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Is there any doubt that Obama is our first tyrant-n-chief!

His contempt for the Constitution, for the will of the people, for our free market society is legendary.

He is the biggest liar in American history.

How do we get enough people to realize this in time?

THE DEMOCRATS ARE PLAYING POLITICS  UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION.  WE NEED THE JOBS NOW NOT IN 2013.  VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR SURE IN 2012.

Dear Fellow Patriots:

What follows is a letter that I recently forwarded to our NM Governor regarding the removal of President Obama from the NM 2012 Presidential Primary Election Ballot:

Letter to NM Governor:

January 19, 2012

Dear Governor Martinez:

I wanted to take the liberty of sharing the following email that I recently forwarded to Mrs. Dianna Duran, New Mexico Secretary of State for your information.

Please feel free to contact me, if you should have any questions and/or need any additional information from me regarding this extremely disturbing and time sensitive issue.

Thank you for the excellent and professional job that you are doing as our Governor.

Respectfully yours,

Jake L. Martinez

Email to NM Secretary of State:

January 19, 2012

Mrs. Dianna J. Duran

New Mexico Secretary of State

325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300

Santa Fe, NM 87503

Phone: (505) 827-3600

Fax: (505) 827-8081

Dear Mrs. Duran:

I am writing to inquire into the status of my letter of January 5, 2012, which requested that President Obama be removed from the New Mexico 2012 Presidential Primary Election Ballot.

As you are aware, the natural born citizen minimum qualifications are set forth in Article II, Section I, Clause V of our U.S. Constitution, along with the ‘Specific Eligibility Requirements and Duties (Section 1-8-18(A) and 1-4-16(B) NMSA 1978),’ which includes the office of the President of the United States, as outlined in the following ‘New Mexico 2010 Candidate Guide’:

https://mylocalgov.com/currycountynm/ShowImage.asp?thumb=0&rowid=1099&show=0

You are also probably aware that this issue is not going away anytime soon because Americans across the country are starting to wake up to the fact that President Obama is constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of President and Commander-In-Chief of our armed forces, as substantiated by his newly released long-form Certificate of Live Birth, which shows that when he was born in 1961 his father was not a U.S. citizen and therefore he can never be a ‘natural-born citizen,’ as that term was defined by a  ‘1875 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Minor v. Happersett’ in which the court defined “natural-born citizens” as ‘all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens.’ 

Sources:

http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/375625/#f2cd597738

http://constitutionalreset.ning.com/video/atty-dr-herb-titus-obama-not-a-natural-born-citizen

http://people.mags.net/tonchen/birthers.htm

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/natural-born-citizenship-and-history-timeline

Additionally, several new organizations, to include active websites, were recently established to educate and mobilize the American public on the significance of “natural born citizen” and the 2012 Election, along with an initiative to assist ordinary registered voting citizens wishing to challenge President Obama’s constitutional eligibility and name placement on their state’s 2012 primary presidential ballot. Also included on one of these websites is pertinent information regarding lawsuits and/or complaints that have been filed by state to date, which includes a complaint that was recently filed with your office to remove President Obama from the 2012 NM Primary Election Ballot by the Las Cruces Sons of Liberty.

Sources:

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/superpac-founder-explains-mission-of-natural-born-citizen-pac

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/obama-ballot-challenge-founder-interviewed-by-post-email

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/complaint-to-remove-barack-obama-from-2012-nm-ballot

Mrs. Duran our New Mexico voters must believe that we are a state that upholds our own laws and the U. S. Constitution.

Please feel free to contact me, if you should have any questions and/or need any additional information from me regarding my request.

I look forward to hearing from your office regarding this disturbing matter, which I believe is extremely time sensitive due to the fact the NM 2012 Primary Election Proclamation will be issued by our Governor on or about January 30, 2012, as noted on the ‘NM 2012 Candidate Guide.’

Thank you again for the excellent and professional job that you are doing as our Secretary of State.

Respectfully yours,

Jake L. Martinez

Automatic Electronic Response Received From Governor Martinez’s Office Regarding My Email Above:

Thank you for taking the time to share your comments and concerns with my office. A constituent service representative will be in contact with you regarding your issue.

Sincerely, Susana Martinez”

Word of Caution:  Although its great that many Americans are now beginning to wake up and are actively taking some action to have President Obama taken off the 2012 Presidential Election Ballots we need to keep in mind that those individuals with unlimited sources and/or resources, to include the deep pockets of anti-American George Soros, our own local and national elected officials and others, with the help of the MSM, who have spent years planning and successively perpetrating what I now believe could be the greatest fraud in American history are not going to go down without a fight and thus, as a result, I also believe that now more than ever we need to stick together as Americans (it's no longer Democrat or Republican) at this crucial time when our country and/or Republic needs us more than ever to see this thru. A Republic for which so many Americans have and continue to give their all to uphold and defend.

So the question is: Are you going to be part of the problem by continuing to keep your head in the sand hoping this issue goes away by itself or are you going to be part of the solution by stepping up to the plate and doing what ever it takes to uphold and defend our Republic before its too late?-You Decide.

Continue Reading:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetrated-in-american-history/

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

Zionists: What if Ron Paul is Right about Iran?

