For the last few months I’ve had intentions of writing about the new Constitution but time would not permit. I have a working list of specific reports which I intend to write and I order them in terms of urgency and relevance.
Something that readers may not have heard about is the language in the new Dominican Constitution (June, 2015) which allows the President of the Dominican Republic to run for a consecutive term.
The previous Constitution of the Dominican Republic stipulated that the President must sit out at least one term (four years) before he or she can run again for office.
English-speaking readers may not have heard about the new provision regarding the consecutive reelection option for the President because there aren’t many online English-language sources for this information.
The only English-language reference that I could locate was a brief report by an online news outlet called Dominican Today. They bill their site as, The first and only english language online news publication in the Dominican Republic.
As I noted once in the past here at WOBIK (In memory of Yesenia Rodriguez (age 29): electrocuted in Santo Domingo. Chikungunya in the Dominican Republic and Ebola in Obama’s Africa.) I typically avoid news from the Dominican Today. On occasions when I do look at something that they’ve published I keep in my mind that their writers are really and truly not Dominicans.
Most, or all, of their writers are Dominicans living in the United States or Dominicans who were raised in the United States and now living in (or visiting) the Dominican Republic. Their viewpoints, perspectives and outlooks tend to be dissimilar to those of the Dominican people.
Writers at Dominican Today seem to view social and cultural issues with tunnel vision. In other words, they view data without context (which may make cultural and social data worthless).
Moreover, it seems that their writers (even if they are in RD) look at events in the Dominican Republic through an American lens. At any rate, their writers did publish a story on June 12, 2015 which was titled, Dominicans have a new Constitution as payoff accusations linger. Their story consists of 150 words and can be described as, at best, a watery stew.
Readers are welcome to review that above cited story and I will thicken the soup with other relevant information provided directly below.
One of the differences between the Constitution of the Dominican Republic and the Constitution of the United States is that the Dominican Constitution (hereinafter referred to as the “RD Constitution“) does not contain Amendments. Or at least not in the same way that the Americans think of constitutional amendments.
Each time that the RD Constitution is amended or altered it becomes a completely new constitution. It appears that there have now been thirty-nine (39) RD Constitutions.
The current President of the Dominican Republic is Danilo Medina and he assumed office on August 16, 2012. A presidential term in the Dominican Republic consists of four (4) years.
The next general election to elect a president in the Dominican Republic will take place next year on May 15, 2016.
The most recent RD Constitution was proclaimed on June 13, 2015 (a Saturday). Some political opponents (as well as many ordinary Dominican citizens) indicate that President Danilo Medina and his party (Dominican Liberation Party) bought the votes (or bribed legislators) in the National Assembly in order to amend the language in the Constitution regarding presidential reelection.
In the 2015 Constitution a Dominican President may opt to run for a second, consecutive, term but after term he or she will then be barred for life from the office of President and Vice President.
In the 2010 Constitution a Dominican President was not permitted a second, consecutive, term and would need to sit out at least one presidential term (4 years) before he or she could run for a second term.
Directly below I have included (and provided links to) the specific language (in blue highlight), and English translations, regarding presidential terms and reelection used in the four most recent RD Constitutions – 2015, 2010, 2002 and 1994:
TÍTULO IV
Artículo 124.- Elección presidencial. El Poder Ejecutivo lo ejerce el Presidente o
la Presidenta de la República, quien será elegido o elegida cada cuatro años por voto
directo. El Presidente o la Presidenta de la República podrá optar por un segundo período constitucional consecutivo y no podrá postularse jamás al mismo cargo ni a la
Vicepresidencia de la República.
English translation (rough) of 2015 – RD Consitution:
TITLE IV
Article 124. Presidential Election. Executive power is exercised by the President or
the President of the Republic, who is elected or elected every four years by direct vote. The President or the President of the Republic may opt for a second consecutive constitutional term and can never again run for the same office or the Vice Presidency.
