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My Take on Militias

I testified before Congress in 1995 (Subcommittee on Crime) against the so-called "assault weapon" ban and the ramifications of the Brady Bill. While in D.C. I tried to tell various congressmen that out in fly-over land, people were so angry with the government (especially the Clinton regime) and so in fear of what the radical left was doing to our country from the highest levels, that they were forming armed militias in anticipation of a confrontation with "federals."  Waco and Ruby Ridge lit the fuse, and the anti-gun laws that were being jammed down our throats fertilized the movement. 

These representatives looked at me like I was crazy. "There’s no such thing as militias out there" they would say. They obviously had no clue what was happening west of the Potomac.  This was on April the 5th, 1995, 14 days before the OKC bombing.

As a Tulsa Police officer, I was assigned to work with the local FBI in assisting in the investigation of the bombing. All of our leads led to middle-easterners working with McVeigh and Nichols. But the Clinton regime, Freeh and Reno did NOT want a Islamic connection, even though we had eye witnesses on the scene who saw them at the Murrah building, holding the parking place for McVeigh and the Ryder truck, and later, tied to Abu Sayef in the Philippines. Instead, it was an ideal opportunity for the lefties in D.C. and the Media to go after the "militias" (that two weeks before they said didn’t exist).

First the raid on Nichol’s brother’s farm, then the so-called investigation into Elohim City, which is a Christian Identity compound in eastern Oklahoma almost on the Arkansas border. The media went wild and began demonizing any and all "militia" groups. It was an all-out attack on the right wing and had nothing to do with the actual bombing case and what evidence and witnesses bore out.

I was then assigned to help investigate the militias and this is what I discovered: There were small groups forming all over the country. Some were out in the open and vocal and some were more clandestine. But all were lumped in together no matter what their political ideology. These groups ran from armed neighborhood watch programs to the far left neo-nazis of WAR and Stormfront. All were branded as "anti-government" and nothing was mentioned in the media or FBI reports about those that were forming to protect and defend the Constitution.

Adding fuel to the fire was the far left Southern Poverty Law Center. A con-man named Morris Dees has made millions by scaring various groups of people (mostly minorities) and soliciting money from them for his news letters (Militia Watch and Klan Watch) to be their watch dog. Over the years the SPLC has become joined at the hip with the FBI and  the lamestream media.  During the bombing investigation we discovered that Abraham Foxeman at the ADL, Morris Dees and Mark Potock at SPLC and another phoney talking head named Chip Berlet of the so-called "Political Research Associates" in Cambridge, MA all sing the same song. And these are the anti-American morons that the media quotes and uses as sources. No one calls them to task on where they get their information or numbers that they "quote".

In the end, these organizations derailed the investigation, took it away from the actual evidence and actual suspects, and basically destroyed it.

Then when the Amtrack derailment occurred in Hyder, Arizona (Sunset Limited), it was immediately blamed on a "militia" though none existed there. Following that was the Viper Militia incident in Phoenix which was a tiny group of boneheads who decided they’d try and identify and maybe attack government buildings. They had been infiltrated early on and the only thing that came out of that was their arrests.

The proof in the pudding on what the agenda for left-wing politicians in D.C. is after is reflected in the brochures that have been issued by the FBI and Homeland Security that describe terrorists as those who believe in the Bible, the Constitution, belong to a gun group such as the NRA or GOA, and claim to be "patriots." All combat veterans are also considered "threats".

Now, people are finally beginning to see through the smoke and mirrors of left-wing political manipulations of reality. And the "government" is terrified of it.  Huge numbers of armed civilians, Tea Party movement, talk radio, civil anger coupled with disbelief in what is happening around us, the economy and so on is fueling a huge movement that may force the pendulum back to the right.  Or even revolution if push comes to shove.

The Luciferian/Satanic agenda of those in power is out in the open now and people are taking notice and reacting all over the country.  As the Chinese used to say "we are living in interesting times."

Craig Roberts
Tulsa PD, Ret.
LTC, USAR, Ret
USMC, RVN ’65-66

Obama Birth Certificate Issue More Urgent Than Ever

Now that the regime currently occupying the White House has bribed, threatened, intimidated, bullied, manipulated and cut unconstitutional and illegal deals exclusively with Democrats to vote for the totalitarian nightmare of socialized medicine, the subject of Obama’s missing birth certificate is more timely and relevant than ever – precisely because the ugly spectacle emphasized once again the degree to which Obama has arrogantly flouted, sneered at, and spit upon the U.S. Constitution, a document he and his handlers and henchmen clearly revile and are determined to shred and destroy.

The same contempt for the bedrock foundations of our country was apparent during Obama’s run for the presidency and his refusal to produce his birth certificate. It reminds me of the search I conducted in 2004 for my mother’s birth certificate, a non-negotiable prerequisite for her admission into a nursing home. Although she was born in a farmhouse in 1913 to immigrants who didn’t speak English, it took me only three phone calls and not more than 20 minutes to locate this valuable document. Unlike Obama, who was born, he says, in 1961, I didn’t pay nearly two-million dollars to lawyers to fight the nursing home’s request.

