Showing posts with label U.S. Constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Constitution. Show all posts

Allen West Puts Little Debbie In Her Place

Gateway Pundit has the story: It’s On!… Rep. Allen West Confronts Lying “Vile & Despicable” Leftist Wasserman Schultz.
That blog has some of the best comments to read about the verbal battle going on between Representative Allen West, a TEA Party Patriot member of Congress, and that vile little Debbie Wasserman-Schultz - a.k.a. one of the whiny Dem female attack dogs in the House.

Excerpt:

After Rep. Allen West left the House floor today, lying leftist hack Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz attacked him and lied about the Republican plan. A disgruntled Allen West sent out this response to the vile DNC chair.
Via the Politico:

From: Z112 West, Allen
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 04:48 PM
To: Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Cc: McCarthy, Kevin; Blyth, Jonathan; Pelosi, Nancy; Cantor, Eric
Subject: Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz

Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly towards me. Let me make myself perfectly clear, you want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige. You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. Focus on your own congressional district!

I am bringing your actions today to our Majority Leader and Majority Whip and from this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself forthright against your heinous characterless behavior……which dates back to the disgusting protest you ordered at my campaign hqs, October 2010 in Deerfield Beach.

You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!

Steadfast and Loyal

Congressman Allen B West (R-FL)

Whenever Wasserman-Schultz made an appearance on the Fox News Channel, I would cringe. I knew that a lie against the GOP and/or an attack against a Republican was forthcoming. The woman has her mind so set in the mentally disordered liberal/progressive political sphere, it's a wonder if she ever utters any semblance of truth.

Recall how she stood up for Weiner during Weinergate? How could anyone take her seriously after that flub? Oh...but there is much more. Just do a search through the comments at Gateway Pundit to learn about the unfortunate history between her and Allen West when he was running for Congress in Florida.

Here are a few good comments/links to check out:

Wasserman, or Shultz, or whoever the hell she is = JAUL with credentials. Yah, Go Colonel!

J.A.U.L. (pronounced “jowl”): Just Another Unhinged Leftie.
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Liberty At Stake Blogspot
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

Heh heh...."Just Another Unhinged Leftie."Very accurate description of Little Debbie! I call her that because she makes herself appear very small and petty when she attacks someone like Rep. Allen West - especially after he left the House chambers! She doesn't have the courage to face him in person, so she tries to blast him when he isn't there.


Rep. Allen West has more to say:

bg commented:

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Allen West
7 hours ago:
“This is simply unacceptable what is happening here in Congress. We
are paid to govern and work with each other. Americans deserve better”


This guy makes a good point:

owl commented:
Schultz reminds me of Weenie, same type of nasty. They both think they can lie as they rave into the camera.

Thank you Rep Allen West.

And the question we all must ask about this incident:

DANEgerus commented:
Why doesn’t Ben Smith of Politico report Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s frequent H8 speech and ad hominem as a “tirades”?

Why isn’t Debbie Wasserman-Schultz a “racist”?

Another good point:

Shannon Ward commented:
She is a very vile person and has no idea about what she is talking about often. She also has no idea about history. Her remark about “Jim Crow Laws” were a little much. By the way, if she is so concerned about the medicare cuts, why didn’t she address the fact that 500 billion dollars cut out of medicare and put into funding Obamacare?

In case you missed it, this was the attack:

Chisum commented:
#101,

Above the fray?

Wasserman Schultz, in whose neighboring South Florida district West lives, provoked his tirade with remarks after he left the House floor today, in which she responded — without naming him — to the Tea Party freshman’s support for “Cut, Cap, and Balance” legislation to raise the debt ceiling.

“The gentleman from Florida. who represents thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, as do I, is supportive of this plan that would increase costs for Medicare beneficiaries, unbelievable from a Member from South Florida,” Wasserman Schultz said, saying the legislation “slashes Medicaid and critical investments essential to winning the future in favor of protecting tax breaks for Big Oil, millionaires, and companies who ship American jobs overseas.”

Yep, a classic example of ‘staying above the fray’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAH6UuHv1XU

I think that the following comment is a fitting way to end this post. It reveals what the argument(s) between liberal/progressive/Socialists like Wasserman-Schultz and a True American Military Hero/TEA Party Patriot/Constitutional Republic supporter like Representative Allen West of Florida is REALLY all about:

LANE WEBB commented:
Congressman West,

Congratulations upon your having become a target of the Communists in Congress, whom has identified you as being their enemy; with this declaration, you have confirmed many of us as your loyal Constitutionalists that will always defend and rely upon you as our faithful representative to continue defending our God, our Country and that of our Families!


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What The Rabid Left Can't Take Away From Sarah

Did readers here see Sean Hannity's exclusive interview with Sarah Palin last night? You certainly need to see it yourself in order to understand that the leftist vitriole against her is unfounded, yet will continue to be spewed by the hateful far left crazies and the Media of Mass Deception for the simple reason that they fear her. The left fears her wonderful connection with, and influence of the American people who agree with her ideology, policies, political views, staunch support for our military, and love for our country.

Glenn Beck's January 17th T.V. show reveals tha "Reality Doesn't Match the Script." Glenn demonstrates, and with video proof of Frances Fox Piven, shows just how far the left will lie and utilize the awful Cloward and Piven strategy - which will continue to be used in order to cause chaos and negative change in America. If you happen to be unfamiliar with Cloward and Piven and how this administration is using such evil strategy, please see my previous posts on the subject:

1. Obama Matrix: Cloward Piven & Alinsky Rules for Radicals.

2. Cloward Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.

3. Make A Choice Before It's Too Late.

Through rabid vitrole and death threats against Sarah and her family, the left hopes to silence her. Well guess what? She WILL NOT BE SILENCED! Good for her! The woman has an iron constitution and nerves of steel to go with it! More likely, she is well connected through prayer to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She even said so during her interview with Sean Hannity.

Palin to Democrat-Media Complex: “I Am Not Going to Shut Up” (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit - 10 hours ago
Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity tonight that despite the constant attacks by the democratic-media complex, “I am not going to shut up.” Palin defended herself on Hannity tonight from the awful attacks and sm...

Sarah Palin is a believer who obviously takes Romans 8 seriously:


Rom 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?


Rom 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?


Rom 8:33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.


Rom 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.


Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


Rom 8:36 As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."


Rom 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.


Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,


Rom 8:39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Why do they fear Sarah so greatly and continue to bombard her and her family with angry rants and death threats? Because they know that she represent those who cling to the Lord Jesus Christ and they hate all that she represents for the American people! Sarah isn't using God - He is using her, instead.

That is truly what the rabid leftist thugs and venom-spewing commentators can NEVER TAKE AWAY FROM SARAH AND HER FAMILY!

God bless you Sarah! You stand up against the powers of darkness because the Rock of Ages indwells your heart and soul. You are the Esther of our age! Praise God that you are here for us fellow Americans for such a time as this!

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The 112th Congress Makes It An Historic Day

The new 112th Congress with the huge Republican majority is certainly a breath of fresh air! The stench of corruption led by the biggest corruptocrat of the Democrat Party, namely Nancy Pelosi, has been stripped of her powerful position. How scary it was to realize that she was second in line behind Biden to the presidency!

With John Boehner at the helm, and the many freshman members (many of which are TEA Party supported), perhaps the House will be FINALLY cleansed from the wasteful government spending and the damaging 5.2 trillion that was added to our nation's debt under Pelosi's rule.

I attempted to watch the entire historic reading of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House, but was called away for some of it. I started watching it on the Fox News Channel, but when I noticed that they were not revealing who was a Democrat or Republican when each representative was reading their particular segment, I switched over to C-SPAN.