TÍTULO IV
Artículo 124.- Elección presidencial. El Poder Ejecutivo se ejerce por el o la Presidente de la República, quien será elegido cada cuatro años por voto directo y no podrá ser electo para el período constitucional siguiente.
English translation (rough) of 2010 – RD Constitution:
TITLE IV
Article 124. Presidential Election. The executive power is exercised by the President or the Republic, who is elected every four years by direct vote and may not be elected for the next constitutional term.
TÍTULO V
ART. 49.- El Poder Ejecutivo se ejerce por el Presidente de la República, quien será elegido cada cuatro años por voto directo. El Presidente de la República podrá optar por un segundo y único período constitucional consecutivo, no pudiendo postularse jamás al mismo cargo, ni a la Vicepresidencia de la República.
English translation (rough) of 2002 – RD Constitution:
TITLE V
Article 49. The executive power is exercised by the President of the Republic, who is elected every four years by direct vote. The President of the Republic may seek a second, and only, consecutive term and thereafter will be constitutional unable to ever again run for the same office, or the Vice Presidency of the Republic.
TÍTULO V
ART. 49.- El Poder Ejecutivo se ejerce por el Presidente de la República, quien será elegido cada cuatro años por voto directo, no pudiendo ser electo para el período constitucional siguiente.
English translation (rough) of 1994 – RD Constitution:
TITLE V
Article 49. The executive power by the President of the Republic, who is elected every four years by direct vote can not be elected for the next constitutional period.
Can you imagine the US Congress (or executive order by the US President) repealing the 22nd Amendment (i.e., two term only Presidents) in the US Constitution:
Section 1.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
This isn’t the first that we’ve written about the 22nd Amendment here at WOBIK. Readers may also want to review our report from May 27, 2013:
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Can you imagine the US Congress (or executive order by the US President) repealing the 22nd Amendment (i.e., two term only Presidents) in the US Constitution
I can imagine it, but not as Lucas envisions it: repealing the 22nd Amendment can be done only by 2/3rds of Congress (or 2/3rds of the states call for a convention) and ratification by 3/4ths of the states, and that’s not going to happen by January 2017.
NO — but I can envision liar, fraudster, impostor, fascist OBAMA getting the USA soon involved in some serious situation that, with the required assistance from our largely controlled MSM, could enable him to DECLARE MARTIAL LAW and either ‘postpone’ or ‘cancel’ the 2016 presidential election. (We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!)
However, I think a far more likely scenario would involve Obama and his NWO handlers simply working to have his surrogate-puppet, Biden, become the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and then CHEAT on the ballot-counting to have Biden illegally WIN in a CLOSE ELECTION.
Regardless — either Establishment Democrat, Joe Biden, or any of the Establishment Republicans, such as Jeb Bush, would be acceptable to the PTB to advance the globalist’s agenda.
I think lazy and narcissistic Obama has become tired of being POTUS and would now like to ‘retire’ in luxury to a high-prestige, relatively non-challenging job such as Secretary-General of the UN. He has largely accomplished his goal of ‘fundamentally transforming America’ (with a LOT of help from his friends) and probably feels that some sort of ‘reward’ to him will be due after his current term is over.
Go Trump! Win BIG in 2016!
Please consider:
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Ben Carson: Can Obama use martial law to keep White House post 2016
Communities Digital News
James Richard Edwards
1/19/2015
Excerpt:
SAN ANTONIO, December 14, 2014 — Dr. Ben Carson, a black neurosurgeon and likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has repeatedly stated that he believes there is a chance that the 2016 elections may not be held at all. Widespread anarchy gripping the country could be reason enough for the Obama administration to announce the implementation of martial law and the suspension of some, if not all, of Americans’ constitutionally protected rights — including the right to vote and hold national elections.
On the surface this seems unbelievable, but upon further analysis, Carson’s ominous suggestion is plausible; this is an extremely unnerving scenario that all Americans should be aware of and ready for. The Obama administration has very quietly and subtly done many inexplicable things that could very well be precursors to the suspension of some, if not all, of Americans’ constitutionally protected civil rights.