To this day Obama has failed to produce proof that he was born in the United States and that he is a natural-born American citizen, one of only three absolute requirements in the U.S. Constitution to become President of the United States.  In fact, if Obama is not a natural-born American citizen, he is acting as president under false pretenses, which de facto makes every statement he has made as the usurper POTUS, every bill he has signed, every tsar he has appointed, every act, proclamation, signing statement, executive order, and law, et al, fraudulent, illegal, and therefore null and void – including this unconstitutional healthcare so-called reform bill.

As I type, Mr. Hope & Change is working on granting citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants to further bankrupt the United States and thereby etch in stone a constituency that relies on free everything – and will therefore return the favor by voting Democratic in future elections. This will actualize his and the far-left’s goals of turning our democratic Republic into a Communist share-the-poverty facsimile of a Russian, Cuban or Venezuelan state!

But that is not all: Obama is putting on the fast track the cap-and-trade scheme to tax every person in the U.S. every time he or she flushes the toilet, turns on a light, opens the refrigerator, drives a car, the list of penalties for merely living go on and on.

When this or that writer or commentator asks, “Doesn’t he realize that X. Y. Z?” – the answer is, of course he does! His entire raison d’être is to convert the country he hates – America – into the kind of socialist/communist/fascist country he clearly admires. Exhibit no. 1 is surely his serial embrace of foreign dictators and his undisguised hostility to our most trusted allies.

How did this happen? As blogger Daniel Greenfield notes, Obama’s election “was not about what the people wanted. It was about his own victory by any means necessary. Hardly surprising from the man who began his political career by betraying and destroying his own mentor, climbed into the United States Senate over two sex scandals that were a product of his opposition research, and reached the White House through voter fraud, illegal campaign donations and an owned media corps….Each win for Obama was another loss for fair and honest elections. And each time Obama won, it was not because the public decided he was the better man, but because the sheer array of dirty tricks, fraud and media propaganda insured that no choices would be allowed.”

Today, there are few Americans, even Obama’s acolytes and fans, who now think he is a natural-born American or, for that matter, a Christian, as he pretended to be as a congregant for 20 years in his Chicago pastor’s Black Theology church. In short, black theology is Marxist doctrine: hate America, hate whitey, hate Jews, hate free-market capitalism, hate the U.S. Constitution. Here, he just about admits as much. From where I stand, that pretty well sums up Obama’s first 14 months in office.

THE USURPER-IN-CHIEF

At this point, every member of the Congress and media, as well as ordinary citizens, knows that there was something putridly rotten about Obama’s election. Not just the billion dollars in campaign donations, most of which are still unaccounted for but known to have flowed from foreign donors, many of them enemies of America. And not just the missing mountains of qualifying data that all presidential candidates are expected to produce, including:
•   His Illinois law license. Is he even a lawyer? Where is his supposed Harvard Law degree? Where are the papers he wrote in law school? Why does he not correct people when they say he was a law professor when he was never a professor but only a lecturer?
•   His Selective Service registration, which investigative-journalist and lawyer Debbie Schlussel has reported to be falsified, an accusation that Linda Bentley quite persuasively documented just the other day.
•   His visa or more probably visas. After all, he did travel to Pakistan in 1981 when Americans were forbidden into that country. Did he use the Indonesian visa he got when he was a citizen of that country?
•   His school records from Indonesia and Hawaii.
•   His college transcripts from Occidental College in CA, Columbia College in NY, and Harvard Law School in MA
•   His Baptism certificate.
•   His Illinois State Senate records.
•   His law practice client list.
•   His University of Chicago records, where Obama, the instructor, supposedly taught
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Just as mysterious is the question of who exactly backed this virtually unknown neophyte senator with the paper-thin résumé and almost non-existent voting record, this man who had lifelong associations with countless dubious-if-not-criminal friends and associates as well as political radicals.

We now know the leftist billionaire financier George Soros was and is a major backer. And we’ve also learned that dozens of Clinton administration leftovers and elected officials, all of the hard left, as well as a number of hugely influential executives and bankers from AIG and Goldman Sachs were part of Obama’s toxic brew. But how, you may ask, could these arch capitalists be leftists? Like Soros, they fancy themselves Kings of the Universe, smarter than the average Joe and therefore destined to join a new American oligarchy in which the few rule and the many are under their collective thumbs.

The motives of these megalomaniacs involve the tenacious belief – facts to the contrary – that the proven tyrannies of socialism and communism will improve the lot of the masses they consider so stupid, combined with a driving lust for absolute power – you know, the kind that corrupts absolutely. Underlying both is a worldview in which most people are perceived to be “victims” of “the system.” And of course a fulminating rage.

