Posted on 02/14/2009 10:07:53 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Loyal to Liberty
Thought for Today
As many of you know, I am party to one of the lawsuits seeking evidence that would help to establish, one way or the other, whether Obama in fact meets the U.S. Constitution's eligibility requirements for the office of President of the United States. To understand my view of the critical issues involved see the WND articles The End of the Constitutional Republic, and Obama, Oaths and the End of Constitutional Government.) Now Obama's lawyers have filed a motion to quash our effort to obtain the relevant documents (cf. Bob Unruh's WND article Sanctions sought in eligibility case.) I am told that it includes a demand that monetary penalties be assessed against me and the other plaintiffs in the suit. Though not unexpected, this motion confirms Obama's ruthless determination to destroy anyone who continues to seek the information the Constitution requires. Why should they demand penalties against citizens who are simply seeking the enforcement of the Supreme Law of the Land? It is simply because their persistence runs contrary to the will of a supposedly popular demagogue? This smacks of tyrannical arrogance. That Obama thus signals his intent to bring financial ruin on those who won't accept his cover-up of the circumstances of his birth is a tactical escalation. It confirms the common sense suspicion that he won't act forthrightly in this matter because he has something to hide.
As one of the targets of this escalation, I need no more convincing proof of the ruthless disposition so far successfully masked by his empty rhetoric of hope and change. Obviously he means to offer hope only to those willing to surrender their most basic rights. To any who insist on questioning his actions, he offers the drastic change of ruin and destruction. So be it. We shall be among those who learn firsthand the meaning of the sacrifices made by the Founders of our free republic, as they pledged and gave up their lives, their fortunes and the world's esteem.
To tell you the truth, I expected Obama's ruthlessness, as I expect that it will escalate until his threats extend to liberty and even life itself. Tyrants are like that (yeah, they are.) What I am not so certain of is the disposition of the people of this country, and in particular of those who still avow allegiance to the Constitutional Republic. For all their posturing in opposition to Obama's socialist schemes, Republican Party leaders show no disposition to notice, much less decry, his determination to subvert the Constitution. But does the self-serving reticence of such so-called leadership truly represent the disposition of the people whose sovereignty they seem so ready to abandon? In politics as in war, real leadership does not consist in titles and position, but in those willing to stand in the forefront of the battle, where taunts and wounds and even death await the ones who raise a rallying flag. The fate of that flag depends, however, not on their willingness to brave the dangers, but on the courage and heart of those who, seeing that flag, return with renewed courage to the fight. Though they not know not if it will stand or fall, will they decide that either way it should not meet its fate without them?
People who have been watching recent events with any discernment must realize by now that, for all his talk of material salvation for the masses, the Obama faction really means to strengthen only those willing to serve in the army of their domineering ambition. Thanks to the phony stimulus package, they will soon have billions of taxpayer dollars with which to nourish this servile allegiance to his will. Including myself, many of the people willing to articulate and act against his overthrow of Constitutional liberty have nothing in their coffers except the grace from God to see a little truth, and the courage to speak it, drawing upon the example of His Son. But time and again in America's history, a little truth has been sufficient to reach into the reserve of love for God and liberty on tap in the patriot hearts and consciences of those who would be free.
So to my fellow plaintiffs with the courage to stand firm, and to all those who may lose by the price they pay for it, I say keep faith and pray- not so much for yourselves as for the heart and conscience of the good people of your country. Trust that there still burns a candlelight of liberty within them, and a thought for those who would rather be consumed as its wick than surrender to the wickedness that now seeks its destruction.
For more current thoughts from Alan Keyes, visit LoyaltoLiberty.com!
So true...
AMEN, brother! Tell it like it is!
Gotta love Alan Keyes, what a bulldog.
Pray for America, Our Troops and Alan Keyes
This is roughly analagous to a local Mayor threatening to sue a citizen for damages for simply filing a Freedom of Information request.
Clearly, the most highly protected state secret today is contained in a vault in Hawaii.
I would be willing to cover the actual costs associated with photo copying and FedEx'ing a copy of the actual certificate from Honolulu to Chicago, New York, or Washington DC.
Both links are correct. AIPNEWS has permission to publish these writings.
so how do we donate to Mr Keyes ?
I so wish that I had the wherewithal to send this man some material support. Champions the like of Alan Keyes are few and far between in our imperiled nation.
Godspeed, Alan.
God Bless Ya Mr. Keyes!!
“I say keep faith and pray- not so much for yourselves as for the heart and conscience of the good people of your country. Trust that there still burns a candlelight of liberty within them, and a thought for those who would rather be consumed as its wick than surrender to the wickedness that now seeks its destruction.”
Yes . Yes, what he said....
I praise your efforts. Good luck and God’s speed
bump for later read
Wow. My monitor has gone all foggy and squiggly. Guess it’s time for a new one. *sniff*
Obama is hiding some circumstance of birth that makes him either constitutionally ineligible or would cause voters to reject him.
Specifics, please. Sanctions on what basis? Defamation? National security? Surely not.
I've backed away from these threads due to all the shrill hysterics, that appear to be designed just to drive hits to blogs. I've been waiting to hear something material, from Washington or any of the others.
I still want and expect to see a resolution of this man's eligibility for office.
The Constitution requires it.
No other President, in the history of this nation, has had so many questions of eligibility, and all met with stonewalling. A President, suing litigants seeking evidence of his own eligibility for office, sets an extremely bad precedent.
Larry Sinclair knows about obambi’s ways too.
Oh, how O wants this to go away.
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