From Darrell L. Castle at the Constitution Party website:
What does the President’s speech on immigration and amnesty, delivered Thursday, November 20, 2014, mean for America and for Americans?
The American system under the Constitution is divided into three separate branches, each having distinct sets of powers and responsibilities. Overriding it all is the knowledge that rights come from God, not from government. This is the American system of law and government that generations of Americans have fought to preserve. It has never been intended for power to be embodied in a single person but rather in a system governed by the Constitution.
The framers listed the powers of Congress as Article 1 for a reason. Congress is the preeminent body – the representatives of the People. Article 1, section 1 is the most important section of the entire Constitution. It states, “All legislative power herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
The President then has no legislative authority, none! Congress, under Article 1, section 8, paragraph 4, has the authority to establish uniform rules of naturalization and it has done so. The point is that Congress has enacted immigration laws (contrary to what the President asserts) through which naturalization is a path to citizenship for those legally in this country. It is against this system that a coup has been accomplished.
President Obama has now gone forward with his lawless, unconstitutional act of defiance against the American people. He was right when he said that his policies were on the ballot in the mid terms and the American people voted their strong rebuke. He apparently thinks he is a monarch – a monarch does not have to compromise, he gets everything he wants. But our Constitution requires compromise to get new laws through the House, the Senate, and the President. When the President purports to take on the characteristics of a monarch, it is incumbent on Congress to act and prevent subversion of the Rule of Law. The President has usurped the legislative power of Congress, and Congress should act immediately to take it back.
So, what does the Constitution Party platform have to say about the President’s view? “The Constitution Party demands that the Federal Government restore immigration policies based on the practice that potential immigrants will be disqualified from admission to the U.S. if, on the grounds of health, criminality, morals, or financial dependence, they would impose an improper burden on the United States, any state, or any citizen of the United States. We oppose the provision of welfare subsidies and other tax payer-supported benefits to illegal aliens, and reject the practice of bestowing U.S. citizenship on children born to illegal parents while in this country. We oppose any extension of amnesty to illegal aliens and call for the use of U.S. troops to protect the states against invasion.”
I submit to you, however, that the issue of concern in the President’s speech is not illegal immigration or amnesty. It is instead, the authority or lack of authority of a man who has assumed the role of monarch. The President laid out his justification for his action in the fashion of a true monarch. “Now, I continue to believe that the best way to solve this problem is by working together to pass that kind of common sense law. But until that happens, there are actions I have the legal authority to take as President – the same kinds of actions taken by Democratic and Republican Presidents before me that will help make our immigration system more fair and more just.”
The President knows he has no such authority. From an Obama speech three years ago, “Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, not just on immigration reform. But, that’s not how – that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written.”
He also knows that his order is different from those of Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush as neither man issued an amnesty order with no Congressional legislation. The President has no precedent to hide behind.
The President then seems to take the position that if Congress agrees with him that’s great, but if not, he is converted to absolute ruler. The President delivered his speech without any indication that he was ashamed of its obvious falsehood. Even much of the press, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post were at least mildly critical. All three papers expressed their strong support for the President’s position on amnesty but they all disapproved of a unilateral Presidential order.
Peggy Noonan in her opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition said it best. “The President’s executive action on immigration is an act of willful nihilism that he himself had argued against in the past. It is a sharp stick in the eye of the new Congressional majority. It is at odds with – it defies – the meaning and message of the last election, and therefore is destructive to the Reputation of Democracy itself. It is huge in its impact but has only a sole cause, the President’s lone will.”
The President’s actions will also encourage and invite more illegal immigration and shows clearly the President’s complete disregard for the working people of America. The reaction to the order is that Congress is considering several options. They wring their hands and worry that some members may overreact. Some states are preparing law suits based on an “unfair taking” argument. Congress is preparing lawsuits and budget attacks on the order.
For the American People, this means that if Congress fails to act in a meaningful way to take back its legislative authority, then the people have been disenfranchised and there is no longer a reason to vote if that vote is restricted to Democrats and Republicans. I predict that Congress will not act in a meaningful way because the Republican Leadership, judging from past statements, wants amnesty at least as much as the President. They are secretly glad he did it and they don’t have to take the blame. If that is true, consider voting for the Constitution Party in the next election. Let’s restore the Constitution – together!
