While Attorney General Eric Holder was still a U.S. Attorney, he said, "We have to brainwash the American people so they think differently about guns."
Now, as Attorney General, Holder says President Obama has asked him to expand the list of people "not entitled to have guns."
"Not entitled to have guns?" Where in the Second Amendment does it say the right to own and bear arms is guaranteed only if you are not on a government list of people not entitled to have guns? this idea is so convoluted it is difficult to write plainly.
The Second Amendment says, the right of the people, all people, to "keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," period. Claiming and exercising the executive power to selectively determine who may and may not enjoy the protections of the U.S. Constitution is the act of a power-crazed politician, and it is grounds for impeachment. When Clinton was impeached, the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors" was clarified by the special investigating committee. Violation of the Constitution in the means that the president is using, this activity is definable as a misdemeanor by any reasonable definition of the term.
The president has no constitutional lawmaking authority whatsoever—his constitutional role is to executive/implement the law, not make it. The job of the chief executive is to see to it that constitutional laws duly enacted by the Congress and signed by the president are faithfully executed. Therefore, the president is always two steps removed from affecting any legitimate law. In the case of making, rules, regulations and restrictions affecting gun ownership he is flat out barred from doing so by the Second Amendment, period.
The president has no constitutional authority whatever to make a list of people not entitled to have guns. when the president instructs the chief law enforcement officer of the country to draw up a list of people not entitled to have guns, he far exceeds any conceivable authority granted to him by the Constitution.
As reprehensible as the president’s directive to the Attorney General is, it is not surprising. It is fully within character and just one more example of how this president holds the Congress, the Constitution and the American people in utter contempt. President Obama has demonstrated over and over, in word and in deed that he intends to govern by executive fiat, congress, the courts and the Constitution be damned.
No one should be shocked that President Obama claims the power to rewrite the Second Amendment to give himself the power to draw up a list of people not to be afforded the protection of the second amendment, or any other amendment. He also claims the constitutional power and moral authority to use drones and assassination squads to kill U.S. citizens without even charging them with a crime, without trying them in a court of law or convicting them by a jury of their peers; and he claims the authority to act as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner in these killings, unrestrained by constitutional requirements of due process or the protections afforded a person accused of a crime by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments.
Judge Andrew Napolitano exposed Obama's personal campaign of assassination for what it really is:
“The power claimed by kings and tyrants. This is about as un-American a power as one can imagine. This is in direct defiance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees due process, a jury trial before the government can take your life or liberty. This is in defiance of federal law, state laws and treaties to which the United States is a party.”
Napolitano further described the secret, recently leaked Justice Department memorandum used to justify the presidential assassination program as "breathtaking and chilling in the cavalier way in which it suggests that the president—actually it doesn't even say 'the president'—it says any 'informed, high-level U.S. government official' can strip an American of his or her constitutional protections and order the killing of that American.'"
Yes, Barack Obama has gone into business stripping Americans of their constitutional rights. The President of the United States has gone rogue.
He must be stopped.
In Liberty,
Larry Hunter
209 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Suite 2109
Washington, DC 20003
P.S. The most powerful forces in Washington and the media are aligned against your basic constitutional rights, first and foremost, your gun rights.
