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		<title>MEMORIAL DAY &#8211; May 31, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 02:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I t is the VETERAN , not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN , not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the VETERAN , not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the VETERAN , not the campus [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">I</span> t is <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">the</span> </span> <span style="font-size: medium; color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"> </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span>VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">, </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">not                                the preacher,</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span>who                                has given us freedom of                                religion.<br />
</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span>It                                is the</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span> VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">,</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;"> not                                the reporter,</span> </span> <span style="font-family: ComicSans MS; color: black;"><span> who                                has given us freedom of the                                press. </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span><br />
It                                is the</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span> VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">,</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;"> not                                the poet, who has given us freedom of                                speech.</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;"><br />
It                                is the</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span> VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">, not                                the campus organizer, who has given us                                 freedom to assemble.</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;"><br />
It                                is the</span> </span> <span style="font-size: medium; color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: maroon;"> </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span>VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;">,</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span> not                                the lawyer, who has given us the right  to                                a fair trial.</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span><br />
It                                is</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;"> the</span> </span> <span style="font-size: medium; color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: maroon;"> </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span>VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span>, </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span>not                                the politician,Who has given us the                                right to vote.</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span><br />
It                                is the</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: maroon;"> VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: black;"> who salutes                                 the Flag,</span><br />
</span> <span style="font-size: x-small; color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: black;"><span>I</span> </span> <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">t                                is the</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: maroon;"><span> VETERAN</span> </span> <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> who                                serves under the Flag<span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span> </span> </span> <span id="more-986"></span> <span style="font-size: x-small; color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span> </span></p>
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		<title>Stupid is, as stupid does</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 02:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As any American knows, we place our right hand over our heart when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance. And for anyone who thinks this may be a &#34;mirror-image&#34; picture, please note the wedding rings on the ring fingers of their LEFT HANDS and the RIGHT side of the &#34;Messiah&#8217;s&#34; suit coat where the buttons [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As any American knows, we place our right hand over our heart when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance.<br />
And for anyone who thinks this may be a &quot;mirror-image&quot; picture, please note the wedding rings on the ring fingers of their LEFT HANDS and the RIGHT side of the &quot;Messiah&#8217;s&quot; suit coat where the buttons are.<br />
These two morons are so clueless they can&#8217;t possibly be Americans!</p>
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		<title>MISS THIS GUY YET?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don&#8217;t need it and hell where they already have it.&#34; -Ronald Reagan &#8216;Here&#8217;s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.&#8217;  &#8211; Ronald Reagan &#8216;The most terrifying words in the English language are: I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217;-Ronald Reagan &#8216;The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don&#8217;t need it and hell where they already have it.&quot; -Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;Here&#8217;s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.&#8217;  &#8211; Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;The most terrifying words in the English language are: I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8217;-Ronald Reagan<span id="more-974"></span></p>
<p>&#8216;The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant; it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so.&#8217;  -Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the   U.S. was too strong.&#8217;- Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.&#8217; -Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;The taxpayer: That&#8217;s someone who works for the federal government but doesn&#8217;t have to take the civil service examination.&#8217;- Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.&#8217;- Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.&#8217; &#8211; Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.&#8217;- Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;Government&#8217;s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it&#8217; &#8211; Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.&#8217;- Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.&#8217;- Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>&#8216;If we ever forget that we&#8217;re one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.&#8217;-Ronald Reagan</p>
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		<title>The New Messiah completes his title Prince of Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(c) Walid Shoebat 2009 &#34;Nobel committee have embraced the great American policy of affirmative action and that even if you do not achieve, because you are a minority we have to allow you to join the club&#34; Barack Hussein Obama the new Messiah but he had to complete his title as the Prince of Peace. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(c) <a href="http://shoebat.com/index.php" target="_blank">Walid Shoebat</a> 2009</p>
<p><strong><em>&quot;Nobel committee have embraced the great American policy of affirmative action and that even if you do not achieve, because you are a minority we have to allow you to join the club&quot;</em> </strong></p>
<p>Barack Hussein Obama the new Messiah but he had to complete his title as the Prince of Peace. Nine months into to presidency two major speeches one to the Muslim world and the second at the UN, he is pronounced Nobel Laureate for Peace and about to be anointed in Norway. WOW, WOW hale the Messiah!!</p>
<p>The world is either very sick or very stupid, maybe both.  Al Gore is the Nobel Laureate for Global Warming, when the earth is now cooling for eleven years in a row and now the world is on the edge of war with an appeasing president; it will undoubtedly deliver us the opposite of peace.  How naive can the world be? Well it is about as naive as the world was in the 1930s, I suppose.</p>
<p>To listen to the justification for such a prize is so funny if it were not so pathetic. As one radio commentator put it this morning, that he had just himself been awarded an Oscar for the greatest film he has yet to make. I thought we win acknowledgment and prizes for achievements not for expectations.  I get it, the Nobel committee have embraced the great American policy of affirmative action and that even if you do not achieve, because you are a minority we have to allow you to join the club.</p>
<p>The Nobel Laureate prize has already discredited its value by awarding Nobel prizes to Yasser Arafat, Al Gore and now to a President who cannot justify such a prize based on his record to date.</p>
<p>If Barack Hussein Obama was the real deal he should thank the Nobel board for their honor but refuse to accept the prize until he has shown the world that he can deliver some tangible results in peace with justice and truth not just an absence of war. However, based on viewing this arrogant and narcissistic record to date it is unlikely that a gesture of humility will be forthcoming.</p>
<p>I hope and pray that President Obama can achieve the expectations the world sets for him, but based on the current track and the lessons of history we are set for some very difficult times ahead.</p>
<p>Hope and change is here, hale the new Messiah, Nobel Prince of Peace.</p>
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		<title>Has Obama&#8217;s Kenya Birth Certificate Been Found?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: August 02, 2009  11:55 am Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court [...]]]></description>
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<p>WASHINGTON – California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.</p>
<p>The document lists Obama&#8217;s parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.</p>
<p>No doctor is listed. But the alleged certificate bears the signature of the deputy registrar of Coast Province, Joshua Simon Oduya. It was allegedly issued as a certified copy of the original in February 1964.</p>
<p>WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical.</p>
<p>Last week, a counterfeit document purporting to be Obama&#8217;s Kenyan birth certificate made the rounds of the Internet, but was quickly determined to be fraudulent. The new document released by Taitz bears none of the obvious traits of a hoax.</p>
<p>One of the issues Taitz must deal with will be the authentication of the document. Critics immediately jumped on the Feb. 17, 1964, date for the document, explaining that the &quot;republic&quot; of Kenya wasn&#8217;t assembled until in December of that year.</p>
<p>Media Matters wrote, &quot;Sorry, WorldNetDaily: Kenya wasn&#8217;t a republic until Dec. 1964.&quot;</p>
<p>But Kenya&#8217;s official independence was in 1963, and any number of labels could have been applied to government documents during that time period.</p>
<p>At Ameriborn Constitution News, the researcher noted that the independence process for the nation actually started taking as early as 1957, when there were the first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council.</p>
<p>&quot;Kenya became an Independent Republic, December 12, 1963, which gives more [credibility] that this is a true document,&quot; the website stated.</p>
<p>The 1963 independence is corroborated by several other information sources, including the online African History.</p>
<p>Even the People Daily news agency cited, on Dec. 12, 2005, the &quot;42nd independence anniversary&quot; in Nairobi. &quot;The country gained independence from Britain on Dec. 12, 1963,&quot; the report said.</p>
<p>An online copy of the Kenya Constitution, &quot;adopted in 1963, amended in 1999,&quot; states: &quot;CHAPTER I &#8211; THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, Article 1, Kenya is a sovereign Republic. Article 1A, The Republic of Kenya shall be a multiparty democratic state…&quot;</p>
<p>It was in November 1964 when the region voluntarily became a one-party state, according to an online source.</p>
<p>The region including Mombasa originally was dealt with as a separate independence movement, but it almost immediately became part of Kenya when the sultan of Zanzibar ceded the &quot;coastal strip&quot; to Kenya, according to sources.</p>
<p>Taitz told WND that the document came from an anonymous source who doesn&#8217;t want his name known because &quot;he&#8217;s afraid for his life.&quot;</p>
<p>Taitz&#8217;s motion, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, requests the purported evidence of Obama&#8217;s birth – both the alleged birth certificate and foreign records not yet obtained – be preserved from destruction, asks for permission to legally request documents from Kenya and seeks a subpoena for deposition from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>&quot;I filed the motion with the court asking for expedited discovery, which would allow me to start subpoenas and depositions even before Obama and the government responds,&quot; Taitz told WND. &quot;I am asking the judge to give me the power to subpoena the documents from the Kenyan embassy and to require a deposition from Hillary Clinton so they will be forced to authenticate [the birth certificate].</p>
<p>&quot;I&#8217;m forcing the issue, where Obama will have to respond,&quot; she said.</p>
<p>&quot;Before, they said, &#8216;You don&#8217;t have anything backing your claims,&#8217;&quot; Taitz explained. &quot;Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.&quot;</p>
<p>Join the petition campaign to demand President Obama resolve the question by revealing his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate!</p>
<p>Taitz&#8217;s most celebrated case involved a military officer, Maj. Stefan Cook, whose order to deploy to Afghanistan was revoked when he challenged Obama&#8217;s eligibility to hold office. That case has now been refiled in federal court in Florida, raising the specter of a class-action claim among members of the military that their orders aren&#8217;t valid because of questions surrounding Obama&#8217;s constitutional eligibility.</p>
<p>Taitz told WND she plans to file additional paperwork with the Florida court tomorrow, adding the alleged Kenyan birth certificate to Maj. Cook&#8217;s case.</p>
<p>The suit seeks damages and a declaratory judgment. Named as defendants are Simtech, Cook&#8217;s former civilian employer, and several officials, including Col. Louis B. Wingate and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.</p>
<p>WND previously reported a judge in Georgia dismissed Cook&#8217;s case when the government suddenly revoked his orders to report to Fort Benning for deployment to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>WND reported when the case originally was filed that Cook&#8217;s concern was that without proof that there is a legitimate commander in chief, the entire U.S. Army becomes &quot;merely a corps of chattel slaves under the illegitimate control of a private citizen.&quot;</p>
<p>Cook told WND: &quot;As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is [my] duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a &#8216;natural-born citizen,&#8217; he is not eligible to be commander in chief.&quot;</p>
<p>The new complaint says it seeks Cook&#8217;s reinstatement with his civilian employer, Simtech Inc., as well as protection from the Department of Defense and president &quot;from further retaliation for plaintiff&#8217;s challenge to the president&#8217;s constitutional authority.&quot;</p>
<p>See the movie Obama does not want you to see: Own the DVD that probes this unprecedented presidential eligibility mystery!</p>
<p>WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama&#8217;s status as a &quot;natural born citizen.&quot; The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, &quot;No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.&quot;</p>
<p>Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama&#8217;s American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.</p>
<p>Other challenges have focused on Obama&#8217;s citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.</p>
<p>Complicating the situation is Obama&#8217;s decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest all of the questions.</p>
<p>WND has reported that among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his Columbia thesis, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review articles, his scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, his passport, his medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: August 03, 2009  1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Chuck Norris Dear Mr. President: First, happy birthday. I do hope Aug. 4 is an enjoyable day for you and your family. Coincidentally, I also will be celebrating this week the birth of someone dear to me, my beloved wife, Gena, whose birthday is on Aug. 9. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--   - copywrite only show on NON commentary pages as per joseph meeting 8/23/06 ------><span>Posted: August 03, 2009  1:00 am Eastern<!--    copyright --> <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=105767" target="_blank">© 2009 Chuck Norris</a><br />
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<p>Dear Mr. President:</p>
<p>First, happy birthday. I do hope Aug. 4 is an enjoyable day for you and your family. Coincidentally, I also will be celebrating this week the birth of someone dear to me, my beloved wife, Gena, whose birthday is on Aug. 9.</p>
<p>Speaking of birthdays, I couldn&#8217;t help but hear and read all over the news last week about the fresh attention to your constitutional eligibility and natural born citizen status. I can hardly believe that individuals are now offering bounty – one for $100,000 – for any personal witness or sufficient evidence to your American birth.</p>
<p>For nearly two years, this debate continues to grow despite all your administration&#8217;s attempts to diffuse it. And those who are raising concerns aren&#8217;t just those on the right, but moderate law-abiding citizens like a retired CIA officer who commissioned an investigator to look into the issue.</p>
