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Vote-probe arrests include councilmen!

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Posted on TimesUnion.com-By BOB GARDINIER, Staff writer-On December 21, 2011:

“TROY — The City Council president, a councilman and two others were arrested Tuesday and charged with felonies for allegedly forging absentee ballots in the 2009 primary to benefit Democratic candidates.

Those arrested early Tuesday included City Council President Clement Campana, Councilman John Brown and political operatives Anthony Renna and Anthony DeFiglio.

So far seven elected or appointed officials and operatives have been charged in the two-year probe into allegations that scores of absentee ballots were forged to benefit Democratic candidates in the 2009 Working Families Party primary. Most voters targeted lived in Troy Housing Authority apartments and rarely, if ever, voted. They were allegedly targeted because they were unfamiliar with the process.

Campana appeared with his attorney, E. Stewart Jones, and was arraigned on an indictment charging him with first-degree falsifying business records and four counts of illegal voting, all felonies; and a count of conspiracy to promote or prevent election, a misdemeanor.

He could face up to seven years on the charges.

Campana appeared before visiting Supreme Court Justice George J. Pulver Jr. and pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance pending further court action. Campana, who refused comment, did not seek re-election so he will be council president only until the end of the year.

“Clem has been waiting a long time for his day in court and will be found not guilty,” Jones said following the court session.

Brown, a Democratic councilman, also appeared before Pulver and decided to forgo indictment and plead guilty to a felony count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument lodged against him by Special Prosecutor Trey Smith.

“I knowingly submitted a forged ballot before the election was final,” Brown told Pulver when ask to explain what he did.

Brown will be sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probation.

Brown did not seek re-election and will be off the council by year’s end.

Also entering pleas Tuesday were Democratic operatives Anthony Renna and Anthony DeFiglio.

Renna pleaded guilty to second-degree forgery and will be sentenced to community service.

“I forged a ballot on Sept. 14, 2009 in the name of voter Peter Testa,” Renna admitted to Pulver.

DeFiglio, a former Troy Housing Authority clerk, pleaded guilty to first-degree falsifying business records.

“I solicited an absentee ballot vote from Elizabeth Montalvo and had her leave some fields blank,” DeFiglio told Pulver.

“You purposely left fields blank so you could falsify the vote?” Smith asked DeFiglio.

“Yes, that’s right,” DeFiglio replied.

DeFiglio’s sentence is yet to be determined but Pulver told him it would not involve jail or prison time.

All were released on their own recognizance and none of the men commented after the court session. Sentencing dates have not been set.

Brown’s brother Dan Brown, a political operative, was also named as a target early on in the investigation and recently testified before the grand jury. Brown’s attorney, Phil Steck, has said his client received immunity from prosecution for his testimony.

Renna, a City Council aide and former city marshal, appeared Dec. 6 before the grand jury without counsel. Renna is a fixture in city Democratic campaign circles.

John Brown spent most of the day Oct. 27 in front of the special grand jury. Campana previously said he refused to testify before the grand jury.

DeFiglio, who in a statement to investigators said that absentee ballot rigging in the city was a “normal political tactic,” testified before the first grand jury on Dec. 8, 2010.

Last year, the first grand jury indicted Councilman Michael LoPorto and Democratic County Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough on numerous felony forgery charges. They face trial next month.

Smith also entered a decision Tuesday dropping 13 of the 42 counts against LoPorto because a handwriting expert concluded that former city clerk William McInerney forged the ballots and not LoPorto.

In August, McInerney pleaded guilty to a charge that he signed a voter’s signature to an absentee primary ballot in 2009. His sentencing is pending.

Councilmen Kevin McGrath and Gary Galuski have testified before the grand juries, as have several voters and board of elections workers.

McGrath cooperated and was granted immunity, but Smith said Tuesday that grand jurors failed to hear enough evidence to charge Galuski.

“I would like the public to know that if there is anyone out there who can provide information on Mr. Galuski forging any ballots to call State Police Investigator John Ogden at 279-4427,” Smith said.”

Source:

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Vote-probe-arrests-include-councilmen-2414466.php#ixzz1iykckADc

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

I. Video: NH poll workers shown handing out ballots in dead peoples’ names!–Posted on The Daily Caller-By Alex Pappas, The Daily Caller-Updated on January 12, 2012:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/11/video-nh-poll-workers-shown-handing-out-ballots-in-dead-peoples-names/#ixzz1jFhacFHI

II. Video: South Carolina Seeks Voter Fraud Probe, Holder Says No!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On January 12, 2012:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/01/12/video-south-carolina-seeks-voter-fraud-probe-holder-says-no/

III. Voter ID Prevents Election Fraud!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Mike Brownfield-On January 4, 2012:

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/04/morning-bell-voter-id-prevents-election-fraud/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

IV. Holder’s war on voter-ID laws is racially motivated!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Ken Blackwell & Ken Klukowski-On December 30, 2011:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/30/holders-war-on-voter-id-laws-is-racially-motivated/#ixzz1iVpZYREb

V. ACORN leaders ramp up White House visitations: ‘Strategy developing to tilt elections to Democrats’-Posted on WND.com-On December 24, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=379041

VI. Video: Eric Holder Refuses to Investigate Obama Voter Fraud!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch-On December 20, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/12/20/video-eric-holder-refuses-to-investigate-obama-voter-fraud/

VII. Not a Race Card!-Posted on National Review Online-By Hans A. von Spakovsky-On August 29, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275069/not-race-card-hans-von-spakovsky?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&page=1

VIII. Without Proof: The Unpersuasive Case Against Voter Identification!-Posed on The Heritage Foundation-By Hans von Spakovsky and Alex Ingram-On August 24, 2011:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/08/without-proof-the-unpersuasive-case-against-voter-identification?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

IX. Video: Ex-CIA Contractor Says IT'S OVER! - There Will Be No 45th President!!-Posted on YouTube.com-By ppsimmons-On July 19, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGpiA7tL1PU

X. Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama’s Reelection!-Posted on USNews.com-By Paul Bedard-On January 9, 2012:

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/01/09/poll-americans-2-1-fear-obamas-reelection

Note: I know that most of you have already seen the following information before, but bare with me for taking the liberty of sharing it with you again to make sure that we are all on the same page when it comes to knowing what we face in our next Presidential election:

The following websites reveal that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) — has dispensed more than $5 billion to a multitude of organizations whose objectives are consistent with those of Soros and one of those organizations is Project Vote, which is the voter-mobilization arm of the notoriously corrupt ACORN, whose voter-registration drives and get-out-the-vote initiatives have been marred by massive levels of fraud and corruption, along President Obama’s ties to this voter fraud machine-You Decide:

Guide to the George Soros Network:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589

Project Vote:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6966

Obama’s ties with voter fraud!-Posted on OneNewsNow.com-By Russ Jones, OneNewsNow-On December 1, 2011:

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1487470

The following websites and article and/or blog post reveal George Soros’s Secretary State Project (SOSP) and an education fund run by progressive labor leaders tasked with naturalizing new citizens and register new voters by using the 2010 Census as a redistributive mechanism, along with how he is using his money to help tip the elections to Democrats (Progressives) in all 50 states-You Decide:

George Soros’s Secretary Of State Project (SOSP)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7487

Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7538

George Soros’ Money Could Tip Elections in All 50 States!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Michael Oberndorf-On July 1, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/george-soros-money-could-tip-elections-in-all-50-states/

The following website and article and/or blog post reveal that George Soros funds Leftist foundations, litigators and organizations that dominate Election Laws and crusaders that enable massive voter fraud while the DOJ turns a blind eye-You Decide:

George Soros Funds Leftist Foundations, Litigators and OrganizationsThatDominate Field of Election Laws!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1431

The Left Owns the Election Law Industry!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By J. Christian Adams-On August 12, 2011:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/12/the-left-owns-the-election-law-industry/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f9c5910590-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

I, like many of you, have little or no faith in polls due to our bad experiences during the final days of the 2008 Presidential Election, as substantiated by this NewsMax article that revealed that almost every major pollster, to include the main stream media, had egg on their faces after the election because most of them predicted a double-digit win for then Senator Obama, but only two pollsters were accurate and critics say that the inflated numbers helped Senator Obama by reducing enthusiasm and support for Senator McCain.  Also included are other articles and/or blog posts that revealed that the same thing occurred during the 2010 mid-term elections-You Decide:

2008 Presidential Election Polls:

Pollsters Inflated Senator Obama’s Lead?

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/polls_inflated_obama_lead/2008/11/05/147971.html?s=al&promo_code=7059-1

2010 Mid-Term Election Polls:

Don’t Believe the State-Run Polls!-Posted by Rush Limbaugh-On October 22, 2010:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102210/content/01125108.guest.html

About That New Poll in Alaska . . .-Posted on National Review-By Jim Geraghty-On October 28, 2010:

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/251296/about-new-poll-alaska

Note: If the above information does not make you question our electoral system, what follows are videos that expose the hacking of voting machines across our country as a means of tilting the elections, which has been ongoing for some time now-You Decide:

Video: Proof of voter fraud in the USA - from the horse's mouth!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheTruthPusher-On April 18, 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Zz5LW4WmE

Video: Vote Fraud - Diebold Whistleblower Speaks Out!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheRealNews-On June 9, 2010:

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

VOTE FRAUD: WHAT THEY AREN'T TELLING YOU!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On October 22, 2004:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd72.htm

Video: Vote Fraud - What They Aren't Telling You (Part 2 of 3)-Posted on YouTube.com-By ConstitutionStudies-On May 20, 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ZHfjwiRgKqA

Video: Vote Fraud - What They Aren't Telling You (Part 3 of 3)-Posted on YouTube.com-By Posted on YouTube.com-By ConstitutionStudies-On May 20, 2009:

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

Video: Vote Fraud Smoking Gun Banned From CNN, FOX & NBC!-Posted on YouTube.com-By YouTubReptilian-On June 10, 2008:

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

Video: Diebold Electronic Vote Fraud Confirmed!-Posted on YouTube.com-By DrRonPaul4President-On February 1, 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=u4FPuLNjvAc&NR=1

Continue Reading More On This Disturbing Issue:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/massive-voter-fraud-again/

Question:  After taking the time to read and/or view the above articles and/or blog posts and videos, how safe and secure do you feel about our overall electoral system or, even more important, the fate of our country?

Before you attempt to answer this question, please take the time to read the following article and/or blog post that was published over the Christmas holiday:

Faith in America!

Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Matt Spalding-On December 26, 2011:

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote. “The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Among the American Founders, there was a profound sense that faith and freedom were deeply intertwined.

Nowadays, we are often told that religion is divisive and ought to kept away from politics for the sake of liberty. Religion somehow is opposed to liberty, and so liberty requires a diminution of religion in the public square.

The view long consistent with our historical practice, though, is that of America’s Founders, who advanced religious liberty so as to strengthen religious faith and its influence on American self-government. All had a natural right to worship God as they chose, according to the dictates of their consciences. At the same time, the Founders upheld religion and morality–to paraphrase Washington’s Farewell Address–as indispensable supports of good habits, the firmest props of the duties of citizens, and the great pillars of human happiness.

Religious liberty neither settles nor dismisses the claims of reason and revelation to teach the most important things for human beings to know. But it does create a practical solution–after thousands of years of failed attempts–at the level of politics and political morality. It established a form of government that is sanctioned by human nature and open to moral reasoning, the legitimacy of which does not depend on the truth of any particular religious denomination.

This solution is possible because the American Founders recognized general moral precepts that are understandable by human reason and no less agreeable to faith in the form of a general revelation of creation. This morality common to both natural reason and divine revelation, usually termed natural law, is the philosophical ground of the American Founding.

We can see this agreement of reason and revelation in the Declaration of Independence. The liberties recognized in it are deduced from a higher law to which all human laws are answerable and by which they are limited. This higher law can be understood by man’s practical reason–the truths of the Declaration are held to be “self-evident”–but also by the revealed word of God. There are four references to God in the document: to “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”; to all men being “created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”; to “the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions”; and to “the protection of divine Providence.” The first term suggests a deity that is knowable by human reason, but the others–God as creator, as judge, and as providence–are more biblical, and add (and were assuredly intended to add) a theological context to the document.

From the perspective of religious faith, the basic principles of the Founding, at the level of political principles, were understood to be in essential agreement with the core precepts of the Bible. That this is the case can be seen throughout the many church sermons published from the founding era.  While we have never been and should not try to become a nation defined by a particular or official religious denomination, we must never forget that, as the Supreme Court said in 1952 (and reiterated in 1963, and again in 1984), “We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”

The health and strength of liberty depend on the principles, standards, and morals shared by nearly all religions.  What the “separation of church and state” does is liberate America’s religions–in respect to their moral forms and teachings–to exercise unprecedented influence over private and public opinion by shaping citizens’ mores, cultivating their virtues, and in general, providing a pure and independent source of moral reasoning and authority. This is what Alexis de Tocqueville meant when he observed that even though religion “never mixes directly in the government of society,” it nevertheless determines the “habits of the heart” and is “the first of their political institutions.”

As we gather with our families to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, let us remember that our greatest blessing as Americans is the freedom to pursue our eternal duties to God and of religion to pursue freely its divine mission among men on earth.

As George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport in 1790, so all of us at The Heritage Foundation proclaim to our friends and fellow citizens: “May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.”

  • Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., is Vice President of American Studies and Director, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics

Source:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/26/morning-bell-faith-in-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Continue Reading:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Obama’s Arrogant Authoritarianism!

What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Lachlan Markay-On January 10, 2012:

“Last week, President Barack Obama took the latest step on his road toward an arrogant, new authoritarianism with four illegal appointments that entirely trampled on the Constitution’s requirements. More troubling still, the President chose to shred the Constitution all in the name of serving his Big Labor agenda while killing jobs in the process.

The President’s actions once again gave voice to his animating view of governing: doing so is much easier when one isn’t constrained by the Constitution and its checks and balances. “We can’t wait,” the President exclaimed after unilaterally appointing Richard Cordray as director of the newly inaugurated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also appointed three officials to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), two of whom had been nominated less than a month before.

The policy implications of the President’s appointments? The CFPB will now have unmitigated authority to issue regulation upon regulation, contributing to the already-crippling red tape that is strangling business in America. And the NLRB will have the power to advance the President’s agenda to bolster unions across the country at the expense of job growth in a smarting economy.

For what, exactly, can’t the President wait? Quite simply, constitutional republicanism — the system of checks and balances integral to American government and political freedom. He grew impatient with the delays that inevitably accompany any legislative action an acted outside the Constitution’s mandated process. But the American people should ask, “Is such action really preferable to a deliberative, if slower-moving, constitutional republic?”

The President’s appointments last week, troubling as they are, are but the next steps on the road to a despotic form of governance that has come to characterize his Administration — and all of liberalism in America today — what authors Fred Siegel and Joel Kotkin termed in City Journal this week Obama’s “New Authoritarianism.” Frustrated by the unwillingness of the people’s representatives to enact his agenda wholesale, Obama has, from early in his Administration, sought to enact a series of proposals through administrative fiat, not the legislative process:

  • The Democrat-controlled Senate rejected his cap-and-trade plan, so Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency classified carbon dioxide, the compound that sustains vegetative life, as a pollutant so that it could regulate it under the Clean Air Act.
  • After Congress defeated his stealth-amnesty immigration proposal, the DREAM Act, the Department of Homeland Security instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to “adopt enforcement parameters that bring about the same ends as the DREAM Act,” as Heritage’s Mike Brownfield explained.
  • When the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act–explicitly designed to bolster labor unions’ dwindling membership rolls–was defeated by Congress, the NLRB announced a rule that would implement “snap elections” for union representation, limiting employers’ abilities to make their case to workers and virtually guaranteeing a higher rate of unionization at the expense of workplace democracy.
  • After an innovation-killing Internet regulation proposal failed to make it through Congress, the Federal Communications Commission announced — on Christmas Eve, no less — that it would regulate the Web anyway, despite even a federal court’s ruling that it had no authority to do so.
  • In its push for national education standards, the Education Department decided to tie waivers for the No Child Left Behind law to requirements that states adopt those standards, shutting Congress out of the effort.
  • Rather than push Congress to repeal federal laws against marijuana use, the Department of Justice (DOJ) simply decided it would no longer enforce those laws.
  • DOJ made a similar move with respect to the Defense of Marriage Act: rather than seeking legislative recourse, DOJ announced it would stop enforcing the law.

While these efforts are all aimed at circumventing the legislative process, none was so brazen as his four illegal appointments. Last week, Obama went one step further: He violated not just the spirit of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the power to make laws, but the letter of the law as well.

The move is “a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers,” explain former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese and Heritage colleague Todd Gaziano, a former attorney in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, in a Washington Post column. “[N]ever before has a president purported to make a ‘recess’ appointment when the Senate is demonstrably not in recess,” they note. “That is a constitutional abuse of a high order.”

Dr. Matthew Spalding, vice president of American Studies and director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation, explains that this “new despotism” — a government where regulations and unilateral actions replace republican governance — runs entirely counter to the Founders’ vision of America:

“The greatest political revolution since the American Founding has been the shift of power away from the institutions of constitutional government to an oligarchy of unelected experts. They rule over virtually every aspect of our daily lives, ostensibly in the name of the American people but in actuality by the claimed authority of science, policy expertise, and administrative efficiency.

If this regime becomes the undisputed norm — accepted not only among the intellectual and political elites, but also by the American people, as the defining characteristic of the modern state — it could well mark the end of our great experiment in self-government.”

President Obama’s actions are exactly the kind that the Founders feared and sought to guard against. His illegal appointments usurp power from the American people’s duly elected representatives, and the regulations they will promulgate will, undoubtedly, contribute to the unabated growth of the undemocratic administrative state.

Now that the President has crossed the threshold of constitutionality, there really is no telling where he may stop. There is a clear trend here, however, and it leads further and further from the constitutional order. With these illegal appointments, the President has taken to new heights his disdain for the separation of powers. Whether it will stop here depends on Congress — Will lawmakers of both parties reassert the legislature’s constitutional authority and take a stand against Obama’s arrogant new authoritarianism?

Source:

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/10/morning-bell-obamas-arrogant-authoritarianism/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

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

I. Obama to Congress: I’ll decide what’s constitutional!

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Posted on The Daily Caller-By Chris Cox-Updated on January 6, 2012:

“Election season is here, and you might think President Obama would be going out of his way to show voters that he can be trusted with the powers of the presidency. But you would be wrong. Just a few days before Christmas, Obama served notice to all Americans that he will continue to abuse executive privilege by seeking new ways to vilify gun owners and further his anti-gun agenda.

Congress placed a provision in the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill for 2012 designed to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from using any of its $30.7 billion taxpayer funds to “advocate or promote gun control.” However, upon signing the bill into law, President Obama issued a caveat of his own:

I have advised Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congress’s consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient.

In other words: “Congress may pass laws, but I decide which of its laws are constitutional and which I can simply choose to ignore.”

Of course, the Constitution doesn’t actually give the president this power, but Obama won’t allow a little thing like the U.S. Constitution get in his way. And in the present case, Congress is right to try to prevent him from using a federal health agency, not to mention our tax dollars, as a weapon in his ongoing war against the Second Amendment. As The Washington Times reports, NIH has wasted over $5 million since 2002 producing deceptive studies aimed at furthering gun control — including one study that tried “to prove that a home without firearms was essential to a child’s safety and well-being.”

Even more importantly, Congress knows that there is no scheme too radical, or dangerous, for the Obama administration when it comes to using federal agencies to push its anti-gun agenda.

Last month, email exchanges surfaced between employees at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) that show the administration helped illegally transfer guns to violent Mexican drug cartels in order to manufacture a case for gun registration. Now gun dealers in four Southwest border states must abide by a new gun registration requirement, courtesy of BATFE, that forces them to register the sales of any law-abiding American who purchases more than one semi-automatic rifle within five business days.

Congress never passed any law like this. Rather, Obama’s BATFE orchestrated the deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal to give cause for its unconstitutional gun-control edict. Given this, how hard is it to envision the Obama administration issuing a phony “health” study that maligns gun owners?

Obama may not have a majority in Congress, or the will of the people, behind his anti-gun agenda. But that isn’t stopping his administration from finding deceitful ways to evade Congress and build public support for gun bans, gun registration and other regulations designed to weaken and destroy our Second Amendment rights.”

  • Chris W. Cox is the executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.

Source:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/05/obama-to-congress-ill-decide-whats-constitutional/#ixzz1inCeZ7yV

II. Allen West: GOP Must Stop Obama’s ‘Imperial Presidency!’-Posted on NewsMax.com-By By Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter-On January 10, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/West-obama-imperial-presidency/2012/01/10/id/423662

III. Former AG Meese: Obama’s ‘Recess’ Appointments Are a ‘Constitutional Abuse of a High Order’!-Posted on Big Government-By Dr. Susan Berry-On January 7, 2012:

http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2012/01/07/former-ag-meese-obamas-recess-appointments-are-a-constitutional-abuse-of-a-high-order/

IV. Video: Reagan’s Attorney General on Impeaching Obama,“Close to a Constitutional Crisis!”-Posted on ExposeObama.com-By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch-On January 7, 2012:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/01/07/video-reagans-attorney-general-on-impeaching-obama-close-to-a-constitutional-crisis/

V. Video: Legal Analyst, Obama’s Violating the Constitution!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On January 7, 2012:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/01/07/video-legal-analyst-obamas-violating-the-constitution/

VI. Video: Impeachment. If You Don’t Get it, Demand It!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch-On January 7, 2012:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/01/07/video-impeachment-if-you-dont-get-it-demand-it/

VII. Obama Starts Constitutional Crisis: Installs New Radical Czars!-Posted on Judicial Watch Weekly Update-By Tom Fitton, President-On January 6, 2012:

http://newstracking.judicialwatch.org/l/a/74i/xi/bapi/lq/rjqi/trouble.htm#article1

VIII. Obama’s NLRB ‘Recess’ Appointees Circumvent Background Checks!-Posted on National Review Online-ByBREAKING NEWS-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-nlrb-recess-appointees-circumvent-background-checks/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=3069dc35a8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

IX. The Czar-Maker Strikes Again: ‘Richard Cordray and Obama’s continuing contempt for the Constitution!’-Posted on National Review Online-By Michelle Malkin-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287333/czar-maker-strikes-again-michelle-malkin

X. Will Republicans Finally Impeach Over “Uncertain” Recess Appointment?-Posted on Western Journalism-By BEN JOHNSON-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/will-republicans-finally-impeach-over-uncertain-recess-appointment-2/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=3069dc35a8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

XI. Obama’s recess appointments are unconstitutional!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Edwin Meese III and Todd Gaziano-On  January 5, 2012:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-recess-appointments-are-unconstitutional/2012/01/05/gIQAnWRfdP_story.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts and videos reveal how our American Constitution currently faces a 'progressive' threat, along with a video that gives us some background regarding our Contstitution and our Republic-You Decide:

The Elite Are Not Even Trying To Hide How Much They Hate The U.S. Constitution Anymore!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By The American Dream-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.infowars.com/the-elite-are-not-even-trying-to-hide-how-much-they-hate-the-u-s-constitution-anymore/

American Constitution faces 'progressive' threat!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 3, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=316621

Obama Versus the Constitution!-Posted on American Thinker-By James Lewis-On April 25, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/obama_versus_the_constitution.html

George Soros assault on U.S. Constitution: ‘White House officials involved in rewriting nation’s founding document’!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On March 27, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=280277

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

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

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

Progressive group maps out President Obama’s strategy for next 2 years!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/progressive-group-maps-out-president-obama’s-strategy-for-next-2-years/

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

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

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

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/

Is there a Christian basis for combating the threat of global warming?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/is-there-a-christian-basis-for-combating-the-threat-of-global-warming/

Did ATF provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels that were subsequently used to kill one of our own?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/did-atf-provide-weapons-to-mexican-drug-cartels-that-were-subsequently-used-to-kill-one-of-our-own/

ICE Agents Vote ‘No Confidence’ in Leaders!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/ice-agents-vote-‘no-confidence’-in-leaders/

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/

Does Our President Hate America?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/does-our-president-hate-america/

Is History Repeating Itself?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/is-history-repeating-itself/

Where Is America Today?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/where-is-america-today/

Were We Forewarned About What to Expect If President Obama Got Elected?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/were-we-forewarned-about-what-to-expect-if-president-obama-got-elected/

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/the-russian-view-of-what-has-been-happening-in-america-2/

Is it time to call for Obama’s resignation!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/is-it-time-to-call-for-obamas-resignation/

Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for-obama’s-impeachment/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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

Semper Fi!

Jake


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Right ON!!

Posted on American Thinker-By Stella Paul-On January 9, 2012:

“Obama recently signed a mysterious new law that proclaims all American soil is a “battleground,” thereby allowing the president to indefinitely detain any American citizen without charges.  Critics fear Obama will use his fun new unconstitutional powers to make his political enemies disappear, but that may not be necessary. 

The way things are going, most patriotic Americans will soon be six feet under, felled by apoplectic strokes brought on by reading the latest outrage committed by our “Commander in Chief.”  He may not have a limit to what he’ll inflict; but our collective blood pressure may have a limit to what we can bear.

With each passing hour, the question becomes not if America can survive a second term, but whether we can survive another day.  It’s not just the $15 trillion in debt, the Muslim Brotherhood in the catbird seat, and our bleeding open border.  It’s the never-ending deliberate assaults against our safety and security laughingly committed by the cold-eyed man with the nuclear code.

Here are the top 5 reasons Obama must be removed as Commander-in-Chief. Please read them while seated.

ONE - LightSquared: If we had an actual media, you should be able to wake up an average fourth grader at 3 AM and ask, “Who’s General William Shelton?” and the fourth grader would chirpily recite: “He’s the Air Force Commander who was pressured by the White House to change his testimony about LightSquared.”

The facts are not in dispute. A four-star general has testified to Congress that he was pressured by the White House to alter his testimony to make it friendlier to a broadband company backed by a major Democratic donor. 

The problem with LightSquared’s new wireless project is that it could disrupt all military communications and GPS.  But what worth has the entire capacity of the military’s communication system against the pleadings of LightSquared’s biggest investor, Philip Falcone, who shovels cash to Obama?

