Tyranny Watch

Thanks to HFFT for this:

READ THE HIGHLY DETAILED REPORT

A notable quote from this report:

There is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the COLB image created and distributed by Obama’s campaign to the Daily Kos, Annenberg’s Factcheck, and the St. Pete Times, Politifact, is, unquestionably, a false identification document. Furthermore, there is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the photos taken by Annenberg’s Factcheck, in collusion with the Obama campaign, are themselves, false identification documents, having been made from the same false identification document image, as well as from additional false identification documents created for the same purpose; namely, to proffer these false identification documents as true reproductions of a genuine, Hawaii-issued and certified, “Certification of Live Birth” document, and thereby, intentionally deceive the American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States, and thereby, fully qualified to become their President.

I never imagined that my studies would amount to this. I thought, like most Americans, that maybe the information was accurate even though the document image was fake. I thought, like most Americans, that Obama would simply present a copy of his real, original birth certificate, and that would be that. Yet, here we are, more than twenty months after Obama announced his candidacy for the Presidency, and nearly three weeks after the election, and Obama still refuses to show his real birth certificate!

Sadly, mainstream media have totally ignored this inconvenient truth and are not even been willing to even look at this birth certificate issue.

READ THE HIGHLY DETAILED REPORT

This video explains the entire issue very well and shows how the MSNBC article was misleading. Just another piece of this puzzle:

It’s sickening people have to file lawsuits at all. You have to show a birth certificate to get a driver’s license, why not to serve as President (where citizenship is a Constitutional requirement)? Sorry smrstrauss, I know you think the opposition needs to supply evidence of Kenyan birth in order to pursue this — but that is not the issue. The issue is that we should expect our President to at least be transparent enough to show a simple document required for almost anything in this country. It’s not a difficult request, simply produce it! Steve sent this in an email to me, it’s from NewsMax:

Team Obama:”All I can tell you is that it is just pure garbage.”

According to the WorldNetDaily headline above, that was the retort of an Obama campaign spokesperson when asked about complaints requesting that Senator Obama produce a valid Birth Certificate to prove that he is constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States.

Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States, states, “No person except a natural born citizen of the United States, at the time of adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President.”

The Constitution of the United States is NOT “garbage” and furthermore, securing the rights of the people under the Constitution is NOT “garbage”!

The Obama campaign’s response is an elitist, condescending slap in the face to patriotic Americans. No one is above the law and Team Obama cannot make the question of Obama’s eligibility go away by disrespecting the American people - and, by inference, the Constitution of the United States.

That’s why we just filed an action that Senator Obama will not be able to ignore… an action that WILL NOT GO AWAY!

In fact, in my humble opinion… we will ONLY “LOSE” if we do NOT have the resources we need to carry on for as long as it takes, and we will “win” as long as we can carry on this fight (more on that later).

SO PLEASE KEEP READING… I promise that when you’re done, you will agree that we have filed the mother of all actions.

The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) is a nonprofit public interest, legal action organization and has been your conservative voice in the courts since 1979. And since USJF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, your generous assistance is also TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

You can use this link or the hyperlink below to help - it’s TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Is it worth a TAX DEDUCTIBLE effort of $5000 or $2500 or even $100 or $50 or $25 to defend the Constitution and the integrity of our electoral process?

The Obama campaign has a crack team of high-priced law firms - that’s not three lawyers but THREE LAW FIRMS - that will use every means that money can buy to fight this action. We’re relying on you and patriotic Americans like you.

https://secure.conservativedonations.com/usjf_house/?a=1926

Please use the hyperlink above to make your best TAX-DEDUCTIBLE effort to be a part of this battle.

Why The “Berg Case” Is Dead In The Water And Why USJF Will Succeed…

You probably already know that Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg filed a suit in U.S. District Court several months back contending that Senator Obama is not a “natural-born” citizen.

And you probably already know that the court dismissed the suit claiming that Berg, as a private citizen, “lacked standing to bring the case.”

Of course, Berg is not the only one who has filed an action and the “Berg Case” is not the only one in which the courts have relied upon the lack-of-standing technicality.

Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter denied an action saying to the plaintiff Rev. Tom Terry, “I don’t think you have standing to bring this suit.”

Washington State Superior Court Judge John Erlick dismissed yet another suit ruling that even the Secretary of State did not have authority to inquire about Senator Obama’s birth certificate.

Can you believe it? What’s going on? Well, perhaps Berg said it best;

“This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution. If I don’t have standing, if you don’t have standing, if your neighbor doesn’t have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be president of the United States - the commander in chief, the most powerful person in the world - then who does?”