I love Israel. I love my country, and the land that God gave my family. I would fight and die for this place. I live here. I am not a peace activist. Nor am I a warmonger. I don’t believe in peace treaties with anyone whatsoever, nor do I believe in going to war under shaky pretenses.

I’m 28. Much of my high school and college career occurred during the end of Oslo and Arafat and Barak’s meeting at Camp David, and the subsequent outbreak of the brutal and bloody 2nd Intifadah murder spree. Watching every single suicide bomb on the news right after it happened, as a high school kid, drove me mad with rage against Islam and “terrorists” and Arabs. I hated them for their method of murder and killing my Jewish family. It is hard for me to describe the dehumanizing emotions I had.

The emotions were so strong that any attempt to attach “motives” to “terrorist” actions made me react impulsively and with disgust at whoever suggested that terrorists even had “motives”. I just wanted them dead and out of my country. These are classic “neocon” feelings. We’re good, they’re evil, that’s it, end of story, if you even try to explain anything you’re getting us all killed.

Now, if you identify with these feelings, let me ask you a few questions. Try to clear your head and see things from above for a second.

Were any of America’s wars since World War II necessary? What did any of them accomplish? How many people did they kill? Did America have to go into Vietnam? Why? Did they have to go into Korea? Why? Did they have to go into Iraq? Why? Did they have to prop up the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia? What about Egypt? Was involvement there necessary? Did we really have to overthrow the Iranian government in 1953 in order to install the Shah?

WHY? Why did America have to do that?

What is the point of all of this? What has it accomplished? What would the world look like today if none of this ever happened? Would September 11th have happened? Would there be a “War on Terror?”

What the hell IS the “War on Terror”? Who is “Terror”? How does the war end?

The answer to this is actually pretty simple. The standard reaction is “America did all this for her security.”

I used to believe that. But I no longer do. America is not secure. She is a nation teetering on the biggest bankruptcy in world history, and running on the fumes of borrowed Chinese money. Her citizens are poorer and more dependent on handouts that they get from a government running on borrowed Chinese money.

In the last debate on December 15, every Republican presidential candidate talked about how they were going to A) Cut the budget and B) Massively expand the military. None of them realized the apparent contradiction here. Why? Because there is no substance to any of these war hungry power driven men with no souls. They fight not because they believe in something. They fight because it gives them power. Saying they’ll cut the budget will give them power. Saying they’ll massively expand the air force and the “modernize” the navy while at the same time dealing with a $15 trillion debt, this is just mad. It’s simply mad.

I wonder now if any of them are even conscious of the words that are coming out of their pandering mouths. These smiling, grinning, nonsensical people convinced that America has to put a no fly zone over Syria now and other such EXPENSIVE nonsense that CHINA  is running out of money to FUND.

Ron Paul’s strongest point in the debate was when he asked Mitt Romney, the guy talking about cutting the budget while  massively expanding the air force, the following question:

“How are we going to do that? We don’t have any MONEY!”

For those who can see the humanity in Ron Paul, who aren’t brainwashed by fearmongerers like Bachmann who say that if he becomes president Iran will nuke the US, you could read the horror in Paul’s face. “How am I on the stage with such…people? Is there anyone behind any of these shiny veneers? Do they even realize they are not making ANY SENSE?”

Every candidate, including Obama, is drunk on power. They go to war not for security, but because, as president of the most powerful country in the world, they can’t resist playing with their toy armed forces. And they CAN’T RESIST coming over here, to Israel, and telling us exactly how to make peace with our neighbors.

What if Ron Paul is right? What if September 11 really did happen because America simply can’t mind her own business? What if none of these undeclared wars ever had to happen, and 2 million vietnamese and Iraqis were still alive today?

If you ponder that question seriously, and it flicks a light on in your head and you recognize the possibility of it for even a fraction of a second, you can do one of two things:

1) Shut that recognition down immediately and go back to thinking America has no blame in any of this

2) Allow yourself to ponder further, ultimately culminating in a sudden rush of remorse that millions had to die for this pointless nonsense and you just didn’t realize it.

Whether it’s War Making or Peace Making, America feels they have to be in it all. What if Ron Paul is right? Imagine if he were president. Would he have forced Arafat and Barak to sit down and pretend to be friends at a meeting that was destined to explode in a murderous intifadah? Would he, like Clinton, pressure Israel to invite Arafat back into Israel to “make peace” with him? Would the second Intifadah have ever broken out? Would the first one? What if America simply left us alone to handle our own issues? Would any of the death and murder that drove me into a rage in high school ever have happened?

I remember when Obama ran and said something about talking to Iran. I thought it was a really really bad idea because I was a neocon back then. But I also never trusted Obama for a second and knew he was just saying this to get power. I knew he was just as fake as the rest of them and I didn’t believe in his “change” nonsense. I saw right through it. There was no human being there. Just a political veneer.

But Ron Paul is a real person. When he speaks to you at a debate, it’s a bona fide human being talking there. Imagine if we had one of those in the White House. Do you think the Ayatollah would chill out just a bit? We could back off each other, get some perspective? The White House could back the heck off of me in Israel and leave me alone? And if we feel like Iran is a threat over here, to let us deal with it how we want to deal with it without calling him up and asking permission like a lapdog?