I wondered whether or not any protesters would interrupt the proceedings - especially when the reading of Article II Section 1, clause 5 (only Natural Born Citizens qualify for POTUS) was read. Like clockwork, a single protester did shout from the gallery. You can read about it over at Gateway Pundit:

Bummer. Screaming Protester Interrupts Reading of Constitution – Upset About Obama’s Citizenship (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit - 10 hours ago
Bummer. After all of the resistance by democrats then this happened… A protester interrupted the reading of the Constitution on the House floor today screaming about Obama’s eligibility to be president.

There is some discussion about whether or not the protestor was a plant by the Democrats, but the "Birther" is revealed at Death By 1000 Papercuts.

Anyway, it wasn't until I saw The Glenn Beck Show later today that I found out that some portions of the Constitution (deemed "offensive" by some members) were NOT read out loud during the session. Glenn pointed out (as he has done in the past on his show) that the 3/5ths clause was actually a way for the Founders to start the process of freeing the slaves!

Another portion that was left out was the Eighteenth Amendment (known as the prohibition against alcohol), but the Twenty-First Amendment (which included the repeal of the 18th) was read on the floor.

Weird...huh?

Well, at least MOST of the U.S. Constitution was read during this historic start of the 112th Congress!

While I watched the reading of the Constitution, I noticed that C-SPAN included some details about each Congressperson under their name and party affiliation. It was interesting to see so many freshman Congressmen/women get into office through winning some very close races! I don't have names to share, but some wins were by margins of 1 - 3 points, while other victories were won by just 500 votes!

I think that God, in His mercy on America, answered our prayers and gave us this huge victory to help us bring America out of the clutches of the Socialist, progressive movement being forced upon our nation by Obama and his evil cohorts, back towards what our Founders had created - a Constitutional Republic!

We must remember that God has created unique people to accomplish a variety of purposes throughout the world. Of course He would also follow through in the same way here in America. We may not always agree, but each person's influence has a unique role to play. Sometimes it is difficult to remember that.

As an example, some commentator once quipped that if Obama hadn't become president, then the damaging agenda and goals of the progressive socialist movement would not have been so highly exposed as it has over the past two years. Americans would still be asleep and not awakened like they were through the efforts of the TEA Party movement and shows like Glenn Beck's radio and T.V. show on Fox News Channel.

I see it now as God's goal to put ourselves (America) in situations that may even scare the crap out of us in order to wake us up out of our stupor of complacency regarding our liberty, freedoms, and the ability to pursue happiness in our lives. We were, individually and as a nation, put in a place where it genuinely required God to come through for us. And He has!! But it's not over - not by a long shot!

There is a saying, "there are times like these that try men's souls." But is it possible that those particular times have been the most meaningful and satisfying in our lives? Could we admit that they were actually the times when we truly experienced life and God? After all, Jesus DID warn us that "in this life you will have tribulation (trouble). But take heart! For I have overcome the world."

Isn't it times like these where we pray more? Depend on God more? Grow closer to God? Pursue Christ more?

Living for Christ takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. I know these facts intimately because I have been on the other side (before becoming a Christian) and can now see how much I ignored God during those years!

I know that I wasn't very conscious of heaven in the past. But Dr. David Jeremiah's book, Revealing the Mysteries of Heaven study guide helped change that!

I love the devotional that talks about Greater and Lesser Lights. Dr. Jeremiah concludes at the end of that devotional:


Only by taking His light with you can you enlighten the world.


The gift we Christians are given in the Holy Spirit describes what we are to be doing to advance the kingdom of God during our brief life on this earth. In the following passage, it is Jesus Himself speaking:


I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment...When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. - John 16:7-8, 13


Without the Holy Spirit of truth in our lives, we cannot be guided "into all truth." Some may have a portion of the truth, but just like the mistake that some people make about the meaning of the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, they can also make mistakes about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God's Word, the Bible which exists to lead us "into all truth."

We never stop learning from God's Word! And with the guidance of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18 tells us, "Be filled with the Spirit.") in our lives, we know that being "filled with the Spirit" isn't a one-time endeavor, but is something we are to do always and repeatedly.

I have found that when I am caught up in the scary chaos of what is going on in the world, [special thanks to my blogging friend Stevex09 for that link!] I am not focusing very clearly on "what the Spirit says to the churches." [See Revelation 2:7 and 2:17]

When you and I appear at the Judgment Seat of Christ, I pray that we will all be able to proclaim what Paul did in 2 Timothy:

2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:


2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

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Warning! FCC Wants To Be Big Brother


As if we don't already have enough bad news floating around today, here comes more! This one is BIG people! This story MUST GO VIRAL! I would encourage EVERY READER HERE TO POST, BLOG, TWEET, EMAIL ETC. this story to EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

As "Missy 8's" so accurately stated over at Big Government:



Missy8s 127p · 51 minutes ago
Can anyone say "state run media", this action is the most vile constitutional violation of the first amendment in the history of the republic.


This is also upsetting to me personally because such a breach of our Constitutional free speech rights might occur on my birthday - November 30th!!

Please, PLEASE SEND THIS POST TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! SPREAD THE WORD!

Christine


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Big Government.com: November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet


November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet
by Seton Motley

November 30th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could potentially engage in one of the largest federal power grabs we have ever seen.

After two years of this Presidential Administration and this Congress, that is saying an awful lot about an awful lot.

And what’s worse, the FCC would be doing it without Congress weighing in. At the FCC’s November meeting – note the coincidental date of choice, AFTER the impending election – three unelected bureaucrats (of five) could simply vote themselves rulers of 1/6th of our entire economy – the information and technology sector.

Meaning the Internet that you currently enjoy – that has been a marvel of economic and information innovation and success – will be subject to vast new governmental regulations. You didn’t elect these people – but they are on the verge of electing themselves Internet overlords.

The Internet is the future – and increasingly the present – of news and information delivery. With each passing day, we move a little further away from the old media models – print, broadcast and cable television, radio – and towards an all-Web world. Eventually, most or all of the news and information we get – written, and spoken into microphones and cameras – will be on and for the Internet.

And we are on the verge of having this new world – the all-encompassing future of First Amendment free speech in America – swallowed up by three unelected D.C. bureaucrats and their Commission.


This is one of the most important battles ever waged in Washington – and precious little is known about it outside the Beltway.

What we are talking about is Internet reclassification. What that means is the FCC – which by its own admission doesn’t have authority over the Web – would just vote itself said authority. By reclassifying the Internet – so that it would be subject to the same rules as landline telephones.

The FCC has long had tremendous power over landline telephones, which is why there has been so much incredible innovation with them these last 70+ years. (Note: tremendous sarcasm here.)

The FCC has no power over the Internet because the FCC doesn’t have power over anything until Congress writes a law saying they do. And Congress has never done this for the FCC with the Internet.

It’s not just me saying this. 299 members of Congress have said so – a large bipartisan majority. More than 150 organizations, state legislators and bloggers have said so. So have seventeen minority groups – that are usually almost always in Democrat lockstep.

So have many additional normally Democrat paragons, including several large unions: AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America (CWA),International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); several racial grievance groups: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Minority Media and Telecom Council (MMTC), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Urban League; and an anti-free market environmentalist group: the Sierra Club.

So too has the unanimous D.C. Circuit Court – led by a Democrat Bill Clinton-appointee – ruling in April in the Comcast-BitTorrent case that the FCC doesn’t have the authority to regulate the Internet.

Most importantly, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has himself said so. In an interview last week with the Washington Post, the Chairman readily acknowledged “(W)e have a Communications Act that wasn’t written for broadband.”

Chairman Genachowski is referring to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the last time Congress addressed communications policy and the authorities the FCC has there over. Broadband Internet for all intents and purposes didn’t yet even exist.