Carson went on liberal radio host Alan Colmes’ radio show and the discussion eventually came to whether or not Dr. Carson plans to run for president in 2016. He said that there may not even be elections in 2016; when pressed to explain further, Carson said, “If in fact we continue to have all these decrees being made the way they’re being made, if in fact we don’t fight the kind of war that needs to be fought in order to really put an end to the threat that is brought on by ISIS, if we continue along a pathway of financial irresponsibility, if we continue along a path of envy, greed, and hatred — what happened with Occupy Wall Street will be a cakewalk compared to what will begin to happen in this country.”
When Colmes pushed Carson further on the possibility of cancelled or postponed elections, Carson responded, “I don’t want to find out, I really don’t want to find out. I don’t want to continue down this pathway that we are going down. This pathway where everything is framed in a political sense and our representatives are not working for the people, they’re working for their party.”
Martial law is “a system of complete control by a country’s military over all activities, including civilian, in a theoretical or actual war zone, or during a period of emergency caused by a disaster such as an earthquake or flood, with the military commander having dictatorial powers … In many foreign countries martial law has become a method to establish and maintain dictatorships either by military leaders or politicians backed by the military.”
In America, martial law must be called for by the President, who would then suspend most, if not all, of our constitutional rights, and only the President would be able to reinstitute our constitutional structure and declare an end to martial law.
If anyone believes this idea is far fetched, please consider the numerous emergencies that Obama has put America in position to experience in the next two years — possibly with more than one of these issues occurring simultaneously: the Ebola virus and its associated mandatory quarantine may continue to spread due to Obama’s pitiful prophylactic and responsive actions; our $18 trillion and counting government debt could finally cause the government spending bubble — the only thing propping up our economy — to pop, leading to all government spending halting overnight and the massive associated riots that would occur due to welfare, EBT and Medicaid/Medicare cards ceasing to work; and, the threat of Islamic terrorism and specifically ISIS, whose unmatched funding, training and brutality could fulfill their leaders’ promise to shed the blood of millions of Americans.
Additionally, Obama’s choice not to sufficiently secure the border must be taken into consideration with all of these possible emergencies, as open access to our country could only increase the liklihood of all three possible emergencies.
Never in the history of our country have we faced so many destructive threats at the same time. America has also never had leadership that has failed to competently handle every single threat facing our country. If Obama isn’t one of the most inept people to ever hold elected office, then his actions must be calculated to produce these results.
Obama knows he is unpopular with the military, therefore, he has had to find a different way to institute martial law — and that is through a “civilian national security force.” On July 2, 2008 at a campaign stop, Obama made the following unscripted statement: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
In 2013 the United States spent $663.8 billion on the military, with personnel include 2.2 million people on active duty or in the reserves. America has local police forces, which could call in the National Guard, which could then call in the Department of Defense to protect the country in times of civil unrest. For what purpose, then, would a civilian security force funded with hundreds of billions of dollars and made up of millions of Americans be necessary?
Another worrying issue is that Obama has militarized almost every federal agency. In September of 2013, 70 federal agents in full body armor, carrying M-16s raided one person’s gold mining operation in a tiny Alaska town. They were from the Environmental Protection Agency looking for violations of the Clean Air Act.
After this incident it was found that Obama had created law enforcement branches in over 70 federal agencies. It is estimated that there are over 120,000 law enforcement agents in the federal government who are not part of traditional law enforcement branches — CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, DHS, DOJ, and Treasury Dept.
These law enforcement branches Obama has created are not comprised of just one or two security guards. Obama has armed these agencies to the teeth. Maj. General Jerry Curry, a 40 year, decorated, military veteran, wrote an op-ed for The Daily Caller pointing out how, in addition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations’ purchase of 46,000 hollow point bullets, the Social Security Administration (SSA) bought 174,000 hollow point bullets.
