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IMPEACH PRESIDENT OBAMAImpeach President Obama Before He Makes Deflation and the Greater Depression Worse. By Delwyn Lounsbury - THE DEFLATION GURU Impeach President Obama - he has violated his word, his oath of office, the Constitution, and thwarted the will of the people. Moreover, his SSN is stolen his birth certificate is a forgery and he has made it clear that he hates Israel and the free market business people of the United States of America. He is working to destroy the US Armed Forces as rapidly as possible and like a good community organizer (communizer) to raise a Marxist Nazi Para-military, brown shirt grass roots revolutionary fascist front, as fast as he can with the help of the left wing main stream progressive lying press. Don't wait to impeach President Obama until 2012 when the (entitlement to other people’s money - your money), welfare and food stamp masses will re-elect "Big Brother" socialist Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. Impeach President Obama before he makes thing worse. Like a one world government run by his friends the Anglo financial power elite - the Rothchilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Goldmans, Warburgs (banksters) and public leftist enemy number (1) one George Soros etc. in which we are told what to do, where to live, where to work and what to think forevermore like pawns in a game. Henceforth human history will name Barack Hussein Obama forevermore as "The Downgrade President." Impeach President Obama the person responsible when the United States debt credit rating was first downgraded from AAA to AA+ by Standard and Poor's rating agency. Obama's "progressive" policies of ruining our Constitution, bailouts, growth in size of government, new regulations, increases in spending and increases in the debt limit by some $8 trillion over the next ten years are the reason. Progressive and investment - the new code words being bandied around is covert communist code comrade by "Big Brother" Obama the socialist communist Marxist fascist Nazi - Textbook Communism 101. PS Investment = money wasted on pet pork projects never expected to provide people profit. His latest example cost $2 million for each job created. Huh? Rush Limbaugh is wont to call President Obama "Debt Man Walking." New evidence is emerging that Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro is using Social Security number 042684425 linked to Harrison J. Bonuel, Connecticut (deceased) and linked to 5046 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60615 - Obama's residence. The Obama administration runs a secret "kill list" of Americans to murder without any trial or due process? This has now been openly admitted and confirmed by the White House. The Obama administration recent killing of terorist Anwar al Alawki, a U.S. citizen, without due process is unconstitutional. Impeach President Obama he is not following our rules. That is sedition by President Obama. Obama is sanctioning killing of our citizens without naming the crime they committed. That is overthrowing the well-being of the nation. That is treason - impeach President Obama! First the definition of sedition and treason: Definition of Sedition Sedition means disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government. Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense. 2. See disloyalty. Definition of Treason Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government. Impeach President Obama, he is a rogue renegade out of control! Obama's policies: PRESIDENT OBAMA CONSPIRACYWhen it comes to President Obama - conpiracy is his middle name! President Obama is a rogue renegade and is out of control! Impeach President Obama! 1. Raising our taxes. 2. Bailing out car companies and his buddies on Wall Street. 3 Growing size of government and the number of new regulations 4. Spending like a drunken sailor. His "investments" are pure pork and covert communist code comrade for socialist big government spending on pet projects. 5. Shutting down all oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico even though a Federal Judge ruled that unconstitutional. 6. Weak foreign policy and even alienating Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel our only friend and ally in the Middle East. 7. The Obama Birth certificate forgery, fake and fraud. 8. Unconstitutional war in Libya not sanctioned by Congress. 9. Ramming the bloated ObamaCare (A wealth redistribution program where 16 percent of a free economy is put under pure socialism, rationing and the first step toward euthanasia) and ignoring two judges ruling it unconstitutional. 10. Ruling DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) unconstitutional - which is the Supreme Courts job or have Congress repeal it. Congress passed it by wide margins, by the way. 11. Murder martyr of Osama bin Laden - if they had him why execute 12. On 6/1/2011 his appointment of Jesse Lee as online media Czar to "Director of Progressive Media and Online Response" to combat unfavorable press and help his 2012 election campaign on the taxpayer's dime. 13. Obama War Powers Act sedition - not getting Congress approval for the Libya war. All are hastening deflation and the advance of deflation and the Greater Depression. His leftist socialist agenda is trending toward communism, Marxism and now Nazi-like fascism. ABSOLUTE OBAMA SEDITION TREASON AND TYRANNY! The dispatch of Osama bin Laden has diverted attention from Obama been forging