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WHEN IS IT TREASON?
According to the Founders: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Article III, Section 3, US Constitution. So when does an act become treason (defined by Webster's to include "betrayal of a trust") not against the United States, but against the People of the United States? Does such an offense exist? If so, where do we take our case? What remedy do the People have?
I submit that our elected representatives, both in Congress and in the White House, have over many years betrayed our trust. In my view these are acts of treason against the People of the United States.
Tonight we will watch and listen as the President complies with his Constitutional duty to report his view on the State of the Union. I haven't seen the speech as I write this afternoon. However, my heart is heavy. I believe both his view on where we stand, and his vision for where we should be going will be in dramatic conflict with my view of either issue.
My heart is heavy because we worked hard in 2010 to give Republicans overwhelming control of our House. The men and women we elected to stop the Obama offensive against our way of life have failed us. They have betrayed our trust. I needn't recite the long litany of failures about which I have written over the past year, but remind you that it started with failing to remove John Boehner as Speaker when the 112th Congress was sworn in a year ago. Their betrayal continues when this Friday the national debt ceiling will "automatically" increase by another $1.2 trillion. This is the same national debt that was capped at $15.2 trillion in the grand compromise last Spring. The Super Committee that was to save us betrayed us instead. What happened to the draconian cuts that were part of the deal? Friday the debt ceiling will become $16.4 trillion, "automatically". Watch and listen carefully tonight to the President, to the Republican response, and to the airheads as they pontificate on what it all means. My bet is you won't hear a word about the debt ceiling increase. "We don't need no stinking budget." When is it treason?
My friends please reread the last chapters of Genesis, particularly Chapter 47: 13-23. Joseph's plan to save the people from seven years of famine resulted in all their money, all their land, and all their animals belonging to Pharaoh. The cost of being fed by the government for seven years was four hundred years of slavery. Pray with me tonight that we shall once again become one Nation under God, in whom we trust. Pray with me that God will lead our elected representatives to put our trust in them ahead of their reelections. Pray with me that seven years of economic hardship will not result in four hundred years of slavery. Pray with me, and then read the book I mentioned last week, The Political Imperative. We have a lot of work to do. It starts with prayer, but it doesn't end there.
Keep the faith,
Bob McConnell
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