<p>Still, your press secretary, Robert Gibbs, continues to glibly brush aside the issue by calling it &quot;fictional nonsense.&quot; But, in so doing, he devalues the grievance passage of the First Amendment and insults those who are genuinely concerned and inquisitive by categorizing them all as political quacks. He needs to learn that you can&#8217;t model tolerance for certain minorities while belittling and quarantining those who don&#8217;t blindly follow your lead.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, I&#8217;m not writing you to challenge whether you were born in America, though I see nothing wrong with the American public voicing that constitutionally based grievance with someone in your esteemed position. As one blogger wrote, after all, &quot;We aren&#8217;t talking about a 12-year-old qualifying to play Little League here.&quot; Or as Ronald Reagan once said, &quot;Trust but verify.&quot;</p>
<p>Personally, I must admit that I find it a bit of a groundless stretch not to believe in the birth announcements in two major Hawaiian newspapers in August of 1961, in which the Hawaiian Health Department would have been required to post information they received directly from hospitals: &quot;Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4.&quot; Nevertheless, that proof still doesn&#8217;t answer why you refuse to reveal your original birth certificate and end the growing tides of controversy.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m writing you because this is no longer a matter merely about proving a presidential prerequisite in the Constitution. Refusing to post a copy of your original birth certificate is an unwise political and leadership decision that is enabling the birther controversy. The nation you are called to lead is experiencing a growing swell of conspirators who are convinced that you are covering up something. So why not just prove them wrong and shut them up?</p>
<p>If the birther movement is truly full of a bunch of conspiracy-fringed kooks or &quot;zombies,&quot; as the Los Angeles Times proclaims, then prove once and for all that you are a naturally born citizen by posting your original birth certificate. And all the controversy will fade away like the pains of childbirth.</p>
<p>I agree with CNN&#8217;s Lou Dobbs, who was chastised by his own media outlet for demanding the release of your original birth certificate. So why is that such a bad request? We certainly know why CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein thought it was a bad idea: because he previously declared that CNN researchers determined that Obama&#8217;s 1961 birth certificate no longer existed.</p>
<p>But Hawaii&#8217;s officials confirmed again last week that they indeed have your original birth certificate on file. Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaiian State Department of Health, repeated her October 2008 statement that she had personally seen with her own eyes the &quot;original vital records.&quot;</p>
<p>Some claim that even you cannot see or request your own personal birth certificate, because Hawai&#8217;i's disclosure law (Hawai&#8217;i Revised Statutes 338-18) states that &quot;it shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital statistics records, or to copy or issue a copy of all or part on any such record &#8230; &quot;</p>
<p>But the law further states that the Health Department &quot;shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record.&quot; (Italics mine)</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t categorically satisfying constitutional requirements for a president, or answering the First Amendment grievances of hundreds of thousands of Americans, or ending a national debate or healing a country&#8217;s divisions enough &quot;direct and tangible interest&quot;?</p>
<p>Mr. President, as more and more people realize that you are refusing to release your original birth certificate, further questions will fuel the fires of debate or at least hinder the embers from ever being snuffed out. Questions like, &quot;Does it really contain the Hawaiian physician&#8217;s name?&quot; Or &quot;Does it disclose something other than his birth place that he wishes others not to see?&quot;</p>
<p>In fact, last week copies of the 1961 birth certificates from twin girls, who were born a day after you in the same Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, give examples of those typical of the time. They include much more information than certificates today, like the baby&#8217;s parents&#8217; ages, occupations, birthplaces, race, etc., as well as specifics of the medical personnel presiding over the baby&#8217;s birth and the hospital in which he or she was born.</p>
<p>Of course not every U.S. citizen has access to their original birth certificate, but you do, and that&#8217;s the only one under debate. As valuable as copies can be, textual critics know that nothing outweighs an original, especially when only it contains the information under question.</p>
<p>So again I ask, why don&#8217;t you simply request, release and give permission to make public your original birth certificate?</p>
<p>Mr. President, you promised the American people that you are &quot;committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.&quot; In fact, on July 23 in your prime time press conference, you said that your administration was more transparent than those of previous presidencies: &quot;I think that we have provided much greater transparency than existed prior to our administration coming in.&quot;</p>
<p>So again I ask, why not live out that transparency promise by posting your original birth certificate and end the division and debate?</p>
<p>Well, I have a birthday to plan, so I better get going.</p>
<p>Again, happy birthday Mr. President.</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>Chuck Norris</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chelsea Schilling and Joe Kovacs  © 2009 WorldNetDaily A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office. His attorney, Orly Taitz, [...]]]></description>
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<p>A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.</p>
<p>His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.</p>
<p>&quot;We won! We won before we even arrived,&quot; she said with excitement. &quot;It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate – and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order!&quot;</p>
<p>She continued, &quot;They just said, &#8216;Order revoked.&#8217; No explanation. No reasons – just revoked.&quot;</p>
<p>A hearing on the questions raised by Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, an engineer who told WND he wants to serve his country in Afghanistan, was scheduled for July 16 at 9:30 a.m.</p>
<p>Join the petition campaign to make President Obama reveal his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate!</p>
<p>&quot;As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is [my] duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a &#8216;natural-born citizen,&#8217; he is not eligible to be commander-in-chief,&quot; he told WND only hours after the case was filed.</p>
<p>&quot;[Then] any order coming out of the presidency or his chain of command is illegal. Should I deploy, I would essentially be following an illegal [order]. If I happened to be captured by the enemy in a foreign land, I would not be privy to the Geneva Convention protections,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>The order for the hearing in the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia from U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land said the hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order would be held Thursday.</p>
<p>Want to turn up the pressure to learn the facts? Get your signs and postcards asking for the president&#8217;s birth certificate documentation here.</p>
<p>Cook said without a legitimate president as commander-in-chief, members of the U.S. military in overseas actions could be determined to be &quot;war criminals and subject to prosecution.&quot;</p>
<p>He said the vast array of information about Obama that is not available to the public confirms to him &quot;something is amiss.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;That and the fact the individual who is occupying the White House has not been entirely truthful with anybody,&quot; he said. &quot;Every time anyone has made an inquiry, it has been either cast aside, it has been maligned, it has been laughed at or just dismissed summarily without further investigation.</p>
<p>&quot;You know what. It would be so simple to solve. Just produce the long-form document, certificate of live birth,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>Cook said he was scheduled to report for duty tomorrow, on July 15, to deploy to Afghanistan as part of President Obama&#8217;s plan to increase pressure of insurgent forces there.</p>
<p>He told WND he would be prepared for a backlash against him as a military officer, since members of the military swear to uphold and follow their orders. However, he noted that following an illegal order would be just as bad as failing to follow a legal order.</p>
<p>Before news of the orders being revoked were reported, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tonight called Cook a &quot;jackass&quot; and Taitz a &quot;conwoman,&quot; as he labeled both of them the &quot;worst persons in the world.&quot; He flayed the soldier as &quot;an embarrassment to all those who have served without cowardice.&quot;</p>
<p>Named as defendants in the case are Col. Wanda Good, Col. Thomas Macdonald, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Obama, described as &quot;de facto president of the United States.&quot;</p>
<p>According to the court filing, Cook affirmed when he joined the military, he took the following oath: &quot;I, Stefan Frederick Cook, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.&quot;</p>
<p>According to the claim, &quot;Plaintiff submits that it is implicit though not expressly stated that an officer is and should be subject to court-martial, because he will be derelict in the performance of his duties, if he does not inquire as to the lawfulness, the legality, the legitimacy of the orders which he has received, whether those orders are specific or general.&quot;</p>
<p>The military courts offer no option for raising the question, so he turned to civilian courts to consider &quot;a question of paramount constitutional and legal importance: the validity of the chain of command under a president whose election, eligibility, and constitutional status appear open to serious question.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Barack Hussein Obama, in order to prove his constitutional eligibility to serve as president, basically needs only produce a single unique historical document for the Plaintiff’s inspection and authentication: namely, the &#8216;long-form&#8217; birth certificate which will confirm whether Barack Hussein Obama was in fact born to parents who were both citizens of the United States in Honolulu, Hawaii, in or about 1961,&quot; explains the complaint.</p>
<p>Taitz said she will attend the hearing to amend the temporary restraining order to an injunction because more members of the military have joined the cause.</p>
<p>&quot;We are going to be asking for release of Obama&#8217;s records because now this completely undermines the military. It revoked this order, but it can come up with another order tomorrow. It can come up with orders for other people,&quot; she said. &quot;Am I going to be flying around the country 1,000 times and paying the fees every time they issue an order?&quot;</p>
<p>Taitz said the issue &quot;must be resolved immediately,&quot; and she will continue working to ensure Obama proves he is eligible for office.</p>
<p>&quot;We&#8217;re going to be asking the judge to issue an order for Obama to provide his vital records to show he is legitimately president,&quot; she said. &quot;We&#8217;re going to say, we have orders every day, and we&#8217;ll have revocations every day. This issue has to be decided.&quot;</p>
<p>She said there cannot be any harm to the president if he is legitimately holding office.</p>
<p>&quot;If he is legitimate, then his vital records will prove it,&quot; Taitz said. &quot;If he is illegitimate, then he should not have been there in the first place.&quot;</p>
<p>Asked what this decision means for every other serviceman who objects to deployment under a president who has not proven he is eligible for office, Taitz responded:</p>
<p>&quot;Now, we can have each and every member of the military – each and every enlistee and officer – file something similar saying &#8216;I will not take orders until Obama is legitimately vetted.&#8217;&quot;</p>
<p>Multiple questions have been raised about what that would mean to the 2008 election, to the orders and laws Obama has signed and other issues, including whether he then is a valid commander-in-chief of the military.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 1000 TEA Parties across the United States on April 15, 2009.  This is a day to remember. This day started the movement of the silent majority in objection to our government&#8217;s reckless spending, higher taxes, abandment for the sanctity of life, and the lack of concern for defense.  See photos and videos of TEA [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Over 1000 TEA Parties across the United States on April 15, 2009.  This is a day to remember. This day started the movement of the silent majority in objection to our government&#8217;s reckless spending, higher taxes, abandment for the sanctity of life, and the lack of concern for defense.  See photos and videos of TEA Party Photos <a href="http://teapartyphotos.com" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong> </a> .</p>
<p>National Anthem Atlanta Tea Party April 15 2009<br />
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		<title>The 912 Project</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[9 Principles 1.  America Is Good. 2.  I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address. 3.  I must [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://the912project.com/" target="_blank">9 Principles</a></p>
<p>1.  America Is Good.</p>
<p>2.  I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.</p>
<p>God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.</p>
<p>3.  I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.</p>
<p>Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington</p>
<p>4.  The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.</p>
<p>Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>5.  If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.</p>
<p>Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>6.  I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.</p>
<p>Life, Liberty, &amp; The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>7.  I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.</p>
<p>Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington</p>
<p>8.  It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.</p>
<p>On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington</p>
<p>9.  The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.</p>
<p>Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson</p>
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		<title>Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts agreed to hear case</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, January 7, 2009  Press Release from Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ01.07.09. Good news, Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to hear my case Lightfoot v Bowen, challenging eligibility for presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. He distributed the case to the full conference of the Supreme Court. The timing of this decision by the Chief Justice of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wednesday, January 7, 2009  Press Release from Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ01.07.09.<br />
Good news,<br />
Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to hear my case Lightfoot v Bowen, challenging eligibility for presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. He distributed the case to the full conference of the Supreme Court. The timing of this decision by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, is absolutely remarkable. On January 7, one day before the January 8 vote by Congress and Senate, whether to approve or object to the electoral vote of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, as president of the United States, Chief Justice Roberts is sending a message to them: &quot;Hold on, not so fast, there is value in this case, read it. Hawaiian statue 338 allows Foreign Born children of Hawaiian Residents to obtain Hawaiian Birth Certificates, it allows one to get Hawaiian Certification of Life birth based on a statement of one relative only, without any corroborating evidence. You need to investigate, you need corroborating evidence. If only one Congressman or one Senator presents a written objection, then there has to be a formal investigation by the joint session of Congress and Senate. During this investigation original birth certificate from Hawaii will be subpoenaed. All other pertinent documents will be subpoenaed: Obama&#8217;s immigration records, any and all passports from Indonesia, Kenya and Great Britain; University enrollment records, showing if he was enrolled in US schools and universities and received financial aid as a foreign exchange student from Indonesia or Kenya. All of it can be subpoenaed and obtained within a day or two. Each and every member of US Congress and Senate owes it to 320 million American citizens to do his due diligence and demand all necessary records. When American servicemen are told to risk their lives defending Constitution of this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, each and every Congressman and each and every Senator can spend a day or two of their time defending this Constitution, reviewing necessary documents, in order to see if Barack Hussein Obama is a Natural Born Citizen, if he is a citizen at all.&quot; This is the message that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is sending to them, and if they are not listening, there has to be a massive petition drive to recall them. Truth will come out, no matter how many millions Obama is spending to hide it.</p>
<p>Dr.Orly Taitz, ESQ<br />
drorly.blogspot.com<br />
dr_taitz@yahoo.com</p>
<p>No. 08A524<br />
Title: Gail Lightfoot, et al., Applicants<br />
v.<br />
Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State</p>
<p>Docketed:<br />
Lower Ct: Supreme Court of California<br />
Case Nos.: (S168690)</p>
<p>~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
Dec 12 2008 Application (08A524) for a stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Kennedy.<br />
