Chained: Former Navy SEAL Tells Of Forced Incarceration Under Obama Regime In 2009

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Exclusive: Former Navy SEAL Tells of Forced 

Incarceration under Obama Regime in 2009

“WHEN I WOKE UP, MY ARMS AND LEGS WERE IN CHAINS”

By Sharon Rondeau | The Post & Email

In an initial interview with The Post & Email, Mr. Harry Galvin Butler, III said that in late 2008 and early 2009, all he wanted to do was point out was that Obama was “a phony” and see Congress act on it in the interest of national security. Instead, he ended up spending virtually the entire year in federal prisons awaiting a “psychiatric evaluation.”

Butler is a proponent of the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment and perceived that Obama, by virtue of being “a phony,” was “playing with my Constitution.” He told us that Navy SEALS and other military members “hate phonies.” He has no previous psychiatric history or criminal record.
Last August, former Marine Brandon Raub was arrested by the Secret Service and FBI, taken into custody and placed in a psychiatric institution where he was told he would be forced to take medication which he did not want. He was freed approximately one week later after a federal judge reviewed his detention and found no probable cause by which to hold him. Raub’s plight was taken up by The Rutherford Institute, which is suing the government for an unspecified amount of money. In a May 22, 2013 press release, Rutherford stated:

The complaint, filed in federal court in Richmond, alleges that Raub’s seizure and detention were the result of a federal government program code-named “Operation Vigilant Eagle” that involves the systematic surveillance of military veterans who express views critical of the government. Institute attorneys allege that the attempt to label Raub as “mentally ill” and his involuntary commitment was a pretext designed to silence Raub’s speech critical of the government and that the defendants violated Raub’s rights under the First and Fourth Amendments.

Following Raub’s highly-publicized case, Rutherford revealed that hundreds of other military veterans had contacted them to relate similar stories of government intimidation and people “disappearing.” Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead stated that “Brandon Raub’s case exposed the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting military veterans for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state.”
Two days before announcing the civil rights lawsuit, Whitehead expounded on Operation Vigilant Eagle, which was launched by the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice and the FBI to observe “veterans” for alleged signs of “extremism” and “oppositional defiance disorder (ODD).” Whitehead also wrote:

That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means by which to immobilize (and disarm) these veterans is diabolically brilliant. With one stroke of a magistrate’s pen, these service men are being declared mentally ill, locked away against their will, and stripped of their constitutional rights. Make no mistake, these returning veterans are being positioned as enemy number one.

