The Pursuit of Happiness and Common Sense

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WHOA: Obama: Being An American Not A Matter Of "Blood Or Birth"

"Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth, it's a matter of faith," President Obama declared at a speech he gave on immigration.

Obama also blamed "resentment" to new immigrants to poor economic conditions.

"Now, we can't forget that this process of immigration and eventual inclusion has often been painful. Each new wave of immigrants has generated fear and resentment towards newcomers, particularly in times of economic upheaval," Obama said.

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“Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth, it's a matter of faith,” President Obama declared at a speech he gave on immigration.

You can get naturalized without blood or birth, but you can't be president without both! Obama knows that that his legal eligibility defenses are going to crumble eventually and he is trying to “condition the battlefield” with disinformation.

I Must Show My ID…

1. When pulled over by the Police.
2. Making purchases on my credit card.
3. When I verify medical insurance for a doctor's appointment.
4. When filling out a credit card or loan application.
5. When applying for or renewing a driver's license.
6. When applying for any kind of insurance.
7. When filling out college applications.
8. When donating blood.
9. When obtaining controlled prescription drugs.
10. When making some debit purchases, especially if I'm out of state.
11. When collecting a boarding pass for airline or train travel.
12.  When proving I am of legal age to buy booze and cigarettes.
13.  When voting at the polls.
14.  When applying for Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid benefits.
15.  When enlisting in the military.
16.  When entering a military base.
17.  When applying for food stamps.
18.  When applying for disability or economic assistance.
19.  When cashing a check.
20.  When entering my place of work.
21.  When applying for or renewing a passport

And if you are a legal alien… a legal immigrant, you must carry your green card with you at all times and produce it whenever you are asked.  But if you are here illegally it is somehow an insult to ask them for ID. 

America… when did we lose all common sense?

--> Video:  6/29 Congressman Stark Reveals His Arrogance  <--

Congressman mocks Minuteman
Glenn played one of the more amazing pieces of audio you'll ever hear - a Congressman so arrogant it's actually shocking (as opposed to the arrogance we are used to). He's talking to some citizens and Minutemen about the dire situation on the border - the Congressman amazingly mocks them as callous murderers and avoids answering questions. ( Transcript, Insider Audio, FREE Insider Extreme clip)

Hopefully the recall petition will be on this jerk’s desk on Tuesday after the 4th of July Weekend!!

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SDMM Reaction to Obama's New Amnesty Speech
July 1, 2010 - 10:15 am

President Obama's long-winded speech offered nothing new from the elitist rhetoric we heard from Washington in 2006 and 2007 when La Raza and the Hispanic Caucus did their last push for amnesty in the U.S. Congress.   That effort to ram amnesty legislation through Congress was resoundingly rejected by the American people and legal immigrants who knew then and know now that amnesty will not secure America's broken southern border.  In the three years since that united message was sent by the people, little has been done to secure our 2000 mile border from the deadly drug war raging just south in Mexico.  The drug cartel violence at the border and on U.S. soil has only increased since 2007 and has now reached a crisis level as exemplified by the situation in Arizona.

Phoenix, AZ, located about 120 miles north of the border has become the #2 city in the world for kidnappings.  Other violent crimes related to drug and human smuggling from Mexico occur daily in Tucson, Phoenix and elsewhere in Arizona.  The Federal Government admits it has lost control of large chunks of U.S. territory in Arizona and other border states, yet has refused to send troops to quell the Mexican cartel invasion.  Residents and law enforcement are being shot and in some cased killed at by well armed foreign smugglers operating deep inside U.S. territory.  Border residents live in fear as insurgents armed with large caliber automatic weapons patrol areas up 80 miles north of the Mexican border.  Amnesty now would only make the situation at the border even more deadly.

Obama refuses to mention our current border emergency and even has the audacity to claim that our border is more secure than ever.  That is a boldface lie!  Our border agents now have a $250,000 bounty on their heads by the emboldened drug cartels operating on both sides of the border.  Our brave border agents are attacked daily with deadly rock attacks and gunfire.  Agent Robert Rosas was assassinated 11 months ago in Campo, CA by Mexican cartel hitmen.

The American people know that our border crisis must be dealt with first and operation control of the border achieved before any efforts to legalize millions of unknown people who are living in the U.S. illegally, hundreds of thousands of them with criminal records and criminal intentions.

In short, Obama's speech was the same smoke and mirrors, and false arguments that we heard from President Bush four years ago.  With 20 million Americans unemployed and looking for work in our worst economic crisis in over 50 years, legalizing over 11 million illegal workers and inviting millions more in would be devastating to the U.S. economy.  Americans intuitively know this.  But Obama would rather continue to pander to Mexico and their special interest groups and lobbyists operating here in the U.S. to continue the flow of poor, unwanted peasants from Mexico to the welfare state that America has now become.

The strong message from the American people, regardless of political party and race, remains the same to the Washington politicians:  Secure our borders (stop the bleeding) and enforce our existing immigration laws.  If law and order, and control ever returns to our border and our immigration system, then we'll figure out what to do with the aliens who refuse to return to their country of residence.

To summarize the position of the vast majority of American citizens :  No amnesty.  Not now, not ever.  It didn't work in 1986 and it will never work.  Secure our Homeland and protect American citizens.

