1 last chance to fight for our Constitution
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Janet Porter
Posted: November 18, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008
Former Deputy Attorney General Philip Berg filed
a lawsuit addressing the citizenship status of
Barack Obama before the Democratic National
Convention and copied Democratic Chairman Howard
Dean. It should have alerted them that there was
a possible problem before they selected their
nominee. But that problem was ignored. Other
lawsuits filed before Nov. 4 were also ignored,
placing us in what could be a constitutional crisis.
The good news is the real election hasn't taken
place yet. The Electoral College doesn't meet
until Dec. 15. That gives us less than a month to
find the answers to the looming questions
regarding whether Barack Obama meets the
constitutional requirements for the office of president.
The courts don't seem to be in any hurry to take
up their responsibility as guardians of the
Constitution, so now Congress must step in. You
see, members of Congress are sworn to uphold the
Constitution, and when they vote in January to
confirm (or reject) the vote of the Electoral
College, they can't very well do that unless they
know for certain that the basic constitutional
requirements for office have been met.
An ad running this week in the Washington Times
Weekly asks three questions America needs to
know: "Was Barack Obama really born in Kenya?"
"Is he really a citizen of Indonesia?" And, "Does
the Constitution still matter?"
As I wrote about last week, there are many
reasons to doubt whether Barack Obama meets the
requirements for the office of president. First,
there's that pesky tape from Sarah Obama,
Barack's grandmother, where she says, "I was in
the delivery room in (Mombosa) Kenya when he was
born Aug. 4, 1961." Secondly, there's the matter
of U.S. law. If only one parent was an American
citizen, as in Obama's case, the law at the time
of Obama's birth required one parent to have been
an American citizen for at least 10 years – five
of which had to have happened after the age of
14. Since Obama's mother was only 18 at the time
of Obama's birth, he would not qualify as an
American citizen if his grandmother is right about him being born abroad.
Thirdly, there's no original birth certificate –
just a "certification of live birth" posted on a
website experts say is forged and altered.
Fourthly, there's the issue of Indonesian
citizenship, which is a prerequisite to attending
school there. Add to that the fact that Obama's
stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, is listed as his father
on his Indonesian school records. If he had U.S.
citizenship, according to Indonesian law, he
would have lost it when he attended school there
or if he was adopted by his stepfather as his records indicate.
As the ad proclaims, "The Constitution matters"
and is still worth defending. All we are asking
is that Congress takes their oath to defend it
seriously. If Obama can prove he meets the basic
but essential constitutional requirements, fine,
he'll serve legally. But if he cannot provide
simple proof, then he cannot. We're not asking
for the world here, just the original birth
certificate that each of us delivers when getting
a passport, driver's license or Social Security
card. If we can't tell the clerk at the post
office to check out the digital photo of a
certificate posted online, neither should the guy
running for president. Members of Congress: If
you have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, now's the time to keep it.
But I know the reasons for your hesitancy. I've
faced them myself and have come to the conclusion
that if one of our founders, Patrick Henry, could
proclaim, "Give me liberty or give me death," we
can face our fears and stand for the document
they penned that outlines our God-given rights to
freedom. What if we asked our Founding Fathers,
many of whom lost everything in the battle for
our nation, if they think the Constitution is
still worth defending? They already answered that question with their lives.
But what about the objections?
* "Obama won the popular election." So did Al
Gore. But George W. Bush is still president.
That's because the Electoral College decides –
and in this case, it hasn't yet. In fact, the
electors can't fulfill their solemn oath to
uphold the Constitution unless they know the
candidates meet the basic constitutional requirements for office.
* "This should have happened long before
now." That's true, but the cases filed before
Nov. 4 were ignored by the courts, and the
answers to these basic questions were never
answered. There is still time for those answers
since the real election has not yet happened.
* "They'll be riots in the streets." This
objection is much like the reaction of Kenya to
Obama's candidate of choice, Raila Odinga, who
incited violence and the burning of hundreds of
churches (not a single mosque) when he lost the
race. Obama raised a million dollars for this
upstanding guy and assigned a Senate staffer to
help him. To bring the violence to an end, the
Kenyan government put Odinga – the guy who lost
the election – in office to keep him from burning
more churches. They failed the first rule of the
playground: Confront the bully; don't appease
him. Threats of violence must be met with fierce resistance, not appeasement.
