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Video series exposes ongoing plan to overthrow America from within
A
new video series warns than an effort to overthrow the American system
already is well under way through the “civilization jihad” of the Muslim
Brotherhood, with the support of key U.S. government leaders, including
Barack Obama.
Radical Muslims have penetrated “team Obama,” according to the
series, which examines six individuals who have been allowed into high
positions. The consequent danger is “acute,” according to the video
makers.
Included in the conversation are the White House, director of
National Intelligence, State Department, Justice Department, the
Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security and NASA.
Unveiled are the long-term processes of subversion and deceit through
which the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic extremists have infiltrated
the American government and promoted their plan to implement Islamic
law, or Shariah, in the United States and around the world.
Signs of capitulation already are evident in cases such as the Fort
Hood massacre. The official military description of the attack by a
self-described soldier of Allah, Nidal Hasan, who allegedly killed
dozens at a Texas military base while shouting Islamic slogans, was
“workplace violence.”
The film outlines the Muslim practice of taqiyya – deliberate lying
to advance Islam. Rather than direct conquest, the video course explains
that Muslims are using “civilization jihad, a form of warfare that
employs manipulative financial techniques, lawfare, infiltration of our
civil institutions and government, and insidious information dominance.”
The goal is the destruction of American society and a takeover by radical Muslims.
Most shockingly, the course shows that the process of subversion
includes the takeover of portions of the American conservative movement
itself, including filling key positions with members of the Muslim
Brotherhood. According to the Muslim Brotherhood’s own internal
documents, Islamic extremists are engaged in “a kind of grand jihad in
eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within,
sabotaging its miserable house with their hands and the hands of the
believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious
over all other religions.”
In an interview with WND, Gaffney said the course “helps break the
code on why we’re losing the war jihadists are waging on America.”
“I think it responds to the real confusion Americans feel about what
is going on in this country,” he said. “They see reports of individual
extremists killed, but then they suffer long waits at the airport
because of ineffective and nonsensical TSA screenings, hear that the
Islamic shooter at Ft. Hood was just a case of ‘workplace violence,’ and
find out that the Muslim Brotherhood is telling the FBI what they are
and are not allowed to say and do to fight terrorism.”
FBI Director Robert Mueller met with top Muslim Brotherhood
operatives earlier this year to announce that hundreds of terrorism
training documents and briefings that Muslims might deem offensive would
be purged from the files.
Gaffney emphasizes that the enemy is “inside the wire,” and the
course “connects the dots so that the American people will know the real
story.”
See an introduction to the series:
The course explains that even the language used by the Obama
administration, “the endless apologies to people chronically offended,”
are perceived by Muslims as acts of submission to Islam.
The series explain how many of the well-known Islamic groups
operating now in America share the ideals of radicals abroad, including,
“Islam is our creed, Allah is our objective, the prophet is our leader,
the Quran is our law, jihad is our way and dying in the way of Allah is
our highest hope.”
The strategy of the radicals includes keeping “infidels” ignorant,
prohibiting “blasphemy,” demanding concessions, using educational tools,
interfaith dialogue, Shariah-compliant finance, inserting Shariah into
U.S. courts and placing Muslim Brotherhood partners in positions of
influence.
In
former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams, eligibility activist Tom
Ballantyne thought he had found a Republican ally who would champion the
Constitution by demanding a congressional investigation into Barack
Obama’s “natural-born citizen” status.
After all, Adams told Ballantyne he was so fierce a defender of the
Constitution that he battled his state’s Republican governor in court to
protect the legislature’s enumerated powers from executive-branch
encroachment.
When it came to investigating Obama’s eligibility, however, Adams –
who is now running for the U.S. House – said he feared Congress standing
up to the chief executive would trigger “a constitutional crisis unlike
one we’ve seen since perhaps the Civil War.”
In a video shot by Ballantyne, author of “Oh Really, O’Reilly!”
and cameraman Gabe Zolna, Adams affirmed his oath of office to defend
the Constitution, but worried that investigating Obama’s potential
violation of that Constitution would create tremendous “fallout” among
the American people.
“First off, I do think it’s entirely appropriate that every candidate
for office be able to prove their eligibility,” Adams said. “But … can
you imagine the constitutional crisis that would ensue?”
He continued, “Because of how big that would be, I simply do not
believe that an investigation by a volunteer posse of the sheriff gives
enough credibility to this issue to really push this issue.”
