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I find it very interesting that when Barack Obama spoke at the Jesuit run Georgetown University his staff went to great trouble covering up the symbols of Christianity in Gaston Hall where he spoke and they were especially insistent about covering the symbolic representation of the name of Christ that otherwise would have appeared on the wall behind him approximately eight to ten feet over his head. Georgetown University was, after all founded by the Jesuit order which is also known as The Society of Jesus and the symbolic IHS has represented the name of Jesus and is considered sort of a trademark of the Jesuit Order for centuries. Without regard for anything other than appearances the symbol was covered with a piece of plywood painted black during Obama’s speech. This is not the only time that Obama’s staff members have appeared to be somewhat phobic about the symbols of the Christian religion but we can only assume that their actions are not personally motivated by their own feelings, but like all good staffers, they intuit the mood of their boss and are carefully attuned to his likes and dislikes and the general assumption is that Barack Obama has little toleration for Christianity these days. Admittedly he went to a Christian church off and on for years but it was more a forum for the festering animosity felt towards white people than a legitimate church. All things considered that “church” and the “churches” frequented by skinheads and members of the KKK have much in common despite their rabid, bug-eyed, ignorant hatred of each other. Regardless, Barack Obama has claimed, in the past to be a “Christian,” whatever that might mean these days, but he has resolutely disengaged himself, his family and the American government from all things “Christian” in appearance for the sake of his interpretation of the separation of church and state.

However, it appears that Barack Obama’s personal interpretation of the separation of church and state is somewhat selective in application because it does not appear to affect his perspective on the religion of Islam. He has frequently opened his speeches to the people of the Muslim Middle Eastern nations with praises to Allah and his attempts to mitigate the “misunderstandings” between Mohamed’s fundamentalist fanatics and the Western nations are steeped in Muslim rhetoric and references to the Quran. Whether or not this implies some inconsistency in Mr. Obama’s policies towards religious matters or not is difficult to say. I don’t want to unfairly pick on the poor guy. His performance has gone from optimistic to wacky chaos to socialistic to unreasonable to just about every extreme that exists, and for me to come along chucking religious confusion on top of the pile of previously demonstrated inconsistencies seems a bit unfair and finicky, but then again, I’m just voicing my opinion and it isn’t as if he reads every critical comment I write.

Having grown up in a predominantly “Christian” society I suppose my view could be somewhat biased despite my lack of both faith and belief in a kind and compassionate Christian God. Understandably, the beliefs of the Christian church remain strong in American society and the religious beliefs, teachings, and superstitious nonsense of the ignorant masses associated with the fringe of Christianity’s more acceptable divisions are imprinted on those who are subjected to them at an impressionable age. In some cases this imprinting is indelible and has long lasting implications throughout the existence of the the individual subjected to it. In other cases these teachings are rejected out of hand despite the extreme youth of the child and their tendency towards being impressionable. The bullshit detectors of children are, more often than not, fairly accurate and operational at far earlier ages than modern science allows.

I will not be distracted into offering proof of that statement, therefore, the reader is free to accept or reject it as they will, and little, if any sweat will accumulate on my hairy backside in consequence. I will state, however, that I remember, as a very young child forced to regularly endure the imbecilic tortures of Presbyterian Sunday School, I consciously rejected them as being utterly absurd at the approximate age of six. My views on whatever transpired prior to that singular point in time where rejection occurred remains hidden, if it even exists, in the farthest uncharted regions of my subconscious. Advanced Senility may bring it out and I may spend my advanced years frustrating caretakers with never ending repetitions of “B -I -B – L – E, Yes that’s the book for me” and “Jesus loves me yes I know, cause the Bible tells me so.” See! That’s exactly what I am speaking of. Rejected yes; forgotten no. Those things are added to the accumulation of junk we call ourselves, and like it or not, they become incorporated into the personality of each of us. Furthermore, whether or not it is politically correct to mention it or not, the United States of America was founded on thick layer of Christian principles by a group of men who were predominantly Christians, practicing or not, and the essential aspects of Christian morality is glaringly evident in the words they spoke, the documents they left behind and the legislation they passed in the formative years of this nation. Christianity is so embedded in American law and thought that any attempt to eradicate it entirely would result in great division and conflict. The religion has changed as have the people who practice it. Overall, Christianity is far less judgmental and narrow-minded than it once was; the churches perspective of good and evil have become so diluted over the years that it is difficult to tell one from the other, but the rigidity of stubborn dogma has survived among many and theological tradition is still the fuel of staunch religious conservatives who are more than eager to fight, tooth and nail, for their continued existence.

Despite my personal belief that Barack Obama is neither Muslim nor Christian, I have nothing to support that assumption beyond his own actions and words. He appears willing and eager to step on Christian morality, theology and tradition, but he pussyfoots around Muslim theology like he is afraid of offending the Islamic sensibilities. I suppose some of that can be excused by the volatility of 1.5 billion, mostly ignorant and highly emotional Muslims who are characteristically well known for their propensity to violent outbursts and childish tantrums. Christians rarely riot these days. Given the extreme dilution of their current beliefs they may well be the most tolerant people on the planet because they’ve lost the ability to tell dark from light and good from bad. They have the capacity to forgive the most depraved acts with unwarranted justifications and a perverse sense of understanding. On the food chain of religion, Christianity has lost its teeth, its claws fell out and its glossy lush fur is now tattered and mangy. Jesus might be still tenaciously hanging on but all by all indications he may soon be living in the attic storage room alongside Zeus, Pan and Osiris. Mohamed’s teeth have been honed to sharpened spikes and the Islam of today thrives largely on the ignorance of the poor and impoverished. Nearly 1400 years after the final prophet of a vengeful god became food for the worms, his followers are pushing their twisted interpretations of his words back to the top of the blood drenched heap where all great religions attain dominance. If he were alive today he, like Jesus would be living in anguish as his tear filled eyes took in the mutant form of the child he once fostered, but to the everlasting gratitude of today’s Muslim manipulators, Mohamed is dead and cannot contest the blood thirsty, death dealing beast that has been brought to life by devious and demonic men he would have harshly rejected out of hand fourteen hundred years ago. In the grand scheme of things, it matters little. Barack Obama is a cowardly despot, a quality shared by many American politicians. He has no personal integrity, no strength of purpose, no internal sense of direction, and no capacity to comprehend or differentiate between that which is good and that which is evil. He is only concerned with his ceaseless struggle for power, the capricious winds of fate blow him this way and that and what he supports today may be the very antithesis of what he supports tomorrow because he lacks all sense of conviction and he quakes in fear before the awesome responsibility of leadership, a simple word that he cannot begin to fathom.

Obama can easily insult the community of Christians because it is a popularly accepted practice among the academic elitists he favors. He can condemn America’s poor and ignorant for turning to their religion and their guns for solace in tough times because it is pleasing rhetoric to the ears of over-educated fools who are more than willing to pay $30,000 for the chance to share a plate full of rubbery chicken with a man of no real substance and great authority. It is easy to forget and to dismiss the hopes and dreams of the majority when you surround your over bloated un-meritorious self with well-blessed sycophants untarnished by hard labor, demolished dreams and a phobic desire to avoid the unwashed masses of middle-class, high school educated workers who pull on their cheap jeans before the break of dawn with callused hands and the knowledge that another day’s labor is near at hand. From the window of a chartered jet, all of mankind appears small and inconsequential; their problems are distant and weightless. It is safer and much easier to guess what those minuscule figures below by assessing the data accumulated by professional bean counters. But who’s to say that the bean counters don’t have their own agenda? When lost and without guidance will a broken compass serve as well as an accurate compass or would sheer arrogance prompt the fool to throw both aside as so much unnecessary weight and proceed without benefit of either assured in the knowledge that, as master of all they see, there is no cause for concern. Can any of us honestly believe that Barack Obama would embrace the far more ignorant and decidedly more unwashed masses of the Muslim world than he has their Christian counterparts? I have serious doubts that he would.