of his latest birth certificate fraud fake forgery. If a Republican had done this much malfeasance - mark my words - he would have been tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. The liberal press just looks the other way while Obama continues to trample our Constitution. The Obama birth certificate controversy forgery fake fraud continues. See videos above from graphics designers and people who know their way around Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and CorelDraw. Document may have been pasted up in 9 to 24 layers, whiteout used and even some numbers don't look like the others. One story says it's built on someone else's 1961 certificate found on the internet. See the many botches on the Obama birth certificate forgery fake fraud. The progressive socialist, communist and Marxist President Barack Hussein Obama is now being eclipsed by the Nazi fascist Obama. A fascist beats business people and the military into submission and then runs right over the judicial and legislative and even his own executive branches of government. Now, he's into sedition and treason. I've got him on 6 counts of sedition (going against a nation’s judicial system, constitution as well as its other rules and regulations). Last week (March 2011), he trumped all his other malfeasance with treason toward our troops. Treason and sedition are pretty much the same thing, by the way. Anyway, in the federal government funding standoff, Obama was at first threatening to veto the whole thing and put the federal government and Washington out of work. Not once did he utter assurances to the brave men and women in the military that they would get their paychecks - no matter what. What a mean and cruel Barack Hussein Obama. Treason! No leadership ability. What a fraud. Barack Hussein Obama is a communist operative mole as President of the United States. Impeach Barack Hussein Obama! ASAP! Be sure to never elect this fraud again for any office. All this growth of government (socialism) is making business people feel insecure. No wonder they are not hiring or expanding. Obama's disobeying of U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson's ruling ObamaCare unconstitutional, his ruling the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional plus Obama's failure to produce a legal doctor signed long-form birth certificate require Articles of Impeachment be filed against him ASAP for the serious crime of SEDITION (20 years in jail plus fine - The Brown Act-look it up). The short-form certification of live birth he produced appears to be done on a laser jet printer (they were done by typewriter back on August 4, 1961-Obama's birth date), it is not signed by a doctor and it is dated June 6, 2007 on the back. The Obama birth certificate controversy fraud fake forgery continues with the release of his purported real long-form doctor-signed birth certificate on 5/26/2011. It is totally bogus and a forgery. See article at this website with 6 videos by graphics experts as they prove it is fraudulent. Obama has spent over $1 million blocking citizen lawsuits seeking to force him to prove his place of birth and that he is truly a “Natural Born Citizen.” WHICH HE IS NOT! Obama is either a British or an Indonesian citizen. Our Constitution and our liberty hang in the balance. If we don't all hang together on this we will all hang separately as a totalitarian government takes more and more control of our lives and those of our children and children’s, children. Think Hitler and Mussolini! Sedition is the going apart or against a countries rules, regulations, judicial system and constitution. "...prevent hinder or delay the execution of any law of the United States" the parties doing so it can be argued have engaged in a Seditious Conspiracy. Sedition carries a 20 year jail term and fine and for sure impeachment. Treason can have death sentence. Our founding fathers put safeguards in the Constitution to prevent another kingdom, aristocracy or dictatorship. Guess what Barack Hussein Obama is trying to do? Make us buy his health care only or be fined and possibly go to prison if we don't. Last year, Federal Judge Henry Hudsen ruled that the health care act was actually a tax. Obama had maintained that it was not a tax. Liar! Now, Judge Roger Vinson has ruled the individual mandate part of ObamaCare unconstitutional. The individual mandate is the requiring of us to buy only government health insurance and be fined if we don't buy it. Since there was no severability clause in the act, the whole Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – ObamaCare - is unconstitutional. The Leftist Democrats were in such a rush to grow the size of government (health care is 16 % of our economy) they forgot to ad a severability clause saying if one part of the bill was found to be unconstitutional the rest of the bill would continue. The United States Constitution does not force us to do something that we were not already doing. ObamaCare also exceeds Congress' interstate commerce powers. Judge Vinson bravely followed long standing precedent and centuries of case law in making his ruling. Everything this socialist Marxist totalitarian Obama does is tyranny. This is his fifth sedition by my count. The first is his refusal to furnish a legal long-form certificate of live birth and thereby prove he is really a U.S. citizen. The second was his defiance of a Federal Court order ruling he could not declare a drilling moratorium during the gulf oil well leak disaster. Obama