Instead, Adams insisted Congress shouldn’t act until the question of
Obama’s eligibility had “worked its way through the legal process.”
Video of the exchange can be seen below, with Adams’ remarks on eligibility beginning at roughly the 5:55 mark:
The video concludes with Ballantyne arguing that Obama’s potential
ineligibility has already triggered a Constitutional crisis and that the
issue can’t “work its way through the legal process” because the courts
won’t grant “standing” to those seeking answers.
“Absent a congressional hearing and congressional force of authority
being brought to bear,” Ballantyne said, “it seems that everybody is
waiting for somebody else to do it.”
Drew Zahn is a former pastor who cut his editing teeth as a member of the award-winning staff of Leadership, Christianity Today's professional journal for church leaders. He is the editor of seven books, including Movie-Based Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching, which sparked his ongoing love affair with film and his weekly WND column, "Popcorn and a (world)view."More ↓
Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive statement from Ted Nugent to WND:
If all of America was just like the great families at the NRA
141st Annual Members meeting in St. Louis last weekend, our country would
be flawless. Surrounded by my family, friends, patriots, law
enforcement and military heroes, veterans who have sacrificed dearly for
freedom and the U.S. Constitution, the goodwill and positive energy in
the air was cleansing to say the least. We set another attendance record
for the NRA and for St. Louis. It was downright perfect.
I spent all three days doing fundraisers for children’s and military
charities, fondling much hardware, meeting legions of good folks at the
Ted Nugent Ammo exhibit, and shaking hands with great Americans,
Canadians, Brits and freedom loving people from around the globe.
As always, I also conducted numerous media interviews providing
unlimited self-evident truth and the inexhaustible evidence supporting
the beauty of keeping and bearing arms for defense of self, family and
liberty. Unarmed helplessness is for sheep and the French. Such an
embarrassing, irresponsible, crime inducing condition is inexcusable.
On Sunday, April 15, my killer Motor City soul brother, Derek St.
Holmes joined me onstage for an impromptu celebration of Motown classics
and my fire breathing soundtrack of defiance and God given,
constitutionally guaranteed individual rights. Much enthusiastic
foot stomping and dancing erupted like it was the 4th of July.
Introduced lovingly by the great Texas’ Attorney General Gregg
Abbott, I took the stage, humbled yet proud that such a gathering of
fine people would unite to hear the old guitar player raise hell for a
better America.
My speech, like every year at NRA, was about the unlimited greatness
of this sacred experiment in self-government, thanking the heroes of the
U.S. Military and law enforcement for their incredible sacrifices
waging war against the enemies of freedom wherever it may slither.
But beyond all that is good, the real duty of we the people is to
watch out for and fight against the bad and the ugly brought about by
people of power that historically have always abused it. I named names. I called out Eric Holder for his fast and furious and
other offenses.
I railed against our president for his engineered
dismantling of the once greatest economy in the world. I reminded
everyone how Hillary Clinton sides with the evil criminals of the U.N.
instead of her own great nation. I reminded good Americans that it isn’t
the enemies’ fault for sneaking into the White House and abusing power,
but rather we the people for bending over and allowing them to take
corruption to a horrible new level.
I begged everyone to register and vote, because warriors give up
their lives so that we can.I spotlighted cockroaches and rallied those
who care to stomp ’em out at the voting booth in November, as is my duty
as an American. I passionately rallied the American civilian troops to
stand up for what is right and to demand that the US Constitution and
Bill of Rights are once again forced into determining all laws and
policies in America.
By no stretch of the imagination did I threaten anyone’s life, or
hint at violence or mayhem. Metaphors needn’t be explained to educated
people.
'2nd term free of electoral restraints may be a frightening prospect'
There always have been those few who have launched diatribes over the dictatorial actions of any given U.S. presidential administration, over civil rights, foreign affairs, the economy, the draft or a dozen other topics – even though the Constitution was written specifically to prevent the collection of too much power by one branch of government.
Now, again, there are words like “egocentric megalomaniac” being ascribed to the White House, and warnings about detention camps and government surveillance of its citizens.
But where previous generations of warnings emanated from lone wolves with their fax machines in dusty spare rooms, the current alarms are being issued by the likes of Investors Business Daily, First Amendment authority Nat Hentoff, New York Times best-selling author Robert Ringer and their equals.
“A second term free of electoral restraints [for Obama] may be a frightening prospect,” IBD wrote in a commentary in the last week. “This is, after all, a president who has said he can’t wait for Congress to act and will govern by executive order and regulations if necessary. He has questioned the Supreme Court’s ‘unprecedented’ review of Obamacare.”
