The debt "deal" is UNCONSTITUTIONAL

I apologize for not seeing this earlier.

The so-called "deal" between Obama ad-Dajjal and Congress to "reopen" the government contains at least one arguably unconstitutional provision, an agreement to ignore the debt ceiling:

http://news.yahoo.com/there-is-no-debt-ceiling-in-place-and-here%E2%80%99s-why-235736781.html

Here is the pertinent clause:

US Constitution, 14th Amendment
4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

The "deal" did not authorize new debt by law. The "deal" authorizes new debt by SUSPENDING the law.

This is BS, and it should be ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

This is just one more step in the unraveling of the US Constitution:

• no free speech
• no freedom of religion
• no freedom of the press
• no right to assembly
• no right to keep and bear arms
• no right to privacy
• no due process
• no right to a trial by jury (read the last contract you signed)
• no protection against cruel and unusual punishment
• no Congressional control on spending

In short, this is rule by decree; or as it is called by people who know the difference ... TYRANNY.

How did it come to this?

In the beginning ...

... the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot. The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. They ran thus:

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

But several years later, after many deals, reinterpretations, and "reinventions", things had changed.

Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder. He looked round. It was Clover. Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever. Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tarred wall with its white lettering.

`My sight is failing,' she said finally. `Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?'

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

[From the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell]

In short, we are where we are today because you let PIGS write the rules, and then you let PIGS tell us what the rules mean.

What did you expect? Pigs will always be pigs.

http://youtu.be/sXdKlpBOvs0