ignored the judge and stopped all drilling in the gulf putting thousands of U.S. citizens out of work in the process. Now, Obama is directly disobeying another Federal Judge over the ObamaCare unconstitutional ruling. In February 2011, Obama in collusion with is Attorney General ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. That's the Supreme Courts job. Now, he is going back on his word to close the Guantanimo, Cuba terrorist prison and declaring war against Libya without complying with the War Powers Act and Resolution. Impeach President Obama for sedition and treason! In Obama's 9/19/2011, "Tax Speech," he spewed more Marxist class warfare and wealth redistribution calling for the job killing raising taxes on the rich. Obama loathes the idea of American exceptionalism and he wants to destroy the U.S. Constitution. No matter how bad deflation and the Greater Depression get in the coming years, we had better protect our Constitution or we will lose all our freedom and liberty. President Obama conspiracy - a fraud, liar, seditionist and now treasonous scoundrel! Copyright 2011 by Delwyn Lounsbury - THE DEFLATION GURU Use of this article allowed with attribution back to: http://www.deflationeconomy.com
IMPEACH PRESIDENT OBAMAImpeach President Obama (continued) As evidenced by the negative effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff passed back on June 17, 1930 that raised tariffs on 20,000 items imported into the U.S. This burden of the unknown causes business to freeze up, there by destroying an economy struggling with deflation. The President Obama support of wealth redistribution, bailouts, ObamaCare, ending the Bush tax cuts and beating up on businesses are not good for free enterprise. He has never been in a business and has no clue what's really needed to calm the nerves. Business owners have hiring, purchasing and expansion plans on hold. Already, several major German corporations are leaving the U.S. due to their fear of the power elite and the fines and sanctions being doled out by the Feds. Further evidence of his total disrespect for the people and the bad times America is going through was his decision to let his wife, Michelle, and daughter, Sasha (along with an entourage' of 40), vacation in Spain. Hundreds of thousand of dollars were thrown away in a foreign country that should have been spent here. Now, he plans a short vacation in the Gulf and an extended vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Why not just stay in the Gulf area? The oil leak ravaged Gulf needs the business. But, alas, the President Obama does not understand business and he never will really care about the people. Just their votes. Since President Barack Hussein Obama's father was a Muslim, the Muslim/Islamic world considers him a Muslim. To them the faith travels with the seed of the father. With the Jewish faith it travels through the mother. With Christians neither mother nor father has any custom of faith following gender. His father (Barack Obama Senior - deceased) was an anticolonialist and a socialist.. Obama Senior believed the U.S plundered and ripped off the third world by selfishly using up the worlds resources, bullying other countries around and dominating the planet. Obama Sr. was a philandering, alcoholic, African socialist who wanted to get even with both Britain and the United States. He also was in favor of state confiscation of private land and increased taxes with no upper limit. Like father - like son? Obama Sr's anticolonialist dreams are becoming our socialist, fascist, one-world-government nightmare thanks to his son Barack Hussein Obama Junior's Marxist ideas. President Obama's self written autobiography is titled, “DREAMS FROM MY FATHER”, so don't try and tell me otherwise. Note the title is dreams "from" not "of" my father. Dateline 11/10/2010 - Barack Hussein Obama and wife Michelle - Indonesia tour. Recently, an Indonesian diplomat was shaking Michelle Obama's hand with glee - now the shariah won't wash off. He grabbed her hand with both of his. Now he is saying, she made me do it. They are not allowed to touch another women that is not family. What kind of world do they live in - that women can not even shake hands? How can they even do business deals? Obama won't stand up for any women's rights in any Islamic countries. That follows a long sorry tradition of world leaders looking the other way when it comes to Muslim women’s rights and freedom. Oil is just too important for any bureaucrat to take a stand. That's the problem. You and I need to bang more on women's rights for the wronged Islamic women of the world. That would be one of the best ways for us to calm down the extremist militant Muslim situation – we need to win Muslim women over first. It's just stone age this Muslim shariah law and their brutal treatment and complete control of women. We need to wean off the oil teat and we need to speak out for these mistreated women. For women's rights sake and our economic survival, let's lobby to emancipate Muslim women from their bondage. Now, a new law signed by President Obama in Janurary of 2011 repeals the military don't ask - don't tell policy. It's the left's big drive to homosexualize the American military. Starting February 2011 our Marines (busy fighting Islamic fundamentalists around the world) will now receive classes about open gay lifestyle. This is craziness. This weakens our fighting forces. This is just another way President Barack Hussein Obama is working toward bringing America down.