The publication pointed out that the Obama administration already is in contempt of court – in a court dispute over its ban on oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
When U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman ruled that the Obama Interior Department unconstitutionally imposed an offshore drilling moratorium, the agency “simply established a second ban that was virtually identical.”
“Judge Feldman was not amused. ‘Each step the government took following the court’s imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance,’ Feldman said in his ruling. ‘Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the re-imposition of a second moratorium …. provides this court with clear and convincing evidence of its contempt,’” the editorial said.
The issue recently was brought into the headlines by comments from Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News analyst who said, “I think the president is dangerously close to totalitarianism. A few months ago he was saying the Congress doesn’t count. The Congress doesn’t mean anything. I am going to rule by decree and by administrative regulation. Now he’s basically saying the Supreme Court doesn’t count. It doesn’t matter what they think. They can’t review our legislation.
“That would leave just him as the only branch of government standing,” Napolitano said.
His comments came after statements from Obama that the U.S. Supreme Court wouldn’t take the “unprecedented” action of actually overturning the Obamacare law, even though that is exactly what courts do when justices determine the legislation is unconstitutional.
“I think he [Obama] has some problems with understanding the Constitution, or accepting limitations on his power,” said Napolitano. “Look, they’re equal branches of government, but with respect to what the law means and what the Constitution means, the court is superior to the president.”
His comments came recently on Neil Cavuto’s program, when the discussion turned to the U.S. Supreme Court’s discussion of the unconstitutionality of Obamacare and Obama’s verbal attack on the court shortly after the oral arguments.
Here are Napolitano’s comments:
“No president in modern times has questioned [the Supreme Court's] authority. They have questioned the way the authority has been exercised,” he said. “Not their right to make the decision.
“This is an extreme view of the Supreme Court and the Constitution, one that has not been articulated since Andrew Jackson was in the White House,” he said.
Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the state of New Jersey. He tried more than 150 jury trials during his time on the bench from 1987 to 1995, including criminal, civil, equity and family cases.
For 11 years, he served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, where he provided instruction in constitutional law and jurisprudence. Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television broadcasting in the same year.
Other warnings that have been issued:
Erik Rush, a columnist and author of sociopolitical fare, including “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America’s Racial Obsession,” wrote about the New Black Panthers, and how their “advancing Marxist agenda is being not-so-subtly choreographed from Barack Obama’s White House.”
“Civil unrest is an Obama administration objective, since it will facilitate crises sufficient for the president to justify suspensions of civil rights. Provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, Obama’s recent National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order, as well as others, have certainly paved the way for such action.
“The question of a fair election in November is also something that deserves our attention. We can take it as given that voter fraud will abound at the hands of ACORN and other like-minded fringe organizations … All of this illustrates the paramount importance of continuing to beat the drum of Obama’s communism in unequivocal terms, regardless of the mincing ridicule we will draw from liberals…”
Ringer wrote,“I began warning about Barack Obama’s dictatorial ambitions before he even won the 2008 presidential election … Obama’s recent contention that it would be ‘unprecedented’ for the Supreme Court to overrule congressional legislation had dictatorship written all over it.
“I will say yet again what I have been saying for more than three years: If polls indicate that Obama is going to win the upcoming election, no problem. He’ll keep flashing that fake Barry Obama grin until Nov. 7, then move swiftly to begin unleashing a dictatorial full monty – consisting of more regulations, higher taxes and less freedom – that will shock all but his staunchest Marxist allies.
“Nothing will be off limits – a national police force, instant citizenship for all Third World people … forced equalization of income (except for Obama’s wealthy supporters), widespread use of tax audits to carry out vendettas against enemies … suspension of habeas corpus … and much, much more.
“On the other hand, two or three months before the election, if the polls clearly show that Obama is going to go down in defeat, I believe there’s better than a 50-50 chance of a major ‘emergency’ coincidentally making its appearance, convincingly manufactured in such a way as to cause the average entitlement junkie to agree that we must rally around the president and ‘postpone’ the November elections.”
Craige McMillan, longtime WND commentary author, said, “Why do you think Big Sis needs 20,000 drones patrolling the skies over America and NSA needs a new listening post to read and listen to every personal communication between every American citizen and archive it forever? … Step out of line and the police don’t even need a warrant to download your location data and buddy lists from your cell phone. Then they can go around and talk to your pals about your terrorist tendencies.”
