My point is that “progressives” have always hated the constitution….but don’t you dare equate them with us conservatives/classical liberals (we were classical liberals until the progressive fascists labelled us as evil “conservatives”) with the medias and hollywoods help.

Read “Liberal Fascism” by J Goldberg….DO IT NOW!!! Your jaws will drop with shock. I Promise you that its the most important thing you will ever read.

Keeping the context of the “then and now”, is not easy, because it is one very long list of criminal acts against the Constitution. The overt assault on the U.S. Constitution has seen very few successful efforts to push back against the corrosive agenda of those allowed by Congress and the courts to remain above the law.

Mora belongs in the company of Paul Reverie and those who speak truth to power. They are the candles in the window of liberty.

The other important issue you highlight is the “interior” aspect of our constitutional rights being whittled away and hallowed out by greed and political expediency.

In that light, as you say we must concentrate on the issues, as we find them.

So I ask you out pure curiosity, why there is any difference between a person who seeks to occupy the office of POTUS, who may not be qualified ACCORDING to the Constitution, and what Bush and his gang have done?

I realize BO’s BC issue may be of little consequence in the scope of the practical reality we find ourselves in and surely there are plenty of criminal acts to prosecute and deliver justice to.

Is not the most important thing we can demand of those who seek elected office is for the truth? Including those who are elected, to honor the oath to protect and defend the Constitution?

Underneath all of this is the foundation of sacrifice, blood and tears, suffering, sunrises, sunsets, and the cry of voices of millions of all those before us.

What did they struggle for? Why?

This is the one is tops for me, if it is possible to priortize FUBAR.

May 2007 Bush signs a presidential directive that places him in control of all three branches of government in case of an extraordinary disaster

Did you hear the wankers in the MSM even squeek about it? Naw.

JMHO

It’s weird, I was telling a friend of mine back in May that I was worried the powers that be were pushing Obama just so they could assassinate him or something before he was put into office, just so Bush could take over and start martial law.

I hope I’m just being paranoid with that, but it would also not surprise me.

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A DEAFENING SILENCE

by: Joan Swirsky

It is no mystery that the leftist media have refused to mention this potentially looming Constitutional crisis in virtually all of their print and electronic coverage. Having shilled for Obama for the past two years – dismissing his longtime radical associations, obfuscating his radical voting record, and taking a pass at their jobs of vetting a presidential candidate – their failure to cover the most explosive story of the 2008 campaign speaks volumes about collusion of the highest order.

Then there are the late-night comics, as well as snarky “humorists” like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, who take pride in being irreverent and “outing” both people and subjects that others avoid. Not a word.

But what about the failure of the powerful conservative media – how to explain their total blackout of this story? Let’s look at their reactions:

Fox News: Total Silence. Did the healthy shares that Saudi Arabia bought of Fox influence the network’s non-coverage of this story? After all, it’s no secret which candidate the Saudis endorsed! We know that TV shows, including Fox, are on a seven-second delay, the better to bleep out offensive or inappropriate material. Doesn’t it strike Fox viewers as strange that not one of their outspoken guests, even once, mentioned this story? Who warned them not to?

Rush Limbaugh: Total Silence. Why has the Excellence-in-Broadcasting’s “Dr. of Democracy” – the man who eats sacred cows for breakfast – not touched this story?

Mark Levin: Total Silence. Why has this popular radio host, commonly known as “the Great One,” abandoned his well-deserved reputation as a Constitutional scholar to studiously not address this Constitutional issue?

Laura Ingraham: Total Silence. Here is another radio powerhouse and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas taking pains not to mention this case…not a word!

Bill O’Reilly: Total Silence. Yes, the guy who claims he’s “just looking out for the folks”…voiceless!

Sean Hannity: Total Silence. The iconic radio and TV host who tackles every controversial subject under the sun…missing in action!

I could go on and on, but you get the picture. The very people – the so-called loyal opposition – who should have been shouting this story from the rooftops for months on end went mute. Ordinarily they would be the first to tell you that our Republic has no more precious document than the U.S. Constitution – a document that set the stage for the greatest experiment in human freedom since the beginning of recorded history. People like me – and multi-millions of others – are aware of what happens when the “salami tactics” of tyrants are employed in the service of leftwing ideology.

First, there is a charismatic character promising “change” and “hope,” but who changes his tune once in power. Second there is a whittling down of the laws of the land and the arrogant dismissal of the documents on which the nation was founded. Third there is the blacking-out of all media that disagree with Dear Leader’s message. And fourth there is the rounding-up and incarceration – or worse – of all dissidents.