Of course, Berg’s statement also illustrates why the “Berg Case” and some of these other actions are doomed to fail and why we believe our action WILL succeed!

Simply stated, the lack-of-standing argument is already out there. Yes, it’s egregious but the all too sad reality is that judges will continue to grab onto it like a life-preserver now that it has been put into play… the die has been cast!

That’s why USJF is taking a different approach. Our petitioners are Dr. Alan Keyes, Dr. Wiley S. Drake, Sr. and Markham Robinson!

We state in the Petition we just filed with the court:

“The parties in this case have standing to bring this litigation, due to the fact that Dr. Keyes and Dr. Drake, Sr., are candidates on the California ballot for President and Vice President of the United States, and Mr. Robinson is an Elector for the Keyes-Drake ticket, and Vice Chairman of America’s Independent Party, of Fenton, Michigan, which nominated Dr. Keyes for President. He is also a Chairman of the American Independent Party (California), which nominated Dr. Keyes and Dr. Drake for President and Vice President, respectively. Based on the foregoing, it is imperative for SOS to be provided proof that Senator Obama is a ‘natural born’ citizen.”

Alan Keyes and Wiley Drake were actually on the ballot in California and Markham Robinson is an Elector for Keyes-Drake. If they don’t have standing, one would be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who has standing and if the court attempts to use the lack-of-standing argument, it’s an implied admission that NO ONE has standing to enforce the Constitution!

The Usurper-in-Chief…

Now… a dose of reality. Frankly, a case of this magnitude could be in the courts for years. There are no quick solutions… BUT THAT’S OKAY.

The key is in the following statement which also appears in the Petition:

“Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that an usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.”

Part of that statement bears repeating:

“… none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.”

In other words, as long as this case is in the courts, a cloud hangs over Senator Obama’s head and for the sake of our Constitution and our Republic, the issue MUST be resolved!

If President Obama issues an Executive Order to rescind the Mexico City Policy and allows the tax dollars of Americans to fund organizations that promote abortions overseas, the door to question the legitimacy of that Executive Order remains open.

If President Obama signs a treaty with an unfriendly power or an agreement with the United Nations, the door to question the legitimacy of that treaty remains open.

If President Obama signs a bill granting amnesty to illegal aliens into law, the door to question the legitimacy of that law remains open.

If President Obama appoints new Commissioners to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) who bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, the door to question those appointments and the legitimacy of the actions taken by his appointees remains open.

That’s not to say that he can’t or won’t be able to fulfill the duties of his office, but until this matter is resolved… until he can validate that he is constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States, the door will always remain open to question and challenge the legitimacy of his actions and the dire consequences of those actions.

In short… as long as we have the resources to fight, we’re ahead of the game!

That’s where you come in.

The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) is a nonprofit public interest, legal action organization and has been your conservative voice in the courts since 1979. And since USJF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, your generous assistance is also TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

You can use this link or the hyperlink below to help - it’s TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Is it worth a TAX DEDUCTIBLE effort of $5000 or $2500 or even $100 or $50 or $25 to defend the Constitution and the integrity of our electoral process?

The Obama campaign has a crack team of high-priced law firms - that’s not three lawyers but THREE LAW FIRMS - that will use every means that money can buy to fight this action. We’re relying on you and patriotic Americans like you.

https://secure.conservativedonations.com/usjf_house/?a=1926

Please use the hyperlink above to make your best TAX-DEDUCTIBLE effort to be a part of this battle.

I’m Not Living In The Real World…

To be brutally blunt, a case of this magnitude may not be won or lost on the merits.

I’m very proud of USJF’s accomplishments over the past 29 years.

We’ve defended Minuteman Civil Defense Corps members protecting our borders from illegal aliens.

We handled litigation against Hillary Clinton for campaign finance fraud in her 2000 Senate race.

We’ve submitted testimony before the United States Senate on Supreme Court appointees.

But all that won’t really matter. It won’t matter which side has the most skilled attorneys. Talent, competence and experience do not assure victory.

Here’s the bottom line.

Team Obama presently has THREE LAW FIRMS at its disposal - and a seemingly unlimited ability to raise funds from the far-left for more legal help.

This potentially translates to hundreds of attorneys and law clerks who can literally throw paperwork at us until we crack under the sheer pressure and cry uncle.

Team Obama WILL try to wear us down (which by the way is yet another reason why the “Berg Case” and many of the others - as mentioned earlier - are doomed to fail and why we CAN get the job done).

They’ll stall and delay and throw paperwork at us so fast, so furiously and for so long… then they’ll wait for us to break under the strain and give up. Or so they think…

Team Obama doesn’t fear our skill or the merits of our case.