Navy veteran Darren Wesley Huff is presently incarcerated in a federal prison in Texarkana, TX resulting from a false FBI affidavit and prosecution witnesses who perjured themselves on the witness stand after Obama operatives reported “threats” to the Monroe County, TN courthouse which were never uttered.
The Post & Email has reported in depth on the targeting of veterans under the Obama regime, including the “Sovereign Citizen” program described by the FBI as including those who make “References to the Bible, The Constitution of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, or treaties with foreign governments.” Both Huff and another Navy veteran, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, have been characterized as “Sovereign Citizens” in a law enforcement training program produced in Tennessee but used in various forms across the country.
Butler served as a Navy SEAL from 1969 to 1973 and was in the Reserves from 1973 to 1975. Following his release from the Navy, he attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL, where he went through the “Professional Pilot” program and obtained the necessary FAA Flight Ratings. From there, he went to work for Gulfstream Aerospace flying the world’s elite to their places of business and play. He became a captain and worked for the airline for 20 years until his retirement for medical reasons in 2002.
Of his flying training, Butler told us, “Before I made Aircraft Commander I personally made sure I had 5,000 hours flying time. Then when it came time for my Pilot in Command check ride I told the Check Airman that I wanted ‘No Slack’. He put me through the ringer and the ride took two days. I did this for one reason I knew that one day I’d be fighting an Emergency and peoples lives would be in my hands. I wanted to prove to myself that there was no emergency I could not handle in the cockpit. I took all those long years of hard work, study + spending every penny I + the VA could come up with.”
Butler loved his career. He told The Post & Email, “I retired from Gulfstream in 2002 which I hated. I was 52, at the height of my career + a Senior Demonstration Pilot in Flight Operations at General Dynamics/Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.” However, because of medical complications and increasingly-long flights, Butler said he chose retirement because “I would not have been able to make it other wise.” He added, “So reluctantly, kicking + screaming I retired from a job I loved. I tell everyone I never worked a day in my life at Gulfstream, however I did have one long love affair.”
Following several life-changing operations, Butler said he “has a handicap” but “is not handicapped,” although he has trouble walking.
Before Barack Hussein Obama was elected in 2008, Butler became alarmed because he believed, and still believes, that Obama is not a U.S. citizen. Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires that the president be a “natural born Citizen,” although Butler is certain that Obama meets neither the definition of “U.S. citizen” nor “natural born Citizen.”
Butler said he called his representatives in Congress to no avail to “warn” them that a foreign national was about to be sworn in to the office of President and Commander-in-Chief.
In a recent email to this writer, Butler wrote that Obama is guilty of being “a Phony, Ineligible to be Eligible, Unfit for Command” and has committed “Abuse of Office as POTUS.”
Butler said that after he began sending emails and making phone calls to members of Congress, agents from the Secret Service began visiting members of his family, as his address was unconventional and not easily found. He has been told by his family members that they were “inundated by lies” from Secret Service agents stating that he was not in his right mind. “They use the power that they wield by being a government employee, which is ludicrous; it’s wrong; it’s illegal…if there’s any way we can stop that, it will be a huge plus for this country,” Butler said. “They all do the same thing.”
Butler is not sure when the Secret Service began contacting his family members. However, he said that they were surveilling a friend of his in their black SUVs, describing it as “dirty, dirty pool.”
In our previous interview, Butler told The Post & Email that his family members brought him to a psychiatrist at the urging of the Secret Service, then a hospital, both on the same day. He reported being told that he would be given medication, which he refused. Butler was then surrounded by a dozen men whom he attempted to fight off despite his physical challenges but was finally subdued by an injection of medication which was forced on him. “When I woke up, my arms and legs were in chains,” Butler told us.
Butler was taken to the psychiatric wing of the hospital, where he remained for two weeks. He was then moved to what he called “a private prison” in Ocilla, GA, in Irwin County, where he spent about a month. Butler was told that he was there for a “psychological evaluation” before a judge could “make a ruling” on his case. He had neither seen nor been told of any criminal charges having been filed against him.
The criminal complaint, which Butler said he paid for and received only a month ago, states that he made threats against Obama, a claim that Butler refutes. Butler told The Post & Email that he “never threatened bodily harm” to Obama. “SEALS don’t do that,” he said.
Butler explained that before Obama’s first inauguration, he was “trying to get (Sens.) Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson to wake up.” “This guy’s a phony, this guy’s a phony…I was writing them and calling them…So when they say they weren’t aware, that’s BS. You can see all these lies and distortions in the complaint. The thing is, if you do this to the President of the United States, it only takes one Secret Service agent to have you incarcerated. Nothing happened until Obama was inaugurated. When he got inaugurated, the very first thing he did was seal everything in the world related to him, even before he came after me…The order for me to be arrested came directly from the White House; you can bet your bottom dollar on it,” Butler said.
“All of this is illegal. These guys get away with it for one reason: they have tons of money. All of this corruption is done by threats and money and pressures from the government. That’s where it all comes from; that’s the thing that fuels all of this corruption,” Butler told us. “The amount of money to facilitate this cover-up is a figure beyond anyone’s imagination, and it’s not a problem. The rich and famous don’t think about money because they have so much, they don’t worry about it.”
Butler described the facilities where he was kept as “out in the middle of nowhere, like FEMA camps. They’re on caretaker status, with barbed wire, huge; there would be a handful of people there, and they all look brand-new. It’s a prison. What happens is the federal marshals are responsible for moving the inmates around. They put you on a bus that’s got blacked-out windows so you don’t know exactly where you are. They’ll pull in to a facility out in the middle of nowhere and you go into a great big huge gate and then they’ll pull out some paperwork. There are two or three of those facilities between Miami and North Carolina.”
Butler said that if an inmate asked where he was being taken, the marshals would say the name of the town or city, but that was all.
The Post & Email asked if the marshals escorted him to the door of the facility, to which he responded, “They take you to the front gate, and that’s as far as they go. You’re in chains. Any time you leave a facility, you’re in chains. There are two sets of cuffs; the ankle cuffs are wider than the wrist cuffs, and then you have a chain that goes around the wrist cuffs around your waist in an overhand knot and it goes down to your legs.”
The Post & Email asked Butler how he felt after having served his country as a Navy SEAL and being placed in chains, to which he said, “You feel terrible.”
He reported that he sometimes spent 14-16 hours a day on a bus, which caused him great discomfort as a result of his medical condition. “They give you a bag with a sandwich and an apple in it, but try to eat a sandwich with your hands chained to your waist,” he said. When we asked, “How do you do it?” he said, “You can’t. Some of the guys will nudge it a little, but you can’t get anything out of it.”
We asked if the marshals helped at all in that situation, to which Butler said, “****, no.”
Following Ocilla, Butler was taken to a facility in Miami, FL. -

