I have mentioned before that I foresee a complete collapse of the American economic system. Something, I feel, that will be much, much, worse than the Dot-Com Crash back in 2000, or even the Sub Prime Credit Crash in 2008. No, what I feel is coming will be worse than both these two former crashes added together. In fact, it has, I believe, already begun.
We Americans, indeed, all the citizens of the world, may well be facing a period of lawlessness the likes of which, the world has never experienced before. We are talking worldwide anarchy.
Look at what is happening in Washington, DC, today. There is a breakdown of our form of democracy – a constitutional republic. Our leaders in Congress have chosen to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the constituents they are sworn to represent. Our US government has never in its history been as separated from the people as this congress is. Not only that, but the Congress has become expendable. It is no longer necessary.
Laws are being made and enforced from the Oval Office of the White House completely by-passing Congress. The President’s use of Executive Orders and Czars, answerable only to him, is, effectively, a dictatorship. The US Constitution is viewed by those in power in America today as “an outdated list of suggestions” that needs to be trashed.
That American Dream, we Americans grew up hearing about, is no longer a dream but a nightmare. America’s capitalism is being tossed aside in favor of nation killing socialism. Our children and grandchildren are now carrying a debt load, imposed on them by the government, which they will never be able to pay off. We are headed toward, some say, to a global debt bomb which, when it explodes, will bring worldwide anarchy. Our civilized infrastructure will simply collapse. Here in America the dreaded Great Depression of the last century will be replayed in this century. Some are referring to it as “The Great Depression II.”
Once again, American will be forced to look to themselves for answers on survival. As did our famous Pilgrims and Frontiersmen ancestors we will be called upon to provide for our families as best we can. Preparation is called for. Those preparations should be made NOW!
Each of us should be stockpiling food and necessities for many months of anarchy. If you do not have a firearm, get one, learn how to use it, and be sure to stockpile plenty of ammunition. We are talking self-defense here. If you have food and others do not, you may be called upon to defend your family and your family’s foodstuff.
Hide your guns! The current US Presidential administration has made known its desire to join with the United Nations in an effort to strip you of your constitutional right to own and bear arms. (The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.) Remember, we warned that many in our current government view the constitution as outdated suggestions? They WILL come after our guns, so hide them. You may need them later.
When the collapse comes you will be forced to act in your own self-interest and that of your family FIRST – IF you intend to survive.
Americans have been asleep for the past few generations. We have allowed our government to be overtaken by socialist, and Marxists, and Progressives and today we are reaping what we have sown. We find ourselves on the brink of total collapse. And all this while—we thought it couldn’t happen here. But it can – it has!
Will there be a Second American Revolution as some are predicting? Frankly, I do not know. I sincerely hope it does not come to that. Many American voices are calling out that if we wish to reestablish a new capitalist society after the collapse, we must consider every avenue. One can only prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Rest assured, there will be no renewal as long as our government remains in the hands of the socialists and Marxists. We can begin the process of removing them from office in the Mid Term Election in November of 2010.
As Thomas Paine said in “The American Crisis” these are, indeed, “the times which try men’s souls.” These times will also try our determination to survive and our determination to ensure the survival of our country. But FIRST – WE MUST SURVIVE.
J. D. Longstreet
http://www.csadispatch.blogspot.com/
Let’s review the last year. It’s been a wild ride!
The Housing Bubble had burst. TARP was passed. The torch had been passed from the despised George W Bush to the newly inaugurated “Annointed One”. And the “Stimulus” was brought forth as the salvation for our nation. We stood on the brink… Without the stimulus we would fall over the edge into the abyss.
Unemployment was rising. The economy was failing. We had to pass the Stimulus IMMEDIATELY or we’d have a catastrophe. Without the Stimulus, we’d see unemployment get as bad as 8%!!
So the Stimulus passed, and the Omnibus spending bill which TRIPLED the previous deficit also passed. Goldman Sachs and other fat-cat cronies of the Democrat Party were bailed out. GM & Chrysler became wards of the state. Tax & Spend policies were turned loose to run amok in such an unprecedented manner that drunken sailors were chanting for temperance!!
So many times in the last year, we’ve heard how these actions “pulled us back from the brink”. But rhetoric notwithstanding, reality seems to indicate that we did indeed fall over that brink, and are currently freefalling inside that abyss!!
When the Stimulus passed, 8% unemployment seemed like a catastrophe WORTH spending 787 Billion dollars to prevent! But it DIDN’T WORK – we now have unemployment over 10%. The deficit has now almost been QUADRUPLED and the debt limit is being raised almost monthly!
Big numbers are confusing so let’s break them down for clarity: With approximately 250 million people in the country (men, women & children) that means it costs every human-being in the USA approximately $4 for every Billion dollars congress spends. Maybe that doesn’t sound like a lot… till you realize that they’re spending so much that AFTER THEY SPEND EVERYTHING THEY’RE CURRENTLY RECEIVING, they’re spending more than an additional $3 Billion EVERY DAY! Over a TRILLION a year! That’s DEBT! That’s money you haven’t given them yet, but you OWE!! Every TRILLION is $4000 owed per person (not per family!)!
Our current debt is over $13 Trillion. So you now owe $52,000 over and above your CURRENT tax burden that they’ve already spent! And so do your kids. And they’ve raised the debt limit to almost 15 Trillion. And how soon before they hit THAT ceiling? At what point do they max out the credit card and HAVE to stop spending??
