Our Founding Fathers very purposely established a Federal Government with three branches, namely Executive, Congress and the Judicial.
This system is designed to provide the all important checks and balances among our three branches of government. It is thus designed to be a barrier to tyranny by preventing any one branch of government from abusing the rights and freedoms of each and every American.
It is also designed to ensure that our citizens have avenues for redress of grievances against the government. This system has generally worked pretty much as was intended. Unfortunately in the 1960s we saw the rise of a different breed of public officials who viewed the Federal Government as a tool for creating that illusive perfect society so cherished and envisioned by the liberals and progressives. At about the same time, legislating from the bench got a foothold in the Federal court system. To add to our problems, Congressmen began to view the U.S. Treasury as the way to finance their very expensive and wasteful liberal agenda. Left leaning presidents began to dream of ''progressive'' legacies.
All of this has the very negative effect of rapidly increasing the size and power of the federal bureaucracy. As a result America now has, in effect, a fourth branch of government staffed by unelected career bureaucrats who wield near tyrannical powers over American citizens.
A recent example of bureaucratic powers running wild is the decision of the U.S. Patent office to rescind the government trade mark protection for the Washington Redskins NFL football team. Officials at the Patent office took the tyrannical step to decide that the name ''Redskins" was demeaning to American Indians. The Annenburg Public Policy Center commissioned a poll which revealed that a great majority of American Indians had no problem with the name ''Redskins''. Indeed this is a good example of the kind of Tyranny our Founding Fathers wished to avoid!
Is there any redress or remedy to be applied to this type of action? No there is not, unless the President is convinced to rein in the Patent Office!
Another example of tyranny is the IRS bullying of Conservative non profit organizations. Makes one wonder if the executive branch permitted or condoned this show of force?
Now we have also seen NSA eavesdropping on American Citizens. Is the government getting into your telephone and doubtlessly into E mail on the Web? How many times does the NSA or Homeland Security obtain warrants to break down your front door in order to obtain information from your computer?
The mother of all agencies when it comes to regulation is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). EPA cranks out regulations by the ream. In 2013 the federal register grew by some 80,000 pages and the biggest contributor to this growth was EPA, many of these regulations border on the absurd. Many regulations will greatly increase the cost of fuels, electricity and many other things we utilize on a daily basis. The EPA has put many restrictions on the coal industry which supplies coal for electrical power generation. The results of these restrictions is that many of our generating plants and coal mines will be forced to shut down making electrical power more expensive and putting many more people on the unemployment roles.
In all of these acts of bureaucratic tyranny a trail seems to lead back to the Oval Office. Indeed one might assume the bureaucrats in question are really not entirely on their own. Of course when it comes to the executive branch they will emphatically deny any guilt regarding bureaucratic overreach. Indeed if President Obama admitted ordering any actions of this type then he would be guilty of abusing his power which is an impeachable offense. If individuals in these agencies are acting on their own volition, we then have a self regulating bureaucracy running wild with tons of authority and unlimited power and no accountability.
To make matters even worse people who run these agencies tend to stay in their positions for 30 or more years. These people are neither elected nor are the