Our lawless federal government
Published 5:00 pm Friday, April 25, 2014
Obama has set the example for the Federal Government, enforced the laws you like and ignore the remainder. Feel free to modify or change any laws that do not meet your personal needs. Deflect, deny, obstruct, delay and ignore any attempt by the citizenry to demand that the laws of the country be evenly enforced. Favor your supporters and punish those that disagree.
It is very easy to criticize when you are personally affected. Step back and begin to judge the activities of our government by comparing those activities to the demands of the law and the constraints of our United States Constitution. This will give you a very frightening view of our country. Any inspection of this behavior will create an image of our president and his cabinet that suggests they are above the law. Theirs’ is the privilege to decide which laws they like, which they will enforce and who will suffer the enforcement.
Fast and Furious—one of the more significant examples of this behavior comes in the “Fast and Furious” activity and the subsequent investigation. The first response was to blame the activity on the Bush administration. That proved untrue and the investigation was systematically stonewalled and blocked by Attorney General Holder. After Holder refused to provide documents requested by the House of Representatives he was found to be in contempt of Congress. The contempt finding may have lightly tarnished his name but had little real effect. Fast and Furious is now no more than a talking point for both sides, but it led to the death of many. No longer in the public eye.
The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care)—this one act is the epitome of governmental legislative and regulatory abuse. The American public was entirely shut out of the process as voluminous bills were written in the back rooms of Washington D.C. and forcibly passed by the Democratic Party legislators that controlled the House and Senate. There was no opportunity for opposition review or debate before its passage. This legislation created an immense new regulatory bureaucracy. That bureaucratic structure is impossible to understand and vested with the authority to regulate our entire healthcare system. The affordable care act gives the government the right, without review to decide the life or death of every American. It controls the delivery of every Americans healthcare service. Federal regulations are formulated without true public review. There may be periods of public comment but the rules are written in the back rooms. The act has been modified many times by the Executive branch without consulting the legislative branch.
Benghazi—those that were involved in the Benghazi disaster are dead or muzzled. Records have been destroyed or isolated from review. There is a truth that is associated with the Benghazi event. A systematic effort was made to prevent the American people from gaining any knowledge of what happened. The activities precipitating the attack have been covered up and remain unknown. We do know that President Obama and senior members of his administration have knowledge and were involved in the decisions that led to the death of Americans serving in Benghazi.
The IRS Scandal—this one scandal should scare law abiding Americans to death. Few American citizens can state that they do not fear the IRS. Our whole system of taxation is built on the IRS’s ability to intimidate. The power of the IRS to confiscate a person’s wealth is incredible. To fight the IRS means that you must be willing to engage in a battle with an organization that can bring to bear the entire might of the Federal Government on a single citizen. They can do this thru the application of Federal code and regulation. The federal tax code is by design complex. The complexity favors the government, not the citizen. When the federal government, the executive leadership, the civil servants in the IRS and a single political party decide that they can use the power of the IRS to intimidate, constrain, eliminate and interfere with the constitutional rights of their opponents we should all be filled with fear.
It is the use of federal power to intimidate, to instill fear and to bully the American people that truly represents a gross abuse of power. The Cliven Bundy episode is just a visible footnote to this administration’s abuse of power. Abusive Federal power can be applied to any American at any time by low level government bureaucrats.
An interesting aspect of today’s technology is the ability it conveys to average people to drill through the government’s efforts to obscure activities from public view. Don’t take my word for anything, look for your self and learn to find the truth that you seek.