Well… What else has happened over the last year?
Just days after the “Spendulus” or “Porkulus” bill passed the House; Rick Santelli made a now-famous rant on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade – calling for a “New American Tea Party”! Little did he know that these words would spawn a grassroots movement, the likes of which have not been seen since 1775!
Within days, on February 27, hundreds of cities saw the first Tea Parties. Some were small; and some were larger. The largest on that day occurred under the St Louis Arch at the Mississippi riverfront. Organizers expected only a couple hundred dedicated souls; but well over 1200 showed up on a cold, dreary February Friday Afternoon! Productive working people took their lunch hours, or took time off work to send a message to Washington that they rejected BIG GOVERNMENT! (Unemployed people and students were there too – proclaiming how they REJECT dependency upon Government even in the midst of their own hardships!)
On the heels of the Stimulus & Omnibus, the march was on for Socialized Healthcare. By April 15 (Tax Day) the sleeping giant of the American Patriot was fully awakened and engaged – and enraged! The Tax Day Tea Parties were even larger. A MOVEMENT was underway. People were becoming INFORMED about the healthcare bill soon to be dubbed “ObamaCare”. The more they learned, the less they liked. And they let their elected representatives know about it.
As Congress departed Washington for their summer recess… they got an EARFUL from their constituents. The Town-Halls of the summer of 2009 will go down in history as the re-emergence of the American Patriot Spirit!
Grannies stood up pointing fingers and scolding their congressmen! Servicemen, young people, housewives and students all stood up at these town halls and gave congress a piece of their mind. They rejected the spending. They rejected the encroachment and enlargement of Government. They opposed Socialism. They opposed Cap and Trade. They opposed the taxes. And most of all, they resisted “ObamaCare.”
On 9/12, over a million Americans made their way to Washington, DC to march on the Mall against the Progressive Agenda. Smaller events simultaneously took place across the nation, with a sizeable turnout in Quincy, IL!
To date the “conservative resistance” has been very successful!
Obama has not been able to pass his Government Takeover of Healthcare. Cap and Trade has been forestalled. The Global Warming Hoax is being exposed. ACORN has been exposed. Gitmo is still open. Iraq/Afghanistan troops have been reinforced (though only receiving ¾ of the troop levels asked for!). McCain Feingold has been overturned by the Supreme Court. Gun rights have been UPHELD by the Court. We’ve seen election turnarounds in NJ, VA and MA. The NY-23 race showed that RINO Republicans can’t count on support from conservatives. And Scott Brown proved that NO seat is safe for the Democrats. Michael Steele is begging Tea Party Leaders to meet with him!
In all, perhaps the Conservative Majority has much to THANK Mr. Obama for in the last year!
Of course, Obama is STILL saying how all our problems pre-dated him, and he inherited them!
Surprisingly, he’s right to a degree. After almost 6 years of economic growth after 9/11… Our problems DID begin during the Bush Administration… Right after the 2006 elections, with the takeover of the congressional majority by the Democrats!
February 27, 2010 marks the one year anniversary of the Tea Parties. Rallies are taking place, notably in St Louis, to commemorate one year of Effective Conservative Resistance. It will be interesting to see what the 2nd year of this Patriot Movement has in store.
Copyright © 2010 by Doug Edelman
http://starboard.blogtownhall.com/
There is no constitutional right to serve in the Armed Forces. For readiness reasons, the military is selective about who serves based on age, weight, education, family status, physical fitness, and drug usage. Extensive training, good order, and discipline are required. War us a risky business. Compromise any of these elements and our casualties on the battlefield will be higher, and our chances for success will be reduced.
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ (DADT) works, and overturning it is not a change the public is desperately seeking. It is not a change servicemen and women are clamoring for either. A recent survey by the Army Times found that 51% of solders oppose gays serving openly, with only 30% in favor.
As Congress noted in 1993 when the policy was adopted, active gays would pose “an unacceptable risk to the armed forces’ high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”
Enter Barack Obama and the splintering coalition that got him elected in 2008. In his State of the Union speech, Obama offered his moderate supporters a partial spending freeze and promises of nuclear power, clean coal, and offshore drilling. Progressives, however, are his base and are disillusioned with his failure to pass a health care plan or Cap and Trade. No president can be reelected without his base.
Obama is therefore compelled to appeal to progressives by the elimination of DADT, and for open homosexuality within the military. Politically, he has little to lose. Everyone knows he has no allegiance to the military. All should understand that this issue is a political calculation for him, and nothing more.
Obama’s only explanation for his proposal is that, “It’s the right thing to do.” Military effectiveness is not his utmost priority. When Bill Clinton raised this issue in 1993, a firestorm erupted. The DADT policy forged at that time, however, has worked well over the years with readiness maintained with fewer gays involuntarily discharged than before.
Nobody says that gays cannot fight. There are many examples through history where they have done so effectively. The real question is what impact openly homosexual soldiers will have on other soldiers.
As it is today, peers of a gay soldier who “minds his own business” often know about his status and choose to ignore it, unless the gay soldier gets pushy or gets someone angry with him. Straight soldiers knowing, but not caring, about a gay soldier, if he does his job, suggest this issue is less about being gay and more about the individual and the way he handles himself. A gay soldier could also be subject to blackmail or coercion by individuals who either find out about his status, or who knew all along but for some reason suddenly change their mind about tolerating him.