He described the new National Security Agency’s new Utah center – “more than five times larger than the U.S. Capitol” where “all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cellphone calls and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails – parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases…” will be archived.
“We are not yet a police state. The First Amendment is still functioning … But with the NSA burrowing ceaselessly into our once very private lives, where are the reminders of the Declaration of Independence and its indictments of King George III?”
Mychal Massie, the chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, also is on record.”Many say Barack Obama is the most divisive, egocentric megalomaniac ever to hold his office. Others say he is the most ruthless and defiantly determined Marxist-Leninist ever to become president. I say he is, by definition and actions, both.
Vox Day, WND columnist, wrote, “It is becoming increasingly clear that the federal government is completely and utterly out of control, spewing nonsense, issuing irrational threats and stumbling around the world stage like a belligerent drunk with an empty wallet … Americans no longer enjoy the limited government of their forefathers. They suffer from limitless government. TSA is an apt acronym. But it does not stand for the Transportation Security Administration; it stands for the Totalitarian State of America.
As a presidential candidate Obama called for a “national civilian security force” that would be as big and as well-funded as the half-trillion dollar U.S. military. And a study a short time later confirmed that there are several ways to create the suggested “Stability Police Force” so that it legally could operate inside the U.S. borders.
One of the top recommendations in the report from the Rand Corp. was that the capacity and management operations of the U.S. Marshals Service be beefed up and handed the assignment.
The study was released in 2009, only months after Obama made his presidential campaign call for a civilian force as big and as costly as the U.S. military.
In a speech in Colorado Springs, Obama said, “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we set. We’ve got have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
WND reported when a copy of Obama’s Colorado Springs speech posted online apparently was edited to exclude Obama’s specific references to the new force.
A video of his statements is posted here:
The opening of the Rand Corp. report was focused on providing “Stability Police Force” services outside of the U.S. borders. A company spokesman told WND that the report focused exclusively on the idea of a structure that could move into war-torn or riot-damaged cities or nations overseas and restore order.
However, a reading of the text of the report makes it clear that similar concerns about the behavior of U.S. residents were being evaluated, too.
It noted that the plans for the $1 billion a year effort would have to be structured carefully so as not to infringe on the Posse Comitatus Act ban on U.S. military operations inside the U.S.
“The discussions … made clear that the MP option would likely not be available for domestic policing. This makes this option [fulltime and reserve, as the hybrid option would not be viable due to the fact that military personnel could not be embedded in civilian domestic law enforcement agencies…] much more expensive.”
The report discussed the possibility of creating a new agency inside the Department of Defense but noted, “It is unlikely that a military agency would be permitted to perform domestic policing functions … Because of this, the new agency would likely perform SPF functions better than the MP option due to a better ability to create a policing culture, but worse than the Marshals Service option due to the fact that it could not do policing tasks day-to-day.”
The report said the U.S. Secret Service also could be an option: “Much like the Marshals Service, the Secret Service focuses on law enforcement missions within the United States. When not deployed abroad, an SPF housed in the Secret Service could perform a wide range of domestic functions without running into legal barriers.”
A company official was unable to explain the study’s references to policing in the United States.
The Colorado Springs event wasn’t the only time Obama preached of his requirement for a “civilian security” force.
Radio talk show Mark Levin discussed it in a broadcast:
He cited Obama’s statement at a dedication ceremony for a facility at the National Defense University.
There, Obama said, “American must also balance and integrate all elements of our national power. We cannot continue to push the burden onto our military alone, nor leave dormant any aspect of the full arsenal of American capability. That’s why my administration is committed to renewing diplomacy as a tool of American power and to developing our civilian national security capabilities.”
What? Levin said.
“What does that mean? … Is he crazy? … He needs a civilian national security force … just as powerful … as our military?”
“The military has tanks, advanced weapons. What does he mean? … I know what his ideology is. That’s why I’m getting nervous…. Will the shirts be brown? Will they be clicking their heels as they walk?”
The Rand report also cited the Special Operations Group, which is headquartered at Camp Beauregard, La.
“It consists of about 100 deputies who respond to emergencies such as natural disasters, civil disturbances, and terrorist incidents and restores order during riots and mob violence. The SOG conducts missions in fugitive apprehension, high-profile prisoner movements, witness security operations, national emergencies and civil disorders. SOG deputies receive specialized tactical training, including crowd control and quelling civil disorder.”
