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When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist. People said it didn't matter...
When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said it didn't matter...
When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, People said it didn't matter...
When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction". People said it didn't matter...
When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, People said it didn't matter...
When he traveled to Pakistan, after college on an unknown national passport, People said it didn't matter...
When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, People said it doesn't matter...
When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, People said it didn't matter...
When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator", People said it didn't matter...
When the Palestinians in Gaza, set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, People said it didn't matter...
When his voting record supported gun control, People said it didn't matter...
When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, People said it didn't matter...
When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, People said it didn't matter...
When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, People said it didn't matter...
When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, People said it didn't matter...
When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, People said it didn't matter...
When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, People said it didn't matter...
When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, People said it didn't matter...
When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, People said it didn't matter...
When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage, anti-capitalism, anti-free markets, pro government control over everything and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, People said it didn't matter...
When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, People said it didn't matter...
When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, People said it didn't matter...
When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, People said it didn't matter...
When his first act as President, literally within 5 minutes of taking office, he signed executive order #13489 that sealed his own records, People said it didn’t matter...
When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, and continues to spend millions in court to keep the material sealed, People said it didn't matter...
When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, People said it didn't matter...
When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, People said it didn't matter...
When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, People said it didn't matter...
When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, People said it didn't matter...
When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, People said it didn't matter...
When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialist, People said it didn't matter...
When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, People said it didn't matter...
When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in "Explicit Consent", harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, People said it didn't matter...
When he appointed Kevin Jennings, an overt homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, People said it didn't matter...
When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, People said it didn't matter...
When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, People said it didn't matter...
When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, People said it didn't matter...
When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nation’s largest tax hike in history, People said it doesn't matter...
When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, People said it didn't matter...
When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, People said it didn't matter...
When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, People said it didn't matter...
When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, People said it didn't matter...
When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, People said it doesn't matter...
When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , People said it doesn't matter...
When he upset our European allies by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, People said it doesn't matter...
When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, People said it didn't matter...
When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, People said it didn't matter...
When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, People said it didn't matter...
When he forced the takeover of insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc, People said it didn't matter...
When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, People said it didn't matter...
When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, People said it didn't matter...
When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy resources in the United States through Cap and Trade, People said it didn't matter...
When he announced he was returning the masterminds of 9-11 to New York City to stand trial as ordinary criminals -- not war criminals -- and thus allow them the benefits from our system of jurisprudence, The mainstream media loved it and the people said it didn't matter...(Oh really? Go ask an FDNY FF, NYPD Cop, NY EMS, NY Port Authority Cop or Transit Worker, or a 9/11 Families member who was at the World Trade Center 9/11/2001 and see if it matters...)
When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up, but it was too late...
Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like happy endings...
If you are an Obama Supporter, please recognize that you have elected a president who is a 'socialist'. There is simply no debate about these facts. But you need to seek the truth; you will be richer for it. Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation...
Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Don't rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there as well, but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he is currently waging an open war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, and he has failed to refute any facts presented – because it is all true. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn't. Please, find the truth, it will set you free...
Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia or Iran; no, our biggest enemy is the current contingent of politicians in Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support the previously mentioned things...
Wake Up America! There's still time in 2010 to take back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who think 'it doesn't matter'...
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In February of 2009, legislation was introduced in the 111th Congress that would protect the First Amendment rights of United States citizens when faced with malicious lawsuits, brought against them in foreign courts, claiming defamation. The Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 is meant not only to secure and assure a US citizen?s First Amendment right to free speech in the aforementioned circumstance, but to serve as a tool in guaranteeing our nation?s sovereignty under constitutional law. As of this writing, Senate Bill 449, officially titled as introduced as ?A Bill to Protect Free Speech,? languishes in the Senate Judiciary Committee. We all must ask why.
The Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 (the short title for S449) is meant to protect writers, authors, lecturers and any other US citizen against ?libel tourism,? a phrase emanating from a lawsuit over the book Funding Evil, by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, explained in a short film titled The Libel Tourist and in an article titled, A Federal Law is Needed to Deter Libel Tourism, by Daniel J. Kornstein. Mr. Kornstein refers to libel tourism as:
?...when a person, usually prominent and wealthy, sues an American author for libel in a country that lacks the equivalent of First Amendment protections and where the American author never took any steps to publish or market the allegedly libelous work. Foreign courts may assert jurisdiction over American authors in these cases because the publication could be read over the Internet or because a handful of copies made their way into the foreign country via Amazon.com. Libel tourists often file suit in England because the laws there are very plaintiff friendly, and libel plaintiffs can obtain judgments there that they could not obtain in the United States.?
So, a wealthy individual, let?s say a Saudi Sheik, who has come under scrutiny for actions identified as pro-jihadi or in support of al Qaeda, by an author or lecturer who happens to be an American citizen, can purchase a dozen copies of the book, published lecture notes or DVD in Britain, file a lawsuit for defamation and win adjudication ? including monetary damages, all without the author or lecturer ever having set foot on British soil or having contracted to have the intellectual property offered in that country.