Current DADT policy allows room for interpretation by commanders at all levels, which could lead to inconsistencies. Perhaps a review board could be established for such cases and thereby reduce the number of separations rather than leaving the decision up to a commanding officer, as is current policy. There is a big difference, however, between fine-tuning existing DADT policy to see that fewer gay discharges occur, and declaring that open homosexuality acceptable within the ranks.
Military life, especially on deployment or in a combat environment, is marked by a forced intimacy that is not found in civilian life. No one goes home at night to his private life. This 24/7 ‘Band of Brothers’ type intimacy does not always function perfectly even in the best of circumstances. Allowing openly gay soldiers into this environment is tenuous at best.
Such exclusionary attitudes may seem old-fashioned, but no amount of political correctness will change them when the bullets start to fly. When a soldier’s life is on the line, little else matters to him but success and survival. It is tight unit cohesion that saves lives and carries the day on the field of battle. Lessen it in any way, and we invite calamity.
Once gays are allowed to serve openly, we can soon expect dependent benefits and military housing for a domestic partner, and to bring that partner to unit family functions. This is all very normal in the civilian world, but it would still be a bit shocking in today’s military culture.
And once the legal precedent of DADT is removed, we can’t be surprised when an operative from the gay and lesbian movement to enlist in the military with the deliberate motive to force the gay agenda on the military, and have a platoon of ACLU lawyers at the ready when someone objects. The military could lose control to the courts with commanders becoming afraid to risk their careers for something as intangible as unit cohesion. In the end, it would be America who loses by way of a degraded military.
If allowing gays to serve outside ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ lessens the ability of the military to perform its function—to fight and win wars—then it is wrong. While some further accommodation with gays may be possible, military policy should not increase the inherent risk facing those who do the fighting.
Jeff Lukens
http://www.jefflukens.com/
This is not against the individual, but against the principle. I understand that most come here from deplorable conditions that is without doubt , that is /was why most immigrants came to the United States in the first place in all of recorded time. Now something you might not know about me is that I equally am against Illegal Immigration from all ; Irish, Chinese, and Eastern European. these are large segments that we currently have in this country Illegally as well, but they have not put as large of a footprint as the Hispanics from all nations not just Mexico.
Yes they all come here looking for a better life and I am for immigration, but legal immigration. We cannot fundamentally change our society to accommodate another that comes along , that is not what it is all about. In the past when immigrants came to this nation they assimilated to us and strived to do so. When in the early 20th century the large influx of Italians came over or the Russians in that same period came over , they did not demand that we print or accommodate our schools, street signs, government literature to their language. When the Jews (from all nations) came here they did not come here with their hands out expecting to have all the social services handed to them, and when the Germans and Irish came here they did not expect or demand that we bend our laws to excuse them just because they were leaving a situation where oppression and strife persisted. As a matter of fact in the past we actually upheld the laws that we have on the books, at one time immigrants were turned away for many reasons from not being able to pass a physical to not having a sponsor in this country. I post all of this because yes the majority of immigrants come from Mexico and South and Central America at the moment and it has put a huge strain on our infrastructure, we cannot afford any longer to just give a free pass to this situation, we can no longer ignore the FACT that the percentage of crimes committed by these people go for the most part unreported or untargeted due to political correctness when some of these crimes are heinous and in all respects part of the culture that they come from but have no standing in ours, and then to give them a slap on the hand send them back to only have them to return and commit similar crimes once again.
We cannot excuse the fact that some of these gangs that they have like MS13 and others are waging war on the American citizen within our own boarders and that we have to sit and be victims because some in our society want to let the majority have a free pass ahead of the line to those that want to come here legally and go through the very difficult procedures to become a citizen. In Europe at the moment they also have problems with immigration where many of the countries are losing their Identity, many are losing their culture, and so many are losing their laws due to being forced to acquiesce to the large influx of Muslims. Now they are running into similar problems that we are with many of the social service ends and it comes to a point that we can no longer support having the free pass to have the birth rate of these immigrants outpace our own because that is also happening in Europe and here as well because we can no longer accommodate to support the children of these immigrants at that rate. I will state this again it is not against the individual person and yes God blesses all, but if I have to follow the law and you have to follow the law then there is no excuse to allow a free pass to those who do not nor out of “feelings” should we change our laws just because they have problems in their own country it is a shadow looming in the background that does need to be open to full debate .
Robert Rohlfing
http://www.thedrumbeatofliberty.com/
While the mainstream news media are hard at work covering the Democrats striving to achieve their dream of taking control of Americans’ health care, the Federal Reserve Bank continues working with the Mexican government to make it easier for illegal aliens to export US money to their homeland.
The Fed is currently devising several programs that will extend banking services to illegal aliens, and most of this money transfer scheme was created under the radar with few—if any—political figures are discussing the subject.
One such program being utilized by illegal aliens from Mexico is a remittance program with the ultimate goal of bringing illegal Mexican aliens—who send money home—into the mainstream of the US financial system, regardless of immigration status. In other words, The Federal Reserve Bank is aiding lawbreakers in moving their cash around in the US and Mexico. This obviously includes the myriad alien gangs and more than 50,000 gang members who are involved in narcotics trafficking, identity theft, homicides, and other criminal activity.
“Directo a Mexico,” the name of the program, enables US commercial banks to make money transfers for Mexican workers through the Federal Reserve’s own automated clearinghouse, which is linked to Banco de Mexico, the Mexican central bank. Few Americans are aware of the connection between the Fed and foreign banks and this program would be just another that exists in the shadow world of international banking.
