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GOP House Approves Obama’s Latest Anti-Constitutional Law

While Americans were deep in debate on Facebook over Cecil the Lion, the GOP House handed President Obama more anti-Constitutional powers.

The House unanimously passed this law with a mere 15 minutes of “debate” without a recorded vote. Now it goes on to the Senate who will likely rubber stamp it too.

Then, without an Obama veto (not gonna happen), one man, John Kerry — “far-left radical Kerry, for now — would have the power to strip you of your unalienable, God-given rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. While Cecil the Lion torn at our heart strings, the traitors in the House stripped us of one more of our fundamental freedoms.

In a radical attack on the due-process rights of Americans that received virtually no media attention, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to give the Obama administration the unilateral power to strip you of your passport and right to travel without a trial or even criminal charges. The scheme does not even include a way to challenge your status as a non-person involuntarily trapped inside U.S. borders on orders from the secretary of state. Lawmakers, some of whom could themselves be caught in the dragnet along with myriad administration officials, praised the effort as a way to stop alleged terrorists from travelling. But critics said it was yet another attack on the fundamental rights of Americans, such as due-process protections, and that it must be resisted.

As if to illustrate how out of touch with the U.S. Constitution most members of Congress have become, the legislation, HR 237, also known as “FTO (foreign terrorist organization) Passport Revocation Act,” did not even receive a recorded vote — supposedly because it was so “uncontroversial.” It passed after 15 minutes of alleged “debate.” Bill sponsor Ted Poe (R-Texas) claimed the measure, adopted under a “suspension of the rules” typically used for trivialities such as renaming post offices, was passed unanimously. Of course, in an age in which the White House openly claims the unilateral authority to murder or indefinitely detain American citizens without even charging them with a crime, passport revocations likely seem trivial by comparison. But opponents of the measure said it was a big deal nonetheless. Welcome to the Hotel America.

You can check out any time you like. But you can never leave.

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