TYRANNY BY
EXECUTIVE ORDER
What the hell just happened? That is
the question that many Americans should be asking themselves following the news
conference where Obama unveiled his plan for destroying the Bill of Rights to
the U.S. Constitution. At first glance it appeared to be a case of Obama
shamelessly using the deaths of innocents, and some live children as a backdrop,
to push for the passage of radical gun control measures by Congress. Most of
these have no chance of passing, yet, Obama’s signing of Executive orders
initiating 23 so called Executive actions on gun control seemed like an
afterthought.
Unfortunately, that is the real story,
but it is generally being overlooked. The fact is that the with a few strokes
of his pin Obama set up the mechanisms he will personally use to not only
destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution, but also the First, Fourth,
and Fifth Amendments. It will not matter what Congress does, Obama can and will
act on his own, using these Executive actions, and will be violating both the
Constitution and his oath of office when he does it.
Here are the sections of the Executive
Order that he will use:
“1. Issue a
Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data
available to the federal background-check system.”
What exactly is relevant data? Does it
include our medical records obtained through Obamacare, our tax returns, our
political affiliations, our military background, and our credit history? I
suggest that all of the above, even if it violates or fourth Amendment right to
privacy will now be relevant data for determining if we are allowed to purchase
a firearm.
“2. Address
unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making
information available to the background-check system.”
This
should be read in conjunction with section 16 of the order that says:
“16.
Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their
patients about guns in their homes.”
One
of the few amendments successfully placed in Obamacare by conservatives does
appear to prohibit doctors from asking such questions. Yet, with these two
Executive actions, Obama is illegally amending an act of Congress and setting up
a procedure for him to force doctors to gain information from patients about
gun ownership, and to get our medical history.
Section
3 of Obama’s order states:
“3.
Improve incentives for states to share information with the background- check
system.”
Once
again, what does this mean? What information does the Federal government want
from the states? Copies of state personal and business income tax returns or
court records of divorce and child custody cases are possibilities that come to
mind as well as our voter registrations showing our party affiliations. How
does any of this figure into our right to purchase a firearm?
One
of the most dangerous and troubling sections of the Obama order in Section 4
that states:
“4.
Direct the attorney general to review categories of individuals prohibited from
having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the
cracks.”
This
section directs Eric Holder, the architect of Operation Fast and Furious that
illegally transferred several thousand semi automatic weapons to Mexican drug
cartels and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and several
U.S. border patrol agents, to now add people indiscriminately to the list of
Americans ineligible to purchase firearms. Who might be added to the list?
Well,
let’s look at the record of the Obama administration. Shortly after being
appointed as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano sent a list of potential domestic terrorists to law enforcement
agencies around the country. The list included individuals who were pro-life,
who supported the Second Amendment, who had Ron Paul bumper stickers on their
cars, and most disturbing, all members of the military returning from combat in
Iraq or Afghanistan.
The
list has recently been supplemented to include individuals who hoard more than
a week’s supply of food and water, and those who support individual liberties
and oppose big government. I belong on most of these lists and I suspect that
Eric Holder will be adding all of us to the list of dangerous people not
qualified to own guns. In other words, you will no longer have to be a
convicted felon or mentally ill to make the list; you will qualify simply by
being an American patriot.
This
is not a conspiracy theory, at the United States Justice Foundation we are
seeing increasing evidence that military veterans are being specifically
targeted by the Obama administration when it comes to prohibitions against
purchasing firearms. Any veteran diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) is in danger of being banned from owning a firearm. Even those veterans
suffering from mild depression are being added. None of these conditions
constitute a mental illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others.
However,
in Obamaland veterans who took an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”, are definitely
considered a threat to the new Fuehrer and must not be allowed to own firearms.
If
we skip to Section 6 of the order we get a good idea of Obama’s real intentions
when it comes to gun control. That sections states:
“6.
Publish a letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and
Explosives (ATF) to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to
run background checks for private sellers.”
This
is particularly interesting because one of the legislative proposals is to
require universal background check requirements for any firearm transfer even
between private citizens. In other words, you can’t sell your firearm or even
give it to someone s a gift without Federal government approval. It is doubtful
that this proposal will pass in the House of Representatives, yet Obama is
already setting up the mechanism for enforcing the requirement. That is a clear
signal that he doesn’t care what Congress does, he is going to violate the
Constitution and bypass the Legislative branch in order to push his agenda to
disarm the American people. I suspect he will ultimately use Executive orders
to ban many weapons including most rifles and pistols.
There
are numerous other actions dictated in the Obama order, but I think you get the
idea. Our Second Amendment right is going to be taken from us for whatever
reasons Obama decides. The simple act of opposing these actions can cause the
Attorney General to place you on the list of “dangerous people”. Our privacy
will be violated and all of this will be done without due process of law. That
is what just happened.
Michael
Connelly
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