UNRESTRAINED EXERCISE OF POWER, An Assault on our Constitution

Every day, in unthinkable ways, our Constitution is being assaulted by the current administration. Whether by the original so-called stimulus bill, the bail outs, or health care, bit by bit our constitution is being voided via intentional add-ons that have nothing to do with the labels those bills wear. By their sheer enormity, and convoluted phrasing, our rights have been taken away. This cannot be attributed to simple political verbosity—no, it was carefully planned to overwhelm, mislead, and turn our country into a welfare state.

We were and are being advised by the president to tighten our belts and cut costs. The state governments are also being forced to assume the enormous costs of administering these massive giveaways. In turn, most states have required the people on their payrolls to take unpaid leave or cuts in pay. But not the federal government! The president has established multitudes of unnecessary and extremely costly departments, programs, and jobs. The federal bureaucracy has raised salaries, increased budgets, and is spending like the proverbial drunken sailor.

In addition, the president and secretary of state are making deals and agreements with governments which have no intention of keeping their word while holding us to ours. Such agreements along with the above described offences remind us that our Declaration of Independence included such phrases as:

“He has erected a multitude of new offices….. (he) has combined with others to subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws… abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments…for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”*

The king of England and its government were called despots for their unrestrained exercise of power. I believe we are now victims of “unrestrained exercise of power.”

On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. This year, the 223rd anniversary of the signing will be celebrated on September 17, 2010. We must make this Constitution Day memorable by beginning right now to reacquaint ourselves with this important document. Reread with reverence the Preamble, the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments) and the President’s Oath of Office. Then decide for yourself if what is happening today will be its undoing. Between now and that date, we need to be as active as possible in the election process so that by September 17, 2010, we can anticipate an election day in November that will honor our Constitution by the election of people who still want to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

We fought a War of Independence to make this country one governed for the people and by the people. If we don’t exercise our rights now, we will find ourselves with no rights at all.

*(See Navy Seals blog.) In a rare ruling in January, a military judge ordered that trials for Huertas and Keefe, of Yorktown, be held in Iraq so that they could face Abed in court. Abed is still being held in Iraq, and the Iraqi government refused to allow him to be taken to the United States to testify. That trial is taking place in Iraq as this is written.