In reaction to these purchases, Maj. Gen. Curry said, “Hollow point bullets are so lethal that the Geneva Convention does not allow their use on the battlefield in time of war. Hollow point bullets don’t just stop or hurt people, they penetrate the body, spread out, fragment and cause maximum damage to the body’s organs. Death often follows. Potentially each hollow nose bullet represents a dead American. If so, why would the U.S. government want the SSA to kill 174,000 of our citizens, even during a time of civil unrest? Or is the purpose to kill 174,000 of the nation’s military and replace them with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) special security forces, forces loyal to the Administration, not to the Constitution?”
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View the complete article, including image and links, at:
http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/ben-carson-might-obama-cancel-the-2016-election-28523/
How Obama will get a Third Term
Canada Free Press
Judi McLeod
10/7/2015
Excerpts:
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All Obama needs to remain in power and to press ahead with his deadly Fundamental Transformation of America is for a Democrat—any Democrat—to win the 2016 presidency. Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and his twin sister Elizabeth ‘Fauxcahontas’ Warren or the shop-worn and decrepit Bernie Sanders will do.
All Democrats pay homage to the hating-America obsessed Obama, and all would do his bidding once having gained the Oval Office. The Messiah, who came from their midst, is after all their very own creation.
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No, Obama doesn’t need suspension of elections through martial law to hang on to lawless power. That’s only what he and the progressives want the doomsayers to think. Keeping the dissenters among the masses unhinged, worried and home on Election Day is how the Democrats work to keep a stranglehold on the White House.
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Americans who want their country back should set aside unattainable perfection for freedom. No Republican contender is perfect but anyone of them is better than a Hillary, Fauxcahontas Joe or a blinkered Bernie.
We have reached a stage in time where people believe more in the image politicians cast on TV than the one they cast in real life. For some Hilary Clinton on Saturday Night Live is more real than Hillary, Butcher of Benghazi.
The pervasive celebrity cult and reality TV go a long way in leading the public to its own destruction.
But if the celebrity cult from which he sprang gets Donald Trump elected it would have finally done something worthwhile for a long-suffering society.
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View the complete article at:
http://canadafreepress.com/article/75867
At Home with Donald Trump and His Family
People Magazine
Jess Cagle and Charlotte Triggs
Updated 10/4/2015
Excerpt:
In their first family interview, Donald Trump and his wife Melania open up about raising their son Barron and their hopes for the White House. Subscribe now for instant access to this PEOPLE exclusive!
Sitting down for an interview with PEOPLE in his office at Trump Tower, Donald Trump is charming, candid (he answered any question posed to him) – and very confident.
“When you see you’re number one in every poll that makes any criticism go away very quickly,” he says. “If I’m able to get the nomination, my polling looks very good against Hillary or whoever it may be. I think I’ll win.”
Financially, he’s prepared for the enormous cost of running a campaign (Obama’s cost an estimated $1 billion in 2012).
“I’m very liquid. I can spend whatever I want,” he says. He’s saving on travel because he owns his own plane, and who needs advertising? “It’s all Trump, all the time on television,” he says. “So far, I’m way under budget.”
What has been slightly more difficult to reconcile is the impact the campaign has had on his family life. At 69 he’s a father of five (Donald Jr., 37, Ivanka, 33, and Eric, 31, with his ex wife Ivana; Tiffany, 21, with ex wife Marla Maples; and Barron, 9, with wife Melania) and grandfather to seven (daughter Ivanka’s current pregnancy will make it eight).
“I just don’t have the time that I would love to spend with my children and my wife,” he says. “I see less of my grandchildren than I might like. But they get how important this is.”
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View the complete post, including videos and images, at:
http://www.people.com/article/people-magazine-home-donald-trump-family
Image Credit: People Magazine, 10/12/2015 Issue
From left: Melania, Donald and Barron Trump on PEOPLE’s cover
Excellent work.