Our Constitution under Attack!

The recent taxing of the AIG bonuses by the Congress is unconstitutional.  In Article 1, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the US Constitution it states that: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed."  A Bill of Attainder is a legislative act that singles out one or more persons and imposes punishment on them, without benefit of trial.  Such actions were regarded as odious by the framers of the Constitution because it was the traditional role of a court, judging an individual case, to impose punishment.  The Bill of Attainder clause was intended, not as a narrow, technical prohibition, but rather as an implementation of the separation of powers, a general safeguard against legislative exercise of the judicial function - or more simply - trial by legislature!

James Madison wrote:  "Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.  (Federalist Number 44, 1788)

 AIG bonuses were only some of the overall bonuses that were given to employees of companies that accepted federal funds.  While we may not agree with the bonuses, we can't allow this unpleasant situation to be used as a way to 1) gain control over private business, 2) destroy "contract" law, and 3) destroy parts of our Constitution.   The AIG "scandal" is a huge diversionary tactic to take our attention away from the real issues, like excessive government spending and the fast march toward socialism and government control.

Congress and the Obama administration are attacking the validity of our Constitution in numerous ways:  gun control, federal control over the private sector, failure to enforce legal immigration laws. The list could go on and on.  The federal government is now making huge grabs of power away from the states, private industry, and from OUR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS.  They are destroying the Constitution in bits and pieces.  Once our Constitution is unenforceable, we have lost the freedom that our founding fathers provided for us and that so many have shed their blood for.

We are in dangerous times and it requires that each one of us stand up for our Constitution. Don't believe the rhetoric.  Search out the truth.  Make your voice heard!