'Executive action' or lawless move?
“If the legislature doesn’t enact gun control because of our recent tragedies I will confer with my attorney general, Loretta Lynch, and then impose executive action... I get too many letters from teachers and kids...” —President Obama, 2016.
This week’s statement fell on empty ears and an empty Congress, since most if not all of our congressman were absent from D.C., still at home on New Year’s Day.
This timely ploy is nothing less than usurpation of power. The assumption of Obama’s statement is that this is a reasonable bilateral decision because he conferred with his attorney general, Loretta Lynch. There is no one in Congress to stop him, right now. The timing is impeccable and the announcement is historic because he will abridge the Second Amendment right to possession of firearms simply by “Executive Order.”
What follows can be anything from national registration of all firearms, limitation of rights and possession, or even re-evaluation of prior rights of all those already registered by a special federal review, leading to outright collection of those firearms deemed dangerous to your community. The right to private property will be annulled.
None of this can be implemented without federal imposition superseding state rights; a form of national policing. In layman’s terms, this January statement is a verbal declaration abridging Second Amendment rights throughout America — yet, no one heard, because no one was in Congress to hear a word of it on the New Year’s break.
“Executive Order” is new to the lexicon of our government dictionary, perfected by Mr. Obama, and gradually accepted, unchallenged by Congress. It has taken a “substantial form” only because it has been repeated over and over, time and time again, without a single meaningful objection by any member of our Congress. The concept is illegal and a direct affront to the Constitution of the United States. It has no relationship and no relevance to the any part of civil liberties, and directly attacks the traditional separation of powers between the judiciary, the legislature, and the executive.
The timing and audacity of this action will be devastating and long lasting to the stability of our freedom and it is deliberately calling for a confrontation. There is no longer any need to be alarmed by Barack Hussein Obama, if you know he is on a timetable. What is shocking is the innate stupidity of Congress. If ringing an alarm does nothing to wake them up to get them back to Washington, then perhaps it’s time to ring a dinner bell before they all become the next cooked goose of Christmas. —Mike Donohue, Kalispell