Posted on 02/14/2009 10:07:53 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Loyal to Liberty
Thought for Today
As many of you know, I am party to one of the lawsuits seeking evidence that would help to establish, one way or the other, whether Obama in fact meets the U.S. Constitution's eligibility requirements for the office of President of the United States. To understand my view of the critical issues involved see the WND articles The End of the Constitutional Republic, and Obama, Oaths and the End of Constitutional Government.) Now Obama's lawyers have filed a motion to quash our effort to obtain the relevant documents (cf. Bob Unruh's WND article Sanctions sought in eligibility case.) I am told that it includes a demand that monetary penalties be assessed against me and the other plaintiffs in the suit. Though not unexpected, this motion confirms Obama's ruthless determination to destroy anyone who continues to seek the information the Constitution requires. Why should they demand penalties against citizens who are simply seeking the enforcement of the Supreme Law of the Land? It is simply because their persistence runs contrary to the will of a supposedly popular demagogue? This smacks of tyrannical arrogance. That Obama thus signals his intent to bring financial ruin on those who won't accept his cover-up of the circumstances of his birth is a tactical escalation. It confirms the common sense suspicion that he won't act forthrightly in this matter because he has something to hide.
As one of the targets of this escalation, I need no more convincing proof of the ruthless disposition so far successfully masked by his empty rhetoric of hope and change. Obviously he means to offer hope only to those willing to surrender their most basic rights. To any who insist on questioning his actions, he offers the drastic change of ruin and destruction. So be it. We shall be among those who learn firsthand the meaning of the sacrifices made by the Founders of our free republic, as they pledged and gave up their lives, their fortunes and the world's esteem.
To tell you the truth, I expected Obama's ruthlessness, as I expect that it will escalate until his threats extend to liberty and even life itself. Tyrants are like that (yeah, they are.) What I am not so certain of is the disposition of the people of this country, and in particular of those who still avow allegiance to the Constitutional Republic. For all their posturing in opposition to Obama's socialist schemes, Republican Party leaders show no disposition to notice, much less decry, his determination to subvert the Constitution. But does the self-serving reticence of such so-called leadership truly represent the disposition of the people whose sovereignty they seem so ready to abandon? In politics as in war, real leadership does not consist in titles and position, but in those willing to stand in the forefront of the battle, where taunts and wounds and even death await the ones who raise a rallying flag. The fate of that flag depends, however, not on their willingness to brave the dangers, but on the courage and heart of those who, seeing that flag, return with renewed courage to the fight. Though they not know not if it will stand or fall, will they decide that either way it should not meet its fate without them?
People who have been watching recent events with any discernment must realize by now that, for all his talk of material salvation for the masses, the Obama faction really means to strengthen only those willing to serve in the army of their domineering ambition. Thanks to the phony stimulus package, they will soon have billions of taxpayer dollars with which to nourish this servile allegiance to his will. Including myself, many of the people willing to articulate and act against his overthrow of Constitutional liberty have nothing in their coffers except the grace from God to see a little truth, and the courage to speak it, drawing upon the example of His Son. But time and again in America's history, a little truth has been sufficient to reach into the reserve of love for God and liberty on tap in the patriot hearts and consciences of those who would be free.
So to my fellow plaintiffs with the courage to stand firm, and to all those who may lose by the price they pay for it, I say keep faith and pray- not so much for yourselves as for the heart and conscience of the good people of your country. Trust that there still burns a candlelight of liberty within them, and a thought for those who would rather be consumed as its wick than surrender to the wickedness that now seeks its destruction.
For more current thoughts from Alan Keyes, visit LoyaltoLiberty.com!
In one fell swoop he has taken over our future, our children’s future and our grandchildren’s future; he has taken over the greatest healthcare system known to man, and will no doubt soon have us rounded up to live in communes to have better control of us...after he takes up all the guns, of course.
________________________________-Do you really think Americans will sit back and let this happen? No way
This kind of suit is not permitted in the People’s Republic of Obama, AKA the USSA.
‘I don’t know anything about your march, and to my knowledge, Dr. Keyes doesn’t either.’
It’s not ‘my’ march. It is being organized by FreedomsMarch.
The head of FreedomMarch discussed it on the radio and mentioned getting Keyes involved.
That’s great. They should contact us.
An awful lot of folks reading this thread and not posting. I’m just sayin’.
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They always do, so good to go to private reply and to let them know the behind the scenes facts.
True. But the ratios between posts and page views has always been particularly interesting to me. The percentage of views to posts on this thread is way more than double the average.
I’ll take a shot.
(1) “Our side” is afraid of walking into a trap,
(2) As much as “our side” bitches about the MSM, it still uses it to validate its targets, and in this case it hasn’t received a validation.
In fact, the absence of validation from the MSM is what I think drives the few trolling skeptics here, one of whom, curiously enough calls itself something like ‘curious’.
***Thanks...I had posted to JoeA in #116 and sorta kinda said what you did. The part about walking into a trap is also a good point which is why I’m pinging him to this post.
It took me a little bit of time (along with the help of fellow freepers) to figure out who the trolls were. At one point I swear I was so confused I thought my head would explode! (I’m not going to use “LOL!” and you didn’t see me use it.)
Then it was pointed out to me that that’s what they do. Create confusion and wreak havoc so up=down and down=up.
I’ve read alot of these threads and although they’ve never posted to me I’ve seen how they can hijack a thread.
If you’re a (curious) lurker you can lose track of the truth very quickly. And no freeper wants the truth to not be told.
Thanks again for the input.
Does this fraud think that he is better than Washington, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson in that sense?
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He thinks he’s Lincoln, or at least he hopes if he says it enough, the sheep will believe him, and they are sheep, mindless sheep. Pathetic.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Why don’t we have eloquent men of leadership like this today?
His words are ringing true again.
Here’s another one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185934/posts
So timely I thought it deserved its own thread.
Well,....... if we had in this country a press that was actually on the side of "truth" and the American people, we'd have known by now, and Obama, would most likely still be a Senator from Chicago.
Not if it doesn't exist. :o()
True. But the ratios between posts and page views has always been particularly interesting to me. The percentage of views to posts on this thread is way more than double the average.
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I know, I was agreeing with you. Meaning an awful lot of *somebodies* monitor the bc threads. ;)
Bookmark, BTTT and everyone should read your comment.
The only place I know to see the thread views is on the latest articles page - there must be another way - could you remind me?
I stole my tag line from a description of Pope Benedict - I think it was from Yuri Levin.
If you knew he is a phony and his ruthlessness will escalate, (as did millions of others, including all of congress) why oh why did you allow him to break the rule of law and usurp the constitution without so much as a whimper when he took the oath of office?
Did you really expect him to apologize for not showing his birth certificate and qualifications for holding office?
No, of course you didn't.
The only explanation that makes sense is that both parties agreed that they needed large sums of money to keep the show on the road and neither party wanted to be responsible for breaking the bank so they got some poor sucker to pose as the Bill-signing president to take the blame.
What better ploy than to get some egoistic idiot savant to play the roll of part-time president, in office just long enough to roll the debt over and break the bank for another 30 years.
I must be one of the "somebodies" you mention. I read these threads looking for any new evidence, but I don't post on them often - unless it's something I have direct knowledge about.
I'm not sure the ratio signifies something nefarious. I think it shows there's a lot of interest in the subject. Unfortunately, there's also uncertainty as to what hard facts are available.
Mr. Keyes has not been standing idly by.
Far from it.
So, I don’t understand your post.
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