Above the Law

If you are 'of a certain age" you have vivid memories of then President Nixon invoking "Executive Privilege" in an attempt to block a congressional investigation into misdeeds by his administration.  You may also remember the outrage that sparked, not only on the left, but in the middle and even on the right--the president is not above the law.  In fact, in 2010 Obama publicly affirmed that we are a nation of laws, not men.  (Although just a week ago when asked about his administrations evading of the law and court orders he snapped "I didn't ask for an arguement": his tune has obviously changed.)

So in the ongoing--and widely ignored by the biased "mainstream" media--gun running scandal, the threat of a finding of Contempt of Congress against Attorney General Eric Holder has met with yet another evasion of law:  Obama, the New American Fuhrer, has invoked "Executive Privilege" in withholding the documents.  Incredibly, in 2007 he denounced "trying to hide behind executive privilege, you can find the video of the TV interview on FaceBook.  (Interesting, since the Internet has become the most powerful tool we have in exposing this sort of thing, the politicians are trying very hard to get control of it under various pretexts!  So much for free speech.)

Obama believes that with enough verbal dancing, appeals to emotion and lies, his administration isn't bound by law.  This fits with his assertion, from before he was elected that "We need to get beyond Constitutional limits on government power".  The man is trying very hard to be a dictator.  At this point, his demagoguery and contempt for the Constitution he has sworn to uphold exceeds even that of Andrew Jackson, of evil memory.  Since he swore an oath, in front of the Chief Justice, I cannot for the life of me differentiate between his actions and perjury.

Then there is the interference by the Justice Department Obama Gestapo with statesinternal affairs, like getting rid of unauthorized/illegal voters on the election rolls.  Coupled with his unilateral, and illegal decision to grant amnesty--as John McCain said, he is not king, and even Carter used a vote of congress to grant blanket amnesty--to illegal immigrants, to include those who have a criminal history (a direct violation of Federal law!) it looks like an attempt to steal the election.  Don't forget the estimated 10,000 illegal immigrants who voted in Colorado in '08, and gave the Democrats a victory in the gubernatorial race by a margin of 5,000 votes.

The worst thing about this is that when the Government is above the law, when we fall back into the old European view that the government (whether king, parliament, emperor or bureaucracy) is the source of the law, and not the people--nullifying the consent of the governed--the people people are not only under the law, they are under the booted foot of the law, with that boot on their neck.