The report continued, “During the 2000 World Trade Organization protests in the nation’s capitol, SOG teams played a key role in crowd control. They also took responsibility for protecting dignitaries going to and from the conference.”
Further, during protests in Puerto Rico, “The SOG was asked by the Navy on six separate occasions to quell disturbances. In calling upon the Marshals Service, the Navy was able to avoid concerns about the Posse Comitatus Act that might have arisen had it undertaken an armed mission in Puerto Rico.”
The report said specifically that should such a force be created under the military police division, “relief from the Posse Comitatus Act would be required to permit its members to perform domestic law enforcement functions.”
Rand officials said the study looked at the need for “a U.S. Stability Police Force, the major capabilities it would need if created, where in the federal government it would best be headquartered, and how it should be staffed.”
The federally funded research was done specifically for the U.S. Army.
The study also said, “Our analysis clearly indicates that the United States needs an SPF or some other way to accomplish the SPF mission.”
His idea was to authorize “the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.”
Rangel’s plan specified that “national service” means “military service or service in a civilian capacity that, as determined by the president, promotes national defense, including national or community service and service related to homeland security.”
“It is the obligation of every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States, who is between the ages 18 and 42 to perform a period of national service as prescribed in this title,” it specified.
It would require that the president provide “for the induction” of people to the service corps.
“Except as otherwise provided in this section, the period of national service performed by a person under this title shall be two years,” Rangel wrote.
Conscientious objectors would be ordered “to perform national civilian service … as the president may prescribe.”
WND also reported when Obama signed into law the “GIVE Act,” H.R. 1388, which massively expands the National Service Corporation and allocates to it billions of dollars.
Officials said at that time the law would allow for the “managing” of up to 8 or 9 million people.
That bill included a “National Service Reserve Corps” whose members have completed a “term of national service,” “training” and “not less than 10 hours of volunteering each year.”
Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, used his daily column when the issue originally arose to alert Americans of the plans. He then elevated the issue with a call to all reporters to start asking questions.
“If we’re going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn’t this rather a big deal?” Farah wrote. “I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too much on the military. How is it possible their candidate [at the time] is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?
“Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that? If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?” Farah wrote.
byBob UnruhEmail | ArchiveBob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after spending nearly three decades writing on a wide range of issues for several Upper Midwest newspapers and the Associated Press. Sports, tornadoes, homicidal survivalists, and legislative battles all fell within his bailiwick. His scenic photography has been used commercially, and he sometimes plays in a church worship band
Muslims launch grenade attack on Christian worshipers
A band of Muslims launched a grenade attack against a crowd of 150 Christians attending an open-air meeting near the Kenyan town of Mtwapa, killing two and wounding more than 30, authorities report.
Human-rights groups say that the Muslim attackers were hyped into action by a militant Muslim preacher holding an alternate rally only 900 feet from the Christian gathering.
ICC’s Africa Regional Manager Jonathan Racho said the human rights group is concerned about the increase in anti-Christian violence in Kenya.
“We are deeply concerned about the bomb attack targeting innocent Christians. We urge Kenya to protect its citizens from the growing attacks of the radical Islamists,” Racho said.
Racho noted that Kenya’s increase in anti-Christian violence comes as Nigeria’s Boko Haram has declared war on Christians and as Sudan appears to be facing a new civil war.
“Islamic radicals are carrying out attacks against Christians in Africa. The situation is getting worse in places like Nigeria and Kenya. Security forces must step up their efforts to stem the violence by the radicals,” Racho said.
WND reported in December that a Christian man in Kenya was beaten by a Somali mob that crossed the border for the attack.
International Christian Concern’s Aidan Clay met with the victim of the attack.
“When I saw him a month after the incident, he was still badly bruised, could hardly see out of his right eye which was black, and was missing teeth,” Clay said.
Clay said the attacks are becoming more frequent and more intense.
“Recently, there has been a slight surge of violence targeting Christians inside Kenya, provoked mainly by Somali Muslims, some of whom are likely from the militant group al-Shabaab,” Clay said.
A Pentecostal church in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa was the target of another Muslim grenade attack in November. A group of Muslim men hurled a grenade into the church compound, killing two church members and injuring scores of others.
WND reported in 2008 a fire bombing that injured more than 50 in Eldoret, Kenya. At that time, the attack was identified as part of violence that followed incumbent Mwai Kbaki’s defeat of President Obama’s Muslim Kenyan friend, Raila Odinga, in Kenya’s presidential election.
