Obama's War on the Constitution

This yet another great post from Americanbreakingpoint.com. At the end I included a comment from an anonymous poster because it is the same shit I have been telling my friends here since the early nineties. But here in Jersey I am called "crazy" and "a nut" good to see that others think Lincoln was a lying scumbag and the "War of Northern Aggression" was just that. Its the 21st century now how can people still think the Government in this country is still of, by and for "the People?" Clearly since 1860, and maybe sooner, government only functions of, buy(yes I meant to spell it that way), and for the politicians. Only the framers know what they wanted unfortunately over the past 200+ years their writings of the constitutional convention are being convinently ignored. They put way too much faith in future generations to want to be free. I am sorry Mr. Franklin but there are just not enough of us to hold onto the Republic you have given us. We will get it back tyranny cannot stay in power forever when men know it is to be free.

by Mr. Curmudgeon | Apr 11th 2012

"It's not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or ‘ism,' any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course … The Founders may have trusted in God, but true to the Enlightenment spirit, they also trusted in the minds and senses that God had given them. They were suspicious of abstraction and liked asking questions, which is why at every turn in our early history theory yielded to fact and necessity."

-- President Obama, in his book The Audacity of Hope

Translation: There is no transcendent truth, but we must all "yield to fact and necessity." Since there is no truth, it falls to those noble souls (Progressive community organizers?) best able to manufacture truth substitutes and bring order to this natural chaos – what philosopher Thomas Hobbes called man's state of nature … (Bellum omnium contra omnes – the war of all against all) where life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Hobbes' solution? The definition of truth, or reality, should fall to a figure of unquestioned power and authority, "Whose commands have already the force of laws; that is to say, by any other authority than that of the Commonwealth, residing in the sovereign, who only has the legislative power."

In short, the political leader with the biggest stick decides where to put the cardinal points on the compass and in which direction the needle will point "true" north. Otherwise, we're forever lost at sea. If there is no truth, then force is the only truth – Obama's so-called "fact and necessity."

Obama's literary protestations notwithstanding, the Founders embraced truth. In fact, the Declaration's assertion that the people of America must "assume among the powers of the Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them" is predicated on the "self-evident" truth that mans' natural condition is freedom. This God-given freedom, like the breath that gave life to Adam, instills within us a natural sense of justice. It is this spark of divine virtue, which obliges us to form governments whose chief purpose is to secure and protect the liberty of all – equally.

Faith in the Founders?

Obama isn't the only politician who has questioned the Founder's truth. During the early 1850s, the Senate debated over the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed slavery to expand into the territories. Indiana Senator John Pettit, a Democrat, argued that the Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal" was "nothing more to me than a self-evident lie."

"If it had been said in old Independence Hall seventy-eight years ago," responded Abraham Lincoln in a speech, "the very door-keeper would have throttled the man, and thrust him into the street.

"… Already the liberal party throughout the world, express the apprehension that the one retrograde institution in America [slavery], is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw … Is there no danger to liberty itself, in discarding the earliest practice, and first precept of our ancient faith?"

Ah, yes, faith.

In the end, as Lincoln observed, it boils down to faith. Lincoln understood that the Declaration of Independence represented the spiritual underpinning of the United States Constitution. The institution of slavery was an ugly reality dividing the spirit and tangible letter of the law, undermining the nations' declared dedication to the self-evident truth of individual liberty.

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure," said Lincoln at Gettysburg. When we say, "Lincoln saved the Union," we usually mean our union of states. However, by destroying the inconsistency of slavery, Lincoln brought "a more perfect union" between our Founder's Declaration and the Constitution.

Progressivism: The Enemy of the Free

Today, the Obama presidency unmasks a similar wedge now widening the rift between the spirit of the Declaration and the substance of the Constitution: Authoritarian Progressivism.

The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) reveals Progressivism for what it is – an enemy of individual liberty and a threat to the spirit and letter of the law – a refutation of what Lincoln called "our ancient faith." In calling the law's financing mechanism an "individual mandate," Obama and his Progressive cohorts show their contempt for individual sovereignty.

This explains why Solicitor General Donald Verrilli choked on his words during oral arguments in defense of the individual mandate. In this brave new world, there are no individuals, there are no states, and there is no separation of powers. There is only the "fourth branch of government" … the permanent, bureaucratic administrative state. Pampered, protected and answerable to itself alone.

"… Repeal the declaration of independence," cried Lincoln during a debate with his Democratic rival for the Illinois, Senate Stephen A. Douglas, "repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."

The Supreme Court is not the only body to speak for or against the nation's founding principles. The American people must decide this November if, as Lincoln once said, the nation "will become all one thing, or all the other."

"Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction," said Lincoln, "or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states …"

Today, the great contest is between liberty's self-evident truth and the Audacity of the enslaving abstraction of the Progressive lie.


Anonymous wrote:"The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves."Lincoln's savage war to prevent Southern secession brought into being the Leviathan state that today acknowledges no limitations on its powers.You forgot to mention that "Lincoln's savage war to prevent Southern secession," ended the pretensions of Southerners to govern blacks as sub-human property. Thank God for Lincoln and, more importantly, that his war to preserve the Union insured the South would never rise again.