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!
the tree of liberty is quenched with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
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You got that right. It's a trillion dollar slush fund to finance the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Thank you!!!
Ping to a few people who might be interested...
There is an illegitimate fraud occupying the White House.
Obama is hiding some circumstance of birth that makes him either constitutionally ineligible or would cause voters to reject him.
And the left used to try to say Bush was a illegitimate president. Funny how things turn out.
Your sentence was LONG, but ACCURATE.
And obviously heartfelt!
BTTT
"Viagra for socialism," I call it.
Wolverines!
Bravo Mr. Keyes. I have held A. Keyes in respect for taking on Obama in the IL US Senate race that the GOP managed to not support. At least he was man enough to stand against the fraud Obama and is trying to keep up the attack. I remember a lot of Freepers were dissing Alan Keyes....wth was that about?
I hope and pray we can turn things around before it comes to that, for the sake of our kids.
It won't take a majority to do so.
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams
No, they are following the Fabian Socialist model. Unlike the Marxists, they do it with propaganda and legislative coercion. They accomplish their objective without bloodshed or serious opposition. The frog in the boiling water comes to mind. However, when the tipping point is reached, they make major transformations overnight.
They use the courts to weaken basic American institutions. It is a strategy that goes back to the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union by Fabian Socialists Roger Baldwin and John Dewey and Communists William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn among others.
Obama has embraced the fallacies of Fabian Socialism--the Keynesian approach to an economic recession--which destroys the resources of the affluent, while creating the illusion of problem solving. Since the destruction of assets is real, problems are only made worse in the long run. May I remind everyone that George Soros was a student of Fabian socialist London School of Economics in 1949. The Porkulus strategy I am convinced, is an effort to cause severe inflation in this country. It is being done as a tactic and for an evil purpose. John Strachey, a prominant English Fabian theoretician wrote in his book, Program for Progress how he believes Keynesian theories can further the Socialist revolution:
inflationary credit expansion policies were "an indispensable step in the right direction . . . the fact that the loss of objectivity, and the intrinsic value of the currency which is involved (i.e., inflation) will sooner or later make necessary, on pain of ever-increasing dislocation, a growing degree of social control . . . for the partial character of the policy will itself lead on to further measures. The very fact that no stability, no permanently workable solution can be found within the limits of this policy will ensure that once a community has been driven by events to tackle its problems in. this way, it cannot halt at the first stage, but must of necessity push on to more thorough going measures of reorganization."
To know where Fabian Socialism goes, look at Britain. Clement Attlee an avowed Fabian put forth his ideas in his book the Labour Party in Perspective in 1937. In 1945 Clement Attlee became Prime Minister of the UK and proceeded to nationalize and tightly regulate much of Britain’s industry. As a result of his socialist reorganization of Britain, the people of this great country suffered for 30 years until an angle of freedom, Margaret Thacher took over in 1979.
To defeat this evil virus in this country, we need to know who they are. We need to know their DNA, their modus operandi, their tactics, and their goals. We need to know them like scientist looking for an vaccine for a deadly plague on this nation.
Thank you. But I hope can see why I didn’t get that from the OP.
Or eventually, this:
Yep.
"...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.
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