What the heck does Iran have to do with America? Are they going to cross the Atlantic in the aircraft carrier that they don’t have and nuke Manhattan? Are they going to use their intercontinental ballistic missiles they don’t have and bomb Washington DC?

No. What America has to do with Iran is this: America thinks it runs the world. And there’s an annoying brat in Persia that America thinks has to be put in line. But it’s really none of America’s business. Leave Iran alone. All America is doing by threatening Iran is endangering me in Israel. Let us deal with it if we have to, but stay in your own hemisphere.

Don’t you think the world would be a much less scary place if there was a HUMAN BEING in the oval office?

What if Ron Paul is right?

What if?

http://settlersofsamaria.org/ron-paul-right-about-iran-and-israel/#comment-599

DEMOCRATS POCKETS ARE VERY LARGE AND THEY ARE FILLING THE POCKETS WITH OUR HARD EARNED MONEY.THIS GOVERMENT WANTS TO RUN EVERY THING,  AND THAT IS SOCIALISM.

The image below isn't mine, but it perfectly sums up the effects of the Obama economy.  It comes from  the webpage of Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) (http://1.usa.gov/zdHUAN). Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I don't think what has happened to our country in the last three years was an accident.

There are those who assume from the negative results that Obama and his advisors don't know what they're doing.  This assumption is based on the thought that they want the same things we do: prosperity, freedom, and to retain America's status in the world.  I am one that does not make such an assumption. 

I believe they know exactly what they are doing. When Obama said he was going to "fundementally transform the United States of America" he meant to drag us into his vision of a socialistic nation.  What we are seeing now,, the languishing economy, rise in poverty rates, increase in energy costs, expansion of the recipient class, are the results. 

His foremost foreign polcy initiative when he took office was "Muslim Outreach". That was his reason for the Cairo apology speech.  Before his venture into politics, Obama was a leftist community organizer. I don't believe it is a coincidence that after two years of "Muslim Outreach" by a leftist community organizer, that the community got organized in the Muslim world. What has since become known as the "Arab Spring" But, what have been the results? The Muslim Brotherhood now controls Egypt, the Al Quaeda flag flew over Libya, there is civil war in Syria, there is unrest in Tunisia and Yemen still, and Iran is closer to acquiring nuclear weapons. 

We patriots have to be the Paul Revere's of our generation. In this election year, we have to carefully screen our candidates and support those that will return us to our country's founding principles. 

Ronald Reagan once said "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free" (http://bit/ly/11a87R).

This site won't allow me to upload the image. Please go to this site: http://1.usa.gov/zdHUAN

BUT LETS GIVE IT A GOOD TRY.  VOTE REPUBLICAN COME 2012 AND WE WILL DO IT.

JOHNSON & jOHNSON IN 2012

AMERICANS HEALING AMERICANS! (AHA!)

Whoever figures out First exactly which two American politicians, either currently or formerly, I have in mind will be given either some money or something worth a lot more from D/B/A America's Teacher.

(1). A former campaign handler of Ron Paul who has recently deserted, having seen the handwriting on the wall, told the Washington Post that Ron Paul knows he is not going to win the nomination but he just wants to come in a strong 2nd or 3rd in the final nomination. This because, he believes that a strong runner up status will make the Republicans allow him to speak at the nominating convention, in addition to accepting some of his ideologies into the Republican platform. From Paul's perspective I can definitely see his thought process.  

If the Republicans humor Ron Paul and allow him to speak at the convention, his speech better be limited to the Federal Reserve and/or downsizing of various departments. They would not be wise to let this loose canon have a microphone for more than five minutes.  

(2). The past debate on Monday night from South Carolina hopefully showed Mitt Romney that if he does get the nomination he had better take the velvet gloves off and be in full attack mode ala, Newt Gingrich, who brought the house down at the debates a couple of times with his very blunt plain talking replies. In the final debate with Obama the Republican candidate better be in full agressive mode. Gingrich has shown he will  bloody up Obama, and Mitt Romney would need to leave his country club demeanor behind and do likewise if he is the one.

In sum, we have much to be hopeful for in the 2012 election. With gas prices going up again, sanction problems with Iran in additon to their nuclear ambitions, plus unemployment still stagnant, Obama can run on only demonizing whoever the Republican candidate is. He can't blame congress as he had the majority for the first two years of his illegitimate presidency.   

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MR. OBAMA IS STRIPING THE CONSTITUTION AND

SELLING YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS, JUST TO GET VOTES .

CAIR AND THE RADICAL MUSLIMS OR ISLAMISM'S

DO NOT LIKE OR WANT CIVIL RIGHTS OR THE U.S.

CONSTITUTION. SO MR. OBAMA IS HELPING THEM

GET THE LAWS CHANGED. THE SENATE IS DOING IT NOW. ALSO NEW SOPA LAWS FOR THE INTERNET, JUST

BEING VOTED ON NEXT WEEK. THIS IS TREASON AGENTS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ! SPEAK OUT ON THIS

NOW, ALL GROUPS ~

PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THERE 2012 VOTE.  NO MORE ELECTIONS,  KNOW MORE FREEDOM AS WE KNOW IT. YOU WILL HAVE A ONE PARTY SYSTEM.   IT DID NOT WORK IN EUROPE, AND IT WILL NOT WORK HERE.   ITS ALL UP TO THE VOTERS.