To use the service, a Mexican need only possess a matricula consular, an ID issued by the Mexican consulate in most major US cities to those with proof of Mexican birth or citizenship, or a picture ID card issued by the US or another foreign government. The idea is to make it “cheaper and safer” for illegal workers to send funds to their relatives in Mexico.
While on the surface this may appear to be a good idea for banks, it’s an idea based on lawbreakers being given assistance in moving their money around. The Mexican drug trafficker will be able to take advantage of this new banking system as much as the illegal worker cleaning toilets.
Most law enforcement commanders recognize the Matricula Consular card as a useless identification document. In fact, some US government agencies still refuse to accept them as identification documents.
Most illegal aliens make cash transfers, which average $350 each, through companies like Western Union or a hodgepodge of wire-transfer firms, couriers and others that operate out of storefronts in Hispanic enclaves. Family members then collect the wired cash at a shop in their town or village.
The Federal Reserve Bank’s primary goal is to use the program to draw hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into our banking system because commercial banks require that those wanting the service first open a savings account. While American citizens will continue to be required to show extensive identification and proof of residence, illegal aliens will only be required to show a Matricula Consular card, which are known to be counterfeited and sold by human smugglers.
“People who didn’t have bank accounts establish a relationship with us,” said James Maloney, chairman of Mitchell Bank in Milwaukee, one of the first banks to offer the Federal Reserve Bank’s remittance scheme, according to the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper that favors using illegal alien workers.
“It’s great for our business,” said Maloney.
Remittances sent by Mexicans topped $15.5 billion in the first few months of this year, 20 percent higher than the amount sent during the same period the previous year, according to Mexico’s central bank, and this year’s annual figure is expected to hit a new record. Savings scraped together by nannies, painters and others working abroad are now Mexico’s second-largest source of foreign revenue, after oil exports and ahead of tourism, according to analysts interviewed by the WSJ.
The Federal Reserve Bank, always a friend to foreign interests, is instructing illegal aliens that should they return home on their own or should they be deported, their money is safe whether it was obtained working as a busboy in a restaurant or working as an enforcer in a sex-slave house.
The Fed has already set up a system by which illegals can retrieve their money through easy access at an ATM in Mexico using their debit cards.
And whom do we have to thank for this financial windfall for illegal aliens? The US federal government.
One of the stated objectives is to continue to help lower the fees paid by Mexican workers to send money to their native country. It’s bargain time for illegal aliens.
“Now, if only Obama and the rest of our elected officials would look out for the interests of US citizens during these tough economic times,” quipped political strategist Mike Baker.
“As for mobsters, they will have an even easier time laundering the ill-gotten gains,” he added.
Jim Kouri
]]>Amazingly, every possible excuse is being offered, and new plans for the restoration Obama’s public image are floated almost daily. New villains are concocted, while old ones, such as former Vice-President Dick Cheney, are resurrected as the root cause of Obama’s problems. Yet the entire leftist political cabal, of which Obama is clearly the ideological head, steadfastly refuses to admit or even acknowledge the true underlying problem, which is the abhorrent nature of the liberalism that they seek to advance.
On February 16, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer announced plans to improve the quality of news being released from the Oval Office. He also spoke of his intention to respond more quickly to Republican criticism. The underlying message was, of course, that the Obama agenda has always been a marvelous scheme and would have been a resounding success, were it not for the eroding effects of those nasty right-wing partisans who simply refuse to give credit where it is due.
Yet such resounding diatribe studiously avoids the truth, since even a brief entanglement with the facts proves devastating to Democrat claims. The squandering of more than a trillion dollars by this Administration, ostensibly as a “stimulus” to the economy, did nothing in that regard. Instead, incomprehensibly vast sums of money somehow ended up being strewn in the general direction of favored groups, such as community agitators (read: ACORN), along with federal, state, and municipal employees, whose ongoing participation in government would hardly “stimulate” any new economic activity, but would ensure that much of the funds will eventually make their way back into Democrat campaign coffers.
Thus the American people, a majority of whom strenuously opposed such ravaging of the national treasury, are not enamored with Obama’s glowing rhetoric of how much good has come from the “Stimulus” package. Nor are they willing to accept his incessant self-aggrandizing speeches to that effect. The American economy is still a disaster, and the American people know it. Any efforts to tell them otherwise merely increase their anger and cynicism, causing them to wonder what real ends might be served by such disastrous and obviously counterproductive fiscal policy.
The same conclusion is no less inevitable regarding Democrat environmental policy. Amazingly, though the issue is vastly different, the pattern of liberal involvement remains identical. A calamity of unfathomable proportions is invented by the left and repeated incessantly until a sizeable portion of the public becomes sufficiently panicked to accept the proposed “solution” which inevitably requires taxes to be raised and freedoms to be trampled.
Just as the only “fix” for the ailing economy demands the confiscation of the earnings from Americans and ever stricter limits on their economic options, the planet can only be steered from the path of ecological catastrophe by confiscating still more money from the people and curtailing even more of their freedoms.
We have been there before. And the ploy is beginning to seem very familiar, as the exact pattern of alarmism and governmentally sponsored salvation was also promulgated with regards to the impending “healthcare” crisis. To nobody’s great surprise, on yet another front “We the People” are expected to accede to the notion that our liberty and our property, the most direct means of determining our individual futures, must be subordinated and surrendered to the collective interests of the state.