I am still trying to figure out why Obama came out in support of Manhattan’s Park Place mosque, not that it was the wrong thing to do, but for a man that will not stand in front of a symbol of the Christian God, purportedly because of the separation of church and state, announcing his support for this mosque during a White house celebration dinner for the beginning of the Muslim Ramadan seems a bit risky, if not outright hypocritical.

For Barack the magnificent, the one true god is power and authority. He will direct his minions to pick up ever scrap and pebble of it that his trained eye picks out, his back will not bend and he will not dirty his manicured hands when he has others to do the work for him. If he has any conviction it is that power leads to greater power as wealth leads to greater wealth, this is the essence of his being and the substance of all that he worships. The religion of power is amoral, it acknowledges no concept of good nor evil but encourages it’s followers to advantage themselves of whatever means are at hand to avail themselves of further gain. Manipulation, slant, spin and omission are the rituals of it’s worshiper’s attainment and elevation.

I have few doubts that Barack Obama will be a one term president, and if he continues as he has, that term may be far shorter than normal. History will not be kind to Barack the Magnificent, and if we manage to survive the remainder of his time in office then we may live long enough to repeat the mistake as we have so many times before.

During the most prolonged presidential campaign in American history Barack Obama consistently promised an honest and transparent administration, a government free of the influence of lobbyists, and an end to the partisan bickering and deadlock.

Across the nation the American news media gave Obama their whole-hearted support, handled his opposition with extreme prejudice, omitted facts about the candidates on both sides that, if published, could have altered the outcome of the election, and portrayed Barack Obama as the voters only reasonable choice to undo the work of George W. Bush after they had spent the previous eight years convincing the general populace was the spawn of Satan.

One and a half years after Obama first sat down in the oval office it is clearly evident that his campaign promises had less substance than any presidential candidate in the political history of the United States. His economic recovery plan has proven to be an abysmal and expensive failure. If anything his convoluted programs have made matters far worse than they were before. Home foreclosures are increasing at an alarming rate, the banks are refusing assistance to those who do not fit into narrowly defined categories, their interest rates have escalated and the manipulated unemployment rate is nothing more than a fantasy to hide the fact that more American citizens are unemployed than ever before. The jobs that have been created are all in newly created or expanding government departments and that simply means that out taxes will inevitably be increased to pay those wages.

Every important piece of legislation passed at Obama’s insistence, from the Economic Recovery Act to the infamous Obamacare, will rape the paychecks of the American workers like never before. By 2020, 50% of every dollar earned by American workers will be sucked up by the federal government to pay for the entitlement programs that Obama has created. In direct proportion to the financial hardship of these burdensome taxes, the productivity of American workers will fall like a stone. Effectively, Barack Obama has made us all slaves of the federal government and slaves have little reason to show initiative. Given the fact that Obama still has another two and a half years to go and his “to do” list is growing, 50% by 2012 may be a conservative estimate; it could be higher; much higher. We could end up with a little as 15 cents on the dollar for every hour worked.

Barack Obama swore that he would change the way this country was governed and he has certainly accomplished that. For the first time in the history of this free nation, the American people are getting a taste of what it feels like to live under a totalitarian regime. His legislative acts mandate obligatory individual compliance under threats of financial penalties and possible incarceration.

Agreements and deals are hammered out with special interest groups and multinational corporations behind closed doors and without regard for the opinions of the majority. Instead of choices and options we are handed orders and no logical explanations are offered. The rhetoric flows like water through a burst dam but it is all meaningless drivel and what we, the American people, see has little comparison to what we have been told.

All things considered, it appears that the federal government, a government that is now defined in every detail by a despotic president, is entirely oblivious to the common sense street logic shared by even the youngest of society’s disposable population; that is, even the smallest mouse, when cornered and sufficiently badgered, will come out fighting.

The fastest growing belief in the United States today is that the federal government has become the number one threat to American freedom and liberty. The average citizen of this nation, whether registered to vote as a Democrat or a Republican, has little, if any trust remaining for Washington’s political processes, and most of these individuals have come to the obvious conclusion that the political party they are, or were affiliated with has no intention of fixing the problems or relieving the burdens they are being forced to shoulder. In short, the American people are getting a good feel of what it is like to be the cornered mouse.

These are dangerous times, federal, state and local laws have done everything possible to limit the American people’s access to firearms and ammunition and the primary motivation for these restrictions has less to do with public safety than the entirely justifiable fear that is felt by the elected officials that have chased that mouse into the corner.

The anxiety is building like the rumble of an approaching earthquake; a tidal wave that will destroy all in its path. Revolutions are unpredictable events. Like highly unstable explosives, they often go off for no apparent reason. The arrival of a shipment of tea touched off the string of events that started the American Revolution,

The 1965 riots that shook Southern California and touched off riots in many other large metropolitan cities around the nation began with a simple traffic citation. The full force of numerous Southern California police departments and a well-armed compliment of the California National Guard were powerless to stop any of it, and in the end it petered out of its own accord.

Following the revolution in Great Britain; also known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Richard Price, a Protestant minister, stated with conviction, “ Tremble all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning all ye supporters of slavish governments. . . . Call no more reformation, innovation. You cannot hold the world in darkness. Struggle no longer against increasing light and liberality. Restore to mankind their rights; and consent to the correction of abuses, before they and you are destroyed together. “

The French Revolution which began in 1798 was the result of situations very similar to what we are seeing today in the United States. High unemployment, unsustainable national debt, ever increasing taxes, a complete lack of transparency in government, numerous failed reforms and the conspicuous consumption of France’s wealthy elitists who cared little for the common man forced to prop up their lifestyles.

The word “Revolution” stems from the Latin word “revolutio” which simply means “to turn around.” Essentially, with respect to governments, a revolution would be a fundamental change in the authority and/or the procedural and organizational structures. Characteristically, revolutions are not protracted events of extended duration; most are very brief and many happen literally overnight or in a brief span of days. Despite what many people believe, revolutions are actually quite common throughout history and they vary broadly with respect to methodology, length and motivation. There is a great deal, if not excessive, amount of debate among leading (and mundane) historians, sociologists, political scientists (an oxy-moron if there ever was one), and the essential factor that most, if not all of these over-educated scholars agree upon is that revolution, as a social phenomenon, is a highly complex matter. I would venture to say that the more educated the scholar, the more complex the matter becomes, and more factors (related and unrelated) are involved in that individual’s explanation. While I am certain that all of those studies have some degree of merit and credibility, and any serious student of history would undoubtedly benefit by studying what these individuals have to say, I can state with complete confidence and absolute certainty that the entire topic can be summed up very succinctly.

All forms of government eventually resort to totalitarianism if they did not start there to begin with. Totalitarianism results in ever-expanding oppression. When the oppression becomes so burdensome that existence becomes problematic, the proverbial mouse is in the corner with no means of escape except through the oppressor.

