Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   12/02/2014

Just verdict; lawless Emperor

Tehama County Planning Director Sean Moore will address the Tea Party Patriots tonight, 6 PM at the Westside Grange on Walnut Street. The County Planner may have some insight and positions on the proposed Community Corrections Reentry and Day Reporting Center on Madison Street. Likewise, the rezoning of the acreage off of Baker into high-density-housing.

I wrote a column for August 26 on the unfortunate killing of Michael Brown by Officer Wilson in what has now turned out—based on the forensic evidence and facts contained in the grand jury report—to be an entirely justified shooting. In the course of an attempt by Brown to grapple with Wilson for his gun, involving a violent physical assault on the officer inside his cruiser after Brown’s strong-arm robbery and assault in a convenience store, his charging of the officer left Wilson with no option but to fatally shoot him.

Every word of my August 26 column has been borne out as the truth; I will post it today at DonPolson.blogspot.com for anyone doubting my veracity and accuracy. When large portions of the African-American community, the liberal elite in news media, public office and the Democrat Party are so possessed by, and willing to act and speak from, some combination of ignorance, malintent, delusion and falsehood—it is nothing short of disturbing. Even the AP wrote and admitted that the whole “hands up; don’t shoot” chant has no basis in fact.

Those same groups heap scorn, invective and condemnation on conservative Republicans like Rudy Giuliani and Rich Lowry for rightly pointing out the simple undeniable truth that crime and anti-social behavior prompts police to protect minority areas the only way they know how—with tough law enforcement. Even black witnesses that backed up Officer Wilson’s story repeatedly expressed fear for their safety should their identity become known, such is the mob mentality, vindictiveness and group-think of parts of out citizenry.

I wish that the correct lessons were being taken from the

About the curious case of the President Who Would Be Emperor, Barack Obama, Charles C. W. Cooke penned, “Obama’s Imperial Transformation Is Now Complete—The president has become everything he ran against” (11/20, NationalReview.com). While his executive orders legalizing millions of illegal aliens constitute an unprecedented usurpation of the legislative branch’s Constitutional powers, the truest standard of hypocrisy starts with Obama’s own words. Then-Senator Obama condescendingly pronounced in 2008 that he “taught constitutional law for ten years” and took “the Constitution very seriously…(and that) the biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. That is what I intend to reverse when I’m president.”

Obama eagerly reminded “immigration activists” in 2011, in a speech at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C., that he was not a king. “With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case. Because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed…The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws…There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply, through executive order, to ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.”

Obama made that or similar arguments more than 20 times. Yet, in 2012, he did exactly what he insisted he could not: Obama simply pronounced the implementation of DACA, absent legislation, to legalize (not deport) children here illegally. Again, in 2013, he eloquently explained to impatient illegal immigrants that he cannot waive deportation for an entire category of people with the stroke of a pen: “I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed…”

From “Obama’s Will to Power” (Mona Charen, NationalReview.com, 11/23): “He showed no fealty to the law when he dictated terms to the auto industry in violation of bankruptcy law…(obtained no) congressional approval for military action in Libya; when he made ‘recess’ appointments to the NLRB while congress wasn’t in recess; when he waived the work requirements of the welfare laws” or abandoned enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Not to mention the dozens of extralegal, executive changes to Obamacare.

Hence, I said last week that he is, by his own admission, “Emperor Obama” and I share Sen. Jeff Sessions’ sentiments in a USA Today editorial: “We must stop Emperor Obama.”