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!
fyi and ping lists.
>0bama is following the Chavez model.<
Congress being his enabler.
bump
What else can you expect from a lying crypto-marxist of a counterfeit Alinskyite POTUS from the most corrupt environs of leftist Chicago gutter politics, who MAY be an illegal alien, who has by my count told 168 LIES on the campaign trail that are at variance with the factual record, has the abortion policy of a Nazi, committed 4 violations of the Logan Act, has taken illegal foreign campaign money, is beholden to the most corrupt national political organization outside of the DemocRAT party itself, ACORN, spent 20 years inhaling the poisonous miasma that emanated from his racist, hate filled anti-American pastor, whose primary seminal philosophical influences were all radicals of one stripe or other, believes that the constitution is a flawed document because judges cannot break it free of the constraints placed upon it by the founders, is more concerned with protecting the rights of terrorists that the security of the US, wants to redistribute wealth in a Fabian socialist or Soviet manner, whose administration has more scandal in the first fortnight than the average presidency has in 4 years, is a committed gun grabber, and is the most inveterate political liar that I have EVER seen in my life.
OK, legal and court costs to quash the subpoena issued to Occidental College, for admissions records and transcripts.
My, my ... just what is in those records, to warrant such a flurry of lawyerly paperwork?
>Clearly, the most highly protected state secret today is contained in a vault in Hawaii.<
If it was placed in a vault, it was placed in it by a person(s) who know(s) the contents of the document. If he/she loves this country, let him/her step forward and divulge this illigitimate ‘state secret’. The information should not be a secret anyway.
Hey you lousy trecherous congressmen open your mouths and demand the truth.
That's because it's a complete waste of time that IS going and will go nowhere. With the Democrats controlling the Presidency, the House and the Senate, the Pubbies who can do little to stop ANYTHING, have to pick their battles. Except for the forever traitorous, Collins, Snowe and Spector, we should be really proud of the rest of the Republicans in the House and Senate, who stuck together and refused to sign on to the anti-stimulus package.
Barack Hussein Obama II’s original, long form, vault copy Certificate of Birth can be subpoenaed under Hawaii Revised Statute 338-18(b)(9). It can be subpoenaed by an order of any court of comptent jurisdiction.
I refuse to take any of the lawsuits seriously until someone at least TRIES to subpoena the document in question. Thus far no one has and therefore all these nuisance lawsuits will continue to get thrown out of court, as well they should.
The civil action scorecard thus far is Obama 15/Plaintiffs 0 in legal actions to obtain his birth certificate without having it subpoenaed.
Alan Keyes is always a most eloquent writer and speaker. Well said Ambassador.
When the Constitution is ignored and trampled, the battle has found us, whether we like it or not. The only question is whether we have the courage to fight it or surrender.
I agree...I enjoy reading and listening to alot of what this man has to say...I don’t agree with everything but I can say that of everyone.
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>>Obama Threatens Keyes and other Eligibility Plaintiffs - ALAN KEYES<<
While I share much of the criticism of President Obama I’ve read this twice and don’t see where Obama is threatening Keyes.
If you follow the links in post #26 you’ll find that Obama’s lawyers threatened monetary sanctions against the plaintiffs and attorneys who subpoenaed the Occidental College documents.
Once again its time for "Don't Tread on Me."
I will open my checkbook, work the phones, stuff envelopes, flood people’s inboxes, pound the pavement... whatever it takes to make sure this issues never dies and to make sure Mr. Obama’s eligibility finally has its day in the sun.
Personally, I think that would be like being thankful to those who just helped torch your house and break your legs with a baseball bat because they didn't help break your arms.
bttt
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