More Evidence That The U.S. Government Is A Criminal Enterprise

July 15, 2013 by Bob Livingston

PHOTOS.COM

The U.S. government is a criminal enterprise and is out of control. The U.S. Constitution was drafted to limit government and affirm the natural rights held by the people, but it is serially ignored and violated by the President, the Congress, the Supreme Court and law enforcers both Federal and local.
The result is growing tyranny and a police state and a Nation that is becoming a simmering cauldron of unrest — sparked by the passage of unConstitutional laws by a Congress controlled by moneyed interests; the affirming of those laws by the Supreme Court; long-term high rates of unemployment; a declining standard of living; increased regulation by unaccountable, bought-and-paid-for psychotic government functionaries; money printing; a presstitute mass media; increasingly militarized and militant local law enforcement officers; and a declining morality encouraged by both the political and celebrity classes — that is poised to explode.
The elected class and their handlers have been at war with the American people, the Constitution and the American way of life for many years. In the beginning, they used gradualism to sneak small abuses by an unobservant public. But as the unConstitutional encroachments gained ground, they accelerated. We are now rapidly heading toward a calamitous event that will rock the system to its core and, hopefully, restore us to Constitutional governance.
Following are 17 pieces of evidence taken from recent headlines that prove the President, Congress, Supreme Court, Federal and local police are criminals working against the interests and best wishes of the American people:

• President Barack Obama has mandated that all Federal workers and contractors spy on one another. Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing “indicators of insider threat behavior” are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when “suspicious user behavior” is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to “insider threat personnel.” The hypersensitive Obama instituted this spying program supposedly to spot leakers like Snowden and Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is charged with leaking state secrets to Wikileaks. But in reality, Obama is trying to reign in any chance of exposure of his and the rest of government’s unConstitutional abuses of power.

• U.S. Government contractor Edward Snowden recently “revealed” that the National Security Agency is illegally spying on American by collecting their emails, text messages, phone records and social networking posts. The mainstream media, the propaganda arm of the government, claims these revelations are new and startling, even though the information has been in the public domain for years and visible to anyone with a discerning mind. What’s troubling is Snowden’s sketchy narrative and the way the sycophantic media ignores it. The sketchy narrative indicates there is something else going on behind the scenes that only the elites are privy to; and, in fact, it may very well be a turf war between two or more unaccountable government agencies.

• The increased spying network is a result of the so-called “War on Terror” that was begun after the false flag 9/11 attacks. The Nation’s security apparatus received a huge infusion of cash as a result so it could “keep Americans safe.” Yet since then, almost all the “terrorists” captured attempting to attack the United States have been FBI-created patsies. Even The New York Times has admitted this.

• Federal Reserve money printing, lately called Quantitative Easing, is propping up the stock market and benefiting the banksters and Wall Street while creating another bubble that will wipe out the American middle class… again. That will probably result in another fix like the last one in which President George W. Bush “abandoned free market principals to save the free market system.” Such a pronouncement is classic Orwellian doublethink. In reality, there has not been a free market system for many years. Printing money so the banksters and Wall Street criminals can continue to pass it among themselves will lead to an inevitable collapse of the financial system.

• The Internal Revenue Service is targeting Americans based on their political and religious beliefs… and will soon have access to everyone’s medical records — another batch of information they can use against the people.

• The tragically misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act — aka Obamacare — is an unConstitutional monstrosity that was rammed through Congress against the wishes of a majority of the American people. Even though ruled Constitutional by the Supreme Court, the bill is clearly unConstitutional because of the individual mandate and because it violates the origination clause (Article I, Section 7) of the Constitution, which states that bills raising revenue must originate in the House. Now Obama is promising to act unConstitutionally by putting off requiring businesses comply with the law by the 2014 deadline (violating Article II, Section 3).

