THIS... IS... NOT... HYPERBOLE...
There are some very serious issues at stake in this
year’s election - so many that some people may not be able to see the forest
for the trees. Individual issues are the trees, but the forest is the future of
America as we have known it.
The America that has flourished for more than two
centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration
as it tries to deal with particular issues.
For example, the merits or demerits of President Obama’s
recent executive order, which suspends legal liability for young people who are
here illegally (presumably as a result of being brought here as children by
their parents), can be debated pro and con. But such a debate overlooks the
much more fundamental undermining of the whole American system of
constitutional government.
The separation of powers into legislative, executive, and
judicial branches of government is at the heart of the Constitution of the
United States - and the Constitution is at the heart of freedom for Americans. No
president of the United States is authorized to repeal parts of legislation
passed by Congress. He may veto the whole piece of legislation, but then
Congress can override his veto if they have enough votes. Nevertheless, every
president takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws that have been passed
and sustained - not just the ones he happens to agree with.
If laws passed by the elected representatives of the
people can be simply overruled unilaterally by whoever is in the White House,
then we are no longer a free people choosing what laws we want to live under.
When a president can ignore the plain language of duly
passed laws, and substitute his own executive orders, then we no longer have “a
government of laws, and not of men” but a president ruling by decree, like the
dictator in some banana republic.
When we confine our debates to the merits or demerits of
particular executive orders, we are tacitly accepting arbitrary rule.
Yes! Yes! Yes! It doesn't matter if we're talking Barrack
Hussein Obama or George W. Bush... or even Ronald W. Reagan! When our elected representatives
act in an unconstitutional manner - no matter the excuse - there must be real
consequences or the Rule of Law becomes merely the Rule of Might Makes Right!
The Constitution of the United States cannot protect us
unless we protect the Constitution.
Yes!
"We!"
We The People!
Preferably with our votes... but
if necessary with our guns. With each blow against the Constitution and the
Rule of Law it becomes more and more likely that ultimately... violence will
break out.
If we allow ourselves to get bogged down in the details
of particular policies imposed by executive orders, and vote solely on that
basis, then we have failed to protect the Constitution - and ourselves.
Whatever the merits or demerits of the No Child Left
Behind Act, it is the law until Congress either repeals it or amends it. But
for Barack Obama to unilaterally waive whatever provisions he doesn’t like in
that law undermines the fundamental nature of American government.
President Obama has likewise unilaterally repealed the
legal requirement that welfare recipients must work by simply redefining “work”
to include other things like going to classes on weight control.
If we think the bipartisan welfare-reform legislation
from the Clinton administration should be repealed or amended, that is
something for the legislative branch of government to consider.
There have been many wise warnings that freedom is seldom
lost all at once. It is usually eroded away, bit by bit, until it is gone. You
may not notice a gradual erosion while it is going on, but you may be shocked
to discover one day that it is all gone, that we have been reduced from
citizens to subjects, and the Constitution has become just a meaningless piece
of paper.
I see it happening, my friends... I provide the
evidence... make the case... day after day...
(*SIGH*)
ObamaCare imposes huge costs on some institutions, while
the president’s arbitrary waivers exempt other institutions from having to pay
those same costs. That is hardly the “equal protection of the laws,” promised
by the 14th Amendment.
John Stuart Mill explained the dangers in that kind of
government long ago: “A government with all this mass of favors to give or to
withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by
an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any
circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.”
Yes! Mill was right!
Obama knows that, if he gets re-elected, he no longer
needs to worry about what the voters think about anything he does.
(*SOLEMN NOD*)
Folks... I believe that with every fiber of my being...
based upon every bit of analytical ability I possess.
Never having to face them again, he can take his
arbitrary rule by decree as far as he wants. He may be challenged in the
courts, but, if he gets just one more Supreme Court appointment, he can pick
someone who will rubber-stamp whatever he does and give him a five-to-four
majority.
If you think this is nonsense... then you don't
know history... then you don't know human nature... and you don't understand the brilliance of the Founders and the cost of turning aside from their wisdom.
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