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On 11, January 2010 US President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order to effect the Establishment of the Council of Governors. Citing the authority granted him under Public Law 110-181 §1822 (a.k.a. the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008), the President’s order goes further than any Federal action to date to blur, if not obliterate, the distinction between the Federal government and the States. And with every step in this direction this supposed union of 50 sovereign States gets every-closer to being one giant entity of central planning and control.

Contrary to the wild assertions of an army of Conservative bloggers and media personalities, this order does not establish Martial Law. In fact, this scheme is so deleterious in and of itself, that such unfounded and irrational scenarios are wholly unnecessary.

Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the US Constitution and the principles upon which it was founded could see that the underlying law, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, is nothing short of 600 plus pages of well-crafted verbal gymnastics intended to circumvent Constitutional limitations on Federal authority. But as this law entered the record without public outcry or legal challenge we are forced to consider how the President found in it the authority to create a new Federal agency dedicated to merging the States’ National Guard with the military forces of the US Government. For that we turn to Section 1822 thereof which reads in its entirety:

“The President shall establish a bipartisan Council of Governors to advise the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the White House Homeland Security Council on matters related to the National Guard and civil support missions.”

Consider that the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 ostensibly governs measures which the Federal government may employ in the event of a national defense emergency such as armed insurrection or nuclear/chemical/biological attack within the territory of the United States. Nothing in the body of the Act expressly or implicitly grants the President the authority to employ such measures under any other circumstances. Moreover Section 1822 does not grant the President the authority which he so casually arrogates to himself, to synchronize and integrate State and Federal military activities in the United States (See §2(d) of the President’s Executive Order). This is why the actual language of law and regulations is so crucial.

President Obama does not limit his authority in this regard to matters related to national defense emergencies. A fair reading of the order reveals that he intends to remove the National Guard from the authority of the Governors of the various States and place them under the authority of the US military command now and in perpetuity.

It is true that any future President may issue an Executive Order quashing that of President Obama, but as we all know, once a government scheme has been enacted it becomes inviolable; sacrosanct!!. It would therefore be folly to reset on the mere assumption that a future holder of the office of the President will abolish this council and uphold the Constitution. History is replete with too much evidence to the contrary.

Unfortunately there is little that can be done to thwart this abomination at this stage. But perhaps this will serve as a rallying call to all Americans to scrutinize the voting records of those who seek your vote in elections and more importantly ascertain their principles and the philosophy upon which those principles are predicated.