by Alan Keyes

Throughout his political career, Obama has consistently declared his view that the Constitution's purposeful restraint of government power is obsolete. Since the outset of his occupation of the White House, he and his faction have signaled
their intent to circumvent, undermine or simply set aside the authority
of the U.S. Constitution. Both here and in postings
on my blog I have repeatedly
had occasion to remark upon the design for despotism that has been
evident in their actions.

Now "eight Republican senators … are warning that the Obama administration is drafting a plan to 'unilaterally' issue blanket amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants
as it struggles to win support in Congress for an overhaul of immigration laws." This represents the
decisive step beyond derelict law
enforcement. Not content merely to ignore the laws the
legislature has properly and constitutionally made, Obama signals the
intention to undertake unilateral executive
action that alters the clear terms and intention of the established
laws, entirely without the constitutionally determined consent of the
people. This will be a blatant and presumptuous usurpation of
legislative power. This is not just dereliction, it is lawless tyranny.
It is outright dictatorship.

Constitutionally exercised, the executive power represents the force of law. Once divorced, however, from constitutional provisions for ascertaining the consent of the people, it asserts instead the law
of force, the unjust rule that might makes right. In effect, just laws
fall silent, and all that speaks are the government's instruments of
force and intimidation, imposing rules that have no more warrant of
lawfulness than the command of a terrorist over those he holds, by
threat of violence, hostage to his will. The forces under the authority
of the presidency become in that case a weapon, loaded and cocked, held
to the head of the American people.

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Cicero famously observed "Inter arma enim silent leges," "under arms the laws fall silent." For some time now, executive dereliction has effectively silenced what U.S. immigration laws have to say about
the status and treatment of those who take up residence in the United
States in violation of their provisions. If the Obama faction
implements the reported plan to impose amnesty by executive fiat, the
illegal immigrants' violation of the laws will in effect be defended and
maintained by the executive forces of the U.S. government. Those
forces will be arrayed against state law-enforcement agencies, such as
those in Arizona, that continue to respect the provisions of established
law. Hence, just as Cicero's dictum would lead us to expect, Obama's
move to silence the immigration laws through dictatorial abuse of executive power will produce
an incipient state of armed conflict between forces acting in conformity
with constitutionally established law and U.S. government forces
intending unlawfully to impose unilateral executive rule, which is to
say, unconstitutional dictatorship.

Though purblind politicos will pretend not to see them, this offensive move has ominous implications for the survival of peace, justice and liberty in the United States, especially if it is
successfully carried out. Thereafter, the basis for U.S. government
action will no longer be what the laws say, but rather which laws are
silent; or which parts of which laws the executive will allow to be
heard. The basis for civil peace will no longer be respect for the
laws, but submission to unlawful dictatorship. If today the dictator
mutes the immigration laws to allow illegal immigrants to violate them
with impunity, then tomorrow what will keep him from muting the laws
against murder, extortion, theft or arson so that they may be violated
with impunity by people acting as his vindictive agents of repression?
By warrant of his executive fiat, will they be allowed to assassinate,
intimidate, despoil or destroy the opponents of the lawless tyranny he
seeks to impose in place of law?

Under the cloak of compassion for hapless illegals, the Obama faction seeks to establish the practical basis for ruthlessly imposing its will upon us all. Once that has been achieved, the threat of
silencing some existing laws will be used to intimidate hapless
legislators into making whatever new laws are dictated to them by the
whims and purposes of America's new iteration of the age-old regime of
tyranny.

It's clear that the reported consideration of this dictatorial maneuver is already intended as such a threat. Given that fact, the Obama faction's reported plan for fiat amnesty for illegals signals the
commencement of the last stage in their consolidation
of socialist dictatorship. While they still have the opportunity to do so, the people who
oppose this surrender of American sovereignty and liberty must raise a
hue and cry like none the nation has seen before. By all reasonable and
peaceful means they must communicate and confirm their determination to
remove from the seats of legislative power every vestige of the party
that thus sponsors the rise of an American dictator.

And when their resolve to do so produces indications of an electoral tidal wave certain to sweep the Obama faction from control of the U.S. Congress in the elections this November, they will have to pray – pray to the God who
made and still may keep us free; pray that the likely failure of their
schemes of usurpation does not lead the desperate tyrants of the Obama
faction to implement their reported plan to silence the laws in order in
some way to silence the sovereign
voice of the people, as we tell them to surrender the constitutional
power they have disgracefully schemed to overthrow.

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