The remedy to all of this is crystal clear. Congress should do what it’s supposed to do – write a law that defines and details the FCC’s role (or lack thereof) in regulating the Internet.

And the FCC should do what it’s supposed to do – unless and until Congress acts, NOTHING.

What the FCC must NOT do is unilaterally vote itself vast new powers under the cover of bureaucratic, post-election darkness
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Big Government

Which Defines You? Loyalist or Patriot? [Update]


The following essay is cross posted from Worth Reading Blog. I think that the eleven year old young girl in the essay got it right when she said that she and her family are Patriots. The writer of the essay has labeled the supporters of the status quo as Loyalists. Loyal to whom and/or what? Read the essay to find out.

I personally think that the choice is quite obvious now.

Christine


Loyalist or Patriot?
EDITOR'S NOTE: This was first published on 'Paratus Familia' blog, and is so Worth Reading we are cross posting it here. Cheers to "Enola Gay"


Miss Calamity (our eleven year old daughter) stunned me the other day with an incredibly astute observation. She informed me that ours is a family of Patriots. Now that statement, in and of itself, may not seem earth shattering, but it got me thinking. If we were patriots, what were the people who staunchly support the entrenched establishment? After thinking long and hard, I came to the conclusion that the supporters of the status quo must be called "Loyalists".

Looking up the definitions of both Loyalist and Patriot, I made a startling discovery. The definition of a loyalist is: One who maintains loyalty to an established government, political party, or sovereign, especially during war or revolutionary change. Conversely, here is the definition of a patriot: One who loves and loyally or zealously supports one's own country. Do you see the difference? One supports the established government and the other supports their country! What a revolutionary idea! Literally.

As I watch our State and Federal governments in action, I see a wholesale group of loyalists. They are loyal to their programs, they are loyal to their pet projects and they are loyal to their pocket books. Ultimately, they are loyal to themselves. Nowhere do I see a loyalty to their country or their countrymen.

Patriots have become icons of terrorism. They have been labeled as enemy combatants and dissidents. They have been marginalized for their love of country and staunch support of the ideals on which this great country was built. We, as Patriots have become the enemy.

We are a country divided. The terms "Republican" and "Democrat" no longer apply. We are either Patriots or Loyalists. Lovers of government and tyranny or lovers of country and freedom. We are being thrust into a new era, that is, in fact, but another chapter in the story of liberty.

As said by one of the Great Patriots: Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

We stand on a precipice. Patriot or Loyalist. Tyranny or Liberty. Security (supposed) or Freedom. We all make a choice, either consciously or passively. Choose you this day who you will serve - the author of oppression or the Father of liberty. Will you meekly serve your masters or are you willing to suffer and perhaps even die in the name of Liberty and Freedom. Choose you this day.


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Paratus Familia Blog

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American Patriots Bible - Watch the video at Shop Word of Life link!

THE ONE BIBLE THAT SHOWS HOW 'A LIGHT FROM ABOVE' SHAPED OUR NATION. Never has a version of the Bible targeted the spiritual needs of those who love our country more than The American Patriot's Bible. This extremely unique Bible shows how the history of the United States connects the people and events of the Bible to our lives in a modern world. The story of the United States is wonderfully woven into the teachings of the Bible and includes a beautiful full-color family record section, memorable images from our nation's history and hundreds of enlightening articles which complement the New King James Version Bible text.


Watch the video at the link above!

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Update:

Speaking of Patriotic loyalty, the following is a MUST READ! And take the time to read all of the links provided too!

Daily Thought Pad: Is pResident Obama Loyal to America... or To Someone Else?

Excerpt:

Since President Obama’s administration:

§ The Ft. Hood massacre (i.e. “man-caused disaster”) killed 13 Americans.

§ Fatalities of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have increased by 330%.

§ There’s been a 620% increase in the number of wounded U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

§ I.E.D. deaths in Afghanistan have increased by 625%.

§ The underwear bomber would have killed Americans and others if the civilians on the plane had not intervened to stop him.

§ The Time Square bomber would have killed Americans if not for his own incompetence.

Germany and Spain closed mosques in their country within the last few weeks, yet the media has remained quiet about it. (See reference articles below).
The Ground Zero mosque would require the Islamic judicial system pursued by Imam Rauf – Sharia law. Among the gems found in Sharia law: death to Gays and Lesbians; enslavement and persecution of women; and honor killings.
Imam Rauf says that “Islamic law and justice begins in religious movements.” Infiltrating religious movements as a way to bring Islamic law and justice to America sheds new light on Imam Rauf’s pursuit of a mosque at Ground Zero.
Imam Rauf is involved in the Flotilla excursions to Gaza which intend to conquer Israel by driving them out of the Gaza strip. Imam Rauf has helped to finance the Flotillas and a September/October excursion is planned on the ship they named “Audacity of Hope,” inspired by President Obama’s book of the same name… which was inspired by Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Oh… and President Obama’s friends, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Rashid Khalidi are also involved in the aggressive mission of these Flotilla.
What will America do with this information? Will America ignore it, or will America stand against infiltration which places its citizens, its judicial system, its national security and its allies at risk?

Will America care that President Obama, has brought Imam Rauf into the center of our national security?


It is difficult to choose just one link at the end of the post, but perhaps this one is most disturbing:

GROUND ZERO IMAN CALLS FOR RETURN TO MOST RADICAL FORM OF ISLAM IN HISTORY! Proof: Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Arabic language Interview translated to English

Harassed by American Community Survey People?

If you are one of the unfortunate citizens of the United States of America who are currently being harassed by an American Community Survey person for refusing to participate in the survey, I have done some research on it. I am providing what I have found here, hoping that it will assist anyone who is interested in legally refusing to participate in the survey. [Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and cannot vouch for the 100% accuracy of what is written. However, it made sense to me and I am using this information for refusal to participate in the survey if the harassment continues.]

When you type American Community Survey - Just Say No into Bing, you get two really good blogs to peruse.

The best one is this one:

Truth Is Treason.Net - How to legally refuse to participate in the census survey

Another one to check out is this:

No To ACS Blog

Near the end of the post at the first link (Truth is Treason.net) there is a letter that you can print out and send (along with your blank survey if you still have it) which will legally allow you to refuse to participate in the survey. Here is a copy:


To Whom it May Concern,

Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.

Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)

“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’”

Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.

Respectfully,

A Citizen of the United States of America


You might want to read through the entire post at the link above, but here is the pertinent information as it applies to the American Community Survey:

The American Community Survey

As stated above, the Census Bureau will be using the American Community Survey to extract personal data that it previously received on the old long form. Once again, this information will have absolutely nothing to with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives.

Authority for the Census and the American Community Survey

On their web-site, the Census Bureau claims the American people are “required by law” to provide the information requested on either form and our response is “mandatory.”

For the Census, they cite the provision of the Constitution referenced above as their authority to request the information.

For the American Community Survey, they cite Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Sections 141 and 193 as their authority to request the information.

Section 141 (d) states, in part: …the Secretary, in the year 1985 and every 10 years thereafter, shall conduct a mid-decade census of population in such form and content as he may determine…

Section 141 (e) (2) states: Information obtained in any mid-decade census shall not be used for apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States, nor shall such information be used in prescribing congressional districts.

Section 141 (g) As used in this section, “census of population” means a census of population, housing, and matters relating to population and housing.

Section 193 states: In advance of, in conjunction with, or after the taking of each census provided for by this chapter, the Secretary may make surveys and collect such preliminary and supplementary statistics related to the main topic of the census as are necessary to the initiation, taking, or completion thereof.


The first thing reader should note is the difference between the statement of authority for the 2 surveys. The Census falls under the Constitution while the American Community Survey is merely based on a statute passed by Congress.

