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.

Does the law mean anything today?

Yesterday a federal judge in Florida hearing the lawsuit by 26 states against what everyone now calls "Obamacare" ruled that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. He went further, taking the government's argument that without the mandate the law was unimplementable and agreed thereby throwing out the entire law and issuing a de facto injunction against implementation.

However, not hours later did the regime already show its condescension for the law by attempting to justify its intent to defy the court. The regime's only course of action is to comply with the ruling until they appeal. This is not the Third World where the dictator trashes a so-called independent judiciary and over rules them. This isn't a democracy where you can say the people don't agree. This is a republic where each branch of government has checks and balances against each other and if the democrats want to over rule the judicial ruling without appealing then their only option is to start over and rewrite the legislation and make it legal under the Constitution.

If Obama and his minions take any other path than the two mentioned above, it's time to drag this regime before that court and declare them in contempt and once done, remove them from office through the allowed Constitutional process. This is not a game folks. These are serious transgressions against the republic and Constitution and puts our freedom in a precarious state. It cannot be tolerated by any president not matter who they are or what label or mantle they wear.

Otherwise the law means nothing anymore, and we see in Tunisia, Egypt and other places, past and present what results. And the United States of America is better than that; the people are better than that, and the rule of law must be respected.