_________________________________________________________ Dhimmitude in the Health Care Act. Two bills which combine to comprise the health care act - HR 3590 http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590as.txt.pdf and Hr 4872 http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590as.txt.pdf the religious exemption excerpted below is on pg 330 of 3590 ‘‘(A) RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE EXEMPTION.—Such term shall not include any individual for any month if such individual has in effect an exemption under section 1311(d)(4)(H) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which certifies that such individual is a member of a recognized religious sect or division thereof described in section 1402(g)(1) and an adherent of established tennets or teachings of such sect or division as described in such section. This Dhimmitude in the act is dumb on our bureaucrat legislator’s part. The idea was to cover everyone to get the cost spread out over as many as possible. Wasn't it? Again, none of the politicians joined the plan. Nor will the military, congress, the senate or Obama and all his cohorts in the federal government or research labs across the nation for that matter. Now, I hear some teachers unions are being granted exemptions also. Don't we need everyone possible to join the national healthcare to spread out the costs and risks? Impeach President Obama! Copyright 2011 by Delwyn Lounsbury – THE DEFLATION GURU Use of this article allowed with attribution back to: http://www.deflationeconomy.com
IMPEACH PRESIDENT OBAMAThe Anglo financial power elite owned mainstream press just looks the other way. Obama is absolutely part of the "Collectivist Conspiracy" plan by the 1,100 mega-rich central banking families of the world to create a one world government and one world currency. The Anglosphere elite's insidious plan is to control the whole world with an iron fist of totalitarian brutality as the middle class is robbed of it's wealth and power and all people are turned into slaves with no freedom or liberty whatsoever in a NEW DARK AGES. Is this what you want? He is the agent of the power elite in the destruction of the U.S. Constitution, the American economy and American freedom and liberty. Impeach President Obama! Obama Lies, Scandals, Corruption, Fraud and Withholding of Information. Let me count the ways. 1. Certified copy - original birth certificate instead of forgery 2. Columbia University transcripts 3. Columbia thesis paper 4. Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups 5. Harvard University transcripts 6. Illinois State Senate records 7. Illinois State Senate schedule 8. Law practice client list and billing records/summary 9. Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother 10. Medical records (only the one page summary released so far) 11. Occidental College Transcripts 12. Parent’s marriage Certificate 13. Record of baptism 14. Selective Service registration records (Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?) 15. Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007 16. Passport records for all passports 17. Scholarly articles written by Obama - none - Why? 18. SAT and LSAT test scores 19. Access to his grandmother in Kenya 20. List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists 21. Punahou school records (a private college prep school in Oahu) 22. Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education. 23. Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham's divorce decree missing. 24. Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents? 25. Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents? 26. Why is Obama Social Security Number originally issured to a man in Connecticut in 1890
27. Prosecutes CIA for defending country 28. Prosecutes Navy Seals for assaulting most wanted terrorist 29. Sestak quid pro quo 30. BP oil spill (does nothing for days)
31. Hides $17.5 billion "stimulus" in NJ 32. AmeriCorp firing in violation of federal law 33. Obama’s three places of birth and forged Hawaii COLB
34. Obama’s natural-born citizenship? 35. ACORN - relationship with Marxists 36. Clinton Foundation gave ACORN $250,000 37. VP Biden's daughter in cocaine bust 38. Biden brother and son named in offshore Ponzi scheme 39. Rahn Emanuel (too numerous to mention) 40. Obama presidential campaign accepted AIG donations 41. Freddie Mac scandals 42. Sen Chris Dodd, AIG bonuses, Countrywide insider deals 43. Gov Richardson-pay to play scandal (withdraws) 44. No. 2 at HUD Ron Sims (violates Public Records Act as Seattle area County exec) 46. Geitner - Tax cheat (confirmed) 47. Daschel - Tax cheat (withdraws) 48. Killefer - Tax cheat (withdraws) 49. DOL Secretary Solis - husband tax cheat (comfirmed)
Sen Burris lied about "pay to play" contacts
Auto rescuer appointee Steven Rattner (massive pay-to-play NY pension scandal) )(stepped down) Louis Caldera, White House Military Office (ousted for $357,000 flyover NYC) Green Czar Van Jones ousted - San/Fran Communist w/ arrest record.
