LTC Lakin's Appeal Denied

Well, head on down the liberal road.

Hi Miss Tickly. I think El Sordo’s offspring were born outside US territory, or his wife was not a US Citizen when their children were born and he doesn’t want them to be ineligible for US Presidency.

Pure self-interest on his part.

That was too easy...

And not enough fun.

I’m on board with what you all are doing & posting.

I don’t chime in because 1) I don’t have anything to add; 2) I’m not a lawyer/in the profession;and 3) I’ve made up my mind about 0bama and his credentials or lack thereof.

Hi Jim,

If there’s any way to cancel my account, please do. And thank you for the outstanding forum I have enjoyed my time here very much. I don’t want to upset any more of your members and feel I have been voted off the Island so to speak.

If not, I will just sign out and leave it at that.

Thank you again and again!

MissTickly

Miss Tickly has been courteous and up-front (and determined) about her efforts. SO I give her lotsa credit. But I was not enamored of her attempted takedown of Danae. It was speculative and out of character.

It definitely wasn’t fun, but that wasn’t my goal. I suspect she’ll be back. She has an agenda.

Authentic realization, restoration of honor, remorse
to those offended, and redemption are always
legitimate possibilities for decent human beings.

And, even if you don’t believe in God, He loves you,
wants you healthy and happy, and you can ask “the air”
for the grace of the release of any debilitating
obsessions, every day, and practice having faith that
it will be so.

You and your buddies leave no website stone unturned trying to uncover proof that Jamese777 is some sort of paid Obot troll in order to get him banned.

It's obvious CON that Jamese7777 is a troll. He brazenly admitted that he was a paid troll here on two different occasions. They were not humorous posts that he and others tried to explain it. Those two posts were terse one or two word answers - no humor in that.

Here we have MissTickly, a self proclaimed "liberal Progressive Constitutionalist, Hillary supporter, AND Atheist", but because she's a birther, you're willing to overlook the fact that she does not belong on Free Republic.

She hasn't "trolled" the other threads like Parsifal, as for example. Who is a self-admitted Democrat who trolled everywhere. You overlooked Parsy, the neurotic. I didn't see any of you After-Birthers go after Parsy the Democrat because you guys did not.

Your priorities are upside down.

Mine is right-side up unlike yours. Don't you have an Christine O'Donnell thread to troll?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2614183/posts?page=25#25

Tublecane, the After-Birther, may again need your support and assistance at trolling again.

Yep, pretty much.

I understand suspicion. TRUST me.... I have ended up the innocent brunt of it a few times here on FR. It is distinctly unfair and has made me a more jaded person. But no one promised me fair.

For what its worth, I think OholyO has a legit Hawaiian COLB. I don’t know that the one posted online is actually it. But Hawaii swears up and down that he has records there, which means he has a COLB. HOW he got it is what I want to know, and is the crux of that issue.

He is hiding it because it does NOT prove he was born in Hawaii. So for what its worth, all this comparison of COLB’s is really a waste of time. Hawaii would not be backing OholyidiotO if he didn’t have documentation there. Between that, and the fact that Hawaii REFUSED to certify the cretin leads me to believe that his documentation does not prove he was born in the Islands. But Hawaii can’t DO anything about that with out revealing what I think are decades worth of babies not born in the islands who got COLB’s on late filed paperwork with a witness signature.

Can I prove that? No, I don’t have the means to investigate such a thing, that would take a government agency all of which seem utterly uninterested in doing so. Gosh, isn’t that amazing (not)?

So Hawaii covers OholymoronO’s arse because it happens to be covering its own. Obama is just making use of it.

Thats what I think for what ever its worth.

“Hi Miss Tickly. I think El Sordo’s offspring were born outside US territory, or his wife was not a US Citizen when their children were born and he doesn’t want them to be ineligible for US Presidency.

Pure self-interest on his part.”

Because, after all, the odds of any random person's child becoming President are so high to begin with (roll eyes).

I vote ZOT.

You are seriously cracked. You call people liars and openly insult them while wearing your social insolence as a badge of honor?

If you want to leave then leave personally I would just as soon have people start ignoring you so your conscious will be forced to reach for something to fix what must be blown mind.

I say blown, because that is the only way to describe that horrible wreck on your shoulders.

Feel free to leave. Your adolescent way of addressing others and the hubris you varnish are about two years to old.....

Same as your maturity.

Quiet!

You’ll spoil my plans for ruling the nation through my progeny!

Should I ever have any...

Hey Parsy. Where you been?

Haven’t seen you in a while.

A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law

John Adams
1765

“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.” ...

Since the promulgation of Christianity, the two greatest systems of tyranny that have sprung from this original, are the canon and the feudal law. The desire of dominion, that great principle by which we have attempted to account for so much good and so much evil, is, when properly restrained, a very useful and noble movement in the human mind. But when such restraints are taken off, it becomes an encroaching, grasping, restless, and ungovernable power. Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law...

By the former of these, the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order. All the epithets I have here given to the Romish policy are just, and will be allowed to be so when it is considered, that they even persuaded mankind to believe, faithfully and undoubtingly, that God Almighty had entrusted them ...

