary power through constitutional means. Obama and his unelected surrogates determine the righteousness, legality and constitutionality of his acts. This isn’t rule of law. It is violence. It is arbitrary. It is despotic. It reflects a practical, de facto sovereignty sourced in the Oval Office.

With depressing regularity, Obama absorbs another power or stomps on another right. He so much as plucked the appropriations power from congress. The internet is his. He makes war and treaties.

Our Despot-in-Chief clearly despises free elections. To the extent he puts up with elections at all, election results must conform to his policies. Recall not two days after the 2014 mid-terms, he informed the nation that he thoroughly understood the tally, that the 70% or so of the electorate that didn’t vote GOP or didn’t vote at all sent the clear message that he was on the right track. Are these pronouncements those of a fellow citizen temporarily elevated to a position of high trust and honor in order to carry out carefully crafted, limited constitutional duties, or are they of a man hostile to free government?

Can we actually expect Obama to risk his transformational legacy on a clean 2016 presidential election, or will his partners in high crimes from the NSA, IRS, DOJ ensure the election of a qualified successor?

OTOH, Obama is drunk on power. Who else but He is qualified to exert sovereignty, to continue the despotic transformation of America?

Yet, not all of the useful instruments of power are in Obama’s hands. The states still exist. Obama does not elect state legislators. We do.

Sixty-six of ninety-nine state houses are not controlled by democrats. State legislators are not YET under his thumb. It is through the states and the states alone that We the Sovereign People can exert our inherent, God-given and Article V power to reassert the American Republic.

We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder of the American Republic. Join Convention of States.

Gallup poll for the week of May 9-15, 2016. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?

51% approve
45% disapprove
1% no opinion

Real Unemployment (US Department of Labor U6) - 9.7%

Obama approval rating - Demographic groups
Age 18-29: 61%
White: 41%
Nonwhite: 70%
Black: 91%
Hispanic: 62%
Church attendance weekly: 39%
Church attendance seldom/never: 57%
Married: 43%
Unmarried: 57%
Ideology liberal: 79%
Ideology conservative: 26%
Education postgraduate: 60%
Education college graduate: 52%
Education high school diploma or less: 48%
Education some college, non graduate: 48%
Income less than $2000 per month: 55%
Income $2000 - $4999 per month: 51%
Income $5000 - $7499 per month: 50%
Income over $7500 per month: 48%
Party ID Democrat: 82%
Party ID Independent: 44%
Party ID Republican: 14%

Approve of the Affordable Care Act: 47%
Disapprove of the Affordable Care Act: 49%
Support replacing the ACA with federal funded healthcare: 58%

Perceptions about the US economy:
Excellent or good: 25%
Poor: 30%
Getting better: 36%
Getting worse: 58%

What is the most important problem facing the country today?
Economy 18%
Dissatisfaction with government 13%
Unemployment/Jobs 9%
Immigration 7%
Race relations/Racism 5%
Federal budget deficit 5%
Elections/election reform 5%
Terrorism 4%
Healthcare 4%
National Security 4%
Education 4%
Poverty/hunger 4%
Gap between rich and poor 4%

Economy is top problem
Republican 27%
Democrat 11%
Independent 16%

View favorably (total population)
Capitalism 60%
Socialism 30%

View favorably (Age 18-29)
Socialism 55%

“Obama and his unelected surrogates determine the righteousness, legality and constitutionality of his acts. This isn’t rule of law. It is violence. It is arbitrary. It is despotic.”

It is TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, state-supported, media-complicit, ongoing…

The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.

Momentous then is the question you have to determine, and you are called upon by every motive which should influence a noble and virtuous mind, to examine it well, and to make up a wise judgment. It is insisted, indeed, that this constitution must be received, be it ever so imperfect. If it has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.

So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance — there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; — there is no limitation to this power…

And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.

In a free republic…

Brutus #1 - Anti-federalist

The states (”laboratories of democracy”) are the stomping grounds of socialists.

/rant

Thanks for your work, Jacquerie.

BUMP!

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