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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Allowing non-Citizen Barack Obama to assume the Presidency could lead to Constitutional Crisis

Ineligible Obama
Playing with Constitutional Fire
By JB Williams ©2008 USA

Numerous legal challenges have been filed in an effort to force president-elect Barack Obama to validate his constitutional eligibility for the office he seeks and while it is true that suit after suit has been denied in the courts, it is also true that all of them have been denied on a technicality rather than on the merits of the case against Obama.

And although Obama could have ended the debate months ago by simply delivering a $10.00 certified copy of his official birth records to prove his constitutional edibility, he has instead chosen to spend nearly a million bucks in legal defense fees hoping to run out the clock and assume office before any of the legal challenges will be heard by the courts.

A few things are quite clear at this point:

* Article II – Section I of the Constitution clearly limits those who can serve as Commander-in-Chief to “natural born citizens” of the United States, and for good reason
* The Hawaii certificate posted on Obama’s web-site is insufficient and in question at best
* Obama’s Kenyan relatives state that they attended his birth in Kenya
* Later, Obama was indeed a legal citizen of Indonesia, traveling under his Indonesian passport as recent as in his early twenties
* There is no known record of Obama changing his Indonesian citizenship back to American citizenship, and it wouldn’t make him a “natural born citizen” even if he did
* None of this seems to matter to anyone of consequence...

On this basis, we are headed towards not one, but numerous constitutional crises.

How will an unconstitutional president rule?

For starters, it’s clear that he will rule without regard for the constitution or the laws erected upon that foundation. His entire presidency is a blatant violation of both.

When political power is the only goal, the end always justifies the means. In what ways will this new unconstitutional government seek to subvert or pervert constitutional law for its own political gain?

Responding to a question about what type of judicial appointments he would make, Obama said, “We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges.” –

This somewhat innocuous sounding Obama statement is the basis upon which an unconstitutional president will dismantle constitutional law and the representative republic it has held together for more than 230 years.

The sum of his statement is this. Justice must not be blind to color, race, gender, sexual preference or religious doctrine. It must favor some segments of society over others. It must provide unequal justice for some members of society at the expense of other members of society.

Specifically, justice must favor the poor, the African-American, the gay, the disabled and the old, at the expense of all who are not poor, African-American, gay, disabled or old. In short, justice must become yet another affirmative action committee.

Jefferson Warned:

“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.”

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823
The left has used the courts to undermine constitution law and founding American principles and values for many years now. Today, Americans have so little respect for constitutional law that they see no problem with seating an unconstitutional president who openly promises to use the full weight and power of the federal government, including the judicial branch, to completely dismantle the republic.

Obama has the power of the people behind him. He was elected by a seven million vote margin, despite the fact that he is constitutionally ineligible for the office he seeks.

Jefferson warned about this too, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

The People’s Unalienable Rights

These words are the cornerstone of American freedom and liberty...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Our Declaration of Independence
Yet these rights have already been alienated. Not so much by congress, the legitimate law making branch of the federal government, but by the courts, which have operated as a politically appointed and motivated nine member affirmative action oligarchy.

* Over forty million innocent Americans have been robbed of their unalienable right to Life by way of the unbridled right of a mother to kill
* Individual Liberty has been alienated by the rights of a greater common good
* The unalienable right to pursue Happiness has been alienated by the governments right to confiscate the earned property of some for benefit of others via oppressive taxation
Still, the people have voted themselves even deeper into an unconstitutional abyss by electing an unconstitutional president to preside over a congress controlled by the same leftists who have already stripped Americans of many of their fundamental rights.

Rendering the Constitution Irrelevant

If Article II – Section I of the US Constitution is meaningless, can you tell me what parts of the Constitution still have standing?

The issue of Obama’s eligibility is much bigger than Obama himself, the Democratic quest for unbridled power, or even the ill-fated hope for change in the hearts of many ill-informed American voters.

McCain’s $326 million dollar campaign was no match for Obama’s $712 million dollar coup, much of which was funded by unknown foreign sources.

