Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. Presidential "executive orders" and "director memos" such as this are more than lawlessness. Such actions are more accurately called tyranny. We simply cannot permit this arbitrary use of power or control to continue by one who, without legal right, believes he has absolute power. The liberty and freedom of this country, and the resulting national security, is far too fragile.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, JR.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." --Ronald Reagan
"Politicians are like diapers. They should both be changed frequently and for the same reason." --Anonymous
We still have a U.S. Constitution, which serves as our nation's "operating manual" .... if we'd all but read and exercise it. We also have separation of powers that must be exercised to stop this tyranny.
The Constitution of the United States
Preamble Note
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I - The Legislative Branch Note
Section 1 - The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Article II - The Executive Branch
Section 4 - Disqualification
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Our Founder's understood human nature, and the need for the rule of law, the separation of powers, federalism, property rights and the difference between tyranny and legitimate government. If we fail to understand the issues and hand and fail to hold our politicians accountable, we may well find that we have lost this great country. And once lost, it will only be regained with much bloodshed .... there will be no where to run.
"A new enforcement memo handed down by the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week has some accusing the White House of running around Congress to implement the DREAM Act – and consequent amnesty for some illegal immigrants – by executive fiat.
The new memo, penned by ICE Director John Morton, directs ICE agents, attorneys and directors to exercise "prosecutorial discretion" – meaning less likelihood of deportation – for illegal aliens who have been students in the U.S., who have been in the country since childhood or who have served in the American military.
[....] "This is outright lawlessness on the part of the administration," argued syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on a discussion panel with Fox News' anchor Chris Wallace. "Whatever the politics of this, we do have a Constitution. And under it, the Legislature, the Congress enacts the laws and the executive executes them. It doesn't make them up.
[....] "It is now being enacted by the executive, despite the express will of the Congress. That is lawless. It may not be an explicit executive order; it's an implicit one."