In the latter we find another system, similar in many respects to the former;1 which, although it was originally formed, perhaps, for the necessary defense of a barbarous people against the inroads and invasions of her neighboring nations, yet for the same purposes of tyranny, cruelty, and lust, which had dictated the canon law, it was soon adopted by almost all the princes of Europe, and wrought into the constitutions of their government. It was originally a code of laws for a vast army in a perpetual encampment. The general was invested with the sovereign propriety of all the lands within the territory. Of him, as his servants and vassals, the first rank of his great officers held the lands; and in the same manner the other subordinate officers held of them; and all ranks and degrees held their lands by a variety of duties and services, all tending to bind the chains the faster on every order of mankind. In this manner the common people were held together in herds and clans in a state of servile dependence on their lords, bound, even by the tenure of their lands, to follow them, whenever they commanded, to their wars, and in a state of total ignorance of every thing divine and human, excepting the use of arms and the culture of their lands. ..

But another event still more calamitous to human liberty, was a wicked confederacy between the two systems of tyranny above described. It seems to have been even stipulated between them, that the temporal grandees should contribute every thing in their power to maintain the ascendancy of the priesthood, and that the spiritual grandees in their turn, should employ their ascendancy over the consciences of the people, in impressing on their minds a blind, implicit obedience to civil magistracy.

Thus, as long as this confederacy lasted, and the people were held in ignorance, liberty, and with her, knowledge and virtue too, seem to have deserted the earth, and one age of darkness succeeded another, till God in his benign providence raised up the champions who began and conducted the Reformation. From the time of the Reformation to the first settlement of America, knowledge gradually spread in Europe, but especially in England; and in proportion as that increased and spread among the people, ecclesiastical and civil tyranny, which I use as synonymous expressions for the canon and feudal laws, seem to have lost their strength and weight. The people grew more and more sensible of the wrong that was done them by these systems, more and more impatient under it, and determined at all hazards to rid themselves of it; till at last, under the execrable race of the Stuarts, the struggle between the people and the confederacy aforesaid of temporal and spiritual tyranny, became formidable, violent, and bloody.

It was this great struggle that peopled America. It was not religion alone, as is commonly supposed; but it was a love of universal liberty, and a hatred, a dread, a horror, of the infernal confederacy before described, that projected, conducted, and accomplished the settlement of America...

After their arrival here, they began their settlement, and formed their plan, both of ecclesiastical and civil government, in direct opposition to the canon and the feudal systems...

Their greatest concern seems to have been to establish a government of the church more consistent with the Scriptures, and a government of the state more agreeable to the dignity of human nature, than any they had seen in Europe, and to transmit such a government down to their posterity, with the means of securing and preserving it forever. To render the popular power in their new government as great and wise as their principles of theory, that is, as human nature and the Christian religion require it should be, they endeavored to remove from it as many of the feudal inequalities and dependencies as could be spared, consistently with the preservation of a mild limited monarchy...

But I must again return to the feudal law. The adventurers so often mentioned, had an utter contempt of all that dark ribaldry of hereditary, indefeasible right, — the Lord's anointed, — and the divine, miraculous original of government, with which the priesthood had enveloped the feudal monarch in clouds and mysteries, and from whence they had deduced the most mischievous of all doctrines, that of passive obedience and non-resistance. They knew that government was a plain, simple, intelligible thing, founded in nature and reason, and quite comprehensible by common sense. They detested all the base services and servile dependencies of the feudal system. They knew that no such unworthy dependencies took place in the ancient seats of liberty, the republics of Greece and Rome; and they thought all such slavish subordinations were equally inconsistent with the constitution of human nature and that religious liberty with which Jesus had made them free. This was certainly the opinion they had formed; and they were far from being singular or extravagant in thinking so. Many celebrated modern writers in Europe have espoused the same sentiments. Lord Kames, a Scottish writer of great reputation, whose authority in this case ought to have the more weight as his countrymen have not the most worthy ideas of liberty, speaking of the feudal law, says, —”A constitution so contradictory to all the principles which govern mankind can never be brought about, one should imagine, but by foreign conquest or native usurpations.” Rousseau, speaking of the same system, calls it, — “That most iniquitous and absurd form of government by which human nature was so shamefully degraded.” It would be easy to multiply authorities, but it must be needless; because, as the original of this form of government was among savages, as the spirit, of it is military and despotic, every writer who would allow the people to have any right to life or property or freedom more than the beasts of the field, and who was not hired or enlisted under arbitrary, lawless power, has been always willing to admit the feudal system to be inconsistent with liberty and the rights of mankind...

They were convinced, by their knowledge of human nature, derived from history and their own experience, that nothing could preserve their posterity from the encroachments of the two systems of tyranny, in opposition to which, as has been observed already, they erected their government in church and state, but knowledge diffused generally through the whole body of the people. Their civil and religious principles, therefore, conspired to prompt them to use every measure and take every precaution in their power to propagate and perpetuate knowledge...