If true-What’s disturbing about this picture?

Posted on News With Views-By Paul McGuire-On January 17, 2012:

“In response to the criticism that came against the Clinton White House over foreign-linked contributions, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, the authors of Third Wave and Future Shock, defended the Clinton White House on the basis of a globalist philosophy they embrace.

The Toffler’s said: in a 1997 Los Angeles Times commentary entitled, Hat Passing the Global Economy:

Indeed the concept of foreign-linked funding is necessarily inappropriate is based on the obsolete conceptions of both sovereignty and nationhood. It is base on the idea that states have absolute sovereignty and that nations are closed systems. All of that is coming apart as we move into a global economy.

The Toffler’s go on to suggest that “transnational flows of political influence will increase.” They close the article by declaring, “For good or ill, it is time we recognize, that politics, too, like economics and information is going transnational.” According to the Toffler’s reasoning it is OK for a nation like Communist China to buy influence because we live in a global economy. What this really means is that our democratic republic form of government can be subverted by any foreign agent if they are willing to spend the money. What used to be treasonous is now acceptable, because after all the reasoning goes, “Everything is going transnational.” How many of our elected representatives and lobbying groups acting on the commands of foreign nations who can afford to buy politicians?

Make no mistake about it, this means the end of America as we know it, and the end of “We the people.” For centuries America has been unique among the nations because she has been a democratic republic built on Judeo-Christian values. Now America is being merged into a new form of global governance, which is no longer democratic and built on Judeo-Christian values. Instead of democracy we will be ruled by a secular humanist or occult elite that are building up a new world order, at lightning speed all around us. History shows us the results of what happens when the Illuminati elite rule. The Communist Manifesto was an Illuminati document. In Communist Russia, Communist China and other Communist nations hundreds of millions were killed and suffered under the brutal control of godless totalitarian state. There is a carefully concealed occult connection in the construction of these totalitarian states. The Russian occultist, Madame Blavatsky influenced Hitler, Stalin and the United Nations today. The Golden Dawn, the Thule Society, Satanist Aleister Crowley, the Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones and countless occult leaders and groups have constructed a high-tech global matrix of power. These occult teachings were promoted by Nimrod during the world’s first global government, the Tower of Babel. They have continued on for thousands of years through the Egyptian Isis Priesthood, the Dionysian cult and the New Age Movement.

As I expose in my 3-DVD series, “Are You Ready for the Coming One World Government, One World Economic System and the Coming One World Religion?” which is available through NewsWithViews.com. This is the game plan of the powerful global elite which runs America under names like the Council on Foreign Relations. It is the Rockefeller plan of global government!

In an article entitled: “The Phony Right-Wing & Who is Selling Us Down the River? – Part 2: Newt Gingrich” by Kelleigh Nelson, Nelson writes:

“Alvin Toffler is Newt Gingrich’s mentor, so we need to take a closer look at what Toffler espouses in The Third Wave. By the way he never mentioned reading the Constitution and for good reason. He wants to be rid of it.

Toffler believes mankind is entering a new system. To the founding fathers in his book, he wrote, “For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed… I thank Mr. Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.”

Gingrich, who swore an oath 10 times to uphold and defend the constitution urges with his mentor Toffler, the very death of the American Constitutional system...“ The Council on Foreign Relations, whose goal is one world government, controls the Democratic and Republican parties. Newt Gingrich is just one more establishment Republican, among many, who are for global government. It is almost predictable the amount of so-called conservative politicians who win the support of Evangelical Christians. But, these “conservative politicians,” are in fact globalists pushing a one world government.

We must remember that the global financial crisis is planned. Its purpose is to bring in a one world currency and a cashless society. The Illuminati slogan is, “Order out of Chaos.” The current global financial meltdown is a manufactured crisis! What is also accelerating is the coming one world religion, which is designed as a control system for the human race. In the Book of Revelation, we read about this one world government, referred to as the Revived Roman Empire and the one world economic system that culminated in mankind receiving a mark of the beast biochip implant.

This one world economic system is ruled by the False Prophet who also heads up a coming one world religion. It is my belief, after years of research, that when the term “sorcery,” is used in Revelation, it is referring to something far more high-tech and sophisticated then how most people translate the Biblical term sorcery today. Sorcery comes from the word Pharmakeia, from which we get the modern word pharmacy which deals with drugs. Legal and illegal drugs, music and the supernatural power to control others, is the usual interpretation.”

