Freedom to Fascism - Part I

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OK, OK...so we went bust.  We screwed up.  We fell and/or washed out.  Because Opensource.com decided to do what I had intended to,  Government Transparency is NO MORE (as well as duly covered instead by Opensource.com, of course).  Oh, it's all good America.  Why, you ask?  Because I'm about to save the day.  There might be a Government Openness Week...but, I'm betting NOBODY has an "American Freedom to Fascism Week!!"  And so it begins...

You may remember...waaaaaaay back.  If not, just close your eyes...look at your eyelids...that's good.  Now remember...remember...there was a post, ages ago.  Day #15.  Obaaaaaama.  Now you got it.  I gave you a link to a list of ways to tell if your country is going fascist.  If you just can't get with me on the whole eyelid thing, it's OK, really.  I brought the link with me, have no fear:

http://prorev.com/fascisthints.htm

So, what we're going to do, is write about each.  And every.  Single.  One of the check marks.  You know, self-diagnostics, as it were.  Oh, we'll have facts.   We'll have figures.  We'll have charts, graphs, photos, examples, witnesses, interviews...yes, it just might rival everything I promised you the other would be, but was not meant to be, in this blog.

SO LET'S GET STARTED ALREADY, SHALL WE?

Check #1 - Your president ignores the law passed by legislation.

OK, let's take a look at that one.  Probably the most glaring example of any Presidency, where ignoring the law is concerned, is a favorite of mine:  the ability to write Executive Orders.  I didn't have a clue about these (mostly because I didn't ever hear about these little gems) until my late 40s.  Why is that, you might wonder?  Oh, these were a HUGE secret...evidently.  I then discovered that, no matter what we want, no matter what congress wants, we have a little loophole our Presidents love to exploit called the Executive Order.  If all else fails, we can override EVERYTHING no one wants, and with a flick of the pen, we can sign into law just about anything our little President can think of.  It's un-"Veto"-able, un-revocable, and Un-Constitutional kids.  Something we should have NEVER agreed to allow or let happen.

The National Archives keep a running record of all executive orders, back as far as 1936. So I took a look, and I found a big commonality to each order that just drives me into a frenzy.  These new, "I'm right, you're wrong" immediately enforceable laws are now unchangeable, once signed by our residing President, whichever one we have serving at the time.  They might later be amended, and parts may be laid to rest...but the damage is often done before these orders are fixed by anyone.

Worse, even, is the fact that, depending on the President, we just went hog-wild.  The American Presidency Project (www.theamericanpresidencyproject.com) lists each and every President's Executive Orders, and what they said.  We won't go into each President, but we will take a look at the upwards trend in the number of Executive Orders.

Executive orders stayed in single digits from George up to Jackson.  Jackson had 12.  From Jackson to Grant, they stayed in the double digits.  Grant had 217 of these little orders.  He started the trend upwards.  Through the great (?) Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Orders sometimes numbered into 3 digits.  Mr. Roosevelt the First's number? 1083 of 'em.  Wow.  Oh, but it doesn't stop with him.  Woodrow Wilson's number was 1800+.  Franklin D, probably the largest offender?  3.  Thousand.  500.  22.  You have GOT to be kidding.

From there it weaves up and down from 4 to 3 digits and back again.  I think you get the picture though; it's become a serious problem since the Roosevelts.  Every one of these orders is a finger in the face of America.  Some are very damaging to everything we stand for as a free nation with rights.  It essentially says that no matter what we think or believe, want or need, it can be whisked away with any one order.

Ratification or the revocation of these orders HAS to be implemented, or one day there might just be an Executive Order stating that you are no longer allowed to wear your cherished tighty-whiteys, or to abolish your right to buy two cell phones in a year from the same company.  This is easily the most socialist tool we allow our Presidents to use, and I have the feeling the numbers may easily go up from here.

Then, there's that little thing that we had, where Obama just wants to completely bypass the Amendment that controls how many years a President can serve over our country, which, in this writer's opinion, just goes against all Constitutionality, as well as serving as a shining example of a man trying to establish a little totalitarianism.

Join us tomorrow.  We shall continue!!