Andy Craig explains it well at 2:27 AM this morning.
Please don’t ever censor or stop Closet Don from posting on here- people need to read what he has to say and see just what the CP is all about before they ever consider joining it.
Keep up the counterproductive closet-gay bleating Don!
Oh BTW, check THIS out-
“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
-John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” (1787-88)
Or this-
“The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.”
-John Adams, letter to his brother-in-law, Richard Cranch, October 18, 1756
Yeah, the second quote best describes many aspects of the CP.
I don’t think it’s anybody’s fault at IPR or the Libertarian Party that the C.P. is full of delusional lunatics. We can/should/do cover them like any other party, but in my personal capacity I have to say watching the death rattles of their insane theocratic vision for America makes me feel warm and fuzzy in my god-hating satanist-conspiring Libertarian heart.
Maybe a more sane right-of-center third party will take their place, because there is plenty of room available in that niche in the vacuum created by the CP’s descent into increasingly divisive and alienating strident authoritarianism. If it weren’t for the gimmick of their misleading name, their ballot status states would probably already be down into the single-digits.
Things probably would have gone a lot better for both if the Reform Party and USTP/CP had merged about fifteen years ago.
Quirk – A) State Chairmen change. Anyone, except you, knows that. B) How long has it been since you made your claim that I was ” stalking ” you? Only an absolute fool and idiot would have made the claim in the first place and your rehash of it now only proves my point – after all of this time you are still too stupid to realize your own original stupidity but rather so incredibly continue on with the same utterly stupid claim. So what if you were so fantastically stupid as to call the police and make such a claim? Any police officer with any brains would say ” Yes, Mr. Quirk, we will check into it ” and then hang up knowing that he/she had just talked to a total nitwit.
Your same stupidity is shown by your using the same argument as the Homosexual/Sodomy Movement – if you oppose them you are really one of them. For a so-called ” Christian ” or ” conservative ” to use such a claim simply identifies them as a fake; something you have already well proved that you are as with your brown-nosing to the attackers of the AIP/CP.
As I intimated the Libertarian Party has cast its lot with the anti-Christians. Social Engineering through the public school gulag is enough to ensure that the ” younger generations ” ( of moral less drones ) will indeed join the Libertarian Party; a result well desired by the Plantation Masters of our nation. They will indeed promote the ” freedom ” of humanism/Satanism/secularism which will ensure the slavery of themselves and all generations to come. To modify John Adams statement – the country/Constitution cannot, and will not function in a moral less/Libertarian nation. It is only a matter of time until the San Francisco values of the Folsom Street Fair are brought to every city of the nation and taught to every child starting in kindergarten and before; courtesy of the Satanists/secularists/humanists of all political parties, except for the Constitution and pro-life Republicans, and singular common-as-sand cowards such as Quirk who will follow whatever orders their Plantation Masters give to them.
Cody is hardly the only one that has speculated that Grundmann’s obsession with homosexuals stems from some closeted actions or repressed desires of his own.
Exactly. We are equal opportunity, but there are no guarantees of equal outcome. If CP folks choose not to comment here, or not to comment much, that’s their choice. If they want to comment more, or become writers here, they can do that.
CQ said: “your closet-gay temper-tantrums”
This comment speaks more about its author than its target. How can people take serious anyone who stoops to such a level?
This squabble is highly reminiscent of comments I heard as a teenager about Southern Baptists. “If your group has more than twenty “saved” Baptists, a “church-split becomes imminent.
Btw, how about you explain to everyone why you aren’t the State Chair of the California CP anymore, and especially why the San Leandro PD is keeping an eye on you?
You can’t even refute my arguments without throwing one of your closet-gay temper-tantrums, lol.
It’s well documented online precisely what the CP did to not only throw me and others that tried to help it under the bus- but also destroy any chances it had to unite the constitutionalist ranks and become a serious player in American politics. But the fact of it’s iron-clad arrogant/clannish hostility to other like-minded parties and certain individuals, along with the puritan and very sacrilegious mindset that would be an affront to the anti-sectarian beliefs and notions of our founding fathers, and the sheer incompetence that dwells in constitutionalist ranks- are what is going to drive your party, and your ideology, into extinction.