Obama appeared with Odinga at campaign stops and gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive. But Odinga lost, despite attracting Muslim votes through a secret Memorandum of Understanding with Muslim Sheik Abdullah Abdi, the chief of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.
In the memo, Odinga promised to rewrite the Kenyan constitution to install Shariah as law in “Muslim declared regions,” elevate Islam as “the only true religion” and give Islamic leaders “oversight” over other religions, establish Shariah courts and ban Christian proselytism
After his loss, Odinga accused Kbaki of rigging the vote and allegedly incited his supporters to riot. Over the next month, some 1,500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 displaced – with most of the violence led by Muslims, who set churches ablaze and hacked Christians to death with machetes.
Michael Carl is a veteran journalist with overseas military experience and experience as a political consultant. He also has two Master's Degrees, is a bi-vocational pastor and lives with his family in the Northeast United States.
Napolitano says White House now 'dangerously close'
Not many weeks ago, Barack Obama announced that Congress was being uncooperative, so he would have to go it alone with executive orders to make changes he wanted for America.
Then he stated he is confident that the Supreme Court would not choose to overturn his health care law, through which the government requires Americans to buy a product approved by the federal bureaucracy or face fines.
His diminishment of two of the three co-equal branches of government has caught the attention many citizens, and now a legal expert has weighed in with a stark warning about the future of the nation.
“I think the president is dangerously close to totalitarianism,” Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News analyst, said. “A few months ago he was saying the Congress doesn’t count. The Congress doesn’t mean anything. I am going to rule by decree and by administrative regulation. Now he’s basically saying the Supreme Court doesn’t count. It doesn’t matter what they think. They can’t review our legislation.
“That would leave just him as the only branch of government standing,” he said.
His comments came recently on Neil Cavuto’s program, when the discussion turned to the U.S. Supreme Court’s discussion of the unconstitutionality of Obamacare and Obama’s verbal attack on the court shortly after the oral arguments.
“I think he has some problems with understanding the Constitution, or accepting limitations on his power,” said Napolitano. “Look, they’re equal branches of government, but with respect to what the law means and what the Constitution means, the court is superior to the president.
“No president in modern times has questioned [the Supreme Court's] authority. They have questioned the way the authority has been exercised,” he said. “Not their right to make the decision.
“This is an extreme view of the Supreme Court and the Constitution, one that has not been articulated since Andrew Jackson was in the White House,” he said.
Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the state of New Jersey. He tried more than 150 jury trials during his time on the bench from 1987 to 1995, including criminal, civil, equity and family cases.
For 11 years, he served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, where he provided instruction in constitutional law and jurisprudence. Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television broadcasting in the same year.
The report cited his decision to kill work on the Keystone XL pipeline, changing the focus of deportation of illegal aliens and student loan repayment procedures.
The report noted the perspective of Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist, that such manipulation of executive power “can generate enthusiasm among Democratic voters at a time when the Republican Party base is fired up about defeating the president.”
It also cited the opinion from Gene Healy of the Cato Institute, who said, “Even the president’s supporters ought to remember that the presidency periodically changes hands and it’s undemocratic and unhealthy to lodge this much power in one person’s hands.”
Among the the most controversial of Obama’s orders is one that extends the White House’s power to seize authority in a national emergency.
The president has cited the need to mobilize technological and industrial resources “capable of meeting national defense requirements” to ensure “technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peace time and in times of national emergency.”
The executive order requires Cabinet agencies to determine military and civilian staffing levels needed and evaluate access to suppliers and materials. The goal is to have the government prepared “in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States.”
Specifically, it grants authority to Washington to tell agencies how to activate and run a National Defense Executive Reserve plan that would in many ways take control of certain segments of industry.
It was Obama’s comments about the Supreme Court that brought the issue into focus recently.
He said the justices “will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” That’s even though Obamacare passed without any GOP support and barely passed the House by a couple of votes.
He said if the court chooses to rule on Obamacare any way other than his – it will be exhibiting “judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint.”
He continued, “The point I was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it’s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the court has traditionallyexercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature.”
At the Washington Post,Josh Hicks wrote, “Many of the right-leaning legal experts we talked to acknowledged that the modern Supreme Court has largely – but not entirely – shown deference to Congress when it comes to such matters. But some noted that the court has shown no such restraint when deciding whether statutes involve commerce in the first place.”
He explained, “Critics of the health law say the insurance mandate represents an entirely unique form of economic regulation that potentially warrants a new legal precedent.”
