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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Similar case for today


I just thought I would take a look at the Declaration of Independence and do some comparison and contrast with their list of offenses and what we are seeing today.
 
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
   - He sent troops into Libya without any Congressional approval despite the fact that the War 
     Powers Act requires him to get approval if troops are used for more than 30 days.  

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

   - Not appointing a independent counsel to look into Fast-And-Furious and the death of a 
     border patrol agent
   - Claimed Executive Privilege when AG Eric Holder was going to be held in contempt of
     Congress by not turning over emails in regard to the case.  Executive Privilege only 
     protects the discussions between the President and his aids, but not his aids with their 
     subordinates. 
  - Doing this only obstructs the investigation from reaching its goal.


He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

   - Passed more regulations to harass business (more in 3 years than Bush or Clinton did in 8)
   - Idaho family fined $34k a day until they put the land back as a wetland (which was caused
      by a clogged drainage ditch.  Supreme Court ruled in the family's favor 9-0
   - EEOC charged a Lutheran church with a wrongful firing even though 50 years of legal 
     precedence says that the 1st amendment gives churches freedom in  these cases. 
      Supreme Court ruled in favor of the church 9-0

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

   - Passed a bill that says if an American citizen is suspected of terrorism he can be taken by the
     military (even on US soil) and held indefinitely without trial 

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
   - ObamaCare taxes people under the disguise of calling it a "penalty".

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
   - 2 US citizens have been executed via bombs dropped from drones for being terrorists.
     This was done without a trial.
   - Mentioned before, law passed that allows military to arrest and detain any citizen who
     suspected of terrorism without a trial.

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
   - By not enforcing current immigration law he has effectively "abolished" those laws from the
     books.

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
   - They have told Arizona Govenor that they will not be assisting with the processing of illegal
     immigrants found in their state.  This means that ICE will not be providing any help with 
     the determination of who is here legally and illegally.  They are "out of his protection"

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
   - By sending assault rifles to Mexico in Fast and Furious he has worsened conditions there
     with the drug cartels and the war they wage with their own people and the people in our 
     border states
   - He stood with OWS crowd and declared them to be good and well meaning citizens 
     despite the fact that people were being raped and murdered in their groups and causing
     mayhem in the streets of New York.  
   - He injected himself into a murder investigation in Florida and caused more violence.

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