{"id":1687,"date":"2012-06-08T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T23:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2012-06-08T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T23:22:52","slug":"what-to-do-about-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"What to Do About Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a July 25, 1787 letter to George Washington, the Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention, John Jay wrote as follows: \u201cPermit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable<\/a> to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American Army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Hamilton shared the future Chief Justice\u2019s concerns.\u00a0 In Federalist No. 68 he wrote: \u201c<\/em>These most deadly adversaries of republican government (cabal, intrigue, etc.) might actually have expected to make their approach from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.\u00a0 How could they better gratify this than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

So is it even remotely conceivable that, just five years and eleven months after the British surrendered at Yorktown, the Founders would have produced a constitution for ratification by the states that would allow an individual with divided loyalties\u2026 i.e., an individual with dual US-British citizenship\u2026 to serve as president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and the Navy?\u00a0 Absolutely not.\u00a0 To believe that they would have done so requires a willing suspension of reason.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, to prevent any<\/em> person with divided loyalties from ever serving as president of the United States, the founders specified in Article II, Section 1 that every person who would serve in that office must be, not just a \u201ccitizen,\u201d but a \u201cnatural born\u201d citizen of the United States.<\/p>\n

If we are to accept Barack Obama\u2019s word that his father was Barack Obama, Sr., a citizen of Kenya, a British crown colony, he cannot lay claim to being a \u201cnatural born\u201d citizen because, under Part 2, Section 5(1) of the British Nationality Act of 1948, he was born with dual US-British citizenship.\u00a0 He held dual US-British citizenship from August 4, 1961 until December 12, 1963 (the day on which Kenya won its independence from Great Britain); he held dual US-Kenyan citizenship from December 12, 1963 until August 4, 1984, his twenty-third birthday (see Chapter VI, Section 87[3] of the 1983 Kenyan Constitution); and he has been a \u201ccitizen of Kenya by birth\u201d from August 4, 2010 until today (see Chapter 3, Section 14 of the current Kenyan constitution, adopted by national plebiscite on August 4, 2010).<\/p>\n

In December 2008, as Democratic electors were casting their votes for Barack Obama, Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D., one of the country\u2019s foremost constitutional scholars, had this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Obama is not a \u2018natural born Citizen\u2019 or has renounced such citizenship, he is simply not eligible for the Office of President\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0If, nonetheless, the voters, the Electors, or the members of the House purport to \u2018elect\u2019 Obama, he will be nothing but a usurper because the Constitution defines him as such. \u00a0And he can never become anything else because a usurper cannot gain legitimacy even if all of the country aids, abets, accedes to, or acquiesces in his usurpation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Obama dares to take the Presidential \u2018Oath or Affirmation\u2019 of office, knowing that he is not a \u2018natural born Citizen,\u2019 he will commit the crime of perjury or false swearing (Article II, Section 1, Clause 8). \u00a0For, being ineligible for \u2018the Office of President,\u2019 he cannot \u2018faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,\u2019 or even execute it at all, to any degree. \u00a0Thus, his very act of taking the \u2018Oath or Affirmation\u2019 will be a violation thereof.\u00a0 So, even if the chief justice of the Supreme Court himself looks the other way and administers the \u2018Oath or Affirmation\u2019 (as Chief Justice John Roberts did on January 20, 2009, and again on January 21, 2009), Obama will derive no authority whatsoever from it\u2026 (H)is purported \u2018Oath or Affirmation\u2019 being perjured from the beginning, Obama\u2019s every subsequent act in the usurped \u2018Office of President\u2019 will be a criminal offense under Title 18, United States Code, Section 242\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As a man who advertised himself as a \u201cconstitutional law professor,\u201d Obama knew that he was ineligible to serve as president of the United States.\u00a0 It is also clear that Nancy Pelosi and Alice Travis Germond, the chairman and secretary of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, respectively, also knew that he was ineligible to serve.\u00a0 Why else would they have deleted from 49 of the 50 certifications sent to state election boards, the phrase, \u201c\u2026 and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution?\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Why were those words included only in the certification sent to the State of Hawaii which requires an unambiguous certification of eligibility under Hawaii Revised Statutes \u00a711-113?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