He concluded it wouldn’t be ‘necessarily true” that a court decision to reject Obamacare “would be acting in extreme fashion.”
“Some would say that invalidating an economic regulation isn’t extraordinary at all,” he said.
Obama campaign, DNC accused of voter fraud in 2008
PHOENIX – Based on interviews WND conducted with insiders in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to expand the scope of his law enforcement investigation into President Obama’s eligibility to include evidence and affidavits documenting alleged criminal activity by the Obama campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party primary race.
Hollywood film producer Bettina Viviano and Hollywood-based digital photographer Michele Thomas have given Arpaio’s investigators the names of dozens of Hillary Clinton supporters willing to come forward with evidence and affidavits. Among their claims is that the Clintons were the first to charge Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution and that his birth certificate is a forgery.
Moreover, the Hillary supporters identified by Viviano and Thomas have argued that the pattern of questionable and possibly illegal activity suggests that the alleged act of producing forged birth certificate documentation for Obama may have been merely more of the same.
As WND reported, Viviano claims she heard Bill Clinton say that Obama is not eligible to be president.
Arpaio has insisted his investigation into Obama’s birth certificate and his eligibility to be president is not a partisan investigation. It was triggered, he noted, by a petition presented to him in August signed by some 250 members of the Surprise Tea Party in Surprise, Ariz.
Arpaio said he began the investigation with the goal of proving Obama’s birth certificate legitimate.
“I feel very strongly as the constitutional, chief law enforcement officer for this county,” Arpaio told the Tea Party audience. “I wanted to do everything to clear the president of the United States. I wanted to be the guy who stood up here and said that birth certificate is legitimate – leave the president alone. But it didn’t work out that way.”
As WND reported, at a press conference March 1 in Phoenix, Arpaio announced his investigators have probable cause to believe Obama’s birth certificate and his Selective Service Registration form are forgeries.
“The last I heard, if you forged documents, that’s a violation of law,” he quipped to the tea party audience. “If you did it, you’d be in trouble big time.”
Chaos in 2008
Viviano, working with screenplay writer and director Gigi Gaston, produced in 2008 a documentary, “We Will Not Be Silenced,” based on interviews from participants in Democratic Party primary caucuses. They accuse the Obama administration of illegitimate and illegal acts, including threats, intimidation, lies, stolen documents, falsified documents and busing in voters in exchange for meals.
“This documentary is about the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign,” Gaston and Viviano write on the “We Will Not Be Silenced 2008 website, which features a 40-minute preview of the documentary.
“We want to be heard and let the country know how our party has sanctioned the actions of what we feel are Obama Campaign ‘Chicago Machine’ dirty politics. We believe this infamous campaign of ‘change’ from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.”
Arpaio’s investigation has already uncovered evidence of intimidation by Obama supporters in an attempt to suppress media coverage of the birth certificate and eligibility issues.
Irregularities: Prematurely taking precinct convention packets by the Obama campaign;
Voter intimidation: Lockout of Clinton caucus goers by the Obama campaign; and
Obama supporters filling out precinct convention sign-in sheets during the day and submitting them as completed vote totals at caucuses, a practice explicitly forbidden by Democratic Party rules.
The Clinton memo characterized the Obama campaign caucus practices as “undemocratic, probably illegal,” reflecting “a wanton disregard for the caucus process.”
Hillary: continuing threat to Obama
In the 2010 mid-term elections, the blue-collar voters who supported Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign abandoned the Democratic Party led by Obama.
A Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll after the November 2010 elections showed Democrats’ support from white, non-college-educated male voters dropped 12 percent from 2008, with only 29 percent of blue-collar men supporting the Democrats in 2010, down from 41 percent in 2008, as reported by TheHill.com.
Last November, prominent Democratic pollsters Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen, published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal suggesting Obama should abandon his candidacy for re-election, stepping aside for “the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
Conceding that even with an all-time-low job approval rating and even worse ratings on handling the economy, Obama could “eke out” a victory in November 2012, Caddell and Schoen argued that the type of campaign required for Obama’s “political survival would make it almost impossible for him to govern – not only during the campaign, but throughout a second term.”
The PUMA P.A.C. that emerged to oppose Obama and support Hillary in 2008 remains in existence. It describes itself as “a burgeoning group of bloggers, writers and citizens who are joining together to fight back against the corrupt leadership of the DNC, their ‘chosen’ candidate and the mainstream media that enables them.”
