present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Like King George III, Obama, too, has become a despot, trampling on the rights of individuals and state governments.
Let’s look at some of the words of 1776 and the facts of 2011.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
Through his Attorney General, Eric Holder—who I consider one of the most, if not the most corrupt person in the most corrupt administration in American history—Obama has sued the state of Arizona in order to stop the implementation of that state’s immigration law, SB 1070. The law that Arizonans wrote in order to protect their border from further infiltration by Mexican drug gangs. The law that was necessary because the United States government under Obama was intentionally failing to carry out one of its most important constitutional duties—keeping our borders safe—in order to advance its subversive agenda.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
The Obama equivalent of the King’s crime is this: He has created more boards and special commissions than any other president since FDR. Virtually all of their meetings are secret and the press and the public are barred . These secretive task forces—which created the health-care bill, climate-control legislation, and many other measures—do not release records of their meetings or in many cases even reveal who is attending them to the public. Yet out of them come far-reaching new laws that give the government the right to control the lives of more than 300 million Americans.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
I told you in the Prologue how Obama is bypassing Congress and using executive orders to implement his policies. In another move, Obama has managed to engineer the de facto dissolution of Congress through his violation of the War Powers Act. The law requires the president to receive congressional approval for any military actions overseas that last more than 60 days. Harold Koh, the Obama appointee who is the State Department’s top legal advisor, tried to get around the law and the Constitution by contending that the then-90-day-old mission over Libya was limited to air strikes and therefore, as ABC News has noted, “does not constitute hostilities as described in the War Powers Act and therefore would not require Congressional authorization.” 11
Obama’s authorizing his Energy Department to make taxpayer-guaranteed loans to solar energy companies that are virtually guaranteed to fail also bypasses congressional oversight. That’s because Congress might not be in such a hurry to have you and me guarantee that Obama’s campaign contributors don’t lose money on these nearly bankrupt companies.
The words of the Founders of our nation ring true today: In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
As I will show you in this book, Obama is a tyrant in every sense of the word. He’s defied the will of the people as they expressed it in the resounding defeats they administered to Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. He has ignored the pleas of the American people, shrugged off the rulings of state and federal court judges—going so far as to
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