Especially since you scare and drive away the younger generations- all the way into the Libertarian camp.
Keep getting offended, and I’ll keep offending.
I generally do not comment for a variety of reasons but I continue to be sickened by the cowardly Quirk who so falsely, outrageously, and continuously accuses the CP of ” corrupt leadership ” and ” religiously bigoted members ” when his own corruption and, especially, continuing and outrageous religious bigotry more than matches by many times over any such bigotry that the CP possibly has.
To squeak that he ” tried to build the CP ” until he was ” thrown under the bus ” is such an outrageously ludricrous statement yet it comes from the same reason that he failed in his self-identified quest – it was all about his damn ego just as his self-serving statement above is the same damn thing. If he EVER had the slightest interest in uniting the 3rd party conservatives he would NEVER have become best buddies with the spies/Republicans/traitors ( Seidenberg, Robinson, and Noonan ) who attacked the AIP/CP while attacking those of us who worked to save it from the SPLC/ADL/Republican alliance. He NEVER approached us in any way except to attack and then incredibly supported the very literal criminals who worked for the single purpose of destroying the CP. The very people who worked to completely destroy the life work of Bill Shearer whom he CLAIMED to respect. And then he CONTINUES to have the nerve to say the utter lie that he worked to build the CP. That is the core of his problem – he is simply a liar at heart and will A) never be any different, and B) will always be involved in ANYTHING only for his own promotion and to the detriment of anyone he claims to support. Note his never-to-end attacks upon both the CP and the national IAP as evidence of this.
The lack of CP commentary on this site can stem from many factors but starts with the moral degeneracy of the populace – the real reality which ” open minded individuals ” means.
The Christian morality which has formed the foundations of this nation is under endless attack as shown by the fact that not only is the accelerated degeneracy of the citizens endorsed, accepted, and promoted but our degenerated citizens will actually turn over the children of the nation to what I refer to as the Homosexual/Sodomy Movement for their mental, emotional, and spiritual molestation which will occur before, and pave the way for, their physical molestation. An unthinkable occurance for our Founding Fathers, and for any REAL human being, now brought to reality by the degeneracy of the population, including many writers and commenters on this site, which has expressed into support by political parties inclusive of the Libertarians for this monstrous attack against our nation.
As John Adams stated the Constitution could only work with a religious and moral people. He was of course referring to Christianity and not, nor ever, secularism/humanism/Satanism.
Hence it all boils down to the political expression of the battle between good and evil. That is why the CP is so attacked at this site as it ( and the pro-life faction of the Republicans ) is the last bastion politically against the moral death of our nation. That is why Riley Hood, as with myself, can be endlessly attacked as we stand against the outright evil which is growing so exponentially as it, and its sick followers, ” comes out of the closet.”
So the CP can indeed comment on various issues but, at the core of all things, their opposition has not only a political alliance but, most especially, a spiritual alliance with The Enemy of God. THAT is the core of the issue; the bottom line difference between the CP and its attackers.
The attackers of the CP are simply using a political cover for the real issue and of their primary alliance and allegiance. This site is simply an expression of the political aspect of the spiritual war which is at the foundation of our world.
If you can’t defend your party on here or anywhere else, then it’s obvious that it will never be successful or grow further then it already is.
Obviously Saturn and Meyers are clueless to just how justifiable criticism of a minor party with corrupt leadership and religiously bigoted members with no understanding of constitutional government is.
I tried to build the CP until I got sick and tired of being thrown under the bus by fellow counterproductive CP’ers and others that are responsible for constitutionalist parties remaining small and fragmented.
As Harry Truman said, “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Perhaps if JR did more of the writing instead of leaving it up to Daryl Castle, he might get a better understanding of where the CP errors are locatee.
In retrospect, I should have kept my comment above to myself. I certainly don’t mean that JR isn’t welcome to comment here.
I strongly disagree with Jill’s close-minded jab above. JR and other Constitutionalists should feel welcome here. I believe JR is referring to CQ’s constant criticisms of the Constitution Party. I ignore these criticisms because I find them largely individualized and poorly formulated. How much regard should be given to someone who spends more time hating something rather than building something?