Dec 17 2008 Application (08A524) denied by Justice Kennedy.<br />
Dec 29 2008 Application (08A524) refiled and submitted to The Chief Justice.<br />
Jan 7 2009 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 23, 2009.</p>
<p><a href="http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/chief-justice-of-supreme-court-john.html" target="_blank">Original Story &#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Democrat Meltdown Begins- Burris Rejected by Senate</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Burris denied seat in U.S. Senate to succeed Obama</p>
<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris announced his rejection for Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate seat Tuesday in a bizarre rainy-day scene on the Capitol grounds as lawmakers awaited the gaveling of the 111th Congress into session.</p>
<p align="left">Standing amid a huge throng of reporters and television cameras in a cold and steady rain, Burris, 71, declared that he had been informed that &quot;my credentials are not in order and will not be accepted.&quot; (<a title="View video report" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=10142" target="_blank" title="View video report">View video report</a> )</p>
<p>He said he was &quot;not seeking to have any type of confrontation&quot; over taking the seat that he was appointed to by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich.</p>
<p>Speaking just an hour before the convening of the 111th Congress Tuesday, Burris said he was looking at a host of options for getting the seat.</p>
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		<title>UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? &#8211; Warming Fears in &#8216;Dustbin of History&#8217; POZNAN, Poland &#8211; The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? &#8211; Warming Fears in &#8216;Dustbin of History&#8217;<br />
POZNAN, Poland &#8211; The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.  Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.</p>
<p>The U.S. Senate report is the latest evidence of the growing groundswell of scientific opposition rising to challenge the UN and Gore. Scientific meetings are now being dominated by a growing number of skeptical scientists. The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the geologists&#8217; equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway in August 2008 and prominently featured the voices and views of scientists skeptical of man-made global warming fears. [See Full report Here: &amp; See: Skeptical scientists overwhelm conference: '2/3 of presenters and question-askers were hostile to, even dismissive of, the UN IPCC' ]</p>
<p>Full Senate Report Set To Be Released in the Next 24 Hours – Stay Tuned…</p>
<p>A hint of what the upcoming report contains:</p>
<p>“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” &#8211; Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.</p>
<p>“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” &#8211;  Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology  and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”</p>
<p>Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” &#8211; UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.</p>
<p>“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” &#8211; Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.</p>
<p>“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC &quot;are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” &#8211; Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico</p>
<p>“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” &#8211; U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.</p>
<p>“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.</p>
<p>“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri&#8217;s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it&#8217;s hard to remain quiet.” &#8211; Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society&#8217;s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.</p>
<p>“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?&quot; &#8211; Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.</p>
<p>“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” &#8211; Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.</p>
<p>“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” &#8211; Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” &#8211; Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.</p>
<p>“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” &#8211; Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.</p>
<p>“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” &#8211; Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.  # #</p>
<p>In addition, the report will feature new peer-reviewed scientific studies and analyses refuting man-made warming fears and a heavy dose of inconvenient climate developments. (See Below: Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? &#8211; Warming Fears in &#8216;Dustbin of History&#8217;)</p>
<p>The Senate Minority Report is an update of 2007’s blockbuster U.S. Senate Minority Report of over 400 dissenting scientists. See here: This new report will contain the names, quotes and analyses of literally hundreds of additional international scientists who publicly dissented from man-made climate fears in just 2008 alone. The chorus of scientific voices skeptical grow louder as a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses and real world data challenge the UN and former Vice President Al Gore&#8217;s claims that the &quot;science is settled&quot; and there is a &quot;consensus.&quot; The original 2007 U.S. Senate report is available here:  Full Report Set To Be Released in the Next 24 Hours – Stay Tuned…<br />
Meanwhile, while the UN climate conference is in session here in Poznan, the bad scientific news for promoters of man-made climate alarm just keeps rolling in. Below is a very small sampling of very inconvenient developments for Gore, the United Nations, and their promoters in the mainstream media. Peer-reviewed studies, analyses, and prominent scientists continue to speak out to refute climate fears. The data presented below is just from the past week.</p>
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<p>Peer-reviewed study: Half of recent warming was solar! &#8211; December 10, 2008</p>
<p>Excerpt:  In this dose of peer-reviewed skeptical climatological literature, we follow Climate Research News. The blog was intrigued by a new article in Geophysical Research Letters that was accepted on Friday, December 5th. Eichler, A., S. Olivier, K. Henderson, A. Laube, J. Beer, T. Papina, H. W. Gäggeler, and M. Schwikowski: Temperature response in the Altai region lags solar forcing &#8211; Recall that the Siberian Altai Mountains are found at the intersection of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. The authors looked at 750 years worth of the local ice core, especially the oxygen isotope. They claim to have found a very strong correlation between the concentration of this isotope (i.e. temperature) on one side and the known solar activity in the epoch 1250-1850. Their data seem to be precise enough to determine the lag, about 10-30 years. It takes some time for the climate to respond to the solar changes. It seems that they also have data to claim that the correlation gets less precise after 1850. They attribute the deviation to CO2 and by comparing the magnitude of the forcings, they conclude that &quot;Our results are in agreement with studies based on NH temperature reconstructions [Scafetta et al., 2007] revealing that only up to approximately 50% of the observed global warming in the last 100 years can be explained by the Sun.&quot; Well, the word &quot;only&quot; is somewhat cute in comparison with the &quot;mainstream&quot; fashionable ideology. The IPCC said that they saw a 90% probability that &quot;most&quot; of the recent warming was man-made. The present paper would reduce this figure, 90%, to less than 50% because the Sun itself is responsible for 1/2 of the warming and not the whole 50% of the warming could have been caused by CO2 because there are other effects, too. Note that if 0.3 °C or 0.4 °C of warming in the 20th century was due to the increasing CO2 levels, the climate sensitivity is decisively smaller than 1 °C. At any rate, the expected 21st century warming due to CO2 would be another 0.3-0.4 °C, and this time, if the solar activity contributes with the opposite sign, these two effects could cancel. Even if you try to stretch these numbers a little bit &#8211; but not unrealistically &#8211; you have to become sure that the participants of the Poznan conference are lunatics.</p>
<p>Flashback: New scientific analysis shows Sun “could account for as much as 69% of the increase in Earth&#8217;s average temperature” (LINK) &amp; (LINK)</p>
<p>Dr. Bruce West, A U.S Army Chief Scientist, Says Sun, Not Man, Is Driving Climate Change – June 3, 2008 – (LINK)</p>
<p>21 spotless days and solar magnetic field still in a funk – Meteorologist Anthony Watts Excerpt: We are now at 21 days with no sunspots, it will be interesting to see if we reach a spotless 30 day period and then perhaps a spotless month of December.</p>
<p>New Arctic ice analysis reveals ‘No clear evidence of a delay in the start of the later summer/early fall freeze up or the start of the late winter/early spring melt’ – Excerpt: Based on analysis by William Chapman, author of The Cryosphere Today website, graciously prepared an analysis of the dates of the minimum and maximum Arctic sea ice coverage since 1979.</p>
<p>Oscillation Rules as the Pacific Cools – December 9, 2008 Excerpt: A cool wedge of lower-than-normal sea-surface heights continues to dominate the tropical Pacific, ringed by a horseshoe of warmer waters. The continuation of this long-term cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation stacks the odds against a wetter-than-average winter/spring in the southwestern United States. The latest image of sea-surface height measurements from the U.S./French Jason-1 oceanography satellite shows the Pacific Ocean remains locked in a strong, cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a large, long-lived pattern of climate variability in the Pacific associated with a general cooling of Pacific waters. […]  Sea-surface temperature satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration mirror Jason sea-surface height measurements, clearly showing a cool Pacific Decadal Oscillation pattern, as seen at: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/sst/sst.anom.gif . &quot;This multi-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation &#8216;cool&#8217; trend can cause La Niña-like impacts around the Pacific basin,&quot; said Bill Patzert, an oceanographer and climatologist at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. […] This cool phase will likely persist this winter and, perhaps, beyond.</p>
<p>Report: Sea Level rise &#8216;has stumbled since 2005&#8242; – Meteorologist Anthony Watts – December 5, 2008 Excerpt: We’ve been waiting for the UC web page to be updated with the most recent sea level data. It finally has been updated for 2008. It looks like the steady upward trend of sea level as measured by satellite has stumbled since 2005. The 60 day line in blue tells the story. From the University of Colorado web page: “Long-term mean sea level change is a variable of considerable interest in the studies of global climate change. The measurement of long-term changes in global mean sea level can provide an important corroboration of predictions by climate models of global warming. Long term sea level variations are primarily determined with two different methods.” &#8211; Yes, I would agree, it is indeed a variable of considerable interest. The question now is, how is it linked to global climate change (aka global warming) if CO2 continues to increase, and sea level does not?</p>
<p>Peer-Reviewed Study: Recent worldwide land warming&#8217; NOT &#8216;a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land&#8217; &#8211; WorldClimateReport.com – December 3, 2008 ‘Rethinking Observed Warming?’ Key quote: “Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land.”</p>
<p>Alert: 2008 will be coolest year of the decade!- December 5, 2008 Excerpt: This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07. [Note: For evidence of the panic apparently gripping the promoters of man-made climate fear, read the quotes in the article from the warming partisans absolutely assuring everyone that cool temperatures are “absolutely not&quot; evidence that global warming is on the wane. Those same voices are usually absent when it comes to linking heat waves to global warming. ]</p>
<p>Flashback: Global Cooling? &#8211; &#8216;Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof&#8217; &#8211; National Post – October 20, 2008</p>
<p>Report: NASA’s James Hansen &quot;adjusts&quot; a cooling trend into a warming trend &#8211; December 9, 2008 Excerpt: &quot;[H]ere is what the data looks like before and after NASA GISS adjusts it. These are the USHCN “raw” and “homogenized” data plots from the GISTEMP website. The before and after is quite something to behold. &#8230; What was down, is now up.&quot; &quot;How not to measure temperature, part 79&quot;</p>
<p>Geophysist: ‘It is time to file this theory in the dustbin of history’ – ‘Alarmists are in denial and running for cover&#8217;- Washington Times</p>
<p>By Geophysicist Dr. David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma who has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles. Excerpt: Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover. Their rationale for continuing a lost cause is that weather events in the short term are not necessarily related to long-term climatic trends. But these are the same people who screamed at us each year that ordinary weather events such as high temperatures or hurricanes were undeniable evidence of imminent doom. Now that global warming is over, politicians are finally ready to enact dubious solutions to a non-existent problem. […] To the extent global warming was ever valid, it is now officially over. It is time to file this theory in the dustbin of history, next to Aristotelean physics, Neptunism, the geocentric universe, phlogiston, and a plethora of other incorrect scientific theories, all of which had vocal and dogmatic supporters who cited incontrovertible evidence. Weather and climate change are natural processes beyond human control. To argue otherwise is to deny the factual evidence.</p>
<p>Climate Chancellor&#8217; No More – Der Spiegel Excerpt: Angela Merkel is facing withering criticism for remarks she made on Monday that seemed to back away from her earlier commitment to tackling climate change.</p>
<p>Alert: Under the Weather: Internal Report Says U.N. Climate Agency Rife With Bad Practices &#8211; Fox News – December 4, 2008</p>
<p>Excerpt: As more than 10,000 delegates and observers gather in Poznan, Poland, to discuss the next phase in the battle against &quot;climate change,&quot; a U.N. agency at the center of that hoopla badly needs to do some in-house weather-proofing. […] But the WMO, the $80 million U.N. front-line agency in the climate change struggle, and the source for much of the world&#8217;s information in the global atmosphere and water supply, has serious management problems of its own, despite its rapidly expanding global ambitions. The international agency has been sharply criticized by a U.N. inspection unit in a confidential report obtained by FOX News, for, among other things, haphazard budget practices, deeply flawed organizational procedures, and no effective oversight by the 188 nations that formally make up its membership and dole out its funds. The inspection was carried out by a member of the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU), a small, independent branch of the U.N. that reports to the General Assembly and is mandated to improve the organization&#8217;s efficiency and coordination through its inspection process. […] WMO did not respond to a series of questions from FOX News regarding its future programs, sent on the eve of the Poznan meeting.</p>
<p>16-year-old suggests sheep dung can help save planet Card business has really dung good &#8211; Daily Post North WalesExcerpt: The company makes its products at the Twll Golau Papermill in Aberllefenni Slate Quarry using sustainable fuel and materials. Every sheet of paper is made from recycled materials, including sheep dung, waste paper and discarded rags, using processes designed to affect the natural environment as little as possible. […] Katie 16, from Tal-y-Bont, Conwy, was appointed to help spread the word on how Wales can reduce its carbon footprint and is urging other North Wales businesses to follow Creative Paper Wales’ example and adopt innovative approaches to the design and manufacture of products and the delivery of services.</p>
<p>Lord Christopher Monckton: &#8216;Companies could be sued over climate change&#8217; Excerpt: The alarmist faction knows that, if it were to bring a case against a corporation whose executives were not minded merely to believe in the extremist presentation of &quot;global warming&quot; just because it is temporarily in fashion, they would lose. The case of Dimmock v. Secretaries of State for Education and for the Environment in the UK in 2007 was a very clear warning. The UK Government threw all of the resources of the taxpayer and of the Meteorological Office at the case, attempting to defend Al Gore&#8217;s sci-fi comedy horror movie against the plaintiff&#8217;s allegation that it was serially and seriously inaccurate. The Government failed and was humiliated. The judge, having heard both sides, said bluntly of Al Gore, and particularly of his unscientific allegation that sea level was about to rise by 20 feet, that &quot;the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view&quot;. A few more judgments like that and the &quot;global warming&quot; fantasy would rapidly collapse. End of scare.</p>
<p>OOPS, We Forgot Siberia! (M4GW) &#8211; Weather Stations in Coldest parts No Longer Reporting</p>
<p>Excerpt: The thing that these skewed chart never take into account is that when the Soviet Union fell in 1990 the number of reporting weather stations went form a high of 15,000 in 1970 to 5,000 in 2000. This takes some of the coldest places on the planet out of the equation like Siberia. # #</p>
<p>Related Links:</p>
<p>UN Data shows ‘Warming has Stopped!’ – Climate Fears Called ‘Hogwash’ – ‘Global Carbon Tax’ Urged &#8211; December 3, 2008</p>
<p>‘Planet Has Cooled Since Bush Took Office’ &amp; Global Warming Theory has ‘failed consistently and dramatically’ – November 20, 2008</p>
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		<title>HISTORICAL BREAKTHROUGH &#8211; PROOF: CHESTER ARTHUR CONCEALED HE WAS A BRITISH SUBJECT AT BIRTH</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Leo Donofrio, December 6, 2008  6:36 PM [I have collaborated on this with my sister and historian Greg Dehler, author of  &#34;Chester Allan Arthur&#34;, Published by Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2006  ISBN 1600210791, 9781600210792  192 pages. ] I’ve been forwarded the actual naturalization record for William Arthur on microfiche, obtained from the Library [...]]]></description>