The second thing the reader should note concerning section 141 is the reference to a mid-decade census of population. There is no constitutional authority for mid-decade census. See again Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution.

The third thing the reader should note concerning section 141 is the statement that the information obtained from the mid-decade census cannot be used for the constitutional purpose of the actual Census.

The fourth thing the reader should note concerning section 141 is the statement that the mid-decade census is being used for housing, and matters relating to population and housing. Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 does not contain a grant of power concerning these subjects.

This takes us to the other section cited as the authority for the American Community Survey. Section 193 restricts census surveys and the collection of preliminary and supplementary statistics…to the main topic of the census…necessary to the initiation, taking, or completion thereof. Constitutionally, the only topic of a census is a head count for apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 does not contain a grant of power for any other census. The other ones referenced in section 193 fail to meet the constitutional topic of the only census enumerated in the Constitution.

Note: See again the first 2 constitutional principles discussed at the beginning of this article and then apply them to the American Community Survey.

Penalty Provisions for Failure to Comply with Either Survey Request

On their web-site, the Census Bureau states the penalty provision for failing to comply with either survey request is found in Title 13, U.S.C., Section 221.

Pursuant to this section, refusing to provide the requested information or neglecting to complete either survey subjects you to a fine of not more than $100.00. Willfully giving information that is false subjects you to a fine of not more than $500.00.

Then, in what I believe is a blatant attempt to misrepresent federal law and install fear in the hearts and minds of the American people so they will provide the requested information, the Census Bureau included the following statement after their reference to the section 221 penalties referenced above:

Title 18 U.S.C. Section 3571 and Section 3559, in effect amends Title 13 U.S.C. Section 221 by changing the fine for anyone over 18 years old who refuses or willfully neglects to complete the questionnaire or answer questions posed by census takers from a fine of not more than $100 to not more than $5,000.


A review of Title 18 shows it is entitled:“CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.”

Section 3559 is entitled: “Sentencing classification of offenses.” Section (a) states: “Classification.—An offense that is not specifically classified by a letter grade in the section defining it, is classified if the maximum term of imprisonment authorized is—(9) five days or less, or if no imprisonment is authorized, as an infraction.

Section 3571 is entitled: “Sentence of fine. Section (a) states: “A defendant who has been found guilty of an offense may be sentenced to pay a fine.” Section (b) states in part: “…an individual who has been found guilty of an offense may be fined not more than the greatest of—(7)for an infraction, not more than $5,000.” This is the only reference to a fine in the amount cited by the Census Bureau that matches the provision in section 3559 above.

The $5,000.00 fine referenced in section 3571 is a post conviction fine that only applies to an individual who has been charged and convicted of a criminal infraction as defined in section 3559. Unless an individual has been charged and convicted of some criminal offense connected to the Census and the crime is classified as an infraction, this $5,000.00 fine does not apply. Thus, their assertion that these sections changed the fines in section 221 to $5,000.00 is…you fill in the blank. In my mind, it’s a blatant lie that borders on fraud.


Another website to read:

Technology & MSG - American Community Survey Makes Me Uncomfortable

The original post was created in 2007, but take note of these brief updates:

Updates

05/14/08 - There have been quite a few visitors lately, referred here both by other web sites and by Google. So here’s an update. I haven’t heard anything from the Census Bureau about my failure to participate in the American Community Survey. I have received no further correspondence. I have not been contacted. I have not been fined. The threats of fines and jail time appear to be just that… idle threats.

03/13/10 - Still nothing.





Hat Tips:

Truth Is Treason.Net

No To ACS Blog

Technology & MSG Blog

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Update @ 4:50 p.m. PT:

Another website to read about this issue:

Nolan Chart - Invasion of Privacy: The American Community Survey

Excerpt:

Second, the Fourth Amendment guarantees my right to be secure .

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


To gather all of the information below, they would have to invade my home, and search my documents for this data. I contend the information requested is my property and the US Government has no valid claim upon it.

My answers to this survey are not private forever, as in 72 years they are released to the public. None of the questions beyond how many people live at my address would seem to apply to fire stations, libraries, or schools, and so, I must confess I will not be answering them.

According to the Washington Post, over 1,100 laptops have been reported missing from the Commerce Department since 2001 including over 250 from the Census Bureau.

Do I really want the answers to the questions below floating around on a laptop that is misplaced or stolen?

Searching the internet, I have discovered I may be in for some harassment as Big Brother attempts to force me to complete this form. I have read reports of Census workers harassing individuals in an attempt to get them to complete the survey. For some interesting stories check out this link.

You will read some interesting stories about what will be done to collect the data.


Lots of links to read here:

CheckPoint USA.org: The U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey (scratch that) Interrogation

Like Father Like Son

While reading Citizen Wells blog, I found an excellent, truthful, America-saving essay and petition for We The People Americans who are FED UP with the ObaMARXIST's America-destroying agenda and want to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! I have copied the essay here and urge each patriot who stands for freedom, liberty, our Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the rule of law, and the great AMERICAN nation that our Founding Fathers envisioned and created for us, to sign the petition at the provided link.

Please share this information with everyone you know!

God save the United States of America!

In Christ,

Christine


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“Like Father Like Son”

By: Veterans For A Strong America.

Veterans 4 A Strong America

V4A Freedom Paper 2
V4A


The Measure of the Citizen is

The Measure of The Nation





“Dear Mr. Obama,

It is a fact, indisputable to honest minds, that there is virtually no aspect of your origins, personal or ideological, that are not somehow wrapped in fraud. The multiplicity of your actions which seem to defy all reason and all comprehension, however, are easily deciphered and understood in light of your real ideological father—Saul Alinsky, author of “Rules for Radicals.” Alinsky is your true origin in ideology and political methodology. Alinsky is your father and it is this father, Saul Alinsky, whose dreams you seek to fulfill every day of your life.

And how better can we understand and interpret Alinsky, than by noting that Alinsky literally dedicated his own book to Lucifer, also known as Satan.

Let us hear Alinsky’s own words of dedication and I quote: “(to) the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.” Mr. Obama, if Lucifer was Alinsky’s ideological father, then you are Lucifer’s ideological grandson.

Leave it to Lucifer to seek to fundamentally transform Heaven, a place of absolute perfection; leave it to Alinsky to refer to Heaven as “The Establishment.” It is Alinsky who preached to generations of admiring radical protégés and I quote: “There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.” This quotation of Alinsky’s is not something taken out of context; it is the focal-point of his work and the end point to which his reasoning process leads.

Mr. Obama, you spent years teaching workshops on ‘the Alinsky method’; you raised money to fund the Alinsky Academy, while working with the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist, Bill Ayres.

Alinsky’s own biological son has publicly reveled in your success, saying and I quote: “Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”

Mr. Obama, from this time forward, we will view you through the Alinsky Looking Glass and interpret your actions with a spirit of utter distrust—irreparable distrust which you have more than earned, by your actions while holding the office of President.

Alinsky is all about being The Trojan Horse and are you not, Mr. Obama, the greatest Trojan Horse in all of American history? Alinsky himself believed that ‘true revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.’ Alinsky also espoused another related maxim: “Wherever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.”

As you well know, this means: adopt a strategy that is something the enemy has never seen before and, therefore, cannot properly interpret, until it’s too late for the enemy to be able to mount an effective resistance and save himself. A perfect example of this principle in action is the new mission you have given the head of NASA.

You want NASA to make outreach to Muslim countries NASA’s #1 priority. This idea is so far out in left field that it defies comprehension—but, then again, you knew your NASA mission would have this effect on us, didn’t you?

We can’t see your dark purposes, because your actions go so far outside the experience of The American People. If we view this travesty through the Alinsky Looking Glass, however, here is what we see: Mr. Obama talking, in glowingly eloquent terms, about space programs no longer being “competitive” but
“collaborative.”