TWO - Fast and Furious: No matter how many times you hear the facts they never get less sickening or bizarre.  The United States Department of Justice deliberately ran thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels, which then used them to commit at least 11 violent crimes in the US and 200 violent crimes in Mexico. A Fast and Furious gun was used to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and possibly U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata.

ATF Agent Vince Cefalu was fired for whistleblowing about this surreal horror show. Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself to Congress, pretending he knew nothing about it. And newly released emails confirm that the motivation for supplying weapons to Mexico’s most violent criminals was to use the ensuing chaos to enact stricter gun control laws here.

Not content to unleash murder and mayhem, the Department of Justice also went into the money-laundering racket, washing clean millions of dollars for Mexico’s drug cartels. Your tax dollars at work! And while this evil madness was raging, Obama conducted a hysterical campaign against Sarah Palin for using an image of a target on her website.

THREE - Giving Top-Secret Technology to Our Enemies:  Last week brought word that Obama is planning to share U.S. missile defense secrets with Russia, over the strenuous objections of security officials who say it could devastate the effectiveness of our entire defense system. They also fear Russia will share our secrets with China, Iran and North Korea.

Remember how Obama’s Mommy and Daddy met in Russian class? If only they could see their little boy now. 

Obama also gave a freebie of our most classified intelligence to Iran, refusing all three options to destroy a downed U.S. drone.  Instead, he let the mullahs paw their way through our most sensitive high-tech secrets. Not to worry—he did politely ask them to give it back.

FOUR - Waging War Against Libya Without Congressional Approval: Obama’s handlers dreamed up a catchy new doctrine called Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and they were itching to try it out. So Obama gave them a nice, peppy little war to conduct in Libya. Why not take out the mad transvestite, Qadaffi? Nobody likes him, anyway.

Flagrantly flouting the War Powers Resolution, Obama spent a billion dollars to wage an unconstitutional war. The grand result is Al Qaeda’s flag waving over Benghazi and 20,000 anti-aircraft missiles missing, which will probably wind up blasting towards us.

FIVE - Hollowing Out Our Military:  This week we learn that Obama is slashing the defense budget, planning to lay off 14% off our troops, reduce our nuclear arsenal, shelve key weapon systems and explicitly cripple our ability to wage ground wars. What hath Saul Alinsky wrought!

Already, Obama has strait-jacketed the military in political correctness, forbidding discussion of the nature of radical Islam and sanitizing the jihad-crazed murder of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood into “workplace violence.” But that was not enough for our Commander-in-Chief. 

Our troops are so heroic that even in straitjackets, they can win.  And if there’s one thing Obama will not tolerate it’s American victory.

From George Washington to Barack Obama - it’s been quite a ride.”

Source:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/the_top_5_reasons_obama_must_be_removed_as_commander-in-chief.html#ixzz1j4ZrqpwI

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

I. Obama guts military but gives raises to bureaucrats!

What’s disturbing about this picture?

Examiner Editorial posted on The Washington Examiner-On January 8, 2012:

“Hard facts ought to prevail where American security is concerned. This applies equally whether the issue at hand is the geopolitical consequences of ill-advised defense cuts or the possibility that waste and fraud in military procurement might result in the deaths of American soldiers. It is in that spirit that we view President Obama’s announcement last week at the Pentagon of his new national defense doctrine. While there will be much more to say here in the future, two points stand out for now.

First, Obama claimed that “even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of war is receding.” What logically should have followed such an assertion was something about the surrender of an enemy and assurance that his defeat was so total and comprehensive that decades, if not centuries, will pass before he might again threaten the safety and security of the American people.

Obama could say nothing like that because no such surrender has been tendered, and it is clear to anybody with open eyes that the aggressors in the War on Terror are—Osama bin Laden’s death notwithstanding—planning lethal new attacks on Americans here at home and American interests around the world. It is as though FDR had said in April 1943 that the tide of World War II was receding and therefore it was time to slash American defense spending because American pilots had shot down a plane carrying Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, chief planner behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. No matter that Japanese troops still occupied half of the Pacific and would continue to wage war against the U.S.

Second, another Obama decision became public last week: The chief executive wants to give federal civil servants a half-percent pay raise. The absurdity of this proposal is clear in light of the excellent reporting of USA Today’s Dennis Cauchon. In a series of stories in 2010 that drew emotional criticism from federal employee union leaders but no factual refutations, Cauchon used the government’s own data to show that civil servants’ compensation has far outstripped that of private-sector workers. “The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade,” Cauchon found. “Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009, while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.” If anything, Obama should freeze federal pay indefinitely so private-sector employees can catch up with the bureaucrats.

To be sure, the proposed raise is so small as to be largely symbolic, but that’s precisely the point: It carries a vital re-election year message from Obama to a key sector of his base constituency—unionized public employees. It tells them Obama will take care of them, even as he paves the way for firing half a million men and women in uniform who likely are not among his re-election supporters. The hard-eyed conclusion here must be that winning re-election is more important to Obama than assuring American security at home and abroad.”

Source:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2012/01/obama-guts-military-gives-raises-bureaucrats/2074876

II. Obama Fantasy Comes True At Pentagon!-Posted on Western Journalism-By BREAKING NEWS-On January 7, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-fantasy-comes-true-at-pentagon/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=33f11b515e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

III. Top 10 Threats of 2012!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Arnaud De Borchgrave-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/deBorchgrave/Iran-al-Qaida-Pakistan-threats/2012/01/06/id/423323?s=al&promo_code=DE1C-1

IV. Service chiefs warn $1T cut would be ‘catastrophic!’-Posted on The Washington Times-By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times-On November 2, 2011:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/2/service-chiefs-warn-1t-cut-would-be-catastrophic/

V. Gutting the Military!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Owen Graham and Jackson Marsteller-On October 27, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/10/27/gutting-the-military/

VI. Armed Services chairman: Obama is anti-military!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Shaun Waterman, The Washington Times-On September 12, 2011:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/12/armed-services-buck-mckeon-criticizes-obama/

VII. Obama Strategy Guts U.S. Armed Services!-Posted on WND.com-On July 23, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=324925

VIII. Video: Obama’s Private Army!-Posted on YouTube.com-By lawjared-On Mar 28, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPltiIJzz-Y&feature=player_embedded

IX. The Plot to Destroy the US Military-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Daniel Greenfield-On March 21, 2011:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34646

X. Obama’s War Against the U.S. Military-Posted on Human Events-By Buzz Patterson-On September 10, 2010:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38943

XI. 1,188 U.S. Military Deaths in Afghan War Since Obama Became President!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Edwin Mora-On January 3, 2012:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/1188-us-military-deaths-afghan-war-obama-became-president

XII. Obama Wants to Continue Secret Talks With Taliban in Europe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By The Associated Press-On December 30, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-ObamaAfghanistan-Taliban/2011/12/30/id/422549

XIII. The Shocking List Of GITMO Detainees Obama Plans To Release In Deal With Taliban!-Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On January 9, 2012:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-shocking-list-of-gitmo-detainees-obama-plans-to-release-in-deal-with-taliban/

Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways: (a) by characterizing the United States as an evil, militaristic, oppressive nation that exploits vulnerable populations all over the globe; (b) by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions; (c) by depicting America's military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and immoral-You Decide: 

Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By John Perazzo–On October 6, 2006:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts reveal that the president is an Alinskyite, so steeped in the ideology of the seminal community organizer that he became a top instructor in Alinskyite tactics for other up-and-coming fifth-column radicals, whose single, animating ambition is to overthrow the capitalist social order, which they claim to see as racist, corrupt, exploitative, imperialist, etc. He also frames national security as a distraction from his more important work socializing our economy and thus knows that as long as he is tepidly supportive of a military mission, even one that neither aims to achieve nor can possibly achieve victory over America’s enemies, conservatives will not only overlook the slights, but will anxiously commend him and help the New York Times take the lash to those who won’t-You Decide:

Alinsky Does Afghanistan! (Part I)-Posted on National Review Online- By Andrew C. McCarthy-On December 4, 2010:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228741/alinsky-does-afghanistan/andrew-c-mccarthy

Alinksy Does Afghanistan! (Part II)-Posted on National Review Online-By Andrew C. McCarthy-On June 23, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270378/alinksi-does-afghanistan-part-ii-andrew-c-mccarthy

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

The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/

Veterans and members of our Armed Forces under attack!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/veterans-and-members-of-our-armed-forces-under-attack/

Rules of Engagement Killing Marines and U.S. Soldiers!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/rules-of-engagement-killing-marines-and-u-s-soldiers/

Treason in America: Move Over ‘Hanoi Jane’!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/treason-in-america-move-over-‘hanoi-jane’/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Is U.S. Negotiating with the Taliban?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/is-u-s-negotiating-with-the-taliban/

Could Steps That Team Obama Has Taken Be Emboldening Terrorists?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/could-steps-that-team-obama-has-taken-be-emboldening-terrorists/

Is it time to call for Obama's resignation!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/is-it-time-to-call-for-obamas-resignation/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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

Semper Fi!

Jake

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we need a change in dc

A short while my oldest son was in the Army, hes dead now, believing as me D.C. lies. be proud, serve your country, stop the enamy from abroud before they come to America etc. He sent letters home also on leave telling his wife,  & rest of family how proud he was protecting his wife & kids & America. then   looking thru the scope of his M16 seeing the eyes of the enemy ordered to fire, killing. he reached a point he couldnt take it any more. as so many military men & women. now im still not over it I love my son so. Shortly after I broke down put a gun to my head I was ready. Thank God some friends & a good honest  Pastor firmly holding me asking me who would protect, my other kids & grandkids. less than a second of clarity I snapped out of it. Now onto subject D.C. Theres many places in the world we dont need to be. Theres 256+or-countries in the world were in 176+or- give me a break, many countries dont need or want us there, come home stay in military go to our borders where youre needed. How many terrorists are in this country coming over the border. a million +or- maybe over a corse of years. training camps in many locations, mosques teaching hate America. thank u D.C. for letting this happen. The enemy is here already not just overseas. Be prepared America. 1 besides the war on drugs we have 2 other wars going on now onU.S. soil. We fought them both before. First the Revolution where we gained our freedom, now its being taken away. on one side Christain conservatives w/ millions of friends & family, fighting to keep our freedoms. the other side the ones that want to take this away. D.C. dems libs progresives & obama. Im not asking white house, congress, supreme court resign now go home we dont want u or need u. We have enough Americans honest well educated & willing to do job that u wouldnt. i see u ask why didnt they step up before & run for office. Heres why u woke up a sleeping giant . u have to go now. U have lies 4 a backbone. u cry peace & blessed be the peacemaker then u stab us in the back. never will we believe one word u say youre done. dont wait until nov go now no asking no please do it, weve had enough. the third war were fighting cival suppose to be over not just north & south, freeing the slaves no D.C. wants all Americans to be slaves, guess what D.C. not going to happed youre gone. your tring w drugs to keep us stupid but theres 2 many of us thats not falling 4 the trap, go. etc etc sorry tea party I vented. God bless you & love you GOD BLESS AMERICA            

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thanks tea party

just back from conservs at fox, Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Redstate,Twitter sharing w/ many including Tea Party. All got it together. may differ on issue solutions. Agree on obama, dems, libs, progressives have to go. they got their thoughts from karl marx, ive known this for a long time, since I read alot about sick marx. thanks to all at Tea Party, readers/ bloggers youve got it together issues & truth. founding folks, workers youve done a wonderful thing. GOD bless you all

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What’s disturbing about this picture?

Posted on NewsMax.com-On January 8, 2012:

“WASHINGTON — The United States will respond if Iran tries to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday, saying such a move would cross a “red line.”

“We made very clear that the United States will not tolerate the blocking of the Straits of Hormuz,” Panetta told CBS television. “That’s another red line for us and that we will respond to them.”

Panetta was seconded by General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said Iran has the means to close the waterway, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil passes.

“But we would take action and reopen the Straits,” the general said on the same show, “Face the Nation.”

Their comments follow Iranian threats to close the strait if the European Union slaps an embargo on Iranian oil, the latest step in a US-led campaign to pressure Tehran to give up their nuclear program. Western powers suspects Iran is bent on gaining atomic weapons, which Tehran denies.

The rising tensions have driven oil prices soaring over 100 dollars a barrel, hitting an eight-month high earlier this week, and sent jitters throughout the oil-rich Gulf amid growing fears of a spiral into conflict.

What to do about Iran also is rising as an in US electoral politics, with most Republican candidates blasting President Barack Obama as too soft on Tehran.

Panetta said the United States does not believe Iran is actively developing a nuclear weapon, and reaffirmed Washington’s preference for diplomatic and economic pressure over military action as the way to deter Tehran.

But he bluntly warned Tehran against going from developing a nuclear capability to developing an atomic weapon.

“I think they need to know that if they take that step that they’re going to get stopped,” he said.

At another point, Panetta said, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what concerns us. And our red line to Iran is do not develop a nuclear weapon. That’s a red line for us.”

Dempsey sidestepped questions on the difficulty of taking out Iran’s nuclear capability, but said planning was underway for a military option.

“My responsibility is to encourage the right degree of planning, to understand the risks associated with any kind of military option, in some cases to position assets, to provide those options in a timely fashion. And all those activities are going on,” he said.

Asked whether the United States could take out Iran’s nuclear capability without resorting to the use of nuclear weapons itself, Dempsey said, “I absolutely want them to believe that that’s the case.”