The Obama campaign appears to have gained at least a temporary advantage among women, after charging that GOP presidential candidates, including Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, are “hostile to women” for their stand on contraceptives, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released this week.
According to the poll, Obama’s biggest advantage rests with women under 50, with six in 10 supporting him. Romney’s support in that demographic dropped to 30 percent, giving Obama a 2-to-1 advantage.
Obama administration senior officials confirmed Monday that Clinton will not campaign for Obama to avoid making her position as secretary of state appear political, according to the Huffington Post.
Clinton previously announced she plans to leave the State Department at the end of Obama’s current term.
byJerome R. CorsiEmail | ArchiveJerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Where's the REAL Birth Certificate?"
If health care gets tossed, Limbaugh doesn't expect pretty picture
If the U.S. Supreme Court tosses out Obamacare, radio giant Rush Limbaugh predicts President Obama will blame Republican justices, whose homes might become the target of political protest.
“Obama’s gonna make tracks for the first microphone and camera and he’s going to say something like this,” Limbaugh said this afternoon.
“‘For 60 to 75 years, we have been struggling to achieve fairness and justice for all people in this country, not just the privileged few. We’ve recognized that the way health care has existed in this country is emblematic of the injustice and the discrimination that has defined this country since its beginning. And look what happened. Republican judges just took away your health care. Republican judges just decided you were about to get too big a piece of the pie. Republican judges determined that you’re not important enough to have health care.’ And then he’ll throw in, ‘We’ve seen similar struggles since the days of Jim Crow’ or throw in some identifier, throw in some code word. And then he’ll relate the loss of health care to civil-rights battles that have occurred. And he’ll do this in his best professorial voice. And he in the process will be lighting another fuse.”
Once Obama finishes his assault on the GOP-appointed members of the bench, he says leftist “sycophants will hit the trail and we will hear slogans like ‘We shall overcome the court.’
“Then his buddies at the Daily Beast will start writing columns that the judges who voted to overturn it need to be impeached. Where they live will be discovered and publicized. And just as the Democrats sent Occupy people and union people up to the homes of the executives at AIG, so too might they do this to various judges, justices and so forth.
While Limbaugh said every event may not occur, he added. “I guarantee you there will be, with all the rest of this, a defiance [of] ‘Why do we have to listen to them anyway? … Why? They keep their health care. They didn’t get rid of their own, but they just got rid of yours,’ and it’s off to the races for the 2012 presidential election. That’s what’s going to happen.”
Yesterday, Limbaugh said President Obama was threatening Supreme Court justices with his comments about his signature health-care law.
Obama had said: “I think the American people understand and I think the justices should understand that, in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with pre-existing conditions can actually get health care.”
“Obama’s put a bounty out on the Supreme Court, figuratively speaking, since bounties are in the news lately. There’s no question,” said Limbaugh. “This is a message to the conservative justices: Anthony Kennedy, look what you will be taking away if you strike down my law. Look at the people you will be hurting if you strike down my law.”
Even if media won't cover it, sheriff plans to spread word of eligibility scandal
“Is CBS here? ABC?” asked Brian Reilly of Arizona’s Surprise Tea Party. “How about ‘conservative’ Fox, are they here? They’re nowhere to be seen.”
Reilly was referring to the distinct lack of press at a press conference held over the weekend – and opened to the public – on investigative findings suggesting Barack Obama presented a forged birth certificate to the nation as “proof” of his eligibility to be president.
“The reason we’re here,” Reilly continued, “is because the media is not covering this particular topic.”
As WND reported, Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse announced at an earlier press conference that there is probable cause indicating the documents released by the White House last April purported to be Obama’s original, long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration card are actually forgeries.
But with the mainstream media’s refusal to give due attention to the investigation’s findings, Reilly, Arpaio and others involved with the Cold Case Posse met again at the Church on the Green in Surprise, Ariz., on March 31 to begin spreading the news by “word of mouth.”
Most of the event’s information was already presented in earlier press conferences, but now Arpaio is working to get the news out, without or without the media’s help.
“I’m just doing what I took an oath of office to do,” Arpaio told the crowd assembled at the church. “The media won’t print it.”
byDrew Zahn Email | ArchiveDrew Zahn is a former pastor who cut his editing teeth as a member of the award-winning staff of Leadership, Christianity Today's professional journal for church leaders. He is the editor of seven books, including Movie-Based Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching, which sparked his ongoing love affair with film and his weekly WND column, "Popcorn and a (world)view."More
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