Who needs Congress - part 3 - my column in the Boyne City Gazette; Lawsuirts filed against the Democrat Party on certifying Obama as eligible; Obamacare against married couples; Occupy Phoenix puts out document questioning goodness of cops, and saying that any cop killer may have been the good guy

Tyranny is defined as the arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power.  As an Obama spokesman said, “There are things he can do without Congress, and he will do them.” Obama recently asked appointees to” identify all those areas in his newest Jobs Bill in which they can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done."

 

1)       President Obama has at least 45 czars, all protected by the Freedom of Information Act from disclosure of their activities, or oversight by Congress.

2)      President Obama signed an executive order authorizing the transfer of all 172 Guantánamo detainees to the next chief executive of the United States of America.  Obama had pledged to close Gitmo because it is immoral to treat foreign enemy combatants in mean ways, and yet he directed the killing of an American citizen (al-Awlaki) without the benefit of either imprisonment or military tribunals.  This action was decided by a secret “kill panel” whose decisions are not necessarily published.

3)      Any Secretary of Health and Human Services is empowered by Obamacare to decide with no Congressional vote what care will and will not be covered and what new regulations will be mandated.  This leads to rationing through so-called Death Panels.

4)      Obama’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently told members of the National Restaurant Association that Americans need to “adjust their tastes so that they like the kind of food the government believes they should eat—and we have to make sure that what we do is create the appropriate transition.”  So it is now government’s job to decide for us what we will eat.  Our US Senate recently voted to stop Obama’s proposal to limit the amount of potatoes served on school lunch lines.

5)      Our President recently launched “Attack Watch” on his website, a new vehicle to have citizens report to him those fellow citizens who say mean things about him. 

6)      The American Cancer Society has noted, "The federal government has never before attempted to define what constitutes essential medical benefits for Americans with private insurance."  And yet they are now planning, through Obamacare mandates, just what private health insurance policies may cover.

7)      The Food and Drug Administration just announced a coming ban on over-the-counter inhalers for asthmatics, as part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop depleting the ozone layer.  So sorry, asthmatics.

8)      The Administration admits to 219 pending major regulations from Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank financial law and others, each to cost more than $100 million per year.  The President has personally identified the “Big Seven” regulations which would each impose burdens of over $1 billion per year.

9)      Department of Health and Human Services is demanding that insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients, endangering our privacy.

10)  Our President threatened to make the entire state of Texas a no-fly zone if that state criminalized the TSA screenings.

11)  The EPA is asking taxpayers to fund up to 230,000 new government workers just to process all the extra paperwork, at an estimated cost of $21 billion.

12)  A bill has been offered which would seal the Presidential records of Obama, just as his college records have been sealed.

13)  Hundreds of animals are about to be added to the Endangered Species list, even disrupting the building of the fence on the Mexican border.

14)  The extra paperwork and nearly $10,500-per-employee compliance costs are far from the only regulatory hurdles from government regulations over the trucking industry.

15)   81,205 pages of regulations are in place to improve farming.  Look for the UN Agenda 21’s “sustainable development” as key words.

16)  Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole says Obama has decided to “pull back all training materials used for law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.”

17)  Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children has mandated new rules that will cost the food industry more than $28 billion in revenues and manufacturing in just its first year, denying to Congress the report required prior to enactment.

 

America – the land of the used-to-be free.  

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 The Liberty Legal Foundation has filed a pair of lawsuits in state and federal courts that don't ask anything about Obama's birth or for any determination from the court about his eligibility. Or his birth certificate, for that matter.

Instead, they name the national Democratic Party as a defendant, and ask the court to enjoin officials there from certifying that Obama is eligible for the office for the 2012 election.
"This complaint does not request or require this court to find that President Obama is not qualified to hold the office of president of the United States. Instead, this complaint is directed toward defining the term 'natural-born citizen' under the Constitution of the United States, and toward negligence or intentional misrepresentations of the Democratic Party.
"This complaint requests this court to affirm the Supreme Court's definition of 'natural-born citizen' as 'all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens."
"This complaint does not request any injunction against any state or federal government official. Instead this complaint asserts that the private entity, Defendant Democratic Party, intends to act negligently or fraudulently in a manner that will cause irreparable harm to the plaintiffs, to the states, and to the citizens of the United States."
It continues, "Because Mr. Obama has admitted that his father was not a U.S. citizen, and because this fact has been confirmed by the U.S. State Department, any reasonable person with knowledge of these facts would doubt Mr. Obama's constitutional qualifications. Therefore, any representation by the Democratic Party certifying said qualifications would be negligent, absent further evidence verifying Mr. Obama's natural-born status.
"Plaintiffs further request an injunction prohibiting the Democratic Party from making any representation to any state official asserting, implying, or assuming that Mr. Obama is qualified to hold the office of president, absent a showing by the party sufficient to prove that said representation is not negligent."

Read more: Obama's 2012 run to be non-starter? http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=360813#ixzz1c5Mz3hNY

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Fox News reports: The law includes generous subsidies for the uninsured so they can afford to buy coverage in the new insurance exchanges that are part of the legislation.

But several analysts told Congress Thursday the nature of the subsidies has an odd effect.

"The way this bill is structured, there are disincentives for women to marry and disincentives for women to work," said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. "And for a bill that's supposed to make Americans healthier, these disincentives are truly startling."

Critics say that beginning in 2014, Americans will find it more advantageous to stay single than marry because it will be easier to afford health coverage.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/27/obamas-health-care-law-penalizes-marriage-analysts-say/#ixzz1c5O5DWdP

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The Blaze reports: Yesterday, the Arizona Counter-Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC — a division of the Arizona Dept. of Public Safety) released a bulletin announcing the chilling document that seems to endorse and justify the killing of law enforcement officers.

Copies of the “informational” letter were apparently left on a table with other documents to “educate” protesters at Occupy Phoenix. A bulletin from the ACTIC notifies officers of the document, but says that no credible threats against law enforcement official have been uncovered (yet its investigation continues).
“The next time you hear of a police officer being killed “’in the line of duty,’ take a moment to consider the very real possibility that maybe in that case, the ‘law enforcer’ was the bad guy and the ‘cop killer’ was the good guy,” the document concludes. “As it happens, that has been the case more often than not throughout human history.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alleged-flyer-at-occupy-phoenix-ponders-when-should-you-shoot-a-cop/
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