All forms of government ultimately, but in very slow incremental steps, evolve into tyrannies. Initially the people governed welcome the changes that lead to tyranny because they are fearful of real or imagined catastrophes. These fears are encouraged and often initiated by the government and its politicians as a means of gaining political power over the governed. All changes in government result in the growth of that government and all growth in government is paid for by the governed in the form of taxes paid under the coercive threat of punishment including, but not limited to financial attachments, fines and/or imprisonment. In direct proportion to the size and continued growth of the government the natural rights of the governed are slowly reduced thereby transferring the authority of the capricious and untrustworthy individual to the wise and benevolent government.

In case I confused you with the term “natural rights,” I am speaking of the rights that all animals on the planet Earth are endowed with at birth, such as the right to associate with, or not associate with those of your choosing, the right to attain the highest degree of satisfaction possible considering your personal abilities and limitations, the right to come and go as you please, when you please, the right to make all the racket you are capable of making as well as the right to make no racket at all if that is to your liking, the right to live freely in the world and universe as you have the capacity to comprehend it, and the right to defend yourself and the territory you claim against all predators, invaders and thieves. These “natural rights” were, with respect to American citizens, once considered “inalienable.” “Inalienable,” as it was used in the “Bill Of Rights” means something that cannot be taken away or altered by the government.

Eventually, the government grows to a point where it can no longer be sustained by mere taxation of the governed. At this point the government begins to borrow money from other governments under a variety of arrangements. The idea here is that the governed will ultimately be forced to pay the bill with additional taxes. Because the government does not stop growing, it continues to borrow money and the debt grows larger forcing the government to use the tax revenue it takes in to make the payments. When the tax money is used to make those payments there is no money left to do the things that the taxes were imposed for originally, and inevitably, since many things must be done regardless, even more money is borrowed and the debt begins to grow at a faster rate than the government. When the need to pay the debt outstrips the obligation to perform the duties of office the government begins to legislate all manner of bizarre laws and regulations in the hope that these laws will increase revenues, hide their predicament or reduce the overall debt by favoring the debt holder in some manner that is deemed financially beneficial. The majority of these seemingly bizarre laws adversely impact the people governed and they do so in ways that may not be readily apparent and by the time the consequences do become obvious it is too late to do anything about it.

We have long passed the point described in the last few paragraphs. Our government is bankrupt and its continued existence is contingent on its ability to borrow further money from foreign entities. If the borrowing stopped as of this minute, it would be hundreds of years before we would be free of debt, but it is not stopping now and it will not stop as long as we continue to elect irresponsible morons to positions of political importance. No amount of outstanding oratorical skill spilling from the mouth of Republican or Democrat is going to alter this fact of life. Our elected leaders have basically sold us all into slavery for the remainder of our lives, furthermore, the next six generations of Americans, your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and all the way out to their great grandchildren have been sold into slavery just to pay the debt that now exists. If this situation remains as it is today, by the time Barack Obama leaves office in 2012 there will be 12 to 16 future generations sold into slavery, and the president who inherits Obama’s legacy will have little choice but to continue down the same identical path. There is no practical or possible modification, alteration or reform measure that our current government can implement that will have even the slightest effect on the inevitable consequence of the outrageous actions of both current and past elected representatives in Washington D.C.; the government cannot solve the problem because they are the problem and they want to continue being the problem as long as they possibly can.

The mouse cannot get out of the corner by switching oppressors. It cannot resolve it’s predicament by voting for new forms of oppressive torment. It has but one path of escape and eventually it will overcome its natural timidity and summon the courage necessary to do what it must.

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In accordance with the “Author’s Right” as stated on the front, or index page of this web site, I am reversing some of the statements expressed on August 16, 2010 in the posting entitled “The Ground Zero Mosque.”

Yes I have read the Quran and I have studied some aspects of the Islamic religion from the perspective of a Westerner, but realistically speaking, I know less about Islam than Neurosurgery, and I am not qualified to characterize all Muslims as ill-bred extremists capable of horrific violence. While it may be true of some Muslims, it is equally true of many Christians, however, it is not the norm for either and my comments with respect to Muslims was biased, inaccurate and ignorant. I expect better of myself than this, and while I will leave the posting in place as a testament to my ability to make ignorant mistakes, I hereby reject 99% of the contents therein.

The building that would be constructed on Park Place is just over two blocks from the north side of the site where the World Trade Center once stood. The former Burlington Coat Factory store that currently sits on the site of the proposed building is already used as a place of worship for Muslims in the area, and it has been used in this manner for some period of time.

The Masjid al-Farah, located at 245 West Broadway, is approximately 11 blocks from the edge of the World Trade Center site, and Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam of the al-Farah mosque will become the imam of the Park Place site. There is another Mosque located 5 blocks from the northeast corner of the World Trade Center site, and a relatively healthy walker could easily walk to approximately fifteen different Muslim Mosques in an hour or less beginning at the site of the World Trade Center. According to Google maps there are over 200 mosques in the area surrounding Manhattan and one more will make little difference.

The contested establishment proposed for Park Place will have facilities for Muslim worship but even more importantly it is being planned as a community center that will be open to all people regardless of their religious affiliation.

Feisal Abdul Rauf is neither Sunni nor Shi’a, he is in fact a Sufi Imam. Shi’a is the dominant Muslim faction of Iran. It is somewhat more moderate in tone than the larger Sunni branch of Islam which dominates Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and many other Middle Eastern nations. The majority of extreme fundamentalist Muslims belong to the Sunni branch, however, the Sunni has it’s own share as demonstrated by the unreasonable bloodthirstiness of some Iranian Muslims. The Sufi’s have suffered the persecutions of both the Sunni and the Shi’a branches and for the most part, the theologians of the Sunni and Shi’a branches consider Sufism as being outside the sphere of Islam.

The Sufi philosophy is characteristically universal. The followers of the Sufi way explore the inner, mystical dimension of Islam and whereas the Sunni’s and the Shi’a branches both demand strict adherence to Islamic law and the five pillars, the Sufi’s struggle for insight and their study of mysticism have placed them beyond the need for the Sunni and Shi’a branches fixation on the rituals and practices that have put them so far beyond the grasp of Western understanding by justifying horrific violence perpetrated against the innocent and uninvolved. Unlike the Sunni and Shi’a branches which have become politically fixated on world domination, the Sufi’s are content to live in peaceful harmony with all and strive to achieve a deeper understanding of all things. With this, I have no problem. We could all benefit from a deeper understanding of our role in the universe and any individual or group engaged in that work, whether Muslim, Christian or three-toed scaly demon has my full endorsement, regardless of where they are, what they build or who got blown up in the past by an unrelated group of fruitcakes. Besides that, given the large number of people killed when the Twin Towers collapsed into rubble I would venture to say that some of the people in those buildings were Muslims, and more than likely, some of the rescuer’s who were killed as well were probably Muslims.

I was wrong because I assumed the facts I had heard were all that existed and I did not look further into the matter. It was an ignorant error and I offer no excuses. My struggle for truth goes on.

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I have stood where the shadow of the once great twin towers soared above New York City and I have looked into the devastating pit where those lofty spires collapsed into ruin crushing thousands of innocent victims to death in the name of a venomous god worshiped by intolerant and ignorant savages. My understanding of humanity is deep, I have seen the best and the worst, saints and sinners, the blessed and the completely depraved and I have understood all of them; those who inspired and those whose exceeding repugnance attacked my soul like waves of nausea. But standing there looking into that hellish pit where so many died I could find no understanding, the screams of the innocent dead echoing up from that hole overcame the silent voice of compassion that speaks in my heart and I could but stand there in silence until I slowly walked away. I do not live in New York City so my opinion regarding what ultimately replaces that vent to hell is of little consequence, however, I believe it would be a heart wrenching insult to those killed as well as to the families of those killed to stand anywhere close to the site of that devastation and hear the singsong chant of the muezzin echoing off the sides of Manhattan’s buildings as the faithful Muslims are called to prayer five times a day. Furthermore, it is my opinion that if the Muslims who have purchased the property two blocks from where the Twin Towers once stood had the slightest bit of compassion for their fellow humans, they would understand the emotional pain that this situation would create, and instead of forcing that pain and suffering on the families of the innocent victims by political and legal means, they would exercise their discretion and build their mosque somewhere else.

