The Politics of Fear: “Our Founding Fathers gave their all to give us this Constitution & our freedoms, & generations of Americans have given their best & brightest to do battle to defend them. We can do nothing less.” – Michael Connelly – Constitutional Lawyer

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by Michael Connelly – Constitutional Lawyer 

It seems that the scandals just keep on coming. First, Americans are abandoned to die in a terrorist attack in Benghazi and the American people are lied to about the attack by the President and members of his cabinet. All of the facts are still unknown and the cover up continues.

Then we learn that one of the most powerful and feared government agencies, the IRS, used its power to deny tax exempt status to hundreds of conservative and religious groups in order to protect the  Democrats and influence the outcome of  the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. The IRS also abused its power by using illegal and unconstitutional tactics to intimidate the organizations, their members, and contributors and to target other individuals and companies that it perceived as enemies of Obama. Again, many of the facts are still unknown, but this is clearly a violation of the First Amendment right of free speech.

Right on the heels of the IRS scandal came the revelations that the Justice Department was illegally obtaining the phone records of reporters to find out who they might be talking to when investigating the administration. When questioned about this by a Congressional Committee Eric Holder did what the members of this administration do best, he lied. Obama feigned indignation over the whole matter and then took “decisive” action by telling Eric Holder to investigate himself. So much for the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Of course that was just the beginning because the hits just keep on coming.  Americans are now learning that the National Security Agency (NSA) that has the task of protecting us from terrorists and other enemies is now spying on all of us simply because we are Americans. They are gathering our phone records, reading our emails, and gathering data about every aspect of our lives. All to be stored for future use.

While all of this was breaking, the VA has been depriving our military veterans of their Second and Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution, and the Pentagon has been threatening active duty members of the military with punishment for practicing their religion, (unless it is Islam of course),  or exercising their right to freedom of speech.

 Not to be outdone, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has turned over the names, addresses, and other private information of over 80,000 American farm families to radical environmental groups that want to put these farms out of business.

If you think closely about all of these so called scandals, they have one common denominator; all of these actions by our government are designed to make us afraid of it. They are meant to induce a climate of fear that has been the major strategy for every dictatorship in history. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin were masters at it and the people in Cuba, China, Iran and other countries still live in this climate.

The philosophy is simple, if people know they are being monitored and that everything they say or do is subject to government scrutiny and possible punishment for any transgressions they commit, they will alter their behavior to conform to the wishes of the dictatorship. In Obamaland that means that the news media will stop investigating his scandals because reporters and their sources are afraid of retaliation by the Justice Department.

People will stop speaking out against Obama, forming groups to influence elections, or contributing to conservative groups and candidates for fear of retaliation by the IRS. Veterans will stop seeking treatment from the VA because they don’t want to be declared incompetent and lose their rights to own a firearm. Americans will be afraid to say what they believe in emails or on the phone and even be fearful of calling their elected representatives.
Worst of all is that as a result of Benghazi members of the military and the diplomatic service will be aware that no one has got their back. They can be sacrificed at any time for the personal political aspirations of this President.

I have come to the conclusion that none of this is an accident. Unfortunately for America, Obama is neither stupid nor incompetent. He is an elitist and a narcissist who knows exactly what he is doing, and it is only going to get worse. We now have Obamacare and the same people in the IRS, DOJ, etc. who have attacked our basic freedoms will now control our access to medical care.

The climate of fear is becoming a reality in the United States of America just as it did in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The difference is that if we recognize it for what it is and Obama for what he is we are still in a position to resist. If that means taking to the streets in massive protests or even forming neighborhood groups to protect ourselves and our homes then so be it.

Our founding fathers gave their all to give us this Constitution and our freedoms, and generations of Americans have given their best and brightest to do battle to defend them. We can do nothing less.
Michael Connelly
Constitutional Lawyer
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Republicans Cancel the Constitution

THROUGH A “BACKROOM POLITICAL DEAL”

by Lawrence Sellin, ©2011

Editor's Note: Re-posted with permission of the Post & Email.

