5th Amendment Right Stolen from Chrysler Dealer

Jim Anderer has seen his 5th Amendment rights violated by an administration that swore to uphold the Constitution. His Chrysler dealership was shut down. It was profitable, although that profitability is not the central issue. He issues the following charge:

"This is insanity. The government is stealing my business. Well, I cannot accept that as a patriotic American. I was raised in this country to believe that if I work hard and I achieve what I was going after -- and I did! I did it! I got it, and now all of a sudden because, you know, we have a president who pushes Chrysler into bankruptcy and puts all of the UAW workers out...? Didn't have to. Maybe some would have to go out but not all of them, okay. This doesn't happen in America. This is still America, I think. I mean, this isn't Stalinist Russia. This is not Nazi Germany where the troopers say you're out and their buddies are in. That's what I'm faced with."

The left wants to prosecute Bush for war crimes. Well here we have actual crime against an American businessman, a violation of the 5th Amendment, which reads:

"No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The 5th Amendment protects individuals from having their property and business taken away from them without due process of law. In other words, the Constitution promises that you cannot have your business taken away except by consequence of having broken the law, and being found guilty according to the standards of the legal system.

Our administration, by virtue of asserting its authority in a Chrysler business decision, and forcing the closure of Chrysler dealerships, has failed its oath to uphold the Constitution, rendered itself an illegitimate authority in violation of the Supreme Law of our land, the Constitution, through which it derives its power to govern.

The moment at which the President fails to uphold the Constitution, is the moment he loses his mandate to govern, and the moment he becomes the greatest threat to American freedom and liberty that our law recognizes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/letter_from_a_dodge_dealer.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124273461563234275.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/16/eveningnews/main5019770.shtml