Posted in Constitution, Obama, Second Amendment
Second Amendment advocates are warning that Americans who hold “alternative views” could be declared mentally ill and have their firearms seized as President Obama announced a raft of new gun control measures.
Columnist Jeff Edwards notes that, “American citizens, through mere suspicion by the government, could be denied a constitutional right.”
Highlighting California’s already stringent gun laws, under which a judge can order cops to seize someone’s firearms on mere suspicion alone, Edwards fears that Obama’s new control push could lead to Americans with divergent political beliefs being disarmed.
“If given the authority, how many people of the far right political persuasion would progressives label as “domestic terrorists”? How many people concerned about the expansion of government would be labeled “crazy” because they hold alternative views?” asks Edwards, adding that a person who spends $5,000 dollars on a weapons collection could be “deemed crazy by a judge”.
For years, some Americans have been designated mentally ill for holding certain political beliefs and in certain cases have had their firearms seized as a result.
In 2012, former Marine Brandon Raub was involuntarily detained for psychiatric questioning after he left anti-establishment posts on Facebook which complained about corruption within the U.S. government.
Raub’s lawyer John Whitehead noted at the time that there were 20,000 recent cases in Virginia alone of people being snatched from their homes having been declared mentally defective by the state with virtually no due process whatsoever and with the victim having committed no crime.
Earlier the same year, David Sarti, one of the participants in the National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Prepper show, visited his doctor complaining of chest pains, only to have the doctor later commit him to a psychiatric ward and alert authorities.
Sarti was subsequently declared “mentally defective” and put on an FBI list that stripped him of his second amendment rights.
As Breitbart reports, under the “mental health” aspects of Obama’s new executive gun control plan, Social Security beneficiaries who are incapable of managing their own finances would also be prohibited from possessing a firearm.
“This means that information on beneficiaries who meet the criteria of mental impairment–demonstrated in part by an inability to manage their own benefits–will be added to the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) so that the beneficiaries cannot buy a gun,” writes Awr Hawkins.
Under Obama’s “common sense” gun restrictions, health care providers will also have the power to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system without the consent of patients and without legal ramifications.
Posted in Government, Obama
ww.infowars.com/heres-how-obama-plans-to-unilaterally-curb-your-second-amendment-rights/They cover four areas: Expanding the background check system, increasing the role of the ATF, increasing there reporting and treatment of mental health disorders, and promoting smart gun technology.
Background Check System:
Dealers that make a living by buying and selling firearms, whether from a storefront, on the Internet or at gun shows, must be licensed and conducting background checks.
Those who purchase weapons through trusts, corporations and other legal entities will require background checks.
He will increase staff to make the background check system more effective.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
The president proposes expanding the role of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in an effort to enforce gun laws, and is asking for a budget increase for an additional 200 ATF agents for this purpose. He also wants ATF agents to track illegal gun sales through a proposed Internet Investigation Center.
Mental Health:
The president will Increase mental health treatment and reporting to the background check system, including:
One, “dedicate significant new resources to increase access to mental health care,” including a $500 million budget increase for this purpose.
Two, “include information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
And third, to “remove unnecessary legal barriers preventing States from reporting relevant information to the background check system.”
Smart Gun Technology:
Finally, the president proposes that the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security increase the research into gun safety technology such as smart guns and promote its use.
Posted in Constitution, Obama, Second Amendment
During the call White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch explained the details of the order, which will be announced publicly by President Obama Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. The action, officials explained, would include guidance on how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will now determine who is “engaged in the business” of selling firearms under federal law and, therefore, who is required to obtain a license to sell firearms.
“ATF will make clear that whether you are ‘engaged in the business’ depends on the facts and circumstances,” Jarrett said. “On factors such as: whether you represent yourself as a dealer, such as making business cards or taking credit card statements. Whether you sell firearms shortly after they’re acquired or whether you buy or sell in the original packaging.”
“Numbers are relevant. The ATF and DOJ did not identify a magic number of weapons that makes you engaged in the business because that would limit their ability to bring prosecution.”
Posted in Communism, Obama, Second Amendment
REPOSTED FROM TRUMPSTUMP 2016
During a CNN interview Donald Trump discussed guns. Specifically he talked about a possible executive action that would restrict the sale of guns. Trump said that President Obama’s action would be another step toward completely stripping away US gun rights.
“Pretty soon you won’t be able to get guns. I mean, it’s another step in the way of not getting guns,” Trump said.