• Paul McGuire: radio talk show host, author, feature film producer and television commentator.
• Paul McGuire is the author of 22 books, such as the best-selling, “The Day the Dollar Died” and “Are You Ready for the Microchip? Paul is the host of the syndicated television show, The Paul McGuire Report. Paul McGuire hosted the nationally syndicated talk radio show, “The Paul McGuire Show” for 10 years. Paul McGuire is a television commentator and has been a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and CNN.
• Paul is the producer of two science fiction films in Hollywood. The History Channel did a 2-hour special with Paul McGuire entitled “Seven Signs of the Apocalypse.” Paul has interviewed numerous world leaders, Presidents and Prime Ministers. Paul lives in Los Angeles, California.
• At fifteen years old, Paul was demonstrating with radical activist Abbie Hoffman and made an honorary member of the Black Panther Party. However, while studying “Altered States of Consciousness” at the University of Missouri, Paul had a miraculous experience hitchhiking in a remote area similar to the movie “Field of Dreams.” Paul re-thought his socialist and humanist world view and rejected it as completely false. Paul has devoted his life to communicating truth to people.
• Website: PaulMcGuire.org
• E-Mail: newmediavoice@aol.com
• Paul Maguire-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Maguire

Source:

http://www.newswithviews.com/McGuire/paul113.htm

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and audio are directly related to the above article and/or blog post-You Decide:

I. The Phony Right-Wing: Newt Gingrich (Part 1)-Posted on Vince’s Blog-By Kelleigh Nelson-On June 3, 2011:

http://vinceiori.com/WordPress/2011/07/20/the-phony-right-wing-who-is-selling-us-down-the-river-–-part-1-newt-gingrich/

II. The Phony Right-Wing: Newt Gingrich (Part 2)-Posted on News With Views-By Kelleigh Nelson-On
June 3, 2011:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh122.htm

III. The Phony Right-Wing: Mitt Romney (Part 3)-Posted on News With Views-By Kelleigh Nelson-On
June 15, 2011:

http://vinceiori.com/WordPress/2011/07/20/the-phony-right-wing-who-is-selling-us-down-the-river-–-part-3-willard-‘mitt’-romney/

IV. The Phony Right-Wing: Herman Cain (Part 4)-Posted on News With Views-By Kelleigh Nelson-On
June 27, 2011:

http://vinceiori.com/WordPress/2011/07/20/the-phony-right-wing-–-part-4-herman-cain/

V. The Phony Right-Wing: Rick Perry (Part 5)-Posted on News With Views-By Kelleigh Nelson-On
June 30, 2011:

http://vinceiori.com/WordPress/2011/07/20/the-phony-right-wing-part-5-james-richard-‘rick’-perry/

VI. Audio: Rick Perry and other Fake “Conservatives” Exposed!-Posted on Blog Talk Radio-By Vince Iori Live-On June 24, 2011:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vjiori/2011/06/24/rick-perry-and-other-fake-conservatives-exposed

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free!

Is this America today and, if so, what's wrong with this picture?

Posted on The Washington Post-By Jonathan Turley-On January 13, 2012:

“Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for undermining due process. Other countries have been condemned for the use of secret evidence and torture.

Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own — the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?

While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don’t operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian. Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack basic individual rights such as due process, placing them outside any reasonable definition of “free,” but the United States now has much more in common with such regimes than anyone may like to admit.

These countries also have constitutions that purport to guarantee freedoms and rights. But their governments have broad discretion in denying those rights and few real avenues for challenges by citizens — precisely the problem with the new laws in this country.

The list of powers acquired by the U.S. government since 9/11 puts us in rather troubling company.

Assassination of U.S. citizens:

President Obama has claimed, as President George W. Bush did before him, the right to order the killing of any citizen considered a terrorist or an abettor of terrorism. Last year, he approved the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaqi and another citizen under this claimed inherent authority. Last month, administration officials affirmed that power, stating that the president can order the assassination of any citizen whom he considers allied with terrorists. (Nations such as Nigeria, Iran and Syria have been routinely criticized for extrajudicial killings of enemies of the state.)

Indefinite detention:

Under the law signed last month, terrorism suspects are to be held by the military; the president also has the authority to indefinitely detain citizens accused of terrorism. While the administration claims that this provision only codified existing law, experts widely contest this view, and the administration has opposed efforts to challenge such authority in federal courts. The government continues to claim the right to strip citizens of legal protections based on its sole discretion. (China recently codified a more limited detention law for its citizens, while countries such as Cambodia have been singled out by the United States for “prolonged detention.”)

Arbitrary justice:

The president now decides whether a person will receive a trial in the federal courts or in a military tribunal, a system that has been ridiculed around the world for lacking basic due process protections. Bush claimed this authority in 2001, and Obama has continued the practice. (Egypt and China have been denounced for maintaining separate military justice systems for selected defendants, including civilians.)

Warrantless searches:

The president may now order warrantless surveillance, including a new capability to force companies and organizations to turn over information on citizens’ finances, communications and associations. Bush acquired this sweeping power under the Patriot Act in 2001, and in 2011, Obama extended the power, including searches of everything from business documents to library records. The government can use “national security letters” to demand, without probable cause, that organizations turn over information on citizens — and order them not to reveal the disclosure to the affected party. (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan operate under laws that allow the government to engage in widespread discretionary surveillance.)

Secret evidence:

The government now routinely uses secret evidence to detain individuals and employs secret evidence in federal and military courts. It also forces the dismissal of cases against the United States by simply filing declarations that the cases would make the government reveal classified information that would harm national security — a claim made in a variety of privacy lawsuits and largely accepted by federal judges without question. Even legal opinions, cited as the basis for the government’s actions under the Bush and Obama administrations, have been classified. This allows the government to claim secret legal arguments to support secret proceedings using secret evidence. In addition, some cases never make it to court at all. The federal courts routinely deny constitutional challenges to policies and programs under a narrow definition of standing to bring a case.