But this is just another, Alynsky-inspired sleight of hand and a classic bit of theatrical misdirection, isn’t it? When we look below the surface, however, what do we see?

We see the strongest protests against your policy from none other than the former head of NASA. You and the current head of NASA are talking about the importance of ‘helping countries establish space programs’ and you pointed to Indonesia, where you spent your formative years, as a possible partner.

How can this partnering with Muslim countries be done, without sharing NASA technology with these nations?

Mr. Obama, by these actions, you know all-too-well that you are putting technology into the hands of the very people who would use it in the creation of ballistic missiles that could reach any city in the United States.

Can any reasonable person deny that there would be a direct pipeline for this technology from any moderate Muslim nation “partnering with NASA” to a terrorist entity or a nation like Iran?

You can calmly deny your treasonous motives all you want—that’s the deceit & guile of your Alinsky methodology: denial after denial uttered in your calm, well-modulated voice. The only people in the room who are ever in the wrong are, of course, those who are expressing their anger openly—especially if it is anger directed toward you.

Once this NASA technology is in the hands of terrorists, the situation is irreversible—and that is exactly what you want!

Because you pursue a course of action that risks NASA technology finding its way into the hands of terrorists, you are therefore a confirmed traitor of the highest order and we demand that our Senators and Congressmen immediately put a stop to this unfolding travesty and call for your immediate impeachment.

Mr. Obama, you are most prolific. We see Alinsky’s signature methodology permeating Elena Kagan’s unyielding refusal to admit to contradictions in her words and actions.

Kagan embodies the artful dodger of Alinsky methodology. We rightly admire Senator Sessions’ dignified & forthright approach in the confirmation hearings. However, he is perhaps too much of a Southern gentleman to get as mean & aggressive as he needs to get, in order to defend America effectively against the likes of Elena Kagan.

Everything within us abhors the Republican leaderships’ simpering acquiescence to the momentum of this fraudulent confirmation process; theirs is an unforgivable lack of courage witnessed by their unwillingness to take bold action and to resist at all costs the ascension to our Supreme Court by a fraud such as Kagan—nor do they even show the fortitude required to mount a filibuster against this enemy of our Freedoms.

It is Kagan who argued to the Supreme Court that political speech can and should be regulated by the federal government, up to and including censorship of books.

It is Kagan who, as Dean of Harvard Law School, established Shariah law’s most powerful and prestigious beachhead in American academia to date: the Harvard “Islamic Finance Project’—directly financed by Saudi prince Alaweed Bin Talal, a member of The Muslim Brotherhood—the oldest Islamic terrorist organization in the world. The purpose of this project is to train American lawyers to practice Shariah-Compliant Law in The United States of America.

Have We-the-People heard even one question directed at this woman regarding her dedicated & concerted efforts to lend institutional respectability to repressive & unconstitutional Shariah law? We have not.

Remember: It is Kagan whose impassioned argument, before the Supreme Court, urged that American corporations should be permitted, under the guise of the 1st Amendment, to provide material aid to terrorist organizations and do so with utter impunity.

Finally, if confirmed, it will be Kagan who casts her vote on cases brought to the Supreme Court that will determine if Conservative Talk Radio survives The Fairness Doctrine or not; it will be Kagan who will hear cases as to whether Shariah law should be allowed in the United States as a “legal-system-within-a-legal-system”; it will be Kagan who will draw deeply from the well of radical Alinsky politics, her penchant for intellectual dishonesty and her ignorance of—and disdain for—“The Doctrine of Original Intent”—that the Constitution means precisely what the Founders intended it to mean. Given all the foregoing, is it not time to set a precedent in the Elena Kagan vetting process?

No Supreme Court nominee has ever before sunk so low as to be brought up on charges of perjury, during a Confirmation process. Furthermore, every single one of Elena Kagan’s statements are made under oath. Where an oath is administered, perjury charges may be brought.

In light of Kagan’s apparent utter disregard for the Truth and the abundant documentary evidence that proves this, what could be more appropriate than that a courageous Senator bring charges of perjury against her?

Therefore, we citizens of America demand that our leaders bring Elena Kagan up on charges of perjury, without further delay! Has Senator Sessions not said, repeatedly, that Kagan’s testimony under oath absolutely contradicts the facts that are key to examining her for confirmation? Has Kagan not lied—and does she not continue to lie—under oath, by denying material facts that would disqualify her from serving on the Supreme Court, if she had answered truthfully & directly the point of each question?

No amount of “qualifiers” added to an answer make that answer truthful, when the net-net is that Kagan’s answer is “yes” when the facts say “no” and “no” when the facts say “yes.” A half truth is a whole lie. Kagan speaks anything but “The Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth”—which is just as Saul Alinsky would have it.

Mr. Obama, we don’t know why you hate America but, then again, we don’t know why Lucifer hated Heaven either. We stand irreconcilably opposed to you and your plans to destroy America.

The actions you are now taking will inevitably bring this about, if you are not stopped. We will act boldly, as law-abiding citizens, to do whatever it takes to save this Free Republic, to stop and decisively defeat you & your accomplices and, thereby, restore our country’s security and Freedom.”

From: Veterans 4 A Strong America

“Like Father Like Son”

By: Veterans For A Strong America.

Veterans 4 A Strong America

By: Veterans for a Strong America. The Freedom Papers™, Issue #3: “Like Father Like Son.”

# # # #

Please go to the above link and sign this “Freedom Paper #3″ and Send It To Congress Through Fax, Email & Registered Mail!!

All Americans Are Asked To Sign This “Freedom Paper # 3″ And Send This To Congress Members Immediately to DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE REMOVAL & IMPEACHMENT Of the Daily Serial Criminal Barack Obama for Committing Daily High Crimes & Treasons In The USA Against ALL Americans, And TO DEMAND CONGRESS MUST VOTE NO & 100% REJECT THE NOMINATION OF THE 100% UNQUALIFIED PRO-COMMUNIST/MARXIST, PRO-NAZI SUPPORTER, PRO-SHARIA LAW, PRO-INTERNATIONAL LAW & PRO-U.N. LAW, ANTI-USA CONSTITUTION – ANTI-RULE OF LAW IN THE USA, ANTI-USA
SOVEREIGNTY, ANTI-AMERICAN, 100% Extremely Horrifically Unqualified Nominee Elena Kagan; & TO DEMAND CONGRESS Start Perjury Charges On Elena Kagan For Lying Under Oath During The Congressional Confirmation Interviews & Hearings.

From: Veterans 4 A Strong America

“Like Father Like Son”

By: Veterans For A Strong America.

http://www.v4asa.org/paper3.html

We can STOP The Radical Communist/
Marxist Anti-American, Pro-Sharia Law, Pro-International & U.N. Law, Anti-USA Sovereignty, Anti-USA Constitution, Pro-Abortions, Pro-Euthanasia, Pro-Homosexuality, Pro-Same-Sex Marriage,
Extremely Dangerous To ALL Americans & 100% Immoral & 100% Corrupt Elena Kagan’s Confirmation!!

WE THE PEOPLE ALSO DEMAND CONGRESS TO IMMEDIATELY IMPEACH & REMOVE BARACK OBAMA FOR COMMITTING HIS DAILY HIGH CRIMES & HIGH TREASONS AGAINST ALL 400 + MILLION AMERICANS HERE:

http://www.v4asa.org/paper3.html

By: Veterans For A Strong America.

Please Americans Get Into Daily Action To Save The USA!! Go To The Above Link Now!!

Please Share This & Spread This Article & Work With All Americans Far & Wide!!

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Citizen Wells blog (and commentator Starla)

A Great Constitutional Question! [Add-on]

The Post & Email author asks: When is the Constitution like a Crocodile?

