THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION

Posted March 16, 2010

What many Americans have feared for years may be about to come to pass
. We have an out of control Congress and an arrogant, elitist President who beli
eves it his destiny to transform the United States from a republic to a socialis
t system of government where individual freedoms are severely restricted. Congre
ss is preparing to give the President and his Executive Branch of government wha
t amounts to dictatorial powers over one-sixth of our economy and the private he
alth care decisions of everyone who lives in the United States.
Congress is not only going to pass legislation that will severely da
mage the balance of power established in the Constitution by our founding father
s, but it is going to go about in a manner that violates Article 1, Section 7 of
the Constitution. Among other things, that article provides for each law passed
by both the House of Representatives and the Senate to be then sent to the Pres
ident for his signature. The key word here is “passed”. It appears that there ar
e not enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version of the health care bi
ll so House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will continue to show her distain for both the
American people and the Constitution by ignoring Article 1, Section 7 of one of
our most sacred documents and send the bill to the President for his signature w
ithout an actual vote on it in the House.
Instead she will use something being referred to as the “Slaughter S
olution” named after Louise Slaughter, a member of the House from upstate New Yo
rk who proposed that the idea be used to avoid a formal vote. This is also refer
red to as the “self executing” or “deeming” rule. The members of Congress will b
e allowed to vote to change the rules and authorize Pelosi to deem the Senate ve
rsion of the Bill passed and send it to Obama to be signed into law. The fact th
at this ploy has been used in the past with other much less important legislatio
n does not make it Constitutional. This action also allows the members of Congre
ss to avoid another “troublesome” provision of our Constitution, Article 1, Sect
ion 5, that allows one fifth of the members of the House present to demand that
the vote on any piece of legislation be recorded so the American people can know
how their elected representatives voted.
The theory is that members of the House who live in districts where
the majority of people oppose the health care legislation can go back to their d
istricts and say that they did not vote for the bill. Instead, they will have ju
st voted for a rule change. Of course, this ruse also makes the elitist assumpti
on that “we the people” are too dumb to know that a vote to change the rules to
allow the health care bill to go forward is the same as a direct vote for the le
gislation. By the way, if you want to read the new version of this legislation,
forget it. Even though the vote to send it to Obama is scheduled to take place i
n just a few days, the text of the bill has not yet been made available to membe
rs of Congress or the American people.
The magnitude of this is almost incomprehensible. Nancy Pelosi and t
he leadership in the House of Representatives are telling us four things.
First and foremost, we are being told that members of Congress will
no longer abide by the Constitution of the United States and are thereby violati
ng their oath of office.
Second, members of Congress will no longer be representing the will
of the American people who elected them but instead are representing the will of
President Obama and his vision of a socialist America.
Third, members of Congress are done with allowing the American peopl
e to even participate in the process. Everything will be done in secret and your
right to know what is being done to you will be ignored.
Last, but not least, members of Congress have concluded that we are
not bright enough to know what is happening anyway so they think we will reelect
them and be grateful for all they have done for us.
I just have this to say to President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid
, and the other current “leaders” of our country. Over 230 years ago an English
King and Parliament made similar assumptions about a group of people who called
themselves Americans. Those assumptions were wrong and things did not end well f
or those who underestimated the passion of Americans to be a free people. If you
continue on this course it will not end well for you either. To this I pledge m
y life, my fortune, and my sacred honor, as did my forefathers before me.
It is not too late to stop this abomination. Contact members of Cong
ress now and tell them that you are not fooled and consider a vote for the Slaug
hter Solution to be a vote for the unconstitutional health care bill. You should
further inform them that you consider such a vote to be a violation of their oa
th of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States and you will hold t
hem accountable on Election Day.
For my part, I talked to Gary Kreep at the U.S. Justice Foundation t
oday and we are already preparing the lawsuit that will challenge the Constituti
onality of the passage of the health care bill under the “Slaughter Solution” an
d on other Constitutional grounds. If you want to contribute to this effort you
can go to the U.S. Justice Foundation Website at: www.usjf.net. The fight to def
end our freedom is not over, it is just beginning.