AMERICA’S EMERGING DICTATORSHIP
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
When our founding fathers declared our
independence from Great Britain in 1776 the
colonists were already in the middle of a bloody and
costly war to secure their freedom. Once the war was
successfully concluded it was necessary to create a
new nation with a form of government that would not
allow a single individual or group to establish
another totalitarian regime and steal the freedom of
Americans.
It took years and one failed effort with the
Articles of Confederation before the founders
settled on the Constitution of the United States
that established a unique type of government with
three separate, but equal branches of branches.
These are the executive branch that includes an
elected President and his cabinet appointees, the
legislative branch that consists of a Congress made
up of two houses, the Senate and House of
Representatives, and the judicial branch that
consists of the Supreme Court and any lower federal
courts that Congress might authorize.
A system of checks and balances was put into
place to ensure that none of the three branches
would be able to dominate the others and establish a
dictatorship. In addition, the basic distrust of a
powerful centralized government caused the framers
of the Constitution to adopt the Bill of Rights that
protected the rights of both individual Americans
and the various states that formed the United States
of America. The system has worked so well that our
country became the most prosperous and powerful
nation in the world.
Yet, now, almost 250 years later, elements in
all three branches of government are conspiring to
shred the Constitution and rob us of our God given
rights. We have a rapidly emerging dictatorship and
prime examples of it can be found in what is
occurring in the first days of this New Year. As
part of the balance of powers prescribed in the
Constitution, the U.S. Senate must approve
Presidential appointments to major positions in the
Executive Branch of Government. The only exception
is that during the times that the Senate is in
recess the President can make appointments without
the approval of the Senate, but they are temporary
in nature.
However, on January 4, 2012, President Obama
appointed three members to the National Labor
Relations Board and a new “Czar” to head the
Consumer Protection Agency without Senate approval
despite the fact that the Senate was not in recess.
This has created a Constitutional crisis of epic
proportions.
I refer to this as a Constitutional crisis
because this is not the first such action Obama has
taken that has clearly violated not only the
provisions of the Constitution, but also his oath of
office, and he obviously plans to continue ignoring
both the legislative and judicial branches of
government. In fact, he actually brags about what he
is doing while campaigning for reelection at the
expense of American taxpayers.
There is now no doubt that the current
President of the United States considers himself a
de facto dictator who is so much smarter than the
rest of us that he can ignore the Constitution, the
supreme law of our nation, and do whatever he wants.
History has taught that in order to establish an
effective dictatorship there must be three decisive
actions taken.
First, if the military in the country is
patriotic and pro freedom, it must be marginalized
to minimize its ability to resist the imposition of
tyranny. Right after the New Year, Obama announced
drastic cuts in the size and strength of our
military forces across the board. He is claiming to
have the authority to do this under the bill passed
by Congress
that created the so-called super committee that was
to enact wide ranging spending cuts.
If it failed to do so there would be massive
reductions of the defense budget. In previous
articles I pointed out that the very creation of
this super committee was unconstitutional and that
its failure to act would cause the “doomsday
scenario” to unfold for our military. Unfortunately,
not only are my predictions coming true, but Obama
is not even waiting for the automatic cuts to begin
in 2013, he is unilaterally moving to destroy the
military now.
Secondly, the citizens of any country to be
subjugated must be disarmed in order to diminish
their ability to resist the imposition of a
dictatorship. It is now clear, by virtue of the
ongoing investigation in Congress of “Operation Fast
and Furious” that over 2500 semi automatic weapons
were sold to Mexican drug dealers on orders from the
U.S. government not for the purpose of entrapping
the drug dealers, but so Obama could impose gun
control laws on U.S. citizens. He has now done so by
Executive Order, bypassing Congress that had refused
to take the same action.
In addition, Obama and Secretary of State Hilary
Clinton have pledged to sign the United Nations
Small Arms Treaty that specifically targets private
gun ownership in the United States. This treaty
would essentially abolish the second amendment to
the U.S. Constitution and make private ownership of
firearms illegal despite the fact that the U.S.
Supreme Court has twice ruled that the right to keep
and bear arms is a valid and individual right under
the provisions of the Constitution.
Of course, the Constitution requires that any treaty
that is signed by a President must be approved by
two thirds of the Senate to be valid. The U.S.
Supreme Court has also ruled that no treaty can
supersede the provisions of the Constitution,
particularly those that deal with individual rights.
All of this would seem to render the treaty
moot since two thirds of the current Senate will not
ratify it, and it clearly violates the provisions of
the second amendment.
So why is Obama pushing for it? Simply put, he
believes he can ignore the Senate and the court,
sign the treaty, and then allow the United Nations
to begin enforcing it. If you believe that he won’t
try that, just look at what he has done in other
areas.
The third goal of an effective dictatorship involves
limiting the rights of the citizens to have free
speech and a free press. People who can’t
communicate and learn the truth are easier to
control. Most of the main stream media in this
country have already relinquished their freedom of
the press and are doing whatever Obama tells them to
do. Those that oppose him are under constant assault
and Obama’s minions on the Federal Communications
Commission are looking for ways to shut down
conservative talk radio and control internet
content. This is despite the fact that the Supreme
Court has said that the FCC has no authority to
regulate the Internet. Once again, Obama has issued
orders that the Supreme Court and the Constitution
be ignored.
Even more frightening is the fact that legislation
pending in both houses of Congress will effectively
give Obama an Internet kill switch. It is being
pushed in the Senate by the usual leftists like Reid
and Schumer, but in the House of Representatives it
is some Republicans that are pushing it.
My next blog article will contain more
information about these and other bills pending in
Congress.
The bottom line is, we are headed for a country that
is no longer a Republic, but a nation controlled
entirely by a small group of elitists, and unless
the American people wake up soon it will be too late
to stop it.
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