Thread: Obama Extends Power over Governors

Obama Extends Power over Governors



By Robert Stevens

As Kurt Nimmo wrote in his article Obama Expands Federal Power Over the States with Executive Order, “The order, signed on January 11 2010, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored by the corporate media.â€

Gee, do any of these abuses sound familiar?

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.


He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most
wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of
immediate and pressing Importance, unless
suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be
obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation
of large Districts of People, unless those
People would relinquish the Right of Representation
in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and
formidable to Tyrants only.

He has called together Legislative Bodies at
Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the
Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose
of fatiguing them into Compliance with his
Measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions
on the Rights of the People.

He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions,
to cause others to be elected; whereby the
Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have
returned to the People at large for their exercise; the
State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the
Dangers of Invasions from without, and Convulsions
within.

He has endeavored to prevent the Population of
these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws
for Naturalization of Foreignersl refusing to pass
others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising
the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice,
by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing
JudiciaryPowers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone,
for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and
Payrrent of their Salaries.

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices. and
sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People
and eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing
Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.

He has affected to render the Militarv independent
of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a
Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged
by our Laws; giving his Assent to their
Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops

^mong us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from
Punishment for any Murders which they should commit
on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the
World:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits
ofTrial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for
pretended Offenses:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in
a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary
Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so
as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrrrment
for introducing the same absolute Rule into these
Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our
most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the
Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with Power to legislate for us
in all Cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring
us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts,
burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our
People.

He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of
foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death,
Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances
of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled
in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the
Head of a civilized Nation.