Let me quote Dr. Edwin Vieira, who wrote about this back in December 2008 before Obama was “sworn” into office:

If Obama is not “a natural born Citizen” or has renounced such citizenship, he is simply not eligible for “the Office of President” (Article II, Section 1, Clause 4). That being so, he cannot be “elected” by the voters, by the Electoral College, or by the House of Representatives (see Amendment XII). For neither the voters, nor the Electors, nor members of the House can change the constitutional requirement, even by unanimous vote inter sese (see Article V). If, nonetheless, the voters, the Electors, or the members of the House purport to “elect” Obama, he will be nothing but a usurper, because the Constitution defines him as such. And he can never become anything else, because a usurper cannot gain legitimacy if even all of the country aid, abets, accedes to, or acquiesces in his usurpation.

If Obama dares to take the Presidential “Oath or Affirmation” of office, knowing that he is not “a natural born Citizen,” he will commit the crime of perjury or false swearing (see Article II, Section 1, Clause 7). For, being ineligible for “the Office of President,” he cannot “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” or even execute it at all, to any degree. Thus, his very act of taking the “Oath or Affirmation” will be a violation thereof! So, even if the chief justice of the Supreme Court himself looks the other way and administers the “Oath or Affirmation,” Obama will derive no authority whatsoever from it.

Third, his purported “Oath or Affirmation” being perjured from the beginning, Obama’s every subsequent act in the usurped “Office of President” will be a criminal offense under Title 18, United States Code, Section 242.

If Obama does become an usurper posturing as “the President,” Congress cannot even impeach him because, not being the actual President, he cannot be “removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” (see Article II, Section 4).

For those who think Dr. Vieira Jr., Ph.D., J.D., is just some run-of-the-mill attorney, let me give you a very condensed bio: He holds four degrees from Harvard. For more than 30 years he has practiced law, with emphasis on constitutional issues. In the Supreme Court of the United States, he successfully argued or briefed the cases leading to the landmark decisions Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson and Communications Workers of America v. Beck. His two volume tome, “Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution,” is the most comprehensive study in existence of American monetary law and history viewed from a constitutional perspective.

Despite all the noise out there by Obama’s supporters, it is crystal clear the putative president was born with dual citizenship and is forever ineligible to be president.

Obama seized the office of president through fraud. As a usurper, he’s never held office. That’s what the word usurp means: to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right. Since he legally has never occupied the White House as president, he cannot be impeached.

Now, when I have pointed this out countless times to groups demanding impeachment, I get this response: I don’t care – we just have to get him out.

Those are people who proudly proclaim they only want to see the U.S. Constitution upheld. Those are people who state unequivocally that the usurper was never eligible to run because he’s not a natural born citizen under the U.S. Constitution.

You can’t have it both ways. In essence, what those folks are saying is we can do the same thing as Obama and his coconspirators: circumvent the Constitution.

But, the usurper has committed crimes while in office! Indeed, he has and continues to do so. Knowing he was not eligible to run, the putative president solicited campaign donations to the tune of about $700 million dollars. He can still be indicted for wire fraud.

Those who demand his impeachment are asking to set one of the worst legal precedents in our history: Any constitutionally ineligible thug can come along and buy his way into the White House. We’ll just impeach him later!

To impeach would also accomplish this: Every piece of legislation he’s signed into law would remain on the books. Let me quote Dr. Vieira one more time:

“Perhaps most importantly, Congress can pass no law while an usurper pretends to occupy “the Office of President.” The Constitution provides that “[e]very Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States” (Article I, Section 7, Clause 2). Not to a usurper posturing as “the President of the United States,” but to the true and rightful President. If no such true and rightful President occupies the White House, no “Bill” will or can, “before it become a Law, be presented to [him].” If no “Bill” is so presented, no “Bill” will or can become a “Law.” And any purported “Law” that the usurper “approve[s]” and “sign[s],” or that Congress passes over the usurper’s “Objections,” will be a nullity. Thus, if Obama deceitfully “enters office” as an usurper, Congress will be rendered effectively impotent for as long as it acquiesces in his pretenses as “President.”

Besides removing a usurper from office, that should be our second-highest consideration and why the outlaw Congress hasn’t moved against him. All 535 of them allowed this to happen, and now it’s gone so far; they don’t have the courage to take on the mess they’ve made.

