Posts Tagged ‘Commerce Clause’

Feds Threatened by State’s Rights Regarding Guns – Common Sense Birthers – Lt. Col. Lakin’s Journey – The BOPAC Report

May 21, 2010

 The BOPAC Report

Second Amendment –

When guns are outlawed - only outlaws will have guns! Protect the Second Amendment to the Constitution with everything you have!

Feds: States’ growing gun-rights movement a threat

Attorneys argue laws ‘void’ because of impact on ‘interstate commerce’

Posted: May 20, 2010
10:55 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

The federal government is arguing in a gun-rights case pending in federal court in Montana that state plans to exempt in-state guns from various federal requirements themselves make the laws void, because the growing movement certainly would impact “interstate commerce.”

The government continues to argue to the court that the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution should be the guiding rule for the coming decision. The argument plays down the significance of both the Second Amendment right to bear arms and the 10th Amendment provision that reserves to states all prerogatives not specifically granted the federal government in the Constitution.

WND has reported both on the lawsuit filed by Montana interests seeking affirmation of the 2009 Montana Firearms Freedom Act as well as the growing movement that has seen six other states, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Tennessee and Arizona, follow with similar laws.

Here are answers to all your questions about guns, ammunition and accessories.

The movement worries the federal government. In a brief filed this week in support of government demands that the case be dismissed, posted on the website for the Firearms Freedom Act, attorneys wrote, “Because an illicit market for firearms exists nationwide, a ‘gaping hole’ in federal firearm regulation would persist if firearms made and sold in Montana were exempted from compliance.”

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Natural Born Citizen –

 
 
 
 
 

Dalai Lama has advice for Obama! America Must Demand Proof or Face the Consequences!

Another blogger gets it!

…” Common sense people know better, he may have been born where he said, but something stinks! Where there is smoke, there is fire, and where there is stink, there is crap. Obama could make this outhouse disappear, by releasing the original birth certificate and other papers that he had sealed immediately after being sworn in.”…

When everything coming out of the Obama Administration has some nefarious purpose, stinks like crap and seeks to undermine our very Republic – it causes this blogger to see the entire Obama Administration as being full of crap.  It makes it hard to believe anything they say when 90% of what they have already said is untrue.  If Obama’s lips are moving, you can make a fairly safe bet that some sort of lie will be involved. 

 

Common Sense Birthers

By bailoutinsanity

Common sense birthers

Good afternoon, common sense Americans, this is Jim Morrow with the real http://www.commonsensecommentary.com.
Have you seen the billboard at I-20 and hwy 21? It simply says, where is the birth certificate? When I first started looking into this, and when all the pundits poo-pooed the birther crowd as lunatics and that the birthplace, time and where of Obama’s birth was said to have already been proven, I didn’t give it much more attention.

However, when it was brought to my attention that an Army officer did not respond to his orders to deploy, claiming that Obama was not legally our president because of his birth, I started watching closer. The army did not court-martial him because they would have had to produce Obama’s birth certificate. Evidently the charges were dropped and the officer got the assignment he wanted, because the Army would not produce the original document.

Why is Obama spending millions of tax money, trying to keep the original document sealed? He and his entire suck up media claim that a “Certificate of Live Birth proves Obama’s legitimacy to serve as president. It does not! It does not have the attending doctor’s name or the name of the hospital. All of the liberal press, including the snopes site on the internet are using the Bill Clinton spin on this matter, but instead of Clinton saying that “I did not have sex with that woman”, they are saying “you birthers can’t question our president, he doesn’t lie,” and expect the common sense people of the world to believe it.

Common sense people know better, he may have been born where he said, but something stinks! Where there is smoke, there is fire, and where there is stink, there is crap. Obama could make this outhouse disappear, by releasing the original birth certificate and other papers that he had sealed immediately after being sworn in. Instead, he keeps spending millions of taxpayer money, which is making this million dollar one- holer into the most expensive multi- hole outhouse in history….Continue Reading

 

Lt. Col. Lakin’s Journey –

 
 
 
 
 

I'm Sure There Are Many Soldiers Living This Nightmare. It's Time For The Joint Chiefs of Staff to Step To The Plate and Support Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin! Don't Be Military Sheep.

