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Thursday, August 26, 2010
We can’t wait for 2012 to fix this broken administration. How does forty-five days sound?
The question for me is not what’s going to happen if we let the Presidential hand play out. The question for me is what action to take to change the course of human events and preserve freedom and the Constitution and this sovereign nation.
Frightened, confused and flustered, we cannot stand still and wait to be destroyed. We need to know what to do now. The answer I can no longer fail to address.
My heart asks the bravest of American spirits to provide to all appropriate government authorities who share this earth’s oxygen a courage and commitment of the highest order to do not only what is right, but what is required to preserve this nation.
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
United States of America
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which does not expressly state whether the Vice President becomes the President, as opposed to an Acting President, if the President dies, resigns, is removed from office or is otherwise unable to discharge the powers of the presidency.[1] The Twenty-fifth Amendment was ratified in 1967.
“Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.”
The courage and bravery demonstrated on the battlefields of war is no less than that which men and woman of well intention must find within themselves to remove the man, Barack Obama, from office because he is not mentally or emotionally or morally fit to continue as President of the United States. On the basis of most every behavior since he was given the oath of office, he has, by the reasonable man test, committed a series and pattern of deeds designed to destroy the fabric of this nation. He has undermined the ideals on which the United States of America was founded. He has sought to drastically weaken our military. Drastically weaken our system of free enterprise. Our entire economy. He has sought to replace and transform it from a system of freedom and liberty; economically, socially, spiritually, morally, legally and militarily into one that is wed to the ideals of socialism, marxism, communism and totalitarianism. He has demonstrated a prima facie treasonous intention to subvert the system of government that has guided this nation for more than two centuries. He seeks to destroy that which the governed hold dear, and undeniably unchangeable.
A reasonable reading of the result of allowing Barack Obama to remain in the office of President of the United States is national catastrophe, including the likelihood of any one or all, but not limited to: national bankruptcy, economic insolvency, civil riot, terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction, starvation, and or biological attack resulting in the death of United States Citizens in the tens of millions or more; arising from a reckless and or intentional dereliction of duty.
Fully do I realize that I am asking the members of the United States government which the 25th Amendment speaks to perform an enormous task. However, with their position goes enormous duty and steely responsibility. The enormous trust that the American people place into each and every member of government demands that you take unthinkable action when the unthinkable is the correct action to take.
As a citizen of the United States from which the power of government is derived, I give you forty five days to respond.
Comments
Wholly apart from the reality that the Vice President and the entire cabinet, except for Robert Gates, are firmly in the President’s pocket, the suggestion here is both impractical and probably illegal. The plain fact is that the President IS able to carry out the duties of his office. The fact that he and his cabal are, apparently, hellbent upon using the powers of his office to destroy this country does not go to his ability. To the larger point, something must be done, clearly. But unless we are prepared to do to the Constitution what those we oppose are already doing to it, suggestions of this kind are not helpful to our discourse. We really only have two options: we either operate within the law, using the electoral process, or we depart from this process and attempt overthrow of the current government. Constitutional hat tricks of the kind advanced here won’t solve the problem; rather, they only serve to give credence to those whom we oppose, who have already so trampled the Constitution.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/27/2010 at 12:46 PMKirk, my friend, I know constitutional lawyers who would tell you respectfully that you don’t know what you’re talking about. If an avowed Communist, a mole of sorts, lies about himself and his beliefs to become the President, for example, and has every intention of destroying the country, financially, militarily or in some other nefarious way, do you not think a constitutional question exists as to his ability to faithfully carry out and uphold the Constitution? You’re the type who would stand on naive principles of law, fiddling with theoretical constructs while your country is destroyed. When you decide to move into the real world, let me know. Until then, the time out room is where you belong.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/27/2010 at 05:41 PM“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Thomas Jefferson et al
Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ on 08/27/2010 at 05:59 PMThe Constitution is the contract, the covenant if you will, between a peoples and it’s lawfully enacted government. If the party of the first part (the people) do not carry out their duties with due diligence then the result may very well be what we are facing now. And that is the penalty paid.
On the other hand, if the party of the second part (that would be the “government”, and such agents, and parties, who are beholding to the pubic -such as “the press/media”) willfully fails to uphold the oaths they swore, or as agents and other interested parties, aid and abet those same individuals, then we - as citizens - have a duty to reign them in, by ballot box, by jury, or by such force as may be necessary.
Posted by Guy S. on 08/27/2010 at 10:06 PMKirk, the time is long, long past for considering how those who are destroying liberty would view actions designed to preserve it.
“Bipartisanship” is code for surrender and the time for reasonableness is past.
You said:
“We really only have two options: we either operate within the law, using the electoral process, or we depart from this process and attempt overthrow of the current government.”The notion of operating within the law might appeal to those who seek to avoid direct confrontation but the truth of the matter is that the law—like the education system and the media—was long ago subverted and now belongs to the enemy.
It’s time to depart from the process and to take back the Republic, by massive passive resistance if possible but by force if necessary.
“Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice.” Barry Goldwater.Posted by KG on 08/27/2010 at 10:44 PMFor heavens sake people, read “Defying Hitler”, by Sebastian Haffner. All the clues you need are there.
And I can tell you this: the longer you wait, the longer it will take, because by the time you make your move, they have BECOME the law.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/28/2010 at 03:55 AMThe time is here. Right now.
There will always be a November elections coming, which may fix things, kinda. sort of. maybe just a little. hopefully.Or a change of President. Or an improving economy.
Whatever. The hard truth is that we’ve become so comfortable—and so cowardly within that comfort—that we are no longer the same people who conquered half the world and fought tyrants to gain liberty.
Instead we’ve become content with the dregs and scraps our masters see fit to throw our way, hoping to be left alone by “them” long enough to enjoy a few pathetic illusions of freedom, undisturbed by the Gauleiters and apparatchiks.
We have become cowards, gentlemen, and we’d better face that fact.
Or pick up a gun.Posted by KG on 08/28/2010 at 05:02 PM
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