An Outrageous Comparison: Obama’s Amnesty Plan as the Next ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

    No one from the left seems to care about what lies at the very core of the president's actions. Let's be clear.... President Obama has NO authority to do what he wants to do - to grant legal rights to illegal immigrants. But never-mind the substantive issue here, the President has NO right to sidestep Congress and to ignore the Constitution. He has no right to rule by fiat and he has no right to act like a King. No matter where a person stands on the issue of amnesty, it is the conduct by this president and the audacity with which he approaches the job that should make every American fuming mad.

    The lies, the accusation, and the frivolous comparisons to Ronald Reagan are bad enough. But when I hear folks out there comparing the Amnesty plan to the Emancipation Proclamation and illegal immigrants to slaves, I want to scream.

    I want to remind those on the left who the REAL slaves are, because they really don't have a clue. The real slaves are the tax-paying middle class who aren't exempt from the federal income tax scam but aren't rich enough to have any lobbying power or ability to bribe anyone for favors. They are the workers... the ones who get up each day, ride a bus, train, plane, etc to work so they can pay for a house, college, car, clothes, food, and to support the kids that they carefully planned to have. The slaves are the ones who pay taxes at the expense of those who don't but have no say in how their money (their property) is used to increasingly allow those deadbeats to live more comfortably. The slaves are the ones who are forced to pay for the healthcare plans of those who, in great part, don't give a rat's ass about their health or how to improve it. The slaves are the ones whose kids who kids can't get into top-notch schools based on their high grade point averages because they are not a minority. The slaves are the ones who have to save all their receipts and fill out lots of paperwork each April, hoping that the government won't send a letter accusing them of not paying enough, while welfare recipients can use their money (OUR money) to buy cigarettes, alcohol, and luxury items, and go to gambling casinos. Slaves are the ones who take voting seriously and go to the ballot box well-informed of the issues and with skin in the game but immediately have their votes cancelled out by ones that are cast by low-information voters without skin in the game for the sole purpose of making sure they continue to get what the other voters can provide to them. But most importantly, slaves are the ones who, because they pay taxes and have files with the IRS, are forced to censor themselves and refrain from protest for fear that the government will use their henchmen (the IRS) to audit and otherwise harass them.

    The real slaves want the President to uphold the Constitution and stop trying to make a mockery of it.

    As mentioned earlier, the Emancipation Proclamation carried no legal authority and freed no one, and so in this sense, I hope that Obama's lawless behavior will be recognized similarly and have similar results.

    Watch:

    Nancy Pelosi Compares Obama's Amnesty Bill to Emancipation Proclamation -


    Nancy Pelosi to GOP on Immigration Action: 'Look to Ronald Reagan, Your Hero' - ("The President's Actions are as good as it can be under the law.... That doesn't mean we wouldn't like to have a bill.... " Nancy Pelosi)


    References:

    Billy House, "Pelosi Compares Obama Immigration Order to Emancipation Proclamation," National Journal, November 20, 2014. http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/pelosi-compares-obama-immigration-order-to-emancipation-proclamation-20141120.

    Henry L. Chambers Jr., "Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Executive Power," Maryland Law Review, Vol 73, Issue 1, Article 6 (2013. http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3599&context=mlr or

    http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mlr/vol73/iss1/6

    The Emancipation Proclamation, the Navy Department Library. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq57-2.htm

    Gabriel Malor, "No, Reagan Did Not Offer an Amnesty by Illegal Executive Action," The Federalist, November 20, 2014. http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/20/no-reagan-did-not-offer-an-amnesty-by-lawless-executive-order/

    David Frum, "Reagan and Bush Offer No Precedent for Obama's Amnesty Order," The Atlantic, November 18, 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/the-weak-argument-defending-executive-amnesty/382906/

    Appendix:

    THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION.

    WHEREAS, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a Proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

    "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free; and the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of any such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

    "That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States."

    Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:

    Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans,) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth,) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.

    And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

    And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

    And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

    And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgement of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

    In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

    Done at the city of Washington this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.

    By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN

    WILLIAM H. SEWARD,     Secretary of State

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