Panetta, meanwhile, suggested the United States would not welcome unilateral military action by Israel against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“If the Israelis made that decision, we would have to be prepared to protect our forces in that situation. And that’s what we’d be concerned about,” he said.

On the Strait of Hormuz, Dempsey said Iran could close the waterway “for a period of time.”

“We’ve invested in capabilities to ensure that if that happens, we can defeat that. And so the simple answer is yes, they can block it,” he said.

“We’ve described that as an intolerable act. And it’s not just intolerable for us, it’s intolerable to the world. But we would take action and reopen the Straits.”

Source:

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/panetta-iran-nuclear-hormuz/2012/01/08/id/423421?s=al&promo_code=DE25-1

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

I. Why New Sanctions Raise Danger of Iran’s Building Nuclear Weapons!-Posted on Yahoo! News-By TONY KARON | Time.com-On January 9, 2012:

http://news.yahoo.com/why-sanctions-raise-danger-iran-building-nuclear-weapons-153000768.html

II. Iran to Launch Nuclear Work in Bunker in ‘Near Future’!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On January 8, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Iran-nuclear-enrichment-bunker/2012/01/08/id/423356?s=al&promo_code=DE21-1

III. Ex CIA Director Warns Iran on ‘Inexorable’ Path to Nukes!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Paul Scicchitano and Fred Fleitz-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/CIAHayden-Warns-Iran-Inexorable/2012/01/06/id/423322?s=al&promo_code=9898-1

IV. West Readies Oil Plan in Case of Iran Crisis!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Oil-supply-Iran-Persian/2012/01/06/id/423303?s=al&promo_code=9898-1

V. Iranian spy in U.S. military? ‘Former CIA director says possibility ‘cannot be discounted’-Posted on WND.com-On December 18, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=378949

VI. Korean News: Hundreds of North Korean Nuclear Experts Are Working in Iran!-Posted on The Gateway Pundit-By Jim Hoft-On November 13, 2011:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/11/korean-news-hundreds-of-north-korean-nuclear-experts-are-working-in-iran/

VII. Video: Obama, Iran and control of the Middle East!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheRealNews-On December 16, 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=d9ullk4ZwCQ&feature=endscreen

VIII. Video: How would a US-Iran war begin?-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheRealNews-On October 12, 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLT8UjF7ZYY&feature=relmfu

IX. Video: Obama and Iran!-Posted on TheRealNews-On November 25, 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FQQL7T9BzY&feature=relmfu

X. Video: Iran, US and the possibility of war!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheRealNews-On May 24, 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myGS0GCQ1eE&feature=relmfu

Note:  What follows is a special report on the Illuminati Network that provides us with concrete evidence of a “New World Order & One World Government” agenda, to include the Islamic agenda-You Decide:

Illuminati Network!-Posted on Global Watch Special Report 2010:

http://www.globalreport2010.com/globalwatchspecialreport.pdf

What follows are pertinent excerpts from the Islamic agenda as it relates to Iran:

THE  RISE OF THE PRINCE OF PERSIA

Iran is a nation that figures prominently in the news these days. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, President George Bush mentioned the nation of Iran in a speech and depicted it as being one of the notorious members of the now infamous “axis of evil” nations. 

Still, most people in the West know very little about Iran, and the vast majority of American’s are completely unaware of the history of the US relationship with Iran, and the fact that the region of Iran actually has had a long and significant role in world affairs.

While Persia has had ties deeply rooted in world history, the direct American-Iranian relationship only commenced in the late 1930’s. Persia joined the allied forces against Germany in 1943, and thus the World War II Mid-east theatre provided the stage that began the rather brief history of the US-Iranian relationship.

It is a relationship that has also undergone a complete about face since the 1970’s. Within the scope of this remarkable turn in geo-political affairs in the international relationship between Iran (Persia) and the United States are a host of highly significant factors relative to the prophesied signs of the times, and imminent world events in these Last Days. 

Today Iranian President Ahmadinejad has renewed an increasing intense hostility towards the state of Israel and has assumed the mantle piece as the voice of Islam with Iran now becoming the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East after the demise of Saddam Hussein and the previous Baathist Iraqi government.

EZEKIEL’S ALIGNMENT OF THE MUSLIM NATIONS

Ezekiel prophesises that Iran (Persia) will be one of the leading Muslim nations that will side in a major attempt to invade and destroy Israel at a time when Israel is unsuspecting. 

Interestingly enough during this attempted invasion Ezekiel mention that Sheba and Dedan will voice a diplomatic protest to the invasion. Sheba and Dedan are historical names which refer to the Arabian peninsula and many believe that despite its conservative Islamic rule of law that the Saudi Monarchy are dependant on the West to protect their oil interests because of the fear that the tide of Iranian fundamentalism which overthrew the Iranian Shah in 1979 could provide a threat to their own well being should the masses rise up against the special relationship that the Saudi King has with the so called “Zionist West”.

THE COMING OF THE AL MADHI

According to the Shia and Sunni versions of the Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( يدھمMahdī, also Mehdi; “Guided One”) is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will appear on earth before the coming of the day of Judgement. The Madhi is believed to be a future muslim world leader who will not only rule over the Islamic world, but also the non Muslim world in the establishment of an Islamic order. 

The Mahdi will be a descendant of Fatimah (one of Mohammed’s wives) and will take his name as Mohammed bin Abdullah. The hadith indicates that the Madhi will lead an Islamic alliance with black banners from Khorasan and Central Asia.  Kohrasan is known in modern day language as Iran.

According to hadith, The Mahdi will be a great military, political and spiritual leader who will unite Islam under one Caliphate and conquer many countries. He will attack and defeat Israel. The war will result in the slaughtering of the Jews and the reclaiming of Jerusalem as the capital of Islam and the location of the Madhi’s eartly rule of Sharia law. Their flags will be erected on the Temple Mount when they reach the Dome of the Rock. 

In August 2009 Iran held a multi-day conference, bringing together politicians, mullahs, students – Shiite and Sunni alike – to plot what can be done on this earthly plane to hasten the coming of the anointed one, a messianic, endtimes personage known as the Mahdi.

For the past five years, the Iranian religious and political leaders have annually gathered together for two days in the city of Qom for what is called ‘The International Conference of Mahdism Doctrine,’ sponsored by the Bright Future Institute. The purpose of the Bright Future Institute is ‘to introduce Imam Mahdi to the world’ and ‘to pave the ground for his reappearance’ and ‘help bring all of humanity to the knowledge of the true savior of mankind, Imam al-Mahdi.’

From the establishment of the Islamic Regime in 1979 to Ahmadinejad’s rise to power in August 2005, Mahdism had been a religious doctrine and a tradition that had no political manifestation. The political system operated independently of this messianic belief and of the anticipation of the return of the Mahdi. It was only with Ahmadinejad’s presidency that this religious doctrine has become a political philosophy and taken a central place in politics.

Note: The following eye-opening video exposes President Obama’s Muslim ties and his hidden agenda for America-You Decide:

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam!-Posted on DanielPipes.org-By Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com-On January 7, 2008:

http://www.danielpipes.org/5354/confirmed-barack-obama-practiced-islam

Obama Would Fail Security Clearance because of his many ties to extremist Islam!-Posted Philadelphia Bulletin-By Daniel Pipes-On October 21, 2008:

http://www.danielpipes.org/5983/obama-would-fail-security-clearance

Barack Obama’s Early Years as a Muslim!-Posted on DanielPipes.org-By Daniel Pipes-Updated on October 23, 2008:

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2008/08/bibliography-my-writings-on-barack-obamas

Video:  Obama Must Convert To Islam, Or Else!-Posted on YouTube.com-BylnfideI-On Dec 5, 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj29Df-fy5M&feature=related

Video: The most dangerous Barack Obama video ever!!!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Truthzonetvcom-On August 25, 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=4Yro63c7B7A&NR=1

Who ran cover for Obama’s Islamic background? ‘Tracing The Politics And The Money Behind Obama’s Campaign!’-Posted on Post & Email-by John Charlton-On December 12, 2009:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/12/12/look-who-ran-cover-for-obamas-islamic-background/

“I am a Muslim” Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister!-Posted on Atlas Shrugs-On June 12, 2010:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html

Why Obama is a cultural Muslim?-Posted on The Washington Times-By Jeffrey T. Kuhner-On July 8, 2010:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/8/why-obama-is-a-cultural-muslim/

1-in-4 Americans Believe Obama is a Muslim; Here’s Why-Posted on ImpeachObamaCampaign.com-By Ben-On August 19, 2010:

http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/1-in-4-americans-believe-obama-is-a-muslim-heres-why/?utm_source=Floyd+Reports&utm_campaign=fafc453d54-FR_08_19_20108_19_2010&utm_medium=email

Why Americans think president is Muslim: ‘Obama bears the lion’s share of the responsibility for any confusion’!-Posted on WND.com-On August 20, 2010:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=193749

Obama’s Grandmother Prays for Conversion to Islam-Posted on Israel National News-By Maayana Miskin-On February 26, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140852

Obama to face Shariah court? ‘Cleric says president ‘must embrace Islam’ or be tried when Muslims take over U.S.’-Posted on WND.com-On February 27, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=268989

Obama: Consistently Anti-American!-Posted on Big Government-By Pamela Geller-On March 21, 2011:

http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2011/03/21/obama-consistently-anti-american/

Video: ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING! What Was Predicted 3 Years Ago is NOW HERE! BHO EXPOSED!-Posted on YouTube.com-By ppsimmons-On April 1, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAW4YTZAwY

Video: Obama’s Middle East Ties!-Posted on wmjsarah-On May 29, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rhmnBig4gc&feature=player_embedded#at=119

Video: Is Our President A Terrorist?-Posted on YouTube.com-By amy2x-On June 4, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-fmtJ5kh-50#at=2334

Obama’s ineligibility: Muslim-leftist radical in the White House!-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Lawrence Sellin-On September 15, 2011:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40313#When:11:16:42Z

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

The President Must Stop Voting “Present” on Iran!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-president-must-stop-voting-“present”-on-iran/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Is President Obama in on the Uprising in Egypt?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/is-president-obama-in-on-the-uprising-in-egypt/

Is Israel the next Arab Facebook Campaign?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/is-israel-the-next-arab-facebook-campaign/

Did Saudis Buy Obama 2008 Election?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/did-saudis-buy-obama-2008-election/

Why is Obama Handing out Millions of Dollars to Terrorists?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/why-is-obama-handing-out-millions-of-dollars-to-terrorists/

Is U.S. Negotiating with the Taliban?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/is-u-s-negotiating-with-the-taliban/

The Obama Administration Allows Tariq Ramadan To Travel To The U.S.!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/the-obama-administration-allows-tariq-ramadan-to-travel-to-the-u-s/

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

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

President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/president-and-doj-have-contributed-to-the-racial-mess-in-our-country/

Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America-Will America Notice!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/muslim-brotherhood-declares-war-on-america-will-america-notice/

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/

Where Is America Today?

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

Is it time to call for Obama’s resignation!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/is-it-time-to-call-for-obamas-resignation/

Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for-obama’s-impeachment/

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

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Proof That Obama is Unlawful President!

Dear Fellow Patriots:

What follows are recent articles and/or blog posts by Leo Donofrio, Esq. that reveals that the only time the US Supreme Court has ever defined the class of persons who were POTUS eligible under Article 2 Section 1 was in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), which is proof that President Obama is ineligible to hold the Office of President of the U.S.-You Decide:

Minor v. Happersett Revisited!-Posted on Natural Born Citizen-By Leo Donofrio, Esq.-On January 9, 2012:

“[My previous report was in three parts, with the first being a rather extensive exposure of a misquote by the SCOTUS in both McCreery v. Somerville and Wong Kim Ark.  The second part exposed fraudulent propaganda from Maskell’s most recent CRS memo.  And the final part examined Minor v. Happersett in light of some of the arguments being offered against its precedent, providing new analysis of key provisions of the holding therein.  I am reprinting the section on Minor now as a separate post because it is crucial to understanding the case, and it appears to have been somewhat swallowed up by the first two parts.]

MINOR v. HAPPERSETT REVISITED.

…the only time the US Supreme Court ever did define the class of persons who were POTUS eligible under Article 2 Section 1 was in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), wherein it was held:

“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 168.

There’s a quote for you. It really exists. And it tells you exactly who are natural-born citizens; those born in the country of parents who are citizens. The words are plain-spoken and self-evident. There are two classes of persons discussed in the above quotation. Those born in the country of citizen parents were labeled by the Court as “natives or natural-born citizens”, but these were also further identified as being “distinguished from aliens or foreigners”. The distinction is crucial.

On one side are those who have no citizenship other than that of the United States… as distinguished from those on the polar opposite side who have absolutely no claim to citizenship in the United States; “These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” Those who fall in between these two extremes make up a third class of persons whose citizenship status, the Court noted, was subject to doubt:

“Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of the parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.” Id. (Emphasis added.)

Had this third class been contemplated as having any claim to being natural-born citizens, the distinction employed by the court would not make sense. The distinction was employed to more specifically identify the class of persons who were natural-born citizens under Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5. The two classes discussed are in direct polar opposition to each other. Had this distinction not been employed, it might be argued that those born in the country of one citizen parent were also natural-born. But the distinction leads to the necessary conclusion that the Court in Minor was identifying a two-citizen parent rule.