I agree with Jed above, that we’re not deliberately excluding Constitutionists. Perhaps there’s another reason there’s a shortage of people who are pro their party. Could it possibly be that what they believe is simply unappealing to the open-minded individuals who frequent this site?
“Is this the “I”PR or the LP Boosters and CP Bashers Club?”
Independent Political Report is an open forum. We strive to be objective in our reporting, and in the comments, all LP Boosters, LP Bashers, CP Boosers, CP Bashers, and all other non-trolls are welcome.
If you do not think there is enough CP representation in the comments, comment more.
If you do not think there is enough objectivity in our reporting or that we are being unfair to the Constitutionists, ask Warren Redlich to sign you up as a writer here.
D.J. Francis; ” they should join millions of Americans already out of work to be surely substituted by criminal illegal aliens—”
Isn’t it ironic to read a so-called, Constitutionalist spouting the same liberal-socialist rhetoric
we have come to recognize as total ignorance of Free-Market Economics
“as well as a national protest of whites, browns and others who came to the US through the front gate.”
When the overwhelming majority of earlier immigrants arrived, THERE WAS NO FRONT GATE
They simply showed up and if they didn’t have some communicable disease they were allowed in!
The entire foundation of immigration policy is based on keeping America as WHITE as possible!
Is this the “I”PR or the LP Boosters and CP Bashers Club?
Even if Castle is 100% right- turning to a political party with a shrinking base and a false, theonomic assumption of what constitutional government is all about, is not the answer.
Good points, Jill and Joshua!
I recommend http://openborders.info/ to counter much of the nonsense circulating on the underlying question such as that exhibited by David John Francis above.
Thanks, Joshua, for mentioning prior executive orders. Among the most terrifying are 10995 through 11005, which are all about 30 years old. Look those up and then research “continuity of government.” You can see how easily all our freedom can be taken away in minutes on a President’s whim.
This is the second time I’ve heard someone say that Obama is paying employers to hire illegal immigrants instead of Americans. What is the source of this rumor? Maybe I can sign up.
I love the people asserting that the EO is unconstitutional because of things Obama said. Do you think he knows the Constitution, or not? In any case, the President have every right under the Constitution to exercise discretion when it comes to prosecution.
Since the critics didn’t say a word about abusive EOs from past Presidents, I conclude that this is, in fact, about the underlying question – more specifically, a sense of privilege and entitlement that leads people to believe that they have the right to not face competition for “their” jobs, combined with a lack of economic knowledge leading people to think that millions of immigrants would decrease, rather than increase, the pool of jobs.
It would be amusing to see so-called “Constitutionalists” butcher the Constitution, IF it wasn’t so dangerous for our republic.
Darrell Castle wrote: “The framers listed the powers of Congress as Article 1 for a reason.
If you are writing a “trilogy” OR establishing a “trinity”, SOMETHING MUST COME FIRST. If I mention Tom, Dick and Harry: am I asserting that Tom is most important and Harry the least?
IF one reads the Constitution as a an integrating whole rather than a group of random clause, it is clearly obvious the the founders intended a “balanced separation of powers” so that one branch of government doesn’t usurp the powers and authority of the others
DC wrote: “Congress is the preeminent body – the representatives of the People.”
Perfect nonsense! ONE member of the House of Representatives and TWO members of the U.S. Senate represent me and my immediate neighbors; and this assumes they do so, in spite of the possible fact that I did not vote for any of them. On the other hand, the President is “elected” by a plurality of voters in a plurality of States and Congressional Districts. In FACT, no President has ever been elected with less then 20 times the number of votes as the most popular member of Congress. If ANYTHING, the President of the United States comes closest to being the “preeminent” representative of the people
DC wrote: “The President then, has no legislative authority, none.”
AND the Congress has no executive authority. A classic case of the kettle vs the pot.
Ironically, the President DOES have the power of “VETO” over legislation, so CLEARLY,the
Executive Branch DOES have some legislative authority. Not to mention the President is the one who nominates new members to the USSC, NOT Congress. Of course Congress must “ratify the Executive’s choice, but it has no power to nominate candidates itself.
DC continues; ” Congress, under Article 1, section 8, paragraph 4, has the authority to establish uniform rules of naturalization and it has done so.
