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Van Jones, First Obama Administration Casualty

Posted by Greg Garrett on September 06, 2009
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Van Jones, Obama’s Green Czar, resigned yesterday according to this WND report…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109041

This is unquestionably significantly due to the stories highlighting Jones’ left-wing radicalism that WND Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Aaron Klein, has chronicled for the past five months and upon which talk radio followed. The mainstream media, however, has been reporting on Jones’ escapades for only the past few weeks when the heat from the man’s idiotic public statements became too significant for them to suppress any longer.

Obama Green Czar, Van Jones, Self-Proclaimed Communist

Posted by Greg Garrett on September 06, 2009
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Responding to an press conference inquiry by a reporter, Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, gave a less than confident response to the future of Van Jones as Obama’s Green Czar. See this informative WND article, which highlights this guy’s radical associations and positions including a recent public conspiracy theory assertion that the 9/11 attack was an inside job orchestrated by the Bush Administration…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108930

How does an individual like this get appointed by the White House to anything? Only in Obama’s America, I guess.

Federal Reserve Operating with NO Oversight

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 25, 2009
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Please take 5 important minutes to check out this link and watch & listen to this video…
http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html

Witness the amazing exchange which took place around May of this year as Congressman, Alan Grayson, directly questions an apparently oblivious Federal Reserve Inspector General, Elizabeth Coleman. This is extremely troubling and underscores the reckless abandon, utter disrepect and downright criminal irresponsibility that this renegade organization maintains for the hard earned tax dollars that it is squandering without any apparent accountability.

Washington’s abysmal fiscal management continues to astound while the government prepares to assume unconstitutional control of 20% of our economy based upon their current House H.R. 3200 healthcare bill. I don’t think so. Continue your vigilance at concerned citizen rallies and town hall meetings to shut down this travesty. I hope to see you at the Washington Taxpayer March on September 12th.

ObamaCare and Me: MD’s Enlightened Perspective

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 23, 2009
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Reference: Current House Bill H.R. 3200

Dr. Zane F. Pollard MD, a Pediatric Opthamalogist from Atlanta, has penned his recent past experiences with Medicaid, a microcosm of Obama’s envisioned public option healthcare, and his enlightened perspective of the fallout that will ensue in the medical profession if this legislation is passed by Congress in anywhere close to its current form. Here’s the entire American Thinker article…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/obamacare_and_me.html

This article has been authenticated by Snopes as Dr. Pollard’s work…
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pollard.asp

Taxpayer March on Washington 2009.09.12

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 18, 2009
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Ready to take your tea party and town hall activism in the interest of preserving our personal liberties and capitalist way of life (ie. the American Way) to the next level? Be there or be square. Go here to sign up and get the details…
http://www.912dc.org

Health Care Referendum: Senator Specter Lebanon Town Hall

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 12, 2009
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Well, I made it yesterday morning to the second row of Senator Arlen Specter’s Town Hall Meeting at Harrisburg Community College in my childhood hometown of Lebanon, PA. I arrived there to stand in line at about 7:15AM for a 9AM door-opening and a punctual 9:30AM start when the Senator and his entourage arrived. I can tell you from the ground, there was no appearance of a consolidated conspiracy to undermine the House’s current version HR 3200 healthcare bill. There was, however, an outpouring of passion by concerned Americans about the direction that this bill and many others which have been and are currently being pursued by Congress are taking this country. It was not the radical, organized, anti-American “Nazi”, “KKK”, so-called “astroturf” “mob” being portrayed by liberal congressional Democrats and echoed by the mainstream media. It was just average Americans, who wouldn’t even be there had they not been “awakened”, exercising their 1st Amendment constitutional rights in voicing their displeasure with the Obama Administration and this Congress. For this they are being demonized and marginalized despite their numbers, which cannot be ignored.

The response was overwhelmingly in opposition. In fact, out of 31 citizen speakers, only 1 indicated any favoritism at all to the healthcare bill in its current form and/or the path on which the federal government is leading us, in general. A professional colleague of mine, even got an opportunity to express himself (he’s the one in the red shirt, the final speaker shown in the video that follows). Here’s a news video…
http://www.necn.com/Boston/NECN-Extra/2009/08/11/Specter-faces-angry/1250003127.html

The Democrats, however, appear to be indignant and in denial to the reality that confronts them. Either that, or they are just so set in their ways that they believe they can, in partisan fashion, do whatever they want to do due to their numbers in Congress, regardless of the desires of their constituency. Post town hall statements by Specter and PA Governor Ed Rendell substantiate this fantasy…
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20090812_Specter__Town_hall_protestors_
are_not_representative.html

Specter did apparently, however, take to heart the healthcare referendum recommendation made by one of the Lebanon town hall speakers…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/11/sen-specter-says-hell-pitch-fascinating-option-health-care-referendum/

I’d say congressional Democrats had better wake-up. No one can force feed such significant liberty infringing legislation upon American people who have this much animosity toward it, without suffering retribution by those same passionate Americans. My prediction is that, unless the Democrats experience a near-term epiphany and respond accordingly, they will find themselves at a significant numeric disadvantage in Congress following the Nov-2010 mid-term elections.

Healthcare or Cap-and-Trade legislation passed anywhere close to their current forms will be not only a death knell for America as we know it but, as well, the political aspirations of many career politicians. Who knows, maybe fending for themselves in the private sector is just the dose of reality they need to become productive citizens as opposed to the condescending, elite royalty of which they currently believe they are the benefactors?

