Thursday, June 9, 2011

Tyrannical Federal Government Kicks Down Doors

So now we find out that the Department of Education is authorized to have armed agents and the ability to kick down your door if you're suspected of some kind of shady dealings with school loans. What about if you're way behind on your loans? Can they kick down your door then too? Where does this stop?

The main problem appears to be the Homeland Security Act of 2002 that gave any agency with an OIG the power to carry weapons and conduct these actions. This is very troubling as it's supposed to be the Department of Justice that performs law enforcement -- they're the ones trained properly and act as professionally as can be expected under dire circumstances like raiding a home. But the question is, who makes the decision to give the go ahead for such raids in the first place? An agency like the DoE executing these actions is like the local high school principal kicking down your door with a dozen armed school administrators because your child has been playing hookey or stealing other children's lunch money. It'd be ridiculous if it wasn't so dire and scary for what it represents to a supposed free society.

Congress has given away so much power to the executive branch that Congress has nearly become a subservient branch instead of an equal one with the ability to check the other two which are running amok these days. Separation of powers between the three equal branches was supposed to prevent things like this. But Congress, having created countless agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with Legislative power (issuing regulations), Executive power (enforcement), and Judicial power (adjudicating objections of the exercising of the other two powers), has us living under a tyranny in many aspects due to the unchecked power of these unelected bureaucrats. And it continues non stop with bills like The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") that create boards of bureaucrats with power over what treatment you get or the Department of HHS grabbing the power to issues waivers to "ObamaCare" that it wasn't even granted in the legislation. These agencies actions of unconstitutional, and many of the agencies are unconstitutional.

This is why, more than ever, conservatives need the reins of power for many election cycles to reverse all this damage that statist "liberals" in both parties have caused. Congress needs to pass legislation destroying many of these agencies, and reclaiming powers that were granted either explicitly or implicitly through vague language from the ones that remain intact. And that's just the start, people.