Posted on 03/04/2015 3:12:51 AM PST by Jacquerie
Five hundred years ago, Machiavelli wrote how governing institutions designed for FreeRepublics were not only unsuited for corrupted republics, they eventually served to enforce tyranny. His prescience was on display yesterday in the US Congress.
Designed in 1787 as the consensual law making body of a free people and their states, Congress joined in tyrannical partnership with President Obama. Under cover of the reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s fabulous speech against Obama’s nefarious plans for Iran and against peace, the Speaker of the House brought a “clean” DHS funding bill to the floor for a vote.
In support of Obama’s lawless revisions of immigration law, Speaker Boehner, dozens of republicans, and all rats voted to grant what will become de facto citizenship to millions of illiterates who have no intention of becoming Americans, but will have every motivation to support the tyranny.
Congress simultaneously destroyed its enumerated power to write immigration law, and assigned it to the executive branch. We The People delegated law making and spending authority to Congress alone. We did not create Congress to justify, endow and rubber-stamp tyranny.
Congress has joined Obama in high crimes against we, the sovereign people. What happened yesterday didn’t show compassion to poor huddled masses yearning to be free; rather, congress slit the throat of the American Republic.
A Congress designed for a FreeRepublic not only no longer serves its purpose, it has become a handmaiden to enslavement.
Congress must be reformed. We can reform it.
Article V. Now.
<>Of course I open to any rational explanation regarding the crazy happenings on the Potomac....<>
Avarice and ambition are as old as man. Government has often been the path to both since antiquity.
Uh Huh... I’m a big fan of Levin, however there are not enough men of honor residing within the halls of government, at the state or federal level, to initiate and follow through with this convention. Change will have to come from the bottom up... eventually.
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