War crimes:

The world clamored for prosecutions of those responsible for waterboarding terrorism suspects during the Bush administration, but the Obama administration said in 2009 that it would not allow CIA employees to be investigated or prosecuted for such actions. This gutted not just treaty obligations but the Nuremberg principles of international law. When courts in countries such as Spain moved to investigate Bush officials for war crimes, the Obama administration reportedly urged foreign officials not to allow such cases to proceed, despite the fact that the United States has long claimed the same authority with regard to alleged war criminals in other countries. (Various nations have resisted investigations of officials accused of war crimes and torture. Some, such as Serbia and Chile, eventually relented to comply with international law; countries that have denied independent investigations include Iran, Syria and China.)

Secret court:

The government has increased its use of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has expanded its secret warrants to include individuals deemed to be aiding or abetting hostile foreign governments or organizations. In 2011, Obama renewed these powers, including allowing secret searches of individuals who are not part of an identifiable terrorist group. The administration has asserted the right to ignore congressional limits on such surveillance. (Pakistan places national security surveillance under the unchecked powers of the military or intelligence services.)

Immunity from judicial review:

Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration has successfully pushed for immunity for companies that assist in warrantless surveillance of citizens, blocking the ability of citizens to challenge the violation of privacy. (Similarly, China has maintained sweeping immunity claims both inside and outside the country and routinely blocks lawsuits against private companies.)

Continual monitoring of citizens:

The Obama administration has successfully defended its claim that it can use GPS devices to monitor every move of targeted citizens without securing any court order or review. (Saudi Arabia has installed massive public surveillance systems, while Cuba is notorious for active monitoring of selected citizens.)

Extraordinary renditions:

The government now has the ability to transfer both citizens and noncitizens to another country under a system known as extraordinary rendition, which has been denounced as using other countries, such as Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan, to torture suspects. The Obama administration says it is not continuing the abuses of this practice under Bush, but it insists on the unfettered right to order such transfers — including the possible transfer of U.S. citizens.

These new laws have come with an infusion of money into an expanded security system on the state and federal levels, including more public surveillance cameras, tens of thousands of security personnel and a massive expansion of a terrorist-chasing bureaucracy.

Some politicians shrug and say these increased powers are merely a response to the times we live in. Thus, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) could declare in an interview last spring without objection that “free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war.” Of course, terrorism will never “surrender” and end this particular “war.”

Other politicians rationalize that, while such powers may exist, it really comes down to how they are used. This is a common response by liberals who cannot bring themselves to denounce Obama as they did Bush. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), for instance, has insisted that Congress is not making any decision on indefinite detention: “That is a decision which we leave where it belongs — in the executive branch.”

And in a signing statement with the defense authorization bill, Obama said he does not intend to use the latest power to indefinitely imprison citizens. Yet, he still accepted the power as a sort of regretful autocrat.

An authoritarian nation is defined not just by the use of authoritarian powers, but by the ability to use them. If a president can take away your freedom or your life on his own authority, all rights become little more than a discretionary grant subject to executive will.

The framers lived under autocratic rule and understood this danger better than we do. James Madison famously warned that we needed a system that did not depend on the good intentions or motivations of our rulers: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

Benjamin Franklin was more direct. In 1787, a Mrs. Powel confronted Franklin after the signing of the Constitution and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” His response was a bit chilling: “A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”

Since 9/11, we have created the very government the framers feared: a government with sweeping and largely unchecked powers resting on the hope that they will be used wisely.

The indefinite-detention provision in the defense authorization bill seemed to many civil libertarians like a betrayal by Obama. While the president had promised to veto the law over that provision, Levin, a sponsor of the bill, disclosed on the Senate floor that it was in fact the White House that approved the removal of any exception for citizens from indefinite detention.

Dishonesty from politicians is nothing new for Americans. The real question is whether we are lying to ourselves when we call this country the land of the free.”

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.

Read more from Outlook, including:

“Imagining a world without Gitmo,” by Karen J. Greenberg.

“A world without 9/11: No President Obama, more China trouble, same debt crisis,” by Michael Lind.

“Five myths about Dick Cheney,” by Stephen F. Hayes.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html

II. Did American’s Loose Their Will For Liberty?-Posted on News With Views-By Pastor Roger Anghis, NewsWithViews.com-On
January 15, 2012:


http://www.newswithviews.com/Anghis/roger197.htm

III. Resistance or Apathy – Victory or Defeat in 2012!-Posted on News With Views-By Greg Evensen, NewsWithViews.com-On January 14, 2011:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg170.htm

IV. Liberty v the Fatal Cycle of Democracy: ‘The Path from Freedom to Bondage!’-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On December 15, 2011:

http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/12/15/liberty-v-the-fatal-cycle-of-democracy/

V. Video: A Republic, If You Can Keep It - The American Form of Government!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

VI. Video: YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE!-Posted on YouTube.com-By in5d-On May 6, 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0cd_aIxVg&feature=related

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

New World Order By Executive Order!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/

It’s Getting Very Serious Now!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/it’s-getting-very-serious-now/

What Happened to Free Speech?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

The FCC Should Not Interfere With The Internet!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/the-fcc-should-not-interfere-with-the-internet/

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and-...

