September 9, 2011
Dear Supporters of the Constitution and our Republic,
Last night, in his address to the joint session of Congress, Obama
made two of the most startling remarks coming from the mouth of a
sitting President. However, the sentiment contained in those remarks
is, unfortunately, shared by most of the politicians in Washington
D.C. and around the country. We have come so far from the sound
thinking of our Founding Fathers who did not trust a powerful central
government and did all they could to create “chains” which would
“bind from mischief” politicians of their day and those of future
generations.
This distrust of the federal government, in particular, is clearly
laid out in both the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist
Papers., the latter being largely unknown and unread by Americans
today. The Constitution, itself, was a clear declaration of the
great fear of the Founders that some day the people might again be
enslaved by their own government. Therefore, the separation of
powers, the clear and detailed enumeration of delegated powers, and
the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution forge what the
wise founders of this once-great Republic envisioned as “chains” to
leash the natural consequence of government at any level: the
tendency to grow and gain more and more power over the people. Fresh
in their memories were the tyrannies of the British crown and the
almost totalitarian control of its “subjects.” No more were the
people to be considered “subjects” but the government itself was
envisioned as being subject to the States and the People.
For those who rarely, if ever, read the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, I will include the two most powerful amendments of them all
in restraining centralized government and the schemes they would
envision to amass power: (My emphasis added in bold print)
Ninth Amendment
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Tenth Amendment:
“The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution
nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States
respectively or to the people.
Compare these two short sentences to these remarks uttered by Obama
in his speech: (about 29 minutes from the beginning)
“How many jobs would it have cost us if past Congresses decided (sic)
not to support the basic research that led to the internet and the
computer chip.”
“What kind of a country would this be if this chamber had voted down
Social Security and Medicare just because it VIOLATED some rigid idea
about what government could or could not do? How many Americans
would have suffered as a result?” ( Emphasis added)
Comes now Obama, a self-described Constitutional “lecturer” admitting
that violations of the Supreme Law of the Land can be justified for
any reason if there be benefits to some areas of the economy. Of
course, the socialist/communist theologians and their minions who
would destroy our Republic, have historically bemoaned the
inconvenience to their schemes posed by the Constitution of the
United States. Their Machiavellian schemes have used Acts of
Congress, judicial activism and the creation of “law” by decree,
purposefully misinterpreting the plain language of the Constitution,
and the institution of clearly un-Constitutional “Administrative Law”
which is that “law” resulting from the millions of pages of
regulations emanating from the vast bureaucracy which ignores both
the Congress and the Constitution. This is not to mention illegal
“Executive Orders” and “Signing Statements” issued by Presidents for
decades—again, clearly un-Constitutional.
What struck me most, however, was the complete silence of the press
and commentators on the above gaff committed by Obama. But should we
really be surprised when these same apologists for bigger and more
intrusive government have been beating the drum for decades in
defense of the scoundrels who are perpetrating the destruction of our
Republic and our way of life in favor of international socialism,
domestic collectivism, and statism?
Our people MUST recognize that the STATE is not our friend—it is a
fearful force like fire, which, if controlled closely, can accomplish
limited and proper functions. In the case of a true Republic, the
“fire” of the state is charged with protection of life and property
rights, protection of individual liberty, and, most of all,
protection from government itself. Like fire, the state, left to its
own devices and unrestrained, can burn the whole house down.
For Constitutional Government, Liberty, and Accountability,
Dick Mills
Editor
Keep the Republic Newsletter
Houston, Texas
