Most people remember "When in the course of Human Events..." and the nice stuff about "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..." Most people then forget that the vast majority of that so influential document was a list of the specific Tyrannies that King George had inflicted on the Colonies. I decided to see how the SCOAMT stacked up.
Note: This list is probably not exhaustive, and you may well have examples that I've missed. This is not exactly "off the top of my head" but I didn't spend much time researching, either. I wanted to see what I could remember on my own.
Sound off in the Comments to add your own examples.
He has refused his assent to laws,
the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. –While this, directly,
has not happened, that is only because we currently have a Democrat controlled
Senate. That said, does anyone believe
he would not choose to Veto a bill repealing ObamaCare?
He has forbidden his governors to
pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them. –
This he has done. Arizona’s immigration
law, Texas’s new Voter Id law, he has opposed these things and had them
stymied, or stopped cold, in Court.
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. – Again, this, directly, has not
happened- only because it hasn’t come up.
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. – His “Recess” appointments are proof of this. By his thinking, Congress is in “Recess” if
there is not a quorum present at a given moment. By this way of thinking, Recess appointments
could be made during the early hours of the night, while Congress was merely
sleeping.
He has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights
of the people. – This has not happened, again, because the Senate is still
Democrat controlled, so Congress cannot “oppos[e] with manly firmness” anything
he does. Even there, he believes (as per
his “Recess” appointments) that it is the President, and not Congress, who gets
to decide if Congress is in session or not.
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. – Again, not directly
applicable to our time. The closest we
have to this is his frequent vacations and “Can’t I just finish my waffle”
attitude. If the President is not
actually being President, our
governmental processes suffer.
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. – In this he has done exactly the opposite.
He has encouraged, through various means,
illegal immigration and the granting of rights- even voting rights, to illegal
immigrants. This, specifically, to
benefit him and the Democrat party by creating a larger Entitlement Class which
will vote for Democrats in perpetuity.
He has obstructed the administration
of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. –
Again, see his opposition to the AZ and TX immigration and voting laws.
He has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of
their salaries. - See his firing of the AG who investigated some of his friends.
He has erected a multitude of new
offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out
their substance. – Czars. Enough said.
He has kept among us, in times of
peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. – This is no
longer applicable. We have a standing
army.
He has affected to render the
military independent of and superior to civil power. – In this, again, he does
the extreme opposite. He is seeking to
render our military completely impotent.
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: - UN and
other Treaties, allowing (or even considering allowing) US citizens to be tried
abroad.
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us: - Not applicable to our time, though he has said he wants a “civilian
force” as powerful and well trained as the Military.
For protecting them, by mock trial,
from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of
these states: - Among the first things he did, taking office, was to have the
charges against the New Black Panther Party dropped, in relation to voter
intimidation, when the Government had already won that case.
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world: - Here, he does something similar, but not the same. His foreign policies are so scattered, that
you cannot pinpoint where he’s coming from at all. He aids our enemies, and he restricts our
allies.
For imposing taxes on us without our
consent: - ObamaCare: it’s a Tax, now it’s Fine, wait, now it’s a Tax again.
For depriving us in many cases, of
the benefits of trial by jury: - Ask BP about this: they were required to start
paying “damages” long before they had been convicted of any wrongdoing.
For transporting us beyond seas to
be tried for pretended offenses: -He has
not done this, but he does believe the President can issue a unilateral
decision to assassinate a US Citizen.
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: -
He has not done exactly this, but the GM and Chrysler Bankruptcies were in
complete contempt of current law. As
though the President as power, simply by fiat, to change the law to suit his
desires.
For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our
governments: - Again, see his treatment of TX and AZ.
For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever. – See the TX redistricting.
Though that problem exists from before Obama’s time, does anyone think a
Republican President would have pursued that as vigorously?
From this point forward, they speak
of the War England was planning to bring on the Colonies. Obviously we have not reached that point. By the Grace of God we (hopefully) will not. But we must, absolutely must, defeat Barack Obama in November.
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