from wnd.com: ‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It’ - Larry Klayman - May 1
“As I go this Monday, May 4, to argue for Sheriff Joe Arpaio before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, I feel that the future of our constitutional republic hangs in the balance. I hope to inspire every reader to similarly move from agreement to action, not single myself out. Every action we take or fail to take is altering our nation’s future.
“Freedom Watch filed the first challenge to President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty on behalf of Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Nov. 20, 2014. But, as I told the Honorable Beryl Howell in the hearing on Dec. 22, 2014, this is about the rule of law – not just about immigration. The primary issues on appeal are whether our Constitution must be considered as well as the Administrative Procedures Act. President Obama circumvented both in illegally issuing executive orders which flout the law of the land.
“As we watch riots in Baltimore, we remember that the unemployment rate is over 51 percent among black youth in West Baltimore, partly because illegal immigrants are taking away their jobs. That will grow worse under Obama’s amnesty. We recently learned that Obama’s Department of Homeland Security has stolen – er “reprogrammed” – funds that Congress appropriated for enforcement to mail 9 million letters begging green-card holders to hurry and get their full U.S. citizenship. Democrats need votes in the 2016 elections.
“Obama calls these executive actions. But they are tearing at the heart and fabric of our U.S. Constitution. It is Congress that makes our laws. The president is a servant of the people and our elected Congress. The president is charged with the sacred duty that he “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed …” – Article II, Section 3. The president is bound by the Constitution and the laws passed by Congress no less than any other American.
“Judge Howell, an Obama appointee, dismissed our case at the trial level, calling it just a dispute over policies [my outraged emphasis]. However, Sheriff Arpaio respectfully disagrees. He asks that the laws Congress passed be obeyed. I always expected the issues to be resolved by the appeals courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. We appealed. Our briefs are filed. On Monday, I will state our case and answer the learned judges’ questions. It is with great anticipation that I am preparing and rehearsing for every possible question…”
It should never have had to come to this. Irrespective of the even more fundamental issue of the man's illegality in that thus-dishonored office, the current Executive is clearly acting beyond - far beyond - his rightful sphere of political activity, in our tripartite form of government. And Judge Howell should know that. That she doesn’t - or willfully chooses to ignore it - is call for her to be removed from the bench of so-called justice. As with any other Obama appointee who is acting like a commissar for the Dear Leader.
Hear, O Judges in America:
The government is the servant of the people. The people are not the slaves of the government, to do its bidding at its will. Get your damn facts straight, before you start messing with MY country, and MY people.
"Obama has made it clear that he is planning a series of power grabs. Obama is just getting started. Unless this is stopped now, the United States as we know it will be fundamentally transformed into something the Founders would never recognize."
Just so, Larry. Just so.
Give'em hell.
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Should I let these sorts of things affect me so? Can't I just take it all as the dying gasps of the monster, about to be slain with the sword of Truth?
No. They are messing with fundamental issues. Those issues need to be faced, and dealt with. Not swept under the rug, in a desire to 'just get on with things'.
'Don't lose sleep over these things."
Sorry. I care too much about this country, and its potential, to just keep schtum on its outcome.
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…and as for other ‘signs of the times’:
from Tea Parry C.C.: ‘US Immigration Exam Replaces ‘Freedom of Religion’ With ‘Freedom of Worship’ - posted by Natl Dir Dee - May 1 - (orig. posted at dailysignal.com - Kelsey Harkness - April 30 -
where a good, succinct clarifying comment was made:
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…and as for other ‘signs of the times’:
where a good, succinct clarifying comment was made:
Rick Yount · Top Commenter · Visiting Professor of Christian Education at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
This is a fact. Kathleen is right. The Soviet Constitution included "Freedom of Worship." What that meant practically and tangibly was that all church activities were confined to church buildings (often hard to get permits to build or expand) during "worship services." Want to have a church wedding? It had to be part of the regularly scheduled worship services. Youth activities, conferences -- whatever "religious" activity the church engaged, it was required to be scheduled worship. And of course, all sharing of faith to neighbors (witnessing, evangelism) was illegal. It was still done, but it was at the risk of jail or worse.
This is a big step toward totalitarianism and restriction of religious expression in the face of increased socialist pressures. Another example of the "radical transformation of America."
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meanwhile, back at the Tea Party:
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Reply by Stan Stanfield 1 second ago (May 2)
Well caught. Thanks for posting this, Dee.
It is, indeed, an important distinction. The USSR communists were very clever at this sort of thing. Our homegrown Marxists are following right in their footsteps.
Their bloody footsteps, that is.
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P.S. As for "good, succinct clarifying comments": Am I a Christian? No. The Bible is fatally flawed, with human fingerprints all over it; as I have mentioned before in these pages. And that religion not only needs to be investigated more thoroughly, and widely; but left behind, in a real 'progressiveness', of unfolding fact. But the atheists don't have the right answer, either. And their position is a far greater worry, and danger, than that of people who believe in something more than Man, however limited their perspective is, in comparison to the total truth in and of the matter. Yes, people of 'faith' can become fanatics - as we have seen, both in Christianity's checkered history, and currently in the Islamic radicalism sweeping various parts of the world (and as in the genocide of the Armenian Christians by the Muslim Turks back at the beginning of last century). But nobody has put to death more people than the likes of Stalin and Mao, for their atheistic political purposes.
Stand for the Truth in all things. And the Truth shall set you free.
And us all. Eventually.
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