The Republican party, led by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, officially committed suicide this month and took American society along with it. The fact that anti-politician Donald Trump is surging in the polls is a wonderment to the party, but it is not a mystery when the latest budget sell-out is reviewed, with the clearly expressed desires of the people ignored and rejected by the legislators of both parties, but most egregiously by Ryan and the Establishment Republicans.
In the last two elections, the Republican party had gigantic wins, regaining the Senate and increasing numbers in the House, fueled by the anger of voters over things such as illegal immigration, Obamacare, and Planned Parenthood abortion practices. With a president intent on ruling as a monarch through executive orders designed to circumvent required legislative approval and concurrence, the legislators were left with the option of using the power of the purse to slow the march towards national chaos and bankruptcy.
So angry was the public with the inaction and ineffectiveness of House leaders that then Speaker of the House John Boehner was forced from his position and Rep Paul Ryan was put into his place.
Ryan assured the nation that we would be more responsive to the stated desires of the public, and more responsible in controlling spending, both to reestablish sound fiscal policies, and to stop funding some of the most loathed programs that were troubling the American people. He did not. In fact, he doubled down on all of the programs that conservative Republicans, in fact most rational citizens, would find outrageous. He gave President Obama all and more of what he wanted.
He funded virtually all of the programs the Democrat party asked for, he spent billions and billions of dollars that this bankrupt nation does not have, and he stabbed all of us in the back. This is not just insane budgetary abuse, it could spell political death for the party. There is no way that the American people will understand this, and Ryan, who was supposed to be a financial wunderkind and the one who would be repairing the damage caused by Boehner and the like, has proven to be a traitor to the rational set of the Republican party and should be voted out of office immediately.
See page 2 for some of the worst aspects of the bill
There are NONE to be trusted
Traitor
Strapped on the knee pads right away
Why, jus why.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FORBIDS JUDGES OR LAW MAKERS FROM INFRINGING OR PASSING LEGISLATION “EDITING” ANY AMENDMENT.
WHOSOEVER tries to enforce such legal fictions is to be resisted by ALL FORCE necessary INCLUDING lethal force. IT IS YOUR DUTY as an american to assist in the Lawful Resistance of UNLAWFUL legislation in the event you witness a fellow american being oppressed whether he knows his rights, conforms, or not!
By not honoring your constitutional oaths we LOST the following.
– The First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press, association, assembly, religion, and petitioning government for redress of grievances, all newly under pressure from widespread warrantless surveillance, secret datamining of private data, surreptitious infiltration of peaceful protest and solidarity groups, President Obama’s increased prosecution of supposedly protected whistleblowers and leakers, and changes in the law allowing criminalization and chilling of such speech and association promoting peace and human rights under the Patriot Act’s “material support” provision (which criminalized “expert advice and assistance” and was upheld in the US Supreme Court’s closely divided, erroneous decision Holder v. Humanitarian
The Fourth Amendment rights to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant and probable cause to believe a crime or terrorism was involved, which also have been eroded by the FISA Amendments Act (allowing the Bush-era illegal warrantless surveillance of Americans’ phone calls, emails, and web-surfing habits), Patriot Act provisions including section 505 regarding the notorious and repeatedly abused National Security Letters (allowing the FBI to search a wide variety of library and business records without probable cause, any judicial review, or notifying the target), section 215 (the library and business records provision requiring the secret FISA court to approve searches on a mere “relevance” standard and probably also being interpreted to allow a secret datamining program some Senators say would “stun” and “anger” the US public if revealed), section 213 (allowing sneak and peek” secret black bag job searches of homes), and section 218 (basically importing expansive foreign intelligence surveillance powers into domestic criminal law).
The Fifth Amendment rights to due process of law has been infringed not only by the extreme measure of assassination noted above, but also by increasingly routine arbitrary changes of the rules–contrary to President Obama’s promises — so as to block accountability for other violations of fundamental rights, as with the use of the state secrets privilege, standing, and other procedural doctrines to completely immunize those who labeled citizens like Jose Padilla “enemy combatants”, or those who tortured, participated in extraordinary rendition (kidnapping and “disappearing” people) to places of torture, and planned and conducted warrantless surveillance,
– The Eighth Amendment rights to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment (also protected by an international treaty, the Convention Against Torture, signed by Pres. Ronald Reagan, and by federal statute), which has been rhetorically embraced by both the Bush and Obama administrations but ignored in practice (especially by the former, but also allegedly to a lesser extent even by the latter, in cases such as those of Bradley Manning, Gulet Muhammed, and in Afghanistan and Iraq).
Have these major infringements spilled over into the routine law enforcement and justice systems of the United States?
“Some of us had expectations that these developments wouldn’t further affect ordinary citizens. We all know that legions of ordinary citizens already have been harmed and had their privacy and liberties infringed by National Security Letters and other Patriot Act provisions, as decades of gradual progress in expanding rights have been undermined and generations who have fought for hard-won liberties have seen both their liberty and their security dramatically reduced this past decade. This category includes:
– The increasing militarization of domestic policing and intelligence gathering, as seen in such developments as the Pentagon’s new Northern Command, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) involvement in domestic intelligence and counterterror efforts, Pentagon involvement in infiltration of domestic peace and anti-war groups, increasing deployment of weaponized drones within US borders as well as at the borders, and the surveillance, biometric, and other equipment and weapons defense contractors have imported from Iraq and Afghanistan into American streets, all as described (among others) by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin in their Top Secret America Washington Post series and book, and all in great tension with our Constitutional regime and historic bias against domestic deployment of military forces as reflected in Posse Comitatus and other laws,
– Although sold as temporary, emergency counterterror measures, these laws and approaches such as the Patriot Act have only become more permanent and used overwhelmingly for routine, domestic law enforcement (such as drug cases and minor offenses) — as repeatedly confirmed in the government’s own reports, such as the recent one described by the ACLU pertaining to “sneak and peek” home search warrants — again contrary to the basic premises and fundamental laws of our democratic republic and its origins in a Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights arranged precisely against such arbitrary and unconstrained power.
– The way the laws have, as described above, been used to immunize high officials and the powerful from accountability of any type (no torture victim has received his or her day in US court!) at the very time laws for lesser violations have resulted in the United States carrying the dubious honor of having imprisoned more of its population, in both absolute and percentage terms, than any other nation in the world. This discrepancy remains a substantial driver for the Occupy movement and can be expected to continue to drive social instability, protest, and conflict unless and until the gaps in transparency and accountability are remedied and again realigned with the original, sensible Constitutional vision and allocation of rights and powers.
The government has done what terrorists never could: taken away freedoms, privacy and Constitutional rights that were fundamental to what it means — or, more accurately, what it meant — to be American. The Government has multiplied in size and exploded in scope. It has taxed, borrowed and spent until it is forever impossible to restore federal spending to what it was before. Our American principles have been beaten to death.
Defending the Constitution requires members of the Armed Forces to disobey illegal orders. And, in the case of alleged treasonous acts, members of the Armed Forces are constitutionally bound to arrest such offenders.
So what, exactly, have you done to honor the oath you took to Uphold and Defend the Constitution…your obligation to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic?
All it requires is for those who have taken their oaths of office to act on what they swore they would actually do.
Me thinks he speaks with forked tongue. Thought he was to help this country only to find out he put the screws to it.
Thats for nothing Ryan you trader
Sickening indeed!!!! The Republican Party has no backbone!!!! We need a party who will stand up for AMERICA and beat the Democrats–Socialists–Communists–or wehatever they have become!!!!!
They took 2.5 billion from the veterans fund to help do it, with out even asking !
SHAMEFUL