American Government Is Becoming Tyrannical Under Obama

“Contempt for the people and their just laws are the hallmarks of tyranny.”

What an insightful, succinct statement (from the following article)! And also quite apropos for the present.

Why?

Because this is what we are witnessing in Washington now unlike any time in our past since the founding of our nation. We have had arrogant, unpleasant Presidents and politicians in the past but they all pale to our present perfect storm of the contemptuous and pathologically narcissistic “president” Obama, Congressional Democrats and the complicit news media (which years ago actually defended the people from the wicked, corrupt politicians).

America is turning into a tyranny and honest, hardworking Americans have become the victims.

This needs to stop or the next solution is a Second American Revolution. Like what has been occurring in Egypt. And against the rest of the Arab autocrats in the Middle East.

Short of this, the Tea Parties are our best hope and so are the brave and increasingly resolute Republicans in Congress, particularly the ones supported by the Tea Parties and the more conservative ones like Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Rand Paul.

We must pledge them our support, time and money if we are to save our nation. This will also be for our children, grandchildren and so on.

We must also become politically involved and serve as individual mouthpieces for freedom and small government.

Or we will become slaves by proxy of a corrupt, disdainful and omnipotent Big Brother Central Government.

This must never happen!

Thus Ever Are Tyrants
Jim Mahoney  February 19, 2011

Contempt for the people and their just laws are the hallmarks of tyranny.  When the tyrant looks out upon the masses he bestrides, he doesn't see people; he sees objects to be manipulated, mulcted and molested.  The sacred trust binding the people and their government means nothing to the tyrant.  At best, it's merely an obstacle to his objective.

Because he has no kinship with the people, he feels as free to poach and plunder them as any other criminal.  Having the power of the state at his disposal there is no limit to his predation.

A free people, recognizing that the tyrant reflects the corrupt state of all men, wisely hem in their governments with rules.  Wherever possible they diffuse power away from individuals.  Separation of powers, like the rest of our Constitution, reflects a wise suspicion of fallen human nature.

Only people who acknowledge man's inherent corruption as an immutable truth will ever be free.  Only people humble enough to recognize their own failings will ever accept restraint.  Consequently, these are the only people who will ever voluntarily submit themselves to the rule of law.   They are also the only people fit to lead a free society.

A tyrant, on the other hand, is as sure of his own perfection as he is certain that no limits apply to him.  No law will ever contain him.  If a people are to remain free, their only hope is to keep him away from power.

Perhaps this is why, when Ben Franklin emerged from the constitutional convention in 1787, he famously told the woman that the delegates gave birth to a "republic, if you can keep it."  Understanding human nature as well as he did, his wisdom may have given him a glimpse into the future.  Sadly, for much of the following two centuries, Americans failed miserably to meet to his challenge.

Today, America's elite culture is a squalid sludge of contempt.  It is the perfect media for breeding tyrants.  As with other forms of rot, our tyranny grew and developed unnoticed.  The sudden rise of the Tea Party is akin to a man awakening to realize he has been feeding the termites threatening to collapse his home.

Stampeded by a series of shocking events, followed by a flurry of dubious laws justified by hazy reasoning, frightened Americans allowed tyranny to grow unchecked at a blistering rate.  The freedoms we enjoyed a scant 15 years ago are now a dim memory.  Today we meekly submit to laws permitting sneak and peak searches, no knock warrants, and high tech invasions of our persons that would turn any Red commissar green with envy.

Does anyone remember that just 15 years ago Americans were free to travel in their own country without showing identity papers?    Does anyone seriously think these intrusions will stop growing on their own?

Sadly they are all transgressions that anyone reading the Constitution can plainly see are forbidden.  Yet somehow in the sludge of the elite mind they are justified: destroying our freedom is necessary to protect "freedom".  Battered daily with messages of panic and despair, the land of the free and home of the brave has been transformed something different altogether.

Every one of these abuses arises from a fundamental contempt for free people and the rule of law that protects us.  They are only a sample from a shamefully long list.

Consider:  we have a President who, for whatever reason, defies demonstrating his Constitutional qualification to hold his office.  Whether or not he is qualified is practically irrelevant compared to the damage his intransigence has done to our Constitution and rule of law.  By tolerating his obstinacy, Americans forever waive their right to demand evidence that a future president be American born.  Let your imagination run with the possibilities.

Think it's farfetched?

Consider:  the most fearsome power of the Federal government is to make war.  The Constitution assigns specific responsibilities to Congress and the Executive to declare and execute war.  It is a thorny and arduous process.  It's supposed to be.  It's intended as a barrier against gratuitous death.

Yet the last constitutionally declared war ended in 1945.  Since then, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed or maimed and millions slaughtered across the globe at the whim of a single man, defying or, at best finessing, the Constitutional obligation of Congress to declare war.

Protestors may howl about this president or that war.  However, no one gives a thought to the brazen assault that undeclared, unconstitutional wars represent to the American people and our Republic.  After 65 years of blind submission to this tyranny, why would the thought occur to anyone?

Does anybody seriously think there will ever be another constitutionally declared war?  That protection's gone the way of the Whigs.

As bad as destroying our financial lives is, once Americans accepted sacrificing our young in this manner, it was only a matter of time before our emboldened "leaders" came for the rest of the loot.