Every Sailor, Soldier, Airman and Marine should be paying close attention.  Sometimes that pesky Oath we took demands a difficult journey.

From the New American:

Hearing Will Challenge Obama’s Eligibility                 

Written by Raven Clabough   

Thursday, 20 May 2010 11:55

On May 12, the American Patriot Foundation announced that there will be an Article 32 military hearing that may reveal whether President Barack Obama is a native-born citizen of the United States. The hearing is set for June 11, after Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan “because the president refuses — even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary — to prove his eligibility under the Constitution to hold office.”

The American Patriot foundation operates the Safeguard Our Constitution website, which generated a great deal of support for the movement for Obama to provide documentation proving his eligibility to serve as President. Those involved in the movement have been dubbed “birthers”, a term that has generally been met with contempt by the mainstream media and Obama supporters. 

However, Lakin’s staunch insistence that Obama is responsible for proving his eligibility has gained some notoriety, even prompting CNN to provide media attention to the movement on Anderson Cooper’s program. On the show, both Lakin and his attorney, Paul Rolf Jensen, presented a series of facts to legitimatize their concerns. 

The “certification of live birth” found on the Internet, which purports to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii, has been dismissed as valid proof, as it is a “short-form” document, as opposed to the “long-form” document that lists the hospital and attending physician. “Short-form” documents are easily obtainable. In addition to Obama’s missing birth certificate, other documentation that has been concealed includes kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school records; college records; Harvard Law Review articles; passport; medical records; Illinois State Bar Association records; baptism records; and adoption records. 

The constitutional language in question is tricky, as it states that the president of the United States must be a “natural born citizen,” though the term has been undefined. Some argue the term means that the president must be born in the United States to two parents that were also born in the United States.  If that proves to be the case, Obama would be disqualified, since he has openly admitted that his father never was a U. S. citizen. However, much of the legal challenge of Obama’s eligibility rests upon the presumption that Obama was not even born in Hawaii, as he claims. 

As a result of Lakin’s oppositional failure to report to duty, charges have been filed against him. According to Safeguard Our Constitution, the charges against Lakin are serious and can result in “years of hard labor in a penitentiary,” but Lakin refuses to rescind his demands, as he asserts that serving in a military operation under an ineligible president is illegal. It is Lakin’s hope that the charges against him will lead to the discovery of information to prove or disprove Obama’s legitimacy, which is his ultimate objective. 

In the past, however, this has not proven to be the case. Attorney John Hemenway was threatened with sanctions by a federal judge when he attempted to challenge Obama’s presidency. Hemenway welcomed the threat, however, as he believed it would lead to a “discovery hearing,” which would necessitate the search for documentation proving Obama’s eligibility. At that point, the court rescinded its sanction threats. 

Any deployment orders filed under Obama that were met by questions of his eligibility have been rescinded. World Net Daily columnist Vox Day writes that this behavior suggests “that the Pentagon generals are not entirely confident that they can demonstrate the legitimacy of their purported commander-in-chief.”  

According to World Net Daily, “Obama’s actual response to those who question his eligibility to be president under the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president to be a ‘natural born citizen’ has been to dispatch both private and tax-funded attorneys to prevent anyone from gaining access to his documentation.” 

Lakin joins the ranks of Army doctor Capt. Connie Rhodes and Army reservist Maj. Stefan Cook, both who have also questioned Obama’s legitimacy, but Lakin remains the first-active duty officer to raise issue. …Continue Reading

 

Tomb of Unknow Soldiers! WTF is the Obama Administration Doing Prosecuting Our Navy Seals? It's all part of Obama's script in the tiresome and dangerous play - “How can I F%@K the military again today?”