Concerned Americans Being Demonized for Voicing Outrage with Socialist Healthcare Bill

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 10, 2009
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Are these good things for Americans? The following are actually in the House healthcare bill currently under consideration…

1. Healthcare will be rationed. Yes, it states your annual limitation to be $5,000 per individual and $10,000 per family and covers no preventative care. A government committee, composed primarily of individuals who can be appointed by the President, will determine the treatments and benefits for which you qualify.

2. Healthcare will be provided to all non-U.S. citizens and any nonresident alien is exempt from individual taxes (ie. citizens pay for illegals’ healthcare).

3. The government will have access to your finances and direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

4. A single payer system is the end game despite President Obama’s statements otherwise concerning “his bill”. The government is creating a healthcare exchange to bring private plans under their control. No company can sue the governments for price-fixing, which means the government has the means to eliminate all private competition with no fear of litigation. Businesses will be significantly penalized for not providing the public option.

5. The government will use community organizers like ACORN and Americorps to “inform and educate” people (ie. sign them up).

6. Individuals are “forced” to have heathcare deemed “acceptable” by the government, whether they want it or not, since they will be taxed 2.5% of their income if they don’t.

7. The government will have access to all your medical records and finances and a National ID Healthcare Card will be issued.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The infringement upon our liberties, trampling of the Constitution and imminent destruction of the finest medical delivery system in the world goes on for 1017 pages in H.R. 3200…
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.txt.pdf

If you prefer the abridged edition, here’s a very comprehensive summary that was developed by Liberty Counsel on 7/29/09 based upon review, revisions and adaptations of Peter Fleckenstein’s previously posted FreeRepublic.com version…
http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf

There’s no doubt that our healthcare system requires reform, however, what’s needed is a private-sector overhaul with government oversight, not a socialist government takeover of 1/7th of the U.S. economy.

This is what concerned citizens are bringing to light at these town hall meetings throughout the country. These individuals are not the lunatic fringe. They are patriots exercising their 1st Amendment right to free speech, which the government apparently desires to suppress. The lunatic fringe is the 500 plus so-called public servants in the legislative and executive branches of our current government that are trying to ram this atrocity down the throats of the American people.

Don’t be intimidated by the demonization of us concerned Americans that’s being done by the President, extreme liberals in Congress and their willing accomplices in the mainstream, virtually state-run, media. Make no mistake, the government bureaucracy and the consequential assault on American liberties that this bill would create will be virtually impossible to reverse at any time within our realistic futures, once enacted.

Demand that your voice be heard by contacting your congressmen and attending these town halls during the congressional recess over the next few weeks. This bill would usher in a “new” America… one in which most of us will have no desire to live. If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for your kids and their kids.

Be afraid, be very afraid. This is truly that important!

Obama Birth ‘Phony Issue’ Now in Congressional Record

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 04, 2009
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A statement ridiculing the growing “birther” movement and the media attention it has drawn was officially addressed on the U.S. Senate floor and consequently entered for eternity into the Congressional Record by none other than Harry Reid (D-NV)…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105895

Smoking Gun in Obama U.S. Citizenship Controversy?

Posted by Greg Garrett on August 03, 2009
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Last week I posted an article that identified research that had been completed by Parker Shannon, author of the recently shut down website TheObamaFile.com…
http://www.hambiltonian.com/domain/agk/blog/494/natural-born-us-citizenship-defined/

It contends that legal precedent has been established defining “natural born” U.S. citizenship as one being born on the U.S. mainland to BOTH parents who are U.S. citizens. As far as I know, it’s an irrefutable and uncontested fact that Barack Hussein Obama’s father of the same name was a Kenyan national and British subject at the time of junior’s birth. This, in itself, invalidates Obama’s presidency. At the very least it substantiates the need for a congressional inquiry.

Well, it’s possible that the second shoe has just dropped. Orly Taitz, lawyer of record on many lawsuits that have been brought forth on this constitutional issue, has anonymously received a birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama, which identifies him as having been born on August 4, 1961 in Mombasa, Kenya. The document is being authenticated. What a 48th birthday present that would be for the President.

Read the details in the WND story here…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105764

Natural Born U.S. Citizenship Defined

Posted by Greg Garrett on July 30, 2009
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Because you’ll NEVER be conveyed the technical details by the mainstream media and this information is so important to understanding the Obama U.S. citizenship constitutional issue, I have highlighted the following excerpt from a WorldNetDaily article referenced in an America’sGottaKnow post from earlier today…
http://www.hambiltonian.com/domain/agk/blog/483/theobamafilecom-shuts-down/

(Click on the image of the chart, below, to enlarge it)

The phrase “natural born citizen” is key, because the Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

Parker Shannon featured on his site charts and quotes from Congress on his page claiming a person needs to have both parents as U.S. citizens to be considered a “natural born” citizen, as opposed to just being born in the U.S., which would make someone a “native born” citizen.


Original Source: www.TheObamaFile.com/naturalbornchart.htm

His site explained: “Obama is not a ‘natural born citizen’ because his father was a Kenyan national and a British subject. To be a natural born citizen, a person’s parents must BOTH be citizens of the United States of America. Further, that person must be born in the United States.”