The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 29, 2014, 12:45:40 am
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/28/Obama-A-Country-Without-Rule-Of-Law-Will-Not-Succeed (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/28/Obama-A-Country-Without-Rule-Of-Law-Will-Not-Succeed)
by Charlie Spiering 28 Jul 2014, 1:07 PM PDT
During a town hall meeting at a summit with the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, President Obama explained to a young African student that to succeed, a burgeoning country required a system of laws.
He explained:
Regardless of the resources a country possesses, regardless of how talented the people are, if you do not have a basic system of rule of law, of respect for civil rights and human rights, if you do not give people a credible, legitimate way to work through the political process to express their aspirations, if you don't respect basic freedom of speech and freedom of assembly … it is very rare for a country to succeed.
Obama made his remarks as critics have denounced his “lawlessness,” particularly through his 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) order, his decision to trade five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and his controversial Obamacare law.
The Supreme Court recently ruled 9-0 against Obama after his illegal appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
“I will go further than that: that country will not succeed over the long term,” Obama elaborated. “It may succeed over the short term because it may have natural resources that it can extract, and it can generate enough money to then distribute and create patronage networks. But over time, that country will decline.”
House Speaker John Boehner has filed a lawsuit against the President for his lawlessness. In a CNN op-ed expalining his lawsuit, he wrote:
Too often over the past five years, the President has circumvented the American people and their elected representatives through executive action, changing and creating his own laws, and excusing himself from enforcing statutes he is sworn to uphold -- at times even boasting about his willingness to do it, as if daring the American people to stop him.
Other Republicans, such as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have called for Obama’s impeachment because of his lawlessness.
“President Obama’s rewarding of lawlessness, including his own, is the foundational problem here,” Palin said in a Breitbart News exclusive, adding:
It’s not going to get better, and in fact irreparable harm can be done in this lame-duck term as he continues to make up his own laws as he goes along, and, mark my words, will next meddle in the U.S. Court System with appointments that will forever change the basic interpretation of our Constitution’s role in protecting our rights.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Obama is planning to give some form of amnesty to as many as 5 million of the estimated 11 million people who entered the country illegally. White House Senior Adviser Dan Daniel Pfeiffer explained to reporters last week that his decision would come at the end of the summer and would be based on “solid legal footing.”
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As usual, nice speech. There is, unfortunately, a huge disconnect between what he says and what he does
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The hypocrisy is almost beyond comprehension...Until you realize the words are coming from a sociopath.
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:facepalm2:
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Obama: A Country Without Rule of Law 'Will Not Succeed'
He is exactly right but he didn't say he wants the country to succeed. He does not want this country--and its foundational principles--to succeed. He doesn't care about the protection of the individual's life, liberty, or property except to the extent that those protections might advance Marxism.
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xfreeper wrote:
[[ There is, unfortunately, a huge disconnect between what he says and what he does ]]
As in 180 degrees.
Could Obama become the American version of Robert Mugabe?
Or... is he already there ??