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On 11-15-08, ROSS SAUER said to BOB KLAHN:


RS>"Bob Klahn -> Dan Ceppa" <1:124/311> wrote in news:25407$POL_INC@JamNNTPd:


DC>> The same idiot that stated the document is a fraud was the
DC>> very same one that swore up and down that the document is
DC>> legitimate jus a few weeks early.


DC>> Face the facts:  wnd is a joke.


BK>   Now this I missed. Which document?


RS>Obama's Hawaii bir


Welcome to The Patriot Post


Friday Digest - Vol. 08 No. 46 ......Mark Alexander----Publisher


To Support and Defend...


THE FOUNDATION


"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington


PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE


Our sacred honor ... to support and defend


By Mark Alexander


In 1776, an extraordinary group of men signed a document that affirmed their
God-given right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." By attaching
their signatures to our great Declaration of Independence, they, in effect,
were signing their potential death warrants.


Indeed, the last line of our Declaration reads, "For the support of this
declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."


Many of these men, and many of their countrymen, the first generation of
American Patriots, would die fighting for American liberty.


A decade later, their liberty having been won at great cost, our Founders
further codified their independence and interdependence by instituting yet
another historic document, our Constitution.


The Constitution specifies in Article VI, clause 3:


"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the
several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of
the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or
Affirmation, to support this Constitution..."


Bound by Oath to support...


The Constitution also prescribes the following oath to be taken by the
president-elect: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."


Preserve, protect and defend...


Commissioned and enlisted military personnel are also required by statute to
"solemnly swear, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same...", though the officer's oath doesn't include any
provision that they obey orders.


Against all enemies, foreign and domestic...


Notably, all these oaths mandate the preservation, protection, support and
defense of our Constitution as ratified, not the so-called "living
constitution" as amended by judicial activists populating what Thomas
Jefferson predicted would become "the despotic branch."


While uniformed Americans serving our nation defend our Constitution with
their lives, most elected officials debase it with all manner of extra-
constitutional empowerment of the central government, not the least of which
is the forced redistribution of income to benefit their constituency groups
which, in turn, dutifully re-elect them.


Military service personnel who violate the Constitution are remanded for
courts-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, while politicians
who violate the Constitution are remanded for -- re-election.
On that note, the latest crop of Leftists on their way to Washington under the
supervision of President-elect Barack Obama are destined to make a greater
mockery of our Constitution than any administration in history. Clearly, Obama
and his ilk have no history of honoring, or intention to honor, their oaths
and, in fact, have no context for such honor.


A small cadre of liberals who believe themselves to be "patriots" have asked,
"Can't I be a bona fide Patriot and support Barack Obama?"


In a word ... NO, unless in a state of solemn repentance.


In the spirit of charity, perhaps Obama supporters, who self-identify as
patriots, are just grossly misinformed about our Constitution, our history and
their own civic duty. Of course, they would likewise be grossly deluded about
their identity, but perhaps the delusion is temporary.
I would suggest that Obama "patriots" are nothing more than "sunshine
patriots," as Thomas Paine wrote, who "will in crisis, shrink from the service
of his country."


At its core, the word "patriot" has direct lineage to those who fought for
American independence and established our constitutional republic. That
lineage has descended most directly through our history with those who have
been entrusted "to support and defend" our Constitution -- more specifically,
those who have been faithful to, and have abided by, that oath. As previously
noted, by "our Constitution," I am referring to the United States
Constitution, not the adulterated vestigial remains that liberals call "the
living constitution."


I have taken oaths five times in the service of our country. But I did not
have to take any oath to understand my obligations as a citizen "to support
and defend" our Constitution.


So, does the title of "Patriot" apply to an individual who votes for a man who
has not honored his public oaths of office previously, and has given no
indication he intends to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same" as
president -- a man who subscribes to the errant notion of a "living
constitution" which, in his own words, "breaks free from the essential
constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution"?
No authentic Patriot would support those who violate their sacred oaths.


Unfortunately, in this most recent election, we saw even a handful of flag-
rank military officers who have no more reverence for their oaths than Obama.


However, they are the exception, not the rule.


Obama's mantra, "change," is a euphemism for constitutional abrogation -- an
incremental encroachment on liberty until, at last, liberty is lost.
Our nation's second president, John Adams, warned, "A Constitution of
Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once
lost, is lost forever."


As for Obama's deception about his own patriotic pedigree, I commend the words
of our nation's first president, George Washington: "Guard against the
impostures of pretended patriotism. ...[W]here is the security for property,
for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the
oaths...?"


Regarding the Presidential Oath of Office, Justice Joseph Story wrote: "[T]he
duty imposed upon him to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed,
follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will
'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.' The great object of the
executive department is to accomplish this purpose." He wrote further that if
the president does not honor his oath, his office "will be utterly worthless
for ... the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety
of the people."


Of course, Barack Obama proposes to further constrain the rights of the people
by advancing centralized government control of the economy by way of
regulation and forced income redistribution, all in the name of "happiness,
good order, and safety of the people," but in direct violation of his oath.


Quote of the week


"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't
pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected,
and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset
years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like
in the United States where men were free." --Ronald Reagan




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