Elect a good chief executive

1 week ago

To the editor:

Imagine you inherit a huge and well-respected company.  You need a new chief executive officer.  A top applicant says he won’t do part of his job and he’ll tell your employees to break the law.  Would you hire him?  No.  Likewise, you should not vote for Trump.

Part of Trump’s platform is titled. “Agenda47:  Day One Executive Order Ending Citizenship for Children of Illegals and Outlawing Birth Tourism.”

Well, his order won’t exactly do that, but it’s still a jaw-dropper.  The 14th Amendment of our Constitution says mostly that if you’re born here, you’re a U.S. citizen.  Yet Trump says he’ll issue an executive order saying that amendment means something different: if both your parents are here illegally, you’re not a U.S. citizen.  However, he knows full well it’s up to the Supreme Court alone to find what the law is. They found no such requirement. Their findings cannot be revoked by executive order.

Just as bad, he’ll order government agencies to ignore the 14th Amendment and not to give you what they’d give any other citizen.  No Social Security number, for example.

Yet our Constitution says that the president “shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” How do you make sure that government workers carry out our laws by telling them not to?  And they’d break the law if they obeyed him, to boot.

We Americans are choosing a new chief executive officer for our country.  We cannot choose someone who will take power that isn’t his, refuse to do his job, and order government workers to break the law.

Ewen Allison
Castle Hill