I am not arguing that the Muslims have no right to build a mosque near the site of the senseless murders that took place on September 11, 2001. Clearly, they have purchased the property and they can do with it as they please. The city has authorized the construction despite the outrage of the local citizens and even Barack Obama has stated his support for the Manhattan mosque. Is the fulfillment of the legal requirements according to the laws of man the only consideration that these Muslims must consider? I have no problem with anyone practicing their religion or joining together to build a place of worship whether it be a church, a synagogue, a cathedral or a mosque. Religious teachings instill morality in the community of the faithful and allow the believers a place to gather together in their shared faith and worship of something greater than themselves and I can find nothing wrong with this. However, the construction of a mosque in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from ground zero, is going to create a great deal of animosity and hatred. It will not bring the community together, it will be a cause for division and it will bring emotional trauma to many with the painful memories it creates and the insult it will represent to those who suffered and died as well as to the families of the victims.

I have read the Quran but I have never seen the inside of a mosque. In all honesty, I know little of the Muslim faith or their teachings. They claim to be a religion of great compassion but their failure to exercise that compassion in Lower Manhattan makes me wonder about the validity of that claim, and I am sure that it will make others wonder as well. If anything they should view the situation as an opportunity to demonstrate their infinite compassion by selecting another site to build their mosque. It would be a great public relations move and they could run with it for all they’re worth impressing the American people with the depth of their compassion. Maybe they could even teach the American people how to be more compassionate. I know that I am not all that compassionate towards Muslims & personally I would like to see that hole filled with their ashes, all 1.57 billion of them. After all, it is a big hole and I’m sure they would all fit if properly packed.

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Months ago the administration of Barack Hussein Obama solicited innovative ways to implement amnesty for this nation’s estimated 20 to 40 million illegal aliens in the event that the United States Congress failed to pass amnesty legislation. The strategy he received in response from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services explains that Barack Obama can exercise his discretionary powers as president to issue new guidance memorandums and redefining portions of existing immigration regulations currently in effect; according to the memo sent to Obama’s administrative staff by USCIS this strategy would allow the American immigration authorities the ability to legitimize the presence of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of illegal aliens. Furthermore, as the memo continues, additional recommendations for executive action could essentially gut most of the United States immigration laws simply by re-defining specific legal terms, and the deportation of illegal aliens could become more costly and drawn out than the implementation of a death sentence.

The fact that this would be an unconstitutional usurpation of congressional authority does not seem to be an obstacle to Barack Obama, and even if it were overturned later, the millions of illegal aliens granted permanent resident status as a result of his action would remain permanent residents. In simple terms, once the damage is done, it cannot be undone; it can only be stopped from that future point forward.

An overwhelming majority of American citizens have repeatedly voiced their opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens and those American citizens have stopped the United States Congress from passing amnesty legislation twice already, and if given the opportunity, they would step in and stop it again. Barack Obama has irrefutably proven that he does not care what the American people want. He has conspired to find ways to overcome the checks and balances inherent in our nation’s form of government and force amnesty down the throats of the American people against their will. This goes far beyond simple bad policy decisions by an individual who was considered by many to be unqualified for the office of President; this is the willful act of a tyrant.

The Strategy To Force Amnesty

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SB1070 provisions blocked:

The provision that required local and state law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of those individuals that law enforcement officers had a “reasonable suspicion” were illegal aliens;

The provision that required state officials to check the immigration status of anyone in custody in Arizona before they were released from jail;

The provision that made it a state crime for any foreign resident of Arizona to fail to carry federally-issued immigration documents at all times;

The provision that made it a state crime for any for any illegal alien in Arizona to solicit, apply for, or perform work.

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With respect to the first two items blocked Judge Bolton stated that the increased number of immigration status checks emanating from Arizona as a result of the implementation of those two sections would overwhelm the federal immigration officials who are pursuing different priorities. Roughly translated this means that Arizona’s attempt to enforce already existing federal immigration laws could end up being so effective that the federal immigration officials might actually have to do the job they were hired to do. At the present time the officials in charge of enforcing the existing immigration laws have been directed to selectively enforcing a few immigration laws against illegal aliens who are also violent felons. This is somewhat paradoxical to many because the government ignores the presence of these illegal trespassers until they murder, rape or beat someone half to death and then, if the immigration authorities discover they are illegal aliens they can deport them. The fact that every illegal alien breaks the law by entering the country without authorization, breaks the law by soliciting employment in violation of federal law, fails to register their presence as required by federal law, falsifies documents in order to secure employment and irrefutably poses a great burden on the American economy leaves some measure of doubt regarding their intentions. The willful violation of 20 or 30 federal laws is not a sufficiently clear demonstration of the illegal aliens total lack of respect for American law to warrant the attention of the immigration department. Illegal aliens are released from American prisons and jails every day after committing violent crimes and they are frequently released onto American streets because the immigration authorities are too busy doing something else to be bothered with them. Even when they are deported they simply turn around and come back. Violent predatory illegal aliens are picked up after committing additional crimes in the United States every day. The Obama administration has said its priority is to focus on those illegal aliens who engage in crime or are otherwise dangerous; however, while that may be the stated position of the Obama administration, it is far from accurate. The job of the president is to ensure that all federal laws are enforced equitably, not selectively.

Aside from the general lack of logic demonstrated by Judge Bolton in her decision to block the Arizona state officials from checking the immigration status of anyone they have in custody, her ruling is patently illegal in that it puts the Arizona law enforcement personnel in a position of having to violate the federal statute under Title 8 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter II > Part IX > § 1373 which states “Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” Furthermore this provision requires “The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall respond to an inquiry by a Federal, State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information.”

The third provision of SB1070 that Judge Bolton decided to block; the provision that made it a state crime for any foreign resident of Arizona to fail to carry federally-issued immigration documents at all times, is a federal law (8 U.S.C. § 1304 subsection(e)), which reads as follows:

“Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.”

Bolton’s decision to block the provision making it a state crime for any for any illegal alien in Arizona to solicit, apply for, or perform work will have little or no effect on the state of Arizona. Some years ago the state passed a law requiring all employers to use E-Verify to ascertain the immigration status of prospective employees. That law established stiff penalties for businesses that failed to comply. Inasmuch as that law is separate from SB1070, and has been in effect for quite a while, its provisions are beyond Bolton’s extensive reach. Additionally, she could not touch the SB1070 provision prohibiting the adoption of sanctuary policies anywhere in the state because there is no federal law in this regard and the provision that allows Arizona residents to sue local leaders for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, prohibit the transport of illegal aliens, and restrict solicitation of illegal alien day laborers will go into effect along with the remaining provisions of SB1070.

Ironically, any Arizona communities that participate in the federal government’s 287(g) and Secure Communities programs can still do so despite Judge Bolton’s decision. The number one, most enthusiastic participant in the federal government’s 287(g) program is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio whose industrious police department was responsible for the deportations or forced departure of 26,146 immigrants since 2007. With all the celebrating illegal aliens in town he may double that number before the end of the week.