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Summer of No Recovery - Article with Graphs CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY - NEW BOOK BY DAVID LIMBAUGH - A ReportCRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY - NEW BOOK BY DAVID LIMBAUGH After exhaustive research Limbaugh's book hit the shelves today 8/23/2010He found the following about President Barack Hussein Obama: 1. He is a fraud. He campaigned as a moderate. 2. He is a liar. 3. He deeply dislikes this country and plans to change it to fit his Marxist way of thinking. 4. He only appeases his enemies. He never shows firmness. 5. He is for unilateral disarmament which would weaken the U.S. 6. He is a narcissist - the only idol is himself. 7. He is willing to cram socialism and his programs down Americas throat even if it means no second term for him. 8. He is brazen and arrogant 9. His books show some intellect but were probably ghostwritten. 10. He has fooled his advisors into buying in to his superior intellect. 11. He wants a wealth distribution and socialism utopia. 12. He has purposely cultivated a messianic image. 13. He does not mind alienating the people 14. He is deeply racial 15. He is deceitful. 16. He caters to the lobbyists. 17. His healthcare bill was full of lies. 18. He said there would be transparency during his term and then didn't have a press conference for 300 days. 19. He said he would post the bills he was supporting with plenty of time for all to review. It's usually only 2 days. 20. He said he would be bipartisan - not true. 21. He is tone deaf when it comes to listening to others views. 22. He is grandiose. 23. He is grossly incompetent, dishonest, dogmatic, secretive, undemocratic, dictatorial, intolerant and dismissive of his opposition. He is the most destructive person ever in American politics after Franklin Delano Roosevelt and it has only been 19 months that he has been in office. The liberals are in control and everything is coming unglued. Socialism is economic death because it robs from the private sector. The private sector shrivels up and dies with all the life blood sucked out of it. The government is actually BANKRUPT. Impeach President Obama! How Obama Thinks - Dinesh D'Souza - Forbes
Impeach President ObamaARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA RESOLVED, That Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following article of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate: ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN USURPING THE EXCLUSIVE PREROGATIVE OF CONGRESS TO COMENCE WAR UNDER ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 11 OF THE CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has usurped the exclusive power of Congress to initiate war under Article I, section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution by unilaterally commencing war against the Republic of Libya on March 19, 2011, declaring that Congress is powerless to constrain his conduct of the war, and claiming authority in the future to commence war unilaterally to advance whatever he ordains is in the national interest. By so doing and declaring, Barack Hussein Obama has mocked the rule of law, endangered the very existence of the Republic and the liberties of the people, and perpetrated an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor as hereinafter elaborated. I. THE IMPEACHMENT POWER 1. Article II, Section IV of the United States Constitution provides: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” 2. According to James Madison’s Records of the Convention, 2:550; Madison, 8 Sept., Mr. George Mason objected to an initial proposal to confine impeachable offenses to treason or bribery: Why is the provision restrained to Treason & bribery only? Treason as defined in the Constitution will not reach many great and dangerous offences. Hastings is not guilty of Treason. Attempts to subvert the Constitution may not be Treason as above defined–As bills of attainder which have saved the British Constitution are forbidden, it is the more necessary to extend: the power of impeachments. 3. Delegates to the Federal Convention voted overwhelmingly to include “high crimes and misdemeanors” in Article II, Section IV of the United States Constitution specifically to ensure that “attempts to subvert the Constitution” would fall within the universe of impeachable offences. Id. 4. Alexander Hamilton, a delegate to the Federal Convention, characterized impeachable offenses in Federalist 65 as, “offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words, from the violation or abuse of some public trust. They are of a nature which with peculiar propriety may be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done to society itself.” 5. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of impeachment against then President Richard M. Nixon for actions “subversive of constitutional government.” 6. Father of the Constitution, James Madison, observed that, “Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other…. War is the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” 7. James Madison also instructed that “no nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” 8. The exclusive congressional power to commence war under Article I, section VIII, clause XI of the Constitution is the pillar of the Republic and the greatest constitutional guarantor of individual liberty, transparency, and government frugality. II. THE “DECLARE WAR” CLAUSE 9. Article I, Section VIII, Clause XI of the United States Constitution provides: “The Congress shall have the power … To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;” 10. Article II, Section II, Clause I of the United States Constitution provides: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” 11. The authors of the United States Constitution manifestly intended Article I, Section VIII, Clause XI to fasten exclusive responsibility and authority on the Congress to decide whether to undertake offensive military action. 12. The authors of the United States Constitution believed that individual liberty and the Republic would be endangered by fighting too many wars, not too few. 13. The authors of the United States Constitution understood that to aggrandize power and to leave a historical legacy, the executive in all countries chronically inflates danger manifold to justify warfare. 14. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, in Federalist 4 noted: [A]bsolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people. 15. Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 69 that the president’s Commander-in-Chief authority …would be nominally the same with that of the King of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first general and admiral of the confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war, and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies; all which by the constitution under consideration would appertain to the Legislature. 