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<p>[I have collaborated on this with my sister and historian <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OvXVAAAACAAJ&amp;dq=chester+arthur+dehler&amp;client=firefox-a">Greg Dehler, author</a> of  &quot;Chester Allan Arthur&quot;, Published by Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2006  ISBN 1600210791, 9781600210792  192 pages. ]</p>
<p>I’ve been forwarded t<a href="http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=176">he actual naturalization record for William Arthur</a> on microfiche, obtained from the Library of Congress.   He was naturalized in New York State and became a United States citizen in August 1843.</p>
<p>Chester Arthur perpetrated a fraud as to his eligibility to be Vice President by spreading various lies about his parents’ heritage.  President Arthur’s father, William Arthur, became a United States citizen in August 1843.  But Chester Arthur was born in 1829.  Therefore, he was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_British_nationality_law">a British Citizen by descent</a> , and a dual citizen at birth, if not his whole life.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He wasn’t a “natural born citizen” and he knew it.</strong> </span></p>
<p>We’ve also uncovered many lies told by Chester Arthur to the press which kept this fact from public view when he ran for Vice President in 1880.  Garfield won the election, became President in 1881, and was assassinated by a fanatical Chester Arthur supporter that same year.</p>
<p>How ironic that the allegations  started by Arthur Hinman in his pamphlet entitled, <a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6978891M">“How A British Subject Became President”</a> , have turned out to be true…but not for the reason Hinman suggested.</p>
<p>Hinman alleged that Arthur was born in Ireland or Canada as a British subject.   It was bunk.  It’s been definitively established that Chester Arthur was born in Vermont.   But Hinman turns out to be correct anyway since Chester Arthur was a British citizen/subject by virtue of his father not having naturalized as a United States citizen until Chester Arthur was almost 14 years old.</p>
<p><strong>That means Chester Arthur was a British subject at the time of his birth. </strong></p>
<p>We’ve uncovered news clips exposing a thorough trail of lies, all of which served to obscure Chester Arthur’s true history of having been born as a British citizen.</p>
<p>Chester Arthur’s lies came during his Vice Presidential campaign in 1880.  His fraudulent attempt to obfuscate family history provides context and evidence that in 1880 it was recognized that having been born as a British citizen would make one ineligible to be President or VP.  His falsification of family history indicates he was aware of POTUS ineligibility.</p>
<p><strong>HISTORICAL CONTEXT</strong></p>
<p>Chester Arthur was in politics at the time of the 14th Amendment’s ratification.  He was a lawyer and a politician while the 14th Amendment was being debated.  It was ratified in 1867.  In that same year Chester Arthur rose to become chairperson of the Executive Committee of the State Republican Committee.   He would have been fully cognizant of the natural born citizen issue and that should he ever run for POTUS or VP, problems could arise.</p>
<p>He would have known that if anybody found out his father naturalized after he was born, he could never be President or Vice President.</p>
<p><strong>CHESTER’S LIES</strong></p>
<p>The definitive biography on Chester Arthur is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gentleman-Boss-Chester-Arthur-Signature/dp/0945707037">“Gentleman Boss” by Thomas Reeves</a> .  It’s an exhaustive reference.  Many of the blanks in Chester Arthur’s legend were filled in by this book which utilized interviews with family members and authentic documents like the Arthur family Bible.   It was a necessary work since old Chester Arthur was a very wily protector of his strange history.  <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Sqr-_3FBYiYC&amp;pg=PA2365&amp;lpg=PA2365&amp;dq=%22arthur+burned+his+papers%22&amp;source=web&amp;ots=X_STHDZmHx&amp;sig=liFooTimEK4-d6sVyhguM8pGVb4&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=result">He burned all of his papers.</a> (See page 2365.)</p>
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<div class="story">Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation.</p>
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<p>According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama&#8217;s critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department of Health officials have access to Mr. Obama&#8217;s original records.</p>
<p>Some of Mr. Obama&#8217;s critics have said he was born in Kenya and have claimed he is a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia, or even a British subject.</p>
<p>Edwin Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who has practiced for 30 years and holds four degrees from Harvard, said if it were to be discovered Mr. Obama were not eligible for the presidency, it would cause many problems. They would be compounded if his ineligibility were discovered after he had been in office for a period of time.</p>
<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s assume he wasn&#8217;t born in the U.S.,&quot; Mr. Vieira told The Bulletin. &quot;What&#8217;s the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can&#8217;t make him president. So what&#8217;s the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he&#8217;s aware he&#8217;s not a citizen, then it&#8217;s a perjured oath.&quot;</p>
<p>Any appointments made by an ineligible president would have to be recalled, and their decisions would be invalidated.</p>
<p>&quot;He may have nominated people to different positions; he may have nominated people to the judicial branch, who may have been confirmed, they may have gone out on xecutive duty and done various things,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;The people that he&#8217;s put into the judicial branch may have decided cases, and all of that needs to be unzipped.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira said Obama supporters should be the ones concerned about the case, because Mr. Obama&#8217;s platform would be discredited it he were forced to step down from the presidency later due to his ineligibility, were it to be discovered.</p>
<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s say we go a year into this process, and it all turns out to be a flim-flam,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;What&#8217;s the nation&#8217;s reaction to that? What&#8217;s going to be the reaction in the next U.S. election? God knows. It has almost revolutionary consequences, if you think about it.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira said Mr. Obama&#8217;s continued silence and avoidance in the release of his birth certificate is an ethical issue because of the dire consequences that could be caused by a possible constitutional crisis.</p>
<p>&quot;If he were my client and this question came up in civil litigation, if there was some reason that his birth status was relevant and the other side wanted him to produce the thing and he said &#8216;no,&#8217; I would tell him, &#8216;you have about 15 minutes to produce it or sign the papers necessary to produce the document, or I&#8217;m resigning as your attorney,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;I don&#8217;t think any ethical attorney would go ahead on the basis that his client could produce an objective document in civil litigation [and refused to do so].&quot;</p>
<p>Further, Mr. Vieira cited a fraud ruling in a 1977 case called U.S. v. Prudden, which he feels applies in this case.</p>
<p>&quot;Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal and moral duty to speak or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading,&quot; the ruling reads. &quot;We cannot condone this shocking conduct &#8230; If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira said such an ethical question of representing a client who refused to produce such a basic document is important, even in a small civil case. The current question is concerning the man who potentially could have his finger next to the nuclear button.</p>
<p>&quot;[The birth certificate], in theory, should be there,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;What if it isn&#8217;t? Who knows, aside from Mr. Obama? Does Russian intelligence know it isn&#8217;t there? Does Chinese intelligence know it isn&#8217;t there? Does the CIA know that it isn&#8217;t there? Who is in a position to blackmail this fellow?&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira explained all laws have to be submitted to the president. In the event that there is no valid president, then no laws passed by Congress in that administration would be legally null and void. Because of that, this case will probably not go away, even after Mr. Obama takes the oath of office.</p>
<p>&quot;If you don&#8217;t produce it, you think it&#8217;s going to go away,&quot; he said. &quot;There are all these cases challenging Mr. Obama, and some challenging secretaries of state, and they run into this doctrine called standing.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira explained although legal standing is difficult to get around in Federal courts, the document could be produced in any criminal cases stemming from legislation passed in the Obama administration.</p>
<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s assume that an Obama administration passes some of these controversial pieces of legislation he has been promising to go for, like the FOCA (Freedom of Choice) Act,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;I would assume that some of those surely will have some severe civil or criminal penalties attached to them for violation. You are now the criminal defendant under this statute, which was passed by an Obama Congress and signed by President Obama. Your defense is that is not a statute because Mr. Obama is not the president. You now have a right and I have never heard this challenged, to subpoena in a criminal case, anyone who has relevant evidence relating to your defenses. And you can subpoena them duces tecum, meaning &#8216;you shall bring with you the documents.&#8217; &quot;</p>
<p>Such a criminal defense would enable the defendant to subpoena any person to testify in court and any person to bring evidence in their possession to the court.</p>
<p>Further, records could be subpoenaed directly, in the case of a birth certificate. Once the record could be subpoenaed, the birth certificate could be examined by forensic experts, who would then be able to testify to the document&#8217;s veracity as expert witnesses. Any movement by the judges to make a special exception to the president in a criminal case would hurt the legitimacy of that presidential administration.</p>
<p>&quot;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m the only lawyer who would think of this,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;I think any criminal lawyer defending against one of these politically charged statutes is going to come up with this. That means it will never go away until that document is laid down on the table and people say, &#8216;yes, there it is.&#8217; And therefore they&#8217;re caught. If people keep challenging this and the judges out of fear keep saying &#8216;no, go to jail, go to jail, go to jail&#8217; then that&#8217;s the end of the Obama administration&#8217;s legitimacy. On the other hand if they open the file and it&#8217;s not there, then that&#8217;s really the end of the administration&#8217;s legitimacy.&quot;</p>
<p>Several court cases in the birth certificate controversy are waiting admission to the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>A gathering of judges will meet on Dec. 5 to decide whether or not to hear a case from New Jersey, and a decision is still pending on a case from a lawyer in Pennsylvania. Should four of the judges vote to hear the case in the Dec. 5 meeting, then it will be scheduled for hearings. Court cases from Connecticut and New York have also applied for hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>
<p>John P. Connolly can be reached at jconnolly@thebulletin.us<a href="http://www.thebulletin.us" target="_blank">Full Story &#8230;</a></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[Col. David Crockett, US Representative from Tennessee Originally published in &#34;The Life of Colonel David Crockett,&#34; by Edward Sylvester Ellis . One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; color: #802d30;"> Col. David Crockett, US Representative from Tennessee<br />
</span> <span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman; color: #802d30;">Originally    published in &quot;The Life of Colonel David    Crockett,&quot; </span> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Times New Roman; color: #802d30;">by    Edward Sylvester Ellis</span> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; color: #802d30;">.</span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; color: #802d30;">One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken    up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a    distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches    had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about    to put the question when Crockett arose:</span></p>
<p>&quot;Mr. Speaker&#8211;I have as much respect for the memory    of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings    of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but    we must not permit our respect for the dead or our    sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of    injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go    into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power    to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every    member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of    our own money as we please in charity; but as members of    Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the    public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us    upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr.    Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the    war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never    heard that the government was in arrears to him.</p>
<p>&quot;Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We    cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this    money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance    of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I    have said we have the right to give as much money of our    own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I    cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week&#8217;s pay    to the object, and if every member of Congress will do    the same, it will amount to more than the bill    asks.&quot;</p>
<p>He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon    its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was    generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for    that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course,    was lost.</p>
<p>Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the    appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:</p>
<p>&quot;Several years ago I was one evening standing on the    steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when    our attention was attracted by a great light over in    Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into    a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of    all that could be done, many houses were burned and many    families made houseless, and, besides, some of them had    lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was    very cold, and when I saw so many women and children suffering, I    felt that something ought to be done for them. The next    morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for    their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed    it through as soon as it could be done.</p>
<p><span>&quot;The    next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I    would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition    there<strong>,</strong> but, as the election was    some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a    part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a    man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that    we should meet as he came to the fence.<strong> A</strong> s he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but<strong>,</strong> as I thought, rather coldly.</span></p>
<p>&quot;I began: &#8216;Well<strong>,</strong> friend, I am    one of those unfortunate beings called<br />
candidates<strong>,</strong> and&#8212;<strong>‘</strong></p>
<p>&quot;Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have    seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you    were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now,    but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall    not vote for you again.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;This was a sockdolager&#8230;I begged him to tell me what    was the matter.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="color: #802d30;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span>&quot; </span> <strong><span>’</span> </strong> <span>Well</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> Colonel, it is hardly worth</span> <strong><span>-</span> </strong> <span>while    to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you    gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to    understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and    firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent    me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it in that way. I did not intend to    avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a    candidate for the purpose of insulting or wounding you.</span> <span> </span> <span>I intend by it only to say    that your understanding of the </span> <span>C</span> <span>onstitution    is very different from mine; and I will say to you what</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.<br />