Again, Greenfield weighs in, explaining that that rage is part of “the bargain leftists always strike: I Will Only Love You, If You Kill Yourself.  Leftists only love an America, he says, “in which the Constitution is wielded to protect Islamic terrorists and a man who hates the country can take office in the White House, in which the lives of Americans are worthless but the comfortable treatment of captured terrorists is worth more than gold, in which all of the country’s history and values are viewed as nothing more than the brutal atrocities of greedy savages, while the brutal atrocities of newly arrived greedy savages are treated as heroic achievements worthy of celebration and praise…”

“In their more honest moments,” Greenfield continues, “leftists will admit that they do not love America, only its potential…to be changed by them…moments like Michelle Obama proclaiming that she had never been proud of her country before…a chilling glimpse into the mind of the left that cannot love anything that is not an expression of their own ego…”

“They love [an] America that legalizes illegal aliens, displaces its own citizens to make way for them and tears down all barriers against crime and terror. They love America, so long as it frees terrorists from prison, and when war is declared against it by a fanatical cult of mass murderers, it gives the murderers their day in court with lawyers and a trial…This is the America they love. I will only love you, if you kill yourself.”

A CABAL OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS

A coup d’état is never an overnight phenomenon. It takes years, often decades, of planning, and more often than not there are thwarted attempts along the way. In America, leftists have been actively trying both to undermine and overthrow our country since at least the 1960s (actually well before then, unquestionably for the last hundred years). They tried with Jimmy Carter, but in spite of the lasting harm he did, his stupendous incompetence ultimately did him in, relegating him to one ignominious term.

They tried again with Bill Clinton, who spent years – when he might have been fighting for our country in Vietnam – hanging around England smoking pot and, oddly, “visiting” Communist Russia. Clinton lasted two terms, largely because he was too narcissistic and undisciplined to stick to the leftist party line, craving the spotlight to such a degree that when the electorate smacked him and his wife down for trying to inflict socialized medicine on our citizens, he moved ever so nimbly to the center, where he stayed until he practically had to be dragged off the stage during the most self-aggrandizing departure of a president in American history.

Through these failures, the left learned never to depend on a genuine natural-born American citizen to actualize their coup, that the real thing would somehow retain some random DNA strands of affection for our republic. They would have to find a faux American, one that looked and sounded like the real thing, but whose allegiance to America was non-existent – perhaps someone who had lived in a Muslim country, studied the Koran, subscribed to Sharia law, and had lifelong relationships with Marxists and Communists and other America haters. Enter the man who calls himself Barack Obama.

In a stunning piece of journalism – Who’s Your Daddy? Who’s Your Mama? AND WHERE IS YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE?, a “concerned citizen” speculates about several plausible scenarios that describe who Obama’s parents might have been, where he might have been born, and how the idea to insinuate this Manchurian Candidate-Trojan Horse into America’s body politic came to pass. The article raises numerous provocative questions:

•   What exactly happened in the Teresa Hotel in Harlem in 1960?
•   Where does Fidel Castro fit in? Khrushchev? Malcolm X?
•   How could Obama’s “mother,” Stanley Ann Dunham, have delivered him in August of 1961 in Honolulu when official University of Washington records show her 2680 miles away in Seattle attending classes that same month? (Pamela Geller: www.atlasshruged.com).
•   Was Madelyn Dunham really Obama’s mother, and not his grandmother?
•   Was he the product of an affair between his “grandfather,” Stanley Armour Dunham (who he looks like) and one of the Asian, Polynesian or Indonesian girls who frequented the beaches of Hawaii in the 1950s? On the cover of Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, why is the man he claims is his father, Barack Obama Sr., not pictured, while his grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, is pictured? Was the dark-skinned woman on the cover his real mother?
•   Was he really the son of his earliest mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a prominent poet, Communist political activist, and self-professed pedophile? Davis wrote about raping a 13-year-old girl. Could that girl have been Stanley Ann Dunham? Could this be why Obama wrote on his Facebook page that he was born in 1957?
•   Was Obama really the only son of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz? They had six daughters but did they leave the care of their only son to surrogates to protect him from the same fate – assassination – that killed Malcolm X?
•   Or did Malcolm X father Obama with one of the dozens of daughters of the Communist Indonesian President Sukarno, after the older man invited him to the anti-white, anti-capitalist Bandung conference in 1955? Sukarno loathed America. Was it he who hatched the plot to take over America? Did he then share his idea with Malcolm X because he believed the American Muslim was capable of succeeding?
•   Where do the Rockefellers fit in? Recent speculation has it that Michael Rockefeller, the Harvard graduate who is thought to have died in Papua, New Guinea, may have fathered Obama with a Papuan woman. Here’s a film of Michael’s strange odyssey. Is it coincidence that Obama’s “grandfather” Stanley and his stepfather Lolo Soetoro both worked for the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil Company?
•   Is it coincidence that the Marxist-praising Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Rockefeller crony and Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, now acts as an advisor to Obama?
•   What are we to make of Obama’s old friend from high school, Illinois Army National Guard Major L. Tammy Duckworth, telling (The Honolulu Advisor on January 8, 2006), that she was “happy to point out that she and Hawaii-raised Punahou (Indonesia) high school graduate Obama have “a karma’aina connection”? Both of them, she said, were born outside the country – Obama in Indonesia, Duckworth in Thailand. Predictably, Duckworth retracted her statement a few days after the article appeared in print.
•   Was it just a fashion statement when we witnessed Michelle Obama on election night appear in a dress of the revolutionary and anarchic colors of red and black, with a gigantic sash in the unmistakable configuration of an X – and Obama’s very young daughters also dressed in revolutionary red and black? As an observer wrote, “What if the garb worn by the Obama’s was a silent tribute to Barack’s real father, Malcolm X?…the red and black dress and that X that hits you between the eyes…where are the various shades of red, white, and blue?…”
•   Was the CIA behind Obama’s attempted coup d’état? Where does the Ford Foundation fit in? If you want a much more extensive history of the Ford Foundation, the CIA and the ghastly Indonesian coup, read David Ransom’s piece here.
•   What is the likelihood of Obama’s so-called mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, meeting two “husbands” – Barack Obama Sr. and Lolo Soetoro, both connected to “Big Oil” – at the University of Hawaii?
•   Obama denies he’s a Muslim but “the accumulated research from primary sources who knew Obama from his childhood indicate that he was a devout Muslim, the son of a devout Muslim, the stepson of a devout Muslim and the grandson and namesake (“Hussein”) of a devout Muslim. He was registered in school in Indonesia as a Muslim and demonstrated his ability to chant praise to Allah in impressive Arab-accented tones even as an adult. Just as he has not disavowed his `uncle’ Jeremiah, neither has he disavowed the Muslim faith that he was born into and raised in. Here, with George Stephanopoulos, Obama says as much.
•   Is Obama the son of spooks and a spook himself?