While the opponents of SB1070 may be celebrating what they dimly view as a victory, Judge Bolton’s decision will certainly increase the animosity for illegal aliens in the state of Arizona and things could get very ugly in the days to come as the residents realize that they have been sucker-punched by a presidential administration that is going all out to curry political favor with the criminal element that plagues their state.

On a national basis, this decision is one more indication that Barack Obama’s ultimate goal is to destroy the United States by devastating the American economy and dividing the people into warring factions.

The decision reached is available below as a PDF file

Judge Bolton’s Decision

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Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General, has filed suit against the State of Arizona to stop the implementation of immigration enforcement measures approved by more than 75% of the state’s population because the Obama Administration purportedly believes that the law might lead to an increase in “Racial Profiling” toward Hispanics. This simple-minded justification is, in fact, a lie, Obama desires unfettered control to implement his agenda and he is not the least bit concerned with racial profiling of Hispanics or anyone else. Despite the fact that the new law specifically, and very strongly, prohibits law enforcement personnel from stopping people on the basis of race alone, Barack Obama, following a private meeting with members of the Latino advocacy groups who financially supported his election. Barack Obama directed Eric Holder to file the suit. It can be considered compensation for favors granted; it can be considered payback for the Latino advocacy groups who worked hard to register the illegal alien voters who helped to put Obama in office, it can be considered many things, but it cannot be considered “Justice” by any stretch of the imagination. Neither the President of the United States nor the elected representatives sitting in the United States Congress are the least bit concerned with the fact that the vast majority of American people support Arizona’s attempt to defend their state against illegal aliens. They do not care that the American people have repeatedly spoken out against amnesty for illegal aliens, and they do not care to listen to the voices of any who are critical of the destiny they have chosen for the American people. The American people will comply with the demands of their government masters or they will suffer the consequences of their non-compliance.

Essentially, Eric Holder’s case against Arizona consists of the simple fact that the state of Arizona is reaffirming the federal government’s immigration law, and that Arizona’s re-affirmation of federal immigration law usurps the federal government’s exclusive authority over all matters related to immigration.

The hostile action initiated against the state of Arizona by Eric Holder at the demand of Barack Obama should be of great concern to all American citizens, especially the majority of American citizens who support Arizona’s right to defend their state against foreign and illegal invaders because the federal government’s lawsuit essentially claims that you, as an American citizen, support and approve of the hostile actions being taken against Arizona. This lawsuit is not about the constitutionality of Arizona’s law; it is about the Democratic Party’s agenda to maintain their control over the American people at any cost.

The 25 page complaint, which can be downloaded on the Internet for anyone interested in reading it, is entitled “The United States of America v. The State of Arizona” (Case 2:10-cv-01413-NVW Filed 07/06/10) and the basic premise of the case, as stated in the introduction is as follows:

“1. In this action, the United States seeks to declare invalid and preliminarily and permanently enjoin the enforcement of S.B. 1070, as amended and enacted by the State of Arizona, because S.B. 1070 is preempted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.”

“2. In our constitutional system, the federal government has preeminent authority to regulate immigration matters. This authority derives from the United States Constitution and numerous acts of Congress. The nation’s immigration laws reflect a careful and considered balance of national law enforcement, foreign relations, and humanitarian interests. Congress has assigned to the United States Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Department of State, along with other federal agencies, the task of enforcing and administering these immigration-related laws. In administering these laws, the federal agencies balance the complex – and often competing – objectives that animate federal immigration law and policy. Although states may exercise their police power in a manner that has an incidental or indirect effect on aliens, a state may not establish its own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with the federal immigration laws. The Constitution and the federal immigration laws do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country.”

For those that are less attuned to the translation of precise legal terminology as it is used in the state and federal courts across the United States of America, the two paragraphs introducing the federal government’s case against the state of Arizona essentially put forth the claim that the people of Arizona, as expressed by a majority of the state’s legal voting citizens, their desire to implement a new state law that would protect them from the economic damage and predatory criminal acts of the illegal aliens flooding into their state from Mexico by the millions; however, the federal government, at the direction of Barack Hussein Obama, has determined that the American citizens living in the state of Arizona, do not have the right to defend themselves against the criminal illegal aliens, despite the economic ruin those illegal aliens cause, and regardless of the murders, kidnappings, rapes, child molestations, assaults, robberies and other violent and non-violent crimes those illegal aliens commit against the law abiding citizens of Arizona. Furthermore, the Arizona citizen’s attempt to defend themselves against the havoc caused by illegal aliens, a state of chaos that is becoming so commonplace in the rest of the nation violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution and that SB 1070 is therefore preempted by federal law.

The Supremacy Clause is found in Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Supremacy Clause only comes into play when the federal Government has acted in a given field, however, in reaching this determination the court stipulated that a violation of the supremacy clause only occurs when one of the two following conditions is met. (Edgar v. Mite Corporation, 457 U.S. 624 (1982))

1. Compliance with both the Federal and State laws is impossible, or

2. The state law stands acts as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress

With respect to the 1st condition as stated above, it would be extremely difficult to establish that the implementation of SB 1070′s legal provisions made it impossible or even slightly difficult for federal immigration authorities to enforce the currently existing federal immigration laws because the legal provisions implemented as a result of SB 1070 serve to reinforce the currently existing federal immigration laws by making a violation of those currently existing federal laws a violation of the Arizona state laws as well.

Under Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, “Improper Entry by Alien,” any citizen of any country other than the United States who enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers; or eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers; or attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact; has committed a federal crime.

The federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A) and Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii) provide that the federal government considers it a felony crime to transport, shelter, assist or encourage an illegal alien seeking employment in the United States and that illegal aliens and employers of illegal aliens are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. Furthermore, these same federal laws contain provisions stating that it is a felony for a person to intentionally engage in the smuggling of illegal aliens into the U.S. for profit or commercial purpose when the person doing so knows or has reason to know that the person or persons being transported are not United States citizens, permanent resident aliens or individuals who have the prior legal authorization of the federal government to enter this country.

SB 1070 does not contain any provisions that are contrary to the Federal Immigration and Nationality Act, to INA 274A(a)(1)(A), or to Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii).   SB 1070 requires that all Arizona State, County, City and Town law enforcement personnel fully cooperate with the federal government’s enforcement of this nation’s immigration laws, furthermore, it provides that no official or agency of the State, County, City, Town or other political subdivision may adopt any policy that restricts or limits the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law. This provision of SB 1070 is identical to section 834b of the California Penal Code, which states, “Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.”

With respect to the 2nd condition; the complaint filed states, “The Constitution affords the federal government the power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” This is a fact that I will not dispute inasmuch as Article I of the U.S. Constitution specifically states ” “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Furthermore, § 8, cl. 4 of Article I states that among the many powers of the U.S. Congress is the authority, “To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” In order to meet this condition the federal government will have to demonstrate how the Arizona law acts as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress, and to do that the attorneys for the federal government will have to explain how reinforcing the currently existing federal immigration laws acts as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress. In simpler terms they will be forced to explain the federal government’s agenda behind not enforcing the current immigration laws and demonstrate how their failure to enforce the current immigration laws is consistent with the constitutional foundation stated in the preamble to that document.

“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”

Personally, I believe that the federal government is going to have a tough time creating any credible argument in this regard. The United States General Accounting Office and other agencies of the federal government have released numerous reports to the United States Congress establishing beyond reasonable doubt that illegal aliens have had a disproportionate impact on the cost of American health care; that the increase in identity theft is directly proportionate to the increase in illegal aliens, that a disproportionate percentage of illegal aliens repeatedly commit violent sex crimes against women and children and that the majority of fraudulent claims for welfare benefits, social security and other federal and state subsidized entitlement programs are made by illegal aliens. Furthermore, the federal government will be forced to explain how anywhere between 10 and 40 million illegal alien criminals (85% of whom are from Mexico) does not constitute an invasion under the terms of ARTICLE IV § 4, and why neither the legislative nor the executive branch of the federal government has fulfilled their sworn obligation to uphold the law of the land and repel these foreign invaders.

