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When our founding fathers declared our independence from Great Britain in 1776 the
colonists were already in the middle of a bloody and costly war to secure their freedom. Once
the war was successfully concluded it was necessary to create a new nation with a form of
government that would not allow a single individual or group to establish another totalitarian
regime and steal the freedom of Americans.

It took years and one failed effort with the Articles of Confederation before the
founders settled on the Constitution of the United States that established a unique type of
government with three separate, but equal branches of branches. These are the executive
branch that includes an elected President and his cabinet appointees, the legislative branch
that consists of a Congress made up of two houses, the Senate and House of Representatives,
and the judicial branch that consists of the Supreme Court and any lower federal courts that
Congress might authorize.

A system of checks and balances was put into place to ensure that none of the three
branches would be able to dominate the others and establish a dictatorship. In addition, the
basic distrust of a powerful centralized government caused the framers of the Constitution to
adopt the Bill of Rights that protected the rights of both individual Americans and the various
states that formed the United States of America. The system has worked so well that our
country became the most prosperous and powerful nation in the world.

Yet, now, almost 250 years later, elements in all three branches of government are
conspiring to shred the Constitution and rob us of our God given rights. We have a rapidly
emerging dictatorship and prime examples of it can be found in what is occurring in the first
days of this New Year. As part of the balance of powers prescribed in the Constitution, the U.S.
Senate must approve Presidential appointments to major positions in the Executive Branch of
Government. The only exception is that during the times that the Senate is in recess the
President can make appointments without the approval of the Senate, but they are temporary
in nature.

However, on January 4, 2012, President Obama appointed three members to the
National Labor Relations Board and a new “Czar” to head the Consumer Protection Agency
without Senate approval despite the fact that the Senate was not in recess. This has created a
Constitutional crisis of epic proportions.

I refer to this as a Constitutional crisis because this is not the first such action Obama
has taken that has clearly violated not only the provisions of the Constitution, but also his oath
of office, and he obviously plans to continue ignoring both the legislative and judicial branches
of government. In fact, he actually brags about what he is doing while campaigning for
reelection at the expense of American taxpayers.

There is now no doubt that the current President of the United States considers himself
a de facto dictator who is so much smarter than the rest of us that he can ignore the
Constitution, the supreme law of our nation, and do whatever he wants. History has taught that
in order to establish an effective dictatorship there must be three decisive actions taken.
First, if the military in the country is patriotic and pro freedom, it must be marginalized
to minimize its ability to resist the imposition of tyranny. Right after the New Year, Obama
announced drastic cuts in the size and strength of our military forces across the board. He is claiming to have the authority to do this under the bill passed by Congress that created the so-called super committee that was to enact wide ranging spending cuts.

If it failed to do so there would be massive reductions of the defense budget. In previous
articles I pointed out that the very creation of this super committee was unconstitutional
and that its failure to act would cause the “doomsday scenario” to unfold for our military.
Unfortunately, not only are my predictions coming true, but Obama is not even waiting for the
automatic cuts to begin in 2013, he is unilaterally moving to destroy the military now.
Secondly, the citizens of any country to be subjugated must be disarmed in order to
diminish their ability to resist the imposition of a dictatorship. It is now clear, by virtue of
the ongoing investigation in Congress of “Operation Fast and Furious” that over 2500 semi
automatic weapons were sold to Mexican drug dealers on orders from the U.S. government not
for the purpose of entrapping the drug dealers, but so Obama could impose gun control laws on
U.S. citizens. He has now done so by Executive Order, bypassing Congress that had refused to
take the same action.

In addition, Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have pledged to sign the United
Nations Small Arms Treaty that specifically targets private gun ownership in the United States.
This treaty would essentially abolish the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution and make
private ownership of firearms illegal despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has twice
ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is a valid and individual right under the provisions of
the Constitution.

Of course, the Constitution requires that any treaty that is signed by a President must
be approved by two thirds of the Senate to be valid. The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled
that no treaty can supersede the provisions of the Constitution, particularly those that deal
with individual rights. All of this would seem to render the treaty moot since two thirds of the
current Senate will not ratify it, and it clearly violates the provisions of the second amendment.
So why is Obama pushing for it? Simply put, he believes he can ignore the Senate and
the court, sign the treaty, and then allow the United Nations to begin enforcing it. If you believe
that he won’t try that, just look at what he has done in other areas.

The third goal of an effective dictatorship involves limiting the rights of the citizens
to have free speech and a free press. People who can’t communicate and learn the truth are
easier to control. Most of the main stream media in this country have already relinquished their
freedom of the press and are doing whatever Obama tells them to do. Those that oppose him
are under constant assault and Obama’s minions on the Federal Communications Commission
are looking for ways to shut down conservative talk radio and control internet content. This is
despite the fact that the Supreme Court has said that the FCC has no authority to regulate the
Internet. Once again, Obama has issued orders that the Supreme Court and the Constitution be
ignored.

Even more frightening is the fact that legislation pending in both houses of Congress
will effectively give Obama an Internet kill switch. It is being pushed in the Senate by the usual
leftists like Reid and Schumer, but in the House of Representatives it is some Republicans that
are pushing it. My next blog article will contain more information about these and other bills
pending in Congress.

The bottom line is, we are headed for a country that is no longer a Republic, but a
nation controlled entirely by a small group of elitists, and unless the American people wake up

soon it will be too late to stop it.
Michael Connelly
mrobertc@hotmail.com
www.michaelconnelly.jigsy.com
www.constitution.jigsy.com