Evidence continues to mount that shows FEDERAL JUDGES CONTINUE TO FLAGRANTLY FLOUT THE CONSTITUTION.

There must be some very powerful and rich forces behind all of the Obama ineligibility lawsuits being dismissed! I think that it is a combination of monetary favors, plus the threat of death being given to the judges! Otherwise, they all must be liberal progressive Marxo-Fascist traitors - just like Obama and his criminal cohorts!

Do readers here think that I am being too harsh?

Hardly.

Read the Lame Cherry blog each day and you will have your eyes opened!

There are so many reasons and crimes revealed about Obama that his removal is imperative for the survival of our great nation!

Some of the recent important "Lame Cherry" blog posts to read there:

Trip Wires

Obama Guilty of 1812 Felonies

Obama Now Destroying American Food Supply

Last, but certainly not least, is the following marvelous analysis of just why Obama is who he is and does what he does. How scary. We are in the hands of a sociopath who has a very damaged 10-year-old's mentality who is raging in his own fantasy world to destroy America.

Excerpts:

Every single thing Obama has touched has turned into decay. Obama does not have the Midas touch like Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush in turning things into gold, but Obama has the Obama touch which turns everything into rust, mold and tar balls.

This is what is behind Obama's fleeing now reality of his fantasy to the escape of reality in his delusions. Barack Hussein Obama literally is creating cherry pie fiction in everything in his mind.

[T]hat is what is now injecting into every Obama speech. He is making things up, he is turning reality into a fiction. He is moulding every situation where if there is just more of Obama, if Obama does a thousand times bigger than George W. Bush all will be fine and if Obama just says it is so..........then it will be so.

This needs repeating in the definition of insanity is expecting a different outcome by doing the same thing over and over. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is expecting a different outcome if he just does it faster, more Marxist and does it bigger, as that will somehow make the mountain of failures he his regime has brought about to a success.

Obama has not had success at anything in his life. Every station he attained in life was provided for him by either his Grandmother, Marxist or Muslim connections or Affirmative Action. He has not done anything but take credit for others work, vote present and had the White House handed to him.
That Nobel Prize was the epitaph to his beginning in the reality of the utter nothingness Barack Hussein Obama is, has been and always will be.

This is the reality Obama was hiding from as a 10 year old boy in fantasy, and this is the reality Obama is escaping from now in delusion.

[I]f this delusion of Obama continues on trend, Barack Hussein Obama will take the step he has obsessed with in initiating and retaliating nuclear strikes to validate the failed 10 year old sociopath hiding inside this monstrous psychopathy.


I pray that the author is wrong about that last sentence! Perhaps, because Obama is touting a "nuke-free" world, he couldn't possibly go against his word...could he?

Well...not much comfort to rely on since this man has lied about practically every thing he has claimed over the past few years.

Read it all here: The Obama Touch

Hat Tips to Post & Email and Lame Cherry blogs.

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New blog I found!

The Captains Quarters: Why Obama Can't Plug That Damn Hole

Excerpt:

Obama cannot plug that hole, because if he does, then all his support to overhaul our energy policy will have no enemy. He needs the villain of big oil. How can he justify raising taxes and expanding government control if the oil isn’t leaking?

He can’t claim urgency like he did with healthcare without the open wound in the gulf. Please "Hope" the American people won’t be duped again.

The biggest reason Obama is completely incapable of stopping the largest environmental disaster in American history is because then he would have to abandon all his ideologies.

He would have to embrace individual minds who actual know how to fix and create things. He would have to lean on people who are not government workers. He would have to find experts who don’t get elected and aren’t part of advisory panels. He would have to rely on the creators, not the second-handers. And since he feels all those types of people are the enemy, he has no idea how to extend his arm from this oily mess and get a life-line from the individuals he hates the most.

If you’ve never run anything before, then maybe president of the greatest country on earth isn’t where you get your feet wet. And Mr. Obama, watch where you step, the oil isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.


YEP!

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Update:

Thanks to The Right Side of Life I have been reminded of the website called The Obama Timeline which has been updated to include July, 2010. Some of the snippets of information have been covered here at Talk Wisdom (in this and former posts).

Excerpt:

With the ruling in Kerchner v. Obama, courts in the United States continue their record of refusing to address the issue of whether Obama is a natural born citizen eligible to serve as president. In every decision the courts have avoided the issue. For the court to argue that the grievance of the people should be “handled by the legislative branch” is ludicrous on its face: Obama’s political party controls both the House and the Senate. Most Congressmen and Senators likely know full well that Obama has never provided proof that he is a natural born citizen—and those who read the U.S. Constitution and understand its history also know full well that a natural born citizen was understood by the Founding Fathers to mean born on U.S. soil to two U.S.-citizen parents. Members of Congress certainly will not now address the issue simply because a court offers them as a convenient excuse for its failure to rule on a constitutional issue that warrants a decision. And for the court to argue that the “remedy may be found through their vote” is to force the American people to accept a fraudulent president until the November 2012 election and the January 2013 inauguration of the next president. (As William Gladstone wrote, “Justice delayed is justice denied.”) Before the 2008 election, judges ruled that Obama eligibility lawsuits were premature because he had not yet been elected. After he was elected, judges ruled that Obama eligibility lawsuits were premature because he had not yet been inaugurated. After Obama was sworn into office, judges ruled that the plaintiffs have no standing and that they should either take the issue up with Congress or wait until the next election to vote him out of office. (Had that scenario been written by George Orwell 75 years ago his book would have remained unsold as “unbelievable.”)



Some might argue that no eligibility lawsuit will ever gain traction because “the fix is in” and “the powers that be” are influencing, pressuring, or even threatening judges. Others might argue that no judge is willing to issue a ruling on the merits of an eligibility lawsuit out of the fear of unleashing race riots across the country. But if court decisions are based on fear, the people have lost their rights and the United States is now no different than a nation ruled by a dictator. Those judges who fear enraging Obama’s supporters should realize that if nothing is done to address the issue and he is allowed to remain in office, they may actually be setting in motion even more disastrous events.



Commander Charles Kerchner responds to the court’s ruling: “The court has presented us for the weekend celebrating the birth of our nation, and the liberty and freedom it once stood for as a shining beacon to the world, with a despicable example of what our government has turned into. Our branches of government no longer wish to hear from the People. We are to sit here and take it and just keep quiet. We will not. The founders and all the men since who have sacrificed with their blood and even their very lives to gain and preserve our liberty and freedom will not have sacrificed in vain. We have lost a battle but not the war. We will stand to fight this battle to support and defend the Constitution. I took an oath to do so. And that oath was not just words to me. The battles will continue. And in the end the truth and the Constitution will win and the thugs and tyrants now controlling our government will face the justice of We the People who are the true sovereigns of this nation and government. These usurpers and thugs and their enablers will learn a lesson in the coming months and will be shown before the bar of justice of the People and in history for what they really are … power hungry tyrants, thugs, and deceivers. This war will be won by We the People. So help me God.” [12615]

Officer challenging Obama eligibility takes to airwaves

'Important question about Constitution': Officer challenging Obama eligibility takes to airwaves World Net Daily ^ April 20, 2010 Bob Unruh

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:58:54 AM by 2ndDivisionVet

An attorney for an officer refusing all Army orders until Barack Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief is documented says his client formally has been "flagged" by the military and the formal filing of charges is expected within days.

Attorney Paul Jensen today was on the radio show of G. Gordon Liddy with his client, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, who has told Obama in a letter that it's up to him to provide the proof. The interview is streaming on WND.

The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "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."