In a can’t-put-down article, Deanna Spingola writes of Pastor James David Manning, who in May is holding a public trial at Columbia University in New York (just blocks from Manning’s church in Harlem) that is charging Barack Obama with treason! Here is what Spingola writes:

“Obama…was recruited [at Occidental College in CA] in 1980 by the CIA [when Stansfield M. Turner was the director] which has made it a practice since its inception to recruit college students. He was, by his own admission, a `C’ student, a dope smoker and a member of the Marxist Club at Occidental, a co-educational liberal arts college.  In 1981, Obama allegedly transferred from Occidental to Columbia University…Columbia had a foreign student program and the CIA has major connections and influence with Columbia and the nation’s other educational facilities…the CIA needed Muslims or others who could easily blend into the Muslim environment in the Middle East…Obama, as an undercover agent, was the lead agent in the arms and money supply for the CIA-trained Taliban Army against the Soviet Army war machine. His actions were integral to the Taliban’s success in their opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Obama, it is publicly acknowledged, went to Pakistan in 1981.  There is no way of knowing how often Obama traveled between Pakistan and Russia.

“According to Dr. Manning,” Spingola writes, “Obama was an interpreter for the CIA during the war in Afghanistan.  When Obama completed his CIA operations in the mid 1980s and returned to the U.S. he persuaded the State Department to maneuver his entrance into Harvard Law School…”

Needless to say, Pastor Manning’s life has been threatened and continues to be threatened by people who are deeply afraid of his explosive charges.

And here is yet another bizarre oddity: an article saying that Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, “voluntarily surrendered” his law license back in 2008 in order to escape charges that he lied on his bar application, and that First Lady Michelle Obama "voluntarily surrendered" her law license in 1993!

MASSIVE MEDIA MALFEASANCE

I have written at length of the many lawyers and journalists who have addressed the birth certificate issue. You can read some of their names here. But with the notable and noteworthy exceptions I’ve mentioned, other so-called investigative journalists who should have been asking and answering the above questions and dozens of others are an extinct species, killed off by leftist media moguls in league with the Obama regime or too timid and pandering in their own rights to have taken up the cudgels on behalf of the public they pretend to serve.

People understand why hacks from the former, now moribund, mainstream media have avoided the subject of Obama’s eligibility like the plague it is. By and large they are liberals and leftists who shilled for him during his campaign, concealed mountains of damning evidence about his lack of experience and shady associations, and studiously avoided any mention of his still-unknown country of birth.

But harder to understand are the hacks at Fox. In a startling display of dishonesty and pretension, Bill O’Reilly, who wants to be considered intelligent and so never fails to tell his audience that he earned a master’s degree at Harvard, apparently never studied coups d’états, never realized that the Marxist Castro’s shining moment came only after years of agitation, rebellion, subterfuge, et al. But the idea of Obama being part of a conspiracy was apparently too much for the former elementary school teacher to contemplate… above his pay grade, so to speak. Never even consulted Wikipedia, as I just did, to learn of the hundreds of coups d’etat that took place in the 20th century alone.

Apparently Harvard never taught Mr. “looking out for the folks” about the successful coups in Argentina in 1943, in Thailand in 1947, in Czechoslovakia in 1948, in Egypt in 1952, in Paraguay in 1954, in Pakistan in1958, in Venezuela in 1958,  in Turkey in 1960, in Ecuador and Syria and Brazil and South Vietnam and Ghana and Libya and Somalia and Greece and Chile and again in Pakistan, the list is endless – and the immense and lengthy planning that went into these government overthrows. Or the more recent coups – since 1999 – in the Ivory Coast, Fiji, Peru, Mauritania, Haiti, Congo, et al.

Without acknowledging the widespread existence of coups and the years or decades of planning they entailed, O’Reilly decided to slam “the birthers” – as he pejoratively calls those who still believe in the Constitution and think presidents of the U.S. should abide by it, starting with their eligibility – and stated that he personally had seen Obama’s birth certificate.

