The Oath of Office

HOW MANY HAVE VIOLATED IT?

by Bob Serrao, ©2011

(May 3, 2011) — The U.S. President swears this Oath:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

The Vice-President, cabinet members and senior appointed officials, members of Congress, and members of the Supreme Court take the following sacred oath of office:

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

To most of these legislators, the Oath of Office is simply a perfunctory tradition. Maintaining the mendacity is a travesty unimagined by the Founders and Framers! Some of the main offenses worthy of their impeachment and removal from office are:

• Operating outside of their constitutionally enumerated powers
• Promoting a massively oppressive and unconstitutional government takeover of our healthcare system
• Illegally mandating all citizens to purchase health insurance against our will.
• Avoiding a government that is ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’
• Impeding citizens’ access to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’
• Straying from The United States Constitution and founding values and traditions.
• Restricting citizens of personal freedom to excel and succeed in free enterprise.
• Plunging America into socialism and totalitarianism, global concessions of US sovereignty.
• Berating and condemning the actions of the United States before other nations.
• Acting illegally by nationalizing significant segments of the U.S. automobile, banking, housing, and (if they get their way) healthcare industries.
• Appointing more than 30 czars to important policy positions in the executive branch and currently immune from congressional advice and consent and oversight requirements.
• Allowing Judges of the inferior courts to legislate from the bench.
• Granting captured terrorists the same constitutional due process rights as American citizens.
• Supporting the Federal Reserve and the United Nations.
• Avoiding Obama’s eligibility question.

OATH, n. A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. The appeal to God in an oath, implies that the person imprecates His vengeance and renounces his favor if the declaration is false, or if the declaration is a promise, the person invokes the vengeance of God if he should fail to fulfill it. A false oath is called perjury. Noah Webster, 1828 Dictionary

For more information, please see Paul Vallely’s article here.