Brothers and Sisters in the Military – When are you going to demand Obama establish that he is a Natural Born Citizen, eligible to serve as Commander In Chief?  

If your Oath to protect the Constitution is not important today, why don’t we just change the military oath of allegiance to reflect our current level of commitment? 

I, _______, do solemnly swear to protect ME and I will try to defend the Constitution as long as it doesn’t adversely impact the aforementioned ‘ME’.

Obama Dreams About Government Run Health Care, Larry Sinclair, Birth Certificates, Natural Born Citizens While America Lives in a Nightmare.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

 

As Aretha Franklin says: You better think, think, think what you do to me!

  

Other  News –

Obamanomics - It's a Crap Shoot!

 From CitizenWells:

Jobless claims rise 25000, May 20, 2010, US Dept of Labor report, Initial claims was 471000

Virgina Thomas and Tea Party – Transparency with FOCOA? Not Hardly – Lebanon Surrenders – Israel’s Future? – Firearms Freedom Act – South Dakota – Catholic archbishop Charles J. Chaput – ObamaCare – The BOPAC Report

March 16, 2010

The BOPAC Report

Tea Party On –

 

Obamanomics, ObamaCare, ChiBama Politics, Climategate, NavySealGate - All Leading to Socialist America! But will it lead to discovery regarding "natural born citizen"/ Birth Certificate issue?

You gotta love Conservative women!

From LATIMES:

Justice’s wife launches ‘tea party’ groupThe nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.

By Kathleen Hennessey

March 14, 2010

Reporting from Washington

As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.

“I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you,” she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama’s “hard-left agenda.”

But Thomas is no ordinary activist.

She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court.

In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative “core principles,” she said.

The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources — including corporations — as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court.

“I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country,” Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great.”…Continue Reading

ChiBama Politics –

Transparency? Not hardly with FOCOA.

 Transparency?  From the Obama Administration?  You’ve got to be kidding!

PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov’t more open with Obama?

Mar 16, 5:28 AM (ET)

By SHARON THEIMER

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during his first year in office.

An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law’s nine exemptions to withhold information from the public rose in fiscal year 2009, which ended last October.

Among the most frequently used exemptions: one that lets the government hide records that detail its internal decision-making. Obama specifically directed agencies to stop using that exemption so frequently, but that directive appears to have been widely ignored.

Major agencies cited that exemption at least 70,779 times during the 2009 budget year, up from 47,395 times during President George W. Bush’s final full budget year, according to annual FOIA reports filed by federal agencies. Obama was president for nine months in the 2009 period.

Departments used the exemption more even though Obama’s Justice Department told agencies to that disclosing such records was “fully consistent with the purpose of the FOIA,” a law intended to keep government accountable to the public….Continue Reading

Ji’Obama’had –

 

Obama Foreign Policy Office

Time is short for Israel to make its decisions concerning the future with a nuclear Iran.

Lebanon surrenders to AssadPresident Assad riding high as Lebanon’s anti-Syrian camp falls apart

Roee Nahmias

If anyone still had any doubt that there is no longer an “anti-Syrian camp” in Lebanon, there came Walid Jumblatt and provided the final nail in the coffin. In an interview to al-Jazeera, which symbolically enough was held on the eve of March 14 – the political code of this camp – Jumblatt apologized to Bashar Assad.

“I said, at a moment of anger, what is improper and illogical against President Bashar Assad. It was a moment of ultimate internal tension and division in Lebanon,” Jumblatt said, hoping to “open a new page” via the interviewer, known for his connections with Hezbollah; that is, Jumblatt was hoping that the Syrian president will invite him to the presidential palace in Damascus.