Of course he hadn’t. He lied. Then in an orchestrated charade, he trotted out two of the women, both lawyers, he routinely disrespects by barking out their last names and in essence had them standing on their hind legs, yapping in agreement about those misguided “birthers.” It didn’t take long for Glenn Beck to echo their yaps. That’s right, the guy who routinely looks straight in the camera and exhorts his audience to seek “the truth.”

Why would O’Reilly lie? Why would Beck avoid seeking “the truth” in this one glaring instance? Were they threatened, as Douglas Hagmann – a respected journalist, director of the Northeast Intelligence Network and longtime private investigator, and Judi McLeod, a prolific journalist and the managing editor of Canada Free Press – suggested? After a nine-month investigation, they discovered that prominent media people had indeed been threatened by the heads of major TV and radio stations and also Federal Communication Commission officials – with job losses and worse – to never raise, allude to or mention the birth certificate issue! Or was it the huge influence the Saudis have over Fox content since they bought and then increased their shares to nearly 20 percent in Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp? 

Whatever. The fact that O’Reilly and Beck caved – and continue to cave – has forever negated their credibility.

WHAT NOW?

So appalled are a majority of Americans at the hijacking of one-sixth of the American economy through the healthcare legislation, and so revolted by the hideous process it entailed, that upwards of 15 state attorneys general – and counting – are suing the federal government on grounds that key parts of the Deathcare law are unconstitutional – that the law includes taxpayer-funded abortions (smoke-and-mirrors to the contrary), kill-the-elderly cuts to Medicare seniors, huge tax increases that will wipe out the entire middle-class of our country, and a Nazi-like brown-shirt $16-billion-taxpayer-funded force of Internal Revenue Service goons to reinforce our descent into tyranny. Ordinary citizens are suing too, among them four residents of Michigan, represented by the Thomas More Law Center and attorney David Yerushalmi.

And dozens if not hundreds of groups are crying Repeal, which former speaker Newt Gingrich explained was not possible because Obama would veto such a move. What is possible, Gingrich said, is for Republicans to gain majorities in the House and Senate during the midterms in November and then cut off funding for this horrific, bankrupt-the-nation law. And if the GOP gains the presidency in 2012, they can then repeal this socialist blueprint.

But there may lie the rub. As writer J.D. Longstreet reminds us: “The democrats’ lust for power is so great and their zeal for socialism so intense that I cannot see them allowing their hold on power to be placed in jeopardy by, of all things, an election where the voice of the people is actually heard…in less than eighteen months the Obama Regime has managed to take America from a constitutional republic to a socialist republic…that accomplishment alone should give you reason enough to suspect that when their power is threatened they will use the full force of the Central Government to ruthlessly crush any and all who they perceive as a threat. At this moment in history, a threat is anyone, any American, who does not agree with them.”

Longstreet and others imagine Obama creating a national crisis or emergency – sort of like the phony swine flu “pandemic” last year – in which Martial Law is declared and the midterm elections are suspended. “Who decides what a national emergency is?” he asks. “You’ve got it – the Obama Regime!”

Longstreet then issues a warning: “The American people are a patient people. We will put up with a lot of nonsense from our government – for a while. But we draw the line when that government ignores the Constitution, as the Obama Regime and the Democrats in the Congress have done. There is a seething rage in America today…my senses tell me it is too late to avoid the `lashing out’ Americans are about to unleash. [Americans] are waiting, just waiting, for an incident that will knock the chocks from the dam wall holding back the cascade. Postponing, or suspending, the midterm election…would be the spark that ignites a firestorm that will consume all in its path.”

Journalist Sher Zieve concurs. “The political party that promoted the slavery of Africans, established Jim Crow laws, created the Ku Klux Klan, refused to follow court orders barring segregation…is now is full raging power within the borders of the United States of America. Most of them—including their dictatorial leader Barack Hussein Obama—realize that the chances for their reelections to power are, at best, marginal. I have warned that any and all `free’ elections would probably soon be a thing of the past. The Marxist way is to not allow them, in the first place.

“The current US government is moving quickly and forcefully against the American people,” Zieve continues. “I have to now wonder how close We-the-People are today toward reaching the same conclusions as did our founders…I think we may be as close to our founders ultimate decision as we will ever be. Do we wish to be free and sovereign or submit to bondage? For a brief window of time longer, it’s still our choice.”

Then there is Michael Connelly’s stern warning: “…I have some bad news for all of the socialists, or progressives, or whatever you choose to call yourselves this week, you have made a huge mistake. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto who led the attack said that: `I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.’

“I suggest to President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid that you have awakened the giant again and that this giant, made up of freedom loving Americans, is going to be coming at you from every direction you can imagine. Individuals and State Governments will be challenging you in the courts, and Americans will take you on in the polling places. In every city, town and village you will hear the voices of angry Americans and despite your best efforts we will not be silenced. You will hear the outcry of Americans of every race, religion, and creed and we will prevail. “

All of this takes time, of course…. time well spent. But it will take less time to revive the serious question of Obama’s very suspect eligibility to be president in the first place!