An Affirmative Action President may doom America

The seating of Barack Obama in the Oval Office amounts to rendering the entire US Constitution moot. The new affirmative action administration will operate free from constitutional limitations, as the constitution will be rendered irrelevant as of the swearing in ceremony on January 20th.

The Democrat controlled congress will not stop it from happening. The people voted for it. The courts refuse to weigh in against the overwhelming “will of the people,” and they won’t stop it either.

Obama is not the issue here. Constitutional law and the survival of a free representative republic is the issue at hand.

Federal power was to be limited by the letter of the US Constitution, as it was ratified by the people of the states. Without the constitution, there are no limitations to federal power.

If Article II – Section I of the constitution is meaningless, then the entire constitution is meaningless. Do the people willing to look the other way just to seat Obama, realize this?

Why has Obama spent a million dollars in legal fees when he could have spent $10.00 for a certified copy of his birth records?

You have eighteen days to find the answer to this question, and then find someone in power who cares... Good Luck!

34 Bloviations:

Grace Explosion said...

Amen! Great article. How bout we just secede in 2010?? :) I say it's gonna happen... most likely 2010. I no longer recognize this nation or it's government. Obama will get his just reward. He's split the US by violating the Constitution. We're no longer liable to be loyal to this Government. 10th Amendment - we shall secede. (Economic ruin, etc, will really set it in motion.) It's gonna happen. He's not my President. In FACT, this is no longer my nation BECAUSE he's usurping the role.

Grace.

Eric Dondero said...

Grace, all this about northern States wanting bailouts from the Feds for their big spending programs, may just lead to that.

The Right Guy said...

No justice seems to want to touch this. I would think Alito, or even Thomas would. I guess not. Secession? It hasn't gotten to that yet. A lot more has to go wrong for that to happen. What you seem to forget is that most people are still living fairly well. Even in the great depression, secession never took hold. You'd have to have a perfect storm.

Eric Dondero said...

I give it 6 months to a year Right Guy. Yeah, hasn't come to it yet.

But do you remember all the talk of seccession back in the early 1990s? Here in Texas the TX Independence movement was thriving.

Eric Dondero said...

You all notice how all the Leftwing Libertarian trolls at LR haven't posted a single comment on this Thread?

34 friggin' comments in the article below on Hamas/Radical Islam. And not a single one of them - Bint, Stefan, Scott, Tiny Tim, et.al. - has posted a comment here on this article.

They're so predictable. They're like cockroaches who come out late at night, to spread their shit all around the dinner table, then they quickly scurry into the cracks in the woodwork at the first sign of light or rather enlightenment.

The Right Guy said...

Bint? Who is Bint? :) I didn't realize Stefan was that left wing, although I get the drift he is pretty much a peacenik. I guess new talking points aren't out yet.

Eric Alan Isaacson said...

So now you want to strip America's first mixed-race president of his citizenship.

That is truly disgusting. Shame on you.

Nemo said...

You still have dogshit for brains.

This one's for you, Eric (stay classy): http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/images/tough-guy-magazine.jpg

The Right Guy said...

Eric:
You make no sense. Eric's posits that Obama is not a citizen to begin with. I don't think you can be stripped of your citizenship if you are born here. You can give it up though.

bint alshamsa said...

The Right Guy,

Hmph! Have you forgotten me just because I took the holidays off from posting here? My feelings are almost hurt. ;)

bint alshamsa said...

Eric,

If you write something worth responding to, then perhaps I'll do so. However, this topic is so yawn-worthy that I don't know what it is you're looking for folks to say about it. Even Bush's conservative Supreme Court picks who have looked at this thing found it ridiculous.

bint alshamsa said...

The Right Guy,

Actually, Eric Alan Isaacson makes perfect sense. Regardless of what Dondero posits, the facts prove that Obama IS a natural-born citizen of the United States of America. So, in order for Obama to become the non-citizen that Dondero claims he is, his citizenship would have to be stripped from him.