For example, a person born in the US to a British father and U.S. citizen mother would, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution (and at the time Minor v. Happersett was decided), be considered as a natural-born subject of the U.K. Whether this child would be, at his birth, a citizen under the 14th amendment, was left undecided by the Court in Minor. But let’s assume that the child was a U.S. citizen. Where does that child fit into the distinction offered by the Court in Minor? The child is not on either polar extreme, since the child was not exclusively a US citizen at birth, nor was the child exclusively a British subject at birth. He does not fit into the distinction.

By choosing two extremes – those who, at their birth, are nothing but U.S. citizens – “as distinguished from aliens or foreigners” – those who, at their birth, are in no way U.S. citizens – the Supreme Court in Minor provided the necessary criteria to properly discern their holding.

Nothing has been left open as to the Minor Court’s definition of a natural-born citizen. This is further made clear by the Court’s other – somewhat overlooked – federal citizenship holding:

“The very idea of a political community, such as a nation is, implies an association of persons for the promotion of their general welfare. Each one of the persons associated becomes a member of the nation formed by the association…

For convenience it has been found necessary to give a name to this membership. The object is to designate by a title the person and the relation he bears to the nation. For this purpose the words ‘subject,’ ‘inhabitant,’ and ‘citizen’ have been used, and the choice between them is sometimes made to depend upon the form of the government. Citizen is now more commonly employed, however, and as it has been considered better suited to the description of one living under a republican government, it was adopted by nearly all of the States upon their separation from Great Britain, and was afterwards adopted in the Articles of Confederation and in the Constitution of the United States. When used in this sense it is understood as conveying the idea of membership of a nation, and nothing more.”

Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 165-166 (1874). (Emphasis added.)

Therefore, when the Court uses the words, “citizen” or “citizenship”, no other meaning may be imputed other than, “membership of a nation”. But Jack Maskell believes he can overrule this specific holding of the Supreme Court by inserting the words “natural-born” where they do not appear. ”Natural-born” only pertains to a requirement for the municipal office of President. Those who are natural-born meet that qualification, but all who are citizens, natural-born, naturalized abroad, naturalized here, at birth or later in life, are members of our nation. The word citizen – according to the Supreme Court in Minor – refers to “membership of a nation, and nothing more“. It’s the “nothing more” that Maskell fails to recognize.

In Maskell’s CRS memo, he alleges that the following statement from Minor left open the issue of whether persons born of aliens could be considered as natural-born citizens:

“Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens.”  Id. at 167-168. (Emphasis added.)

Reading this passage in light of the definition of “citizen” from pg. 166 of Minor’s unanimous opinion, it becomes evident that what is referred to here is membership in our nation, and nothing more. Any attempt to insert the words – “natural-born” – into this passage to imply that the court left open the issue of whether those whose citizenship was in doubt might also be eligible to be President would be in direct opposition to the Court’s very holding of the case. This expression of doubt must be limited to the political status of the person, not to their eligibility to hold a municipal office. Political status is a legal term of art which means, “membership in a nation, and nothing more”. Presidential eligibility refers to municipal status. The holding not only determined Virginia Minor’s citizenship, it directly defined “citizen”, and that definition remains the law of the land today.

First, on pgs. 165-166, the Court defined the meaning of the word “citizen”. Then, on pgs. 167-168, the court defined the class of “natural-born citizens”. The Court left open the issue of who were “citizens” under the 14th Amendment, which the Court wisely avoided by exercising judicial constraint. Instead, the Court construed Article 2 Section 1, Clause 5, the natural-born citizen clause. In doing so, they defined and closed that class to persons born in the country to parents who are citizens.

The Minor Court’s unanimous opinion and definition of natural-born citizen have never been overruled or even questioned. In fact, the very passage defining the natural-born citizen class was re-stated in Justice Gray’s opinion from Wong Kim Ark. Had he intended to take issue with that definition, or to expand it, then his opinion would certainly contain something like this:

Wong Kim Ark is a natural-born citizen eligible to be President.

But no such statement exists. It’s also important to remember at all times that the Court in Minor specifically avoided construction of the 14th Amendment, thereby defining the class of natural-born citizens and identifying Virginia Minor as a member of that class. Virginia Minor directly petitioned the Court to determine that she was a citizen under the 14th Amendment. But the Minor Court declined to construe the 14th Amendment, and thereafter set about defining the class of persons who were natural-born citizens of the United States in determining that she was a citizen.

In 1996, the US Supreme Court’s majority opinion by Justice Breyer in Ogilvie Et Al., Minors v. United States, 519 U.S. 79 (1996), stated that when the Court discusses a certain reason as an independent ground in support of their decision, then that reason is not simply dictum:

“Although we gave other reasons for our holding in Schleier as well, we explicitly labeled this reason an ‘independent’ ground in support of our decision, id., at 334. We cannot accept petitioners’ claim that it was simply a dictum.”

The Minor Court’s construction of Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5, of the United States Constitution was the independent ground by which the Court avoided construing the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.

Therefore, such construction is precedent, not dicta, despite POTUS eligibility not being an issue. The Court determined it was necessary to define the class of natural-born citizens, and the definition is current legal precedent.

Had the Court in Wong Kim Ark identified him as a natural-born citizen, there would have been no need to construe the 14th Amendment, just as it wasn’t necessary to construe it to determine Virginia Minor’s citizenship. But Wong Kim Ark was not natural-born, and therefore the Court was required to construe the 14th Amendment to determine his citizenship status.

Again, had Justice Gray’s opinion intended to state that Ark was natural-born, there would be a sentence in Gray’s opinion stating, Wong Kim Ark is a natural-born citizen. But there isn’t. No amount of tongue twisting can insert those words where they do not exist and do not belong.

The same is true for the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Minor v. Happersett. Had the court intended to say – Some authorities go further and include as natural-born citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of the parents – then that is exactly what the US Supreme Court would have said. But they didn’t.

And the same can be said for the framers of the 14th Amendment. Had they intended to include the words “natural-born citizen” in the Amendment, then that is exactly what they would have done. But they didn’t. Any attempt to read those words into the 14th Amendment would render Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5, to be superfluous. And that goes directly against our entire body of national jurisprudence on the issue of statutory construction.

I will more thoroughly address the issue of statutory construction in the days ahead. (Since the state of Georgia will be hearing this issue on Jan. 26, 2012, I have decided to come forward with everything I have now, rather than waiting to publish my book.)

Leo Donofrio, Esq.

Source:

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/minor-v-happersett-revisited-2/#comments

Minor v. Happersett – Proof Obama is Unlawful President!-Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By GeorgeM:

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/minor-v-happersett-proof-obama-is-unlawful-president

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

I. Las Cruces Sons of Liberty Filed Complaint to Remove Barack Obama from 2012 NM Ballot!-Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By GeorgeM-On January 9, 2012:

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

II. Virginia Voter Asks GOP Leader to Vet GOP Presidential Candidates to Determine If They Are Constitutionally Eligible POTUS Candidates!-Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By unlawful-On January 9, 2012:

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/virginia-voter-asks-gop-leader-to-vet-romney-santorum-others-to-ensure-the-gop-has-a-constitutionally-eligible-potus-candidate-unlike-ineligible-obama

III. Atty. Van Irion Discusses Georgia Ballot Challenge and the Constitution!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On January 7, 2012:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/01/07/atty-van-irion-discusses-georgia-ballot-challenge-and-the-constitution/

IV. Candidate Files Writ of Quo Warranto to Oust Obama And/Or Prevent Obama Ballot Access In United States District Court For The District Of Columbia!-Posted on Birther Report-On January 7, 2012:

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/01/candidate-files-writ-of-quo-warranto-to.html

V. A Matter of Eligibility!-Posted on American for Constitutional Government Reform-By Lynn M Stuter-On January 7, 2012:

http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/05-826/

VI. Undisputed PROOF that Obama is ineligible for the Presidency!-Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By GeorgeM-On January 7, 2012:

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

VII. OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP AND THE PRESIDENCY: Academia shrugs: ‘Scholars conveniently abandoning Constitution, their own writings!’-Posted on American Thinker-By Cindy Simpson-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/academia_shrugs_obamas_citizenship_and_the_presidency.html

Note:  Americans are waking up!

Americans across the country are starting to wake up to the fact that President Obama is constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of President, as substantiated by his newly released long-form Certificate of Live Birth, which shows that his father was in fact born in Kenya in 1936. At the time, Kenya was a British colony. Therefore Obama Senior was a British subject by birth (due to the fact that he was born within British-controlled territory). When President Obama was born in 1961, he acquired British nationality by descent, because his father was a British subject by birth. When Kenya gained its independence from Great Britain in 1963, President Obama became a citizen of the newly-formed nation.

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 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. The team that established and maintains this website is currently compiling election laws from all 50 states and in the near future will be providing forms, along with sample letters that registered voters can use to file a complaint. Also included is pertinent information regarding those lawsuits and/or complaints that have been filed by state, to include my own.

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/retired-marine-captain-files-obama-ballot-challenge-in-new-mexico

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/request-that-president-obama-be-removed-from-the-new-mexico-2012-presidential-primary-election-ballot

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 isAre 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.

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

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

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

Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newly-released-colb-be-a-forgery/

Was there a conspiracy to put Obama in the White House?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/was-there-a-conspiracy-to-put-obama-in-the-white-house-2/

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/

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

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New TV Show Idea: All-American Christian

4063432224?profile=originalI have a GREAT idea! How about a TV show titled, “All-American Christian”? Christians have been getting a bum rap in cinema and the mainstream media for quite a while. In a spirit of fairness, compassion and tolerance, a TV show promoting Christianity is simply the right thing to do. After all, the last thing we need are Christian-phobic Americans.

We must educate Americans to realize Christianity is a religion of peace. Christians are not anti-American. The TV show will confirm Christians are not much different than you and me and just as patriotic. Also, Christians would never attempt to force Biblical Law down our throats.

Now, where can I find fair minded, tolerant and compassionate celebrities who will enthusiastically support and speak in defense of the show. I know! Russell Simmons, Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell are a good start. These guys are all about fairness, tolerance and compassion. I am extremely confident they will leap at an opportunity to fairly portray Christianity.

Christians are not rioting, seeking to physically punish offenders or lobbying to make it illegal to speak against their religion. Thus, beheading non-believers who reject their religion is not in the Christian recruitment manual. As a matter of fact, the founder of Christianity said, “With loving kindness have I drawn thee”.

Rosie O'Donnell, great advocate of women rights that she is, will surely love this. Christian women are not forced to be subservient to men. Under no circumstance does Christianity condone a husband beating, stoning or beheading his wife. A Christian woman is pretty much free to be all-she-can-be from a mom to governor of Alaska to president of the United States. Believe it or not, a Christian woman can even venture outside without having her head covered and face veiled. Thus, it makes perfect sense that the American Feminist Movement would rally around Christianity. Right?

I can not think of a single group of people Christians seek to remove from the planet. While more than 18,167 deadly terrorist attacks, since 9-11, have been carried out in the name of another religion, zero attacks, since 9-11, have happened in the name of Christianity. We know the American left is all about peace; “all we are saying is give peace a chance”and so on. One can only conclude that Christianity's non-violent track record wins their endorsement. Correct?

Unfortunately, Christianity does not have a “lying clause”. Another religion has a privilege authorized in its holy book called, “Taqiyya” which means never-feeling-guilty-for-lying. In other words, Taqiyya makes it permissible to lie to protect their religion. Common sense tells us that anything these people say about the intentions and motives of their religion should be taken with a grain of salt. Meanwhile, Christians are stuck with “Thy shall not lie.”

It is truly tragic that Bibles, after school Bible studies and prayer at school sporting events are being banned from public schools. Christian graduates are commanded to censor all references to God and especially “Jesus” from their commencement speeches. And yet, nationwide special concessions are being made for another religion; installing foot bathing facilities and etc.

By the way, our government has sponsored the defacing of Christian icons. A photo of a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine was funded by the NEA (National Endowment of the Arts). The award winning photo is titled, “Piss Christ”. The Brooklyn Museum of Art, despite considerable controversy, exhibited the Holy Virgin Mary painted with elephant dong.

Christians are legally fighting the court ordered removal of crosses which have been displayed on sites for many years, one out in the middle of nowhere. Nativity scenes are becoming more and more taboo in public schools and government buildings. Our kids no longer go on Christmas break from school. It is now called Winter Fest-a-something or other.

Some paranoid conspiracy theorists say Christianity has infiltrated high levels of our government. Rumor has it that even President Obama is a Christian. However, this rumor is yet to be confirmed. I wish to go on record stating that I am not Christian-phobic. America was unarguably founded on Biblical principles. Therefore, I am completely comfortable with Christians influencing our government.

We can count on Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to aggressively work to make Christian-phobia punishable by law the way she is for another religion.

So yes, the timing is perfect for an “All-American Christian” TV show. I am sure Hilary, Obama and all those compassionate tolerant Hollywood types will enthusiastically join in our effort to get out the truth about Christianity- a virtuous, misunderstood and wonderful religion of peace.

Folks, this is gonna be great! I am soooooo excited. For the debut of the “All-American Christian” TV show, I wonder if we can get Tim Tebow to make a special guest appearance. Wouldn't that be awesome?