“Forget the dispute over the `natural born citizen’ requirement of the U.S. Constitution for presidents,” writes Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily. “Barack Obama may not even be a `citizen,’ according to a new filing in a long-running legal challenge to his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.”

If there is even one court in our land whose judge has not been threatened, intimidated, bought off or bribed, the case for Obama’s ineligibility should be tried immediately. If found guilty, I suspect Obama would be responsible for the greatest purchase of confetti in the history of the world!

Democrat Health Control Passes

A transformative health bill is headed to President Barack Hussein Obama for his signature as Congress takes the final steps in Democrats’ history-making anti-constitutional near-universal medical control of individual Americans.  Individuals will be required to purchase insurance or be fined.  If the fine is not paid; citizens can now be sent to prison by the Internal Revenue Service which will monitor compliance.

Never mind that the vast majority of health procedures denied are refused by the Government’s Medicare program – vastly more than private company denials.

Never mind that of the asserted 32 million currently not covered by private insurance approximately 12 million are illegal immigrants and, of the remaining 20 million, most are young-professionals that would rather “party down” than spend their own money on insurance.  (At that age, they are all ten feet tall and bullet proof don’t ya know.)  

Never mind that 67 percent were pleased with private health care and appreciative of an America’s health care system that was, until this bill passed, the best in the world.

Never mind that this Socialist US Administration (so named by Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela) has already quadrupled the national debt in 18 months from the previous administration’s eight year total at a time the US economy is floundering and under attack worldwide with unemployment rising to historic levels.

Never mind that Congress could hold public hearings on steroid use by baseball players, but not on this program that will touch the lives of nearly every American.

Never mind the unconstitutional procedures used to move this legislation forward or the bribes paid with public money to secure votes in evil, greedy, if not illegal demagogy.

And please forget 20 years of feminists’ protests about how their reproductive systems are theirs to control – killing fetuses without regard – as government will now tell women when, how and to-what-degree they may address hangnail issues and athletes foot.

Jubilant House Democrats voted 219-212 late Sunday to send the legislation to President Barack Hussein Obama.

This program will bring under government regulation over one-sixth of the US economy which is greater than the total economies of Britain and Canada.

A companion package making a series of changes sought by House Democrats to the larger bill, which already passed the Senate, was approved 220-211.  The so-called fix-it bill will now go to the Senate, where debate is expected to begin as early as Tuesday. Senate Democrats hope to approve it unchanged and send it directly to Obama.  Republicans intend to attempt parliamentary objections that could change the bill and require it to go back to the House.

Sen. John McCain said Monday morning that Democrats have not heard the last of the health care debate, and said he was repulsed by "all this euphoria going on."  Appearing on ABC’s "Good Morning America," McCain, said that "outside the Beltway, the American people are very angry. They don’t like it, and we’re going to repeal this."

McCain, who is in a tough Republican primary fight with J D Hayworth, an ardent constitutionalist, said the GOP "will challenge it every place we can," and said there will be reprisals at the polls, in Congress and in the courts.

In praise of themselves Democrats raved.  "We will be joining those who established Social Security, Medicare and now, tonight, health care for all Americans," said Pelosi, D-Calif., intimate partner to Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the grueling campaign to pass the legislation.

GOP lawmakers attacked the legislation and none voted in favor. "Hell no!" Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, shouted in a fiery speech opposing the legislation. "We have failed to listen to America and we have failed to reflect the will of our constituents."

Thirty-four Democrats also voted "no" on the Senate-passed bill.

Sunday night’s votes capped an unpredictable and raucous weekend at the capitol, with Democratic leaders negotiating around the clock for the final votes as thousands of protesters paraded outside, their shouts of "Kill the Bill! Kill the Bill!" audible within the Capitol. Some of those protesters live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and traveled to the capital for this purpose.

Far beyond the political ramifications — a concern the president repeatedly insisted he paid no mind — were the sweeping changes the bill held in store for Americans, insured or not, as well as the insurance industry and health care providers.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said this trillion dollar legislation would cut deficits by an estimated $138 billion over a decade based on assumptions provided by supporters and questioned by critics.  Critics said the assumptions are inane if not disingenuous and note that every entitlement bill ever passed by Congress has proven more expensive than promised on scales of tens of millions if not billions of dollars.

For the first time, most Americans are required to purchase insurance, and face penalties then incarceration if they refuse. Much of the money in the bill would be devoted to subsidies to help families at incomes of up to $88,000 a year pay their premiums.  As President Barack Hussein Obama told “Joe the Plummer” redistribution of wealth is central to his ideology.

Hidden from early debate, the legislation also included sweeping changes in the student loan program; an administration priority that has been stalled in the Senate for months.  Other changes of marginal legality may also be included.  The most frequent phrase contained in the bill are the words, “the Secretary shall” thus rules and regulations without regard or restriction may be installed at the whim of bureaucratic appointments.

Obama watched the vote in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with Vice President Joe Biden and dozens of aides, exchanged high fives with Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, and then telephoned Pelosi with congratulations.

President Obama is expected to try to sell the bill to the public in his now traditional controlled environments of carefully selected supporters in historically tyrannical demagogic fashion.  A White House aide said he was likely to take at least one trip this weekend to emphasize the legislation’s benefits.  No open press conferences are planned.

