The Constitution is under Attack

In this piece, I show Barack Obama’s hidden agenda as related to the Constitution of the United States. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He also feels the constitution is a hindrance to his agenda of fundamentally transforming the United States of America into a Marxist-socialist state (spreading the wealth). Consequently, his minions and henchmen are working to eliminate the effectiveness of the Bill of Rights and Constitution of the United States.

Bill of Rights

When interpreting the American Bill of Rights, I am a strict constructionist. The Bill of Rights means to me today what I believe it meant to those who amended those 10 precious rights to the United States Constitution back in 1791. From the Federalists back in 1790 to the liberals and progressives of today, I am certain many of these people do not embrace my belief. Over the past 210 years, these loose constructionists have subtly revised the strict interpretation of the Bill of Rights. By interpreting the Constitution as they saw fit, they continuously have eroded the rights of all United States citizens.

Protect Us from Big Brother

We must understand that our founding fathers designed the Bill of Rights primarily to protect the citizens from the government. They did not design the Bill of Rights primarily to protect citizens from other citizens. Hundreds of thousands of federal, state, county, city, and tribal laws exist that protect citizens from crimes committed against them by other citizens. The people of the 1780s were afraid of what a strong federal government, if left unchecked, could and would do to them. This is why they wanted and created the Bill of Rights. In this context, the progressives are carefully whittling away our rights with each passing year.

Elimination of the Constitution

The Obama administration is attempting to eliminate the 1st and 2nd Amendments of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution.

Michael Barone (2009), senior political analyst with The Washington Examiner, wrote that in the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin America, I went to bookstores to find histories of the region. All I could find were Marxist tracts arguing that greedy corporations and military dictators, all propped up by the United States, were exploiting the people. Available literature on Latin America today includes much more sensible accounts. However, some people, including Barack Obama (whose college thesis was written in those years are now hidden from the public), seem stuck in a time warp in which the United States is the bad guy.

Barone (2009) wrote further that, at least, it seems to explain Obama’s foreign policy moves during his first year in office, starting with Honduras, where the Honduran president was ousted by the Supreme Court for violating a constitutional provision that forbids any moves to seek a second term (Other Latin countries, notably Mexico, have similar constitutional prohibitions.). The White House immediately interpreted this as a military coup and decided that, this time, the United States would come out on the side of the people. In fact, we find ourselves siding with a friend of the Iranian mullahs, Hugo Chavez, who swept aside similar constitutional limits in Venezuela, and opposing the elected Congress, courts, and civil society of Honduras.

Barone (2009) continued by stating that the reaction to the most recent moves has been harsh and from unexpected quarters. Leslie Gelb, former head of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the editorial writers of The Washington Post have expressed astonishment at Obama’s apparent switch on Afghanistan. Edward Lucas, Eastern European correspondent for The Economist, wrote in the Telegraph of London, “The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness, and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter.”

 Barone (2009) further wrote that the influential blogger Mickey Kaus argues that anti-Obama anger is not about by his race, but because he is a relative newcomer, as presidents go – an unknown quantity, an enigma, with a short record of accomplishment, and patches of that record left fuzzy. However, on foreign policy as his record emerges – as he reverses himself on missile defense and perhaps on Afghanistan – his motivating principle seems rooted in an analysis common in his formative university years that America has too often been on the side of the bad guys. The response has been to disrespect those who have been our friends and to bow to our enemies.

Reference

Barone, M. (2009, September 23). Obama’s time warp: The U.S. is still the bad guy. The Washington Examiner. Retrieved from www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama_s-time-warp_-The-U_S_-is-still-the-bad-guy-8280454-60418352.html.

Uda, R. T. (2010). Obama’s Accomplishments: Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation.

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“If ever [a] time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” ~ Samuel Adams