It is hard to imagine how the federal government can pursue this case without making it entirely obvious that they have allowed up to 40 million foreign invaders, including many violent predators and child molesters to enter this country illegally for the benefit of the Democratic Party alone; they have overlooked the economic hardship these criminal invaders have caused to the individual states; they have disregarded the multitude of American citizens murdered, raped and traumatized by illegal alien predators along with the well substantiated statistical fact that nearly 5,000 American citizens are killed by illegal aliens every year and they have done this simply because they want to remain in power regardless of the cost and human suffering we experience. Essentially, the Democratic administration and legislature currently controlling the decision making process in Washington D.C. are more than happy to put the lives of American citizens in a position of great danger on the off-chance that the fear that is thereby generated among the general populace will overwhelm the American people’s desire to reduce the growth of government interference in our daily lives. A population that lives in constant fear is a population that demands greater protection, and our government is all too happy to provide that protection if we comply with their demands. The current Democrat administration and the Democrat controlled legislature are well aware of the substantial evidence that Middle Eastern terrorists are entering the United States across our southern border with Mexico. Some of these terrorists have been captured by the Border Patrol and in other cases Border Patrol agents have found significant evidence discarded by those who have successfully entered the country and disappeared into the general population. Reports published as a result of congressional investigations indicate that Middle Eastern religious fanatics and jihadists have established cells in major metropolitan cities around the nation, however, there is no way to stop these crazed fanatics from crossing our southern border with Mexico without adversely affecting the steady influx of illegal aliens from Mexico, Central and South America; illegal aliens who the entire Democratic Party is absolutely assured will cast fraudulent ballots for Democratic politicians thereby ensuring the Democrats the ability to continue their reign of power. The continued control of the federal government is the number one priority of the Democratic Party and they are willing to sacrifice national security, American lives, and the peace and tranquility of the United States of America to achieve their goal.

If these statements leave you with your mouth gaping open in astonished disbelief you are free to check the facts for yourself by researching the federal government’s own published reports at the sites listed below:

The Federation of American Scientists Index of Congressional Research Service Publications

The U.S. Department of State Index of Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs

OpenCRS – Congressional Research Reports for the People

U.S. Government Accountability Office index of reports, audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs

Personally, I would be disappointed in the intelligence of anyone who would read the postings on this site and accepted my word without skepticism. I am not in the business of recruiting a naive flock of followers, my goal is to open your eyes by shining the light of truth on the strategies and techniques of the self-serving political toads in the Democratic and the Republican Party who are dedicated to further undermining the liberty, freedom and prosperity of the United States of America.   I represent nothing but the search for truth and I am not interested in the accumulation of followers. If you are looking for leadership you are in the wrong place, if you are looking for movement try Metamucil.

Whether or not the damage that has already been done can be reversed, I cannot say. We are headed into a dark future filled with tyranny and there may be no way to stop the transformation, especially in light of the fact that so few are aware of anything beyond the useless information, lies and propaganda they read in the papers or see on the nightly news. It may already be too late, the American people have lost their authority over the their form of government and we are not likely to reverse that loss.

Despite the fate of our failing Republic, it is not too late for individuals to learn and appreciate the concept of liberty and freedom that once brought this nation together and it is not to late to pass that appreciation on to future generations.

Liberty is the natural state of all mankind, it is not derived from government, each of us, as individuals enter this life with the desire to live free of governmental restraint, to work out our own fate and set our destiny as we will.   Tyrants and despots will rise and fall but the essential nature of man will never be extinguished.   Because Liberty is the natural state of all mankind, tyrants and despots will always be plagued by those who would  resist.  This is more than fact; it is a fundamental law of nature; it is as binding as gravity and the passing of seasons.  From the seed of liberty springs freedom’s hope.

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In celebration of Barack Hussein Obama’s monumental failure as the 44th and current President of the United States, I have been reviewing the history of past Democratic presidents searching for indications of competence, and I have come to the conclusion that the last Democratic President that lasted full term and had the slightest amount of credibility was probably Harry S. Truman. JFK might have made a good president if he had of avoided that trip to Texas. Lyndon Johnson illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King but nobody has ever figured out why, Jimmy Carter was, next to Obama, was probably the worse excuse for a president this country ever had and Bill Clinton was a skirt chasing clown, but Truman had the huevos to end the war with Japan in a completely horrific display of genocidal insanity, and most of all he kept a sign on his desk that said “The Buck Stops Here.” Simply stated, Truman was the last Democratic president to accept completely the responsibility for his actions and we haven’t seen another Democrat like that since then.

Barack Hussein Obama does not see himself as an abysmal failure, he sees everyone around him as being too stupid or cowardly to make the proper choices that are so evident to him. If everyone simply went along with his program things would be fine, or at least, that’s what he would have us believe. His criticism of the Bush administration’s response to hurricane Katrina was louder and more outrageous than most of his compatriots, but Obama’s response to the environmental disaster ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico makes G.W. Bush look positively brilliant by comparison. Obama’s solution to the oil spill so far has been to let the people who created it take care of the problem while the entire U.S. government sat on its butt doing less than nothing. Even when foreign countries offered to loan us the use of state of the art oil skimmers that would have helped considerably we said “no thank you,” BP’s taking care of the situation. Oil literally gushed into the gulf for 85 days before BP finally got a handle on the situation and whether or not they can maintain that handle is doubtful. The pressure measured on the well are around 6,700 pounds per square inch and slowly rising. It may blow again and create an even bigger mess than it already has.

In the meantime the fishing industry in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and most of the gulf side of Florida has been, and will remain, gutted for decades to come. Barack Obama’s received tons of money from British Petroleum in contributions and he paid them back by letting them write their own ticket in the Gulf, furthermore, he’s covered for them from day one when Deepwater Horizon first exploded. He may not be the only one to take BP’s money, but in the end, he is the guy in charge. The buck stops there.

The environmental damage wrecked by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has wreaked havoc on more than thirty endangered species, including many varieties of sea turtles, whales, the West Indian manatee, Cranes, Storks Pelicans and the American Bald Eagle. It has destroyed the breeding grounds for countless varieties of commercial and sport fish, shrimp, oysters, crabs, shellfish, the grouper, flounder, cobia, sharks, pompanos, and mackerels and sturgeons. It has destroyed the coastal wetlands and estuaries and crept into the freshwater habitats and saturated soils where thousands of animal and plants species once thrived in delicate balance. The hydrocarbon poisons will continue to encroach farther inland as time passes and the destruction may very well leave many endangered animals, fish, birds and vegetation entirely extinct.

This catastrophe was not caused by America’s thirst for oil and it was not caused by George Bush’s reckless environmental abandon. It was Barack Obama who took the money from BP and it was Barack Obama who derived the benefit of their largess. At his direction the responsible agencies stepped aside and allowed BP to have their way and now Barack Hussein Obama, the one man who sits at the top of the food chain in American politics wants us to believe that it is not his fault. “The Buck Stops Here.”

