Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Citizenship – what America forgot
Examiner.com ^ | 10-16-2009 | Dianna Cotter

Posted on 10/16/2009 9:06:02 AM PDT by Danae

(Snip)


How is it possible that America has forgotten the basic meanings of these distinctions? How is it that we have let so basic a distinction as “Parents who are citizens of the nation and the child born on its soil” simply fall by the wayside?


The answer is both simple and terrible: A lack of education.


Historically, children in school were taught lessons from History.
(SNIP)
They were taught the major works that made up the histories of their Nation, be it France, Great Britain, China… children were once taught the fundamental foundational ideas that sculpted the world they were currently living in. It was called a classical education. Culturally, socially, politically they were given the history of how their world arrived to be what it was.
(SNIP)
In America we have shifted our focus so far from our historical and philosophical heritage, we are now barely teaching it at all.
(SNIP)


We stand upon the shoulders of giants, are we going to kick them in the head by allowing a Usurper to remain in the White House? He is not constrained or limited by the constitution; he has broken it already with his fundamental nature, something out of even his control. But it has freed him from the limitations and obligations the constitution demands none the less. His oath to it is meaningless, because he does not meet the basic demands of it.


We do not have a constitutional government. We know it, and the knowing of it makes it intolerable. It is up to the American people to demand that we be made whole again under the law. A crime has been and is currently being committed against us.

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


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; criminal; naturalborncitizen; obama; resign; unconstitutional
Its time to get off the fence and call a spade a spade. There is only one remedy for this crime, Barack Obama must resign.
1 posted on 10/16/2009 9:06:03 AM PDT by Danae
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: little jeremiah; STARWISE; rxsid; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; ...

ping


2 posted on 10/16/2009 9:15:58 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Danae
“We do not have a constitutional government. We know it, and the knowing of it makes it intolerable. It is up to the American people to demand that we be made whole again under the law. A crime has been and is currently being committed against us.”
-_________________________________________________________

We must take action to do it quickly. Obama is giving away America to our enemies, he is gutting the military, he is breaking the banks, he is putting many people on the welfare rolls, and food stamps, he is endoctrinating our children in the schools, colleges, universities, he is shutting down water for the Califoria food crops, he is
not allowing production of our own resources, he told us during his campaign that he intended to break the coal business, he has assumed powers that President’s have not seized before now. He is removing our missles, our weapons, our military Generals/Commanders.

He has surrounded himself with radical communist’s, radical socialist’s, WE DO NOT KNOW ALL THE POWERS BEHIND HIM .... BUT ... THAT HE IS THE FRONTMAN FOR ENGENDERING THEIR POLICIES ... WHATEVER THEY MIGHT BE.

God help us in our day, in Jesus name, Amen.

3 posted on 10/16/2009 9:27:12 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: geologist

I could not agree more.


4 posted on 10/16/2009 9:29:35 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Danae; penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; ...

~~From our own FReeper journalist, Danae ... excellent !

BUMP!


5 posted on 10/16/2009 9:30:29 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Danae

Of course the question in the corner is what if he won’t resign and if the Congress will not impeach, let alone convict?


6 posted on 10/16/2009 9:32:22 AM PDT by Truth29
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: geologist; All

ON OUR MORNING WALK WE WERE DISCUSSIING ...

HOW most of us are still to comfortable to upset the apple cart; and we needed to be like our founding Fathers, who pledged their honor, their life and their wealth, in signing the Declaration of Independence. It fact most did lose their wealth and sometimes their family, and some their life.
IT is a SOLEMN PLEDGE they made, indeed.


7 posted on 10/16/2009 9:38:30 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Truth29

It is not up to Congress. It is up to the Judiciary. That is the only remedy.

A crime is being committed, Congress is actually part of the crime and coverup.

The Judiciary is our only option, and if they fail us, we no longer have a Nation. We have a regime.


8 posted on 10/16/2009 9:43:25 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Danae
Its time to get off the fence and call a spade a spade



/sarc
9 posted on 10/16/2009 9:45:06 AM PDT by thecraw (God allows evil...God allowed Hussein...Lord willing he'll give us Sarah to clean up the huge mess.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: geologist

I think here soon we are not going to have much choice.

Are we mice or are we men?

This is no little insignificant thing we are discussing. This will reverberate through history. What those reverberations will be is impossible to say right now.

I am sure that is how people inside the breaking of the Watergate scandal felt as well.


10 posted on 10/16/2009 9:45:17 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: thecraw

LOL


11 posted on 10/16/2009 9:45:35 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Danae
Barack Obama must resign

...which would require honor and decency. Unfortunately he possesses neither.
12 posted on 10/16/2009 9:48:03 AM PDT by thecraw (God allows evil...God allowed Hussein...Lord willing he'll give us Sarah to clean up the huge mess.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thecraw

Given that he had to possess none to even do this to begin with, I agree completely.