16. In a written exchange with Alexander Hamilton under the pseudonym Helvidius, James Madison wrote: In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objection to such a mixture to heterogeneous powers, the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man; not such as nature may offer as the prodigy of many centuries, but such as may be expected in the ordinary successions of magistracy. War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war, a physical force is to be created; and it is the executive will, which is to direct it. In war, the public treasures are to be unlocked; and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war, the honours and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honourable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace. 17. James Madison also wrote as Helvidius to Alexander Hamilton: Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. They are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws. 18. On June 29, 1787, at the Federal Convention, James Madison explained that an executive crowned with war powers invites tyranny and the reduction of citizens to vassalage: In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. 19. In a letter dated April 4, 1798, James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson: The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the Legislature. But the Doctrines lately advanced strike at the root of all these provisions, and will deposit the peace of the Country in that Department which the Constitution distrusts as most ready without cause to renounce it. For if the opinion of the President not the facts & proofs themselves are to sway the judgment of Congress, in declaring war, and if the President in the recess of Congress create a foreign mission, appoint the minister, & negociate a War Treaty, without the possibility of a check even from the Senate, untill the measures present alternatives overruling the freedom of its judgment; if again a Treaty when made obliges the Legislature to declare war contrary to its judgment, and in pursuance of the same doctrine, a law declaring war, imposes a like moral obligation, to grant the requisite supplies until it be formally repealed with the consent of the President & Senate, it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in their Government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings. 20. During the Pennsylvania Convention to ratify the Constitution, James Wilson, a future Justice of the United States Supreme Court, observed: This system will not hurry us into war; it is calculated to guard against it. It will not be in the power of a single man, or a single body of men, to involve us in such distress; for the important power of declaring war is vested in the legislature at large: this declaration must he made with the concurrence of the House of Representatives: from this circumstance we may draw a certain conclusion that nothing but our national interest can draw us into a war. 21. In 1793, President George Washington, who presided over the Federal Convention, wrote to South Carolina Governor William Moultrie in regards to a prospective counter-offensive against the American Indian Creek Nation: “The Constitution vests the power of declaring war with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they have deliberated upon the subject, and authorized such a measure.” 22. President Thomas Jefferson, who served as Secretary of State under President Washington, in a statement before Congress regarding Tripoli and the Barbary Pirates, deemed himself “unauthorized by the Constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense.” He amplified: “I communicate [to the Congress] all material information on this subject, that in the exercise of this important function confided by the Constitution to the Legislature exclusively their judgment may form itself on a knowledge and consideration of every circumstance of weight.” 23. In a message to Congress in December, 1805 regarding potential military action to resolve a border dispute with Spain, President Thomas Jefferson acknowledged that “Congress alone is constitutionally invested with the power of changing our condition from peace to war, I have thought it my duty to await their authority for using force.” He requested Congressional authorization for offensive military action, even short of war, elaborating: Formal war is not necessary—it is not probable it will follow; but the protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree. It will probably contribute to advance the object of peace. But the course to be pursued will require the command of means which it belongs to Congress exclusively to yield or deny. To them I communicate every fact material for their information, and the documents necessary to enable them to judge for themselves. To their wisdom, then, I look for the course I am to pursue; and will pursue, with sincere zeal, that which they shall approve. 24. In his War Message to Congress on June 1, 1812, President James Madison reaffirmed that the shift in language from make to declare in Article I, Section VIII, Clause XI of the United States Constitution authorized at the Constitutional convention did not empower the Executive to involve the United States military in any action aside from defense against an overt attack. Although President Madison was convinced that Great Britain had undertaken acts of war against the United States, he nevertheless maintained that he could not respond with military force without congressional authorization. He proclaimed: We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations and these accumulating wrongs, or, opposing force to force in defense of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of Events, avoiding all connections which might entangle it in the contest or views of other powers, and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an honorable re-establishment of peace and friendship, is a solemn question which the Constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the Government. In recommending it to their early deliberations I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation. 25. In his Records of the Convention, 2:318; Madison, 17 Aug., James Madison wrote that the power “To declare war” had been vested in the Congress in lieu of the power “To make war” to leave to the Executive “the power to repel sudden attacks.” 26. Mr. Elbridge Gerry “never expected to hear in a republic a motion to empower the Executive alone to declare war,” but still moved with Mr. Madison “to insert declare—in place of make” in Article I, Section VIII, Clause XI. Id. 27. Mr. George Mason was against “giving the power of war to the Executive, because not safely to be trusted with it; or to the Senate, because not so constructed as to be entitled to it. He was for clogging rather than facilitating war; but for facilitating peace.” Yet Mr. Mason “preferred declare to make.” Id. 28. Mr. Roger Sherman “thought [the proposal] stood very well. The Executive shd. be able to repel and not to commence war.” Id. 29. Delegates to the Federal Convention overwhelmingly approved the motion to insert “declare—in place of make,” to deny the Executive power to initiate military action, but to permit the Executive to repel sudden attacks unilaterally. Id. 30. Then Congressman Abraham Lincoln sermonized: Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose — and you allow him to make war at pleasure…. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose. If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us” but he will say to you “be silent; I see it, if you don’t.” The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood. 31. Crowning the President with unilateral authority to commence war under the banner of anticipatory self-defense, prevention of civilian slaughters, gender discrimination, subjugation of ethnic or religious minorities, or otherwise would empower the President to initiate war without limit, threatening the very existence of the Republic. Although a benevolent Chief Executive might resist abuse of an unlimited war power, the principle, if ever accepted by Congress, would lie around like a loaded weapon ready for use by any successor craving absolute power. 32. Thomas Paine justly and rightly declared in Common Sense that “in America, the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” 33. Article 43 Paragraph 3 of the Charter of the United Nations provides that all resolutions or agreements of the United Nations Security Counsel “shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.” 34. Article 43 Paragraph 3 of Charter of the United Nations was included specifically to allay concerns that prevented the United States of America from ratifying the League of Nations Treaty in 1919. 35. That treaty risked crowning the President with the counter-constitutional authority to initiate warfare. On November 19, 1919, in Section II of his Reservations with Regard to Ratification of the Versailles Treaty, to preserve the balance of power established by the United States Constitution from executive usurpation, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge resolved as follows: The United States assumes no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country or to interfere in controversies between nations — whether members of the League or not — under the provisions of Article 10, or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States under any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless in any particular case the Congress, which, under the Constitution, has the sole power to declare war or authorize the employment of the military or naval forces of the United States, shall by act or joint resolution so provide. The rejection of Lodge’s reservations by President Woodrow Wilson and his Senate allies insured defeat of the treaty. 36. Section 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 clarifies Presidential authority to undertake military action as follows: The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces. 37. In United States v. Smith, 27 F. Cas. 1192 (1806), Supreme Court Justice William Paterson, a delegate to the Federal Convention from New Jersey, wrote on behalf of a federal circuit court: There is a manifest distinction between our going to war with a nation at peace, and a war being made against us by an actual invasion, or a formal declaration. In the former case it is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war. 38. In Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 U.S. 258, 267 (1890), the Supreme Court of the United States held: The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States. It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government, or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent. 39. In his concurrence in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 642-643 (1952), which rebuked President Harry Truman’s claim of unilateral war powers in the Korean War, Justice Robert Jackson elaborated: Nothing in our Constitution is plainer than that declaration of a war is entrusted only to Congress. Of course, a state of war may in fact exist without a formal declaration. But no doctrine that the Court could promulgate would seem to me more sinister and alarming than that a President whose conduct of foreign affairs is so largely uncontrolled, and often even is unknown, can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation’s armed forces to some foreign venture. 40. All treaties are subservient to the exclusive congressional power to commence war. In Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1, 18 (1957), the United States Supreme Court held: There is nothing in [the Constitution’s text] which intimates that treaties and laws enacted pursuant to them do not have to comply with the provisions of the Constitution. Nor is there anything in the debates which accompanied the drafting and ratification of the Constitution which even suggests such a result. 41. Unconstitutional usurpations by one branch of government of powers entrusted to a coequal branch are not rendered constitutional by repetition. The United States Supreme Court held unconstitutional hundreds of laws enacted by Congress over the course of five decades that included a legislative veto of executive actions in INS v. Chada, 462 U.S. 919 (1982). 42. In their dissent in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), Justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia recognized the “Founders’ general distrust of military power lodged with the President, including the authority to commence war: No fewer than 10 issues of the Federalist were devoted in whole or part to allaying fears of oppression from the proposed Constitution’s authorization of standing armies in peacetime. Many safeguards in the Constitution reflect these concerns. Congress’s authority “[t]o raise and support Armies” was hedged with the proviso that “no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years.” U.S. Const., Art. 1, §8, cl. 12. Except for the actual command of military forces, all authorization for their maintenance and all explicit authorization for their use is placed in the control of Congress under Article I, rather than the President under Article II. As Hamilton explained, the President’s military authority would be “much inferior” to that of the British King… (Citing Federalist 69, Supra.) 43. On December 20, 2007, then Senator Hillary Clinton proclaimed: “The President has the solemn duty to defend our Nation. If the country is under truly imminent threat of attack, of course the President must take appropriate action to defend us. At the same time, the Constitution requires Congress to authorize war. I do not believe that the President can take military action — including any kind of strategic bombing — against Iran without congressional authorization.” 