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

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From the Desk of The Exceptional Conservative

And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah. ~ Genesis 38:30

     I know that many of you have thrown away your Heritage Dictionaries and have leaned on the Wisdom of the Great One in the White House to outline for you what true justice is. The Great Harvard Graduate Without Grades defines Justice as:

“We’ve got some difficult debates and some tough fights to come,” Obama said. “As I’ve said before, we are at a make-or-break moment for the middle class. And in many ways, the actions we take in the months ahead will help determine what kind of country we want to be, and what kind of world we want our children and grandchildren to grow up in.” [ President Obama in his final weekly address of 2011]

Obama's definition of justice is built on the word "fair" and he defines it as "making or breaking the middle class." I rightly don't know if that is an apt definition of either justice or fair. I am a certain that if I turn to Attorney General Eric Holder, he would be square with me and define each rightly. Not that I would be prejudiced by the fair treatment of Solyndra however, I trust Holder would give a better deifintion than Obama.

     One of my favorite truth sayings in the Word of God is the telling of the Justice of Tamar. I well know that with all of the Ivory Tower convolutions of the King James Bible that yours might have a different read. I'll go with my interpretation in order to expound upon the power of a red string. Unquenched by this, you may ask, "What is the power of the red string?" It's regal purpose has been spoken of over aeons. In Japanese and Chinese cultures of yore, the red thread signed that the gods tied an invisible red string around the ankles of those that are destined to be soul mates and marry. In Hebraic culture, inheritance was crucial to the general welfare of the nation. It was the eldest son that received the lion's share of wealth, property and business upon the death of the father. In cases where a mother conceived twins, the midwife would tie the hand of the first child that pierced the womb thus, eliminating any debate of legitimacy of the reward of spoils. In Tamar's case, her levirate cause ended with the greatest shock of her and our lives. She surely had twins. Surely, one child--Zarah (rising light)--extended a hand to receive a "fair" reward. The midwife did as she ought. However, the second baby--Pharez ("breach")--extended himself and received a "just" reward. Now many of you ask, "Why did you label Zarah the "fair" baby and Pharez, the "just" baby. Zarah inherited a portion of the wealth of Judah and is never mentioned again in the Bible. Pharez became the paternal linneage of the Great King David and the King of Kings, Jesus the Christ. Just and Fair ain't the same, as best said in my unsavory southern colloquialism. Hence, our debate with the "Fair" Left should be built on the principles of Justice and clearly drawn upon by scholar and knave alike to explain that patriotism and liberty are hewn from the rock of individual prusuit and not government distribution. Simply put, we are "Just" Right.

     "Just Right"? Yeah, that's cute but the Democrats and Socialists have the momentum of the Occupy Movement. The GOP have told us how weak we are and Speaker John Boehner threw us under the bus. Heck, Obama might win the Iowa and South Carolina Primaries. I understand. The Media and DC Establishment have been so right for so long. How could they fail?

Since 2007, the region’s economy has grown by about 14 percent at a time when the national economy has expanded by about 3 percent. According to Stephen Fuller, my colleague at George Mason University and the go-to guy for statistics on the regional economy, growth here has exceeded that of every other metropolitan region. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/as-federal-gravy-train-ends-...]

When the US Treasury Department is your personal ATM, it is very easy to promote the ideas of wretched destruction: Socialism and Marxism. What's the method? Tax and Spend. The power to "reach" into another man's wallet with the fullest authority of the State to redistribute his wealth in a manner deemed proper and beneficial to others without the sincere consent of the walletholder. When such power is granted by force and influenced with guilt and envious judgement, it makes the burdened susceptible to the acceptance of a constant place of economic security and the false assertion that a winsome bureaucrat can righteously mete out financial supports. Somehow, government has the uncanny ability to choose winners and losers in individual accomplishment, establish caste systems from which to usurp endless resource and punish those that resist either in the official speech of the authority or the symbiotic speech of the media. Those that are "fair" believe it a right to "reach" into the "wealth" of the few to support the lives of the many. What is queer about the definition of the few is in its real time application. The few becomes the many that should support the indvividual cause or person that fits within the acceptable cradle that is rocked. If its free education then, that cradle is acceptable. If every person has a right to a house then, that cradle is acceptable. However, what is uncovered is that the bureaucrats with the "god" ordained duty of dispersion garner the lion's share of support, both financial and popular, for their efforts. Their efforts produce no wealth and keeps the individual under the harness of the authority that feeds it. Eengineered on the promise that those that have receieved their ill-gotten gains will be surely punished, the Justice in Chief can act as legislator, executor and court. Simply, we encourage the rich to remain rich and pay for the privilege and we encourage the poor to stay poor or we will punish their success. There is really no middle class. The Robin Hoodesque system has broken it.

     Just and Fair are two different things. A just system seeks the better end of the person rather than the system. Just is built on a moral principle. Fair is built on popular agreement. Fair systems seek the acceptable continuance, temporal rewards of the authority that rocks the cradle. Vendor Managed Solutions President Rumia Ambrose-Burbank counted on a just system to produce success. She did not count on fairness to spin off her company from Electronic Data Systems. Once graced with funding from a "friendly" mentoring group, Ms. Ambrose-Burbank had to learn to rock her own cradle in order to build her business. She did not curse the wind but applied the skills that she had developed in corporate America to exploit her niche and create profit enough to hire employees, meet payroll, provide quality service to customers and expand sales. Is it fair? NO! It is just that she profits from her success. How much of her success does she deserve? All of it. Should anyone begrudge her success. I hope not as in capitalism free markets offer the best opportunity for individuals to gain wealth. Her pursuit empowered others to pursue their own endeavors. Her industry is not illicit nor does it steal from the common good. She has the power to rock the cradle and based on performance can produce greater return than a government project. There is a city that is built on the promise of fairness. It has built quite a largess to support its good intenetioned lifestyle:

In the past decade, for example, federal employment increased by 50,000, more than erasing the declines of the Clinton era. More significantly, federal procurement spending over the decade grew 166 percent, to $80 billion from $30 billion. With less than 5 percent of the nation’s population, the region captures 17 percent of the federal payroll and 21 percent of procurement dollars.

It’s been a wonderful ride, not just for the past 10 years but the past 20, and it has helped make ours one of the richest regions in the country. Which makes it all the more painful to have to inform you that it’s about to come to an end.

Yes, America, those that have built the empire of "fairness" understand that their time is coming to an end. As with all Ponzi schemes, the battle to rock the cradle of Tax and Spend to subsidize the armies amassed to distribute the rewards is coming to an end. When any well dries up, you must either dig deeper or move on. The rest of the country has dug pretty deep to sustain the welfare of those that are sent to serve the people. The cradle must be taken away in November 2012. Washington, DC must be seiged by no nonsense conservatives that believe it is best to govern justly rather than fairly. The inheritance left by those that govern justly is always greater than those that govern fairly. Obama prizes his rhetoric on the ability to recount what he inherited. Someday, our grandchildren will be able to recount what they inherited from our governance.

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Obama Fantasy Comes True At Pentagon!

What’s disturbing about this picture?

Posted on Western Journalism-By BREAKING NEWS-On January 7, 2012:

At the Pentagon this week the liberals’ biggest fantasy has now become reality. Barack Obama is cutting the military budget and using the “savings” to fund social programs. In a rare press conference in the Pentagon, he called for a major reduction of the U.S. Armed forces over the next ten years. Obama’s strategy is to reduce America’s presence in Europe and redirect our Strategic forces towards the Middle East and Asia, leaving the defense of Europe in the hands of NATO.

Obama’s plan shifts strategic force to the Asia-Pacific region to counter China’s growing military threat. The movement of forces to the Middle East will focus on countering the threat of violent extremism. This strategy sounds good to the liberal press but like any of this Administration’s Alinsky inspired plans it lacks detail. Of course this plan is based solely on budget woes so don’t hold your breath waiting to see if any other government entity receives such a large budget cut. Such a plan is risky, and leaves the U.S, vulnerable in the long run.

Obama wishes to reduce the Army and Marines by over 100,000 troops and conduct future military operations using Special Operations, Counterterrorism, Intelligence and training foreign militaries. Just like JFK had in mind for Vietnam in the early 60’s. Such reduction will limit our ability to fight to capability to fight only one short term major military conflict as opposed to the old paradigm of having Armed Forces capable of fighting two wars simultaneously. A possible scenario; China may ask North Korea to create a skirmish to tie up U.S. assets while they take Taiwan by force.

The new strategy will focus more on technology to conduct future military operations and will focus on full spectrum warfare featuring cyber warfare. The last time I checked the Taliban weren’t fighting with laptops. Future wars will focus more on unmanned drones. How will this Administration expect the United States military to maintain its technological edge when companies are being forced to outsource work to China and India because of this government’s overreaching regulations?

Nuclear Secrets:

Mr. Obama’s priorities are dangerous. They include maintaining a strong nuclear deterrent capability by reducing the number of nuclear weapons and handing over all of America’s and British nuclear secrets to the Russians and Chinese; and confronting terrorism, after agreeing to free Taliban leaders held in GIMTO as a good will gesture to appease the Muslims Extremists. Somehow during these realignments the United States will have to maintain military superiority, but how?

Republican response:

The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee released a statement calling the policy, “a lead-from-behind strategy for a left-behind America” and “The President has packaged our retreat from the world in the guise of a new strategy to mask his divestment of our military and national defense.”

Source:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-fantasy-comes-true-at-pentagon/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=33f11b515e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

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

I. Top 10 Threats of 2012!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Arnaud De Borchgrave-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/deBorchgrave/Iran-al-Qaida-Pakistan-threats/2012/01/06/id/423323?s=al&promo_code=DE1C-1

II. America’s Disarmed Future: ‘President Obama’s Pentagon cuts are indefensible.’-Posted on National Review Online-By Arthur Herman-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287320/america-s-disarmed-future-arthur-herman

III. Obama’s Military Cuts: A Strategy for Disaster!-Posted on Patriot Update- by David Goetsch-On January 6, 2012:

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/obamas-military-cuts-a-strategy-for-disaster

IV. Diminishing Our Military Capabilities!-Posted on National Review-By Jack David-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287388/diminishing-our-military-capabilities-jack-david

V.  McCain: Obama’s Military Cuts Leave Country 'in Greatest Peril'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jim Meyers and Ashley MartellaOn January 6, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/mccain-obama-failed-iran/2012/01/06/id/423299?s=al&promo_code=DDF1-1

VI. Obama’s Indefensible Cuts: ‘On national security, decline is a choice.’-Posted on National Review Online-By The Editors-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287337/obamas-indefensible-cuts-editors

VII. Rubio: Obama Turning US Into 'Deadbeat Nation'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Martin Gould-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/RubioObamadebtletter/2012/01/06/id/423282?s=al&promo_code=DDF1-1

VIII. Ron Paul’s Soros Defense Plan!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-on January 2, 2012:

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/02/ron-pauls-soros-defense-plan/

IX. Obama Wants to Continue Secret Talks With Taliban in Europe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By The Associated Press-On December 30, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-ObamaAfghanistan-Taliban/2011/12/30/id/422549

Note What follows is a special report on the Illuminati Network that provides us with concrete evidence of a “New World Order & One World Government” agenda, to include the Islamic agenda-You Decide:

Illuminati Network!-Posted on Global Watch Report 2010:

http://www.globalreport2010.com/globalwatchspecialreport.pdf

Note:  The following websites and report reveal that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) funds: (a) organizations that advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending; (b) organizations that favor global government, which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies; and, (c) the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), which is a liberal internationalist coalition of U.S. donors who believe the best way to prevent wars, constrain rogue nations, and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons is to let international laws and organizations set the terms of world peace. The umbrella group, whose listed supporters claim to have assets exceeding $25 billion, aims to entangle the U.S. government in a process of international negotiation to create a new global legal regime. It would likely limit U.S. sovereignty and replace a strong national defense with endless rounds of international rulemaking and consensus-building-You Decide:

(a) Organizations that advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending:

  • The American Friends Service Committee, which views America as the world's chief source of international strife, has long had a friendly relationship with the Communist Party USALamenting that “the United States spends 59% of the discretionary federal budget on military-related expenses,” the Committee seeks to “realign national spending priorities and to increase the portion of the budget that is spent on housing, quality education for all, medical care, and fair wages.” In 2000, George Soros himself was a signatory to a letter titled “Appeal for Responsible Security” that appeared in The New York Times. The letter called upon the U.S. government “to commit itself unequivocally to negotiate the worldwide reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons,” and to participate in “the global de-alerting of nuclear weapons and deep reduction of nuclear stockpiles.”

(b) Organizations that favor global government, which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies:

  • According to George Soros, “We need some global system of political decision-making. In short, we need a global society to support our global economy.” Consistent with this perspective, the Open Society Institute in 2008 gave $150,000 to the United Nations Foundation, which “works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach.” Moreover, OSI is considered a “major” funder of the Coalition for an International Criminal Court, which aims to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures in certain cases to an international prosecutor who could initiate capricious or politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. officials and military officers.