The usurper can be indicted once out of office, but how to get him out? Please take the time to read my column on that process. Will he ever be indicted for his crimes? With enough public pressure, it can happen because his handlers would simply throw him under the bus as a liability.

There will be a massive push to keep the putative president off the ballot in dozens of states. It will come from candidates who understand the process discussed in my column above. Mark my words, what’s coming will be a nightmare for the DNC and Obama’s handlers. Time is running out for them to find another viable candidate; something will have to give. One way or the other, Obama’s crimes are going to catch up with him, but please stop working toward setting the wrong legal precedent. It’s beyond frustrating, I know, but either we live our words in supporting the U.S. Constitution or we take the wrong road opening the door for another ineligible candidate with enough money and corrupt individuals behind him to seize the office of president.

That question was posed in one of the informal voter opinion sessions in Nevada hosted by Fox News during the recent election cycle. The constitutional response would be: U.S. senators are not supposed to represent the citizens of the state.

When the First Continental Congress was convened via a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation, one of the first issues discussed on May 29, 1787, was the balance of power for a newly created federal government:

3. Resolved, that the National Legislature ought to consist of two branches.

4. Resolved, that the member of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States every _____ for the term of _____; to be of the age of ____years at least. …

5. Resolved, that the members of the second branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by those of the first, out of a proper number of persons nominated by the individual Legislatures, to be of the age of ____ years at least. …

James Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers No. 45: “The Senate will be elected absolutely and exclusively by the State legislatures.” John Jay, co-author of The Federal Papers is quoted: “Jay then informed Governor Clinton that, unlike the Senate, where the two-thirds rule was in force for treaties and impeachment, the lower house had nothing to do with treaties; it represented the people whereas the Senate represented the states – for the Federalists always a significant distinction.”

The framers of the Constitution wisely understood the absolute necessity of ensuring we the people would have the right to vote for our representative in Congress, and at the same time because they all jealously guarded freedom and liberty, the states must also have equal representation. We the people would have the ability to remove via the ballot box miscreants and scoundrels, while the state legislatures could recall their U.S. senators who acted against the best interests of their states.

The Senate was supposed to be a sort of check and balance, but that disappeared when U.S. senators began to be voted into office by special interests and mobs demanding more from the people’s treasury. The absolute right of the states to equal representation was wiped out when the 17th Amendment was declared ratified April 8, 1913.

When did government officials start ignoring our national charter – and why does it continue? Find out in “Who Killed the Constitution?”

The limited legislative authority delegated to U.S. senators is very important. They confirm federal judges, U.S. Supreme Court justices, the U.S. attorney general, secretary of state and other Cabinet heads – individuals who can and have had a negative impact on the states of the Union over the decades.

The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties. Just look at the destruction of jobs in the states because of “agreements” like NAFTA (No American Factories Taking Applications) and treaties like CAFTA and GATT/WTO. Millions of jobs shipped overseas to Mexico and South America while Americans stand in unemployment lines. Look at the destruction to our industrial and manufacturing sectors – nearly wiped out along with millions of jobs because of those unconstitutional treaties. Then there’s the harm to our nation from our illegal participation as a member of the communist U.N. and the treaties coming out of that rancid operation. That is why the states were to have equal representation in the U.S. Senate – to check a president on treaties.

By having the state legislatures appoint their two U.S. senators, the citizens of the states actually benefit in far greater measure than by direct vote. States would appoint senators who would get the U.S. out of the U.N., Bretton Woods, NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT/WTO and begin to impeach activist judges whose decisions directly impact the lives of citizens in the sovereign 50 states. That is the constitutional solution.

Several major efforts are under way to repeal the 17th Amendment, but is that the right course to take? You can’t repeal an amendment that clearly was not ratified by enough states.

In March 2009, I personally went to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., joined by two colleagues. Our purpose was to obtain, which we did, court-certified documents regarding the ratification of that amendment. Having obtained them, there is no doubt the amendment was not ratified by enough states at the time. Five states allegedly didn’t ratify until months after then-Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan declared it ratified! All of the historical documents, court-certified, are available.

We find in the official publication called “Constitution Jefferson’s Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, Eighty-Seventh Congress,” Thomas Jefferson said, in part: “Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”

Since many state legislatures were out of session at the time of the vote, have they been deprived of equal Suffrage in the U.S. Senate because they did not participate in the ratification of this amendment? Have those states been deprived of equal suffrage in the Senate as well as the states that took no action, like the state of Georgia?

