TYRANNY BY
EXECUTIVE ORDER
MIchaelConnelly.JIgsy.com
What the hell just
happened? That is the question that many Americans
should be asking themselves following the news
conference where Obama unveiled his plan for
destroying the Bill of Rights to the U.S.
Constitution. At first glance it appeared to be a
case of Obama shamelessly using the deaths of
innocents, and some live children as a backdrop, to
push for the passage of radical gun control measures
by Congress. Most of these have no chance of
passing, yet, Obama’s signing of Executive orders
initiating 23 so called Executive actions on gun
control seemed like an afterthought.
Unfortunately, that is
the real story, but it is generally being
overlooked. The fact is that the with a few strokes
of his pin Obama set up the mechanisms he will
personally use to not only destroy the Second
Amendment to the Constitution, but also the First,
Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. It will not matter
what Congress does, Obama can and will act on his
own, using these Executive actions, and will be
violating both the Constitution and his oath of
office when he does it.
Here are the sections of
the Executive Order that he will use:
“1. Issue a
Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies
to make relevant data available to the federal
background-check system.”
What
exactly is relevant data? Does it include our
medical records obtained through Obamacare, our tax
returns, our political affiliations, our military
background, and our credit history? I suggest that
all of the above, even if it violates or fourth
Amendment right to privacy will now be relevant data
for determining if we are allowed to purchase a
firearm.
“2.
Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly
relating to the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, that may prevent states from
making information available to the background-check
system.”
This
should be read in conjunction with section 16 of the
order that says:
“16.
Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not
prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in
their homes.”
One of the
few amendments successfully placed in Obamacare by
conservatives does appear to prohibit doctors from
asking such questions. Yet, with these two Executive
actions, Obama is illegally amending an act of
Congress and setting up a procedure for him to force
doctors to gain information from patients about gun
ownership, and to get our medical history.
Section 3
of Obama’s order states:
“3.
Improve incentives for states to share information
with the background- check system.”
Once
again, what does this mean? What information does
the Federal government want from the states? Copies
of state personal and business income tax returns or
court records of divorce and child custody cases are
possibilities that come to mind as well as our voter
registrations showing our party affiliations. How
does any of this figure into our right to purchase a
firearm?
One of the
most dangerous and troubling sections of the Obama
order in Section 4 that states:
“4. Direct
the attorney general to review categories of
individuals prohibited from having a gun to make
sure dangerous people are not slipping through the
cracks.”
This
section directs Eric Holder, the architect of
Operation Fast and Furious that illegally
transferred several thousand semi automatic weapons
to Mexican drug cartels and resulted in the deaths
of hundreds of Mexican citizens and several U.S.
border patrol agents, to now add people
indiscriminately to the list of Americans ineligible
to purchase firearms. Who might be added to the
list?
Well,
let’s look at the record of the Obama
administration. Shortly after being appointed as the
Director of the Department of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano sent a list of potential domestic
terrorists to law enforcement agencies around the
country. The list included individuals who were
pro-life, who supported the Second Amendment, who
had Ron Paul bumper stickers on their cars, and most
disturbing, all members of the military returning
from combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The list
has recently been supplemented to include
individuals who hoard more than a week’s supply of
food and water, and those who support individual
liberties and oppose big government. I belong on
most of these lists and I suspect that Eric Holder
will be adding all of us to the list of dangerous
people not qualified to own guns. In other words,
you will no longer have to be a convicted felon or
mentally ill to make the list; you will qualify
simply by being an American patriot.
This is
not a conspiracy theory, at the United States
Justice Foundation we are seeing increasing evidence
that military veterans are being specifically
targeted by the Obama administration when it comes
to prohibitions against purchasing firearms. Any
veteran diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) is in danger of being banned from
owning a firearm. Even those veterans suffering from
mild depression are being added. None of these
conditions constitute a mental illness that makes
them a danger to themselves or others.
However,
in Obamaland veterans who took an oath to “protect
and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic”, are
definitely considered a threat to the new Fuehrer
and must not be allowed to own firearms.
If we skip
to Section 6 of the order we get a good idea of
Obama’s real intentions when it comes to gun
control. That sections states:
“6.
Publish a letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to federally
licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to
run background checks for private sellers.”
This is
particularly interesting because one of the
legislative proposals is to require universal
background check requirements for any firearm
transfer even between private citizens. In other
words, you can’t sell your firearm or even give it
to someone s a gift without Federal government
approval. It is doubtful that this proposal will
pass in the House of Representatives, yet Obama is
already setting up the mechanism for enforcing the
requirement. That is a clear signal that he doesn’t
care what Congress does, he is going to violate the
Constitution and bypass the Legislative branch in
order to push his agenda to disarm the American
people. I suspect he will ultimately use Executive
orders to ban many weapons including most rifles and
pistols.
There are
numerous other actions dictated in the Obama order,
but I think you get the idea. Our Second Amendment
right is going to be taken from us for whatever
reasons Obama decides. The simple act of opposing
these actions can cause the Attorney General to
place you on the list of “dangerous people”. Our
privacy will be violated and all of this will be
done without due process of law. That is what just
happened.
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