Some of the various challenges and lawsuits that have developed about Obama allege that he was not born in Hawaii in 1961 has he has written, or that the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens – Obama's father was a subject of the British crown at Obama's birth – from being eligible for the office.

The issue has prompted a number of state legislatures to work on proposals that would require presidential candidates to submit proof of their eligibility.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...

Hat Tips:

Free Republic.com

WorldNetDaily.com

P.S. For more commentary about the interview, see Citizen Wells. I agree with Linda's comment there:


Linda from NY // April 20, 2010 at 11:57 am

I am praying this LTC Lakin interview goes viral throughout the free world.

In this endeavor, LTC Lakin has taken upon himself the most heroic action of his career YTD IMHO.

LTC LAKIN has gone from saving individual lives to SAVING A NATION!

LTC LAKIN is a TRUE AMERICAN HERO!

God Bless Him…Linda


Amen!!

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Update:


Can get a podcast of the Gordon Liddy Show here:

http://www.radioamerica.org/streaming.htm

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In related news:

My Fox Phoenix.com: Arizona House OKs Birther Bill
House votes to check candidates' citizenship.


Hope this catches on with the other 49 states!

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Also see:

Investigating Obama: G. Gordon Liddy's Interview of Lt Col. Terry Lakin, Today

MP3 recordings of the interview are available at the Investigating Obama blog site.

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Why Is This An Unreasonable Request? [Update]



LTC Lakin has questioned the President’s “natural born” status, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution’s Article II, Section 1. After a year of seeking answers, he has not received a definitive response either from the Department of Defense or from his Congressional delegation that would assure him of the President’s Constitutional eligibility.

Attainder court-martial threatened…

YouTube Video LInk: American Patriot Foundation: FTC Terry Lakin Defense Fund

While watching Greta Van Sustern this evening, I heard that Megyn Kelly* is going to discuss the possible court martial of Lt. Colonel Terrence Lakin, (who has refused deployment until he sees proof of Obama's POTUS eligibility) on her Fox News show tomorrow.

Perhaps the court martial will then give the Lt. Col. standing to ask the court to force Obama to show proof of his eligibility to be POTUS.

I don't think that this is an unreasonable request, do you?

Also see:

Safeguard Our Constitution.com

Hat Tip:

The Jag Hunter

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Update 4/15/10

WorldNetDaily: Officer challenging Obama 'reassigned'
No charges yet for surgeon demanding eligibility proof


Excerpt:

One of the organizers behind the Safeguard Our Constitution website, serving in emeritus status, is John Hemenway, an attorney who previously fought in the U.S. court system on behalf of a retired military officer, Gregory S. Hollister, who also questioned Obama's eligibility.

The case ultimately was dismissed by Judge James Robertson who ruled that the dispute had been "twittered" during the 2008 election campaign.

In that opinion, Robertson sarcastically wrote: "The plaintiff says that he is a retired Air Force colonel who continues to owe fealty to his commander in chief (because he might possibly be recalled to duty) and who is tortured by uncertainty as to whether he would have to obey orders from Barack Obama because it has not been proven – to the colonel's satisfaction – that Mr. Obama is a native-born American citizen, qualified under the Constitution to be president.

"The issue of the president's citizenship was raised, vetted, blogged, texted, twittered, and otherwise massaged by America's vigilant citizenry during Mr. Obama's two-year-campaign for the presidency, but this plaintiff wants it resolved by a court," Robertson wrote.

The judge also suggested sanctions against Hemenway for bringing the case, and Hemenway responded that process then would provide him with a right to a discovery hearing to see documentation regarding the judge's statements – not supported by any evidence introduced into the case – that Obama was properly "vetted."

Hemenway warned at the time, "If the court persists in pressing Rule 11 procedures against Hemenway, then Hemenway should be allowed all of the discovery pertinent to the procedures as court precedents have permitted in the past.

"The court has referred to a number of facts outside of the record of this particular case and, therefore, the undersigned is particularly entitled to a hearing to get the truth of those matters into the record. This may require the court to authorize some discovery," Hemenway said.

WND columnist Vox Day earlier wrote about this very scenario, calling it a "Get out of war" free card.

The comments followed the case of Cook, the reservist who challenged his deployment orders over questions about their legality under Obama.

"Rather than contesting the suit," Day wrote, "the Army took the highly peculiar step of revoking the major's deployment order, suggesting that the Pentagon generals are not entirely confident that they can demonstrate the legitimacy of their purported commander in chief.

"The Pentagon's decision to back down rather than risk exposing Obama's birth records to the public means that every single American soldier, sailor, pilot and Marine now holds a 'get out of war free' card."

Obama's actual response to those who question his eligibility to be president under the Constitution's requirement that the U.S. president be a "natural born citizen" has been to dispatch both private and tax-funded attorneys to prevent anyone from gaining access to his documentation.

Besides Obama's actual birth documentation, the still-concealed documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

WND has reported on a multitude of cases that have been brought over the issue of Obama's eligibility. Some are by critics who have doubts about whether he was born in Hawaii in 1961 as he has written, and others are from those who question whether the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens – Obama's father was a subject of the British crown at Obama's birth – from being eligible for the office.

The issue has prompted a number of state legislatures to work on proposals that would require presidential candidates to submit proof of their eligibility. And a similar proposal has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.

The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "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."

However, none of the cases filed to date has been successful in reaching the plateau of legal discovery, so that information about Obama's birth could be obtained.

The White House has not replied to numerous requests for comment.

The Obama ineligibility cover-up continues!!! But this is NOT going away!

One term Resident is guaranteed because of Obama's deception! The American people won't stand for a liar/Marxist/usurper in chief - and definitely not the second time around!

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*CORRECTION: Megyn Kelly will discuss this issue on the O'Reilly Factor tonight, 4/15/10. Sorry about the error.

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Also see:

Evil Conservative Radio: Why the Army's Birther Doc Won't Be Prosecuted

FYI - New List at Talk Wisdom


I have created a website/blog list of sites (in the right sidebar) that cover the Obama/Soetoro ineligibility for POTUS question. It can be a great resource when you need to counter those who think that Obama's ineligibility for POTUS is a frivolous complaint. The sites are listed in alphabetical order.


If you know of any additional sites that belong on this list, please share a link in the comment section and I will add it on.

Obama POTUS Ineligibility Websites:



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In addition, I would like to call every one's attention to a sidebar listing that I had previously created which shares exactly why this issue is of utmost importance.


Why Natural Born Citizen for POTUS Matters:



YouTube Video Link: Exactly What IS A Natural Born Citizen?

Additional articles to read:


BORN IN THE USA?
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Officer to Obama: Burden of proof must rest with you
Flight surgeon refusing orders releases text of challenge to president--WND

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
3rd Circuit picks June 29 for eligibility case
Argument alleges Obama probably not even American citizen--WND

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Officer questioning eligibility faces new threats from Army
'You could be sentenced to dismissal, confinement'--WND

THE FULL STORY
WorldNetDaily ExclusiveIs Obama constitutionally eligible to serve?
WND's complete archive of news reports on the issue--WND

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
New strategy unveiled to force Obama on eligibility
Petition calls on state election officials to verify qualifications in 2012--WND

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Interesting Letters to the Editor at WorldNetDaily:


Thursday April 08, 2010

Calling the pretender's bluff

I am loving this! ["Officer questioning eligibility faces new threats from Army"]
If Lakin is court-martialed, he gets discovery and should be able to demand proof of Obama's eligibility. If he is not court-martialed, that fact alone lends great weight to the suspicion that Obama is not constitutionally qualified to be president.

Lakin is calling the "great" pretender/pathological liar's bluff!

I flat out do not believe that Obama is legit. If that proves out, that he is not legit, I hope he spends the rest of his life in federal prison.