Trump has already vowed to reverse any executive actions related to guns the President may take, and went on to further pan the general concept of Presidents effecting policy change without Congress. “It’s supposed to be negotiated,” Trump said of federal law. “You’re supposed to cajole, get people in a room. You’re supposed to deal with them. You have Republicans. You have Democrats. You have all these people — they get elected to do this stuff. And you’re supposed to get together and pass a law.”
Trump went on to say the President was too lazy to do the job properly. “He doesn’t want to do that because it’s too much work,” Trump added. “He doesn’t want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf. You try and get it done … He’s been away for two weeks playing golf, OK? He’s not exactly trying very hard to get it done.”
According to several sources such as the Washington Post, the President is set to meet today with the Attorney General to finalize his executive action. Early sources have said the executive order would require some unlicensed gun dealers to get licenses and conduct background checks on potential buyers.
Trump has suggested that the focus should be on mental health, “the people that actually pull the trigger on the gun.”
For comparison of executive orders issues by Presidents: FDR issues 3,522, Truman 907, Reagan 381, GW Bush 291, and as of August 2015 President Obama had issued 216 executive orders.
FEC guidelines prohibit personal use of unspent PAC and campaign money. Punishment for violating the prohibition on personal use ranges from hefty fines to possible imprisonment. The money can be used as a contribution to charity or donated to the national party committee.
Democrat FEC Chairwoman Ann Ravel believes Reid has a right to the money due to his status as a “historic” and “important figure and public official.”
“This is applicable to a person who has been the majority leader for many years, who has performed an important function in our government for many years, who probably during that time had so much to do that he was unable to do some of the things that’s necessary, not only for the winding down of the office but also to be able to communicate to the American public as an important figure and public official, not necessarily as just a person who’s been there a couple of years and is trying to make personal use of their campaign funds,” Ravel said.
Posted in Politics
“Hillary said that guns don’t keep you safe. If she really believes that she should demand that her heavily armed bodyguards quickly disarm!” Trump said Sunday in a Twitter post.
As a former First Lady and now as a presidential candidate, Clinton has had the protection of armed Secret Service guards. She also has a long record of favoring gun control, and in October said if elected president she’ll take executive action to curb gun sales, involving restrictions on people regarded as dangerous.
President Barack Obama is expected to issue executive orders this week to place more restrictions on gun sellers. Trump has said if elected president he would immediately veto or “unsign” any executive action on guns that violated the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
As Obama continues with his plan to use executive action to enact gun control measures, Smith & Wesson, one of the largest gun manufacturers in the country, has announced that sales are through the roof.
Business Insider reports:
Management just announced it was raising its guidance because sales have been so strong.
For the three months ending January 31, it estimates it had $175 million to $180 million in sales, up from its earlier guidance of $150 million to $155 million. This new guidance is much higher than the $155 million expected by analysts.
Earnings per share are estimated to come in at $0.39 to $0.41 per share, which is way above the $0.27 to $0.29 it previously saw. Analysts were only expecting $0.29.
Drew McCoy@DrewMTips 15 hours ago
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/684148545172168705 …pic.twitter.com/zY6Mnq2W9L
Indeed, 2015 shattered previous records for gun sales, as the FBI processed a record number of firearms-related background checks.
Over 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.
For eight months on the trot May to December in 2015, the background check figures broke records.
In December alone there were 3,314,594 checks, which constitutes an increase of more than half a million checks over the previous single-month record set in December 2012.
“A day has not gone by without a major media assault on gun rights or an Obama administration call for new additional restrictions on gun ownership,” said Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. “Americans have voted with their dollars and bought record levels of guns and ammunition.”
On Monday, the Obama administration announced that Obama’s impending executive order could ensure that even those selling just one firearm will have to obtain a Federal Firearms License.
The order will also resurrect a plan to prevent many Social Security recipients from buying guns, a move that could see millions of Americans barred from legally owning firearms.
Nevertheless, Obama said he is “confident” that new gun control measures will not violate the Second Amendment.
“The good news is that these are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority, and the executive branch, but they’re also ones that the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners, support and believe in,” Obama said.
Meanwhile, Obama’s Press Secretary once again cited misleading statistics on gun violence to get the point across.
@EmilyMiller @PressSec or include the justified shootings , which get added as well
While he claimed that there are 30,000 gun deaths a year in the US, Josh Earnest neglected to point out that 20,000 are those are suicides, and that justified shootings, and gang related shootings are also lumped in with those figures.
@EmilyMiller @PressSec or include the justified shootings , which get added as well
@EmilyMiller @PressSec promote the agenda and adjust the facts to match the narrative. It works because not enough people call BS.
