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To: nathanbedford
If a person is a fraud then how can he be president? I would think that only a valid president could be impeached. A fraudulent impostor would be arrested.

My next question is who is authorized to arrest a fraud occupying the White House and would they do it?

1,675 posted on 08/02/2009 9:33:02 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: wintertime

“My next question is who is authorized to arrest a fraud occupying the White House and would they do it?”

The US Military?


1,689 posted on 08/02/2009 9:35:40 AM PDT by timetostand
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To: wintertime; waxer1
In response to your replies let me repeat a reply of a moment ago and then add something new at the foot:

The impeachment of Bill Clinton teaches us that the barometer whether or not a president will be removed has not to do with the justice of the cause but with the president's approval ratings and that in turn has a lot to do with the state of the economy.

I am not as clairvoyant as you are, I do not know what the military will do much less the people who might or might not take to the streets, I only know that we have recent history of the impeachment of Bill Clinton to instruct us and the lessons seem to run the other way.

You state the question: "If it is clearly found that Obama is ineligible". But there is the rub, who is going to find ineligibility? Such a finding cannot come out of the air, it cannot be rendered here on Free Republic, the military -that would be the most dangerous of all, if it is to be done it must be done by a court, the Congress, or simply the moral weight of public opinion. In other words, you had Judge Sirica pushing Watergate. You have Sam Irwin's committee pushing Watergate. You had the Washington Post and the rest of the press pushing Watergate. There is simply no institution available to us except Free Republic and a few stalwart patriots who will press the issue and we have not the power to force the evidence open. The problem is who? In my previous post I stated what I thought it would not be the Congress and not be the courts. That leaves you with my.

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You're quite right, the situation is unprecedented so one man's opinion is almost as good as another except when it conflicts with explicit clauses of the Constitution.

It seems to me that whatever way we find out of such a crisis, certainly the one way we do not want to go is to remove the president by vigilante. The Constitution provides a method for the removal of a president. Obama may be a fraud but he is the president. If every time we had a dissident group declaring that the court and the Congress have defaulted on their responsibilities to remove the president who is a fraud and therefore illegitimate, ab initio, so they will go ahead themselves and remove him, you have at best vigilante-ism and at worst anarchy.


1,819 posted on 08/02/2009 10:03:42 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: wintertime
My next question is who is authorized to arrest a fraud occupying the White House and would they do it?

I'd vote for the head of the FBI and ex-Marine, Robert Mueller.

1,852 posted on 08/02/2009 10:12:43 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: wintertime
My next question is who is authorized to arrest a fraud occupying the White House ....

I vote for Officer Crowley.

2,065 posted on 08/02/2009 11:07:07 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("Baldrick, to you the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?")
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