Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution
The title of this post is an excerpt from the oath that each new President-elect of the United States takes before assuming the responsibilities of the office of the President. The oath is as follows: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Our current President has shat all over that oath more than most former Presidents.
I heartily encourage anyone who reads this blog to visit the Cato Institute’s website. This “non-profit public policy research foundation” is decidedly Libertarian in its leanings, which means (at a broad stroke) that they value, “individual liberty, limited government, the free market, and the rule of law.”
That being said, they have an excellent white paper available online that examines President Bush’s defense of the Constitution, or lack thereof. Considering the fact that President Bush campaigned on a promise to defend the Constitution, it’s disheartening and disturbing to see how far he’s gone in trashing that document. He is actively trying to divert power from the three branches of government, consolidating it within the Executive branch only, thereby destroying many of the checks and balances that the framers of the Consitution put into place to prevent a dictatorship or monarchy from coming to rule this land of the free.
To take a quote from the document:
“He who takes the oath . . . to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen—on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere—should share with him. The Constitution which prescribes his oath, my countrymen, is yours; the government you have chosen him to administer for a time is yours. . . . Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.” –Grover Cleveland in his first inaugural address
Those of you who voted our current President Chimp into office would do well to study what this man is doing to our civil liberties. I know many Conservatives and every single one of them values the Constitution. They voted for a Republican believing that only a Republican would be willing to defend the Constitution. Well, I say to you now that it obviously does not matter whether our President is a Democrat of Republican, only that the Commander In Chief stay true to the very real oath of office that they all must take. Sadly, our most recent presidents have not done so and our current President is blatantly trying to dismantle our Constitution under our very noses. Perhaps now is the time for all of us, regardless of our political leanings, to discard the corrupt two-parties and seriously consider the third parties who can present us with candidates who are actually interested in serving their country, not their own interests. It’s worth investigating, if only to avoid another two-term loser like Reagan, Clinton or Bush (put away your shocked expressions; they were all corrupt monkeys looking to push the interests of money-men, not the people).
Whatever you do, come next election please don’t be swayed by bumper stickers and herd mentality; do some critical thinking of your own and vote your conscience.
July 6th, 2006 13:59
In July 2004 almost 200 Americans filed a landmark lawsuit against the U.S. Government seeking to have the federal Judiciary declare — for the first time in history — the constitutional meaning of the First Amendment Petition clause including the Right of the People to enforce the Right of Petition if Redress is denied.
We The People believes the Right to Petition is, in fact, the “capstone” Right of the Bill of Rights and that its effect is the direct exercise of Popular Sovereignty — the First Principle of the Founding documents that declares government is the servant of Men
In addition to the property tax case, the Judges of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals are coming to grips with these truths now that all the briefs have been filed in We The People v United States.
This, of course, is the landmark lawsuit brought against the federal government for its failure to respond to our Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts regarding the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution of the United States of America.
In its April response brief to the Court of Appeals the government argues most strenuously for, and relies completely upon, a claim of “Sovereign Immunity” against We the People. In short, the government openly asserts that it possesses absolute immunity from its own People — even for the commission of constitutional torts. The government argues that because Congress has not authorized this kind of lawsuit via federal legislation, that the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
In our Reply Brief, the People refute these hollow and dangerous assertions and establish that in America, and under the Constitution of the United States of America, the concept of government immunity is, and by legal design, must be a myth. We argue that in a legal sense, sovereign immunity cannot exist without practically “upending” our Constitution and depriving the People of their most fundamental Right — i.e., the Right to dominion over their servant governments and that any assertion by the Government to such sovereign immunity is an anti-constitutional and unlawful usurpation of power.
In sum, the Plaintiff’s Reply brief to the DC Circuit asks the appellate court to recognize that sovereign immunity is a myth, that no act of Congress can trump the Constitution, and that the higher order constitutional questions of the Rights of the People and the obligations of the government under the Petition Clause must be determined by the Court before the Court determines the question of the obligations of the People and the limited privileges and immunities the government may enjoy under the Internal Revenue Code, including the Anti-Injunction Act.
Please, find out more and support the fight to defend the constitution! Get on board guys. I read a ruling that found the IRS’s enforcement sections of the internal revenue code where found unconstitutional! They can’t take any of your posesions for not paying taxes unless they take you to court and give you due process and get a federal court order! This guy is taking it to the MAN!
http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/InfoCenter.htm
http://www.wethepeoplecongress.org/
Just thought that you would like to know!