The problem with what the president is doing is that he is not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in any single branch.” Did you reread the Declaration of Independence on July 4? Remember what King George III was doing to so powerfully suppress the colonists that it led to our American Revolution? During the same congressional hearing last December, Michael Cannon, director of Health Policy Studies for the Cato Institute (where I am a Senior Fellow), said: “If the people come to believe that the government is no longer constrained by the laws, then they will conclude that neither are they.” And in the second term of his reign, Obama has publicly delighted in his unassailable command: “Conceding defeat on a top domestic priority, President Barack Obama blamed a Republican ‘year of obstruction’ for the demise of sweeping immigration legislation ... and said he would take new steps without Congress to fix as much of the system as he can on his own.” In this White House speech, Obama said: “I’m beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own — without Congress.” An increasingly influential new book, “Impeachable Offenses” by Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott (WND Books, 2013), further addresses “the probable causes for” Obama’s impeachment. I will be partially excerpting passages from it in columns to come. Meanwhile, I have previously listed many of the “high Crimes” the Constitution requires for impeachment, but I insist on repeating the capper — hardly mentioned anymore in the news — that so outrageously justifies impeachment procedures: The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed by Obama, enables our military to “detain” (Obama’s euphemism for “imprison”) American citizens right here without trial who “substantially supported” (which is undefined) “associated forces” (also undefined) “engaged in hostilities against the United States.” It takes little effort to imagine how James Madison or Thomas Jefferson would have reacted to a president making such a decision in the new nation they were instrumental in founding. What would Samuel Adams or Thomas Paine say? - See more at: andrewnapolitano/articles/commentary-without-obama-impeachment-charge-who-are-we-as-americans#sthash.ExIGVZXi.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:15:17 +0000
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