Source:

Guide to The George Soros Network-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589

(c) Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6519

The New Internationalism: Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)!-Posted on Capital Research Center-By John J. Tierney-On August 2009:

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1249061645.pdf

Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways: (a) by characterizing the United States as an evil, militaristic, oppressive nation that exploits vulverable populations all over the globe; (b) by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions; (c) by depicting America's military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and immoral-You Decide: 

Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309

Note What follows are web sites that contain a series of videos that bring to light a most startling revelation, which is that the collapse of Soviet Communism was in fact a staged deception to mislead the West and open the way for Russia's domination of the free world, along with exposing KGB connections in America-You Decide:

The Untold Story About The Collapse of Communism!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheSpiritOfTruth-On May 19, 2006:

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F37A04E836694EF6&annotation_id=annotation_972225&feature=iv

The KGB Connections in America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfN3WRA0Vc&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

Note What follows are eye opening, but not surprising articles and/or blog posts and videos reveal Obama's Marxist-Leninist mind-set-You Decide:

The Secret Life of Barack Obama!-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On November 18, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck11.18-1.11.html

The Audacity of Socialism!-Special Report posted on Investors.com:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/SpecialReport.aspx?id=516621

Meeting Young Obama-Posted on American Thinker-By John Drew-On February 24, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html

Obama's Final Solution!-Posted on American Thinker-By James Lewis-On July 3, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obamas_final_solution.html

Obamunism: Proof of What You’ve Always Suspected-Posted on The Patriot Update-By Ann-Marie Murrell-On April 13, 2011:

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/obamunism

Obamunism, Part 2-Posted on The Patriot Update-By Ann-Marie Murrell-On April 27, 2011: 

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/obamunism-part-2

Barack Obama, Radical-in-Chief (Part 1): Polarize & Socialize-Posted on PJTV-On November 22, 2010:

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=4436

Barack Obama, Radical In Chief (Part 2)-- Socialist in Training: Obama's Early Years-Posted on PJTV-On November 24, 2010:

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=4444

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts and videos reveal Leon Panetta’s Communist ties-You Decide:

Top spy points finger at Panetta friend!-Posted on America’s Surival-By Wes Vernon-On June 20, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.20.2011.html

Media Blackout: CIA director accused of links to Communist spy contact—scandal ignored!-Posted on RenewAmerica-By Wes Vernon-On June 13, 2011:

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/110613?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=asinews&utm_content=%5BASI%5D+Is+the+Panetta+Scandal+the+Next+Alger+Hiss+Case%3F

Leon Panetta Praises Communist Party USA Member!-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On June 13, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.13.2011.html?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=asinews&utm_content=%5BASI%5D+Leon+Panetta+praises+identified+Communist+Party

Obama’s CIA Director Linked to Spies Through Communist Party Figure!-Posted on TrevorLoudon.com-By Trevor-On June 8, 2011:

http://trevorloudon.com/2011/06/panetta-hearing-for-secdef-on-thursday-obama’s-cia-director-linked-to-spies-through-communist-party-figure/

Leon Panetta’s U.S. Senator Armed Services Committee Confirmation Hearing On June 9, 2011:

http://armed-services.senate.gov/Webcasts/2011/06%20June/06-09-11%20Webcast.html

Note The following eye opening articles and/or blog posts reveal that President Obama can unilaterally use our military to protect ‘national interests’ and that he can also use our Armed Forces to push his and his minion’s progressive agenda-You Decide:

Panetta: Obama Can Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On June 13, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/panetta-obama-can-use-military-without-c

Podesta: Obama Can Use ‘Armed Forces’ To Push Progressive Agenda!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On November 18, 2010:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/podesta-obama-can-use-armed-forces-to-push-progressive-agenda/

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

The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/

Veterans and members of our Armed Forces under attack!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/veterans-and-members-of-our-armed-forces-under-attack/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Nuclear Summit Part of Obama Administration’s ‘Fantasy Foreign Policy’!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/nuclear-summit-part-of-obama-administration’s-‘fantasy-foreign-policy’/

Will The New START Undermine Our Nuclear Security?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/will-the-new-start-undermine-our-nuclear-security/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

White House Quietly Courts Muslims in U.S.!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/white-house-quietly-courts-muslims-in-u-s/

Is U.S. Negotiating with the Taliban?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/is-u-s-negotiating-with-the-taliban/

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

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/

Is History Repeating Itself?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/is-history-repeating-itself/

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/the-russian-view-of-what-has-been-happening-in-america-2/

Were we forewarned about what to expect if President Obama got elected?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/were-we-forewarned-about-what-to-expect-if-president-obama-got-elected/

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/

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

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FOR THOSE OF YOU RESIDING IN FLORIDA…

As you know America is in serious trouble and we need to wake up people in our neighborhoods and communities who are still asleep before the 2012 election.  The time is at hand, the crisis is now!

 

Alex Snitker, a United States Marine veteran, Executive Director of the Save America Foundation, and co-host of Liberty Underground radio show will be on a speaking tour of FL in January, February and March.  There is no charge for this presentation.  He will share strategies on how we can remove corrupt, compromising politicians on a local level and replace them with conservative candidates with integrity who will stand by the oath they take to uphold, defend, and protect the law of our land—the U.S. Constitution.

 

As part of these public speaking engagements Alex will hold a 2 hour workshop the day after the speaking engagement to address the crisis in America with action items and resources that you can apply immediately to secure your finances and ensure your family’s survival for what lies ahead.  Again, there is no charge.

 

Since there are travel expenses involved for Alex and the cost of booking a place to hold the venue, we are asking for a minimum commitment of no less of 50 people. Also, if your current meeting place can accommodate a large crowd let us know that too. If you are a small group, do not be dismayed, you can join forces with other like-minded groups in your area.

 

Please take time to watch this powerful video titled America Needs Your Help at the Save America Foundation website at http://www.saveamericafoundation.com  and then get back with me via phone at (813) 230-6369 or email me at donna@jmcproductions.org  to schedule his appearance.

 

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Right ON!!

Posted on American Thinker-By Cindy Simpson-On January 6, 2012:

By avoiding the contentious question of Obama’s “natural born” eligibility, America’s academic establishment has also stifled discussion on the inextricably related issue of citizenship law in our country, in the greater context of immigration reform.

The first instance of academia’s cloak-throwing was noted in an American Thinker article which described the revision made by Professor Larry Solum to his scholarly paper that addressed Senator McCain’s eligibility, “Originalism and the Natural Born Citizenship Clause.”  The original version was published in 2008.  Without saying it explicitly in his footnote of explanation, Solum’s revision implied, subtly, that he also supported the eligibility of Obama, with his one citizen parent instead of two—yet Solum did not include citations or references that defended his rationale for the change, nor has he published papers since that discussed this aspect of the issue.

Solum’s unsupported rewriting was mentioned again in the more recent article, “The Great American Memory Hole.”  That column also described the strange and related story of “JustiaGate”—the “mangling” of text and citations, for approximately a three-year period beginning mid-2008, on Justia’s database for 25 Supreme Court decisions that directly cited the particular case of Minor v Happersett.  It so happens that Minor contains a succinct definition of “natural born” citizenship (essentially, born in the country to citizen “parents,” plural) that attorney Leo Donofrio contends represents binding precedent.  In addition to the anomalies noted at Justia, Donofrio discovered a complete block of relevant text missing from Ex Parte Lockwood at Cornell—a case that Donofrio argues further proves his assertion that Minor’s statements on citizenship are binding precedent vs. dicta.

Cornell’s Professor William Jacobson countered that Justia is not utilized by “practicing lawyers,” but it is revealing to note that both Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog and the WSJ Law Blog, for example, recently and frequently link to Justia’s Supreme decisions, and that Google searches often list Justia as a top hit—reinforcing the reality that Justia’s Supreme Court database does indeed maintain a significant voice in the court of public opinion. 

Shortly after Donofrio’s findings and further claims regarding the precedent set by Minor, Professor Jonathan Turley published a post by contributor David Drumm entitled “Holdings, Dicta, and Stare Decisis.”  The last sentence of Drumm’s post refers to the Wikipedia article on Minor as further support for his assertion that the “natural born” comments are dicta; however, that particular Wikipedia entry was revised only a couple of months ago (soon after Donofrio’s assertions) to include the very paragraph that Drumm cites.  Comments on Drumm’s post now number over 1,300, bearing witness to an ugly war that continues to rage among anonymous commenters.  The revision history for the Wikipedia entry reveals similar battle scars.

“In the Spirit of Truth,” Donofrio has, via his “Natural Born Citizen” blog, invited other attorneys to directly challenge his assertions:

The definition of natural born citizen in Minor v. Happersett is binding precedent;  Ex Parte Lockwood acknowledged Minor as precedent for the definition of federal citizenship; and the statements in Minor fit the description of precedent established by the Court in Ogilvie Et Al., Minors v. United States.

Will any accept the offer, or, along with other legal academics, will attorneys continue the “bizarre birther intellectual dance” described by Jacobson that sidesteps reasonable questions of law and spins around only the infamous birth certificate?

In his original paper, Solum’s description of “natural born citizen” closely followed Justice Waite’s wording in Minor, yet Solum indicated that the meaning of the term simply derived from “general agreement.”  (Solum attributed his later revision to “a matter of inclusion.”)  I have been unable to locate other articles addressing the eligibility of either candidate that examined the Minor definition.  That is astonishing, for whether the statements in Minor were dicta or precedent, they were still directly relevant; yet many insisted that the term “natural born” had never been defined by the Court. 

In early 2008, at the request of the McCain campaign, Professor Laurence Tribe and former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson presented a memo to Congress stating their opinion that McCain was a natural born citizen, though born in the Canal Zone, “by virtue of his birth ... to US citizen parents.”  The memo became the basis for Senate Resolution 511, co-sponsored by both Obama and Clinton, clearing the path for McCain’s eligibility.

Professor Gabriel Chin responded to the Tribe/Olson opinion in a lengthy analysis titled “Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship.”  Chin quoted the Minor natural born definition in a footnote but without further elaboration.  In his conclusion, Chin noted that the statutes that precluded the eligibility of McCain, whom he described as “not only not a race-baiter but disapprov[ing] of race discrimination,” were the result of “antique technicalities of the legal regulation of race.”  Although Chin did not mention it, the fact that those who raise the issue of Obama’s eligibility are called racist seems even more ironic.

In 2011, describing “birthers” as focused only on Obama’s place of birth, Chin asserted that “neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has weighed in on the question” of natural born citizenship—neglecting to recall his own reference to Minor and specific citation of its definition in his 2008 paper.

Professor Peter Spiro, in his 2008 scholarly article supporting his favorable opinion of McCain’s eligibility, concluded with this general remark: “The prospect of a dual-citizen president proves the obsolescence of requiring our chief executives to be natural born citizens.”  Spiro’s statement appears to suggest that dual citizens are not natural born, yet he did not acknowledge the dual citizenship claimed by Obama on his campaign website and further confirmed by the State Department.  Factcheck also affirmed Obama’s dual citizenship, but dismissed it as irrelevant based on the opinion of an anonymous blogger.

After Obama released his long-form birth certificate in 2011, Spiro published another article, “Birthers’ Next Line of Retreat: Obama was a Dual Citizen!” in which he denigrated “birthers” as “conspiracists,” called the dual citizenship question a new “bizarre sideshow,” and referred readers to the “excellent explanation from factcheck.org.”

In the 2008 article on McCain, Spiro asserted: “Constitutional questions do not require constitutional decisions. If non-judicial actors—including Congress, editorialists, leading members of the bar, and the People themselves—manage to generate a constitutional consensus, there isn’t much that the courts can do about it.” 

However, Spiro and other academics have failed to similarly address Obama’s eligibility, much less with a level of scholarship or seriousness (if Chin’s and Spiro’s 2011 articles quoted above are any indication) that would appear to justify such a “consensus.”

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) circulated three memoranda on presidential qualifications, the first dated April 3, 2009, the second, March 18, 2010.  The first report addressed the eligibility of both McCain and Obama; the second focused primarily on Obama’s birth certificate and whether citizens had “standing” in the eligibility suits, yet both reports failed to mention Minor.

Following the activity in the blogosphere over whether Minor’s definition was binding precedent and the new state ballot challenges, CRS issued a third report, titled “Qualifications for President and the ‘Natural Born’ Citizenship Eligibility Requirement.”  Without stating the reasons behind the report’s preparation or its requestor, the author, “Legislative Attorney” Jack Maskell, asserts that based on “the nearly unanimous consensus of legal and constitutional scholars,” not only are both McCain and Obama natural born citizens, so is anyone born on U.S. soil (irrespective of the citizenship or domicile status of either parent), and even some who were foreign-born, as long as they had at least one citizen parent who fulfilled previous residency requirements.

According to Dr. Jerome Corsi, “rather than advance the eligibility debate with a truly scholarly analysis, Maskell produced ... a footnoted polemic aimed at appearing scholarly to prop up Obama’s eligibility defense.”  And unsurprisingly, this third report dismisses the definition in Minor as mere dicta.

The two-step process followed by the court in Minor (to first answer whether Mrs. Minor was a citizen and secondly whether that status gave her the right to vote) was discussed in another article, “Citizenship Jeopardy.”  The “presumed” citizenship of Hamdi and Obama’s recent drone target, al-Awlaki, was analyzed—“presumed” being the adjective used by Justice Scalia in his dissent in Hamdi v Rumsfeld, a 2005 case that argued that Hamdi, as a U.S. citizen by virtue of the “birthright citizenship” practice (born in the U.S. to non-U.S. citizens), was entitled to habeas corpus.

