Constitution Slaughtering

On November 30, 2011 Congress lifted a ban that it had put in place in 2007 that resulted in the prohibition of slaughtering horses for food consumption.  A quick search of the web revealed the expected headlines: 

 Congress to America: You Can Now Watch Horses Races While Eating Horse

Mr. Ed, It's What's for Dinner

Mommy, What Do Horses Taste Like?

Horse Meat Could Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

Also on the web were reactions like these:

“I couldn't sleep last night after hearing this. I am sick to my core & frightened to think about the future of our horses. I'm at a loss for words... greed appears to be the prevailing compass in our society, overshadowing both commonsense & moral constitution. *tears*”

“This puts it in perspective. Pardon a single turkey while sentencing thousands of horses to a horrible death”

“There are lots of other animals out there for human consumption other than beautiful horses. So rethink this for all the horse lovers out there in this world. Would you like it if they made dog and cat slaughter houses and use your pet?”

I understand why people are upset. What I don’t understand is why they are not outraged over an even more inhumane slaughtering that is taking place, the slaughtering of the Constitution.

The question all Americans should be asking is:

Where in the Constitution is the enumerated power granting the federal government the ability to regulate the slaughtering of horses (or any other animal for that matter?)

The enumerated powers are found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. There is nothing in this Article I, Section 8 remotely resembling a constitutional power to ban or not ban the sale of horse meat and the slaughtering of horses for their meat.  So absent a specific enumerated power in the Constitution, how does the Constitution want us to deal with this issue?  The answer is found in amendments 9 and 10:

Amendment 9 - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 10 - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

This is so simple even our Congressmen should be able to understand it. Absent an enumerated power, each state decides whether or not horses can be slaughtered in their state and whether or not horse meat can be sold for consumption.  Absent any state laws prohibiting horse slaughtering or sale of meat for consumption, the power to decide belongs to the individual.

Constitutional Slaughtering is happening every day and is exponentially worse under the Obama regime.  Each time it happens “We the People” lose more of our liberty.  When our Federal Government attempts to violate the constitution, no matter what the issue, we need to react.  We need to let them know that we choose liberty over tyranny, freedom over slavery.  We took the first step towards restoring our constitutional Republic in 2010.  We need to take another step in 2012.