To Jumblatt’s credit, we must note that he was not the first one: Before him, the prime minister and head of the anti-Syrian camp, Sa’ad al-Hariri, headed to Damascus – the same Hariri who held Assad responsible for the assassination of Hariri Sr. in 2005. Following the handshakes and kisses traded with the Syrian top brass, Hariri is reportedly planning to visit Tehran soon, but not the United States. And if this what the head of the anti-Syrian camp does, why should Jumblatt conduct himself any differently?…Continue Reading

 

Second Amendment –

 

Pretty soon only the tyrannical members of our government and criminals will be the ones with guns! Protect the Second Amendment to the Constitution with everything you have!

A showdown will be coming soon!

From WND:

REBELLION IN AMERICA

5th state exempts guns. Is Washington noticing?

‘I think they’re going to let it ride, hoping some judge throws out case’

Posted: March 15, 2010

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A fifth state – South Dakota – has decided that guns made, sold and used within its borders no longer are subject to the whims of the federal government through its rule-making arm in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and two supporters of the growing groundswell say they hope Washington soon will be taking note.

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed into law his state’s version of a Firearms Freedom Act that first was launched in Montana. It already is law there, in Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming, which took the unusual step of specifying criminal penalties – including both fines and jail time – for federal agents attempting to enforce a federal law on a “personal firearm” in the Cowboy State.

According to a report in the Dakota Voice, the new South Dakota law addresses the “rights of states which have been carelessly trampled by the federal government for decades.”

“As the federal government has radically overstepped is constitutional limitations in the past year or so, an explosion of states have begun re-asserting their rights not only with regard to firearms, but also in shielding themselves against government health care, cap and trade global warming taxes, and more,” the report said. …Continue Reading

ObamaCare –

 

Well Maybe Obama's Obamacare will save money? But it will suck to be old!

 This speaks for itself.

Catholic Archbishop Warns About Dishonest Pro-Obamacare Leftist Groups Posing as Catholics

Monday, March 15, 2010, 4:48 AM

Jim Hoft

A Catholic Archbishop warned Americans today about dishonest leftists and democrats who claim the church backs the pro-abortion Senate health care bill.

We saw a bit of this already this weekend. A non-Catholic Catholic group of radical leftists and Marxists released a letter (signed by non-Catholics) in support of the Senate’s pro-abortion bill.

Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner reported:

In a piece to be released later this morning, Catholic archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver comes out swinging against the health-care push in Washington this week. He writes, in part:

Groups, trade associations and publications describing themselves as “Catholic” or “prolife” that endorse the Senate version — whatever their intentions — are doing a serious disservice to the nation and to the Church, undermining the witness of the Catholic community; and ensuring the failure of genuine, ethical health-care reform. …Continue Reading

Other Team FOCOA News –

(Full of Crap Obama Administration)

We are family and we get to choose who's we! Chibama Politics & Obama's attack of Inspector General Walpin!

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 (see trends).

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/16/stupak-still-a-no-and-not-just-on-abortion/

Bart Stupak not only says that the dozen members in his coalition aren’t “really” wavering, the Democratic Congressman also says that abortion isn’t the only problem with the final ObamaCare push.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/16/guess-who-opposed-the-slaughter-rule-in-2005/

Guess who opposed the Slaughter Rule in 2005?

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/16/making-their-voices-heard-protesting-demcare-on-capitol-hill/

Making their voices heard: Protesting Demcare on Capitol Hill

http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/obama-thugs-obama-camp-lies-obama-eligibility-court-cases-orwellian-lies-internet-lies-revisionist-history-virginia-eligibility-case/

…“Another Obama Camp scam?
When I first read about the Virginia lawsuit claiming Obama is ineligible and the subsequent ruling by the judge, it did not smell right. I have reread the exerpts placed on the internet and after much thought and deciding that I had to read the Petition and the judges ruling, I searched for a record of the filing and hearing on the official Virginia Courts website. I did extensive searching by names and dates and
found nothing. After much searching, I called the clerk of court’s office. I was told that several people had called inquiring about the case and they could find no record of any case.”…

Dalai Lama has advice for Obama! America Must Demand Proof or Face the Consequences!