Expert Testifies to Congress that Obama’s ‘Ignoring Laws’ Could Lead to Overthrow of Government

Mediaite ^ | December 3rd, 2013 | Noah Rothman

[Hotlanta Mike]

During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert testified that the consequences of the president’s behavior were potentially grave. He said that the precedent set by Obama could eventually lead to an armed revolt against the federal government.

On Tuesday, Michael Cannon, Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies, testified before a congressional committee about the dangers of the president’s legal behavior.

“There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restrains that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. “Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

Watch the clip below via C-SPAN 2:

[Hotlanta Mike]

Putting the rats on notice...

[G Larry]

Wadda ya think “Tea Party” means?

[Nifster]

speaking truth to power….. isn’t that what the lefties want???

[Hotlanta Mike]

speaking truth to power….. isn’t that what the lefties want???

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They should be careful what they wish for.

[henkster]

And this would be a very bad thing if it came to that. My reading of history tells me that far more often than not, a violent change of regime does not lead to an era of freedom. Instead, the people who use force to gain power are not the sort who will freely surrender it. We have the exceptional example of 1776 in this country, but as far as I can tell, it is a rare exception to the rule.

[longtermmemmory]

jeffry toobin has a column in the NYT advocating the scrapping of the US constitution.

Whichever law school gave him a law degree should lose accreditation.

[GeronL]

It is the overthrowing of government

[Antihero101607]

Basically SSDD with leadership post regime change?

[clintonh8r]

The officer corps should honor their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

[Maceman]

Expert Testifies to Congress that Obama’s ‘Ignoring Laws’ Could Lead to Overthrow of Government

It's not that the People would overthrow the government, it's that the government has overthrown us.

The government is the Constitution, which we all support. It's those in power who have rejected it, and exercised power without legal authority, that need to be turned out.

[US Navy Vet]

The “Feral” Govt needs to “choose” it’s next revolution, American or FRENCH!

[Born to Conserve]

I strongly disagree. It would not be an overthrow of The Federal Government, it would be an overthrow of the socialist tyrants who subverted the Federal Government.

[patriotsblood]

I’ve been ready for a long time.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[sickoflibs]

‘...could...’

There ya go. That’s almost a sure thing.

More red meat for the libs to complain about, thats about it.

[Slyfox]

Well, Obama did promise to 'execute' the Constitution.

execute |ˈeksiˌkyo͞ot| verb

1 carry out or put into effect (a plan, order, or course of action):
2 carry out a sentence of death...

ON THE CONSTITUTION

[txhurl]

I’m wondering if this should be kept under wraps until after next Nov.

[Adder]

Can’t believe how ignorant some of the commenters at the site are...
Not a very articulate bunch...

[MrB]

“overthrow” is quite a ways off.

Right now we’re at the

“we recognize the current government as illegitimate” stage.

[Bullish]

And that’s just what Obama wants us to try. It would give him free reign to disarm us and send us to the camps.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What does he mean “eventually”? How about aby week now.

[SampleMan]

And that’s just what Obama wants us to try. It would give him free reign to disarm us and send us to the camps.

The alternative is ofcourse to go to the camps willingly.

[sarge83]

thus the stalin like purge of the officer corp to get a loyal cadre of yes people in place should the need arise to use force against the US populace.

[Amendment10]

Thanks for referencing that article Hotlanta Mike. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed against Mr. Rothman, the author of the article, and not at you.

Regarding Obama’s ignoring of the laws, Mr. Rothman is overlooking the forest for the trees. More specifically, consider that the states have never delegated to corrupt Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to make many of the laws that Obama has been ignoring.

[556x45]

Yes, thats true and agree for the most part. Its far better for change to come through the ballot box. However, if that process is corrupted there’s little recourse remaining. In our case I could see freedom resulting mainly b/c thats been our heritage unlike most other countries in the same position.

[Uncle Miltie]

Ping me when the balloon goes up.

[bigbob]

Let us know when...

[OSHA]

Designated smoking area.

[henkster]

I’m just saying “be careful what you wish.” Or maybe a better way of saying it is that after the existing regime is overthrown is when the real struggle begins.

[henkster]

The officer corps will follow orders. It is is what humans are pre-programmed to do.

[Gargantua]

I think that how the discussion is framed will have a huge impact on how the effort (and the needs for it) are received by the numb masses.

If "it" happens, it cannot and will not be an "overthrowing" of our government. It will be The People, the rightful owners and bosses of this government, resuming control of our Constitutional Republic, wresting such control from those who've displayed a repeated and convincing inability to keep their Oaths of Office.

Period. The Constitution and our Founding Documents give us that solemn obligation.

;-\

[ctdonath2]

Remember: the nuts move first. Someone will forego polite discourse and go straight for revolt, sparking something we’ll all have to deal with whether we agree or not.

That this was said so clearly in a Congressional hearing does not bode well. Prep now; you won’t get to choose when you’ll have to choose sides.

[Louis Foxwell]

If "it" happens, it cannot and will not be an "overthrowing" of our government.

Precisely. The government is not the Constitution. The government is composed of an aggragate of people who are put in place by the people to implement the structure of government dictated by the Constitution. They have gloriously failed to do so. Throwing them out and replacing them with others has the potential to return government to the structure required by the Constitution.

[txhurl]

And totally de-fund the bureacracies (Depts) that keep the corruption going.

[JimRed]

We won’t be overthrowing the government, just the usurpers who tried to pervert and destroy it.

[ExTxMarine]

The problem is this: when a Republican President decides to exercise these same roughshod, precedents that Obama has set, the DEMOCRATS will be leading riots in the streets, maybe even attempting an actual REVOLUTION.

They will do this while completely ignoring the facts that it was THEIR President who set the precedents! Even WORSE is that it will be the wannabe tyrants of the Left who will “re-install” the Constitution. And we KNOW this will be to an “evergreen” interpretation which they have ALWAYS wanted! In other words, be very wary of those who actually WANT a revolution.

Do not get me wrong! I am all for going back and re-installing the limits of our Constitution. But, just as I tell those who say they “want” to go to combat: you are the LAST person I would want in the foxhole next to me!

[The Great RJ]

Obama is on a path to become little different that Venezuela’s president Maduro...simply ignoring the constitution and becoming a dictator. Michel Cannon is very correct that Obama is setting the stage for armed rebellion

[Hotlanta Mike]

That’s because the media promotes their illegal actions as being for the “greater good”, being the commie compatriots that they are.

[NTHockey]

Reading the comments on the story makes me realize that a) we are living in two different countries, b) the two will NEVER be reconciled, c) some people actually WANT a dictatorship, and d) overthrowing the regime is unlikely.

Welcome to Acirema.

[Thumper1960]

Just as I have said for a long time. If government, and those within government meaning everyone-elected or apparatchiks, feel no need to obey the laws of the land, the People will eventually decide that any and all laws do not apply to themselves and will do as they please, flipping the finger to lawmakers, courts, judges, and law enforcers alike.
The arrogance of the government will inevitably lead to its own violent death.

[Thumper1960]

And that’s just what Obama wants us to try. It would give him free reign to disarm us and send us to the camps.

0bama doing that would seal his own fate. once 0bama dare think of wholesale incarceration of political critics, his days are numbered.

[Bullish]

If you start a shooting war with revolution as the goal no telling what would happen.... It’s very messy.

I’m not giving up on the ballot box just yet.

[Thumper1960]

Once chaos has reared its head, there is no telling where it would lead.

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[papertyger]

Putting the rats on notice...

And ignoring the elephant in the room...accept the government we now have, or come up with restrictions on voting rights.

[aruanan]

"Expert Testifies to Congress that Obama’s ‘Ignoring Laws’ Could Lead to Overthrow of Government"

Dude, Obama's active disregard of the law IS the overthrow of the government. What part of "fundamental transformation" does this poor guy not understand? If there's an armed revolt, it won't be against the U.S. government but against those who have usurped the U.S. government.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[usconservative]

HOT DAMN! LET'S GET IT ON!!

I got the tar hot, the feathers fluffed and the rope knotted up and ready to go!

[JimRed]

Someone will forego polite discourse and go straight for revolt...

WADR, polite political discourse has been tried and ignored by The Won and his minions.

[Ozark Tom]

Monroe Republic ?