Obama’s War on the U.S. Constitution · April 07, 2011
By taking the United States to war with Libya, U.S. President Barack Obama is “breaking new ground in its construction of an imperial presidency.”
He has unilaterally, without congressional action, engaged in a war outside the U.S., under the UN Security Council resolution, which is against the constitution.
“But the UN Charter is not a substitute for the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress, not the president, the power to ‘declare war.’” The War powers act, passed by the U.S. Congress after the Vietnam War, grants the president the power to act unilaterally for 60 days if there is an attack on the U.S., or its military.
Libya did not attack the U.S., nor did it attack our armed forces. President Obama thought it was more important to Lobby the Arab League rather than Congress, even though Congress could have generated a lot of bi-partisan support for such an action.
“The War Powers Resolution doesn’t authorize a single day of Libyan bombing.” Yet President Obama acts as if the UN Security Council Resolution is a higher power than the U.S. Constitution. In this he has even gone farther than former president George W. Bush, who did get Congress to approve the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Obama was elected on a platform against a unilateral use of war powers, among other things. The people who elected him thought they were getting a president who would work with Congress, and who would have much more openness in government, which would have been a welcome change to the Bush era illegalities. But now he is on ground that Bush himself did not occupy.
“Now that he claims inherent power, why can’t he redefine U.S. objectives on his own? No less important, what is to stop some future president from using Obama’s precedent to justify even more aggressively unilateral actions?”
“If Congress fails to respond, we have moved one large step further down the path to a truly imperial presidency.” One also wonders if the United States is headed for a dictatorship.
President Obama apparently wants to remove the sovereignty of the United States too and place it under globalized regional governments. He has recently agreed on a joint border security perimeter with Canada without congressional approval. And now he responds to a UN Security Council resolution without an action by Congress.
Apparently, the Constitution means nothing to him.
Every principle of the U.S. Constitution will be repudiated according to prophecy (See Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, p. 451), and President Obama is playing his part.
“Satan delights in war, for it excites the worst passions of the soul and then sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite the nations to war against one another, for he can thus divert the minds of the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God.” Great Controversy, page 589
“The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their forces, and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.” Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9, p. 11
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