Wrong, Congress has established incongruous and discriminatory rules in violation of the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution; “
While Millions of Americans search desperately for a job, Emperor Obama has become an Imperialist himself, urged on by the fanatical La Raza zealots, who are demanding open borders and we now have a far worse situation–a divided nation. Americans should neither Trust the Liberal-Democrats or even the Republican career politicians, as both parties have an agenda that is governed by the corporate special interests that buy their loyalty. Doesn’t the US public understand that we are brought and sold by sordid lobbyists and even unions? The money that passes hands into either party is phenomenal and hidden through sly manipulations of our rule of law. Not all, but most the powerful lawmakers are hypocrites as they swear an oath to the founding document, the US constitution and then lie.
It seems there are several ways that Obamas executive order can be severed in the bud, but will the Republicans take that avenue, as they want cheap labor for there irredeemable dishonest businesses. If they don’t collapse Obamas plan, more criminal illegal aliens will pour across the Southern border or come as a supposedly tourist and will vote illegally.
Their a few politicians who we should place our trust in, and that is Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Few have been at the forefront to fight the executive order of the illegal alien invasion his royal Highness in the Oval office. As I see it, people who enter a sovereign country without permission have broken the law, and should be branded as a criminal. Both e political parties have played with immigration policies to suit their campaign donors. Sworn to protect every American, they should be tarred and feathered.
Washington, has taxpayer’s money to burn, but gives little help to veterans once they return from service. It’s left up to private organizations to retrieve the lives of soldiers who have given their all, but give everything to foreign national’s that will include the unaffordable health care, (except for free Obamacare, Medicaid) education and welfare. Systems will be overloaded and our own families, friends and loved ones will suffer inestimably.
IT’S AN OUTRAGE THAT OBAMAS MINIONS ARE OFFERING BUSINESSES $3.000.00, IF THEY TURN ASIDE AMERICAN WORKERS TO GIVE THOSE JOBS TO CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Then we have Ferguson, Missouri where Black Americans is protesting the incident with the death of Michael Brown. The Leftist media are using this tragedy to escape the growing uproar over the invasion by illegal aliens. Instead of demonstrating over this terrible situation, they should join millions of Americans already out of work to be surely substituted by criminal illegal aliens—as well as a national protest of whites, browns and others who came to the US through the front gate.
Not much more to say that Americans gripe a lot, but don’t stand up to be counted? We can only blame the state on America on our own unfocused self. The implications of Obama’s executive actions are equivocally horrendous. I flew into Los Angles today for Thanksgiving and the traffic was so dense, I just couldn’t believe it. It’s been many years since I moved my family to the outskirts of Indianapolis. I wanted my son to be brought-up in the farming areas, without the drug trade and the illegal alien invasion as in the cities. Remember the wealthy and politicians live in their gated ‘Ivory Towers’ so the overpopulated cities, the roads almost impassable and a infrastructure will get irretrievably worse as Obamas plan comes to fulfillment?
Blame yourself when low income Americans are pushed out of jobs, especially now that Obama’s instigators and will be in the unemployment lines. Personally, I am okay my benefits are constant, because I saved my money and assets. But as Americans ignored the promise of this growing dictatorship; a government that administers to all the ‘Deadbeats’ and the Feds granting something for nothing. Unknown numbers of single Mothers who cannot meet their debts, but the WH can offer foreign pregnant mothers free delivery and cash payments afterwards.
Research answers to Obama’s subversive executive order of rewarding criminal illegal aliens. A New Documentary that Highlight our insecure border and rampant lawlessness. Sheriffs around the country have had enough and are planning to make their voices heard “We are being Marginalized” with a march on Washington D.C. on December 10th. My personal opinion Americans who believe in the Rule of Law should support the Sheriffs and join in the demonstration.
You can learn more about the border Sheriffs of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, who are under funded, undermanned and a US Government that close the eyes to there grim plight. The illegal aliens, the drugs and the bodies, they must deal with daily at http://www.borderstatesofamerica.com/ Speak your mind as a voter at http://www.numbersusa.com/ check this site that includes phone Numbers and Mailing Addresses of Members of Congress contact them at: http://www.contactingthecongress or direct line to central switchboard at 1-866-220-0044 or 1-800-224-3121.