The ONLY THING THEY FEAR IS YOU!

They hope and pray that you will not support our efforts or that you will grow tired of the fight. What they fear most is that you will join us and support our efforts!

They know that if you support us, we’ll have the ability to take on additional clerical and research staff, cover court fees, file briefs and take on outside counsel on an as-needed basis.

That’s why they’re praying you don’t help us… but we’re praying that you do!

USJF wasn’t approached by a group of hot-shot movers and shakers. We took on this burden because like you we love this great country and we REFUSE to stand idly by while the Left disrespects the Constitution, the American people and our electoral process.

USJF is a nonprofit public interest, legal action organization. We go where others fear to tread. We’re adept at taking on vastly superior forces. And we’re committed to hitting the trenches on this one and willing to get bloody if we must.

That’s our promise to you.

But, in the end, our commitment and our “pit-bull” determination doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.

Winning or losing is NOT in our control… and it’s not in Team Obama’s control… IT’S IN YOUR HANDS!

A lot of folks are very angry over Barack Obama’s refusal to validate his eligibility to be President of the United States.

Is it worth a TAX DEDUCTIBLE effort of $5000 or $2500 or even $100 or $50 or $25 to defend the Constitution, the rights of Patriotic Americans under the Constitution and the integrity of our electoral process?

In His Service,

Gary Kreep, Executive Director
United States Justice Foundation

Hon. James David Manning tells people to support Alan Keyes and others who are demanding to see if Barack Hussein Obama is eligible to be President. Message was preached on Saturday, 15 November 2008. If you recall, this is the same black preacher who critiqued Barack Obama, claiming he is a “Mac Daddy who pimps white women and black women.”

BENJAMIN WEISER
The New York Times
November 25, 2008

The authorities may lawfully conduct searches and electronic surveillance against United States citizens in foreign countries without a warrant, a federal appeals court panel said on Monday, bolstering the government’s power to investigate terrorism by ruling that a key constitutional protection afforded to Americans does not apply overseas.

The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan, came in the case of three Al Qaeda terrorists convicted a few months before 9/11 in a conspiracy that involved the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.

The court did not address the question of whether the government could conduct warrantless wiretaps of international calls involving people in the United States, an issue that drove a wedge between the Bush administration and Congress. But the ruling did give footing to those who say that terrorism suspects can be successfully and effectively prosecuted in civilian courts.

Read More at the New York Times. . . .

Fresh reports on Iran’s nuclear capability contradict National Intelligence Estimate

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, Nov 20, 2008

Texas Congressman Ron Paul has warned that any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities undertaken by the Israeli air force will take place with the explicit backing of the U.S. government.

Speaking to Press TV, Iran’s state backed news agency, the Congressman warned that unilateral Israeli action would be an impossibility.

“No matter what they do, it is our money, it is our weapons, and they are not going to do it without us approving it,” Paul commented.

The Congressman’s warning comes in light of a report in the New York Times by nuclear physicist Richard Garwin that suggests Iran has produced nearly enough nuclear material to create one atomic bomb.

The report contradicts last year’s National Intelligence Estimate which stated that Iran halted work toward a nuclear weapon under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 to 2015.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called on the world to join Israel in putting a stop to Iran’s nuclear program.

“Iran has not terminated its pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Olmert told a gathering of North American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. “Iran cannot become nuclear. Israel cannot afford it…the free world must not accept it. We must all do whatever we can to prevent it.”

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said the US and Europe should set aside their differences with China and Russia and help Israel put up a united front against Iran.

Israeli Air Force Commander General Ido Nehushtan has said that his forces are ready to follow any order to thwart Iran’s nuclear programs.

As I’ve said before, an attack on Iran would be a flagrant violation of our Constitution, which stipulates that treaties ratified by the Senate become the supreme law of the land; that the United Nations Charter – which the Senate ratified on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2 – expressly forbids attacks on other countries unless they pose an imminent danger; that there is no provision allowing some other kind of “preemptive” or “preventive” attack against a nation that poses no imminent danger; and that Iran poses no such danger to the United States or its allies.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen told reporters on April 25 that Gen. David Petraeus would be giving a briefing “in the next couple of weeks” that would provide detailed evidence of “just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability.”

Petraeus’ staff alerted U.S. media to a major news event in which captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed and then destroyed.

Small problem. When American munitions experts went to Karbala to inspect the alleged cache of Iranian weapons they found nothing that could be credibly linked to Iran.

News to you? That’s because this highly embarrassing episode went virtually unreported in the media – like the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no corporate media to hear it crash.