Here is a documentary film showing the price today's brave young Americans and our Afghan "beneficiaries" are paying for no more reason than our President found himself impaled on his own talking points.  As a result, another generation gets to pursue the deadly chimera of "hearts and minds" for no greater purpose than to pull the President's foot from his mouth.

Worse, while such horrors proceed in his name, the greatest pain this man experiences holding office is losing his privacy!  Would we expect less compassion from George III?

The rise of the Tea Party is a grass-roots recognition that our liberty is too precious to leave to a dull priesthood of politicians and pundits.  The finest Constitution on earth is just a piece of paper if the people it protects aren't prepared to enforce it.  The mass rising of the populace embodied in the Tea Parties is an unprecedented threat to our budding dictators.  It's no surprise their empire struck back with every lame insult its muddled minds could muster.

In their own way, the transparent calumnies hurled at Americans demanding the government obey our laws are comforting.  If that's the best the elites have, perhaps many of the other walls they've built around us are equally flimsy.

Still, we are on the threshold of losing our Republic.  As with other life threatening situations, admitting the problem is the first step:  America, we have a tyranny!  However, judging by the panicked response of the elites, we still have the means to thwart it.  Demanding the government and its officials abide by the Constitution they are sworn to uphold and defend is our best hope.

Enforcing the demands is uncomfortable.  They tyrant has many minions, conscious and otherwise.  It's important to recognize that even those who proclaim themselves our friends can be as dangerous as our adversaries.  Whether it's the Panjandrum of Fairness and Balance or the eye of the Peacock that alters all, those who ridicule the just concerns of the public are themselves the forces of darkness and ignorance.

Their conduct reveals their allegiance.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/thus_ever_are_tyrants.html

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We Must Fight For Limited Government and Not Compromise Our Principles and Rights

If we want to protect our rights and freedoms and even recoup much of what has been lost, the relentlessly expanding federal Leviathan needs to be tamed and substantially reduced in size. Its immensity is a perpetual threat to the individual and not what our Founding Fathers desired or envisioned. They presciently knew the threats of a larger, more invasive and powerful central government and warned against this happening.

We need to support and elect individuals like Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) who declared in his response to Obama’s State of the Union address that: “We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends on individual liberty, and individual liberty requires limited government.” Of its small role, he also opined that: “We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.”

None of these conditions are being met today.

We must make them a reality!

Choice, Not Compromise
Terry Paulson  2/14/2011

Rep. Paul Ryan’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union provides a clue to the political battle that is coming: “The principles that guide us; they are anchored in the wisdom of the founders in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and in the words of the American Constitution. They have to do with the importance of limited government and with the blessing of self-government. We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends on individual liberty, and individual liberty requires limited government.”

There is no compromise on opposite principles; it’s either empowered individuals or an all-powerful government. Thankfully the recent overreach by President Obama on healthcare reform, the Republican gains in November, and recent court decisions are moving things closer to a showdown in the Supreme Court and in the coming budget battle.

Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District Court in Pensacola, Fla., concluded that it was unconstitutional for Congress to enact the Affordable Care Act that required Americans to obtain commercial insurance. Judge Vinson argues that to allow the law to stand, would fundamentally transform our constitutional scheme from limited to unlimited federal power and narrow the scope of individual liberty. In Judge Vinson's words, "the more harm the statute does, the more power Congress could assume for itself under the Necessary and Proper Clause. This result would,…allow Congress to exceed the powers specifically enumerated in Article I." A Supreme Court decision looms on the horizon.

As President Obama delivers his 2012 Budget this week, the battle will accelerate. With Republicans looking to cut the size and spending of government by cutting the funding for implementing the Affordable Care Act, additional stimulus investments, and relief for debt-ridden states, the battle of all battles will begin. Glenn Beck, in his well-documented book Broke, challenges conservatives to focus the fight on the Constitution and core principles. Our founding fathers fought for equal rights, not rights to benefit some at the expense of others.

Beck points to Ayn Rand for an easy way to distinguish whether a right is in accordance with the Constitution. After any right is proposed, simply ask the question “at whose expense?” Is there a universal right to a college education or healthcare? At whose expense? Your right to life and liberty was not to come at expense of anyone else. As Ayn Rand wrote, “The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.” Individual rights were to supersede any government power.

Could it be that government “help” has just escalated the cost of healthcare and education? While published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, the median family income rose only 147 percent and healthcare cost rose only 250%. Are those increases a result of true costs to improve education or are they a result of the fact that they can get away with such charges because government provides more loans and grants? Parents, students and taxpayers are left with more debt because government tries to “help” by throwing your money at the “problem!”

How can citizens afford the cost of college and healthcare? By keeping most of the money they now give to government.
John Stossel, in Give Me a Break, shows Federal spending from 1789 to 2003. The line is all but flat until World War II. When America began, government cost the average citizen $20 in today’s money. That’s $20 a year! Taxes rose during wars, but for most of the history of America spending never exceeded a few hundred dollars per citizen. During World War II, government got much bigger. It was supposed to shrink again after the war. It never did; it just kept expanding. In 2010, federal spending ($6.3 trillion) cost every man, woman and child in this country just under $20,000 a year! If you aren’t paying that, you’re making your neighbor pay your share!

It’s not too late. Support politicians who are fighting to take back America to what it was formed to be—a beacon for liberty and opportunity not an invitation to dependence on big government!

http://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2011/02/14/choice,_not_compromise

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