By Irene F. Starkehaus -
"Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad," President Barack Obama cried out to his obedient sycophants in the MSM as he brushed the shimmering tear from his cheek before launching into his tinned "if we can save one child's life" homily that is inevitably trudged out to validate the escalating deterioration of the American legislative process.
With that, Barack Obama signed into existence his executive order on additional background checks for gun purchases that would delineate the powers of yet another extra-constitutional agency – this one we know as the ATF – thereby crowning himself Emperor and Chief with all the Napoleonic flair he could muster.
Would the decreed changes in processing legal gun purchases be effective in curtailing our violence epidemic…this is the prosaic, almost professorial debate that's developing between the Left and the Right in the aftermath of the greatest legislative atrocity since the Missouri Compromise. And the discussion is insanity personified.
Q. Would Barack Obama's executive order do as he promises and save lives?
The question has now been submitted for your compliant deliberation. I guess there's only one thing left to do. As conservatives, you're supposed to dutifully debate and rage against what you see as creeping nanny state limits on our Second Amendment rights. The Dems are then supposed to highlight all the massacres that would never have happened if guns were taken from the hands of average citizens and left to the professionals who are just there to protect us…I mean, when they are not gunning down unarmed African Americans in our urban communities.
I know. Right? Try following that schizophrenic logic.
Okay then. Let's get bogged down in clichéd back and forths that culminate with the Left calling all conservatives heartless murderers who like to see children gunned down in their schools…well, you must or you wouldn't oppose any action that is meant to stop it from happening. Now cue the conservatives who will then mumble under their breath about the evils of fascism while submitting to the regulations in an effort to quell the rumor that they hate children.
Funny how easily conservatives get drawn into debates with bombasts and away from the important point …it's like Dug the talking dog:
So what was the question again?
Q. Would Barack Obama's executive order do as he promises and save lives?
A. Drum roll please. The answer is… irrelevant because Barack Obama's actions were unconstitutional. Good intentioned or not, the ends do not justify the means. He has no authority to do what he did.
That's all you need to know. Moreover, his unconstitutional executive order was purposefully redundant to the existing laws…laws already on the books and isn't that just a little curious? You should be asking yourself then, "Why? Why waste his illegal action on an order that does nothing more than clarify what we already have?"
Because his action was the point of this whole exercise. It's a red herring. It's not about the guns. It's about getting away with an illegal executive order. I don't care how dazzling, how pure, how emotive the tear that fell down his cheek was. Barack Obama didn't just have some "Come to Jesus" moment in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre and suddenly say, "Hey, I think we need to do something about guns," as he so speciously claims.
Barack Obama needed Sandy Hook. He feeds off of the sociopathic actions of mass murders like a tape worm feeds off its host. He needs these sociopaths in order to fundamentally change America. Without them, without their violence, without the death of those innocent children, there would be no call to action. In order for progressivism to succeed, Dems need as many Sandy Hooks as possible. Without this violence epidemic there would be no one who would even consider saying, "if it could save just one young life, isn't it worth scrapping our freedoms?"
Barack Obama's whole political life has been geared toward empowering the sociopaths toward active violence specifically for the moment where he could slash away the gossamer lace of protection that a two-hundred-year old document grants the people of the United States to reveal that the Constitution isn't even worth the parchment upon which it is written if no one will enforce it.
Barack Obama is setting precedent and laying the ground work for future executive actions to be decreed by Democrat presidents who believe if they want something done then that's all the parliamentary procedure they need to evoke change. More's the folly, because given that reality, a Republican president will eventually get into office and may still fail to do anything that will prevent the future authoritarianism of illegal executive orders.
Meanwhile, the current legislators shrug, sit on their hands and do what they have been doing since Barack Obama took office in 2008. "I don't know what we can do about it. If voters will just give us the House…. if voters will just give us the Senate…if voters will just give us an establishment Republican as our president…hmmm, I don't know? M-a-y-b-e-e-e? Maybe we can repeal some of this…but no promises. These things can be very difficult. You wouldn't understand."
Through that unwillingness to defend the House and Senate as equal powers to the role of the executive and judicial authorities as delineated in the Constitution… always and not just when the president says they are… the Congress becomes a puppet legislature. Mix that along with this most recent illegal executive action, and Barack Obama has redefined the presidency as a monarchy – and not some willy-nilly Queen Elizabeth figure head either. I'm talking absolute monarch.
If Barack Obama wants action on gun control, his authority is limited to the swaying of public opinion through the use of the bully pulpit thereby forcing the legislature to action. He may not create law just because he thinks there should be one. If he cannot get action though dialog, then he sucks as a communicator or his ideas are whacked…or both. And for the record, it's both.
The saving of one child will come through the enslavement of us all if Obama's executive abuse is allowed to create precedent. Executive orders must be challenged and the role of the executive must be put in check – now – or we are done as a Republic.