William said...

Eric Alan Isaacson, even though you sound like a candy ass, I have to admit, you have excellent taste in music. From John Dowland to Django Reinhardt with "Pops" thrown in... and all the rest. Absolutely outstanding, dude!

Eric Dondero said...

Obama "America's first mixed race President."

Are you sure?

I seem to remember something about Andrew Jackson being half Cherokee.

Or, does Native American blood not count?

Eric Dondero said...

You want a mixed-race President. Great! I do too.

I say we dump Obama and replace him with Bint Alshama from Louisiana.

Oops, plum forgot, our gal Bint wasn't born in the United States either.

C'mon liberals. Is it that fucking tough to give us an African-American President who was ACTUALLY BORN IN THE USofA???

Whatever happened to Harold Ford of Tennesse. Mainstream Liberal. Nice guy. Long-established political family in the State. Liberal, but still fair-minded.

Why in the bloody hell you Liberals picked this Obama shitbag, over a respectable African-American that we all can be proud of like Harold Ford, Jr. I'll never know.

Instead, you gave us the Terrorist-loving, Islamo-Fascist, most Socialist member of the US Senate - Barack Hussein Obama.

Like Grace says, HE AIN'T MY PRESIDENT!!!

Eric Dondero said...

Hey y'all, Eric Alan Isaacson lists as one of his favorite books Mark Twain's Huck Finn.

Tsk, tsk tsk... That's one of the most politically incorrect books in American literary lexicon. Liberal use of the 'N' word throughout.

Isaacson, I wouldn't list it, if I were you. Your liberal lawyer buddies might begin to suspect your devotion to political correctness.

The Right Guy said...

You seemed to have disappeared. I thought may be you moved to California for the nicer weather.

The Right Guy said...

Bint:
Like I said, if someone was born here, you cannot strip their citizenship. I am talking empirically, not philosophically or theoretically. No one can do that if he was born here. If he wasn't born here, then there may be no citizenship to strip. I for one would just like Obama to say, here is my birth certificate, now lets get on with it. I think ignoring this shows bad judgement and a character flaw.

The Right Guy said...

Eric:
Do you know that being Italian in some places in this country is not white? You or I could be the first mixed race president. :)

bint alshamsa said...

William,

I know this is off-topic but I always laugh whenever someone uses the term "candy ass" as an insult. "Candy ass" just sounds so dern cute to me. It sounds like something someone might call their lover/sweetheart.

"Hey, bring that candy ass over here, sexy!!"

;)

bint alshamsa said...

Eric,

I guess you don't accept the state of Louisiana as being a part of America now. Your loss!

By the way, Obama isn't anybody's President. He won't be sworn in until a few days from now, then he'll be your President regardless of what you or Grace Explosion want to accept.

bint alshamsa said...

The Right Guy,

No, I decided to stop posting here during the holidays because I was dealing with the fact that this is only the second Christmas that we've had since the death of my uncle. There are a lot of military vets here on LR and being here made me think about him during a time when I'm trying to move on and just enjoy my life. However, the tough holiday period is over and now I'm back on LR. Besides, I've lived in California and I like Louisiana a lot more.

bint alshamsa, American by birth, southern by the grace of God.

;)

The Right Guy said...

Bint:
I've never been to LA, but the weather in CA is great, but that is about it...American by birth, New Yorker by God, Iowan by hobson's choice... :)

stefan said...

Right now it is indeed late at night.
The right guy: Eric has to think of a special category for me: extreme leftwing conservative-libertarian! Sounds like a contradiction, hmm but based on his placing as someone who is extremely anti-pre-emptive war (based on religious, political, strategic, IQ and financial reasons) in Eric's definition, I must be extreme leftwing. Also, I think 16 months is too long to wait to retreat from Iraq (thinking more in 3-6 months), so I must be hmmm more leftwing that the president-elect, who has the most liberal record.