Who knows what “emergency” will descend upon us next. What can however be predicted with great confidence is that the liberal/Democrat response will be the same, namely more taxes and less freedom.
It is against this menacing backdrop that Barack Obama sorely wants to recast himself and his agenda. He would have us all believe that nothing is wrong with his miserably inept governing style, but rather that we, as his subjects, are simply too stupid to recognize his beneficence and wisdom. As a result, he will endeavor on several fronts to change his image, while resolutely maintaining his drive to move America as far to the left as possible.
The upcoming “joint” healthcare summit, to which he solicited the involvement of Republican House and Senate leaders, is no indication of a move to the “middle.” Instead, it reflects his hopes that the historically hapless Republicans will once again take the “bait” of bipartisanship and thus give him and his agenda political cover. Ultimately, his intention is as it has always been, to apply any veneer necessary in order to impose socialized “medicine” on a nation that would never willingly accept such a monstrosity.
America can expect much more of the same between now and the mid-term elections, but with increasing intensity. Having lost their filibuster-proof Senate super majority under the most implausible circumstances, Democrats are nonetheless devoted to their leftist/Marxist agenda. Their current hesitance only reflects concerns over how to implement their plan while minimizing voter backlash.
So, in the upcoming months, America can expect a “public relations” campaign the likes of which they have never seen before. “News” stories touting the fiscal and environmental triumphs of left-wing policies have only just begun. Between now and the mid-term elections, their frequency and effrontery will only increase. But, ultimately they will fail. Real America has grown wise to the strategy, and wants no more of it.
Christopher G. Adamo
http://www.chrisadamo.com/
Of course this raised immediate ire amongst those who question Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve in the office of President of the United States.
Before a war erupts on the Right between the Constitutional Eligibility Challengers and their deriders, BOTH sides need to step back!
The eligibility issue is a distraction, and as Beck RIGHTLY points out – could serve to advance Obama’s interests – at least at this point in time!
The focus needs to be on Obama’s policies. ObamaCare is about to be rammed down our throats. We must put ALL our energies into convincing our elected officials that NOTHING that comes out of Conference Committee can be acceptable and WHATEVER emerges must be voted down. Focusing on “Where’s the Birth Certificate” right now will simply waste energy and resources that we need for the healthcare fight – and failing in that arena will permanently damage our Republic. PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!
Besides, despite numerous lawsuits and millions of dollars spent on both sides, no legal authority seems willing to tackle the eligibility issue. So many on the RIGHT dismiss it as a fringe issue that much EDUCATION is necessary before a serious challenge to Obama’s eligibility will have enough popular support as to force a real examination of the evidence. The issue SHOULD be tabled until after the 2010 elections, when – hopefully – Obama’s ability to dismantle our Constitutional Republic will be significantly diminished. Currently, the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Triumvirate bears enough power to do far more damage to our Constitution than the question of whether Obama meets the Constitutional qualifications for the office he was elected to and has held for a year.
So please, challengers to Obama’s eligibility… take a neutral corner for a while. The bell for the round has rung. There will be another opportunity to grapple, but right now is time for a breather, a sip of water, and some towel-fanning!
That said; those who dismiss the eligibility debate as unimportant, irrelevant, settled or “tinfoil hats” nutz really need to cool their jets and open their minds too. While there are those who have made headlines and court cases postulating that Obama was born in Kenya and proclaiming the birth documents Obama has put forth as fraudulent, there are indeed others who reject that theory – yet still hold that there are OTHER constitutional disqualifiers for Obama. To call these people “Birthers” would be inaccurate, as they don’t dispute Obama’s Hawaiian origins – as whether he were born there OR NOT, is irrelevant to their ineligibility arguments!
It IS a fact that the document Obama hangs his hat on, the “Certificate of Live Birth” IS NOT a “Birth Certificate”, and CAN BE LEGALLY obtained for a child not born on US Soil. I’ve written previously on this so won’t waste space on it here.
It is also a fact that Obama was legally adopted by Lolo Soetoro and moved with him to Indonesia, where he was enrolled in school with documents showing him to be an INDONESIAN citizen. Why is this important? Because, at the time, there was NO Dual Citizenship between the US and Indonesia.
Then there is the Passport Question: What passport did Obama use to travel to Pakistan?
He couldn’t have travelled on a US passport, as Pakistan was a “no travel” destination for a US Passport holder. Was he using a Brittish passport? This would lend support to the Kenya Birth theory. And if he travelled on an Indonesian Passport, that would prove his Indonesian Citizenship, and by extension his forfeiture of any prior-existing US Citizenship. The answer to the question of what passport he presented on entry into Pakistan is of paramount importance to the eligibility/citizenship debate – and the “Birth Certificate” is irrelevant to that answer!
Therefore, my admonition to the Right is this:
Put the eligibility question on the shelf until after election night, 2010. It is a potentially disastrous distraction before then.
But don’t forget the issue, and don’t dismiss it. Defense of the Constitution involves defending the ENTIRE constitution, including Article II and the eligibility requirements for the person who would hold the office of President of the United States. There is indeed reason to question Obama’s eligibility and he has invested MILLIONS in quashing the probes into the question! Once the security and stability of the fundamental structure of the Republic can be assured (after the 2010 elections), the question MUST be raised and resolved!