GOP presidential contender Rand Paul reacted to the announcements on executive gun control by saying he will “fight Obama tooth and nail” on the issue.
“The Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights and it is as important as the rest of the Bill of Rights. It is not some odd duckling out there. And the media, I don’t think, would be reporting Obama’s actions the same way if, by executive order, he was going to make journalists register.” Paul told Breitbart News.
“In fact, if Obama was planning infringement of the First Amendment, the media would be going crazy. But we should never let any president abbreviate any part of the Bill of Rights. No matter what amendment it is, we should never allow it to be abbreviated by executive order.” Paul added.
The Libertarian leaning Senator has introduced legislation that would render any action on gun legislation by the president which circumvents Congress as “advisory only” in nature.
Posted in 2016 Election, Obama, Second Amendment
Treason has been going on but not a peep from any source I read
regarding mosques, not even congress knows? There are so many marks of
treason against Obama I don’t understand how he has survived this long
with not even a slap on the hand. We are surrounded by the Muslim
enemies that have taken over DC. How can this be????
I can’t confirm any of this is true but sure wish someone honest and
reliable would investigate.
REPOSTED FROM TOTHEDEATHMEDIA.COM
A Kansas City mosque owned by an Islamic umbrella organization with deep ties to the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the past several years, according to a federal spending database.
The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City has received $2,739,891 from the Department of Agriculture since 2010, a Daily Caller analysis has found. The money largely went to the mosque’s Crescent Clinic to provide services through the Women, Infant and Children nutrition program, known as WIC.
The most recent federal payment — in the amount of $327,436 — was handed out Oct. 1.
Property records show the mosque is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which acts as a financial holding company for Islamic organizations. It offers sharia-compliant financial products to Muslim investors, operates Islamic schools and owns more than 300 other mosques throughout the U.S.
Founded in 1973 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Muslim Students Association, NAIT’s most controversial connection is to the 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror financing cases. Along with other Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations like the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), NAIT was named a co-conspirator in the federal case but was not indicted.
At the Holy Land Foundation trial, evidence was presented that ISNA diverted funds from the accounts it held with NAIT to institutions linked to Hamas and to Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior Hamas leader.
Federal prosecutors introduced evidence in the case that “established that ISNA and NAIT were among those organizations created by the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood.” Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks drawn from ISNA’s account and deposited in the Holy Land Foundation’s account with NAIT were made payable to “the Palestinian Mujahadeen,” which is the original name for Hamas’ military wing.
While Hamas was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government in 1997 and is considered the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the larger Muslim Brotherhood is not itself designated as a terrorist group.
And while the Obama administration has largely remained agnostic towards the organization, the British government released a scathing report earlier this month noting that the Muslim Brotherhood remains supportive of Hamas and that much of its ideology and many of its tactics “are contrary to our values and have been contrary to our national interests and our national security.”
Some American politicians, such as Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seem to agree with that sentiment. Both Republicans introduced legislation this year to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
NAIT has other ties to the Holy Land Foundation case. Its newly-appointed executive director, Salah Obeidallah, was a founding member and former president of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, N.J.
In the 1990s, the imam at that mosque was Mohammad El-Mezain, a founding member of the Holy Land Foundation who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for helping fund Hamas. Obeidallah has said that he was not aware of El-Mezain’s terror funding activities.
In being owned by NAIT, the Kansas City organization is in company with numerous mosques with ties to known terrorists, terror sympathizers and fundamentalist Islamists.
Purportedly backed by money from Saudi Arabia and supporting a fundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, NAIT holds the deed to the Islamic Society of Boston, which operates the mosque attended by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the so-called Boston Marathon bombers.
It also controls the Islamic Center of San Diego, which was attended by Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two al-Qaeda members who helped fly American Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
According to a 2002 Newsweek investigation, members of the San Diego mosque helped the two terrorists obtain housing, driver’s licences and social security numbers. They claimed not to have known about the men’s terror plans.
NAIT also owns the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Fairfax Co., Va. — a known hotbed of terrorist activity. Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki served as imam at that location in 2001 and 2002. He was killed by an American drone in Yemen in 2011.
The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City has its own loose links to terrorist activities. The mosque made news earlier this year when it held the funeral for Nadir Soofi, one of the two jihadis who attempted to pull off a terrorist attack in Garland, Tex. Soofi, who was 34, and his accomplice, 30-year-old Elton Simpson, opened fire outside of an art exhibit featuring cartoons of Muhammad, but were killed by a security guard.