13 posted on 10/16/2009 9:57:13 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: STARWISE

Thanks! :)


14 posted on 10/16/2009 10:05:13 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: thecraw; Danae
Its time to get off the fence and call a spade a spade

I'm not sure that's possible at this point:




15 posted on 10/16/2009 10:05:53 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income. Fire the government)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Lady Jag

.... not when its embedded in our you-know-whats...

We can’t sit by and do nothing, its going to take tremendous public pressure to bring this to the light of day. And a LOT of people talking about it.


16 posted on 10/16/2009 10:11:10 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Danae
We CAN'T do nothing. I don't want to be a serf; I like money and food.


17 posted on 10/16/2009 10:17:44 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income. Fire the government)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Danae

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

The Standard Ltd
I & M Building, Kenyatta Avenue,
P.O Box 30080, 00100 GPO, Nairobi-Kenya.
Tel. +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 214467, 229218, 218965.
Email: editorial@eastandard.net, online@eastandard.net
News room Tel: +254 20 3222111, Fax: +254 20 213108.
Advertising: standard.ads@swiftkenya.com

Sunday, June 27, 2004

Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

[Chicago-Thuggary got the SEALED divorce papers opened so that KENYAN BORN 0bama would have no opponents.]


18 posted on 10/16/2009 10:18:19 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin ...... Sarah Palin ...... Sarah Palin...... Sarah Palin...... You're My Candidate!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: STARWISE; Danae

Bravo Girl!

Another journalistic homerun!


19 posted on 10/16/2009 10:18:34 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Danae
EXCELLENT article. Also read the two referenced articles as well, EXCELLENT and accurate. Non-sexitor needs to read them.
20 posted on 10/16/2009 10:21:15 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: geologist
HOW most of us are still to comfortable to upset the apple cart; and we needed to be like our founding Fathers, who pledged their honor, their life and their wealth, in signing the Declaration of Independence. It fact most did lose their wealth and sometimes their family, and some their life. IT is a SOLEMN PLEDGE they made, indeed.

Which is why I state often, we MUST be willing to DIE for Freedom, Liberty, Justice, and the American Way. Otherwise, we're no better than the Benedict Arnolds in Congress.

Photo-shoppers . . . Can you make us some photos of the major players dressed as Benedict Arnold? After he became a traitor, not the early, younger man pictures.
21 posted on 10/16/2009 10:21:57 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin ...... Sarah Palin ...... Sarah Palin...... Sarah Palin...... You're My Candidate!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: faucetman

I have read them all a few times... I wrote em. :)


22 posted on 10/16/2009 10:22:33 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: faucetman
Non-sexitor needs to read them

LOL! I haven't seen a Troll call to arms yet. Give 'em about 5 minutes, they'll be here...
23 posted on 10/16/2009 10:24:50 AM PDT by thecraw (God allows evil...God allowed Hussein...Lord willing he'll give us Sarah to clean up the huge mess.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Danae

We didn’t forget. It was forcibly yanked from the hands of our children in the public schools. So, in a way, we sat back and watched it happen.


24 posted on 10/16/2009 10:26:00 AM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Danae

We all know that Obama will never resign. It is likely that the Judiciary will not hear any case against him.

It is up to everyone to educate as many people as we can and to see if we can get enough votes in 2010 to impeach him.

I think this rabbit hole goes far deeper than anyone can imagine. This is not a Watergate scenario of politics run a muck.

Think about Bush and the bailout - about essentially giving money to Treasury with no Congressional oversight.

Think about Cheney not calling for objections.

Think about the flubbed swearing in by Chief Justice Roberts and the do-over in private.

Do we really think that Scalia, Thomas, Roberts do not understand Vattel and the natural born Citizen clause of the Constitution.

They do not need to see a long form birth certificate to know that Obama does not meet the requirements for NBC.

There is something going on that is far deeper than just an Usurper in the office of POTUS.

I am not sure what would cause the events that we are witnessing.

They are acting out a script - who wrote the play??


25 posted on 10/16/2009 10:32:50 AM PDT by Lundy_s Lane II
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lundy_s Lane II

I don’t know who wrote the play, but the puzzle pieces are starting to fall into place for those who are watching them fall.

The SCOTUS has not YET been brought a case to make a decision on. Donofrio’s case at SCOTUS was for a STAY OF THE ELECTION they declined to hear. Not a decision. There were numerous irregularities surrounding this. No doubt.

IT is up to us to force the issue.

You cannot impeach an Usurper. You must remove him. There is a mechanism that congress created for that singular purpose. Quo Warrento. THAT is what I think will ultimately remove Obama.

I still had to make the call and demand the resignation first, give the enemy of the state a more honorable way out. Of course, having no honor and a lust for power he will refuse. His ego dams him so I feel no pity whatsoever.


26 posted on 10/16/2009 10:40:28 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: faucetman

Including this one I’ve read all three. Most amusing. Now what?


27 posted on 10/16/2009 10:45:38 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Danae

Awesome bump!


