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 Keyes attorneys are still seeking that document. That's the point.
Thank you for that.
All day, I’ve been wondering why not one of our Representatives or Senators has pushed a bill requiring that the President show his eligibility, why they aren’t *actually* filibustering both Obama and this travesty of a ‘stimulus’ bill.
Good post.
Scary isn’t it? The new version of the most corrupt city in America, Chicago, is now taking root in D.C.!
Hello Philman, I did not mean to indicate you as dissing Keyes....that response was just a general question, probably should be addressed to the original poster.
That is one of the all-time greatest taglines ever seen on FR!
All day, I’ve been wondering why not one of our Representatives or Senators has pushed a bill requiring that the President show his eligibility, why they aren’t *actually* filibustering both Obama and this travesty of a ‘stimulus’ bill.
***My thoughts as well. I’ve posted that question on a couple of threads thinking someone might have an answer. I sure don’t and evidently no one else does, either.
Well, I can give you my opinion: It's because they've become little more than the second leg of the socialist beast.
Thanks.
Thank you Alan Keyes. Sure miss listening to you on the radio.
I’ll make sure he gets that message.
Welllllllll, I’m glad at least Keyes is waking up to the seriousness of the evils we face.
Maybe he can wake some others up . . . like some FREEPERS, even.
Sigh.
Eternal Vig says..”I’ve read this twice and don’t see where Obama is threatening Keyes.
Obama is demanding that Keys have to pay all court costs
this is a tactic of those with MONEY, to force them to quit the suit.
while this is justifiable in “frivolus” cases....this is by Far...NOT such a case.
Keys suit is for all of us, and for the Constitution.
Obama is a Corrupt Marxist...and deserves Jail. not Legal loop-holes of protection.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord; and he delights in his way. - Psalm 37:23
Sounds like a Rule 11 motion. I’d be interested to hear what their basis is.
Great synopsis DMZ.
Obama’s Occidental records may even contain the information of him being born overseas since in all likelihood he entered college as a foreign student.
His Marxism is only partly as evil and horrendous as his Oligarchic globalism.
All are hellish to the max.
Would be interesting to see a “whistleblower” suit filed by someone who has seen the actual document...what would that be worth $.
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