Both Soofi and Simpson attended the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix, which land deeds show is owned by NAIT.
That particular mosque posted $100,000 bond for Simpson following his 2010 arrest for lying to FBI agents about his plans to travel to Somalia to join a terrorist group. Simpson was given three years probation in that case.
The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City has also hosted Imam Khalid Yasin, an American-born convert to Islam, who has publicly supported sharia law and claimed that homosexuals should receive the death penalty.
As a May 2010 Yahoo! message board post shows, Yasin visited the Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City and other area mosques that month to hold a series of lectures and workshops about Islam.
That was nearly two years after Yasin touted the virtues of sharia law and capital punishment in a speech at a British mosque.
According to a journalist for The Telegraph, Yasin said that sharia law works because:
Then people can see, people without hands, people can see in public heads rolling down the street, people got [sic] their hands and feet from opposite sides chopped off and they see them crucified…they see people put up against the pole and see them get lashed in public they see it, and because they see it, it acts as a deterrent for them because they say I don’t want that to happen to me.
The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City did not respond to an email from TheDC seeking comment about its relationship with NAIT and for more information about its federal grants.
Several other Islamic organizations have received grants from the Department of Agriculture, the federal government’s spending database, USASpending.gov, shows. One is Ar-Razzaq mosque in Durham, N.C., which received nearly $820,000 in grants from 2011 to 2014. It does not appear to be affiliated with NAIT.
Fox News reported last year that NAIT itself has directly received $10,000 in farm subsidies since 1998 for all of the land that it owns. The subsidies were put on hold for several years following the organization’s involvement in the Holy Land Foundation case but resumed in 2011.
By: Devvy
January 4, 2026
NewsWithViews.com
A lawsuit was filed last month to keep constitutionally ineligible candidates, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal off the ballot in Vermont. Jindal dropped out of the race in November 2015 because nothing he said appealed to anyone, not to mention his horrific bungling as Governor of Louisiana:
• How Bobby Jindal Wrecked Louisiana, February 6, 2026
• How Bobby Jindal is leaving a budget mess for Louisiana’s next governor, February 12, 2026
There’s no need to rehash the entire history of all the lawsuits to keep the criminal impostor currently occupying the White House off the ballot in 2008 & 2012. A habitual liar who committed fraud against the people of this country with help from friends like Comrade Nancy Pelosi.
A fraud allowed to stand because of GUTLESS cowards sitting on the bench both at the state level and the U.S. Supreme Court. “We’re evading that one“. Clarence Thomas during a congressional hearing regarding presidential eligibility. Everyone, including Thomas, got a big laugh out of such a sickening admission that the U.S. Supreme Court was playing with the Constitution and bending over because of Barry Soetoro’s (Obama) skin color.
All the horror and misery heaped on this country since Marxist, Muslim Obama illegally took office could have been prevented in January 2009 by Republicans in the Outlaw Congress. But not one of them, not Ron Paul, Rep. Steve King [IA] or Sen. Jeff Sessions stood up for the Constitution. By not challenging Soetoro’s eligibility and stopping the electoral college vote every damn one of them is responsible for the destruction to this country by Barack Hussein Obama. Oh how he and that slug he’s married to must laugh themselves silly everyday for their good fortune. $70.5 MILLION dollars spent on vacations so far. [Get educated, read book: The Evolution and Destruction of the Original Electoral College]
We had a repeat of such cowardice in January 2013 by those constitution loving conservatives in the Outlaw Congress. Why? Because to find Soetoro ineligible would mean every bill he signed into “law” was null and void. Every treaty and every action he’s taken from troops dying for NOTHING in Iraq and Afghanistan to his favorite hobby, Executive Orders. It would mean “Justices” Elena Kagan (Kagan, Ginsburg acted ‘unethically and unlawfully’) and Sonia Sotomayor, who is a crook at the very least, are sitting on the Supreme Court illegally since old Barry is not legally the president. The very popular, Sen. Jeff Sessions, knew the big problems with Sotomayor and swept it under the rug:
• GOP Senators Ignore Sotomayor’s Criminal Activities, July 20, 2026
• Sotomayor’s Confirmation Vote Rescheduled - Here’s Why, July 22, 2026
• Justice Sotomayor: Tax Evasion, Perjury - What Did Obama Know & When?, April 23, 2026
All executed by an individual who usurped the office of president. You can’t tell me a whole lot of Republicans in the House didn’t know by 2012 Soetoro was ineligible. They let him get away with it in 2008 because of his skin color and sacrificed OUR country giving that stinking Marxist free reign to stomp in our faces. The worst from Obama is yet to come.