</span> <strong><span>…</span> </strong> <span>But    an understanding of the </span> C<span>onstitution    different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth    anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions.    The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more    honest he is.&#8217;</span> </span> </span></p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake  <strong><span>about    it, for I do not remember that I gave any vote last winter upon any    constitutional question.’ </span> </strong></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman; color: #802d30;"><strong><span>“    ‘No, Colonel, there’s no mistake.</span> </strong> <span> Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers    from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My    papers say </span> <strong><span>that    last winter</span> </strong> <span> you voted for    a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by </span> <strong><span>a</span> </strong> <span> fire in Georgetown. Is that true?</span> <strong><span>’</span> </strong> </span></p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>Well</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody    will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the    insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children,    particularly with a full and overflowing </span> <strong><span>T</span> </strong> <span>reasury,    and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just as I did.&#8217;</span></p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>It    is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the    first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough    for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The    power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous    power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of    collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no    matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in    proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his    knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United    States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see,    that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from    thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give    anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had    as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give    to one, you have the right to give to all; and</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you    are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or    profess to believe, is a charity</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a    wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one    hand, and for robbing the people on the other. </span> <strong><span>&#8216;</span> </strong> <span>No,    Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give    as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a    dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been    burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of    Congress would have </span> <span>t</span> <span>hought    of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and    forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers    by contributing each one week&#8217;s pay, it would have made over $13,000. There    are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given    $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.</span> <strong><span>&#8216;    &quot;</span> </strong> <span>The congressmen    chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend    not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you    for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours    to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the    power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay    moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a    violation of the Constitution.</span> <strong><span>&#8216;</span> </strong></p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I    consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country,    for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the    Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have    no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as    far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.&#8217;</p>
<p>&quot;I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this    man should go to talking, he would set others to talking, and in that    district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I    was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must    satisfy him, and I said to him:</p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>Well,    my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense    enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and    thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about    the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more    hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had    ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the    fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote    for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be    shot.&#8217;</span></p>
<p>&quot;He laughingly replied; &#8216;Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once    before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You say that you <strong><span> </span> </strong> <span>are    convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more    good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will    tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will    not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.&#8217;</span></p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>If    I don&#8217;t</span> <strong><span>’</span> </strong> <span>,    said I, &#8216;I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in    what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will    get up a gathering of the people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a    barbecue, and I will pay for it.&#8217;</span></p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>No,    Colonel, we are not rich people in this section</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to    spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days,    and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. This is Thursday; I will see to    getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go    together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.</span> <strong><span>’</span> </strong></p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;Well <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your    name.</span> <strong><span>’</span> </strong></p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;My name is Bunce.&#8217;</p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;Not Horatio Bunce?&#8217;</p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;Yes <strong><span>.’</span> </strong></p>
<p>&quot; &#8216;Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen    me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I    may hope to have you for my friend.&#8217;</p>
<p>&quot;It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled    but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable    intelligence and incorruptible integrity,  and for a heart brimful and    running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only    in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and    his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance.    Though I had never met him <strong><span>, </span> </strong> <span>before, I had heard much    of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had    opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now    stand up in that district under such a vote.</span></p>
<p>&quot;At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation    to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I    found that it gave the people an interest and a confidence in me stronger    than I had ever seen manifested before.</p>
<p>&quot;Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under    ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until    midnight <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real,    true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before.</span></p>
<p>&quot;I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him &#8211; no, that    is not the word &#8211; I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go    to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every    one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he    does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.</p>
<p>&quot;But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom    I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I    had got pretty well acquainted &#8211; at least, they all knew me.</span></p>
<p>&quot;In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered    up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:</p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>Fellow-citizens    &#8211; I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have    lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer    you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been    able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging    my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is    due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for    your consideration only.</span> <strong><span>’</span> </strong> <strong><span>&quot;</span> </strong></p>
<p>&quot;I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation    and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:</p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>And    now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the    speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of    the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.</span></p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>It    is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the<br />
credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he    will get up here and tell you so.&#8217;</span></p>
<p>&quot;He came upon the stand and said:</p>
<p>&quot;  <strong><span>‘</span> </strong> <span>Fellow-citizens    &#8211; </span> <span>I</span> <span>t    affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I    have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that    he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.&#8217;</span></p>
<p>&quot;He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy    Crockett as his name never called forth before. <strong><span>&#8216;<br />
</span> </strong> <span><br />
&quot;I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and    felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the    remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty    shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received    and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of    Congress.</span> <strong><span>&#8216;</span> </strong></p>
<p>&quot;Now, sir,&quot; concluded Crockett, &quot;you know why I made that    speech yesterday.</p>
<p>&quot;There is one thing now to which I will call your attention.  <span>Y</span> <span>ou    remember that I proposed to give a week&#8217;s pay. There are in that House many    very wealthy men &#8211; men who think nothing of spending a week&#8217;s pay, or a dozen    of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish    by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of    gratitude which the country owed the deceased&#8211;a debt which could not be paid    by money&#8211;and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so    insignificant a sum as $</span> <span>1</span> <span>0,000</span> <strong><span>,</span> </strong> <span> when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded    to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come    out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are    striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain    it.&quot;</span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In March of 1775, attorney Patrick         Henry, rode into the small town of Culpepper, Virginia.         As he rode into the town square, he was completely         shocked by what he witnessed. There, in the middle of the         square, was a man tied to a whipping post, his back laid         bare, with bones exposed. He had been scourged         mercilessly, with whips laced with metal. When they         stopped beating him, Patrick Henry could plainly see the         bones of his rib cage. He turned to ask someone in the         crowd, &quot;What has the man done to deserve such a         beating as this?&quot; The reply given him was that the         man being scourged was a minister. He was one of twelve         preachers, locked in jail, because they refused to take         the king&#8217;s license to preach the gospel.</p>
<p>The governor was under orders from King         George to compel all preachers to take the license. While         being tried, without the benefit of a jury, the minister         stated, &quot;I will never submit to taking your license.         I am controlled by the Holy Spirit, and authorized by God         Almighty, and will not allow you to control me by a         license, no matter what you may do to me.&quot; Three         days later, he was scourged to death, and such was the         fate of the other ministers, as well. This was the         incident that sparked Patrick Henry to write the famous         words, which later became the rallying cry of the         American Revolution,</p>
<p>&quot;What is it that the gentlemen         wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so         sweet, as to purchase at the price of chains and slavery?         Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others         may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me         death!&quot;</p>
<p>THE WAR INEVITABLE SPEECH March 1775<br />
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)</p>
<p>No man thinks more highly than I do of         the patriotism, as well as the abilities of the very         worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But         different men often see the same subject in different         lights, and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought         disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I         do, opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I         should speak forth my sentiments freely, and without         reserve.</p>
<p>This is no time for ceremony. The question         before the house is one of awful moment to this country.         Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through         fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as         guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of         disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere         above all earthly kings.</p>
<p>Mister President, it is natural for man         to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut         our eyes against a painful truth &#8211; and listen to the song         of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is         this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous         struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number         of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear         not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal         salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may         cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the         worst, and to provide for it.</p>
<p>I have but one lamp by which my feet         are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of         no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging         by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the         conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years,         to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been         pleased to solace themselves and the house? Is it that         insidious smile with which our petition has been lately         received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to         your feet.</p>
<p>Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed         with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception         of our petition comports with those warlike preparations         which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets         and armies necessary to a work of love and         reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to         be reconciled that force must be called in to win back         our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are         the implements of war and subjugation &#8211; the last         arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir,         what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to         force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other         possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in         this quarter of the world, to call for all this         accumulation of navies and armies? No sir, she has none.         They are meant for us; they can almost be meant for no         other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those         chains, which the British ministry have been so long         forging. And what have we to oppose them? Shall we try         argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten         years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject?         Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of         which it was capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall         we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms         shall we find that we have not already exhausted? Let us         not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.</p>
<p>Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to         avert the storm   which is now coming on. We have petitioned &#8211; we have         remonstrated &#8211; we have supplicated &#8211; we have prostrated         ourselves before the throne, and have implored its         interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the         ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been         slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional         violence and insult; our supplications have been         disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt,         from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things,         we may indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.         There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be         free &#8211; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable         privileges for which we have been so long contending &#8211; if         we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which         we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged         ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of         our contest shall be obtained &#8211; we must fight! &#8211; I         repeat, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the         God of Hosts is all that is left us!</p>
<p>They tell us, sir, that we are weak &#8211;         unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when         shall we be stronger? Will it be next week or the next         year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a         British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we         gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we         acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying         supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom         of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and         foot?</p>
<p>Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those         means the God of Nature hath placed in our power. Three         millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty,         and in such a country as that which we possess, are         invincible by any force which our enemy can send against         us.</p>
<p>Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There         is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations;         and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for         us. The battle, sir, is not the strong alone; it is to         the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we         have no election. If we are base enough to desire it, it         is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no         retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are         forged. Their clanking may heard on the plains of Boston!         The war is inevitable &#8211; and let it come! I repeat, sir,         let it come!</p>
<p>It is in vain, sir to extenuate the         matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace &#8211; but there is no         peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that         sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of         resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field!         Why stand we here idle? What is it the gentlemen wish?         What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,         as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?         Forbid it, Almighty God &#8211; I know not what course others         may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me         death!</p>
<p>To completely appreciate this most         famous speech, I believe that it is necessary to also         read the observations of John Roane who was present and         heard the speech, and had the great pleasure of watching         Patrick Henry give his great oration.</p>
<p>&quot;You remember, sir, the conclusion         of the speech, so often declaimed in various ways by         schoolboys, &#8216;Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be         purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it         Almighty God! I know now what course others may take, bus         as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!&#8217; He gave         each of these words a meaning which is not conveyed by         the reading or delivery of them in the ordinary way. When         he said, &#8216;Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be         purchased at the price of chains and slavery?&#8217; he stood         in the attitude of a condemned galley slave, loaded with         fetters, awaiting his doom. His form was bowed; his         wrists were crossed; his manacles were almost visible as         he stood like an embodiment of helplessness and agony.         After a solemn pause, he raised his eyes and chained         hands towards heaven, and prayed, in words and tones         which thrilled every heart, &#8216;Forbid it Almighty God!&#8217; He         then turned towards the timid loyalists of the house, who         were quaking with terror at the idea of the consequences         of participating in proceedings which would be visited         with the penalties of treason by the British crown; and         he slowly bent his form yet nearer to earth, and said, &#8216;I         know not what course others may take,&#8217; and he accompanied         the words with his hands still crossed, while he seemed         to be weighted down with additional chains. The man         appeared transformed into an oppressed, heart-broken, and         hopeless felon. After remaining in this posture of         humiliation long enough to impress the imagination with         the condition of the colony under the iron heel of         military despotism, he arose proudly, and exclaimed, &#8216;but         as for me,&#8217; &#8212; and the words hissed through his clenched         teeth, while his body was thrown back, and every muscle         and tendon was strained against the fetters which bound         him, and, with his countenance distorted by agony and         rage, he looked for a moment like Lacoon in a death         struggle with coiling serpents; then the loud clear,         triumphant notes, &#8216;give me liberty&#8217; electrified the         assembly. It was not a prayer, but a stern demand, which         would submit to no refusal or delay. The sound of his         voice, as he spoke these memorable words, was like that         of a Spartan paean on the Field of Plataea, and, as each         syllable of the word &#8216;liberty&#8217; echoed through the         building, his fetters were shivered; his arms were hurled         apart, and the links of his chains were scattered to the         winds. When he spoke the word &#8216;liberty&#8217; with an emphasis         never given it before, his hands were open, and his arms         elevated and extended; his countenance was radiant; he         stood erect and defiant; while the sound of his voice and         the sublimity of his attitude made him appear a         magnificent incarnation of Freedom, and express all that         can be acquired or enjoyed by nations and individuals         invincible and free.</p>
<p>&quot;After a momentary pause, only         long enough to permit the echo of the word &#8216;liberty&#8217; to         cease, he let his left hand fall powerless to his side,         and clenched his right hand firmly, as if holding a         dagger with the point aimed at his breast. He stood like         a Roman senator defying Caesar, while the unconquerable         spirit of Cato of Utica flashed from every feature, and         he closed the grand appeal with the solemn words, &#8216;or         give me death!&#8217; which sounded with the awful cadence of a         hero&#8217;s dirge, fearless of death, and victorious in death,         and he suited the action to the word by a blow upon the         left breast with the right hand, which seemed to drive         the dagger to the patriot&#8217;s heart.&quot;</p>
<p>We hope that the reading of this will         give you some concept of the depth of meaning that         liberty had to those who fought so valiantly for it, and         passed it on to us. There are now, those among us who         have the same unquenchable thirst for liberty and the         dignity of a free people and who are just as fearful of         the usurpations of liberty as those who have gone before.         It is to these ends: life, liberty and the pursuit of         justice that the common law courts have come back into         existence. Not for the selfish avoidance of law, but to         uphold the law and to dignify all men and for the         preservation of liberty for everyone.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Born&#8217; Conspiracy: Forged images, phony photos, and felony fraud</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ron Polarik, PhD The following report is the culmination of over four months of intensive, empirical research whose sole purpose has been to determine if the images and photographs posted on the Internet are true reproductions of a genuine document purported to be Obama&#8217;s original birth certificate. The idea for the research actually began [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><small><a title="Since 2008-06-22" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/%7Epolarik/" title="Since 2008-06-22"><span style="color: black;"><strong> </strong> </span> </a> </small> <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #0000ff;">By Ron Polarik, PhD</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The following report is the culmination of over four months of intensive, empirical research whose sole purpose has been to determine if the images and photographs posted on the Internet are true reproductions of a genuine document purported to be Obama&#8217;s original birth certificate. The idea for the research actually began from the time when the first image was posted on June 12 to the Daily Kos blog. I don&#8217;t recall on which website I actually saw the story (most likely World Net Daily), but the news had gone viral basically from the moment that it hit the Internet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Before seeing the image, I had no idea that Barack Obama&#8217;s birthplace was in question, or that his status as a natural-born US citizen had never been proven. Like millions of other Americans, I believed the story he told about being born in Hawaii to an American Mother (and a U.S. citizen) and an African Father (a Kenyan national attending college on a student visa). I had no idea that this issue would mushroom and take on a life of its own. What I did know, however, was that from the first time I saw the Daily Kos image, or what I now call, &quot;Obama&#8217;s bogus birth certificate,&quot; that something was just not right about it. As someone who has scanned hundreds of thousands of documents in his lifetime, I had a hard time accepting that this was an original scan image made from an original paper document. As Fate would have it, right then, on June 13, I was looking at the conclusive evidence that the text on this image had been graphically altered, or &quot;manufactured,&quot; as my first blog post would claim.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">From that point onward, I had no inkling of what was to come. I had no idea that I would wind up being the only person on the Planet (at that time) to have spotted the anomalies that I knew were the by-products of intentional, graphic alteration, and to go on record as stating that the Daily Kos image was a fake. I was also not prepared for what came along with this knowledge, for what I had to endure for making it public. Basically, I had painted a big bullseye on my chest and my research findings, and the critics were now coming out of the virtual woodwork taking shots at me personally, and my research, secondly. I had started a new online game called, &quot;Let&#8217;s pile on Polarik,&quot; and every little error I made was magnified into a major transgression. Yet, the crux of my contention was never successfully refuted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now, if I had to do it all over again, I probably would not have done it at all, knowing that I&#8217;d be spending the next four months conducting further research and compiling evidence on not just the COLB image, but also the digital photographs that were to follow two months later. The personal costs to me were enormous, and I will not elucidate on them (but for those who know me, they also know what were those costs). What began as sort of a curiosity turned into my personal quest for the &quot;Holy Grail,&quot; so to speak. I was guided only by the need to uncover the truth, and by the constant harassment by my critics. Had they left me alone from the beginning, I probably would not be writing this report today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I debated, long and hard, about the title of my report. Aside from it being catchy, I ran the danger of being lumped into a group of false conspiracy theorists, and brushed aside as an idiot wearing a &quot;tinfoil hat.&quot; (Actually, that&#8217;s already happened, many times over). Perhaps there are a lot of false conspiracies, including some really outlandish ones, but there would not be laws on the books, both at a state level and a federal level, that specifically mention the act of conspiracy when the purpose of that conspiracy is to either engage in illegal activity, engage in a cover-up of that illegal activity, or interfering with the investigation of that illegal activity. Conspiracy can involve all of these. Yet, somehow, the word, &quot;Conspiracy,&quot; has become a pejorative for &quot;nutty theories from the fringe,&quot; as if there has never been a real &quot;conspiracy.&quot; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Do you remember, or ever hear about, the &quot;Watergate Conspiracy?&quot; Do you remember, or ever hear about, what happened to President Richard Nixon as a result?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I would tell all of you who think that &quot;conspiracies&quot; are a joke and that the people who claim to have found them are &quot;idiots wearing tinfoil hats,&quot; to just ask an FBI agent what he or she thinks about &quot;conspiracy.&quot; Or, go ahead and ask a federal judge what he or she thinks about &quot;conspiracy.&quot;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&quot;Conspiracy&quot; is no laughing matter, ladies and gentlemen, and neither is &quot;document fraud,&quot; as in <em>creating and passing a counterfeit birth certificate</em> . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I should now alert you to the fact that I have been using the phrase, &quot;Bogus birth certificate,&quot; as a euphemism for &quot;Counterfeit birth certificate,&quot; which is defined as, &quot;<em>A copy or imitation of a state-issued birth certificate that is intended to be taken as authentic and genuine in order to deceive another.</em> &quot; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sound familiar? According to </span> <a href="http://www.authenticate-360.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Authenticate-360</span> </a> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><em>Birth certificates</em> </strong> <em> are generally used as “breeder” documents to gain other identity documents and to perpetuate fraud. But unlike Social Security cards, birth certificates are issued by hundreds, if not thousands, of entities, with little regard to consistency or security. An accurately forged birth certificate is a dangerous document, allowing the bearer significant access to everything from driver’s licenses to passports&#8230;The increasing availability and affordability of high-quality digital scanners and copiers is a constant threat to the authenticity of government issued documents.</em> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are current Federal laws in place that prohibit the use of false identity documents, such as a birth certificate, and they are spelled out in Chapter 18 of the United States Code, Section 1028, <em>Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication features, and information. </em> In particular, there are specific paragraphs that relate to the use of a <em>false identification document</em> :</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>The term &quot;false identification document&quot; means a document of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purposes of identification of individuals that &#8211; (A) is not issued by or under the authority of a governmental entity or </em> <strong><em>was issued under the authority of a governmental entity but was subsequently altered for purposes of deceit</em> </strong> <em>; and(B) appears to be issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a State, a political subdivision of a State, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a foreign government, or an international governmental or quasi-governmental organization.</em> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What you are about to read in this report are well-documented facts arising from evidence collected over a period of four months and subjected to intense scrutiny and empirical evaluation. Given the overriding fact that the individual whose identity document is in question, has repeatedly failed to provide a genuine identity document, the charge that this individual, along with other individuals, did conspire to proffer in its place, a false identification document, is hereby levied by the American people, by way of one of its citizens. To summarize the seriousness of these actions and this charge, and to the importance of what is contained within this report:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>There is </em> <strong><em>conclusive and irrefutable evidence</em> </strong> <em> that the COLB image created and distributed by Obama&#8217;s campaign to the Daily Kos, Annenberg&#8217;s </em> <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Factcheck</span> </em> <em>, and the St. Pete Times, </em> <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Politifact</span> </em> <em>, is, unquestionably, a </em> <strong><em>false identification document</em> </strong> <em>. Furthermore, there is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the photos taken by Annenberg&#8217;s </em> <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Factcheck</span> </em> <em>, in collusion with the Obama campaign, are themselves, </em> <strong><em>false identification documents</em> </strong> <em>, having been made from the same </em> <strong><em>false identification document </em> </strong> <em>image, as well as from additional </em> <strong><em>false identification documents </em> </strong> <em>created for the same purpose; namely, to proffer these </em> <strong><em>false identification documents </em> </strong> <em>as true reproductions of a genuine, Hawaii-issued and certified, &quot;Certification of Live Birth&quot; document, and thereby, </em> <strong><em>intentionally deceive the American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States, and thereby, fully qualified to become their President.</em> </strong> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I never imagined that my studies would amount to this. I thought, like most Americans, that maybe the information was accurate even though the document image was fake. I thought, like most Americans, that Obama would simply present a copy of his real, original birth certificate, and that would be that. Yet, here we are, <strong>more than twenty months after Obama announced his candidacy for the Presidency</strong> , and nearly three weeks after the election, and <strong>Obama still refuses to show his real birth certificate!</strong> </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2136816/posts" target="_blank">Read the rest of this great hot breaking story and research here &#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Do You Support Our US Constitution? Decide Now !!! Action Items for Everyone.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do You Support Our US Constitution ? Do You Want The Truth ? You Can Make A Difference!!! Please, Follow these 7 Steps Below: _____________________________ 1. Mail Letters to All 9 Supreme Court Justices (See Letter Below + Addresses) 2. CC Your Letter Via Web-Mail Using the Federal Government Website to President George W. Bush [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do You Support Our US Constitution ?<br />