It later came out that there were no WMD’s in Iraq, just as there are none in Iran or Syria. They knew damn well Iraq did not have any WMD’s, as the UN made sure to get rid of these back in the mid-1990s, never mind the U.S. sold these to Saddam Hussein in the first place, mostly for the purpose of killing Iranians back in the 80s!

John Byrne
Raw Story
November 23, 2008

Starkly pro-American minister threatens Iraqi parliament

Iraq’s defense minister Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim threatened to declare a state of emergency if Iraq’s parliament refused to sign an accord allowing US troops to stay in the country for three more years.

His rhetoric was eerily in tune with Bush Administration officials’ comments on domestic security and Iran, echoing language used by the Administration to bolster support for the Iraq war.

If the US withdraws, he said, “we shall wait for a strike against us, in our midst.” He added that foreign intelligence services may be attempting to infiltrate Iraqi affairs — a shot at Iran — an identical charge made by US officials.

A state of emergency could allow Iraq’s government to dissolve parliament.

Jassim was a general in Saddam Hussein’s army who was demoted after opposing a 1980 invasion of Kuwait and spent several years in jail. Serving under Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, His recent comments have suggested an unusual sycophancy toward US policy and General David Petraeus in particular.

In October, Jassim floated the idea of naming the first tank delivered to the Iraqi army after General Petraeus.

“I think it would be suitable to name the first tank to arrive in General Petraeus’s name,” he said at a recent ceremony honoring America’s senior Iraqi general. “When they have M1 tanks working with them and supporting them they will remember General Petraeus.”

Noted the New York Times, “There was an element of ‘you first, no you first’ as General Petraeus went straight to the podium to assure the minister that he would ‘certainly be here’ for any “celebration of the delivery of the M1 Abrams tanks.”

Iraq’s cabinet has approved the deal allowing US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years, but it faces a tougher time in parliament. Supporters of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched in Baghdad against the agreement on Friday.

Jassim’s threat comes as parliament prepares to adjourn for the annual hajj pilgrimage on Wednesday. US officials have said they have no legal authorization to continue to operate in Iraq past Dec. 31 if the measure is not approved — a strange claim and seeming threat in itself since their presence never required a Iraqi legal mandate to begin with.

CNBC
November 23, 2008

It’s not preferable, but all major U.S. financial companies will eventually be under government control because the alternative is so much worse, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, said Friday.

“All financials will be owned by the U.S. government in a year,” Hendry said. “I bet you.”

Nationalizations take dramatic losses from the private sector and places them on the larger balance sheet of the public sector, he said.

“It’s not good,” but society is vulnerable and society is going to have to intervene, Hendry said.

Shareholders Should Get Nothing

Because the taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for bailout out the banks, shareholders shouldn’t be compensated, Hendry added.

(Watch the accompanying video for Hendry’s full comments…)

“Actually the shareholders of Citigroup have looked the other way for more than a decade” while management took excessive risk, he said.

Shareholders should take nothing away if it is nationalized, because the taxpayer will be “paying this for a long, long time,” he added.

Tim McGirk
Time Magazine
November 25, 2008

U.S. officials have asked Israel to refrain from launching any major military action in the region during the waning days of the Bush presidency, Israeli sources have told TIME. Previously, some Israeli military officials had hinted to the media that if Israel were to carry out its threats to strike at Iranian nuclear installations, it might do so before Barack Obama enters the White House in January. But now a Defense Ministry official says, “We have been warned off.”

The call for restraint was relayed to Israeli officials by senior U.S. counterparts, TIME’s sources say, and it is likely to be reinforced during Monday’s valedictory meeting in Washington between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President George W. Bush.

Washington’s concerns are not limited to the possibility of Israel attacking Iran, the sources say; U.S. officials have also cautioned Israelis against launching a ground assault inside the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza in a bid to stop militants there from firing rockets into southern Israel. Bush Administration officials warn that such an attack could cost many lives and jeopardize the painstaking, thus far futile efforts of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to broker a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Read more at Time Magazine. . . .

Associated Press
November 25, 2008

Fidel Castro suggested Sunday that the U.S. government has promoted Americans’ fears about al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups to justify its plans for world domination.

In an essay published on a government website, the 82-year-old former Cuban president wrote that al-Qaeda “was born from the empire’s own entrails,” using “the empire” to refer to the United States, but failing to elaborate.

He said the terrorist group was “a typical example of an enemy that the hegemonic power dangles in a place of its choosing where it needs to justify its actions, as it has done throughout its history, fabricating enemies and attacks destined to strengthen its plans of domination.”

The U.S. has used al-Qaeda as a pretext to carry out plans “outlined long before the attacks that brought down the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001,” Castro wrote.

Read more at the Associated Press. . . .