Is fraud (non ratification) enough to allow a state to declare the amendment null and void? Jefferson also wrote in the manual cited above: “Question has arisen as to the power of a State to recall its assent to a constitutional amendment (V. 7042).” What about that?

How do the states resolve this critical issue? It will not come from Congress; that is a given cemented in concrete.

I am not a lawyer and have no legal training. However, one thing I do believe: It’s absolutely wrong to correct a legal fiction using a method which would give legitimacy to that fiction. The same constitutional crisis exists over Obama/Soetoro and the growing call for impeachment. He is without question a usurper. You cannot impeach someone who has legally never held that office. Giving legitimacy to fraud demeans our Constitution and takes away honor and integrity for our system of government purchased with rivers of blood.

What options do the states of the Union have should just one state legislature take the courageous step in challenging the ratification?

A state legislature could pass a resolution that would be sent to their attorney general to file a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court. Why the Supreme Court? I think because it would be an original-jurisdiction case: Article III, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution:

The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; – to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; – to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; – to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; – to controversies between two or more states; – between a state and citizens of another state; – between citizens of different states; – between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.

Such a lawsuit most certainly is a controversy to which the United States would be the prime party involving fraudulent ratification of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Shouldn’t ratification of amendments to the U.S. Constitution be subject to judicial scrutiny where fraud is clearly in evidence? The answer is clearly yes.

What about treaties in place should the amendment be declared not ratified? Realistically speaking, you couldn’t just declare all the treaties passed since 1913 null and void on the spot, even though legally it would be correct. However, the House of Representatives can introduce a bill like H.R. 4759, which has been languishing since March, to get us out of NAFTA. Simply apply the normal process to get us out of those treaties.

The long over due states’ rights movement is growing at lightening speed. Americans are learning about the 10th Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, the real meaning of the Welfare Clause and nullification. For the states to fully regain their sovereignty, the 17th Amendment must be challenged. If a state legislature is happy with the individual “voted” into office to serve in the Senate, they can keep that individual. In a calm, rational manner, the problem can be worked. Is there one state in our Union with the courage to challenge this fraud and restore their right to be represented in Congress, or will they remain little more than doormats for corrupt senators?

Has anyone seen or heard a direct threat from Iran to launch a nuclear weapon at America? Invade America? Has there been any credible threat from Iran to do the United States any harm? Media sources continue to report with a certainty that Iran is going to attack the United States with a nuclear weapon based on “intelligence sources.”

Do the American people believe Iran would be so foolish as to lob a nuclear weapon at the United States? There’s no question our military capability is superior. We could wipe out Iran with a snap of the fingers. They know it, we know it. Iran maintains they have the sovereign right to develop nuclear power – just like Britain, France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States have already developed deployable nuclear weapons under their sovereign status.

North Korea is also being accused of building up a nuclear capability allegedly based on the constant threats of military action by Bush. Since the 1960s, both the Russians and Communist Chinese have provided substantial support to North Korea’s efforts. As recent as 2003, Pakistan began playing a substantial role in making North Korea’s nuclear program a success. Communist China, Russia and Pakistan – all supposed friends of the United States – helping an enemy of America build their nuclear program. Few Americans realize Communist China and Russia are the two biggest host nations for terrorists on this globe.

According to a Feb. 29, 2000, story – titled, “China Threatens U.S. with missile strike,” by Bill Gertz of the Washington Times – “China stepped up its war of words over Taiwan yesterday, bluntly threatening to fire long-range nuclear missiles at the United States if it defends the island.”

Despite this direct threat, Bush hasn’t threatened to nuke Communist China – his good friend and trading partner. But, Bush has been making threats against Communist North Korea – and Iran – for years, demanding those two countries shut down any nuclear operations.

Something very important is being overlooked here. The Communist Chinese don’t have enough energy. Communist China has longstanding close ties with Iran. In a published report by BBC News, Nov. 1, 2004:

According to China’s official Xinhua news agency, the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding committing Sinopec to buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas from Iran over 30 years. Iran will also export 150,000 barrels of crude per day to China after Sinopec has developed the Yadavaran field, Xinhua reported.

It valued the deal at $70 billion. Iranian news service IRNA said the memorandum granted China the right to explore and develop the Yadavaran oil field, and provided for LNG sales of 10 million tons a year. