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Note to President Obama: We just don’t trust you
Rare.US ^ | June 7, 2013 | James S. Robbins

Posted on 06/07/2013 12:48:31 PM PDT by Abakumov

Mr. Obama’s last-ditch argument is that we should simply trust him. But the United States was founded on a healthy and necessary distrust of government. James Madison told us that men are not angels, and history warns that power corrupts. “The founders trusted us with this awesome authority,” Mr. Obama said at Ohio State. “We should trust ourselves with it, too.” Or not; the U.S. Constitution was not written by men who believed that liberty is best secured by having the government read everyone’s mail.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: nsa; obama; prism; scandal

1 posted on 06/07/2013 12:48:31 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov

ping


2 posted on 06/07/2013 12:52:42 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Abakumov
1) It is supposed to be a felony to disclose information by the IRS, yet the Obama goons regularly disclosed this information to political enemies and likely Romney info to Harry Reid.

2) Obama said: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”

3) Days after Benghazi, Obama appeared on Letterman and specifically stated the Benghazi attack was the result of a video (check YouTube for proof). What's not to trust about Obama?

3 posted on 06/07/2013 12:52:56 PM PDT by Obadiah (Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
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To: Abakumov
“The founders trusted us with this awesome authority,” Mr. Obama said at Ohio State. “We should trust ourselves with it, too.”

To be more accurate, the founders trusted the federal government with a limited authority, circumscribed by the Enumerated Powers, and that is all we should trust the ruling class with.

4 posted on 06/07/2013 12:53:05 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Abakumov

The arrogant sob had the audacity to say, and I’m paraphrasing “If you don’t trust Congress,if you don’t trust judges, if you don’t trust the executive branch, then WE have a problem”. I would say to this pos, yes WE DO HAVE A PROBLEM!!!


5 posted on 06/07/2013 12:54:12 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: freeangel

He’s an arrogant and defiant Communist/Fascist thug bastard.


6 posted on 06/07/2013 12:58:13 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Abakumov
Here's what happened. Eh, eh... Y-y-you had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who -- who is an extremely offensive -- video directed at -- at Mohammed and Islam, making fun of the Prophet Mohammed. This caused great offence, uh, in much of the much of the Muslim world.

--Obama Late Night with David Letterman in 2012 lying about what had just occurred days earlier in Benghazi.

7 posted on 06/07/2013 1:00:30 PM PDT by Obadiah (Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
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The safeguards and THE MECHANICS to protect our freedoms were put there by the founders-———THEY JUST HAVE TO BE MOBILIZED.

REFERENCE: Checks And Balances—The Constitutional Structure For Limited And Balanced Government-—to guard the people’s liberty against government power.

The Constitution was devised with an ingenious and intricate built-in system of checks and balances to guard the people’s liberty against combinations of government power. It structured the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary separate and wholly independent as to function, but coor­dinated for proper operation, with safeguards to prevent usurpations of power. Only by balancing each against the other two could freedom be preserved, said John Adams.

Another writer of the day summarized clearly the reasons for such checks and balances:

“If the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL powers are united, the MAKER of the law will also INTERPRET it (constitutionality).


Should the EXECUTIVE and LEGISLATIVE powers be united... the EXECUTIVE power would make itself absolu te, and the government end in tyranny.


Should the EXECUTIVE and JUDICIAL powers be united, the subject (citizen) would then have no permanent security of his person or property.

“INDEED, the dependence of any of these powers upon either of the others ... has so often been productive of such calamities... that the page of history seems to be one continued tale of human wretchedness.” (Theophilus Parsons, ESSEX RESULTS)

What were some of these checks and balances believed so important to individual liberty? Several are listed below:

HOUSE (peoples representatives) is a check on SENATE - no statute becomes law without its approval.


SENATE is a check on HOUSE - no statute becomes law without its approval. (Prior to 17th Amendment, SENATE was appointed by State legislatures as a protection for states’ rights - another check the Founders provided.)


EXECUTIVE (President) can restrain both HOUSE and SENATE by using Veto Power.


LEGISLATIVE (Congress - Senate & House) has a check on EXECUTIVE by being able to pass, with 2/3 majority, a bill over President’s veto.


LEGISLATIVE has further check on EXECUTIVE through power of discrimination in appropriation of funds for operation of EXECUTIVE.


EXECUTIVE (President) must have approval of SENATE in filling important posts in EXECUTIVE BRANCH.


EXECUTIVE (President) must have approval of SENATE before treaties with foreign nations can be effective.


LEGISLATIVE (Congress) can conduct investigations of EXECUTIVE to see if funds are properly expended and laws enforced.


EXECUTIVE has further check on members of LEGISLATIVE (Congress) in using discretionary powers in decisions regarding establishment of military bases, building & improvement of navigable rivers, dams, interstate highways, etc., in districts of those members.


JUDICIARY is check on LEGISLATIVE through its authority to review all laws and determine their constitutionality.


LEGISLATIVE (Congress) has restraining power over JUDICIARY, with con­stitutional authority to restrict extent of its jurisdiction.


LEGISLATIVE has power to impeach members of JUDICIARY guilty of treason, high crimes, or misdemeanors.


EXECUTIVE (President) is check on JUDICIARY by having power to nominate new judges.


LEGISLATIVE (Senate) is check on EXECUTIVE and JUDICIARY having power to approve/disapprove nominations of judges.


LEGISLATIVE is check on JUDICIARY - having control of appropriations for operation of federal court system.


LEGISLATIVE (Peoples Representatives) is check on both EXECUTIVE and JUDICIARY through power to initiate amendments to Constitution subject to approval by 3/4 of the States.


LEGISLATIVE (Senate) has power to impeach EXECUTIVE (President) with concurrence of 2/3, of members.


The PEOPLE, through their State representatives, may restrain the power of the federal LEGISLATURE if 3/4 of the States do not ratify proposed Constitu­tional Amendments.


LEGISLATIVE, by Joint Resolution, can terminate certain powers granted to EXECUTIVE (President) (such as war powers) without his consent.


It is the PEOPLE who have final check on both LEGISLATIVE and EX­ECUTIVE when they vote on their Representatives every 2 years, their Senators every 6 years, and their President every 4 years. Through those selections, they also influence the potential makeup of the JUDICIARY.

It is up to each generation to see that the integrity of the Constitutional structure for a free society is maintained by carefully preserving the system of checks and balances essential to limited and balanced government. “To preserve them (is) as necessary as to institute them,” said George Washington.


Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5

http://www.nccs.net/articles/ril31.html


8 posted on 06/07/2013 1:01:13 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

B U M P


9 posted on 06/07/2013 1:03:39 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Abakumov

I for at least one, Has NO, NONE, ZIPPO trust in BO


10 posted on 06/07/2013 1:55:25 PM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Geo The Engineer so smart, he doesn't need a TelePrompter to speak. Unlike the AH:-))
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To: Liz

Nice. The Framers got it right.


11 posted on 06/07/2013 1:59:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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