44. Then Senator Joseph Biden stated in a speech at the Iowa City Public Library in 2007 regarding potential military action in Iran that unilateral action by the President would be an impeachable offense under the Constitution: It is precisely because the consequences of war – intended or otherwise – can be so profound and complicated that our Founding Fathers vested in Congress, not the President, the power to initiate war, except to repel an imminent attack on the United States or its citizens. They reasoned that requiring the President to come to Congress first would slow things down… allow for more careful decision making before sending Americans to fight and die… and ensure broader public support. The Founding Fathers were, as in most things, profoundly right. That’s why I want to be very clear: if the President takes us to war with Iran without Congressional approval, I will call for his impeachment. I do not say this lightly or to be provocative. I am dead serious. I have chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. I still teach constitutional law. I’ve consulted with some of our leading constitutional scholars. The Constitution is clear. And so am I. I’m saying this now to put the administration on notice and hopefully to deter the President from taking unilateral action in the last year of his administration. If war is warranted with a nation of 70 million people, it warrants coming to Congress and the American people first. 45. In a speech on the Senate Floor in 1998, then Senator Joseph Biden maintained: “…the only logical conclusion is that the framers [of the United States Constitution] intended to grant to Congress the power to initiate all hostilities, even limited wars.” 46. On December 20, 2007, then Senator Barack Obama informed the Boston Globe, based upon his extensive knowledge of the United States Constitution: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” III. USURPATION OF THE WAR POWER OVER LIBYA 47. President Barack Obama’s military attacks against Libya constitute acts of war. 48. Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-4) had the following exchange with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during a March 31, 2011 House Armed Services Committee Hearing on the legality of the present military operation in Libya: Congressman Forbes: Mr. Secretary, if tomorrow a foreign nation intentionally, for whatever reason, launched a Tomahawk missile into New York City, would that be considered an act of war against the United States? Secretary Gates: Probably so. Congressman Forbes: Then I would assume the same laws would apply if we launched a Tomahawk missile at another nation—is that also true? Secretary Gates: You’re getting into constitutional law here and I am no expert on it. Congressman Forbes: Mr. Secretary, you’re the Secretary of Defense. You ought to be an expert on what’s an act of war or not. If it’s an act of war to launch a Tomahawk missile on New York City would it not also be an act of war to launch a Tomahawk missile by us at another nation? Secretary Gates: Presumably. 49. Since the passage of United Nations Security Council resolution 1973 on March 19, 2011, the United States has detonated over 200 tomahawk land attack cruise missiles and 455 precision-guided bombs on Libyan soil. 50. Libya posed no actual or imminent threat to the United States when President Obama unleashed Operation Odyssey Dawn. 51. On March 27, 2011, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated that Libya never posed an “actual or imminent threat to the United States.” He further stated that Libya has never constituted a “vital interest” to the United States. 52. United Nations Security Council resolution 1973 directs an indefinite United States military quagmire in Libya, authorizing “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians, which clearly contemplates removal by force of the murderous regime of Col. Muammar Qadhafi. 53. In a Letter From the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate sent March 21, 2011, President Barack Obama informed Members of Congress that “U.S. forces have targeted the Qadhafi regime’s air defense systems, command and control structures, and other capabilities of Qadhafi’s armed forces used to attack civilians and civilian populated areas. We will seek a rapid, but responsible, transition of operations to coalition, regional, or international organizations that are postured to continue activities as may be necessary to realize the objectives of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.” 54. In his March 21, 2011 letter, President Barack Obama further informed Members of Congress that he opted to take unilateral military action “…in support of international efforts to protect civilians and prevent a humanitarian disaster.” 55. President Barack Obama has usurped congressional authority to decide on war or peace with Libya, and has declared he will persist in additional usurpations of the congressional power to commence war whenever he decrees it would advance his idea of the national interest. On March 28, 2011, he declared to Congress and the American people: “I have made it clear that I will never hesitate to use our military swiftly, decisively, and unilaterally when necessary to defend our people, our homeland, our allies, and our core interests” (emphasis added). 56. President Obama’s humanitarian justification for war in Libya establishes a threshold that would justify his initiation of warfare in scores of nations around the globe, including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, Myanmar, China, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Cuba, and Russia. 57. In Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928), Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote on behalf of a majority of the United States Supreme Court: Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. 58. President Barack Obama has signed an order, euphemistically named a “Presidential Finding,” authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, further entangling the United States in the Libyan conflict, despite earlier promises of restraint. Truth is invariably the first casualty of war. 59. In response to questions by Members of Congress during a classified briefing on March 30, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated that the President needs no Congressional authorization for his attack on the Libyan nation, and will ignore any Congressional attempt by resolution or otherwise to constrain or halt United States participation in the Libyan war. 60. On March 30, 2011, by persistent silence or otherwise, Secretary Clinton rebuffed congressional inquiries into President Obama’s view of the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. She failed to cite a single judicial decision in support of President Obama’s recent actions, relying instead on the undisclosed legal opinions of White House attorneys. 61. President Barack Obama, in flagrant violation of his constitutional oath to execute his office as President of the United States and preserve and protect the United States Constitution, has usurped the exclusive authority of Congress to authorize the initiation of war, in that on March 19, 2011 President Obama initiated an offensive military attack against the Republic of Libya without congressional authorization. In so doing, President Obama has arrested the rule of law, and saluted a vandalizing of the Constitution that will occasion ruination of the Republic, the crippling of individual liberty, and a Leviathan government unless the President is impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office by the Senate. In all of this, President Barack Obama has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Impeach President Obama!
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