Most of the lawsuits to stop Obama were tossed by cowardly judges using the judicial hallucination called ‘standing’. If you would like to understand what happened, this is the most comprehensive analysis.
Millions of us had high hopes regarding lawsuits filed by Van R. Irion of the Liberty Legal Foundation in the State of Georgia. Please see this factual accounting. Kicked to the curb. Millions of us also had high hopes the Alabama Supreme Court would rent a bucket of guts that would finally bring this massive fraud to an end. That decision took almost a year. A decision defendants in the lawsuit below will surely use:
Alabama Supreme Court upholds decision to toss ‘birther’ lawsuit, Chief Justice Roy Moore dissents, March 21, 2026
“The Supreme Court majority upholding the lower court decision did not write an opinion, but justices Bolin and Bryan both wrote concurring opinions. Moore wrote a dissent, arguing the Alabama Secretary of State has a duty to investigate a presidential candidate’s qualifications. Bolin wrote that it was desirable to check the qualifications of each candidate and the Alabama Legislature should authorize certain investigative and related powers to the Secretary of State’s office to conduct such checks in the future, but he said for now, the office did not have the authority to engage in such checks.” Do take the time to read the article as Chief Justice Roy Moore’s opinion is very important. Here is the full decision.
A Secretary of State has no obligation to determine whether or not a candidate is eligible for the office they’re running for! Really? Not to do so is not only dereliction of duty, but absurd when you think about it.
I am not a lawyer, but I’ve been so blessed to have dear friends who are constitutional attorneys. They have taught me much. I predicted the very winnable Rodearmel v Clinton case would be thrown out of court because, and to this day I cannot fathom why not, Judicial Watch did not go after Clinton using the Quo Warranto remedy. Hillary Clinton usurped the office of Secretary of State, no question.
I predicted the recall effort against another crook, Sen. Robert Menendez would fail. It did: Sen. Menendez Recall Killed by NJ Supreme Court
My coverage of a new case regarding eligibility will no doubt bring more hate mail. Every time I’ve written a column focusing on why Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are constitutionally ineligible my email box is flooded with profanity laced emails from their supporters who say they don’t care anymore. Cruz supporters yell at me in emails I’m nothing but a ‘birther troll’. The most important thing is to get one of them in the White House - particularly Ted Cruz. Desperation is NOT acceptable as justification for further shredding the U.S. Constitution.
Do read: Cruz Says ‘If Obama Can Do It, So Can I’ - One point about that excellent column - Cruz won’t talk about his eligibility, but he is following Obama’s deceitful game book: Ted Cruz Cracks to Press: ‘I Am Secretly a Citizen of Ethiopia’, August 23, 2026
H. Brooke Paige vs State of Vermont Secretary of State James Condos is the new filing. The complaint is here; 45 pages. This lawsuit is pro se (plaintiff has no attorney), but Paige did a very good job of putting his argument together along with supporting exhibits. Paige is collecting petition signatures to get on the primary ballot. I’m guessing to get around the phony ‘standing’ issue.
You can be sure two things are going to happen in Paige’s case: (1) Standing will be challenged and (2) like so many other decisions by gutless cowards wearing black robes, the argument will be made it’s not the job of a Secretary of State to verify eligibility. Really? I guess anyone can simply send in a form and get on a ballot for any office no matter who they are or even if they meet requirements for that office. Unfortunately no one challenged Cruz here in Texas. This one got by most of us: Ted Cruz is in the U.S. Senate Illegally?
On page 14 of his complaint, Paige cites four candidates who were allowed on the ballot in 2012 who had ZERO eligibility qualifications. Nothing shocks me anymore, but that one sure did. Which brings me around to the very beginning of challenging eligibility of the fraud in the White House.
Leo Donofrio filed the first challenge in October 2008 against Nina Mitchell Wells, New Jersey Secretary of State. Leo is a lawyer, although he no longer practices. After what was done to him he decided to suspend his license and get on with life. The deliberate and malicious shenanigans pulled by U.S. Supreme Court clerks should have gotten them fired at the very least, but of course, no action was ever taken.
Clarence Thomas distributed Leo’s case for conference, but as Thomas so jovially said, “We’re evading that one”. It costs a ton of money, not to mention time, to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court. They should have simply put a notice on the official U.S. Supreme Court web site back in December 2008: Don’t waste your money. We will not take on Obama’s eligibility because his skin is black and we’re afraid there might be riots. That’s what it all boiled down to back then.
The Supreme Court wasn’t the only dirty dealer: JustiaGate: ‘Natural Born’ Supreme Court Citations Disappear, December 14, 2025
“Did Justia.com deliberately aid Barack Obama in 2008 by helping to hide the one legal case that might prevent him from legally qualifying for the presidency? On October 20, 2011, New Jersey attorney Leo Donofrio accused online legal research behemoth Justia.com of surgically redacting important information from their publication of 25 U.S. Supreme Court opinions which cite Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 decision which arguably contains language that appears to disqualify anyone from presidential eligibility who wasn’t born in the country to parents who were citizens.”
Sickening. The article above gives a blow by blow account of more blatant dishonesty - all to protect a malignant narcissist and one of the most accomplished liars ever to occupy the White House next to Bill & Hill Clinton - Barry Soetoro aka Obama.
Leo had all of his filings on his web site, but I don’t see them anymore. However, his site is a treasure trove on this legal issue, historical facts on this legal issue and much more. While writing this column I went back to December 2008 and was once again amazed by Leo’s work. I know, it’s a massive amount of information that is ‘old history’. But, in order to get full understanding of something like this which is history, you have to go back to the beginning.
Early in this column I mentioned a case in the State of Georgia. Leo submitted an Amicus Brief for that case, January 23, 2012. It is thorough and succintly sums up the entire argument whether or not Barry Soetoro was constitutionally eligible to run for president. The clear answer is NO. Here is that brief. Even though I knew most of what’s in it, I read it. Approximately 55 pages; the rest is exhibits.
Which brings us back to this new lawsuit. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clearly are not constitutionally eligible to run despite the opinion of those who willfully choose to ignore the facts. I know both have received a substantial number of polite snail mail letters as well as emails telling them they are not eligible and why. Not one person I know has received any response including yours truly. I must say Marco Rubio is quite puppet like. He’s very good at robotically rattling off his spiel, but I don’t believe he’s very intelligent. But, he’s smart enough to know at this point in time he’s not eligible.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is no dummy. Princeton, Haavard Law Review, Haavard Law grad, former Solicitor General for the State of Texas among other achievements. He’s a championship debater which accounts for his smooth and practiced delivery during the GOP debates. But, Cruz is very ambitious which is one of the reasons I don’t like or trust him. I know, he’s very popular with millions of Republicans. What I don’t respect is someone who has to know by now he’s not eligible to run for president thumbing his nose at the U.S. Constitution for personal gain. Like it or not, it’s what I believe because Ted Cruz is just too smart not to understand what Leo Donofrio wrote in the Amicus Brief I cited above.
Since both Cruz and Rubio are not going to man up and drop out, there is something you can do to clip their wings. The GOP convention is July 18-21, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. A friend of mine was able to secure me a pass to attend the 2008 GOP Convention in St. Paul, MN. The first couple of days delegates spent a lot of time in meetings behind closed doors. Watching Saint Sarah Palin on stage was not pleasant for me as I have never liked her; she sure as hell was not qualified for VP who is one heart beat away from the Oval Office. I am going to try to cover Cleveland if I can secure a pass and find the money.
The purpose of that convention is to nominate the party’s choice for president. That is done by delegates. If you want Donald Trump to win the nomination he is going to need every delegate possible. Keeping Cruz and Rubio from getting the nomination requires delegates to vote against him.
NOW is the time to try and become a delegate so you can attend the convention. Otherwise, the GOP elites are going to use every dirty trick in the book as they did against Ron Paul in 2008 to keep Trump from winning the nomination. Money is betting Rubio since he’s a player and it appears the cardboard cut-out, Jeb! couldn’t win a race for city council. If the majority of delegates are run of the mill party hacks you can expect the ‘establishment’ to shove their candidate down your throat so you can hold your nose and vote this November. Aren’t Republicans fed up with that game yet?
How do you become a delegate? This site deals with 2012, but has contact information for every state in the Union for GOP leaders. Hold your nose if you have to, but if you can, make the effort.
As for Paige’s lawsuit, will he prevail? Everyone knows the massive implications if Cruz and Rubio were to be kept off the ballot in any state: The criminal impostor in the White House should also have been keep kept off the ballot in any state in 2008 and 2012. Since Obama should not have been on the ballot, no one had the ‘right’ to vote for him. Is there a single judge in the State of Vermont with the courage to rule for the truth?