Will this document survive those who thirst for power, prestige and the status quo?

(Sep. 29, 2011) — Supporting and defending the Constitution and upholding the rule of law are no longer items on the Republican agenda.

According to Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the Constitution and the Supreme Court binding precedent in Minor vs. Happersett (1874), Barack Hussein Obama has never been eligible to be President of the United States.

To hide his ineligibility, Obama has produced a forged Certificate of Live Birth, uses a Social Security number not issued to him and condoned the distribution of a forged Selective Service registration.

Despite being fully aware of the overwhelming evidence corroborating Obama’s guilt, the Republican leadership has ordered its Congress members to ignore constituents’ requests for investigations.

The Republican strategy is to use the Big Stall to cover up the Big Lie.

Political expediency, complicity and fear are the drivers for Republican malfeasance.

Like Democrats, Congressional Republicans consider the Constitution an inconvenient obstacle to their exercise of power. They have long wanted a “flexible” and “living” Constitution, which can be reinterpreted according to their own whims or adjusted to whatever political winds might be blowing at the moment.

For years both Democrats and Republicans have attempted through Constitutional amendments to dilute Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the Constitution, which requires candidates for President and Vice President to be natural born citizens, that is, US citizens born to citizen parents at the time of birth.

Up until 2008, all such efforts failed.

For example, on July 10, 2003, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) proposed “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United States citizen for 20 years” (Senate Joint Resolution 15).

The measure was known as the Arnold Amendment because it would permit Austrian-born, naturalized citizen, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, then a rising Republican star, to become President.

A similar and ongoing example of political expediency at the expense of the Constitution is the promotion of Marco Rubio as the 2012 Republican Vice Presidential candidate. Unfortunately, like Obama and Schwarzenegger, Rubio is not eligible because he is not a natural born citizen; his parents were not US citizens at the time of his birth.

Having failed for years to amend the Constitution by legal means, the Democrats and Republicans grabbed the opportunity in 2008 to amend it through a backroom political deal.

The uncertainty about Senator John McCain’s eligibility for the Presidency was resolved in April 2008 by the bogus, non-binding Senate Resolution 511, co-sponsored by Obama, which declared McCain a natural born citizen.

The fact that Congress has no Constitutional authority to do such a thing was apparently completely irrelevant to that majestic body.

Having become complicit with the Democrats in violating the Constitution, the Republicans joined them in a deliberate campaign of disinformation and outright lies to hide their complicity, an effort which continues to this day.

It astonishes many Americans that, given the weight of evidence against Obama, none of the 535 members of Congress is willing to speak out.

Members of Congress are not leaders by any stretch of the imagination. They are frightened rabbits constantly sniffing the air for any scent of controversy that might endanger their comfortable lifestyles and lucrative pensions.

Once elected, the operative phrases are “don’t make waves” and “get along by going along.”

A “do nothing Congress” is, in fact, the status quo.

Serious issues are still decided behind closed doors by a small group of powerful and self-serving politicians owned by wealthy special interests.

The Republican leadership has already chosen the pursuit of power over upholding principles and political expediency over adhering to the Constitution.

If Obama is exposed before the 2012 election, it will not be the cowardly Republicans who do so, but the Democrats, who don’t want to go down with his sinking ship.

The country is facing the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War, yet the Republicans do nothing.

If Congressional Republicans are not willing to fulfill even the most basic of public responsibilities, that is, to respect their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, then what’s the point?

I see no reason to vote for any of them.

If the Republicans want to protect Obama and hide their complicity, while undermining the Constitution and the rule of law, then they can have him for a second term as their illegal President.

Sometimes it is better just to let a structure collapse and rebuild it, rather than try to maintain it on top of a rotten foundation.

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WHY DID U.S. ARMY SOLDIERS MARCH INTO SAMSON, AL LAST YEAR?

by The Jaghunter

Why is there so much circumstantial evidence that Obama was born in Kenya, but none that he was born in Hawaii or anywhere else in the U.S.?