• It’s likely that Chief Justice John Roberts, who switched his vote in the final minutes before the Supreme Court released its Obamacare decision, did so because he was blackmailed over the illegal adoption of his children.

• Lost in the hoopla over the egregious and unConstitutional SCOTUS rulings on gay marriage and the George Zimmerman trial in Florida was this ruling by the Supreme Court: Drug companies are exempt from lawsuits involving fraud, mislabeling, side effects and accidental death. The court essentially put drug safety in the hands of the Food and Drug Administration, which is owned by Big Pharma and the medical cartel. So if the FDA says a drug is safe, pharmaceutical companies can’t be sued even though many, if not most, FDA employees were first researchers and/or lobbyists for the same Big Pharma companies they are now approving drugs for.

• Congress recently passed a law that pre-empted a court decision requiring biotech companies (Monsanto) get permission before selling and planting untested genetically modified crops. Dubbed by opponents as the Monsanto Protection Act, it demonstrates how Monsanto owns Congress.

• The Obama Administration is stirring unrest throughout the Mideast and North Africa by arming and encouraging al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists — who are using nerve gas, beheading citizens, shooting women, burning Christians and eating the hearts of their enemies — to overthrow legitimate governments. Part of the gunrunning operation to al-Qaida terrorists resulted in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. There is still much to learn about the incident, but State Department employees, particularly former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are lying and obfuscating in order to cover up the events of that day.

• Attorney General Eric Holder armed Mexican narco-terrorists with weapons through the Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning operation and then lied to Congress about it. Meanwhile, Obama, Holder and Congressional gun grabbers are doing everything in their power to disarm Americans.

• Obama has repeatedly ignored his requirement to get Congressional approval before making war on other countries, and Congress has made no effort to stop him.

• Obama, supported by Holder, has decided that he can assassinate American citizens with drones. No trial or even evidence is required, and the decisions about who is murdered are made behind closed doors by the President and a group of his friends.

• There is reasonable doubt that Obama’s “personal narrative” is true. Law enforcement agents and computer experts have evidence that Obama’s purported birth certificate is a computer-generated fakery. His Selective Service registration is a forgery and contains a fabricated Postal stamp. Obama is using a Social Security number that belongs to a man named Harrison J. Bounel. Despite being in possession of this information and other information about Obama’s fake narrative, neither the courts nor Congress will act on it.

• Local police are now regularly beating, shocking with Tasers, arresting and shooting citizens who take video of police actions or invoke their rights against illegal search and seizure. For articles on some of the most egregious examples of police abuse, go here.

• Members of the elected class are pathological liars. Case in point: When asked during a press conference last week about whether a delay in implementing the individual mandate had any virtue in light of the delay in implementing the employer mandate, former House Speaker and top Democrat Nancy Pelosi denied there was a delay in the mandate for businesses. “It was not a delay of the mandate for the businesses, and there shouldn’t be a delay of the mandate for individuals,” she insisted. This in spite of the fact that the Obama Administration just over a week earlier announced the delay, and it has been a topic of discussion since the announcement.

• In a gross violation civilized protocol, the Obama Administration forced America’s European puppet states France and Portugal to deny Bolivia President Evo Morales’ plane access to their airspace and the plane was forced to land in Austria where it was searched for accused leaker Snowden. It was a huge, but deserved, embarrassment for the Administration but probably did nothing to staunch efforts to continue to persecute the man a majority of Americans now view as a hero.

Time and space, not the lack of more examples, force me to end this column here. But I believe the point is made. My advice to you is to prepare for the storm to come with food, water, guns, ammo and gold on hand.