I guess we’ll see if Paige’s lawsuit is thrown out or allowed to proceed. Paige was assisted by constitutional attorney Mario Apuzzo in putting together his complaint. That is great; Mario’s web site is item 1 below. He has written extensively on this issue and been involved in earlier lawsuits. While I hate to say it, I predict the lawsuit will be thrown out. I would be ecstatic to be wrong, believe me.
Important reads:
1 - A Citizen is One Thing, But a Natural Born Citizen is Another
2 - Is Being Born a Citizen (Citizen at/by Birth) of the United States of Sufficient Citizenship Status to be President of the United States and Commander in Chief of Our Military? The Founders and Framers Emphatically Decided … No, It Was Not!
3 - The U.S. Supreme Court Should Be Impeached
4 - Finally: Federal Judge Slams ‘Standing’
[Just a short note about 9/11 and Smart Electric Meeters. The cost of America’s undeclared “war” (invasion) in Afghanistan has now reached $1 trillion borrowed dollars - massive debt heaped on us all based on what happened on 9/11. Regular readers of my column know I continue to press for the truth about the events of 9/11. Military grade nanothermite is not a conspiracy theory. It was found and tested from the rubble at the twin towers. A new, powerful film has been released: The Anatomy of a Great Deception. For full disclosure I receive no compensation, but I want you to get a copy (or a few) and share it with others or give a copy as a present. I’ve purchased half a dozen copies and given them to individuals I believe seek the truth. It’s very powerful simply because it’s one ‘ordinary’ man’s story who ask a simple question that led him to a not so simple journey. There is factual information in this film that many have never heard about but everyone should. Just a suggestion, order more than one and give one to a friend. Also, must see video on the dangers of Smart Meeters on your home, titled: Take Back Your Power.]
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Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and President Obama on Monday during a meeting with top law enforcement officials to discuss what executive actions he can take to curb gun violence. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
By David Nakamura and Juliet Eilperin January 4 at 7:37 PM
The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a series of new executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence and making some political headway on one of the most frustrating policy areas of President Obama’s tenure.
The package, which Obama plans to announce Tuesday, includes 10 separate provisions, White House officials said. One key provision would require more gun sellers — especially those who do business on the Internet and at gun shows — to be licensed and would force them to conduct background checks on potential buyers. Obama would devote $500 million more in federal funds to treating mental illness — a move that could require congressional approval — and require that firearms lost in transit between a manufacturer and seller be reported to federal authorities.
At the president’s direction, the FBI will begin hiring more than 230 additional examiners and other personnel to help process new background checks 24 hours, seven days a week. Also, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has established a new investigation center to keep track of illegal gun trafficking online and will devote $4 million and additional personnel to enhance the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.
“The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage, but they can’t hold America hostage. We can’t accept this carnage in our communities,” Obama said in a Twitter message Monday evening, referring to the National Rifle Association.
The president is scheduled to talk about his new policies in the East Room on Tuesday, and he will participate in a town hall at George Mason University two days later that will be televised on CNN.
Even before Obama’s official announcement, however, Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail blasted the actions, and some gun rights advocates threatened to challenge them in court.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) issued a statement Monday saying that even without knowing the plan’s details, “the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will. . . . This is a dangerous level of executive overreach, and the country will not stand for it.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Monday that he and his colleagues would “be taking a deep look at the president’s proposals, with an eye toward ensuring that the Second Amendment is preserved.”
Although modest compared to any legislation that Congress could adopt, Obama’s executive actions will affect areas such as how the federal government might leverage its purchasing power to advance “safe gun” technology as well as what information federal and local law enforcement will share on individuals who are illegally trying to purchase weapons.
The president, who went over the initiatives in the Oval Office on Monday with administration officials including Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and FBI Director James B. Comey, said inaction by Congress in the wake of several high-profile mass shootings and other gun-related violence justified his decision.
“And although it is my strong belief that for us to get our complete arm around the problem Congress needs to act, what I asked my team to do is to see what more we could do to strengthen our enforcement” to curb illegal gun sales, Obama said in brief remarks to reporters after the meeting. “And the good news is, is that these are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority and the executive branch, but they’re also ones that the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners, support and believe in.”
One of the main provisions is new federal guidance requiring some occasional gun sellers to get licenses from the ATF and conduct background checks on potential buyers. Rather than set a single threshold for what triggers this licensing requirement, it will be based on a mix of business activities such as whether the seller processes credit cards, rents tables at gun shows and has formal business cards.
