Barack Obama: Outlaw!

With all eyes currently on the megalomaniac in Tripoli it has gone mostly unnoticed and unreported by the predominantly Leftist media in the United States the most recent assault upon the Constitution by the megalomaniac currently residing in the White House. President Obama, sworn to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, has once again circumvented Congress and the Courts as his administration decrees it will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act passed during the Clinton administration. This in intent and in outcome has our chief defender of law and order unilaterally declaring a law which he personally finds to be distasteful and wrong invalid. This action is a blatant violation of his oath of office; more to the point, it is the equivalent of the President of the United State ruling by decree as though he were Hosni Mubarak or Muammar Qadaffi.

It may surprise you to read this, but I myself believe the Defense of Marriage Act to be at best wrong headed and at worst truly un-Constitutional, but this is a nation of laws in which a framework exists by which laws thought to be un-Constitutional may be repealed or overturned. Whether or not President Obama is correct in his opinion that DOMA is un-Constitutional is irrelevant in the face of the precedent this action sets and the way it continues to grow the power of the Executive at the cost of the Legislature, the Courts and every citizen. Generation after generation of American children have been taught to cherish and be proud of the system of checks and balances our founders created. A system with the express goal of preventing the kind of authoritarian rule which has plagued mankind since before the Pharoahs!

Today the Left rejoices at the President’s decision; it is a very short sighted celebration. Consider the implications of a President picking and choosing which laws to enforce or not. Consider how it may very well affect you personally. What of the day when a President decides Miranda Rights need not be enforced? What of the day when a President decides property Rights have no validity? What of the day when a President decides protecting your freedom of speech is no longer something he wishes to do? This action by President Obama is not about civil rights in any way except to the degree that it creates a precedent by which ALL civil rights may be de-facto suspended by a future President who decides he will not enforce the laws guaranteeing your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It is sad that a floundering Presidency would resort to this kind of cheap politicking to pander to its base at the cost of eroding the very Constitution upon which this nation was built and grew to be the greatest of all nations. It would be my hope that Left, Right or Center all Americans can agree that no President is above the law. Americans have always prided themselves on being immune to the cult of personality where our elected leaders our concerned and giving our first allegiance to the Constitution above all else. Those who willfully ignore this gross violation of the oath of office, or worse yet support it, give their first allegiance either to the man Obama or their own ideology; that is not the American way and it is surely the road to ruin and despotism.