One might also question why, as the Illinois State Senator\u2019s rising star appeared on the horizon, congressional Democrats made two attempts in 2003 and two attempts in 2005 to amend the U.S. Constitution to eliminate the \u201cnatural born Citizen\u201d requirement.\u00a0 <\/em>And why did each and every Democratic member of the 2008 Electoral College, having been forewarned that he was not a \u201cnatural born\u201d citizen, ignore their constitutional responsibilities and proceed to elect him?<\/p>\n

In terms of personal honor, their failure to do what was right and honorable was in stark contrast to the dedication to duty demonstrated by the 271 Republican electors who voted to elect George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2000.\u00a0 Given the closeness of that race, all Democrats had to do was to convince just three Republican electors to change their votes and the Electoral College vote would have ended in a slim 270-268 victory for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.<\/p>\n

When the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of Republican electors were published on the Internet, the death threats and the bribery offers began immediately.\u00a0 Any three of the 271 Republican electors could have had $5 million deposited in Swiss bank accounts simply by entering the names Al Gore and Joe Lieberman on their ballots and paying a small fine for being \u201cfaithless\u201d electors.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not what happened.\u00a0 Every one of the 271 Republican electors did exactly as they had sworn to do; not a single one of the 271 electors yielded to the temptation.\u00a0 (As a first-time elector in 2000, my first bribery offer came by telephone from London.)<\/p>\n

So what do we do about Obama the Usurper, the perpetrator of what has been the most brazen (bloodless) coup in history?\u00a0 As a nation, we are in a bit of a \u201cpickle.\u201d\u00a0 We have a man sitting in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear button and his hand in the national cookie jar who has no right to be there.\u00a0 Yet, those of us who insist on being on the right side of history\u2026 no matter how hopeless our cause or how slim our chances for success\u2026 cannot let the matter die.\u00a0 We owe that not only to our children and grandchildren and to future generations, but to those who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the success of this greatest of all experiments in self-government.\u00a0 Can we demand any less of ourselves?<\/p>\n

When it is finally proven that he and his political handlers have used the nation\u2019s most sensitive secrets to enhance his chances of reelection, will it be left to citizen grand juries to hear the charges against him and indict him?\u00a0 And when he has been indicted on numerous charges, who will place him under arrest?\u00a0 Obama will expect to have lifetime Secret Service protection, but Secret Service protection is made available only to legitimate<\/em> former presidents, not to usurpers.<\/p>\n

The task of bringing Obama to justice has little chance of success so long as he maintains the ability to manipulate public opinion through the mainstream media.\u00a0 However, that support is beginning to show signs of strain as liberal thought leaders such as Maureen Dowd, of the New York Times<\/em>, and Chris Matthews, of MSNBC, <\/em>have become bitingly critical.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks he has alienated Roman Catholics and independents over the religious freedom issue; he has alienated a large portion of his black base over the same-sex marriage issue; he has alienated miners in the coal producing states by seeking to bankrupt coal producers and coal-fired power plants; he has alienated blue-collar workers in states from North Dakota to Texas over the XL Keystone Pipeline issue; he has alienated union bosses by failing to support their ill-conceived recall effort in Wisconsin; he has alienated motorists and truckers everywhere over high fuel costs; and he has alienated the military over politically-motivated security leaks and his insistence upon choosing battlefield targets from the safety of his White House \u201cbunker.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the months pass and his defeat becomes a foregone conclusion, his former media apologists may begin to distance themselves from him; those he\u2019s used and \u201cthrown under the bus\u201d will turn their backs on him; the late night comics will begin to use him as the butt of jokes; and it will become fashionable in the ritzy salons of New York and Hollywood to say really unkind things about him\u2026 proving once again that the sort of people who put him in the White House in 2008 are the sort of people who, once they\u2019ve tasted their victim\u2019s \u201cblood,\u201d will show him no mercy in 2012.\u00a0 If and when that scenario is set in motion, we may yet bring him to justice.<\/p>\n

In a 2010 speech to agency employees, EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz described his approach to regulating major oil companies.\u00a0 He said. \u201cIt was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. \u00a0They\u2019d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they\u2019d find the first five guys they saw and they\u2019d crucify them.\u00a0 Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the day of justice arrives for Obama and his Chicago political thugs, those who enter the White House to administer justice will have far more than five miscreants to choose from and the political left will be far easier to manage during our years of political and economic revival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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