Constitutional crises creating a Coup d'état


By Jim Killebrew

[November 17, 2014]  When an army decides to usurp the authority of the written laws and take over the leadership of a nation, it is generally referred to as a Coup d'état. When the President of United States of America decides to circumvent the Constitution of the United States, how is that any different than an army general taking over the country by force?

The coup d'état is simply a strike against the state to displace the government with another force, usually from forces, sometimes military if they are willing and complicit, but more often, political, and inside the current government. Either way, these following steps are usually similar steps that have been observed throughout history that paves the way for these takeovers. Throughout history those who have taken over the governments of countries they have followed a pattern which is almost like a "template for take-over." That template looks something like this:

1. They implemented a new Ideology.

2. They used Policies, regulations and laws to exert their own political ideology.

3. They issued Executive orders or edicts from the established leader telling the people what they would do and how they should act.

4. They created dependent populations by establishing subsistence barely enough to survive.

5. They created crisis situations to establish "solutions" to the crisis they created.

6. They controlled crisis through imposed restrictions.

7. They took control of financial institutions.

8. They used existing government agencies as political instruments to spy on citizens and maintain high taxes as well as enforce the leadership rules.

9. They took control of media outlets to control their message, shutting off most or all of the opposition media.

10. They established an internal communication monitoring system to keep all communication under surveillance .

11. They took over the education system to establish core curriculum to maintain their own party line.

12. They made alliances with outside countries whose ideology was consistent with the new leaders.

13. They marginalized or eliminated all forms of religion or Christianity from the citizens except those sanctioned by the new leaders.

Over the past six years we have seen the patterns of this "template" established and maintained in an almost systematic way. Beginning with the Obamacare that has taken over approximately one-sixth of the economy has covered several of the conditions on the template. During the next two years of this Administration's tenure, we are likely to see a concerted effort from the democrats remaining in the House and Senate, the President, and the complicit liberal media push the republican controlled House and Senate into one compromising position after another in order to advance the liberal agenda as a set-up for the 2016 Presidential election.

The dominant theme will be the attempts to create a Constitutional crisis with each issue that arises. The first seems to be shaping up as the President is using threats against the American people to circumvent Congress by ordering a comprehensive Executive Order to institute an amnesty condition to prevent deportation, issue work visas and legalize approximately five million illegal immigrants into legal status.

Previews of that Constitutional crisis has come from the President's threats about immigration when he said, "It's way overdue. We've been talking about it for 10 years now and it's been consistently stalled." And again when Obama said he would "use all the lawful authority that I possess to try to make the system work better." This has been verified by the White House Press Secretary when he made this statement, "The president has indicated that he's going to use all of the authority that's vested in the executive branch of the United States to take action that would benefit the American people, the American economy" said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Of course the leaders of the opposition have countered that threat by stating their regret he is going to put the country in such a situation. "We're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "This is the wrong way to govern. This is exactly what the American people said on Election Day they didn't want."

So as the President moves forward, "before the end of the year" the country is moving closer to the cliff of Constitutional crisis brought about by a President who wants to rule against the will of the American people, and the will of the majority in Congress. The next few weeks will tell the story: Will it be a Constitutional crisis we can move through, or will it be an internal attempt at a full-blown Coup d'état?

[By JIM KILLEBREW]