In some cases, officials said, a person who sells a single gun could be required to get a license, though in other cases, sellers who are classified as hobbyists or collectors could still qualify for exemptions.
A recent survey of more than 2,000 gun owners by Harvard University researchers found that of those who purchased their most recent firearm, about a third did not undergo a background check.
In a conference call with reporters, Lynch said the administration could not estimate how many more people would be affected by the new licensing provisions. She said gun sales are increasingly moving online and into largely unregulated areas of the “dark Web” where illicit activities take place in hidden transactions.
“The industry is shifting and growing,” she said. “If it does stop one act of violence, this will be worth it.”
Other aspects of the president’s plan aim to bolster the FBI’s background checks system, including a push by the U.S. Digital Service to modernize its processing operations and a proposal to add 200 new ATF agents and investigators to bolster enforcement.
Obama will instruct federal agencies, which collectively represent the nation’s largest firearms purchaser, to “explore potential ways” to promote technology that would prevent the accidental discharge or unauthorized use of a gun, according to White House officials.
Another measure will require federally licensed gun dealers to report any lost and stolen guns to the National Crime Information Center. Over the past five years, according to the White House, an average of 1,333 guns recovered in criminal investigations each year were traced back to a seller that claimed the weapon was missing but did not report it to authorities.
“This is a broad set of actions that tackles a variety of the issues related to gun violence,” said Arkadi Gerney, a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, “and in combination it represents a comprehensive effort to strengthen the laws we already have on the books.”
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Although the number of mass shootings in the United States has risen in recent years, overall gun violence is at lower levels than in previous decades. Obama, however, emphasized that gun deaths in the United States remain higher than in other developed countries in almost every category, including suicides.
“And although we have to be very clear that this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country, it’s not going to prevent every mass shooting, it’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal,” he said, “it will potentially save lives and spare families the pain and the extraordinary loss they’ve suffered as a consequence of a firearm getting in the hands of the wrong people.”
Obama’s determination to act in his final year in office comes after he pledged last fall to make guns a political issue after a gunman killed 10 and wounded seven others at a community college in Roseburg, Ore. The president has made public statements after at least 16 mass shootings during his presidency, including the killing of 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., last month by a married couple, reportedly inspired by the Islamic State.
His administration failed to persuade lawmakers to approve tighter legislative controls on gun sales in 2013, in the wake of the December 2012 killings of 20 elementary school students in Newtown, Conn. After that, the president issued a series of 23 executive actions to tighten controls and increase safety preparations, and he added two more in subsequent years.
But the White House was moved to act again after the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. Administration lawyers have spent months reviewing various proposals to ensure that the redefinition of what it means to be “engaged in the business” of selling firearms can withstand legal challenges.
“The law has long been fuzzy, and the transition of gun sales away from brick-and-mortar stores to gun shows and the Internet requires the administration to clarify the definition,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who met with Obama along with other lawmakers on Monday. “By forcing more dealers at gun shows to run background checks, there will be less criminals that buy guns and less illegal guns sold on the streets of America.”
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in an interview Monday that it was “a historic step” that would subject thousands of gun sales each day to stricter scrutiny.
One dilemma for the Obama administration would be that a legal fight could put the executive actions on hold as a court deliberates, potentially dragging out the process until Obama leaves office next January. The president’s executive actions to defer the deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants, announced in 2014, have been held up in a legal battle that could head to the Supreme Court this spring.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they try,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, when asked whether gun rights advocates would mount a legal challenge, “but the arguments we could mobilize in a court of law would be powerful and persuasive.”
Obama’s plans already have resonated on the presidential campaign.
Every GOP presidential candidate who has spoken about Obama’s potential actions has vowed to reverse the executive order if elected president, underscoring the fragility of any initiative that has not won congressional approval.
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Speaking at a Christian bookstore Monday in Boone, Iowa, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) called the idea “illegal and unconstitutional,” a theme echoed by several of his colleagues in recent days.
On Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told an audience in Raymond, N.H., that Obama “has waged war on the Constitution.”
“You can pass all the gun laws in the world that you want,” he said. “It will not stop the criminals.”
But Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton applauded Obama during a campaign stop in Iowa on Monday, saying she would go even further as president, and White House officials remained confident that public opinion is on their side.
“We are dedicated to doing everything we can to get guns out of the wrong hands,” Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said. “We’ve talked to so many gun owners who don’t believe the NRA represents their views.”
Anne Gearan in Iowa and Katie Zezima and contributed to this report.
David Nakamura covers the White House. He has previously covered sports, education and city government and reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Japan.
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