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Supreme Court To Hear Obama Eligibility Case Feb 15th
Posted: 11 Jan 2013 06:24 PM PST
Something tells me that Ms. Taitz is not on Barry's Christmas card list
anymore. This
women is tenacious and her efforts to dethrone King Obama, nothing short of
legendary.
I don't know exactly what Barry has on Supreme Justice John Roberts, but
apparently he
has something on the man who amazingly sided in favor of the "Affordable Health
Care Act"
because although it was not argued as such, he in all of his infinite wisdom
declared it a
tax. So what legal maneuvering will the Justices use to declare Barry's
citizenship
authentic? I don't know, but I smell a rat. Actually, I smell a couple of
rats. I think
Barry would like to have this issue not follow him around for 4 more years and
called in
another favor from the Supreme Court who will, like all of the lower courts,
rule in Obama's
favor.
No matter. There is another Day of Reckoning that is coming one day, and
on THAT DAY
the guilty will not stand. - W.E.
You can also read more at orlytaitzesq.com
ppsimmons
The Magician’s Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal
Cliff Debates
Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:37 AM PST
RutherfordInstitute
“If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it
would purify
them as the sun disinfects.†—Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional
politics as
it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining,
distracting and
disingenuous curtain of political theater.
And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times,
full of sound
and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing.
Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive
audience by media
sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem
riveting,
life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better. Week after week,
the script
changes—the presidential election, the budget crisis, the fiscal cliff, the
Benghazi
hearings, the gun control debate—each new script following on the heels of
the last, never
any let-up, never any relief from the constant melodrama.
The players come and go, the protagonists and antagonists trade places,
and the
audience members are forgiving to a fault, quick to forget past mistakes and
move on to the
next spectacle. All the while, a different kind of drama is unfolding in the
dark backstage,
hidden from view by the heavy curtain, the elaborate stage sets, colored lights
and parading
actors.
Such that it is, the realm of political theater with all of its drama,
vitriol and
scripted theatrics is what passes for “transparent†government today, with
elected
officials, entrusted to act in the best interests of their constituents,
routinely
performing for their audiences and playing up to the cameras, while doing very
little to
move the country forward.
All the while, behind the footlights, those who really run the show are
putting into
place policies which erode our freedoms and undermine our attempts at
contributing to the
workings of our government, leaving us none the wiser and bereft of any
opportunity to voice
our discontent or engage in any kind of discourse until it’s too late. It’s
the oldest
con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused
on the shell
game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in
your midst.
President Obama, no different from his predecessors, is particularly well
versed in
how to use the theater of politics to his advantage. Consider that amidst the
cacophony of
the fiscal cliff debates, the president signed into law two pieces of
legislation, the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act (FISA) and the National
Defense
Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA), which further erode our most basic
constitutional rights
by reauthorizing sweeping police powers to be used by the federal government.
FISA allows the federal government to spy on Americans who communicate
with people
overseas, whether they are journalists, family members, or business associates,
while the
NDAA reauthorizes the military’s ability to indefinitely detain American
citizens, a
provision which first reared its head in the 2012 NDAA.
While the invasive powers bestowed upon the federal government by FISA
and the NDAA
should be cause for alarm, they have become part of the unchallenged post-9/11
paradigm that
disguises itself as representative government today. This matter-of-fact,
all-in-a-day’s
work erosion of our freedoms is no less appalling than the routine, relatively
uncontested
renewal of legislation, passed without debate or question year after year,
which flies in
the face of every fundamental principle of individual liberty on which this
nation was
founded. Such is the political playbook being used to chart the nation’s
course these
days.
President Obama’s decision to sign the NDAA, quietly and without much
fanfare, while
the fiscal cliff debate took front stage is a perfect example of political
theater at its
finest. The NDAA establishes a colossal $633 billion budget for the military at
a time when
the nation is drowning in debt, the deficit is skyrocketing, our military
empire is
overextended, and America is allegedly ratcheting down its presence in the
Middle East.
Despite a late November threat to veto the NDAA 2013, Obama signed it
into law while
on vacation with his family in Hawaii. Similarly, the year before, despite his
personal
objection to the indefinite detention of American citizens and his insistence
that his
administration had “worked tirelessly†to amend offending provisions, and
would
“oppose any attempt to extend or expand them in the future,†Obama signed
the NDAA 2012
into law on New Year’s Eve 2011.
Sadly, this year’s passage didn’t even merit that much protestation
or concern
over its indefinite detention provision from the Commander in Chief or his
cohorts in
Congress.
Obama may have sailed into the White House promising unprecedented levels
of
transparency in his administration, but his track record has proven him no
different than
his predecessors—content to distract the populace with a political circus
while
undermining the rule of law behind closed doors.
Just as the enactment of the NDAA ensures that no one is safe from
indefinite
detention, Congress’ renewal and Obama’s signing of the FISA Amendments
Act, which gives
the executive branch broad power to spy on American citizens who contact people
overseas,
leaves us powerless in the face of government surveillance. Making matters
worse, there are
few out there—government official, congressman or judge—who are willing to
step up and
put a stop to these violations of our rights. Even that once-vaunted Fourth
Estate, the
media, which was supposed to act as a check on the government’s power grabs,
has become
complicit in torpedoing our freedoms.
Worst of all, however, and perhaps the most frightening state of affairs
is that
resistance to these government programs, decrees, and laws is minimal,
undermined by a
complacent citizenry and an uncritical acceptance of the way the government
operates. In
fact, the farce of American democracy, in which our elected officials perfectly
mimic the
appearance of representative government while actively opposing our best
interests, has
become par for the course.
Thankfully, there are still some willing to stand against the tide. One
notable group,
comprised of writers, academics, journalists, and activists, including former
New York Times
war correspondent Chris Hedges, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg,
and writer
Noam Chomsky, is waging their war against Obama and his minions in court,
challenging any
attempt by the government to use the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA
to limit
constitutionally protected activity. For example, it is conceivable that those
protesting
American foreign policy, or those who interview suspected terrorists for
journalistic
purposes, may be considered in violation of the NDAA. As Hedges, a Pulitzer
Prize winner,
explained, “I, as a foreign correspondent, had had direct contact with 17
organizations
that are on [the US government’s list of terrorist organizations], from
al-Qaida to Hamas
to Hezbollah to the PKK, and there’s no provision within that particular
section [of the
NDAA] to exempt journalists.â€
There are also those within the judiciary who recognize the need for
caution. On
September 12, 2012, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest of the Southern
District Court of
New York ruled in favor of Hedges, placing a permanent injunction on the
indefinite
detention provision. Unfortunately, that ruling has since been overturned by
the Second
Circuit Court of Appeals pending its assessment of the provision’s
constitutionality. With
any protections against indefinite detention in legal limbo, Hedges warned,
“The appellate
court is all that separates us and a state that is no different than any other
military
dictatorship.â€
Indeed, the fact that Americans are utterly dependent on a small group of
judges,
themselves part of the ruling elite in America, to safeguard their fundamental
freedoms
shows just how far we’ve fallen as a society and culture.
When the rights and liberties which we once took for granted are little
more than
exceptions to the rule, open to interpretation by government officials who can
throw them
out based upon expediency, we have entered a new paradigm in America, and it
doesn’t bode
well for the future of democracy.
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