Leading Us By A Flaxen Cord

Congress is slowly leading us down to slavery with a flaxen cord. Did you notice the violation of the Constitution today?

The outrage over AIG bonuses (that leading Senate Banking Committee members knew about, including AIG's biggest political donation recipient Chris Dodd (D-CT) heads) is growing louder and louder. So what does Congress do? They grow louder and bolder in their rhetoric.

Don't be fooled. Timothy Geithner, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and others all knew about this long before they claim they did. Read about it here.

That's not the scary part though.

Congress passed a law today that taxed those bonuses retroactively. That is the scary part. Here is Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution-

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
An ex post facto law is a law that makes an action criminal now and a punishment assessed when the action, when originally done, was not criminal. So it would be like eating a donut yesterday and Congress passing a law today that says eating donuts is a felony and then being punished for eating that donut even though I did it when it wasn't classified as criminal.

Now, I know that levying a 90% tax against the bonus isn't exactly making it criminal, but they are doing it retroactively when they should have been policing it in the first place. We are now on a slippery slope, what is next? Speaking out against the president? Owning a gun? Rallying in protest of government policies. Just wait, it is beginning.

The false and hypocritical outrage by the Democrats over the AIG bonuses is masking a much bigger problem. Our Constitution is slowly being destroyed right in front of us while we worry about the NCAA basketball tournament and the hoax of global warming.