28 posted on 10/16/2009 11:18:11 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Danae

Agreed that impeachment is not really the correct method to remove an Usurper that is in office. The Executive branch by itself is not going to remove BHO or convince him for the good of the country to resign.

The courts have shown no interest in taking up the case. Congress could hold hearings and remove him. But that can never happen unless “We the people” vote in enough members that will actually uphold the Constitution and not just be concerned about their own status amongst the elites.

Nothing would make me happier than see BHO forcibly removed from office.

I hope that I am wrong and Donofrio is able to get a QW action in the District Court of DC. But I imagine that there are only 3 votes on SCOTUS that would rule that a natural born Citizen is one born in the US of two citizen parents. And I expect that you couldn’t find a single Federal judge willing to make that ruling. You could get more traction if able to prove that BHO was not born in Hawaii. But if the rabbit hole is as deep as I think it might be that will never happen.

It appears now that Judge Carter is going to find a way to dismiss the case. His whole demeanor changed from the early hearings to this last one. Something was said to him that changed his outlook. We remember how Obama looked after getting his first “briefing”. What if Carter was given a “briefing”.

What I am suggesting is that the rabbit hole is very deep (a strange klein bottle - perhaps). We know that BHO has an unknown past. We know that he received support and money from many sources to get him where he is now. He seems to be a chosen one of the elite.

But why??

I am suggesting that there is a script and following the natural born Citizen portion of the Constitution is not on it. Or at least, it is not of paramount importance.

I hope that I am wrong. And that the rabbit hole can be breached and we can emerge from this land where things do not make sense.


29 posted on 10/16/2009 11:33:57 AM PDT by Lundy_s Lane II
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Lundy_s Lane II

Well one thing is certain, some fights are worth fighting, even if it seems utterly impossible to prevail.

The option is surrender, and that does not work for me.


30 posted on 10/16/2009 11:36:50 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Lundy_s Lane II
They are acting out a script - who wrote the play??

That's easy...


31 posted on 10/16/2009 11:48:51 AM PDT by houeto (I peered inside the Treasury's door, the entire vault was empty. We've been robbed!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Danae

Yes :) and it is the only way to really see what is going on. Plan the punches look for the responses.

There is no choice really - but to fight. The bigger they are the harder they fall.


32 posted on 10/16/2009 11:57:42 AM PDT by Lundy_s Lane II
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: houeto

Well - I think it is a a fight of good vs. evil. Of collective Borg like existence vs. individual freedoms.


33 posted on 10/16/2009 12:00:26 PM PDT by Lundy_s Lane II
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Danae

“In America we have shifted our focus so far from our historical and philosophical heritage, we are now barely teaching it at all.”

Indeed, a country that loses it’s sense of history, it’s traditions,it’s philosophical underpinnings, and even it’s myths, soon loses it’s identity as a nation... like a ship without a ruder, it will falter.

Our country has been subverted in many ways:

ex-KGB Uri Bezmenov On Ideological Indoctrination Interview

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

See all of Uri Bezmenov’s vedios to learn how easy it is to subvert a nation!

We are in deep u know what.

STE=Q


34 posted on 10/16/2009 5:22:27 PM PDT by STE=Q ("It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government" ... Thomas Paine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: thecraw
" which would require honor and decency. Unfortunately he possesses neither. "

That would also be most of the Democrat leaders in Washington, Congress, and the DNC, and the main fringe media.
35 posted on 10/16/2009 6:19:14 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: geologist
Jesus Christ said "

‘I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, I will spit you out of my mouth!’ ” (Revelation 3:15–16).
36 posted on 10/16/2009 6:21:50 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Danae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaN2acVMGC8


37 posted on 10/16/2009 6:28:02 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Danae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vxnApK4O48&feature=fvw


38 posted on 10/16/2009 6:33:42 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: STE=Q

This deserves a thread all by itself. That was 1985. We now are another generation worse.

But I think the threat has morphed somewhat. But we all recognize the techniques and the goals.


39 posted on 10/16/2009 8:18:16 PM PDT by Lundy_s Lane II
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Danae

Danae sez

“Barack Obama must resign”

What are the Vegas odds of that happening LOL

BTW on your article, Hell yeah,Turn it Up, Right On


40 posted on 10/16/2009 8:57:55 PM PDT by roylll
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: STE=Q

Typo: it’s = its


41 posted on 10/16/2009 9:52:28 PM PDT by STE=Q ("It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government" ... Thomas Paine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: American Constitutionalist
We appear to be the Laodicean Church. ... or in the Laodicean period. It is scary how ‘light’ we have become in many or most churches. I especially fear for the youth.

I think often of the
Matthew 7:21-27 (New King James Version)

“I Never Knew You

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Build on the Rock

24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
____________________________________________________

And John 14:15-24

Jesus Promises Another Helper

15 “If you love Me, keep[d] My commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Indwelling of the Father and the Son

19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.”
__________________________________________________________

Father help us n our day, in Jesus name, amen.

42 posted on 10/19/2009 8:57:10 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson