I Call BS!

As I stated previously, the liberals are SO winning the race for dominance of the new media. Obama’s grassroots movement gave him unprecedented reach and the campaign contributions that followed.

Here is OUR chance!

While I suspect this will turn out to be a non-issue, there is a CHANCE that we are about to install a President who is Constitutionally unqualified for the position. As long as doubts remain as to his true current citizenship there will be a cloud of doubt over his entire presidential career, lingering anger that a non-citizen may have been allowed to steal a U.S. Presidential election.

While I may have voted against him I must put country first. That means that FIRST we verify his eligibility THEN I give him a chance to lead the country and rise or fall by his decisions and leadership. The latter cannot proceed without the former, and there are obviously a lot of other people who feel the same way.

But time is short! The electoral college casts its votes on December 15. We must act swiftly to make sure they are casting their votes according to the Constitution!

A grassroots movement is working diligently to follow lawsuits already filed that would require President-Elect Obama to verify his eligibility to serve in that office. There is also effort to reach the electors DIRECTLY to have them withhold their votes unless and until his eligibility is verified. But there are NOT ENOUGH OF US committed to the effort!

We all have other obligations - jobs, families, school, whatever - but so do the liberals yet THEY get it done. SO CAN WE!! Many hands make light work. JOIN IN!

America Must Know

Democratic Disaster

How long does an oath last?

How long am I bound by an oath? Earlier in my life I freely took this oath:

“I, _____, 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 regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

In seeking to understand what ‘all enemies, foreign and domestic’ meant, I looked at America’s enemies in the Revolutionary War, in the War of 1812, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Korean (Police Action) War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Gulf War I and the Iraqi-Afghan War only recently won and now in its waning stages.

The common threads running through the most recent 7 were that America was defending against a socialist enemy OR a tyrannical dictator-thug whose unchallenged whim, with the armed might of even a small nation behind him, could seriously damage freedom-loving people and/or America’s freedom-loving interests.

Personally? My father fought against socialists in Korea and 12 years after he returned I took my post on the line (actually a De-Militarized Zone or DMZ) between the socialist world and the free world.

Now America has (by whatever means) chosen as its president a socialist.

Does that ‘election’ suddenly make socialism no longer the dehumanizing, cruel, dysfunctional form of tyranny that has always before set it in enmity to America? Does having a president who seems to want the socialist methodology (redistribute the wealth) imposed on America DESPITE 100 years of historical, factual evidence of socialism’s impotence to ennoble citizens or even provide for their basic needs MAKE IT SOMEHOW PERMISSABLE and no longer poisonous and antithetical to the very existence of America?

Am I now, in November 2008, somehow suddenly relieved of the burden of conscience as regards an enemy ‘foreign … domestic’, because he’s somehow NOT a domestic enemy IF WE ELECTED HIM?

“That strychnine has been poisonous, is poisonous and will continue to be- WAIT! No, excuse me, it is no longer POISONOUS strychnine because we’ve re-named it ‘Hope & Change’… go ahead and drink it.”

How long am I bound to ‘defend the Constitution of the United States… against all enemies, foreign and domestic’? Are we in the process of ingesting some deadly poison, chosen for us by monied interests who’ve long hated America?

Grumpy

“The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign,” News 4 reported.

“They want to remind voters that Obama is a Christian who wants to cut taxes for those making less than $250,000 a year,” said KMOV reporter John Mills.

The Barack Obama Truth Squad is an initiative based on pure unadulterated Marxism, a Marxism where the end justifies the means. Through the Marxist dialectic, Marxists are taught to lie and to accuse their detractors of lying.

Let it be remembered that on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama became the only truth.

And let it be remembered that also on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, Missouri Governor Matt Blunt called BS! on this attempt to silence free speech:

St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.

Now, here is a statement from Joyce:

As a citizen, I believe that elections should be about issues. I also have enormous respect for our First Amendment and freedom of speech. My sole purpose in participating in this initiative is about getting truthful information to the voters. This has never been or never will be about prosecuting people.

Clearly there are those who are attempting to twist the purpose of this initiative for their own benefit. This attack is a great example of how the truth is distorted in campaigns and what we’re trying to stand up against. [emphasis added]

Joyce and liberal bloggers are spinning this as an attempt by conservatives to squelch the free speech rights of St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer. However, these people are all in elected public positions in the local law enforcement and judicial systems and as such are not ordinary citizens. By virtue of their positions they carry the color of authority as well as a duty to pursue their official tasks in an unbiased manner.

IF these people were committing to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign REGARDLESS of the target of the ad, they would be well within their rights. But to openly and publicly state that they will pursue enforcement of the law on a partisan basis is a gross violation of the law and I CALL BS! on them!

Seeing the limitations of partisan politics ever more clearly election after election, and ESPECIALLY CLEARLY this internet-enhanced election cycle, I must admit that the rancor, the criticism, the bad decisions for partisan gain and the disunity flowing from these efforts is saddening and disheartening.

Having experienced the unity and positive energy of the world’s only World Community, it is interesting to compare its administration with the current Obama-McCain show.

Whereas both the candidates declare (or make efforts to HIDE) the ‘planks’ of their platform, the Community of Light elects representatives elect their administrative servants from the whole pool of adults, without nomination and without a ‘platform’, recalling some of the guidelines that serve them well:

Beware, beware lest the foul odor of the parties and peoples of foreign lands in the West, and their pernicious methods, such as intrigues, party politics and propaganda — practices which are abhorrent even in name — should ever reach the … community, exert any influence whatsoever upon the friends, and thus bring all spirituality to naught. The friends should, through their devotion, love, loyalty and altruism, abolish these evil practices, not imitate them. It is only after the friends completely ignore and sanctify themselves from these evils, that the spirit of God can penetrate and operate in the body of humanity, and in the… community.

If we but turn our gaze to the high qualifications of the members of (administrative institutions), “…we are filled with feelings of unworthiness and dismay, and would feel truly disheartened but for the comforting thought that if we rise to play nobly our part every deficiency in our lives will be more than compensated by the all-conquering spirit of His grace and power. Hence it is incumbent upon the chosen delegates to consider without the least trace of passion and prejudice, and irrespective of any material consideration, the names of only those who can best combine the necessary qualities of unquestioned loyalty, of selfless devotion, of a well-trained mind, of recognized ability and mature experience”.

And in a different consideration:

“…reference to personalities before the election would give rise to misunderstanding and differences. What the friends should do is to get thoroughly acquainted with one another, to exchange views, to mix freely and discuss among themselves the requirements and qualifications for such a membership without reference or application, however indirect, to particular individuals. We should refrain from influencing the opinion of others, of canvassing for any particular individual, but should stress the necessity of getting fully acquainted with the qualifications of membership referred to in our Beloved’s Tablets and of learning more about one another through direct, personal experience rather than through the reports and opinions of our friends.

There are more explicit guidelines, but if you take just a moment to visualize, in YOUR mind’s eye, people all around the world, today, gathering together courteously and quietly and prayerfully to elect governments that are based practically and wholly on justice, courtesy, compassion, rational consideration, personal integrity and a deep, abiding respect for all humans IN the administrative process and IN the community so administered, you’ll get just a taste of what is so sadly MISSING in America’s political system today.

Others are starting to see, too…

The Thai government had an eviction order to move the illegal squatters at Government House, but after seeing 350 police in riot gear and batons line up (1030) outside one access point, and wait in the hot sun until 1110, they then meekly marched away, emboldening the petty thugs in the compound, who clapped and jeered!

Some ‘protesters’ broke past airport security today, and vandalized a VIP room. Other reports of vandalism and attacks on police are plentiful.

The government is stumbling badly here, unable to field enough loyal police (loyal to the government) to oust and jail The Mob, and unable or unwilling to send in riot-armed troops to assist!

Prime Minister Samak is groping, either inept or unwilling, either of which are grave malfeasance in office!

If you were a Messiah, Obama, you could lead with your words, your deeds and your actions.

You, Obama, would have an example promised to humankind in the Holy Bible, in the person of One, like unto the Son of Man. His coming May 22, 1844 was marked by the advent of the electronic age, yes, but the telegraph was yet too young to carry word of His glorious, meteor-like rise, His self-abnegation, His purity, His teachings and even too young to carry word of His mock trial and His execution before a hostile crowd of 10,000 on this date, July 9th, in the year 1850.

You, Obama, could show Americans the purity of heart, chaste virtue of character and complete humility that marked Him in His ministry, couldn’t you?

And you, Obama, by the dynamic force of example, could release into the world a healing force so powerful, so unifying and so transforming that you, too, would calmly await being shot to death by 750 Armenian Christian riflemen, as He did, wouldn’t you?

Because you, Obama, godlike in your wisdom, would recognize the transient, fleeting nature of this world and its riches, the cheap and worthless reality of worldly power and human vanity, and you could demonstrate publicly your disdain for these things, couldn’t you?

Because if you were to do these actions, if you were to offer up your life for all humankind, then you, too, could withstand the first volley of 750 musket rounds at pointblank range, and have the rifle rounds cut the ropes restraining you, as the rifles did July 9th, 1850, wouldn’t you?

And then, when the Muslim government called in a Muslim rifle regiment to do the dirty work that the Christian Armenian regiment had prayed fervently to be relieved of doing, God might answer YOUR prayers too, and when the guards came to your cell once again to bring you out before the gaze of 10,000 jeering onlookers, now grown silent from the miraculous nature of your first ‘execution’, why YOU would willingly let the Muslims hang you up to be shot to death yet another time…

As He was, there in Tabriz, Iran, July 9th, 1850.

And maybe your remains would have armed guards placed over them, to keep YOUR followers from retrieving them, at great personal risk, before dawn on the third day after your martyrdom, Obama…

But would YOUR mortal remains be taken to their final resting place and interred on God’s holy mountain, Mount Carmel, in Haifa in the Holy Land?

Would YOU, Barack Obama, have the courage to even carry His message to Americans thirsty for the water of truth and hungry for REAL sustenance?

Would YOU, Barack Obama, have the personal integrity and authenticity to die for YOUR beliefs, as
The Bab did, July 9th 1850?

Grum P. Murrican

The Supreme Court ruled today that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.

In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to deter fraud.

It was the most important voting rights case since the Bush v. Gore dispute that sealed the 2000 election for George W. Bush.

The law “is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,”‘ Justice John Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy.

The electoral process will never be perfect. Nevertheless, we need to always strive for that ideal. In this case, either extreme - draconian voter ID laws (which Indiana’s certainly isn’t) versus ID laws so loose that just anyone can vote - takes us farther away from that ideal. A balance is needed, and requiring a photo ID is not asking too much when that ID can be obtained for free and even without leaving home. Justice Scalia worded it very well by saying, “The burden of acquiring, possessing and showing a free photo identification is simply not severe, because it does not ‘even represent a significant increase over the usual burdens of voting.”‘