Obama tells us that the Republican Party is standing in the way of the extended unemployment benefits needed by millions of newly unemployed Americans but he neglects to mention that they are unemployed as a direct result of his economic policies and his failure to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. Furthermore, he neglects to mention that there are millions of American citizens who will not benefit from an unemployment benefit extension because they have been unemployed ever since he first took office and no longer qualify, in fact, those people are not even counted anymore because Obama does not want anyone to know how serious the situation has become until after he pays back the illegal alien advocacy groups and labor unions that put him in office. “The Buck Stops Here.”

Barack Hussein Obama does not want a sign on his desk saying “The Buck Stops Here,” because he does not want to accept the consequences for destroying the United States of America and the American way of life. He does not want his legacy to be that of the great destroyer; the man who brought America to its knees; the tyrant that slapped the chains of eternal servitude on every free American. He wants to be the emperor of a new age; the benevolent despot of a third world socialist America. He accepts no blame for the collateral damage he causes, the animals he drives to extinction, the American people he ruins, or the nation he destroys. To Barack Obama, we are the problem, we are his enemies and everything that is wrong about this nation is our fault. That is why he must force us to do as he deems necessary, because the buck does not stop with him, it never has and it never will because we are the enemy and he has made the U.S. Government our enemy. The nightmare that Barack Hussein Obama has become is the fundamental reason why the founding fathers of this Republic ensured the American people the right to bear arms.

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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Unlike Obama, Harry Reid aims to pay the labor unions up front for their support instead of dangling the carrot out there and jerking it away like Obama’s done with the labor sponsored “Employee Free Choice Act.” That’s not the way Harry works, besides that, Harry knows he’s got no credibility and if he can’t deliver first the union supporters just won’t be there for him at election time. The master of dubiously ethical practices has pulled a tactical maneuver that will allow him to plop the Police/Fire Monopoly-Bargaining Bill (S.3194/H.R.413) on the Senate floor with as little as 48 hours public notice, and he can do it with no prior Committee action beforehand. The House version of this “employee no choice” forced union legislation was authored by union-label Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) and it has been introduced misleadingly under the name “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act.” S.3194/H.R.413 would institute a federal mandate foisting union “exclusive representation” (monopoly bargaining) on state and local police, firefighters, and other public-safety employees nationwide, including those states with Right to Work laws. Ultimately, the passage of S.3194/H.R.413 can be challenged in court as unconstitutional because it steps beyond the authority of the federal legislature into areas constitutionally reserved for the states. The labor lobbyist’s bought and paid for union allies in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have agreed to attach the bill to the emergency war funding appropriation, thereby carefully arranging a situation where anyone who opposes the biggest organized labor’s power grab in decades can be accused of withholding necessary funds from the military at a time when they are sorely needed. This bill translates directly into higher taxes and less money in your pocket because it puts the American taxpayer on the hook for the Union’s organizing efforts and the increase in benefits and pension plans that will certainly follow. Small communities that depend on volunteer police and firefighters for their safety will be forced to eliminate them, hire full time public safety employees and negotiate contracts with the union bosses who will control their new public safety workers. Many states and large metropolitan areas are already struggling with budget shortfalls because of their union agreements with public safety unions. Their pension funds are characteristically underfunded and the burden falls squarely on the backs of the tax payers who are forced to make up the difference. Furthermore, unionized law enforcement officers and firefighters have been known to go out on strike to force their demands. With the increasingly restrictive gun-control laws going into effect all over the country who is there to protect you and your family against the well-armed crooks when the cops decide to go on strike? Deciding to join or not join a labor union is a question best left up to the individual, and those who do not wish to join a labor union should not be forced to pay dues that are then given to the Democratic Party. Article I of the U.S. Bill of Rights establishes the right of the people to peacefully assemble. We have the right to associate with those we want to associate with and by contrast we have the right to not associate with those we do not like. It is morally reprehensible to force millions of Americans to give money to labor unions when those labor unions turn around and give that money to the Democratic Party even when a great number of their members would not vote for the candidates the unions are supporting. Many Local unions give as much as 85% of everything they take in from their members to the Democratic campaigns and to the party and that is the sole reason why the Democrats are so insistent about helping big labor. The fight has nothing to do with equity for workers, fairness or the right to choose to be represented or not; it is a scam to take away the worker’s right to avoid being forced into a labor union they want no part of. This legislation is to benefit the Democratic Party at the expense of the American taxpayer by making it easier for the unions to force workers into membership whether they like it or not and there is nothing right about that. The Democratic Party is not the “people’s party”, it is the party that uses people. The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act has nothing to do with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan and certainly has nothering to do with national security. Harry Reid needs to have a few hundred copies of it shoved down his throat to gag him while he hopefully gets voted out of office.

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There is an ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is far from containment. It has already destroyed far too much and there is no end in sight. It has destroyed the income and financial security for thousands of people and wrecked environmental damage with an impact that will be evident forty years from now, if not longer. The government’s response to this crisis has been to put the company that caused this catastrophe in charge of correcting the damage, and to this point that company has failed and the United States government led by Barack Obama does nothing.

The U.S. economy is dead, the federal government is borrowing $5 billion per day just to keep up appearances and nobody in Barack Obama’s administration has even the slightest idea about how to fix the problem. Millions of American citizens are out of work, losing their homes and watching their families go hungry and Barack Obama thinks that this is a good time to pass an amnesty bill to legalize the millions of foreign invaders living here illegally, institute a new guest worker program to bring even more foreign workers here to replace American workers and increase the Dream Act so that more foreign students can get free educations that are denied to American children. At his direction the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Homeland Security, cut the funding for Border, Immigration and Trade Security. Immigration enforcement has been thrown out the window and the door has been kicked wide open for anyone who wants to come here.

Today the Obama administration filed their lawsuit against the one state in the union that had the audacity to attempt to enforce the sovereignty of the American border. The federal government’s position in this lawsuit is that Arizona’s law usurps the federal government’s constitutional “pre-eminent authority” to regulate immigration. I predict that the federal government has nothing to stand on and will lose this case. They will appeal that decision and lose again. The Arizona law will stand because there is nothing unconstitutional about enforcing the law.

Barack Obama seems to have forgotten that the only “pre-eminent authority” in the United States of America is vested in the people. The sovereignty of this nation is in the hands of the people and the government is our servant. The American people will suffer many errors in judgment and poorly thought out legislative acts without any word of discontent being uttered, but when our government ceases entirely to serve our needs and begins to serve the needs of others to our great and grievous detriment then we must sit up and take notice. Our rights are being destroyed; our property is being taken away from us and given to foreigners while our protests go unheard and unnoticed. Our children and grandchildren, for generations to come will live only at the mercy of the government that owns them. Freedom and liberty are being intentionally killed off by our federal government and many still sit dumbly doing nothing because it has not yet destroyed the accumulated trappings of their comfortable lives. Our children will curse our names if the legacy we bequeath to them is slavery to an immoral state.

Our nation is falling into disarray, our environment and some of the most scenic wonders of our nation are being destroyed and our economy is failing miserably while our congress and the president work tirelessly to dismantle our constitution and create a new form of government that we neither want nor support. The American people must stop this insanity. In the last year and a half Obama has spent more time on the golf course and his seven vacations than he has spent running the nation. Maybe we should be grateful he isn’t in the oval office more.

For now the system of checks and balances seems to be working. The Judiciary, while somewhat flaky at times, has done the right thing with recent landmark decisions protecting the individual’s right to own firearms and by extending the right to spend money on elections to corporations; a right that labor unions have used to put so many Democrats in office. Despite sound logic and constitutional basis for both of these decisions, Obama publicly criticized the Supreme Court justices under the spotlight of national television while the Senate Democrats roared their approval of his unwarranted criticism.