What Barack Obama Has In Common With The Gambino Crime Family

May 2, 2013 by Wayne Allyn Root

Hello. I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. Can you guess who is the deadliest crime family in our country’s history? If you guessed the Gambinos, you’re wrong. It’s the Obama crime family. The Obama gang is killing jobs, strangling business, intimidating opponents, making the energy industry “sleep with the fishes” and wiping out the middle class.
Don Obama and his cronies are very much like the Gambino crime family — except the Gambinos were nicer. You see, the mafia almost never goes after “civilians.” They only intimidate, extort and kill other mobsters or “associates” active in the insular criminal world. If only Obama was that discriminating!
The Obama crime family goes after every taxpayer in America. Obama desperately needs your money, and he’ll stop at nothing to confiscate it. Whether it’s raising income taxes, payroll taxes, Obamacare taxes, online sales taxes or taking away exemptions and deductions, he’ll find a new and creative way to claim your money as his money.
How does Obama steal your money? Let me share a few highlights of Don Obama’s larceny in action.
First: through massive taxation and redistribution of wealth. Don Obama targets, hunts, demonizes, intimidates and punishes his best customers (business owners and high-income taxpayers). Even the Gambinos treated their best customers better than this.
But taxation is only the tip of the iceberg for the Obama crime family. They can rob widows and orphans blind without ever touching their income or bank accounts. The Obama crime family’s weapon of choice is the Federal Reserve. If Don Obama can’t get his hands on your money, he merely orders the Fed to print trillions in new dollars. That makes your life savings worthless. It threatens your retirement. It even threatens the financial future of your children and grandchildren.
All of those trillions of fake dollars printed by the Fed need to be repaid by future generations. That “Obama money” that props up the stock market — and pays for “free” Obama phones and “free” healthcare — isn’t actually “free.” It’s debt, and it all must be repaid by your kids.
Don Obama is a genius. He has enslaved your heirs to a life of misery, unimaginable debt and excessive taxation — even though some aren’t even born yet. That qualifies Don Obama as the meanest, most dastardly gangster who ever lived. No wonder babies cry upon taking their first breath. At the moment of birth, they owe more than $300,000.
This Don Obama is one bad-ass killer. Just last month, 660,000 Americans left the workforce. In one month! There are now 90 million able-bodied, working-age Americans no longer working. That’s almost one-third of the country’s population. The workforce participation rate is the lowest since 1979. For men, it’s the lowest since 1948. Don Obama has killed so many jobs that he should be on top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
But Don Obama also kills spirit. He overwhelms business owners with so many taxes and regulations that they live in despair and depression. Don Obama is a ruthless enforcer. He created 6,118 new government regulations in just the first 90 days of 2013. He is snuffing out the economy like a hit man.
Even worse, he is like a Gambino drug dealer. Except Don Obama’s drug of choice is entitlements. He has addicted the whole country to welfare, food stamps, disability, unemployment, free meals at school, housing allowances and free healthcare. He’s turned almost the whole population into addicts with their hands out, waiting for their “Obama money.” Even the Gambinos could never destroy the moral fabric of the whole country. Take notes, Mr. Gambino; this Don Obama is good.

But intimidation is Don Obama’s real calling card. Internal Revenue Service audits are up dramatically — specifically on small-business owners. Why? As bank robber extraordinaire Dillinger said, “That’s where the money is.” Obama smells money, and he must grab every last nickel. Even the Gambinos left a taste on the table. Not Obama. What’s yours is his.
As a bonus, since business owners write most of the checks for Republican candidates and conservative causes, Don Obama is slowly bankrupting his political opposition.
Then there’s the intimidation against “ratings agencies.” Standard & Poor’s downgraded the debt of America under Obama — for the first time in history. So guess what happened to poor Standard & Poors? A government indictment. Next, Egan-Jones downgraded America’s debt- twice. Can you guess what soon followed? A government indictment. Egan-Jones was recently sentenced with a big fine and banned from telling the truth about America’s finances for 18 months.
Were these indictments a coincidence? No more than if a business owner stops paying kickbacks to the mafia and suddenly winds up firebombed. These were messages — messages you can’t ignore (like a dead fish at your front door).
Then there’s Obamacare. The IRS predicts the typical family will soon pay $20,000 per year for healthcare. Since no one in this Obamageddon economy has $20,000 to spare, Don Obama will turn us all into wards of the state, dependent on government to pay for our healthcare.
But Don Obama saves his real mafia tactics for the energy industry. He despises oil, coal, nuclear and fracking. A true Marxist, Obama wants energy bills to go through the roof, so that we all need government handouts to survive. So he uses every trick in his book to destroy the energy producers — from Environmental Protection Agency regulations to executive orders. A Federal court recently threw out an Obama biofuel tax on the energy industry. It was quite simply unConstitutional. How did Obama respond? He doubled the tax. Don Obama takes killing to a whole new level.
Looking for the villain in America today? Look no further than the man ruining our economy and killing our country. The Obama crime family is in a league of its own.
My apologies for insulting the Gambinos by comparison.
I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. See you next week. Same time, same place. God bless America.

