IN MEMORIAM: OUR CONSTITUTION
By
Michael Connelly
In my last article, “The State of the
Constitution” I talked about how President Obama and
his supporters in Congress and the federal judiciary
are systematically destroying the delicate balance
of powers that was set up by our founding fathers.
Obama is forming the type of government that the
framers of the Constitution feared, and had fought
against, so they designed the Constitution to
prevent that from happening. The scope and power of
the Federal government was to be severely limited
with most of the power remaining in the hands of the
states and the people. That is no longer the case.
Barack Obama and the other elitists in
Washington consider themselves superior beings that
have not only the right, but the duty to control the
rest of us. We are no longer considered free
citizens of the United States, but subjects who must
be taught to obey our rulers. As subjects we have no
inherent rights, only those rights granted to us by
the elitists, who in their infinite wisdom have the
power and authority to limit or abolish those rights
as they see fit. Unfortunately, while many Americans
are blissfully unaware of it that is exactly what is
happening.
The Bill of Rights that was designed to
protect the God given rights of American citizens
from intrusion by the Federal government and it is
being shredded by the Obama administration.
Every one of
the first ten amendments to the Constitution is
under assault with the First and Second amendments
being among the prime targets. The current attack on
the freedom of religion is a prime example.
In August of 2009 when I started this blog by
writing my first article on HR 3200, the original
version of Obamacare, I made the following
observations: “The
law does provide for rationing of health care,
particularly where senior citizens and other classes
of citizens are involved, free health care for
illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and
probably forced participation in abortions by
members of the medical profession.”
I was immediately attacked by the left for making false claims about what
was in the health care bills, yet everything I
stated is taking place. Catholic Bishops around the
country were convinced to support Obamacare because
they were assured that there would be no abortions
paid for by the government, and no religious
institutions or individuals would be forced to
violate their religious beliefs. Now, these same
Bishops are up in arms because they have learned
that they were lied to. Through the Secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen
Sebelius, the Obama administration has informed
Catholic hospitals, universities and other religious
institutions that they must provide health insurance
coverage to employees that will have to include
contraceptive devises and abortion inducing
medication with no co-pay.
This directly contradicts the teachings of
the Catholic religion. Whether you agree with their
position or not, the forcing of this on the Church
is a direct violation of freedom of religion as
guaranteed under the First Amendment of the
Constitution. It is clearly only the first step. The
next order will be to force Catholic hospitals,
doctors, and nurses to provide abortions.
Ironically, the health care bill itself does not
contain this mandate. This is being done by
Executive action by Obama and it is certainly
something he has no authority to do under the
Constitution.
Freedom of speech guaranteed by the First
Amendment is also under constant attack. After our
victory over the bills pending in the U.S. House and
Senate that would have given Obama a virtual “kill
switch” allowing him to shut down the Internet,
Obama has decided to bypass Congress and sign an
international treaty pushed by the United Nations
that will give him the same type of control. Of
course, any treaty signed by the President must be
approved by two thirds of the Senate. However, Obama
has reportedly decided to ignore this Constitutional
mandate and bypass the Senate. He claims he has the
authority to do this under the so-called “Sole
Executive Agreement” doctrine. No such doctrine is
provided for in the Constitution.
There are also strong indications that Obama
intends to invoke the same unconstitutional power to
sign and enforce the U.N. Small Arms treaty. I have
read the draft of this treaty and it is directly
designed to force the disarmament of American
citizens in violation of the Second Amendment to the
Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled in 1957 that
no treaty, even if signed by the President and
ratified by the Senate can supersede the rights of
U.S. citizens protected by the Constitution. Yet,
clearly, Obama intends to ignore the U.S. Senate,
the Supreme Court, and the Constitution to impose
his will on us. I will state it bluntly, Obama is
out of control. He considers himself a dictator.
I sincerely hope I am premature in declaring
the Constitution dead. I will continue to fight for
it, but obviously the President of the United States
and his minions already consider it dead and buried.
Americans must wake up now and take back our
country!
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