Republican attorneys from 20 states have already filed suit over the Obamacare mandate that will force everyone to buy health insurance. The basis for most of these lawsuits is that the U.S. Congress has far exceeded their constitutional power with the requirement and that they have ventured too far into the jurisdiction reserved by the U.S. Constitution for the states alone. If the court determines that Congress has overstepped their authority there is a good chance that the entire health care reform bill could end up in the trash can.

The congressional Democrats, with Obama’s prodding have embarked on an unprecedented socialist drive to heavily regulate stockholder owned corporations, banks, health insurers and the energy industry. Obama’s push for cap and trade legislation will be the crowning achievement of his effort to regulate every aspect of American life and business. Eventually these heavy-handed government efforts to control the everyday activities of every person and business in the country will result in suits being filed and inevitably the question of their constitutionality will be raised.

Obama is working hard to stack the federal courts with liberal judges and judicial activists who will do his bidding. If he manages to get his appointees through the confirmation hearings now underway the system of checks and balances will cease to exist, the constitution will become meaningless, our individual rights may become lost forever and the federal government of the United States will, most likely, become the enemy of the people. I speak without certainty on these matters because I am far from infallible and I have no ability to see that far into the future. However, I can speak with certainty when I say that the United States government was founded upon constitutional principles which included a series of checks and balances that our current administration is working tirelessly to overcome. That is not to the benefit of the American people for the simple reason that it puts the government in the position of sovereignty that belongs to the people alone. The sole purpose of the American Revolutionary War was to take the sovereignty away from the King of England and give it to the people of the new Republic we now call the United States of America. The power and authority of the King became the power and authority of the people. The formation of our government came after the revolution and it’s authority to govern was granted by the sovereign people of the new nation that had been formed. Any attempt to reverse that order is contrary to the best interests of the American people because it replaces their freedom and liberty with the tyranny of an all-powerful government capable of eliminating their rights and liberties as it see fit for its own benefit. The form of government that Barack Obama desires to form is a collective form of government where the good of all takes precedent over the rights of the individual. In a collective form of government there is no freedom, there are no property rights and there is no liberty. Equality is achieved by taking the property of some and redistributing it to those who have less as the government sees fit. Prosperity cannot exist in a system of collective government where all property becomes the property of the state to be taken and redistributed as the state see fit to do. The ability to prosper to the highest possible level of one’s own ability is what has made this nation the envy of all others. The ability to prosper by the sweat and labor of one’s own initiative has been the sole motivating factor that brought millions of immigrants to this land from their distant homes where their labor produced riches for others and all property belonged to their masters. The whole idea that an individual could keep what he or she earned and that the ownership of the property they acquired was guaranteed as an inalienable right guaranteed to all men was a revolutionary idea of such magnificent proportion that few could believe such a concept existed. It was the dream of all who yearned for the freedom of a tyrant’s shackles, it was the one founding concept that made this nation what it became over the 233 years preceding the rise of Barack Obama and it is the antithesis of all that he and his fellow conspirators now seek to destroy forever.

The American people need to know that history is full of examples showing us that freedom lost is never regained. Once the chains are locked into place around our wrists those chains will remain locked forever after. The constitution will become a meaningless piece of paper and our inalienable rights will be limited to only what the government deems essential. The right to speak freely will cease to exist, the right to own firearms to defend yourself and your family against criminals, and more specifically, against the government, will be taken from us, due process will become what the government defines it, property rights will be the domain of the government and we will be the servants of the tyrants our ancestors struggled to escape by coming here so many years ago, and our children and grandchildren will grow up as slaves never knowing that which we gave away through our own apathy and ignorance. This is the true nature of the “Change” that Barack Obama promised to us and now works to implement across our land. It must be resisted at all costs, and by any means necessary. Balance must be restored.

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Despite the Los Angeles officials political rhetoric about Arizona, the phony allegations of racial profiling, segregation, the arbitrary arrest and deportation of little brown people, and talk about Nazis, concentration camps and a new holocaust, the city officials are not about to shut off one of their primary sources of revenue by getting rid of the Arizona based American Traffic Solutions cameras, especially when the only other major supplier of traffic cameras and software is also located in Arizona.

Los Angeles has around four to five hundred traffic cameras on street corners to catch the minions of evil as they run red lights, make illegal turns, blast through stop signs and race under the descending railroad barriers. These cameras do not belong to the city of Los Angeles and neither does the software that makes them work, records the violator’s license number and notifies the police department where, and to whom they send the ticket. Every time one of those cameras clicks a photo, Los Angeles sucks another $446 out of somebody’s pocket. The cameras are installed, maintained and operated by American Traffic Solutions in Scottsdale, Arizona. Thirty-two ATS owned and operated traffic cameras mounted at Los Angeles intersections account for tens of thousands of $446 red light fines every year. Other than property taxes and the city’s cut on any bribes taken in, those traffic cameras are probably their best source of revenue.

US Airways, one of the nation’s largest carriers is based in Arizona provides hundreds of flights out of LAX to destinations all over the planet on a daily basis. Even more importantly, US Airways brings millions of tourists to Los Angeles every year. Tourists who spend millions of dollars on cheap souvenirs made in Chinese forced labor camps and sold in Los Angeles for more money than some third-world sweatshop workers make in a year. Tourism is an important source of revenue for the city because they forced most of the high-tech manufacturing facilities to move out of state. The corporation that owns American Traffic Solutions is based in Los Angeles but their manufacturing subsidiaries are in other states where the taxes and regulations are more business friendly.

Southern California and Los Angeles in particular has been the primary destination for domestic and foreign tourists for years but the trend has been flattening out for the last seven years. Most of the tourist attractions in Southern California are now outside of Los Angeles County and many tourists consider it well worth the added expense to fly into San Diego or Orange County directly than to wade through 436 square miles of drug crazed gang bangers blasting away at each other with automatic weapons. The fact that California’s draconian gun laws make it impossible to defend yourself against the area’s 4 million predatory illegal aliens who are armed better than most police officers may play a role in the dwindling tourist appeal. If someone is looking to get robbed, beaten, shot, stabbed, gang raped, or run over and left for dead in the street then Los Angeles is certainly the place to visit, furthermore, since Los Angeles has more pedophiles per square foot than any other major metropolitan area in the nation, it can be considered a child friendly destination for anyone averse to longevity.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power long-term contracts for wind and nuclear generated electricity with Arizona generating companies and they are not going to back out of them. Building a power plant of any sort in the state of California is a long convoluted and very expensive process that requires the potential owner of the plant to jump thousands of regulatory hurdles thrown into their path by a multitude of state agencies, environmental groups by the thousands and politically savvy labor unions seeking to blackmail the owners into labor agreements for the construction and operation of the plant if it eventually gets approved.

The city of Los Angeles has more than $52 million tied up in investments and contracts with Arizona companies, they have replaced the working citizens with illiterate, unskilled illegal aliens who pay little or no taxes while demanding subsidized health care, low income housing, and free income and the middle class workers who once provided the revenue to pay for all these idiotic programs are now unemployed, many have left the state and the city’s financial liquidity is rapidly dwindling.

Fortunately for the city officials, talk is cheap and they can yammer on forever about the perceived inequities of Arizona while they drown in the fetid stew of their own sanctuary policies that have emptied their wallets but ensured their continual re-election. As far as political strategies go, it may be abysmally idiotic, but it has proven to be highly contagious among Democrats who can’t get elected on the basis of qualities once held in high esteem, but long ago abandoned by public servants who serve only their own best interests.

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