A counterfeit is something that it is INTENDED to look like the real thing without being the real thing. BHO is a deliberate, clever, and complete counterfeit.
Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential freedoms for temporary security deserve neither.”
In 1787, before our current constitution was written, there was an armed rebellion in Massachusetts of veterans of the revolutionary war and small land owners who believed the courts were being unreasonable and tyrannical in their methods of executing foreclosures on farm properties. This very short lived conflict is referred to as the Shays Rebellion, and is believed by some historians to have provided the impetus for creating our Constitution.( It was a very few months later that the Constitutional Convention was convened.) Later that same year Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend regarding this rebellion saying, “…God forbid that we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. …We have had 13 states independant 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”