Do You Want The Truth ?<br />
You Can Make A Difference!!!</p>
<p>Please, Follow these 7 Steps Below:<br />
_____________________________</p>
<p>1.  Mail Letters to All 9 Supreme Court Justices<br />
(See Letter Below + Addresses)</p>
<p>2. CC Your Letter Via Web-Mail Using the Federal Government Website to President George W. Bush<br />
<a href="http://www.usa.gov" target="_blank"> http://www.usa.gov</a><br />
LOOK FOR ” CONTACT US ”</p>
<p>3. Sign This On-Line Petition &amp; Send Your On-Line Letter to Your Area Congress Members:<br />
<a href="http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis" target="_blank"> http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis</a></p>
<p>4. Send Your On-Line Letter to Your Area Senators:<br />
Link To List Of Senators by State<br />
~ Use Webform Link under each Senators Name<br />
Paste in Letter Below:<br />
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm" target="_blank"> http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm</a></p>
<p>5. Mail Letters to the Members of the Electoral College<br />
(See Link Below For Names &amp; Addresses:<a href="http://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx" target="_blank"></a> <a href="ttp://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx" target="_blank"><br />
</a></p>
<p><a href="http://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx" target="_blank">http://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx<br />
</a></p>
<p>6. Web Mail Your Letter(s) to Governors:<br />
Republican Governors Association:<br />
<a href="http://www.rga.org" target="_blank"> http://www.rga.org</a><br />
______________________________</p>
<p>7.) Copy &amp; Forward This To All Your Friends &amp; Family<br />
______________________________</p>
<p>* Letter Below<br />
______________________________</p>
<p>These 5 Websites below are designed to work in tandem on this very issue and contain additional information.</p>
<p><strong>PETITION FOR PUBLIC RELEASE OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA&#8217;S BIRTH CERTIFICATE<br />
</strong> <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=81550" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=81550</a><br />
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JOIN THE &#8216;Obama&#8217; RESISTANCE </strong><br />
<a href="http://www.grassfire.org/" target="_blank">http://www.grassfire.org/</a></p>
<p>America Must Know.com:<br />
<a href="http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx" target="_blank"> http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx</a></p>
<p>Democratic-Disaster.com:<br />
<a href="http://www.democratic-disaster.com" target="_blank"> http://www.democratic-disaster.com</a></p>
<p>We the People USA:<br />
<a href="http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com" target="_blank"> http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com</a><br />
___________________________</p>
<p>United States Supreme Court<br />
1 First Street NE<br />
Washington DC 20543</p>
<p>The Supreme Court Justices are as follows:</p>
<p>Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts<br />
Supreme Court Justice John Stevens<br />
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia<br />
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy<br />
Supreme Court Justice David Souter<br />
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas<br />
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg<br />
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer<br />
Supreme Court Justice Samual Alito<br />
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<p>FEEL FREE TO EDIT THIS LETTER TO USE RE ANY OF THE CASES:</p>
<p>Your Full Name<br />
Your Full Address</p>
<p>Date</p>
<p>Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts<br />
United States Supreme Court<br />
1 First Street NE<br />
Washington DC 20543</p>
<p>Re: Case Nos.: (08-4340)/Docket for 08-570/Case Nos(08-4340)Rule 11/Docket for 08A391/Case Nos(08-4340.</p>
<p>Dear Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts,</p>
<p>We are deeply concerned with respect to Mr. Obama’s fulfillment of the requirements to serve as the President of the United States laid out in Article II, Section I of The United States Constitution.</p>
<p>We ask you to understand, many of us feel Mr. Obama is being less than transparent with regards to his citizenship. If he has nothing to hide, he should certainly be more than willing to serve the needs of the people whom he hopes to lead by providing the reassurances we do need and that indeed prudence dictates we demand.</p>
<p>You certainly uphold employers verifying USA Citizenship or USA Permanent Residency Status, et.al., prior to employing employees in the USA. This is law.</p>
<p>We are asking no less.</p>
<p>We are asking Mr. Obama to show his willingness to defend and uphold the US Constitution by showing proof of his ability to comply with and fulfill the requirements of its laws. We feel this is certainly reasonable.</p>
<p>We ask that you give full consideration and grant a full hearing of this case before the Supreme Court of the United States of America.</p>
<p>We further ask that you grant an injunction to include but not limited to stopping the Electoral College from voting on December 15th, 2008 pending the outcome of this matter.</p>
<p>We ask, that if upon weighing the evidence the Supreme Court of the United States of America finds that Mr. Barack Obama fails to meet the qualifications for President of the United States of America, that the Supreme Court uphold Berg vs. Obama, et.al., and rule that Mr. Obama is, thereby, De-certified to hold the Office of President of the United States of America.</p>
<p>Out Of Prudence &amp; With Respect,<br />
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<p>Please, Follow the 7 Steps Above &amp; Forward This To Your Friends!!!</p>
<p>May God Bless The USA !!!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Devvy November 17, 2008 © 2008 &#8211; NewsWithViews.com &#34;Would you rather have one tyrant 3,000 miles away or 3,000 tyrants one mile away?&#34; Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin, The Patriot This is the latest on the Obama citizenship crisis and then some research resources for you on major issues. In my last column, Part [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: -1px; margin-bottom: -1px;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">By:            Devvy  November 17, 2008 ©            2008 &#8211; NewsWithViews.com</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: -1px; margin-bottom: -1px;" align="left">
<p style="margin-top: -1px; margin-bottom: -1px;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;Would            you rather have one tyrant 3,000 miles away or 3,000 tyrants one mile            away?&quot; Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin, <em>The Patriot</em> </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">This            is the latest on the Obama citizenship crisis and then some research            resources for you on major issues.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">In            my last column, Part II, was devoted to the growing crisis over Barack            Hussein Obama refusing to prove he is a natural born citizen; <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd414.htm">see            here</a> . You can get involved with the effort to contact electoral            college delegates to stop their vote on December 15, 2008 <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd414.htm">by            clicking here</a> ; those links are identified as such.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">New            developments</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=80931">Dr.            Alan Keyes filed a lawsuit in California, November 14, 2008</a> : &#8216;Constitutional            crisis&#8217; looming over Obama&#8217;s birth location. Alan Keyes lawsuit warns            America may see &#8216;usurper&#8217; in Oval Office. &quot;The California secretary            of state should refuse to allow the state&#8217;s 55 Electoral College votes            to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack            Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California            court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan            Keyes and others.&quot;</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://www.blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/">Let            me focus on Leo Donofrio&#8217;s lawsuit</a> which I covered in Part II of            my last column. Leo is asking you to please write a short letter to            Justice Clarence Thomas now that his case is docketed. You need only            ask Justice Thomas to hear Leo&#8217;s case on an expedited basis because            Obama&#8217;s refusal to prove he&#8217;s a natural born citizen is building into            a constitutional crisis that cannot be allowed to progress to the swearing            in process should the electoral college actually go ahead and vote him            in on December 15, 2008. Provide the case title and name: </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Leo            C. Donofrio, v. Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of the State            of New Jersey<br />
United States Supreme Court Docket No. 08A407</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">The            Honorable Associate Justice Clarence Thomas<br />
United States Supreme Court<br />
One First Street, N.E.,<br />
Washington, D.C. 20543. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">I            have been exchanging emails with Leo and he continues to reinforce the            main issue of &#8216;natural born citizen&#8217;. His latest posting for your convenience:</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;Barack            Obama&#8217;s official web site, Fight The Smears, admits he was a British            Citizen at birth. At the very bottom of the section of his web site            that shows an alleged official Certification Of Live Birth, the web            site lists the following information and link thereto: FactCheck.org            Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">“When            Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British            colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As            a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship            status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same            act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;Since            Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath            of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired            on Aug. 4,1982.” That is a direct admission Barack Obama was a            British citizen &quot;at birth&quot;. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;My            law suit argues that since Obama had dual citizenship &quot;at birth&quot;            and therefore split loyalties &quot;at birth&quot;, he is not a &quot;natural            born citizen&quot; of the United States. A &quot;natural born citizen&quot;            would have no other jurisdiction over him &quot;at birth&quot; other            than that of the United States. The Framers chose the words &quot;natural            born&quot; and those words cannot be ignored. The status referred to            in Article 2, Section 1, &quot;natural born citizen&quot;, pertains            to the status of the person&#8217;s citizenship &quot;at birth&quot;.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;The            other numerous law suits circling Obama to question his eligibility            fail to hit the mark on this issue. Since Obama was, &quot;at birth&quot;,            a British citizen, it is completely irrelevant, as to the issue of Constitutional            &quot;natural born citizen&quot; status, whether Obama was born in Hawaii            or abroad. Either way, he is not eligible to be President. Should Obama            produce an original birth certificate showing he was born in Hawaii,            it will not change the fact that Obama was a British citizen &quot;at            birth&quot;. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;Obama            has admitted to being a British subject &quot;at birth&quot;. And as            will be made perfectly clear below, his being subject to British jurisdiction            &quot;at birth&quot; bars him from being eligible to be President of            the United States. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;As            I have argued before the United States Supreme Court, the 14th Amendment            does not confer &quot;natural born citizen&quot; status anywhere in            its text. It simply states that a person born in the United States is            a &quot;Citizen&quot;, and only if he is &quot;subject to the jurisdiction&quot;            of the United States. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;Article            2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States:</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;No            person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States,            at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to            the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that            Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years,            and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.&quot;</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;The            most overlooked words in that section are: &quot;&#8230;or a Citizen of            the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution&#8230;&quot;            You must recall that most, if not all, of the framers of the Constitution            were, at birth, born as British subjects. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;Stop            and think about that.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;The            chosen wording of the Framers here makes it clear that they had drawn            a distinction between themselves &#8211; persons born subject to British jurisdiction            &#8211; and &quot;natural born citizens&quot; who would not be born subject            to British jurisdiction or any other jurisdiction other than the United            States. And so the Framers grandfathered themselves into the Constitution            as being eligible to be President. But the grandfather clause only pertains            to any person who was a Citizen&#8230; at the time of the Adoption of this            Constitution. Obama was definitely not a Citizen at the time of the            adoption of the Constitution and so he is not grandfathered in.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;And            so, for Obama or anybody else to be eligible to be President, they must            be a &quot;natural born citizen&quot; of the United States &quot;at            birth&quot;. It should be obvious that the Framers intended to deny            the Presidency to anybody who was a British subject &quot;at birth&quot;.            If this had not been their intention, then they would not have needed            to include a grandfather clause which allowed the Framers themselves            to be President.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;If            you click through to Factcheck.org, a more detailed discussion as to            why Obama was a British citizen at birth explains the relevant statutes:</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;When            Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British            colony, still part of the United Kingdom&#8217;s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan            native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status            was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed            the status of Obama Sr.&#8217;s children:</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;British            Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section 5): Subject to the provisions            of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall            be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father            is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;In            other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S.            citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United            Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father            who was a citizen of the UKC.&#8217; &quot;</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;The            article goes on to state that Obama&#8217;s British citizenship was transferred            to Kenya as Kenya became independent from the UK and that Obama&#8217;s Kenyan            citizenship expired when he turned 21 years old. But none of that is            relevant since the Constitution requires that every President be a &quot;natural            born citizen&quot;. The word &quot;born&quot; is proof positive that            the status must be present &quot;at birth&quot;. If this were not the            case, then, as stated above, the Framers would not have needed to put            in a grandfather clause. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;The            Framers recognized that even they were not &quot;natural born citizens&quot;            and so they wrote the grandfather clause in to allow any of them to            become President. But the grandfather clause only pertains to those            who were Citizens at the time of the Constitution&#8217;s adoption. And so,            Barack Obama is not a &quot;natural born citizen&quot; of the United            States and neither is John McCain who was born in Panama, and neither            is Roger Calero who was born in Nicaragua.&quot;</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">All            of Leo&#8217;s court filings are posted on his site. Barack Hussein Obama is a &#8216;creation.&#8217; He has had so many names,            no one can keep track of his real history. He refuses to release his            records for Harvard and Columbia. It has been reported that Obama attended            Harvard under a foreign student classification and that is the reason            he refuses to open his records. An individual obtained Obama&#8217;s SS registration            form (selective service); <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/">click            here and scroll down until you see the form</a> . </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Obama            reportedly traveled to Pakistan in 1980 and 1981 using an Indonesian            passport. I am working on getting documentation on that.