Powerful men who meet secretly to plan on how to run our country!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/powerful-men-who-meet-secretly-and-plan-on-how-to-run-our-country/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communist...

Who is sponsoring the NAACP’s ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/who-is-sponsoring-the-naac...

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-...

Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/communism-in-hawaii-and-th...

Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/revolutionary-communist-pa...

Is President Obama inciting riots across the US?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/is-president-obama-incitin...

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

Have Americans Stopped Having Confidence In Their Government-Why?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/have-americans-stopped-having-confidence-in-their-government/

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetrated-in-american-history/

Was the Economic Crisis Manufactured?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/was-the-economic-crisis-manufactured/

Where Is America Today?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/the-russian-view-of-what-has-been-happening-in-america/

Note:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

On Sunday’s NBC Meet the Press, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he sympathized with the American people’s frustration with Congress. He went on to say that it was due to the “obstructionism on steroids” caused by the Republicans and the extremist Tea Party.
“I hope the Republicans have learned their lesson” Reid continued. The debate on the extension of the payroll tax deduction was “a disaster” for the Republicans (http://bit.ly/yzZa5x).  In that debate, the president and the Democrats proposed, and finally received, a two month extension. The Republicans proposed, and folded on, a one year extension. The problem here was that the liberals, supported by the main stream media, control the dialogue. Somehow, wanting to extend a tax deduction for a full year was turned into a bad thing for the American people and only wanting to extend a tax cut for two months was the more reasonable position.
Harry went on to say that the art of legislation was negotiation and compromise. So, it is the Democratic position that if they propose further spending or a new program, and the Republicans don’t want it at all, it is our responsibility to compromise. That assumes that the creation of the program is a given, it is really just a matter of working out the details. It is further assumed that if the Republicans don’t fall in line, we’re being obstructionists. It is more “extreme” that one party, and the president, will continuously increase spending and grow government at the expense of liberty than it is to attempt to prevent it.
Reid continued by stating that the Tea Party’s influence has been “really bad for this country” (http://bit.ly/yzZa5x). With the national debt currently at $15,241,210,000,000, and over $5 trillion of that added since Obama took office, it is inconceivable how he can consider that good for the country. And, as if that wasn't enough, Obama has asked Congress to authorize another $1.2 trillion raise in the debt ceilling. But, he, and his liberal compatriots do. Because they control the debate, it is the Tea Party and our desire to return this country to our founding principles, small, sound and accountable government that is labeled “extreme”.
By contrast, it is these same liberals that sympathize with the Occupy Wall Street movement. That wave of protestors are supported by the American Communist Party, SEIU, big labor, and socialists. The OWS has a basic Marxist message empower the government to redistribute wealth from the producers in this country to the recipient class.

Even Congressman Bill Owens (D-NY23) said that the Occupy Wall Street movement was “just like the Tea Party” in their protests at a town hall meeting at SUNY Canton in October. This is despite the fact that there have been numerous violent confrontations with police, rapes, assaults, drug use, thousands of arrests and a near universal disregard for private property rights at the OWS protests and not one arrest at any Tea Party event. Yet, we are the extremists?
Harry Reid thinks the Tea Party is dying out because the economy is getting better. First, the economy is not getting better. When Obama was sworn in, the unemployment rate was 7.6% (http://bit.ly/z9CwEg).  It is now 8.5% (http://bit.ly/eT9opV)  and has been over 9% for the majority of Obama’s presidency. The Democrats controlled the presidency, the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first two years of his administration. They were able to force through every progressive policy they wanted with a total disregard for the Republicans or the American people. So, despite all of the rhetoric, despite the $785 billion stimulus, cash for clunkers, Obamacare, green job initiatives, the take over of GM, etc, the unemployment rate is still higher now than at Obama’s inauguration. Yet, because the progressives and liberals control the message, we’re told “the economy is getting better”, the Republicans are “obstructionists” and the Tea Party are the “extremists”.
Harry now says his agenda for next year is creating jobs. So far, no less than three times, the president has stated that creating jobs was his top priority. If the liberal progressive agenda was ever going to work to create jobs, the unemployment rate would be lower now than when he took office. It isn’t. Their agenda doesn’t work and won’t work this time.
On being “obstructionists”. Between the House, the Senate and the president, there are 536 people that can pass laws coercing 300 million Americans at the threat of punishment to comply with their mandates. This process should be hard. It should be slow and deliberate with much debate and thought and consultation with us, We the People. If that means we need to be obstructionists, all the better.

The Tea Party marches were an uplifting and highly successful National effort. Now that our president is moving toward dictatorship and the OWS are so lauded, thanks to the media, fresh Tea Party Marches may be thwarted by OWS infiltration. The media, the dictator and the dems, like Nancy Pelosi blame the Tea Partiers and the Republicans for the Nation's problems, which THEY actually caused. Our Tea Party Marches need to be stepped up with Tea Party Parades. Volunteer groups must get together and Parade with flags and drum music. As a youth, in gym class and ROTC in college, I learned to march Right, Left, Right and Left face, Right Face, About face. Our parading with flags will catch the eye of the Nation. The large flags will show our citizenship and the drums and bugles will show that we are patriots.  Tri corner Patriot hats are available on the internet. We could wear these hats. If we are attacked our flag poles will be handy. If we all parade together we will be able to do something as a group, that OWS can't, so they will not join in. We will become more physically fit and show that we are deeply concerned for our Nation! Every city and town would have to have a Tea Party Volunteer to organize the parading in their area.  I will volunteer for my area of Maryland. Lets prepare to show America what the Tea Party actually stands for - The Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Competent Presidential Management, Smaller Government and Individual Rights.