Let me give all a comparison and illustration: bombing and invading Iraq is like Israel now attacking say Saudia-Arabia (not Gaza) , Dubai or Bahrein for instance, as you know one or more Hamas leader may have visited a hotel at one time in one of these countries, which given the "you are either for or against us" Bush doctrine, must mean that country fully and uncritically support Hamas (even though Hamas may be more related to their opposition). After all, Saudia-Arabia, Bahrein and Dubai are Muslim and Arab too!

stefan said...

Yes, if he is not a citizen, there would indeed b a constitutional crisis. My guess is that they will try to bury the whole issue. Once he is sworn in, it would be so much difficult to impeach him to ask for a birth certificate IMHO. The constitution is in any case already in crsis since long time ago. Bailout was also unconstitutional, as judge Andrew Napolitano argues.

Clemente predicts a real revolution in 2012 or earlier. Yes, the people will revolt because of the bailouts. The USD may be hit very hard already this year, also by the bailouts to come.Believe me 700 B bailout is only the start for ma, he will raise it with much more.

bint alshamsa said...

The Right Guy,

American by birth, New Yorker by God, Iowan by hobson's choice... :)

You've made me smile today. Your comments are one of the main reasons I come here...even though you're wrong on nearly everything, at least you've got a helluva sense of humor. ;P

William said...

Bint, where I live, if I said to a woman, "bring your candy ass over here" as a cute thing to say, the very next day I would be indicted for a hate crime and hundreds of protesters would be outside my house, demanding I be sentenced to a long prison term.

What a wonderful difference the south makes; to be able to use a disparaging remark as a term of endearment.

The Right Guy said...

bint:
Wrong? I just have a different opinion than many. If that makes me wrong, I'll wear it well.

William said...

Bint said: "The Right Guy,

You've made me smile today. Your comments are one of the main reasons I come here...even though you're wrong on nearly everything, at least you've got a helluva sense of humor. ;P

Shit! That must make me wrong on nearly everything, as I agree with Right Guy about 95% of the time. Now, about that sense of humor.... hahahaha Just having one on ya man! :)

The Right Guy said...

William:
Some people have a caustic sense of humor, some have an autistic sense of humor. What's the difference? Laughter is the best medicine. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

bint alshamsa said...

Aww, you know I'm just messing with you Right Guy. I actually think we probably agree about a lot of things but just see them in a slightly different way. Of course I'm a southerner so that means, even when I'm wrong, I'm wrong with style. :D

Anonymous said...

So Dondero has joined the Obama Birth Truther cult. No surprise there!

Eric and the Truthers are asking us to believe that a penniless student and his third-trimester-pregnant teen bride undertook a trip halfway round the world to Kenya which would have been incredibly expensive even for a well-paid U.S. worker. (Obama Sr. was brought to the U.S. and given a college scholarship as part of the "Tom Mboya Airlift", a Cold War U.S. program to curry favor in African coutries.)

Evidence for this? None, just massaged translations of something Granny Obama said, plus lots of unsubstantiated rumors and baseless speculation. You need evidence, Eric. Things like visa applications, immigration and customs records (Just how did the newborn Obama get through customs? Was he smuggled through in a handbag?), passenger manifests. Any good P.I. or genealogist could find them, if they existed.

So Eric and his pals believe nonsense based on no evidence whatever. Has this ever happened before? Iraq WMD's, anyone?

Héctor said...

Not at all, man. Eric is the master of evidence-based argumentation...


NOT

Eric, you admit there is a Hawaii birth certificate posted by Obama in his website, yet you do not show evidence that it is a phony one. Moreover, you say that every Obama in Kenya claims to have wittnessed his birth... Care to give a link or two?


Anyway, I was born in the USA, so I qualify to president, how'd you like that?


By the way, do you really think Bush respects and loves the Constitution?


Totally offtopic: Have you read Starship Troopers by Heinlein? Maybe you'd like it...

bint alshamsa said...

Hector,

I'd vote for you over any of the people that I've seen Dondero recommend on the Faux-tarian Republican blog.