Copyright © 2009 by Doug Edelman
http://edeldoug.blogs.com/
All eyes are glued to NBC News, the sole remaining newscast, for coverage of the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama for his third term in office. In 2015, both houses of Congress voted to abolish presidential term limits. No amendment to the Constitution was needed, they argued, as it had become irrelevant in a “real democracy.” Challenges to the new law were struck down by the Supreme Court, with Chief Justice Michelle Obama stating: “The people have spoken.” Full Piece
]]>Barack Obama signed an Executive Order giving express permission for Interpol to supersede the laws and police authorities of the USA. Full Piece
]]>The bubbling “World War III” instigated by Radical Islamists publicly vowing to again rule the world will exacerbate the dire straits of the USA if the BDO* regime remains in power. The BDO regime refuses to actually address or fight against the Radical Islamists all aspects of the intelligence and military have been hamstrung by politically correct regulations and rules.
Afghanistan is an exercise in programmed futility while Africa and much of the Middle East is being overrun with Radical Islamist thugs.
Iraq might be able to survive as a “half-a**ed” Democratic Republic if the people and the government have the will to reject Radical Islam. Pakistan is very fragile and subject to collapse at any time.
Iran is the “point-man” for the Radical Islamist grand scheme. Until such time as that regime is decimated Radical Islam will continue to spread far and wide. Iran is the financier of much of the operations with Saudi Arabia close behind promoting Wahhabism worldwide(2). ”...the Government enforces a strict and conservative version of Salafi/Wahhabi Islam. Muslims who do not follow the official interpretation, can face severe repercussions at the hands of Mutawwa’in (religious police).”(3)
“Radical Islam vs. Islam"(4) is a revealing piece: ”Partly because of the timidity of the West, these radicals have gained influence. Some regimes protect them. Some apparently even sponsor them. Many leaders in the West, bereft of and often hostile to their own Christian roots, have patronizingly assumed that radical violence was an essential part of the Islamic faith. Our own weak responses have helped to legitimate those whom Islam fought so earnestly to rid itself of at its beginning. If we have respect for ourselves, if we have respect for Islam, we can no longer tolerate the evil they represent. Two civilizations hang in the balance.”
Below from ”Combating the Ideology of Radical Islam”:
“Nowadays, Americans are likely to hear one of three replies to the question, “Who is the enemy?” The first reply—"terrorists"—is the Bush administration’s response, which insists that there is no connection between Islam and terrorism. According to this view, Islam is a religion of peace, and violence in its name is a perversion of the true religion.
The second reply - “Muslims” - holds that the enemy is Islam itself. This view, once barely articulated, has gained ground since September 11, with prominent spokesmen and book-length arguments. It is especially strong among Evangelical Christians.
A third and better reply is that the enemy is Islamism, a terroristic version of Islam. Islamism is the totalitarian root of the problem; terrorism is only a symptom, an instrument of war used by Islamists to achieve their objectives. Once these facts are understood, it becomes clear that the struggle is ultimately one of ideas and armies, not of law enforcement or religion. As in World War II or the Cold War, the ideological enemy has to be defeated, followed by a rebuilding of the societies in which the ideology took hold.”
Islamism is an ideology with a much broader reach than radical terrorists have. An Islamist is anyone who believes, and actively attempts to implement, the notion that the Qur’an and the tradition of the Hadith should be used to help guide the way societies and governments are run. This definition includes a large spectrum of Muslims, from Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) supporters to Osama bin Laden. The Islamist movement is growing and diversifying rapidly, embracing more and more people with vastly different views of what Islam should be.(5)
Radicals of all flavors are intrinsically despotic and tyrannical. The Radical Islamist preys upon inherently impressionable weak people with a lemming mentality. No matter the title radical agendas are cultish or cult-like demanding blind obedience and worship of the elitists that operate and promote them.
Yes, World War III is here but “the powers that be” refuse to admit it! It is because “the powers that be” are actually radicals that are more interested in their operations and short term power than such obscure concepts as national security or sovereignty.
Unless thing change very soon the winner of World War III will have won by default of the enemy! The “West” refuses to acknowledge the threat and so the Radical Islamists are running free to do what they will and wish.
Malcolm T. Hedges
* Barack “Doublespeak” Obama
1) cusp: a point of transition(as from one historical period to the next)
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia
4) http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/forte/01/islam.html
]]>Since the Usurper and Dictator in Chief Barack Hussein Obama assumed power and rule over American citizens in January 2009, the United States of America has been under siege from far left terrorist ObamaMentors, an increasing set of perverse and prurient Marxist and Maoist Czars, thieves creating hoaxes (“global warming: comes immediately to mind) in order to steal the resources of the USA out from under its inhabitant-owners and “The Obama” (this designation has quickly become most recent synonym for Tyrant) itself.
For anyone who still maintains the ability to see, hear and discern that which is occurring in reality, The Obama’s mission is clear. As a refresher, let’s again take a look at a very small portion of the clearly Draconian orders that The Obama has dictated and the Orwellian legislation the US Marxist-run Congress has passed since the despot has been in office.
1. With their bogus jobs’ and economy “stimulus packages,” Obama and the US Congress continue to bleed the American people dry of all of their money and resources. In actual fact, the actions from Obama show that he has followed and is following the advice of one of his mentors, Saul Alinsky, in destroying the US middle-class by destroying its private sector companies and, therefore, its jobs. Forget about these jobs coming back, folks. As predicted, unemployment rates have risen and will continue to rise. The mission of The Obama is to destroy all that is the USA. As I wrote when the first stimulus package was announced, and other well-known entities have since picked up on it, it was created and is now being used as, yet, another Marxist-Democrat slush fund.
