Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 15, 2012
Obama’s latest outrageous
violation of the laws of the United States demonstrate that the nation has arrived at its destination: a dictatorship lorded over by an imperial ruler.
On Friday, Obama instructed the government to ignore an influx of
illegal aliens streaming over the border. The move was implemented to
sway
Latino voters into the Obama camp in preparation for the upcoming election against fellow establishment candidate Mitt Romney.
Obama’s violations of law and the Constitution make his predecessor
look like a piker by way of comparison. Since he was voted into office
by deluded citizens who believed he would pay for their rent and food,
Obama has enacted by fiat or worked with Congress to pass a number of
bills that have increased the power of the executive and the
unconstitutional authority of the federal government.
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
This monstrous statute allows the government to circumvent the Fifth
Amendment. The NDAA gives the government the authority to designate
American citizens as terrorists and indefinitely detain them without
recourse to courts or due process of law and without specific charge.
“Permit me to state the obvious,” writes
Sheldon Richman.
“The government shouldn’t be allowed to imprison people indefinitely
without charge or trial. It shouldn’t be necessary to say this nearly
800 years after Magna Carta was signed and over 200 years after the
Fifth Amendment was ratified.”
Chapter 39 of the
Magna Carta
states that “[n]o free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or
exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon
him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the
land.” The concept of due process first appeared in English common law
in 1354 and inspired the Fifth Amendment more than 400 years later.
The time honored principle that the state must try citizens in a
court of law is now dead – and with surprisingly little resistance from
our supposed representatives.
Unconstitutional wars
Not only did Obama continue and amplify Bush’s unconstitutional,
illegal and immoral wars against nations that did not present a danger
to the United States, he also initiated an overt war of his own in Libya
(under NATO cover). He did not go to Congress and seek a declaration as
required under
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Instead, he used the fig leaf of the United Nations to cover his illegal action.
In May, the Secretary of War,
Leon Panetta,
said Obama will “seek international permission” to launch new wars.” He
declared the “commander in chief has the authority to take action that
involves the vital interests of this country” without consulting the
American people.
In March,
Rep. Walter Jones,
a North Carolina Republican, introduced H. Concurrent Resolution 107,
which calls on the House, the Senate Concurring, to prevent Obama from
starting another war without authorization from Congress. It has since
languished in committee.
Obamacare
Obama’s health care mandate forcing Americans to buy insurance from
large monopolistic corporations represents the height of his arrogance
and contempt for the American people and the Constitution.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution is known as the
Commerce Clause. It states that “Congress shall have the power… to
regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states and
with the Indian tribes.” It does not permit the government to force you
to buy insurance from a government preferred and protected monopoly.
In Federalist No. 45,
James Madison
wrote that the clause spells out that the powers delegated to the
federal government are “few and defined,” while those left to the states
“are numerous and indefinite,” although you wouldn’t know that if you
listen to Democrats and far too many of their Republican colleagues.
The original intent of the Commerce Clause was to facilitate commerce
between the states and prevent tariffs, quotas and taxes. It was not
designed to help a lumbering and dictatorial federal government force
“mandates” on the people at gunpoint.
Our supposed representatives are wholly ignorant of the Constitution
and its unmistakable principles of limited government intervention.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
made this clear when she was asked if the Constitution grants Congress
the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate.
“Are you serious?” she responded, demonstrating her complete ignorance of the Constitution.
Following legal challenges to the law and its consideration before the highest court, Obama threatened to
cut off Medicare payments if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor.
Treaties
Obama has shown his contempt for the law, Congress, and the people by negotiating globalist treaties.
He would subvert the American judicial process by implementing the
International Criminal Court. It will ultimately be used against
American citizens. Professor
Charles Rice
of Notre Dame University Law School has stated that we will be
confronted by “a monster” that effectively “repudiates the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.”
The Law of the Sea Treaty will create another international
bureaucracy that will limit the sovereignty of the United States and
impose globalist regulations. “The autonomy of the United States is
threatened if we allow our domestic laws to be crafted by an
international body that is not accountable to the American people,”
writes
Julie Borowski.
“The U.N. is openly hostile to our national sovereignty and republican
form of government. The ratification of LOST [Law of the Sea Treaty]
would open up a Pandora’s Box of problems. It would impose global taxes
and regulations that cripple economic growth while exposing ourselves to
high-stakes environmental lawsuits.”
The
Small Arms Treaty
would circumvent the Second Amendment, the cornerstone of the Bill of
Rights. If ratified, it will impose even tougher licensing requirements,
confiscate and destroy all “unauthorized” civilian firearms, ban
semiautomatic weapons, create an international gun registry, and
override our cherished national sovereignty.
Startling details of the
Trans-Pacific Partnership
were revealed earlier this week in a leaked document. This treaty would
allow transnational corporations to skirt American banking, investment,
environmental and labor laws. The laws would still apply to
corporations based in the United States, however. “The leaked document
shows that in all of the major respects, this is exactly the same
template that was used in NAFTA and other agreements that President
Obama campaigned against,”
Todd Tucker, the research director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division, told Slate.
Flurry of Executive Orders
Although he lied and said he would not issue executive orders, Obama has signed a
large number of them:
Council of Governors. “An Obama executive order that creates a
council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand
military involvement in domestic security, together with PDD 51, a Bush
era executive order that gives the President dictatorial power in times
of national emergency, eliminate the last roadblocks to declaring
martial law in the United States,”
Paul Joseph Watson summarized in January of 2010.
National Defense Resources Preparedness: This EO, signed in March of
2012, renews and updates Obama’s authority to seize control of all civil
energy supplies, including oil and natural gas, and control and
restrict all civil transportation. It essentially
reaffirms a large number of FEMA-related executive orders
issued since the national security state was installed in 1947 and is
another element in an intricate structure that will enable martial law
at the president’s discretion.
Less significant – although equally unconstitutional – executive
orders include creating a council on bioethics, implementing a policy on
space exploration, creating a mathematics advisory panel, and numerous
other issues that should be addressed by Congress.
Advanced Effort to Kill the Constitution
From the Department of Justice’s high-handed attempt to prevent
Arizona from protecting its borders to restrictive EPA rules that impose
unreasonably burdensome financial costs on the states, Obama’s federal
government has turned into a tyrannical leviathan dictating policy and
law at gunpoint.
Since the reign of Bush, the federal government has shifted into high
gear the effort to degrade and dilute the separation of powers. Obama
was installed precisely to oversee the further destruction of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights and empower the imperial presidency.
His latest move to further weaken the immigration laws of the United
States is simply more evidence that the federal government will continue
to run roughshod over the Constitution and the natural rights of the
American people, an incremental plan implemented by the elite that is
now approaching its zenith.