Similarly, an American writer, journalist or author who uncovers and publishes ? exclusively in the United States ? information about, let?s say, a known and wanted al Qaeda operative who was attending classes at a foreign university so that he could acquire knowledge of nuclear technology while gaining access to the university?s nuclear research reactor ? activities that directly threaten the national security of the United States, mind you ? that writer, author or journalist could find himself the target of a foreign-court defamation lawsuit subjecting him to foreign law jurisdiction without ever having been in that country; foreign law that completely ignores his First Amendment right to free speech under the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Can you understand the danger in allowing foreign courts to adjudicate against US citizens who have never been physically present in that foreign jurisdiction? Allowing this type of grotesque over-reaching legal precedent to stand not only decimates a US citizen?s constitutional right to free speech, it attacks the very sanctity of the US Constitution as law of the land. To allow foreign courts to adjudicate against US citizens ? especially when that adjudication transgresses constitutional rights ? when they have had no physical or intended presence on that country?s soil, is a direct and vicious attack on US sovereignty.
The Father of the US Constitution, and certainly a man in possession of more intellect than almost all who now serve in elected office, James Madison, is quoted as saying:
?It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.?
In that, Madison identified our federal government?s basic purpose, to protect the constitutional rights of the American people. This duty, this obligation, is the single most important function of the US government. Yet, a piece of legislation that simply re-asserts the protection of our citizenry?s absolute right to free speech lays in debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee. How can this possibly be? What could possibly be in question?
A summary of The Free Speech Protection Act of 2009, as provided by the Library of Congress, via its website Thomas.gov, states:
?Allows any US person against whom a lawsuit for defamation is brought in a foreign country for defamation on the basis of the content of any speech by that person that has been published, uttered, or otherwise disseminated in the United States to bring an action in a US district court against any person who, or entity which, brought the suit, if: (1) the speech at issue in the foreign lawsuit does not constitute defamation under US law; and (2) the person or entity which brought the foreign lawsuit serves or causes to be served any documents in connection with such foreign lawsuit on a US person.
?Allows the award of treble damages if it is determined by a preponderance of the evidence that the person or entity bringing the foreign lawsuit intentionally engaged in a scheme to suppress rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution by discouraging publishers or other media from publishing, or by discouraging financial supporters from employing, retaining, or supporting the research, writing, or other speech of an individual.?
In essence, what this legislation ? and its House counterpart HR1304 ? says is that the First Amendment free speech rights of US citizens will not be usurped by foreign-court adjudications based on the content of any published works disseminated in the United States unless they meet the US Code defining defamation.
Because we are a sovereign nation, a nation with a judicial system based on the rule of law emanating uniquely from the United States Constitution, it is almost embarrassing that such legislation would have to be crafted at all. Truth be told, the fragile knowledge of the US Constitution possessed by students in the 8th grade includes a solid understanding of the right to free speech and the historical events that led our Framers to include this most basic of rights into our Charters of Freedom.
So, why is this legislation languishing in the Senate Judiciary Committee? Because we are so saddled with the ideological cancer of one-world political correctness, that it has become more important to ?not hurt feelings? than it is to defend a most cherished and absolute right.
While engaging the office staffers of several senators on the Judiciary Committee, two people directly affected by libel tourism and foreign-court adjudication ? who shall remain nameless so as not to exact the ire of the political elite upon their quest for constitutional justice ? were told, and I paraphrase:
?If we try to safeguard the constitutional rights of Americans in [a foreign country] then a [foreign] company would feel exempt from US law should it be in opposition to US law, thus providing an incentive to adhere to the [foreign country?s] law.?
And then there was an even more disturbing politically correct response coming from one Senator directly:
?Rights of Americans cannot be upheld in foreign courts of law because we would offend our friends.?
The US Constitution specifies quite clearly in Article VI, Clause 3:
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution..."
For this manner of thinking to even be considered ? let alone embraced ? by our elected officials is not only a violation of their oaths of office to protect the US Constitution and the rights it affords every US citizen, it is seditious.
In fact, as our military engages Islamic jihadists on the field of battle in what two presidents have now declared a ?war,? one could make a pretty strong case for treason, where the attack on US sovereignty is concerned.
One has to wonder how quickly the politically correct creatures of the Judiciary Committee would advance this legislation to the full Senate if those engaged in the Tea Party Movement started asking why they don?t champion protecting a US Citizen?s free speech rights...
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Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for BasicsProject.org a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) research and education initiative. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His organization, BasicsProject.org, partnered in producing the original national symposium series addressing the root causes of radical Islamist terrorism. He is a member of the International Analyst Network. He also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. Mr. Salvato has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel, and is a regular guest on talk radio including on The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show airing across America Nationally syndicated weekends on over 75 radio stations of "The Captain's AMERICA Radio Network" and on the Internet catering to the US Armed Forces around the world and on The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth syndicated Nationally on the USA Radio Network. His opinion-editorials have been published by The American Enterprise Institute, The Washington Times & Human Events and are syndicated nationally. He is occasionally quoted in The Federalist. Mr. Salvato is available for public speaking engagements.
In light of the fact that the US Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuit requiring the verification of President-Elect Barack Obama’s satisfaction of Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution, it has become clear that we are facing a constitutional crisis...
An independent, volunteer group created by BasicsProject.org, The New Sons of Liberty Society, is launching an initiative to advance a proposed Constitutional Amendment put forth by BasicsProject.org that would require any and all candidates for the office of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States to, among other things, present original, verifiable and vaulted proof of satisfaction of Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution. (Read more about the proposal here)...
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This initiative is critical for the reasons stated at the New Sons of Liberty website (click here). We as American citizens have a duty to protect and defend the Charters of Freedom (The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution and The Bill of Rights). This initiative falls within that responsibility...
Please join me, as an American and as Executive Director of BasicsProject.org, in seeing this initiative to its fruition; in the establishment of a Constitutional Amendment that “gives teeth” to Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution...
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