2.On 17 December 2009 with Executive Order 12425, Barack Hussein Obama gave foreign police force INTERPOL immunity from Congressional action and the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment in order to provide cover to anything and everything said police force plans to do on Obama‘s behalf--and under his orders--while in the USA. From the Patriot Room, a portion of the Tyrant Obama’s order reads: “property and assets of [INTERPOL], wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation.” Whether We-the-People like it or not, Obama is internationalizing the US Constitution, minimalizing and decreasing US sovereignty and may now, also, be setting up the American people for dissolution of all of their rights under said US Constitution.
3. Despite the fact that the majority of We-the-People are strongly opposed to the ObamaCare Death Plan (some polls show the opposition as high as 72%), Obama and his Marxist Congress are determined to ram it down our throats. The ObamaCare Death Plan is the virtually all-encompassing proposal that will lead very quickly to complete ObamaControl over everything the American people do and will give Obama’s commissars and Czars total control over who lives and who dies. The Obama Death Panels are back--and with a vengeance, folks! What will happen is that Obama & Co will have complete control over 1/6 of what’s left of the US economy. Can you say “another Marxist-Democrat slush fund with no healthcare, whatsoever?
4. Even though global warming has now been exposed as merely another scheme to steal money from the USA and its people, Obama traveled to Copenhagen and pledged $100 Billions to solving the, now admittedly unsolvable, manmade global warming issue. It can’t be solved because mankind dos not control climate change.
5. Obama and his fellow Marxists still plan to push the faux Cap & Trade (realistically “Cash & Tax”) program. And, as was accomplished with his despotic ObamaCare Death Plan, Obama will use any and all bribes (if money, it’s out of yours and my pockets) necessary to do so. The Chicago mob/syndicate is firmly in control of the US government.
6. The Obama has taken control of and nationalized our banks
7. The Obama has taken control of and nationalized our automobile industry
8. Obama is now establishing his own police force and said prior to his election: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
9. Dispelling any rumors that Obama is not--himself--a criminal, Obama and his US Attorney General Eric Holder have said that Obama’s unlawful election-fraud unit ACORN WILL be funded. Note: Besides, Obama will need them for both the 2010 and 2012 elections
There are hundreds more examples of what The Obama has accomplished in his first year of office. But, I’ve almost made myself sick telling the truth about those listed above. The facts are there for all to see. Are you preparing for your own eradication under the hammer and sickle of the tyrant? Still feeling peaceful?
Sher Zieve
Obama Exempts INTERPOL from Search and Seizure on US Lands:
http://patriotroom.com/article/obama-exempts-interpol-from-search-and-seizure-on-us-lands
Global Warming Hoax--Climategate
Obama Leaves For Copenhagen Summit Thursday As U.S. Makes $100 Billion Announcement
DoJ: Federal agencies must honor ACORN contracts:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/28/doj-federal-agencies-must-honor-acorn-contracts/
...What, exactly does this mean? It means that INTERPOL now has the full authority to conduct investigations and other law enforcement activities on U.S. soil, with full immunity from U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act and with complete independence from oversight from the FBI. Full Piece
]]>The Denver acceptance speech with its Styrofoam Acropolis gave us a hint of the political theater to come. The Victory speech to the teaming masses in Grant Park let us know the curtain was rising. Like the Perils of Pauline in a serial of sequels the suspense continues in the never-ending crisis. We must have health care and we must have it now! We’re so far in debt we need to spend a massive amount quickly or we’ll go bankrupt. This is an emergency there’s no time to read the bill hurry up and vote. We need this now even though it won’t be implemented until after the next presidential election. Hurry up vote!!!
There’s nail-biting suspense and edge-of-the-seat excitement as the plot thickens. What will it cost to buy Mary Landrieu’s vote? How much does Ben Nelson want for Nebraska’s vote? Ram it through no matter what the people want. Our lawyer-infested government knows better. Besides, who are we to question the only honest politician to emerge from the swamp of Chicago political corruption? Want to wake up with a horse’s head in our bed? Just pay the big and shut up they obviously know what’s best they’ve got 60 votes.
What a scene. The courageous iron-willed Nobel-prize-laureate makes his adorable little girls wait for Christmas while Daddy bludgeons a compliant Congress to pass anything they can call heath care reform so the Cavalcade of Czars can fill in the blanks later.
Every move they’ve taken since the November Revolution has been to seize control of the economy and society. Following the insurance, banking, and auto coups the health care take-over delivers another 1/6 of the economy into their clutches. Swiftly following will be Cap-n-Trade either by legislation or EPA mandate, Import-a-Voter-Immigration-Reform and watch for the regime to begin acting as if whatever that was the Boss agreed to in Copenhagen is a ratified treaty committing America to the UN administered shake-down carbon tax to help prop up statists around the world.
The plan is to push through so many changes and to commit us to such enormous debt there will be no way back to the America we’ve known. They’re also planning on maintaining their power in perpetuity through Acorn voter registration, manipulation of the census and import-a-voter immigration reform. Echoing the question I hear every day as I travel around the country, the question I receive every day in emails from concerned Americans from sea to shining sea, “What can we do?”
