Thread: Presidential candidates agree to trash Constitution!

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House passes bill to regulate tobacco

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WASHINGTON -The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being.

Its backers call the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act "landmark" legislation. While the bill appears to have enough support to pass this year, it's unclear whether the Senate will have time to act, and the Bush administration issued a veto threat Wednesday.

The 326-102 House vote signaled solid bipartisan support for the measure, with 96 Republicans breaking with President Bush's position to vote in favor of the bill. Both presidential candidates, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., back the legislation. ___(my emphasis)

Well, if you thought either of our two presidential candidates intend to abide by their oath of office to support and defend the documented intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was adopted, the above is more evidence they are both tyrannical control freaks of the worst kind, and very much part of our Washington Establishment’s control freak crowd. Both Obama and McCain support the above proposed and tyrannical seizure of power and intend to have Congress enter the states and exercise a power not authorized by our written Constitution.

Let us look at the facts. The legislation titled Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act H.R.1108, states in part:

`(b) Registration by Owners and Operators- On or before December 31 of each year every person who owns or operates any establishment in any State engaged in the manufacture, preparation, compounding, or processing of a tobacco product or tobacco products shall register with the Secretary the name, places of business, and all such establishments of that person.

And the question is, by what constitutional authority does Congress have power to enter a state to regulate tobacco products therein and compel a person who manufactures tobacco products to register with the federal government?

Of course, our control freak crowd on Capitol Hill will claim such power is found under Article 1, Section 8, of our Constitution ___ that Congress has been granted power:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes

So, let us take a look at the documented intentions for which power was granted to Congress to regulate commerce among [not within] the states. An immediate clue to those intentions is surprisingly discovered in another part of our Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 9:

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“No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: [b][i]nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.â€

All I can say is that I will be taking the federal Civil Service exam, because most of my previous jobs have been taken away by illegals or off-shored.

Just waiting for the Tea Party to begin

What !!! No Smoke after !!!
No Smoke after fighting Illegal Immigration !!! Man , this country really does hate me

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Just waiting for the Tea Party to begin

Me to! But I think too many people are asleep at the switch!


JWK

The servant has become the master over those who created a servant and the new servant pays tribute by taxation to a gangster government which ignores our most basic laws…our constitutions, state and federal.

If folks in government, federal and state, were sincerely concerned about our health as they pretend they are and with regard to smoking, they would adopt a constitutional amendment which would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or transportation of tobacco products within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof which is used for human consumption purposes. And, the various state legislatures would agree by the constitutional amendment to allow the federal government to enter the states to enforce the amendment, just as they did with intoxicating liquors.

But, at least from where I stand, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act is not about our health, nor is it even about smoking! This is about control freaks in the federal government attempting to broaden their power to regulate commerce among the States and seize an iron fisted regulatory power within the various state borders disguised under a noble cause! The game plan is ___ if we can get the people, especially our nation’s younger generation to accept and be comfortable with a federal regulatory power over their personal lives via the federal power to regulate commerce as applied to smoking, the door is then left open to regulate almost every aspect of their personal lives under Congress’s power to regulate commerce!

But as I have established above, the historical record establishes that the word “commerceâ€