To pay for the changes, the legislation has been discovered so-far to include more than $400 billion in higher taxes over a decade and cuts more than $500 billion from planned payments to hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and other providers that treat Medicare patients.

Whatever Happend to…Common Sense?

RIP...Common SenseDo you recall when you were little and you would say something or do something and someone who was in authority over you said, "Think before you speak or do." or something to that effect?  Maybe it wasn’t really all that long ago. 

I have long been one that has sat on the sidelines and wondered why people do some of the things they do.  People watching is one of my favorite pastimes.  I could literally sit at a Quik Trip all day and watch the colorful people that walk in and out and wonder what is going on in their lives.  Do some of these people even really look at themselves before they venture out?  Let us look at the ever popular and growing daily peopleofwalmart.com, this is a site completely devoted to looking at people who have decided to throw caution to the wind and flip the bird at common sense as we know it and let it all hang out (most times literally).

Leads me to ask the question……Whatever Happened to…..Common Sense?

I may not be the first and I probably won’t be the last to say the following, "I don’t have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem."  You know what I mean, the times when someone does something and just makes you shake your head and wonder "what were you thinking?"  I know I am not the only one. 

It really is everywhere you look.  At the store, at the ballgame, in the car, at school, at work, and sadly more often than not in government, local and national. 

Webster defines common sense as: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.  Did you catch that "simple perception"?  I would think that means just by looking at a situation or the facts of something that you can automatically see the path to take.  My gosh that seems so easy.  Then why is it that we have the bulk of society not exercising any?  I will be honest and say that I myself have not perfected always using common sense, but I think that I (and others) have a strong grasp on it.

Let’s look at other examples of lack of common sense as I see it. 

The City of Tulsa recently laid off over 100 police officers and firefighters.  During the same newscast that this was announced in, moments later was a story about the fiscal study of bringing the Olympics to Tulsa.  Really!?  Are you kidding me?  So let me get this straight, we are going to lay off safety on our streets to see if we have a snowballs chance in hell at getting a bid for the summer Olympic games.  The same Olympic games that just threw out Chicago in the opening round for the 2016 games.  To quote John McEnroe, "You can’t be serious!" 

I recently received, in the mail, a letter telling me that I would be receiving another letter in the mail for the 2010 US Census.  This after they spents millions during the Super Bowl to tell me that it would be coming.  Is there a reason that all this money is being spent? Why not just send me the census?  Does anyone else see this as a little ridiculous?

It isn’t just a large scale problem, this little animal rears it’s ugly little head in our private lives as much as anywhere.  I know it does in my house.  We have tried to adopt what I call the "three second rule."  If after thinking about what you are about to do or say for three seconds before doing or saying it and it still seems right, you may be in good shape.  It isn’t rocket science, it is simply a pause and a ponder.  Is what I am doing or saying going to make me look like a bonehead?

Imagine if there was a resurrection of Common Sense in this city, state, country.  Could it be possible, for people to think about things before they do it, think about words before they speak them, think about that website above before you wear it out?

It is the Easter season, a time when we celebrate "the" resurrection.  Could another happen now, when we need it most?

This topic is sure to be revisited soon.  If you have experiences or examples please add your comment to the bottom.  At best we all need a good laugh.

 

About the author:  Ernie Osborn is just a regular joe that sees life around him a little differently.  He is a former youth leader that believes that life should be lived to the fullest.  His views and opinions may or may not reflect those of Tulsa Today.  Ernie serves as Concert Editor for Tulsa Today.  (In other words, if his writing strikes you and makes you think, great, or if it just makes you laugh and scratch your head that is fine too)

Conservative Leadership Quandary

It is easy to be welcomed as a Liberal – just oppose freedom, capitalism, and individual responsibility then welcome the dream of a collective utopia imposed by government.  Conservatives, on the other hand, are known to demonize each other over specific policy subsets.  No other race exemplifies this self-destruction more than the primary race for Governor of Oklahoma.

Republicans are just beginning to remake the state after 100 years of Democrat control of the State Legislature, but, motivated by the Obama Administration’s anti-American policies, new face leadership hot to save the nation have engaged.  They don’t trust anyone who ever served prior to their own awakening.  They seem to demand loyalty to one train of thought, one policy, one group, one leader or the other with the result like uncovered popcorn cooking off in every direction.

Don’t worry America; Conservatives not desirous of leadership are much less inclined to fight each other.  So say poll results in the Oklahoma race.

Relatively new in politics and most often described as “angry” in tone; Randy Brogdon is mounting his first statewide race from his position as State Senator from Owasso, a growing Tulsa suburb city.  Borgdon positions himself to the right of the right and holds significant support.  

Brogdon supporters include many from the group that attempted to highjack the last State Republican Convention in behalf of Ron Paul.  Further, some of his loyalists have secured positions of authority within the Tulsa County Republican Office which has lead to multiple disputes with the State Party.

Brogdon is the author of SJR 10, otherwise known as the 10th Amendment Resolution. This resolution is designed to protect states rights and prevent the federal government from overexerting its legislative power.  He was also the first State Senator in 20 years to receive a 100% mark on the Conservative Vote Index.