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html">This            web site presents the final, very technical report</a> on the document            produced by the Obama people in June. After studying the credentials            of the individual and the analysis, I feel the case has been made the            Certificate of Live Birth released by Obama&#8217;s camp is a forgery.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Barack            Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Obama, aka Barack Dunham,            aka Barry Dunham is simply an empty husk delivered up as the messiah            and answer to America&#8217;s problems when he&#8217;s nothing but a fake and a            devout Marxist. If this constitutional issue isn&#8217;t decided by either            the courts or the electoral college on December 15, 2008, and Obama            is sworn in, when the truth does come out, and it will, we will truly            have a mess of monumental proportions. Even a pro-abortion supporter            (<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=813996">who            calls abortion murder</a> ) of Obama is <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/">now            questioning why won&#8217;t Obama produce a real, legal document</a> ?</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;In            the closing weeks of the election, however, I became increasingly disturbed            by the mainstream media&#8217;s avoidance of forthright dealing with several            controversies that had been dogging Obama &#8212; even as every flimsy rumor            about Sarah Palin was being trumpeted as if it were engraved in stone            on Mount Sinai. For example, I had thought for many months that the            flap over Obama&#8217;s birth certificate was a tempest in a teapot. But simple            questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction.            Thanks to their own blathering, fanatical overkill, of course, the right-wing            challenges to the birth certificate never gained traction.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">&quot;But            Obama could have ended the entire matter months ago by publicly requesting            Hawaii to issue a fresh, long-form, stamped certificate and inviting            a few high profile reporters in to examine the document and photograph            it. (The campaign did make the &quot;short-form&quot; certificate available            to Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at            the University of Pennsylvania.) And why has Obama not made his university            records or thesis work widely available? The passivity of the press            toward Bush administration propaganda about weapons of mass destruction            led the nation into the costly blunder of the Iraq war. We don&#8217;t need            another presidency that finds it all too easy to rely on evasion or            stonewalling. I deeply admire Obama, but as a voter I don&#8217;t like feeling            gamed or played.&quot;</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">What            Congress and the media won&#8217;t tell you</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">My            incoming email is simply more than one person can handle; I can&#8217;t answer            all the questions coming in on issues like social security, the IRS            and so many more. This is column number 415 for NWVs. I have written            thousands in almost 20 years; a huge number of them are on my CD. By the time this column is posted, I&#8217;ll be well on my way            to the West coast. God willing, I will return home to West Texas around            December 3, 2008. Because I won&#8217;t have a column for a couple of weeks,            what I&#8217;ve done is take a half dozen of the biggest issues like health            care and put together a compilation of columns. That way, in your spare            time (no chuckling, please), you can use these references for research            and get the truth. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Also,            many of my columns as well as Dr. Edwin Vieria and others are available            for free on audio on my web site.  You can listen on your computer while doing things around            the house or download to your IPod or a CD and listen while driving            or on the commute train or plane. Additionally, I have a limited selection            of must view videos on my web site. Please feel free to also download            those and get them out to family, colleagues and friends. <a href="http://www.devvy.com/videos.html">Click            here</a> .</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">America            is not a democracy. Popular web sites and &quot;progressive&quot; sites            all push for the destruction of this country when they chirp &quot;Our            democracy!&quot; America&#8217;s legal form of government is a constitutional            republic. <a href="http://www.devvy.com/pdf/larosa/larosa_democracy_or_republic.pdf">Please            learn the difference and stop supporting mob rule</a> . Fisher Ames,            a founding father said: &quot;A democracy is a volcano which conceals            the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption            and carry desolation in their way.&quot; Benjamin Rush said: &quot;A            simple democracy is the devil&#8217;s own government.&quot; John Adams said:            &quot;Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts,            and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit            suicide.&quot;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">What            can I do? is the common question. The ballot box is dead, this last            election proves it beyond any doubt. The same Congress, with a whopping            17 &quot;new&quot; faces, will go back in in less than two months. Come            January, our thrust has to be to the states as I have written about            and an all out, constant assault (not violence) on the U.S. Congress.            There is no other way until the final break down, and then no one can&#8217;t            say we the people didn&#8217;t do everything the right way first.</span> <a href="mailto:newsforyou-list-subscribe@newswithviews.com"><br />
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">As            my regular readers know, but perhaps not new readers, I always provide            my source reference material. At the end of my columns are additional            resources. Over almost 20 years I have learned from warriors; experts            in their respective fields on all these issues. Because time is so short,            I have made every effort to get the most credible and legally factual            information available for you to get the truth. Unless we&#8217;re all on            the same LEGAL battlefield, Americans will continue to demand more failure            instead of the constitutional solutions that held us true for so long            &#8212; until the special interest groups began purchasing the favors of            Congress about a half century ago. We are now at the end of all the            corruption as the system has rotted to near extinction.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://devvy.net/pdf/nov08/issues_columns.html">That            compilation file is here</a> .</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Here&#8217;s            one more for the day. Obama&#8217;s &quot;home&quot; state is Illinois. The            &#8216;Pick 3&#8242; for the Illinois State Lottery on election night: 666. </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><strong>Links:</strong> </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd364.htm">How            do I make a difference</a> ?</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd359.htm">Do            you have a plan?</a> (Personal)</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">I            forgot to add one thing in that column. Everyone has seen people standing            in front of what used to be their home when disasters hit. These folks            are crying because, not only have their homes been destroyed, their            treasured family photos with so many memories got burned up or destroyed            in a hurricane or tornado. Scan all your favorite family pictures onto            your computer and burn them onto a CD. Put that CD in a small fireproof            safe in your home (best place is a floor safe in the closet). That way,            if you have to evacuate in a hurry, when you return, your valuables            and those pictures of your loved ones will be preserved.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd360.htm">Do            you have a plan for freedom</a> ? </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="http://www.devvy.com/fes_20020710.html">This            is what happens when the mob takes over</a> </span></p>
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		<title>&#8220;When Fascism Comes to America &#8230;&#8221; Americans Speak Out From The Past</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those that lived and died before us saw the value of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in being a patriot and protecting what God has given us. Let&#8217;s read and realize that these are not mear quotes from past citizens but quotes made to tell us to protect with all we have what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those that lived and died before us saw the value of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in being a patriot and protecting what God has given us.   Let&#8217;s read and realize that these are not mear quotes from past citizens but quotes made to tell us to protect with all we have what we have. Many have died just for this day, that we might stand up and be counted for there actions to save what we have.  Do not minimize or forget, what you have starts with you and end with you.</p>
<p><em>When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ~ Sinclair Lewis:</em></p>
<p class="style3" style="text-align: left;"><em>Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. ~George Washington,          Farewell Address,          September 19, 1796</em></p>
<p><em>My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one&#8217;s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.  ~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court, 1889</em></p>
<p><em>I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. ~ Zora Neale Hurston</em></p>
<p><em>A politician will do anything to keep his job &#8212; even become a patriot. ~William Randolph Hearst</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism&#8230; is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.  ~Adlai Stevenson</em></p>
<p><em>The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. &#8212; Samuel Adams</em></p>
<p><em>If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.  ~Author Unknown</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.  ~Bertrand Russell</em></p>
<p><em>Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.  ~Seneca</em></p>
<p><em>Do not&#8230; regard the critics as questionable patriots.  What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?  ~Adlai Stevenson</em></p>
<p><em>Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn&#8217;t.  You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.  ~Mark Twain</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.  ~George Bernard Shaw</em></p>
<p><em>A man&#8217;s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.  ~George William Curtis</em></p>
<p><em>We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~Edward R. Murrow</em></p>
<p><em>I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.  ~ James Baldwin</em></p>
<p><em>The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. ~Mark Twain:</em></p>
<p><em>The government is merely a servant &#8212; merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn&#8217;t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. ~Mark Twain</em></p>
<p><em>To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918) ~ Theodore Roosevelt:</em></p>
<p><em>God bless America, land that I love,<br />
Stand beside her, and guide her,<br />
Through the night, with the light from above,<br />
From the mountains, to the prairies<br />
To the oceans, white with foam<br />
God bless America, my home sweet home,<br />
God bless America! My Home Sweet Home! &#8211;Irving Berlin, God Bless America</em></p>
<p><em>We can&#8217;t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. &#8212; Charles F. Browne</em></p>
<p><em>A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation&#8217;s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth. ~Henry Ward Beecher</em></p>
<p><em>Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.<br />
~Walter Scott</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~ Calvin Coolidge</em></p>
<p><em>Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. &#8211; John F. Kennedy</em></p>
<p><em>(W)e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. &#8212; Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address</em></p>
<p><em>America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln</em></p>
<p><em>We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. &#8211; Richard Nixon</em></p>
<p><em>Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS… &#8211; Thomas Paine</em></p>
<p><em>These are the times that try men&#8217;s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. &#8211; Thomas Paine</em></p>
<p><em>Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return. &#8212; Colin Powell</em></p>
<p><em>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. &#8212; The Pledge Of Allegiance</em></p>
<p><em>You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children&#8217;s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. &#8211; Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em>And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she&#8217;s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home. &#8211; Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em>In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead &#8211; Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em>Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood &#8212; the virtues that made America. &#8211; Teddy Roosevelt</em></p>
<p><em>I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. &#8211; Daniel Webster</em></p>
<p><em>Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I&#8217;m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. &#8211; John Wayne</em></p>
<p><em>The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. &#8211; Woodrow Wilson</em></p>
<p><em>And I&#8217;m proud to be an American,<br />
Where at least I know I&#8217;m free,<br />
And I won&#8217;t forget the men who died,<br />
Who gave that right to me<br />
And I&#8217;ll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today,<br />
Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,<br />
God bless the USA &#8211; Lee Greenwood, Proud To Be An American</em></p>
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		<title>What Is An Empowered Patriot?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Patriot is someone that has a passion for their country. This passion is usually based on citizenship and strengthened by military service and lifestyle. Patriotism usually shows during times of challenge and distress. Elements of patriotism are God, Country, Family, Freedom (privacy and rights). When any of these are challenged ones patriotism is usually [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Patriot is someone that has a passion for their country. This passion is usually based on citizenship and strengthened by military service and lifestyle.  Patriotism usually shows during times of challenge and distress.   Elements of patriotism are God, Country, Family, Freedom (privacy and rights).   When any of these are challenged ones patriotism is usually the driving force toward protection.</p>
<p>An Empowered Patriot is one that has truthful knowledge, can discern right from wrong, is informed, and has overcome fear and anger.  An Empowered Patriot is one that can face the adversary with boldness and courage and strength.</p>
<p>A great example of Patriotism and courage is the story of the actions of David in his battle withGoliath, the adversary Goliath.</p>
<p>One day David, the youngest son of Jesse, was sent to the battle lines by his father to bring back news of his brothers. David was probably just a young teenager at the time. While there, David heard Goliath shouting his daily defiance and he saw the great fear stirred within the men of Israel. David responded, &quot;Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of God?&quot;</p>
<p>So David volunteered to fight Goliath. It took some persuasion, but King Saul finally agreed to let David fight against the giant. Dressed in his simple tunic, carrying his shepherd&#8217;s staff, slingshot and a pouch full of stones, David approached Goliath. The giant cursed at him, hurling threats and insults.</p>
<p>David said to the Philistine, &quot;You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied &#8230; today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air &#8230; and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel &#8230; it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord&#8217;s, and he will give all of you into our hands.&quot; 1 Samuel 17</p>
<p>As Goliath moved in for the kill, David reached into his bag and slung one of his stones at Goliath&#8217;s head. Finding a hole in the armor, the stone sank into the giant&#8217;s forehead and he fell face down on the ground. David then took Goliath&#8217;s sword, killed him and then cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. So the Israelites pursued, chasing and killing them and plundering their camp.</p>
<p>Consider these actions of David and compare them to your own pursuit of Patriotism.</p>
<p>1. Even though the standoff with the Philistines lasted 40 days David was not afraid to make the first move.</p>
<p>2. David approached the battle in his familiar clothes and refused the King’s armor.</p>
<p>3. David’s faith in God caused him to look at the adversary, Goliath, as a mortal man.</p>
<p>4. Insults, criticism, and threats did not bother David. He ran into battle, he knew what he had to do, and he was confident what he had to do and it did it with strength and courage.</p>
<p>Are you ready to defend and battle for your Patriotism like David?</p>
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