One Cheap Crook: What’s Not To Comprehend?

by Martha Trowbridge

An Amicus Curiae filed by The Alabama Democratic Party has got to be THE DUMBEST DEFENSE EVER by those who seek to shield a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama II from long overdue Justice.
Amongst other overblown statements in their filing re: McInnish v. Chapman, in Judge Roy Moore’s Alabama Supreme Court, is this one:
“In order for one to accept the claim that President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery, one has to buy into a conspiracy theory so vast and byzantine that it sincerely taxes the imagination of reasonable minds.”
Really?
A guy sporting an alias, using his considerable con to get away with it, “taxes the imagination of reasonable minds”?
A guy who only got away with his fraud because no one bothered to check him out.
Tell me, Alabama Democratic Party, what’s not to comprehend?
Are you really unaware that some people go around town pretending to be someone they are not?
Is it incomprehensible to think that someone slick and charming lied to you? About who he is, who his parents are, and where he comes from?
Have you never heard of Identity Fraud?
Which, in the case of one a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama II, translates into massive, repetitive Election Fraud, occurring over a period of nearly two decades. In multiple IL State Senate Elections, one IL Congressional Election, one IL United States Senator Election, and two United States Presidential Elections.
Alabama Democrats: what truly “taxes the imagination of reasonable minds” is the penalty for having committed so much crime. His victims are in the hundreds of millions. All of us have been materially harmed.
So has our highest Office.
Besides. If you were so convinced of his authenticity, why do you vigorously resist Court Examination of his Identity Documents?
By your statements, we “tiny cabal of zealots” know you know that a.k.a. Obama is a fraud. He’s as phony as his forged, fraudulent birth certificate. It’s in a.k.a. Obama’s Identity Fraud – the lies, the excuses, the defenses, the deceit – that elaborate thinking resides.
The Truth is simple.
What’s been coerced upon America – in fact, upon you too, Alabama Democrats – was a con. By a very small cabal of conspirators, many of them members of his family, who vowed by hook or by crook to get their boy to The White House.
A.k.a. Obama’s actual family, The Newmans of New York City – who concocted what they judged to be The Perfect Political Con.
One cheap crook in expensive clothing, flashing his father Malcolm X’s ’winning’ grin, toting an Ivy League Law Degree [which he acquired under a false identity]. Impossible that he’s not who he claimed he is? Please. Alabama Democrats: have none of you heard that convicted criminal ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczinski was a Harvard guy? Does the name Ted Bundy, bright, handsome, charming Law School student, darling to Republican officials, ring any bells?

PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS
CONSTITUTIONAL OR CRIMINAL?

Commentary By:
Dwight Kehoe

April 24, 2013 TPATH- As new polls indicate that only 4% of Americans think more gun control is an important issue, and the United States Senate, even if just temporarily, did the right thing and voted to stop further infringement of the the 2nd Amendment, this illegal and imperial President has indicated he intends to "write law" via yet another unconstitutional Executive Order.

Article II does not give any President the authority to write legislation or to adjudicate laws which effect the citizens of this country.  The executive order can only be used, constitutionally, for the administration of government operations and employees.  Article I, specifically gives legislation over the people to only the Congress.

A common misconception which has been used to excuse the unlawful use of the Executive Order is that every President, including George Washington has used them.  While this is "factually" correct, it is not true that George Washington abused it.  His EO's were limited to the operation of the Executive Branch and did not ever legislate laws for anyone outside of the government.

However, the most wide reaching violation of the Executive Order came from one of this country's greatest Presidents, Abraham Lincoln.  His Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 was, for certain, noble, just and something long needed and overdue.  For that reason, that Executive Order met small and disorganized opposition from the legislative branch and....... the precedent was set.

Other Presidents then began ignoring the Constitution while the Congress sat by like twiddle-dee and twiddle-dumb.  The Executive Order issued on December 7th, 1941, by the left's most popular and loved President, FDR, ordered the rounding up of and imprisoning American citizens.  This order was not only unconstitutional relating to Article I, but it violated every right and protection our Constitution guaranteed to the people.

Over the years, because neither the Congress nor the Courts have stepped in to stop the power grab by the executive branch, the violations of our Constitution, by most Presidents, has persisted, increased and now is on the verge of creating and Imperial Dictatorship.