They organized their way into power and we need to organize their way out. We laughed when someone had the audacity to list Community Organizer as their profession on a presidential résumé. Now we know that wasn’t a joke. We couldn’t believe it when someone from the most corrupt political machine in America was presented as hope for change. But the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media pulled it off. Then after the Republican statists and their casino capitalist pals abandoned free market principles to save the free market it was anti-climatic when a majority of American voters elected a one party regime with unstoppable majorities.
We must organize. We must remain peaceful but we must organize. The Tea Party movement blazed the way. Now a new organization, GOOOH, or Get Out of Our House is growing on the American political horizon with the intention of vetting and backing candidates across the political spectrum. Others such as the Tea Party Patriots and the Tea Party Express are springing up bringing like-minded Americans together for education, encouragement and inspiration. Using the Internet and the exploding social networks these innovative groups are leading the way.
Believers in free enterprise, personal liberty and individual freedom are coalescing to out-organize the organizers. Constitutionally limited government will return to Washington for we shall not go silently into that long dark night. The arrogant career politicians, their media fellow travelers and the entrenched technocrat bureaucracy may think they’ve won the final round. They may think the America we’ve known and loved is down for the count but in reality all they’ve done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve. Don’t despair. Keep the faith. We shall overcome.
© 2009 Robert R. Owens
http://robertrowens.com/
...Given the obsession news organizations and Congress had with certain provisions of the Patriot Act and supposed invasions of privacy during Bush 43’s presidency, it’s more than a bit outrageous that an Executive Order such as this would go unaddressed by both groups, especially when you see exactly what it does to Ronald Reagan’s original EO 12425 of 1983 as it has stood since it was amended in 1995 (the italicized text represents what Obama’s EO removes)… Full Item
]]>The end result of the first scenario above was revolution. The end result of the second scenario above may be the same thing!
The word “Revolution” is being used more and more by Americans in daily conversations and especially on the Internet, by bloggers, and everyday folks who comment on those bog sites.
If you happen to be a member of the US government and you just happen to be reading this blog, you had better take notice. Americans have had all they are going to take from a government that gives all indications that it doesn’t give a damn what we Americans, their constituents think, or what we want, or what we do not want. We never intended a “rogue” government such as we have today. We will not abide a rogue government such as we have today.
If you are an incumbent politician, you have better figure out a way to stop the November elections next year, or you will be out of a job, at least in Washington. If you DO stop the scheduled election, the pitchforks and torches will magically appear and Americans will, once again, take up arms to rescue their country from a government that is far, far, too big, far too powerful, and no longer represents the people of the republic. You have to go!
The Founding Fathers intended us to toss you people out on your butts when you became all the things you have become—and are today! They said so!
Admit it! You people are a bunch of Socialist, Marxists, Progressives/Communists, and only God, Himself, knows what else! I don’t know whom you represent—but you do not represent the American people.
And we are sick of it!
We have had our fill of your abuse of power, of your abuse of the American people. I mean, you have the unmitigated gall to pass a healthcare bill that will affect every American—except you and your families! How’s that for abuse of power, huh? How’s that for thumbing your nose at your constituents?
Just look at what you are doing. You are trying to pass a Cap and Trade bill that will raise our taxes, increase the amount we have to pay each year to heat our homes, to drive our vehicles, and heavens knows what else. The increase of taxes on fuel alone will drive prices up all across the board. EVERYTHING will cost more. Well, we are not going to allow that one out of the Senate without a knock-down, drag-out fight!
Next, you are about to hit us, for a third time, with another Amnesty Bill for illegal aliens in the US. The billions and billions that one is going to cost us is incalculable. We’re going to fight you all the way to the finish line on it just as we did last time. Seal the damn borders. Arrest and lock up all illegal aliens. Put them in detention camps, somewhere in the deserts of the southwest, until they can be deported. Can’t find ‘em? Put a bounty on their heads and we will be driving busloads of them to those detention camps within 24 hours! Where there is a will there is a way!
That damnable healthcare bill you passed out of the Senate is going to break the country and destroy the world’s finest healthcare system. 57% of us said NO; we’d rather have no healthcare bill at all than have that monstrosity. Yet you passed that thing through the Senate anyway. Well, the fight is NOT completely over—and believe me when I say—we are going to fight you for every last vote on it.
Look, just how stupid do you think we are, anyway? Do you not think that we understand that you are simply setting the stage for America to join a single one-world government as an “equal” country to all others? Do you not think that we understand that you do not believe in “American Exceptionalism?” Hell, we KNOW THAT! We’ve known that for some time now. See, we are way ahead of you there—and that is why YOU HAVE TO GO!
Pollsters tell us that 66% of Americans want smaller government and fewer government services. DID YOU GET THAT? Hell, NO! Even if you had heard us, you would have shrugged it off and continued on your merry way.
What a mess this country is in! In my nearly 7 decades on this earth, I have NEVER seen it in worse shape—and that includes all the wars in my lifetime.
We have a President so inept he can’t find his own rear-end with both hands and a bird dog. We have a Congress, which has gone rogue on us and set itself up as an oligarchy in which all power is vested in them as the dominant class or clique. America now has government by the few.
Americans are mad as hell! We will TRY to suffer your arrogance until November. But that is it. Either stand down by resigning while you still have a shred of dignity and respectability left or be driven from office by the waves of wrathful, angry, just plain MAD Americans who wish election day were today!
J. D. Longstreet
http://csadispatch.blogspot.com/