The controversy over “birthright citizenship” centers on the citizenship and domicile status of the parents and is thus unavoidably related to the definition of “natural born” citizenship as it pertains to Obama.  The political tension surrounding immigration reform and charges of racism levied against the “birthers,” combined with the tragic yet effective distraction of the birth certificate, have further contributed to this contentious issue.

The hot button of immigration reform was addressed in another article that mentioned the 2005 congressional hearing, “Dual Citizenship, Birthright Citizenship, and the Meaning of Sovereignty,” in which all participants seemed to agree (some reluctantly) that the 14th Amendment (as well as the really very narrow ruling in Wong Kim Ark) did not guarantee or mandate the grant of citizenship to the children, born in the U.S., of aliens.

Although opinions differ over the application of the amendment as it relates to the temporary or permanent, legal or illegal status of the aliens’ presence—if the “subject to the jurisdiction” phrase is not redundant (to “born in the country”) and in fact alludes to the concept of allegiance—the legality of the non-citizen parent’s border-crossing seems far less pertinent than the intent to domicile.  In addition, while many claim that the parents’ status is irrelevant to the rights of the child, derivative citizenship laws appear to support the opposite view.

A few years after the hearing (and coincidentally, when Obama came on the scene), discussion of citizenship was labeled “birther” talk, with conservative pundits like Mark Steyn referring to “rinky-dink technicalities” and attorneys such as Mark Levin (who led the call for Clinton’s impeachment based on the technicality of lying under oath) loudly refusing to even courteously acknowledge what seem to be very valid, interesting, and timely questions:

Does mere birth in the US, regardless of circumstances, guarantee citizenship?

If foreign-born naturalized citizens are required to renounce past foreign citizenship, should a status of dual citizenship at birth (the result of the birthright citizenship practice as well as the 1922 Cable Act which no longer required that women lost their U.S. citizenship upon marriage to an alien) necessitate a renunciation of the foreign citizenship by the child at majority?

Does the dual citizenship of a large and growing proportion of our population have implications for our national security?

And if naturalized citizens are not qualified for the presidency, should dual citizenship at birth likewise preclude eligibility?

According to Dr. John Eastman, it was not until around 50 years ago that “popular perception” grew into the “idea that mere birth on American soil alone ensured citizen status.”  Eastman asserts: “We just gradually started assuming that birth was enough.”

Has such “gradual” thinking replaced the Constitution?  Will the convoluted reasoning enshrined in Wong Kim Ark and the “unabashedly result-oriented approach” in Plyler v Doe continue to shape the character of our nation’s citizenship and sovereignty?

In this nation of immigrants, assimilation was once a cornerstone of our desire to build a cohesive national character.  Today, assimilation has been replaced by multiculturalism, “press 2 for Spanish,” and voting materials printed in foreign languages.  The children of “birth tourists” are granted U.S. citizenship.  And the oath sworn by naturalized citizens requiring rejection of past foreign citizenship is no longer enforced.

Concern over whether popular elections should trump valid questions of constitutional law (with related lawsuits dismissed for lack of “standing” or “particularized injury”) combined with the apparent absence of a formal mechanism to ensure the legitimacy of candidates creates a slippery slope further heightened by the symbolic nature of the question:

Does the current commander-in-chief, sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution, actually have the right to hold that office?  Do the “folks” he serves have a right to ask that question and have it respectfully answered?

Professor Chin wrote: “The rule of law would be mortally wounded if courts, Congress or the executive could legitimately ignore provisions of law they deemed obsolete ... It would be a grim moment in history if the very oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution’ that made a person President was also a falsehood that defied the document.”  Chin was referring to a McCain presidency, but should not the same sentiment apply to any president, including Obama?

Constitutional experts who were once vocal opponents of birthright citizenship have failed to opine on the very related eligibility issue.  Does their silence imply that they now believe that a birth certificate is the only requirement for citizenship?  In an article discussing Marco Rubio’s eligibility, Solum was quoted as saying that the birthers’ “arguments aren’t crazy,” but declined to elaborate.

Will academia break that silence by addressing the question of Obama’s eligibility with at least the same attention and level of scholarship given to McCain’s?  And will academia assist our nation in reforming immigration policies that comprehensively address and resolve the issues created by the birthright citizenship practice and growing proportion of dual citizens?

According to a new study posted on Professor Turley’s blog, teaching law ranks second among professions “that pay the most for the least amount of work.”  Perhaps law professors can find time in their busy schedules to educate the rest of us on these issues, in a scholarly, and not political, fashion.”

Source:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/academia_shrugs_obamas_citizenship_and_the_presidency.html

Note:  The following article and/or blog post informs us that the issue of Obama’s eligibility remains unresolved although challenges have now been filed in at least four states, with challenges pending in several others, along with revealing that Mitt Romney may be in the same boat as President Obama when it comes to the eligibility issue because, although he was born in Detroit, Michigan, his father, George Romney, was born in Mexico of American-born parents who retained their American citizenship.  At birth, George Romney was a dual-citizen, holding both Mexican and American citizenship at birth, Mexican citizenship as he was born in Mexico and American citizenship as his parents were American.

In order for Mitt Romney to be natural born, George Romney would have had to terminate his Mexican citizenship before Mitt Romney was born.  There has been no proof forthcoming that this happened.  When George Romney ran for president in 1968, and the question of his eligibility arose, his attorneys claimed he was natural born.  That was not and is not true under the definition of Vattel’s Law of Nations used by the Founding Fathers when the United States Constitution was written, and confirmed by Minor v Happersett, 1875.

If Mitt Romney becomes the 2012 Republican candidate for the presidency, the same situation that prevailed in the 2008 presidential election, will also prevail in the 2012 presidential election; the American people will have a choice between two candidates – neither of which have been proven eligible to the office of president.

If our nation is to survive, we cannot allow what happened in 2008 – with the eligibility of both the Democrat and Republican candidates to the office of the president going unresolved, to happen again.

Barack Hussein Obama must be removed from the ballot of the 50 states, and Mitt Romney must be forced to prove his eligibility.  This is not a left/right issue; this is not a Democrat/Republican issue; this is a matter of protecting and defending our United States Constitution.-You Decide:

A Matter of Eligibility!-Posted on American for Constitutional Government Reform-By Lynn M Stuter-On January 7, 2012:

http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/05-826/

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

I. Undisputed PROOF that Obama is ineligible for the Presidency!

OORAH!!

Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By GeorgeM-On January 7, 2012:

“From researcher Tracy: I’ve researched it for 3 years and I HAVE THE PROOF and nearly all of my sources are the Library of Congress and all links are intact, so the sources are EASILY checked and being government documents from the Library of Congress, they are easily undisputable, as well.

Here is the undisputed PROOF that Obama is ineligible for the Presidency:

Representative John Bingham 1862 (Cong. Globe, 37th, 2nd Sess., pg 1639:
?All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.?

http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llcg/059/0600/06811639.gif

In 1866 while introducing bill H.R. 127 (14th Amendment) Jacob M. Howard (Author of the Citizenship clause) states:
“This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States.”


http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=11

MEANING that they changed NOTHING with the 14th Amendment, only that they were declaring what was already the law. The LAW he was referring to, was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which states:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States;”

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section4/section4_civrightsact1.html

Everyone seems to forget the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, which is why the Law/Amendment went astray. If you look at the congressional records, while they were debating the 14th Amendment, you will find the truth and you will see that the 14th Amendment has been 100% perverted!

What exactly did “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” mean to the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment? Luckily we have Sen. Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, author of the Thirteenth Amendment, and the one who inserted the phrase:
“The provision is, that ‘all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.’ That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.’ What do we mean by ‘complete jurisdiction thereof?’ NOT OWING ALLEGIANCE TO ANYBODY ELSE. That is what it means.”

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=14

Sen. Howard concurs with Trumbull’s construction:
“I concur entirely with the honorable Senator from Illinois [Trumbull], in holding that the word “jurisdiction,” as here employed, ought to be construed so as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States, whether exercised by Congress, by the executive, or by the judicial department; that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now.”


http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=16

Supreme Court Case Minor V. Happersett:
“At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=88&invol=162

Representative John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the 14th Amendment, confirms the understanding and construction the framers used in regards to birthright and jurisdiction while speaking on civil rights of citizens in the House on March 9, 1866:
“I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of PARENTS NOT OWING ALLEGIANCE TO ANY FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN”
MIDDLE COLUMN 3RD PARAGRAPH:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=071/llcg071.db&recNum=332

In the 1814 Supreme Court Case, The Venus, Chief Justice Marshall cites Vattel in saying:
“The whole system of decisions applicable to this subject rests on the law of nations as its base. It is therefore of some importance to inquire how far the writers on that law consider the subjects of one power residing within the territory of another, as retaining their original character or partaking of the character of the nation in which they reside.
Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says”:
“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.”

http://supreme.justia.com/us/12/253/case.html

Still Not 100% Sure? Here’s more!

Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution says:
“No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;”

When the Declaration of Independence was adopted, the people of America broke free from British rule and were made US Citizens.

When writing the Constitution, they wanted to be sure they did everything possible to keep America perpetually secure and everlasting, by letting no one, except a Natural Born Citizen (born to two citizen parents) to be eligible for the Presidency. There is an OBVIOUS distinction in the Constitution between Citizen and Natural Born Citizen, which proves there is a difference or it would have just said citizen, for all the positions, instead of saying that the President and VP must be Natural Born, but all others need only be citizens.

The original text of Article 2, section 1, is not what it is today. Here is a timeline of the changes:

June 18th, 1787 – Alexander Hamilton suggests that the requirement be added, as:
 “No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States.” Works of Alexander Hamilton (page 407).

July 25, 1787 (~5 weeks later) – John Jay writes a letter to General Washington (president of the Constitutional Convention): “Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.” [the word born is underlined in Jay’s letter which signifies the importance of allegiance from birth.]

http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28fr00379%29%29:

September 2nd, 1787 George Washington pens a letter to John Jay. The last line reads: “I thank you for the hints contained in your letter”

http://www.consource.org/index.asp?bid=582&fid=600&documentid=71483

That was the original link, which if you search it, you will see it’s all over the web but you will also see that it has since been scrubbed. But I found another link, where you can read the letter:

http://books.google.com/books?id=z0oWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=%22I+thank+you+for+the+hints+contained+in+your+letter%22&source=bl&ots=1mgttvUzrt&sig=D56Q1n9tWRdgDFGkLLEf9zUR630&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jsAHT4aaNqH30gHP-5SWAg&sqi=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22I%20thank%20you%20for%20the%20hints%20contained%20in%20your%20letter%22&f=false

September 4th, 1787 (~6 weeks after Jay’s letter and just 2 days after Washington wrote back to Jay) – The “Natural Born Citizen” requirement is now found in their drafts.

Source:

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

II. ELIGIBILITY APPEAL SEEKS LEVEL ELECTION PLAYING FIELD: ‘Current standard ‘denies redress’ when unqualified candidate on ballot!’-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On January 6, 2012:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/eligibility-appeal-seeks-level-election-playing-field/

III. Video: ALERT! As Sheriff Arpaio's Investigation of Obama's Citizenship nears completion - D.O.J. SUES!-Posted on YouTube.com-By ppsimmons-On January 6, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vk-WbjEUdi4

IV. Video: Fox News: Georgia Ballot Access Challenge Against Obama Gets Hearing!-Posted on YouTube.com-By BirtherReportDotCom-On January 6, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2KhFneWERAU

Note:  Americans are waking up!

Thanks to WND’s un-wavering commitment and fortitude many Americans across the country are starting to wake up to the fact that President Obama is constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of President, as substantiated by his newly released long-form Certificate of Live Birth, which shows that his father was in fact born in Kenya in 1936. At the time, Kenya was a British colony. Therefore Obama Senior was a British subject by birth (due to the fact that he was born within British-controlled territory). When President Obama was born in 1961, he acquired British nationality by descent, because his father was a British subject by birth. When Kenya gained its independence from Great Britain in 1963, President Obama became a citizen of the newly-formed nation.

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 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. The team that established and maintains this website is currently compiling election laws from all 50 states and in the near future will be providing forms, along with sample letters that registered voters can use to file a complaint. Also included is pertinent information regarding those lawsuits and/or complaints that have been filed by state, to include my own.

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/retired-marine-captain-files-obama-ballot-challenge-in-new-mexico

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/request-that-president-obama-be-removed-from-the-new-mexico-2012-presidential-primary-election-ballot

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 isAre 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.

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

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

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

Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newly-released-colb-be-a-forgery/

Was there a conspiracy to put Obama in the White House?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/was-there-a-conspiracy-to-put-obama-in-the-white-house-2/

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/

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!

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Obama's Roots of Corruption - Where Are Fannie & Freddie Execs Now?
Millions of families are out of work or homeless and the seed of corruption remains eerily close to its source and continues to saps our nation's wealth.  Where Are the Now????


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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Surprise!

The three who brought  down Wall Street.

Here's a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who
brought down Wall Street.


Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities.
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.


Tim Howard - was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure
a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!


Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation
for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

FRANKLIN RAINES ?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor.

TIM HOWARD?
Howard is a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines.

JIM JOHNSON?
Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee.

 
 
Our government seems to be rotten to the core !
 
Are we stupid or what?   Vote in 2012..it is the most important election of our lives.
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