Obama Suspends the Law

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Flopping Aces:

9Jul

Obama Suspends the Law

By: DrJohn

 

Is Obamacare unconstitutional?

 

Michael McConnell, a former judge for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote a piece in the WSJ yesterday about Barack Obama choosing not to enforce existing law because it is inconvenient:

President Obama’s decision last week to suspend the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act may be welcome relief to businesses affected by this provision, but it raises grave concerns about his understanding of the role of the executive in our system of government.

Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution states that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

[SrWoodchuck]

Except for DOMA, pot laws, Congressional authority over war powers, Don't Ask/Don't Tell, voter suppression laws [unless the suppressors are 'Black Pampers'], Labor Relation Board appointees, Czars w/out Congressional approval.......

 

 

......I'm tired now....but there's more.....

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The Case for Draco

The law of seventh century b.c. Athens was harsh, but it was also reliable.

Kevin D. Williamson

7/13/13

 

Yesterday, I wondered whether anybody in the Obama administration knows what the word “draconian” means. I do not think that they do.

 

“Draconian” refers not to the political structure of a race of Doctor Who? aliens, but to the Athenian lawgiver Draco, who lived during the seventh century b.c. and gave the Greeks an important innovation: written laws. Prior to Draco, the Athenian law was only an oral tradition subject to ad-hocracy resulting in blood feuds. Draco had the laws carved on tablets and displayed in public, so that nobody would be ignorant of them. This was an enormously significant milestone in Western culture, an important move toward what we now call the rule of law, away from the code of arbitrary power and might-makes-right justice. Draco’s laws contained some important innovations, such as distinguishing between murder with malice aforethought and other kinds of homicide. That was a pretty big deal in an era during which the inhabitants of the British Isles, under whose culture the rule of law would reach its most sophisticated expression, were still a good ways away from writing much of anything at all.

 

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Draco’s code dealt mostly with things like murder and debt, and the Athenian government of the time, imperfect as it was, had very little interest in telling citizens whether they could add a room onto their homes or direct the education of their own children. The entire Draconian legal code was an improvement on what preceded it, and it was less expansive than some of the footnotes to Obamacare.

 

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America under martial law

 

America under tyrannical rule: what we must now do

 

By Doug Hagmann (Bio and Archives) Sunday, July 14, 2013

 

With every new Executive Order, the options that we, the people, have to seek redress for the crimes committed by the United States government are becoming more limited. Have you sent a fax or e-mail to your elected representative lately about an issue of constitutional importance? How did that work out? Have you organized or attended a “rally” lately? Tell me, what has changed by your sincere efforts? Oh, and was the rally limited to a “First Amendment zone,” (or “Free Speech zone”) or a specified location where you were “allowed” to exercise your First Amendment rights granted by the U.S. Constitution? Did you even know such zones existed and if so, are they alright with you?

 

America has been conquered in a faceless coup, where the meteoric rise of a virtually unknown man of Arab, not African descent (if we are to believe his own tale of his origins) was selected to complete the job of destroying our national sovereignty and eradicating what remains of our civil rights. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has been made irrelevant by this unclothed emperor wearing only the headdress of a pharaoh, while the judiciary has been infiltrated and corrupted to the point of being useless as a method of resolution of our grievances

No, not “the troops are in the streets all of the time” type of martial law, but a more subtle form.

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Obama Didn’t Consult WH Lawyers When Delaying Employer Mandate

Rick Moran

July 28, 2013 - 6:44 am

 

If Nixon had tried something like this, he would have rightly been branded a “rogue president.”

 

Jackie Calmes, a first-class political reporter working for the New York Times, actually had the gall to ask the president if he had consulted White House lawyers on the constitutionality of unilaterally delaying the employer mandate in Obamacare.

 

Obama’s answer would have been worthy of King George, or perhaps a meglomaniacal dictator — not a servant of the people in a great republic.

 

Byron York writes:

 

In an interview after his speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama was asked if he consulted White House lawyers before unilaterally delaying the employer mandate in Obamacare. Since Congress, in the Affordable Care Act, specified that the mandate is go to into effect at the start of next year, reporters from the New York Times asked if the president investigated whether he had the legal authority to put it off without going through Congress.

 

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/28/obama-didnt-consult-wh-lawyers-when-delaying-employer-mandate