Posted on 06/25/2010 8:07:30 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Throughout his political career, Obama has consistently declared his view that the Constitution's purposeful restraint of government power is obsolete. ...the White House, he and his faction have signaled their intent to circumvent, undermine or simply set aside the authority of the U.S. Constitution. Both here and in postings on my blog I have repeatedly had occasion to remark upon the design for despotism that has been evident in their actions.
Now "eight Republican senators … are warning that the Obama administration is drafting a plan to 'unilaterally' issue blanket amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants as it struggles to win support in Congress for an overhaul of immigration laws." This represents the decisive step beyond derelict law enforcement. Not content merely to ignore the laws the legislature has properly and constitutionally made, Obama signals the intention to undertake unilateral executive action that alters the clear terms and intention of the established laws, entirely without the constitutionally determined consent of the people. This will be a blatant and presumptuous usurpation of legislative power. This is not just dereliction, it is lawless tyranny. It is outright dictatorship.
Constitutionally exercised, the executive power represents the force of law. Once divorced, however, from constitutional provisions for ascertaining the consent of the people, it asserts instead the law of force, the unjust rule that might makes right. In effect, just laws fall silent, and all that speaks are the government's instruments of force and intimidation, imposing rules that have no more warrant of lawfulness than the command of a terrorist over those he holds, by threat of violence, hostage to his will. The forces under the authority of the presidency become in that case a weapon, loaded and cocked, held to the head of the American people.
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I agree. The arguments about “just following orders” didn’t fly at the Nuremberg trials.
As well as being the ROCK when it comes to pro-life issues. The talk of Keyes being nuts is just the way they’ve managed to neuter him, but they’ll never shut him up.
Tell you what, if he ran again I would vote for him.
Brilliant people are rarely “typical”. Alan Keyes is brilliant.
I agree.
And that’s why I voted for him.
It must NOT be done on the internet.
I don’t think Putin or Medvedev would give Obama any of their soldiers to obey someone like Obama. The Russians are not ‘politically correct’ in their feelings and views towards blacks.
During the enlistment ceremony, while the enlistees were repeating the oath of service, the CO reading the oath oddly included something to the effect “...defend the Constitution of the United States, and obey all orders from the President...”. That might not be it exactly, but it's pretty damn close.
That moment gave me pause. I wasn't aware that was in the oath. Of course, this is Hollyweird we're talking about, and they miss no chance to indulge in revisionism and agenda-adhering gobbledegook.
If I'm wrong on this, please call me to carpet, and I'll apologize.
CA....
He’ll do it like Chavez, Hussein — 99% pluralities. Actually, even Chavez isn’t quite that far along - he’s still having to cheat.
I didn’t know who he was when he ran against Bush. Now I do. I think he’s a once-in-a-generation type of patriot.
Tell me, just how long did it take Hitler to consolidate power?
CA....
And it looks as if WE are the ones that will have to stop him. I dont’ see anyone else coming forward to do it. I wonder how our troops will feel about fighting and dying in lands far away for a country with a tyrannical govt and a citizenry full of law-breaking Mexicans.
RE: “...there goes 2012....^^”
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Exactly — and the potential loss of that election will finally bring ‘the people’ out in force and we can all participate in CW II. I often think that is the only way we will take back our country.
LOL!
Ok, stop with the put downs. It just sounds effete. People need distractions in times like these, and frankly, those shows are a hell of a lot more wholesome than millonaire football/baseball/bassetball/etc. The people need to be awoken from their sleep, but insulting them isn’t the way. Or else they really are just sheep, and repeatedly pointing that out isn’t helping anything, any more than reminding us that failure to get behind the pinko McCain led to the red diaper doper baby president we have now.
What do you think should have happened, wet?
He didn’t even do that. They basically just made fun of Biteme a little.
Yeah, Vendy baby, lighten up. I’m sure whatever it is you’re trying to say is making sense to you... but back away from the bong and slow down if you want anybody else to “get it.” You’re still not making sense. Are you talking about Keyes or osama?
I suppose, but it is the threat of the guns backing them up that makes the bureaucracy all-powerful. I am not really worried about this going on all that long. When nobody has nothing the federal government is going to fall apart. It has to be the biggest government that has ever existed, and we are going to see just how big it can get before it collapses under its own weight.
I didn’t take him long at all, but the german people had been prepared for for a generation.
Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.
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