* "I better not be public on this because
I'll become a target." News flash: If you believe
in life, liberty and the family, you already are
a target. The henchmen are selected; the gallows
for our freedoms are already being built. And the
only candidate in history to never move an inch
to the center during the campaign has no
intentions of changing his agenda of outlawing
our viewpoint with the "unfairness doctrine,"
"thought crimes," "The Employment Non
Discrimination Act" the repeal of the Defense of
Marriage Act and all the rest. As I wrote about
in my book, "The Criminalization of Christianity"
(which will surely come true if we don't act
now), "Never fail to do the right thing for fear
that the opposition will attack you in response.
The other side can and will attack you anyway, at
a time of their own choosing rather than yours,
regardless of whether you act."
* "We'll just beat him in four years." In
four years, we won't be able to recognize what's
left of our country. And if you think taking on
this issue right now is hard, try doing it when
our radio airwaves are shut down and our freedoms
are stripped from us, as he has promised to do.
And with Obama's promise to pass the so-called
Freedom of Choice Act as "the first thing" he
does, you can say goodbye to the notion of
protecting unborn children again – and goodbye to
every law in all 50 states that notifies parents,
keeps our tax dollars from footing the abortion
bill and prevents even a single partial-birth abortion.
* "They'll say I'm a 'racist' and call it
'sour grapes.'" Our Founding Fathers faced death,
we face name-calling. Right now our U.S. soldiers
are being shot at for the freedoms guaranteed in
our Constitution. If the Constitution isn't worth
undergoing some name calling, then the oath taken to defend it means nothing.
* "Somebody else will do it." They haven't. And time is running out.
* "It's not my responsibility." The lower
court in Philadelphia threw out Phil Berg's case
(which is now before the U.S. Supreme Court)
based not on the merits, but on the issue of
"standing," and pointed to the need for Congress
to act. If the questions of constitutionality are
not met before Congress is called upon to uphold
the vote of the Electoral College, they cannot
fulfill their oath and duty to uphold and defend
the Constitution. If we are willing to ignore the
constitutional requirements for the highest
office in our land, what else are we willing to
forgo? That part about free speech? Freedom of the press? Freedom of religion?
* "We deserve what we got." That's true, so
did the people of Nineveh who asked, "Who can
tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away
from His fierce anger, so that we may not
perish?" If you're unfamiliar with the story
recorded in Jonah, God didn't give the Ninevites
what they deserved; and even though the judgment
was pronounced against them, when they fasted,
prayed, sought God and turned from their wicked
ways, God had mercy and spared them from judgment.
* "It's impossible." With God, all things are
possible. Eight years ago the election was called
for Al Gore, and he never took office. If God is
the same today as He was yesterday, He can still
split the sea, raise the dead, stop the sun and
reverse the results of the popular vote if the
basic requirements of the Constitution are not met in the candidate.
* "He's constitutionally qualified." Great.
Then it won't be hard to prove it.
The Electoral College votes on Dec. 15 – we now
have less than 30 days of freedom left. How will
you spend it? Will you "safely" keep quiet about
our nation's most important document, or will you step forward to defend it?
There's a replica of William Wallace's sword
hanging on my wall. It reminds me of his words
captured in the movie "Braveheart":
William Wallace: I am William Wallace. And I see
a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance
of tyranny. You've come to fight as freemen, and
freemen you are. What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?
Man: No … we will run … and we will live.
William Wallace: Aye. Fight and you may die. Run
and you'll live – at least a while. And, dying in
your beds, many years from now, would you be
willing to trade all the days from this day to
that for one chance, just one chance, to come
back here and tell our enemies, that they may
take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
Congress, you were elected for such a time as
this. Don't miss your moment in history to defend
the Constitution you were sworn to uphold. Not
extreme. Not fringe. Just constitutional. A
thorough investigation must be conducted to
ensure the basic constitutional requirements for
the office of president have been met. It is not
just your right – it is your duty. And you have
less than 30 days to act. You have the freedom
right now that you will never have again. You can
fight to defend the Constitution of the United
States, or you can run. As William Wallace asked,
the question is: Will you fight?
* Call your representative in Congress at
202-224-3121 and ask them to hold immediate
congressional hearings to investigate and ensure
the basic constitutional requirements for the
office of president have been met.
* Fast and pray.
* Place the "Three Unanswered Questions" ad
in newspapers across the country and post it online everywhere.
* Donate to defend the Constitution. We'll
place more ads if you'll help: <http://www.f2a.org/>www.f2a.org.
* E-mail this to everyone on your list, and
call on the media to report this constitutional crisis.
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