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The Dangers of Jihadism

Posted by Mike on Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:53:25 PM
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The collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century seemed to many civilized Romans like the end of the world. The barbarians from the North and East were able to conquer Rome because of Rome's own internal contradictions and weaknesses.

A similar, though not identical, phenomena is happening today in regard to Western Europe and America. Islam is gradually becoming the dominant religion, and with it a foreign culture to replace the decadent culture of the West.

Corruption at all levels of government, abortion, pornography, financial fraud, all of these things and more are in need of correction. Rome's government toppled largely because of unsustainable military entanglements throughout the Empire, and because of the high cost of a lavish economy based upon slave labor. The barbarian influx proved in the long run to be the very thing that preserved classical learning and civilization.

Something similar is happening today. An arrogant secular state born out of the ashes of the French Revolution is becoming increasingly burdensome. Deficit spending and outrageously high taxes are causing opposition to government throughout the land. Amidst this chaos, Muslim jihadists see an opportunity to win acceptance of their belief system as the cultural norm, and for some fanatics the expectation of a quick ticket to paradise with an eternal reward of a plurality of virgins to make up for all of the disappointments, rejections and inadequacies of their earthly lives.

Could this be the beginning of another cultural transformation taking mankind to a higher level of development?

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Obama's Birth a Red Herring

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:39:24 PM
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The question of where Obama was born is a distraction to shift the focus away from the real reason why he is unqualified to serve as President of the United States. Kenyan officials and relatives of Obama have a vested interest in saying that he was born there to promote their own country. The real question is not one of birth, but of parentage.

Barry Obama's status follows that of his father. When born in Hawaii in 1961, Obama was a subject of the British Crown like his father. He only obtained US citizenship by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.  Hence he is not a natural born citizen.

The question is one of remedy. The federal court in exercising jurisdiction is called upon to decide whether Barack Obama can actually prove that he is qualified to be President. Citizens have a right to demand that our government leaders, and the Commander in Chief in particular, are qualified to hold public office. Because of the separation of powers, it is doubtful whether a federal magistrate can remove someone from the office of President. Congress alone has that power through impeachment proceedings. However, the Constitution only allows impeachment in the case of "high crimes and misdemeanors".

It is worth noting again that Barack Obama took the presidential oath twice, because in the first ceremony there was a defect. This basis of impeachment will have to be fraud on the electorate, which will require proof of intent. This will be difficult to prove in Obama's case, mostly because of prior cases of unqualified candidates running for office.  The court could at some point, however, issue an order barring Obama from seeking reelection in 2012.
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Article II, Section 1 not Superceded by Fourteenth Amendment

Posted by Mike on Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:34:15 PM
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In the previous post, Barry Obama's fraud in running as a Democrat candidate for President was discussed. It might be added that there is evidence of Obama's foreign birth in Kenya introduced in the case of Barnett et al. vs. Obama. Depending on the outcome of this case, Obama may not only be ineligible to serve as President, but may be subject to deportation back to Kenya if it is found that he was actually born there. There is also some question as to whether Obama had prior knowledge of his foreign birth, if indeed that was the case, before running for President.

The Fourteenth Amendment's definition of U.S. citizenship to cover all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, cannot reasonably be construed to broaden the citizenship requirements for federal public office enunciated in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. Moreover, any subsequent Congressional statute can have no bearing on the classification as a "natural born citizen" of Article II, Section 1, insofar as the legislative branch has no authority pursuant to the Tenth Amendment to redefine this terminology or to expand the class of persons eligible to serve as President or Vice-President.

In American history, Chester Arthur was never qualified to serve as Vice-President under Garfield, nor as President after Garfield's death in 1881. Timely objections were raised based upon his father being born in Ireland and not having been naturalized at the time of Chester's birth in 1829.

Barry Goldwater was not eligible to serve as President when he ran in 1964, because at the time of his birth in 1909, the Arizona Territory was not a state within the Union.

John McCain was not eligible when he ran for President in 2008 because he is a Panamanian citizen born in Panama in 1936. Furthermore, he is not qualified to serve in the United States Senate.

None of this has anything to do with fairness. It is about limited, constitutional government. Even if Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 as he contends, this only makes him an ordinary citizen pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment. He is still ineligible to serve as President by virtue of his not being a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution at the time of its ratification in 1787.
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Dèjá Vu All Over Again?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:22:23 PM
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As the Jackson saga continues to unfold, it is beginning to look like maybe the doctor and the nurse cooked up the idea of providing children so as to be able, in addition to bilking him out of money for needless and destructive plastic surgery, to then fraudulently assert after his death that the nurse was in fact the biological mother and that DNA tests will prove this to be the case. It will then come down to a question à la Anna Nicole Smith of whether the biological parent is entitled to custody, giving access to some control over the sizable inheritance as happened with Larry Birkhead. Can we expect many of the same cast of characters including lawyers Stacy Phillips and Debra Opri in this ongoing soap opera drama?

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