As a side note, immediately following the President's speech this morning, Mike Bloomberg, Al Sharpton, and other pro-amnesty advocates held a press conference.  Bloomberg shocked the audience and journalists when he gave a short speech in Spanish praising ILLEGAL immigrants.  After his statement in Spanish, Bloomberg told the audience in English that "This is the future of America" referring to people who have violated our laws.  Bloomberg again shows himself to be nothing more than a modern day slavemaster, with no respect for legal immigrants and nothing but praise for those who sneak into America to fuel the underground slave labor market, in New York City and nationwide.  I guess we now know how he made his billions - organized crime utilizing ILLEGAL underground (slave) labor.

Since Bloomberg has such disdain for our U.S. laws and is openly calling for people to violate our Federal immigration laws, a DOJ investigation should be imitated against him immediately.
Jeff Schwilk, Founder

www.SanDiegoMinutemen.com

Heavily armed foreign insurgents in Arizona, 80 miles
north of the Mexican border.  March 2010

Obama says this is a secure border.  He lies.

Smuggler with Mac-10 automatic weapon in AZ

Massive drug smuggling in AZ, 2010.
Our border is still wide open

Mass smugglers deep inside Arizona, 2010

Illegal alien trash in Arizona

More mass smuggling in Arizona.  The situation is out of control and Washington has done nothing to help stop the foreign cartel operations on our soil.

Video:  Mr. President, No One in Arizona is Laughing

Help Sheriff Joe Arpaio:  Ban Amnesty Now

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Constitutional Issues & Remedy for AMNESTY related Vote Fraud and Vote Buying; also immigration enforcement

There  are several points where lack of faithful execution of the US immigration laws may be a knowing and willing trespass against our Constitutions and their duly authorized laws.

The hyperbole in citizen opinions both pro and con may or may not be warranted – Much of the uncertainty in that can be removed now by discovering the constitutional provisions
that determine what strategies are useful and what strategies are overstuffed with hubris.

The tangle of issues are persistent enough that we will likely see what is actually true.

Perhaps, we should start by separating the tangle into bit sized issues:

1) AMNESTY for the illegal presence on an alien is not the same thing as granting citizenship is it?

Perhaps setting up a citizenship validation after voter registration could be used to invoke CONVICTION & DEPORTATION under:18USC-CHAPTER 43—FALSE PERSONATION-§911.
Citizen of the United States.”Whoever falsely and willfully represents himself to be a citizen of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

Do you think this is possible in your state? Why?

2) Yet even given a 100% & toothy stop to non-citizen voting, AMNESTY is a bit of "QUID PRO QUO"  to buy what lawful votes can be had from the friends
and families of person given AMNESTY.

There are likely public records that determine if any knowing and willing criminal conduct is involved.

It is unlikely that the mosaic of evidenced knowledge, intention, and action can be pieced together into crimes obligating indictment unless before-the-fact and after-the-fact accessories to crime are established according to state laws that are established as the rule-of-decision by US Code.

Do you think this is possible in your state? Why?

3)  Likewise,  officers of the executive branch, including the POTUS, are likely to have issued orders or directives to effect AMNESTY.

The scope of non-usurpateous, non-felonious civil executive orders now becomes an
issue.

See “Vesting Clause Limit Analysis”

Perhaps, I misunderstand how our CONSTITUTION vests limited authority to the legislative, executive and judicial branches. If so, how so and why?

4) Even if the POTUS acts against his oath to support the Constitution (A2S1C8),  in violation of “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” (A2S2C4)  by ORDERING the federal immigration law not be executed in what the POTUS without lawful authority calls 'AMNESTY', then state law enforcement officials who are still oath-bound to enforce federal law as the law of the land are still obligated to enforce the law by raising the due indictments.

The list of those who received amnesty is now subject to subpoena by a state grand jury to facilitate those indictments - given US Constitution Article VI [Legal Status of the Constitution, Supre... and supporting state law.

Do you think this is possible in your state? Why?

5.) True, the POTUS may still pardon those indicted – BUT if your state followed Arizona’s example and incorporate the spirit & substance of the federal immigration law into their own penal codes and indictment is made under state statute then the POTUS is powerless to grant pardon – now only your state governor may lawfully do that.

Do you think this is true in your state? Why?

6)  Most likely the governor of your state is also oath-bound by a state constitutional requirement like “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” (A2S2C4) .

If so, and if your oath-bound governor is more Democrat or RINO than oath-bound governor then the requirement that the governor see that immigration laws are enforced can give you a remedy of RECALL by INDICTMENT.  It is true that a governor could pardon himself but the utility of that is likely limited by both politics and statute.

Do you think this is true in your state? Why?

7) Unfunded Mandate Fiscal Remedies (applied to immigration enforcement):

In that state officers are oath-bound to support and defend the U.S. Constitution (which inherently includes oath-bound duty under all U.S. law duly authorized by the U.S. Constitution) when the federal government chooses to default on its federal enforcement duties such that the burden devolves upon state and local officials the financial cost of that burden appears to be lienable debt upon the federal Government.

I believe this is supported by both English common law and precedent regarding militia expenses, particularly when dealing with INVASION - but my ‘knowledge’ in that is not currently supported by reference links.

Do you think this is true in your state? Why?

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." …Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no neutrality in matters of law, preservation, honesty and God.  You are either part of the solution or part of the problem!!  And no choice is a choice!