Way to go, Terry Lakin. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Jake

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Wednesday April 07, 2010

Joint Chiefs are responsible

The case of Lt. Col. Lakin begs a question that is becoming ever more disturbing over time: Why, exactly, have our military leaders, specifically the Joint Chiefs, failed to force the "Impostor in Chief" to substantiate that he is a "natural born citizen"?

Ultimately, it is not Lt. Col. Lakin who is responsible for insuring that the U.S. military as a whole is following legal orders. It is the responsibility of the Joint Chiefs, each of whom, just as Lt. Col. Lakin, took an oath to uphold the Constitution. The U.S. armed forces place men and women in battle, kill enemy soldiers under presidential orders and would release weapons of mass destruction under those same orders.

We Americans need to begin asking ourselves whether it is only Barry Soetero we need to worry about. We give our military leaders incredible power, and yet they seem to have abdicated the responsibility of insuring that power is used lawfully. Indeed, their silence may be enabling and furthering a terrible fraud against the American people.

If Soetero is ever found to be a usurper, not only should he go – and be tried, punished and made an example of, by the way – but so should the Joint Chiefs who have abjectly failed in their duty to protect the United States of America from ALL ENEMIES, both foreign and domestic. And we must create safeguards to insure that no one who does not hold ultimate loyalty to the Constitution of the United States ever holds any of these positions again.

God bless America.

Dale Howell

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Determining truth via polls?

As a longtime WND reader, I was once again offended by Glenn Beck's latest extended rail against the "nut jobs" who want to see proof that our commander in chief is constitutionally eligible to be the president. This latest rail against the "birthers" was on his radio show this week.

He again equated "birthers" to those that say "Bush blew up the World Trade Center" and the "moon landing people." The phrase "nut jobs" was repeated more than once.

In his latest "words of wisdom" on the issue, he said that the truth comes though majority consensus, and he used recent poll results to prove it. Since when does Beck, on any other issue, believe that the majority opinion defines the truth? He does with this issue!

Beck is doing serious damage to the effort of people who only want to find out the truth on the issue. If you listened to his latest "speeches" on the eligibility issue, he is trying to make people believe that if they want answers on this issue, they are labeling themselves as "nut jobs," and they are losing credibility on all other issues.

Glenn's saying a lot of good things about a lot of other issues, but he's losing credibility (in my book) by taking an irrational and inconsistent stand on this issue. WND needs to contact Glenn behind the scenes and educate him on this issue. And if you have and he is ignoring the information, and arrogantly increasing and intensifying his attacks on those questioning the prez's eligibility, then maybe it's time Glenn gets a little negative press from the conservative news sources.

Bob

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The Army's 'presumption'

In Bob Unruh's article "Officer questioning eligibility faces new threats from Army," he quotes from an Army "counseling form" issued to Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, which reads in part, "… deployment orders are presumed to be valid and lawful ..." Presumed to be valid and lawful?

According to Princeton's WordNet, "presumed" is defined as meaning to "accept without verification or proof." If Obama's eligibility had been proven, there would be no need to "presume" that the colonels orders are lawful. It seems that the Army has very carefully chosen its words – or perhaps had its words chosen for them – to avoid making any direct (and therefor challengeable) assertion that the orders are fully lawful based on proven eligibility of Barack Obama. Instead, by "presuming" that the orders are valid and lawful, the Army is attempting to relieve themselves of any responsibility to prove the legality of the order and instead shift the burden of proof to Col. Lakin. Hopefully, Lakin can get the case in front of a judge who will require the Army to prove the validity and legality of the orders.

Leslie D. Martin

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That's using your noggin

Great idea Joseph Farah has about the states refusing to put Ovomit on the ballot! How do we help get a movement going in our individual states?

About time somebody used their bean and used our Constitution to fight our battles at the state level!

God bless and sustain Joseph – a real American patriot!

Jerry & Bonnie Gallimore

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The Soviets are back

I love it. A brain scan for Lt. Col. Lakin. This is what Soviet Russia used to do to dissidents. They would lock them up in mental hospitals. Man, the truth is really dangerous to some people.

J. Morrison

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Expose the impostor

I have wondered for some time now if the U.S. military would be the final "backstop" against an Obama coup established through the declaration of martial law. If in fact our military still believes in their oath to "defend this country against enemies foreign and domestic," Lt. Col Lakin has presented the Joint Chiefs with the exact means by which to dispense of our "pretender-in-chief."

Instead of carrying water for Obama, allow the process to go forward through court martial, and get to the "discovery phase," which heretofore has been thwarted. All it would take is the light of truth illuminating the "dark past" of the current office holder of the presidency to save our nation.

Pray to God that our military still has the male accoutrements needed to expose this impostor.

Richard McGowen

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Friday April 02, 2010


God speed, Lt. Col. Lakin


While I commend Lt. Col. Terry Lakin for his bravery in challenging the Barack Hussein Obama on the obfuscation regarding his eligibility to be president of the United States ["Army 'showdown' at eligibility corral"], I also pray that God be with him. I'm sure he realizes that the full force of personal destruction by the left will be unleashed on him. Indeed, I even pray for his safety.


His service to the country, as demonstrated by the myriad decorations he has received, will mean nothing as the left, foaming at the mouth, will demonize him, trash him, brand him as a nut-job extremist and call for him to be thrown in jail. In fact, with the level of raw, unmitigated hatred on the left, I'll wager that you'll even see left-wingers calling for a firing squad. I really, really doubt that ordinary people can truly comprehend the level of hatred the left has for the right. It literally rivals the hatred radical Islam teaches against the Jews.


The truly sad part is that the conservative "establishment" will not come to his defense. Talk radio, Fox News and all the conservative talking heads have conceded this issue to the liberals. While they challenge Obama on everything else, on this issue they are wholly spineless. Again, I pray that God be with Lt. Col. Terry Lakin and give him the strength to endure what is undoubtedly coming his way. Other than that, and the support of WorldNetDaily, he is essentially on his own.


God speed, Lt. Col. Lakin. Your service to this country and defense of the Constitution makes you a true patriot.


Mike Michaelian

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Barry and his cabal


It is amazing that the controlled "lame stream media" will not cover your story about a top Army doctor basically telling Barry to take his orders and "shove it" until he can prove that he should be in that job! This should be the breaking lead story in every news organization in the world!


Just like dozens of other stories like it, it, too, will be buried and put to rest and nobody will care except the so-called "fringe wacky birthers," as portrayed in the controlled media. Most of America will not even hear about this story nor care.
It is a shame, more people know about some guy crawling through a drive-thru window and slapping a McDonald's employee for a fish sandwich, posted on the Drudge Report, than this story! Who cares except for the people involved!
That courageous highly decorated Army officer may be throwing his career away for nothing and may end up in prison because the controlled "lame stream media" agenda, rather than reporting the "real" news, is to keep Barry Soetoro and his corrupt socialist cabal in power and to fulfill their socialist dream for America by any means necessary.


They will never let his secret high treasonous fraud on America out and treat it as a serious story, because it could be the one thing, among many others, that could land Barry and his cabal in prison for life!


L.J.

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Watching his tongue


I find it interesting that whenever Obama mentions "birthers" and the questioning of his eligibility to be president, as well as the questioning of him being a socialist or a Muslim, he never says he is not any of these things, nor has ever actually used the language "I am a natural born American citizen" to rebuff the concerns. It's like he is intentionally not addressing the concerns directly with answers because he knows legally down the road his words will be used against him in a court of law. I also find it interesting that Michelle Obama has never defended her husband over these concerns in the media – as if she knows or has been told not to for legal reasons possibly. 

Can you, Mr. Farah, ever recall him addressing these concerns with direct answers? Interesting, I thought.



Keep up the good work!
Charles Lisman