But the wisdom and benevolence of our fathers rested not here. They made an early provision by law, that every town consisting of so many families, should be always furnished with a grammar school. They made it a crime for such a town to be destitute of a grammar schoolmaster for a few months, and subjected it to a heavy penalty. So that the education of all ranks of people was made the care and expense of the public, in a manner that I believe has been unknown to any other people ancient or modern.

The consequences of these establishments we see and feel every day. A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare an appearance as a Jacobite or a Roman Catholic, that is, as rare as a comet or an earthquake. It has been observed, that we are all of us lawyers, divines, politicians, and philosophers. And I have good authorities to say, that all candid foreigners who have passed through this country, and conversed freely with all sorts of people here, will allow, that they have never seen so much knowledge and civility among the common people in any part of the world. It is true, there has been among us a party for some years, consisting chiefly not of the descendants of the first settlers of this country, but of high churchmen and high statesmen imported since, who affect to censure this provision for the education of our youth as a needless expense, and an imposition upon the rich in favor of the poor, and as an institution productive of idleness and vain speculation among the people, whose time and attention, it is said, ought to be devoted to labor, and not to public affairs, or to examination into the conduct of their superiors. And certain officers of the crown, and certain other missionaries of ignorance, foppery, servility, and slavery, have been most inclined to countenance and increase the same party. Be it remembered, however, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees. And the preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks, is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country...

Let us banish for ever from our minds, my countrymen, all such unworthy ideas of the king, his ministry, and parliament. Let us not suppose that all are become luxurious, effeminate, and unreasonable, on the other side the water, as many designing persons would insinuate. Let us presume, what is in fact true, that the spirit of liberty is as ardent as ever among the body of the nation, though a few individuals may be corrupted. Let us take it for granted, that the same great spirit which once gave Cesar so warm a reception, which denounced hostilities against John till Magna Charta was signed, which severed the head of Charles the First from his body, and drove James the Second from his kingdom, the same great spirit (may heaven preserve it till the earth shall be no more) which first seated the great grandfather of his present most gracious majesty on the throne of Britain, — is still alive and active and warm in England; and that the same spirit in America, instead of provoking the inhabitants of that country, will endear us to them for ever, and secure their good-will.

This spirit, however, without knowledge, would be little better than a brutal rage. Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. Let every order and degree among the people rouse their attention and animate their resolution. Let them all become attentive to the grounds and principles of government, ecclesiastical and civil. Let us study the law of nature; search into the spirit of the British constitution; read the histories of ancient ages; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome; set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who have defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests, in short, against the gates of earth and hell. Let us read and recollect and impress upon our souls the views and ends of our own more immediate forefathers, in exchanging their native country for a dreary, inhospitable wilderness. Let us examine into the nature of that power, and the cruelty of that oppression, which drove them from their homes. Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings, — the hunger, the nakedness, the cold, which they patiently endured, — the severe labors of clearing their grounds, building their houses, raising their provisions, amidst dangers from wild beasts and savage men, before they had time or money or materials for commerce. Recollect the civil and religious principles and hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried them through all hardships with patience and resignation. Let us recollect it was liberty, the hope of liberty for themselves and us and ours, which conquered all discouragements, dangers, and trials. In such researches as these, let us all in our several departments cheerfully engage, — but especially the proper patrons and supporters of law, learning, and religion!...

Let the bar proclaim, “the laws, the rights, the generous plan of power” delivered down from remote antiquity, — inform the world of the mighty struggles and numberless sacrifices made by our ancestors in defense of freedom. Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments, but original rights, conditions of original contracts, coequal with prerogative, and coeval with government; that many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxims, and established as preliminaries, even before a parliament existed. Let them search for the foundations of British laws and government in the frame of human nature, in the constitution of the intellectual and moral world. There let us see that truth, liberty, justice, and benevolence, are its everlasting basis; and if these could be removed, the superstructure is overthrown of course...

The first step that is intended, seems to be an entire subversion of the whole system of our fathers, by the introduction of the canon and feudal law into America. The canon and feudal systems, though greatly mutilated in England, are not yet destroyed. Like the temples and palaces in which the great contrivers of them once worshipped and inhabited, they exist in ruins; and much of the domineering spirit of them still remains. The designs and labors of a certain society, to introduce the former of them into America, have been well exposed to the public by a writer of great abilities;...

No one of any feeling, born and educated in this once happy country, can consider the numerous distresses, the gross indignities, the barbarous ignorance, the haughty usurpations, that we have reason to fear are meditating for ourselves, our children, our neighbors, in short, for all our countrymen and all their posterity, without the utmost agonies of heart and many tears.

http://www.ashbrook.org/library/18/adams/canonlaw.html

Do you have a copy of your BC/COLB online?

Danae had hers up last year and she went through some pain remembering how she came by the new one but it finally made sense when she did.

Thanks.

I vote ZOT squared.

I wonder why Bucky is so righteously outraged against Miss Tickly but says not one freaking syllable to the toadying 0thugga suckups who post not only nonsense and lies but offend and insult freepers constantly.

Hmmmmmm..............

Actually I don’t wonder why at all!

To Infinity and Beyond!!!