(Sept. 5, 2010) — America is engulfed in a national peacetime emergency over the standing and stature of the U.S. Constitution. The outcome of the ongoing conflict–escalating in each passing moment–will either renew us as a Nation of Laws or make plain we’ve become instead a nation of lawyers, a nation oppressed by men.

As my close friend Tim Harrington observes, Obama is a constitutional lawyer in the sense that Obama studied how to burn the Constitution.

As you read these words Obama and his team are working frantically in these first days of power-consumption in efforts Obama describes as the “beginning of the end” of the U.S. Constitution.

We all heard Obama striking the match.

Mr. Obama wasn’t born a U.S citizen.

Federal government officials of every description know with certainty Mr. Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. These same officials prepare every day for the foreseeable firestorm combats that will pit supporters of the Constitution against Obama and his followers.

Many U.S. military commanders are no more obedient to the Constitution than Mr. Obama.

Army LtCol. Scott Weil considered himself unconstrained by that pesky Constitution when Weil deployed his rapid reaction force into the small community of Samson, Alabama on 10 March of this year in a drill designed to test, to measure and to observe many things.

Weil assigns watch standers to monitor emergency radio frequencies. On that fated Tuesday afternoon, a deranged 27-year old wildly ignited police radios as the maniac’s nightmare shooting spree began, developed, and escalated.

Weil was alerted and reacted instantly by calling local civilian police dispatch asking: “Can we help?”

In early moments of indescribable chaos, panic, and domestic turmoil–professional police officers pray they will never encounter–Army LtCol. Scott Weil placed a terrible burden upon engaged and distressed policemen by forcing a decision in a moment police were neither prepared to make or had time to consider.

More than that, it was the kind of decision that put the supremely stressed decision makers at risk of saying, “No, go away, we don’t need your help.”

All LtCol. Weil saw was a training opportunity to be exploited at the expense of civilian policemen in time of chaos.

The kind of chaos foreseeable by Weil and Weil’s chain of command in the ongoing and developing national emergency Mr. Obama sparked for all of us.

The Constitution prohibits the peacetime “deployment of troops at the local level in response to what is purely a civilian law enforcement matter.” LtCol. Weil is the Provost Marshal and Director of Emergency Services at Fort Rucker. Weil commands this knowledge as he commands his military policemen. It is Weil’s job description. Scott Weil knows his military policemen have no peacetime jurisdiction or police power in the civilian community!

Weil also knows the question of his peacetime jurisdiction depends on who you ask (ask Obama for instance).

Samson City Attorney Neil Griswold did ask.

Counselor Griswold put the question directly to Geneva County Staff Judge Advocate Steven Smith. Geneva County Staff JAG Smith–in service to his commanders who condemn the Constitution–lied to City Attorney Griswold telling the Samson Attorney that no laws were violated. No criminal prosecutions targeting Weil or his senior officers were appropriate.

But Staff JAG Steven Smith knows, LtCol. Weil knows (as a professional military police officer), and I know the United States Constitution prohibits direct military involvement in civilian law enforcement activity.

There exists long-standing U.S. law and policy limiting the military’s role in domestic affairs.

LtCol. Weil violently trespassed upon the Constitution and Alabama state sovereignty when Weil called police dispatchers on 10 March.

Make no mistake: Weil knew exactly what he was doing in carrying out a preplanned response reviewed and sanctioned by Weil’s (and Staff JAG Smith’s) senior military commanders.

Oh…did I mention that Steven Smith’s day job is as the civilian Assistant District Attorney for the County of Geneva, Alabama including the City of Samson?

Otherwise Counselor Smith is an Army Reservist Judge Advocate (military attorney).

Staff JAG Smith knows full well officers like Scott Weil–when the U.S. Constitution is operative-“have had their careers abruptly brought to a close by misusing federal military assets to support a purely civilian criminal matter.”

Defense Department commanders chillingly plan to deploy U.S. servicemen in foreseeable real-world responses the day Mr. Obama faces criminal consequences for his TREASON!
Weil’s deployment of Army troops to Sampson was a drill!

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