American Political Orphan

Thursday, March 19, 2009

House Violates the US Constitution

RE: Breitbart.com, House passes bill taxing AIG and other bonuses

Democrats pressed for quick action Thursday on a bill to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers.

Article 1 Section 9 of the United States Constitution states…..

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

And Article 1 Section 10 states that:

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

Webster’s Dictionary defines Bill of Attainder as:

a legislative enactment by which a person is pronounced guilty, without trial, of an alleged crime, orig. a capital crime, esp. treason: prohibited in the U.S. by the Constitution

The Law Encyclopedia defines ex post facto laws as:

Laws that provide for the infliction of punishment upon a person for some prior act that, at the time it was committed, was not illegal.

Congress has violated the Constitution. 328 Members of the United States House of Representatives voted to impose an ex post facto law against employees of an American corporation (AIG), in direct violation of the United States Constitution.

Every one of those that voted for this bill has violated their oath of office and should be asked to resign from office immediately!

The bill is HR 1586.

Pelosi - Doesn’t Believe in The Rule of Law

Fox News, Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are Un-American

The speaker of the House told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants recently that enforcement of immigration laws in the United States is “un-American.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is “un-American.”

The speaker, condemning raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, referred to the immigrants she was addressing as “very, very patriotic.”

“Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?” Pelosi told a mostly Hispanic gathering at St. Anthony’s Church in San Francisco.

It must be stopped….What value system is that? I think it’s un-American. I think it’s un-American.

Madam Speaker, We are a Constitutonal Republic, governed by the United States Constitution, representative government and the rule of law.

It is YOUR Constitutional responsibility to enforce the law.

Doing your Constitutional duty is NOT Un-American.