Please let me know what you think!

Howard Percival Johnson

ITS TIME JOHN , PLEASE RETIRE, YOUR RICH, PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE.  GIVE IT A REST.

FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS IN THE CONSTITUTION

THAT ONLY YOU CAN FIX

THE STATES AND THE PEOPLE

The Constitution was created by the States and the People.  It formed a Federal Government of specified and limited powers with all other responsibilities left to the States and the People. 

But who will keep the actions of the Federal Government from expanding beyond those specified by the Constitution?  It is certainly not the President, Congress and the Court.  It is in their personal interests to expand their roles, regardless of their Oaths to support the Constitution.  The history of the past two centuries certainly proves this point. 

Today, we must face the obvious.  The only parties that can limit the powers of the Federal Government are those who created it, the States and the People. 

THE FOUNDERS INTENTION

Originally the Senate was to be the States House.  Each Senator was selected by his State’s Legislature.  His first responsibility was to keep Federal role from expanding into those left to the States by the Constitution.  This arrangement was destroyed by the fundamental error of the 17^th Amendment.  Electing Senators by popular vote left the States defenseless against the Unconstitutional expansion of Federal powers.

Congress was to be the Peoples House.  Each Representative was selected by constituents of his District.  His first responsibility was to preserve the Individual Liberties of his constituents from infringements by the Federal Government, thus leaving to the individual most of the decisions that directly impact his life.  Unfortunately, political realities have intervened to sabotage the essential link between Representative and Constituent. 

MONEY TALKS

 The fact that the Constitution authorizes pay to Senators and Representatives from the Treasury of the United States is another fundamental error, although innocent in appearance. 

Senators whose first responsibility is to check expansion of Federal powers into those relegated to the States, should logically be paid by the States whose interests they are charged with defending.  We all serve most dearly the hand that signs our paycheck. 

Representatives whose first responsibility is to resist Federal encroachment into Individual Liberties of their constituents should logically be paid by the constituents they represent.  We all serve most dearly the hand that signs our paycheck. 

With their pay coming from the central government, they become creatures of the Federal Government with a built-in motivation to preserve, protect and defend their paymaster.  It can be no other way.

MONEY SCREAMS

With the advent of television, the cost of a Congressional reelection campaign is near a million dollars and the cost of a Senatorial reelection campaign can reach ten to twenty million dollars.  Most approach the office with the hope of serving more than one term, and of perhaps making the office a well paid and influential lifetime career.  Their future influence and prosperity therefore requires them to make fund-raising for reelection their primary activity; ahead of preserving the Individual Liberties of their constituents and ahead of checking the expansion of Federal powers.

Even if you are a patriot determined to protect and defend the Constitution, you must begin by hustling for reelection money or you will not remain in office. 

Lobbyists representing the largest corporations and unions will be your best friends and will help you with your fundraisers.  With this access they will lobby against regulations and taxes that could destroy their industries and their union influence.  They must have a Washington DC presence to defend their interests because they know the Federal Government has the power to destroy them.  But having established contact they will also exert their influence to obtain tax breaks (over 60,000 pages of them), industry subsidies and regulations that favor their interests.  They will convince you that these measures are in the public interest and in return you will be well positioned for the next election. 

The cost of reelection and the necessity for large corporations and unions to defend their interests creates the dominant web of corruption that is endemic to our institutions of government.  While serving your reelection, this arrangement also preserves, protects and defends the corrupting influence of large corporate and union interests.  It leaves small business neglected and leaves Individual Liberties and Constitutional Limits on the power central government ignored.

STATES AND THE PEOPLE TO THE RESCUE

1. Repeal the 17^th Amendment, thereby returning the appointment of Senators to the State Legislature.  This will restore the ability to the States to resist expansion of the central government authority beyond that specified by the Constitution.  It will also eliminate the need for the costly reelection campaigns that presently corrupt the Senate.
2. Provide Federal financing of all election campaigns for the House of Representatives with equal funding for both incumbents and challengers.  Place a limit of $200 on all contributions to Congressional election Political Action Committees (PACs), so PAC activities do not completely dwarf those of the actual campaign.
3. Require payment of Congressional Representative Salary and all office costs by the constituency represented.
4. 4.  Eliminate all perks hitherto provided by the central government, free air travel and limousines as well as subsidized health insurance and retirement benefits.  Any and all perks must come exclusively from the States and the People.

This will not eliminate all Washington corruption.  Nothing can.  But it can help free our government from dominance by corruption and put the States and the People in effective control of the Federal Government as the Constitution intended.

Bob Lessley

Capitola, CA

I PERSONALY DO NOT BELIVE THE U.N NEVER HAD ANY POWER.