Is Lawlessness Destroying Our Constitution?
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March 12, 2014
The first president to sign an executive order was George Washington. Franklin Roosevelt signed the most executive orders. While in office, he signed 3,728 executive orders. From 2009 to 2013 our President has signed 167 executive orders. The number of executive orders a president signs is irrelevant. What matters is how a president uses or abuses the use of their executive powers with executive orders. The abuse of executive power and lawlessness is destroying our Constitution.
The Constitution clearly states, it is the duty and responsibility of Congress to legislate the laws of the land. It is the duty of the Executive Branch and the President, to carry out and enforce the laws of the land as Congress has written them. It is not the duty of the Executive Branch or President, to legislate the laws, or to make changes in the laws as they wish. Today the Executive Branch of our government operates with their own unscrupulous, self-serving, and greedy agendas. With the abuse of executive power, the government continues to assault our First, Second, and Fourth Amendments. There seems to be little in the way of checks or balances to stop them, and they continual to do so unabated.
This administration is a lawless and an authoritarian administration. The President has made it clear, with the use of executive orders; I am going do what I want without Congress. Are we now living under a totalitarianism form of government? There is no doubt; we have an Imperial Presidency. How long will it be before we have to address him as your Majesty, or our King?
Before the National Association of Attorneys General, Eric Holder told state officials; they don’t have to enforce any laws they feel are discriminatory, or they don’t like. It is becoming an epidemic for the Attorneys General in every state, and the liberal courts to ignore, bypass, tear up, and, otherwise obfuscate the Constitution, and the laws of the land. When the Attorneys General, President, or federal politician takes the oath of office, they have a solemn duty to the citizens of the United States to uphold the laws of the land, and to protect the Constitution, whether they agree with the law or not. To refuse to do so because of personal policy, preferences, or political pressure erodes our Constitution on which all of our freedoms and liberties are founded.
The Affordable Care Act is probably the most lawless piece of legislation ever foisted on the American people. To get the votes needed, to get the bill through Congress, the President relied on bribery, and election theft. The Affordable Care Act passed without anyone in Congress ever reading it. Nancy Pelosi said, “We need to pass the bill, to see what’s in it”. Originally; we were told, the Affordable Care Act would not be supported with a tax. The lawlessness continued with the Supreme Court when, Justice Roberts somehow turned what was a fine for failure to purchase a health insurance plan which was unconstitutional into a tax which made the Affordable Care Act constitutionally permissible. The fines are a form of punishment for not doing as you are told; how can they call this a tax? If I, or any American fails to comply with the lawless Affordable Care Act , and not get insurance, will not the President release his, wolves, pit bulls, and hounds (the IRS) to track us down and collect the fines? Apparently; it is against the law to disobey a lawless law. Shortly; after the bill became law, the President began giving wavers to his union cronies. After the criticism of millions of people losing their insurance, the President let the insurance companies start selling their original polices again. This is illegal, because these polices do not meet the minimum requirements under the Affordable Care Act. With the abuse of executive orders, the President has unilaterally manipulated, chopped up, and reassembled the health care law many times by over stepping his Constitution authority.
If no one can be held to the standards of the Constitution, the Constitution will become a worthless meaningless piece of paper. It will no longer be the foundation this country and our laws are built upon, and it will have no value in protecting our freedoms and civil liberties. The only value it will have is its antiquity value. If the framers of the Constitution, could see how lawless their government has become after they struggled and sacrificed so much to form this free nation; would they not surely weep?
Craig H. Pierce
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