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By Michael Connelly

Many of us have predicted that since the Obama Administration and its lackeys in
Congress are emboldened by the fact that they appear to have successfully ignor
ed the will of the American people and passed the so-called “health care reform
bill” that they would come at us with more unconstitutional legislation. I wish
we had been wrong, but unfortunately, it is happening as we thought it would.
First and foremost is the “Cap and Trade Bill” that Nancy Pelosi forced through
the House of Representatives. This is HR 2454, a bill to impose massive regulati
ons on American businesses and homeowners to placate the advocates of the now th
oroughly discredited “global warming theory”. When even some of the most Sociali
st and liberal countries in Europe are having second thoughts about the concept
of global warming the Obama Administration though Harry Reid, the majority leade
r in the Senate, has vowed that there are enough votes to force this legislation
on the American people despite their opposition to it.
This bill, which is 1422 pages long, will impose large tax increases on the prod
uction of energy in the United States that will increase the average yearly cost
of electricity for American families by anywhere from $1500.00 to $3,000.00 per
year. Within a year of its passage it will also impose on American homeowners t
he requirement that in order to sell their homes they must comply with energy ef
ficiency and water requirement upgrades that could average about $6800.00 per ho
me. This is being done with no regard to the fact that many homeowners are alrea
dy facing foreclosures because they can’t sell their homes for enough to pay off
existing mortgages.
Congress has no authority under the U.S. Constitution to enact this kind of legi
slation.
However, that doesn’t seem to matter anymore. I said from the beginning that the
health care legislation was not about health care at all, but about control of
the economy and the American people. I can safely say the same about Cap and Tra
de. It is not about global warming but about putting more power and control into
the hands of an elite few. As far as the Obama Administration and the leaders i
n Congress are concerned, we are no longer citizens of a free country; we are no
w subjects of an all powerful Federal Government. That is exactly what our Const
itution was designed to prohibit.
Unfortunately, that is just the beginning. A new Immigration Reform Bill is soon
to be introduced in Congress to provide those people who have entered our count
ry illegally with amnesty and to provide them with a fast track to citizenship a
nd voting rights. Congress has always had the power to control immigration in th
e United States yet, it has never before considered making people who entered il
legally into American citizens on a mass scale.
The clear purpose of this legislation is to increase the voting block for a part
icular political party in a number of key states such as Texas, Arizona, New Mex
ico, Florida, and California. This is being done when many American citizens are
losing their jobs to illegal immigrants and despite the opposition of the overw
helming majority of the American people. Yet, even some Republicans like Lindsay
Graham of South Carolina are apparently supporting this legislation.
In addition, there is the Financial Regulatory Reform Bill, HR 4173 that will on
ce again give enormous power to Obama and his Czars to essentially take control
of banks and other financial institutions. This will ultimately lead to the Nati
onalization of the banking industry. This has been done in socialist countries w
ith disastrous consequences. Most of what the President and his Czars will be al
lowed to do will not have to be approved by Congress so once again the final los
ers in this will be the American people.
Other dangerous bills pending in Congress are: H.R. 45: “To provide for the impl
ementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a
record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes”. In fact, thi
s bill is so comprehensive that it would virtually destroy the right of individu
als in the United States to keep and bear arms, a right that has recently been u
pheld by the Supreme Court of the United States. I personally find it interestin
g that this bill was introduced by Rep. Bobby L. Rush of Illinois. He is a long
time political ally of President Obama, but he is also a former Black Panther an
d convicted felon who spent time in jail for a firearms violation.
Then we have several bills pending in the Senate and the House to establish back
ground checks for private individuals purchasing firearms from other private ind
ividuals at gun shows. This is clearly outside of the Constitutional powers of C
ongress. There is also Senate Bill 773 introduced by Senator Jay Rockefeller of
West Virginia to give President Obama and the Federal Government the power to re
gulate the content of the Internet and to give President Obama the power to take
control of the Internet entirely by declaring a Cyber Security crisis. What con
stitutes such a crisis is left up to Obama.
Add to this mix the rather strange Executive Orders issued by President Obama ex
empting an international police agency, Interpol, from having to obey some U.S.
laws; the apparent attempt to take control of the National Guard Units away from
the Governors of the 50 States and place them entirely in control of the Presid
ent, and the recent order to make hospitals allow gays and lesbians to have visi
tation rights with patients. In all of this I see a pattern of the President usu
rping powers reserved in the Constitution to the States and individuals.
Whether you agree with these acts are not, the fact is that under our Constituti
onal form of Government these are the actions of someone who considers himself a
Dictator, not an elected Representative of the people and the sovereign States
of the United States of America. Yet, it is clear that not only is Congress unwi
lling to put the reins on Obama’s misuse of the powers of his office, this same
Congress is preparing to transfer even more power to him.
As Americans who value our freedom it is incumbent on us to let our representati
ves in the House and our Senators know that we are not the ignorant masses they
seem to think we are. We are well aware of what is happening and we will hold th
em accountable.

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