The other Republican in this battle is Mary Fallin, long known as a conservative.  Fallin was first elected in 1990 as a member of the State Legislature, then as the first woman Lt. Governor from 1995 to 2006, and currently serves as U.S. Representative to Congress.  Mary Fallin was recently interviewed by Tulsa Today (click here to read that interview).

Fallin has been named a “Guardian of Small Business,” by the National Federation of Independent Business, a “Hero of the Taxpayer,” by Americans for Tax Reform, a “Friend of the Wildcatter” from the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association and received the “True Blue” award from Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council as well as the “Spirit of Enterprise” award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She has a lifelong score of 96 from the American Conservative Union, the highest of any congressman in the Oklahoma delegation.

So who is winning Oklahoma hearts and minds at the moment?

A Rasmussen survey, conducted on February 24 among 500 likely voters, reports that Mary Fallin continues a significant advantage.  Fallin leads both Democrat candidates and, in a general election, is the only candidate to receive a majority percentage of the ballot share.  If the election were today, Fallin would beat OK Attorney General Drew Edmondson with a fifteen point advantage (51% – 36%) and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins by fourteen points (51% – 37%).  Again, both are Democrats currently serving in state office.

Rasmussen reports, sixty-two percent (62%) of likely voters have a “favorable” impression of Mary Fallin.  This is driven by twenty-six percent (26%), more than a quarter of the electorate, who report having a “very” favorable image of Fallin.  Thirty-one percent (31%) have an “unfavorable” image of Fallin – a 2:1 favorable to unfavorable ratio.

On Randy Brogdon the survey documented, “Just thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters have a favorable impression while thirty-two percent (32%) have an unfavorable image – a 1.2:1 favorable to unfavorable ratio.  In addition, twenty-nine percent (29%) do not have an impression or image of Brogden” at all.

One pollster concludes, “This data continues to emphasize Mary Fallin’s strong candidacy and likelihood that she will be the next governor of Oklahoma.  Her favorable rating and the very high level of awareness is a solid indicator that she is the frontrunner and enjoys a significant advantage over the other candidates in the race.”

At the Eric Clapton concert recently a young Republican woman was asking for my opinion of leadership within one party club.  She worried that she had not been involved all that long and, therefore, should not seek a leadership position.

I asked her, “Do you believe in the Constitution, free enterprise, and individual liberty?”

“Yes,” she answered without hesitation.

“Then welcome to the battle and don’t hesitate to lead the charge!”

She gave me hope for the future.  She holds the core beliefs and she can work in-group.  She sought advice not because she wanted to “be something,” but because she wanted to “do something” to benefit her community, state and nation.  There are more and more people like her each and every day.

We should thank the Obama Administration for this awakening and for not having a clue what is happening outside the Beltway of Political Narcissism.  They are still blaming people for being too stupid to understand their glorious collective plans.

David Axelrod was quoted in the New York Times March 6 saying he accepts some blame for what he called “communication failures,” though he acknowledges bafflement that the administration’s efforts to stimulate the economy in a crisis, overhaul health care and prosecute two wars have been so routinely framed by opponents as the handiwork of a big-government, soft-on-terrorism, politics-of-the-past ideologue.

“For me, the question is, why haven’t we broken through more than we have?” Mr. Axelrod said. “Why haven’t we broken through?”

Oh goodness, what simpleminded ideologues they must be.  Axelrod and President Obama have broken through alright and no matter how much Conservatives may seem to battle each other, our hearing and understanding is better than they think.  

Conservatives believe national Democrat policies are; threatening the currency, reducing our ability to produce more than we consume, and darkening the future of our children.  That’s all.  It may not be as important as Tiger Woods or the latest thunderstorm, but it is very important to an increasing number of voters.  Even as a heavily Democrat state with Conservatives fighting each other; Oklahoma is producing Democrat leadership like U.S. Representative Dan Boren.  Is the Left that oblivious?  Do we need to draw a map?

Rep. Boren said in a Fox News interview that he is opposed to Obamacare because of concerns that tax increases on small businesses and mandates on employers will lead to more job losses.

"They’ll have to walk across my dead body if they want my vote on this issue," Boren told Fox News on Wednesday.  "This is so galvanizing in my district.  I think the votes are not there and I don’t see where we get them."

Axelrod and his buddy President Obama should understand that Oklahoma has had national health care for decades.  It is called Indian Health Care and we know how that works with committees of non-medical tribal members deciding personal health choices for others. We get it.

Is Boren the beginning of a new Democrat Party?  Until an alternative is defined clearly "other than" Obama and his Left-wing friends, unaccountable spending, bribes, lies, self-interest plays, and political pay-offs – Conservative numbers will grow and voters will settle the wheat from the chaff.  Daily more pay attention.

Conservatives are wise enough to look deeper and, in majority, will not trade a demagogue who wraps himself in the glittering generalities of “hope and change” for a demagogue who wraps themselves in “patriotism and nationalism.”  

Pains felt within party leadership are minor and will sort themselves out at the polls in short order.  The great advantage for Conservative leadership, if it can pull together, is how clearly Democrats have defined the Left.