Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Death of the Rule of Law







President Obama is not enforcing federal law. The Administration has drastically reduced border security and enforcement of immigration law. He is going to wait until after the mid-term elections to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens; an action he has no constitutional authority to take. He is waiting until after the election, because he knows this is opposed by the American public and the Democrat Party will suffer electoral loses if he does it prior to the elections. Obama is effectively granting citizenship to millions of illegals in exchange for their votes in future elections.
The president has established a pattern of behavior that threatens the very foundation of our entire system of constitutional government. He has used the institutions of government to attack his political enemies. He picks and chooses which laws he will enforce, depending on their political consequences. This is the soft tyranny that precedes the fall of constitutional rule and representative government.
Congress creates the laws of our land. The President is the chief executive officer of the government and is tasked with the execution and enforcement of those laws. The judiciary rules on the constitutionality of the laws. Pretty simple and straight forward. That is the system that the founding fathers created to ensure that powers of government are distributed among the three branches. This distribution of powers, along with other features of our constitution, is supposed to prevent any one individual or group from amassing too much power. The founding fathers did this knowing the corrupting influence of power. They new that tyranny was always a threat and that only if the people and the government stayed true the Constitution could it be kept at bay.
Well, here we are after 125 years of progressive attacks on the Constitution. The courts have been packed with progressive judges. The clear limitations that the Constitution placed on the power of government have been eroded almost to the point where the Constitution means nothing. Progressive jurists have reinterpreted the Constitution to create justifications for laws and actions that directly contravene its original intent. We have a president who openly and willfully violates federal laws that will hurt his political aspirations. He does not carry out the duties of his office as demanded by the Constitution. And what of the Congress? The Democrat-controlled Senate is complicit in the lawlessness and the House of Representatives is so consumed with fear and self-interest it refuses to act against any of these constitutional violations.
So I have a simple question. If those in government are unwilling to abide by laws and the Constitution, why should we?


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