It has become so pervasive and common that the implementation of Executive Orders is described thusly:
"Regulations issued by the president that do not require Congressional approval, become law after 30 days."
First of all, where did that decree come from? Its certainly not found in the Constitution. And notice how they so cavalierly confront the Consitution by pronouncing the order as " becoming law", an authority the President does not have.

When an executive order creates or amends Federal regulations or creates or amends existing law, those orders are illegal and are impeachable offenses.  The executive order was intended to give authority to the Chief Executive to set rules for how the executive branch would operate.  Not to a allow the circumvention of the authority of the other two branches.

As TPATH has stated on other occasions, if any aspect of our Constitution is ignored, for any reason, all aspects of it are in jeopardy. 

Congress, over the decades, having neglected their legal oversight concerning legislation and more recently allowing the eligibility requirements as defined in Article II, Section 1, to go unenforced, has endangered our country to the point where calling it a Republic seems almost ludicrous.

If we are to survive, not as wards and serfs of the state, but a free people, the Congress had better step up and stop the illegal use of the Executive Order and thereby halting this dictator "wannabe" before its too late.  If its not already.

obama is so wrong... again!

Checking the Logic of Background Checks: Would a Broader Screening Requirement for Gun Buyers Reduce Violent Crime?
By Jacob Sullum
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Urging Congress to expand background checks for gun buyers, President Obama claims the current system has "kept more than 2 million dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun" during the last two decades. If you understand why that claim is misleading, you will understand why background checks are not an effective way to stop criminals from obtaining weapons.  
 
It's true that more than 2 million gun sales have been blocked since 1994 as a result of the background checks mandated by the Brady Act. But judging from the way law enforcement officials treat them, these people typically are not dangerous.  
 
Anyone who buys a firearm from a federally licensed dealer has to fill out a form attesting that the transaction is permitted by federal law, which bars gun ownership by felons, fugitives, illegal drug users, illegal immigrants and people who have been involuntarily committed to mental hospitals, among other prohibited categories. Although lying on this form is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, sales blocked by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) rarely result in a federal investigation, let alone prosecution.  
 
According to a 2004 report by the Justice Department's inspector general, the most common reason the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) chooses not to pursue these cases is that the buyer does not seem to pose a threat. "The special agents we spoke with generally commented that they do not consider the vast majority of NICS referral subjects a danger to the public," the report said, "because the prohibiting factors are often minor or based on incidents that occurred many years in the past."  
 
The ATF's handling of NICS referrals reflects two facts commonly ignored by background-check enthusiasts. First, the criteria for stripping people of their Second Amendment rights are absurdly (and unfairly) broad, sweeping pot growers, hubcap thieves, and guys who got into a bar fight 20 years ago together with violent predators. Second, criminals generally do not buy their weapons in gun stores.  
 
Even in surveys conducted before the Brady Act, only a fifth of state prisoners who had used guns to commit crimes said they bought them from licensed dealers. In a 2004 survey, the share was just one-tenth.  
 
Furthermore, a criminal turned away by a licensed dealer can always steal a gun, buy one from someone who does not run background checks, or ask someone with a clean record to buy one for him. Obama is therefore doubly wrong to equate blocking sales through NICS with preventing "dangerous people" from "getting their hands on a gun."  
 
Given these realities, it is not surprising that a 2000 study by criminologists Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig found no evidence that the Brady Act had an impact on homicide rates. But according to supporters of expanded background checks, the problem is that the Brady Act did not go far enough.  
 
One difficulty with that argument: As Cook and Ludwig note, most people who use guns to commit crimes — including almost all mass shooters — could pass a background check. But what about the rest? Would they be thwarted by a broader screening requirement?  
 
Probably not. Forcing private sellers at gun shows to arrange background checks with the help of licensed dealers is relatively straightforward. But in that 2004 inmate survey, less than 2 percent of respondents said they had bought weapons at gun shows or flea markets. 


Three sources accounted for almost nine out of 10 crime guns: friends or family (40 percent), the street (38 percent) and theft (10 percent). It is hard to see how any national background check requirement, even one applying to all private transfers, can reasonably be expected to have a significant impact on these sources. As usual with gun control, the attempt to enforce such a requirement would impose costs and uncertain legal risks on law-abiding gun owners while leaving criminals free to go about their business.  
 
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @jacobsullum.