This is not theory. This is history. But while both left and right media thought it appropriate to comment at length about Obama’s seven-page for those seeking work in his administration – a probing that makes a Pap Test, Questionnaire mammogram, colonoscopy, and endoscopy in one visit seem mild by comparison – not one of these cowardly journalists has asked the simple question: Mr. Obama, where is your birth certificate?

Or were they not cowards but patriots?

SCROUNGING FOR ANSWERS

I’ve written several books, not one of them fictional. And thousands of articles, not one of them based on sinister suspicions or conspiracy theories. But the case of the U.S. media’s complete non-coverage of this major story has gotten me to speculate on what – or who – may be behind this phenomenon. What force could be so powerful as to silence our country’s putative guardians of free speech – the titans of the Fourth Estate?

Perhaps the mystery goes back to 2004, when President Bush won his second term in office and in his first press conference in the White House said that he had “earned political capital and intended to spend it.”

Then – suddenly and inexplicably – he went into a year-long hibernation. He rarely appeared in public and gave no major speeches. Finally he reemerged – albeit weakly – in late November or early December of 2005

Could it be that shortly after the president’s reelection, he and major government officials received highly credible evidence from America’s ruthless Islamist enemies that they had a number of devastating (probably nuclear suitcase) weapons – set up and ready to be activated in as many as six-to-10 of our major cities – unless he (the president) tacked left and played nice for the following two years?

Was America taken hostage?

The president, one could speculate, had only two choices: (1) play “chicken” and possibly sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans and the destruction of major American cities, or (2) opt for the lesser of two evils, the second being to pave the way for a dangerous Trojan Horse – qualified or not – to capture the White House.

Could it be that the media blackout of the most explosive story of any presidential election in American history has been choreographed by none other than the current POTUS – the most powerful man in the entire world? This would certainly explain why President Bush has not “been himself” since January 20, 2005. It would also explain why the all-powerful media have taken his marching orders – including the New York Times, which takes particular pleasure in undermining and sabotaging the president, even when it comes to national security issues.

If this happened, it would have had to involve the highest echelon in our intelligence services, who might have paid personal visits to publishers throughout the United States, as well as to top TV and radio executives, who themselves would have passed down iron-clad orders – to their anchors, broadcasters, even comedians – to follow the blackout order or face Draconian consequences.

On November 4 – Election Day – the Dow was above 9,000. It is now plummeting, suggesting that even the “globalists” among us prefer tax cuts and capitalism to tax hikes and not creeping but galloping socialism – or what the esteemed Dr. Jack Wheeler insists is fascism.

Buyers’ remorse is in the air. America has been hijacked. What a price we will pay if the Supreme Court and the Electoral College abandon their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution by capitulating – as the media have – to our enemies. God Save America!

I changed my party affiliation from Democrat to Independent in July 2006 largely because of this issue, and other encroachments upon my rights by Bush and a complicit Congress. I wrote a four-page letter to Pelosi and copied Reid and Dean about this very issue. I had written and made phone calls prior to the July letter but always got a response the Democrats were in the minority, and when that changed I got the excise Democrats did not have 60-votes. I was so damn tired of the 60-vote EXCUSE that in my four-page letter I said I wanted the Democrats to take a stand FOR the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and my rights win, lose, or draw. I wanted a few profiles in courage, like Russ Feingold.

One of the chief reasons I did not support Obama was this very same issue. Like many, I was inspired by his 2004 Convention speech. And I watched him when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. It did not take long for me to learn what he is. A poser. One of his earliest votes was to renew the Patriot Act. That single vote told me all I needed to know about him. And he did nothing during the primary or general election to change my mind about that. I do not know if he will continue the policies of Bush or will restore Constitutional rights. I think not. I think he believes in a unitary Presidency.

Therefore, it becomes incumbent upon me and all citizens to be ever watchful and to demand our rights.

I think the following quotes express far better than I what I believe:

Thomas Jefferson: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Benjamin Franklin: Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
Louis D. Brandeis: Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis: Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis: Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Louis D. Brandeis: Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis: The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis: To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis

I agree no one is immune, but on the Hillary or Mac point for that matter, I would argue we would stand a chance they would see the wisdom in ratcheting down their own power for the good of the Republic.

My biggest concern is that with the erosion of rights and consolidation of presidential powers, that no matter who got elected, would be unwilling to “give that power up”. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and no one is immune including Hillary Clinton.

My guess is the the excesses of the Bush administration will not be investigated. Thus, changes will not be demanded by the American public. Any majority party will keep these terrible changes in place to further their own power to their own advantage. It matters not if the “party in power” happens to be the one you support. We as a country will loose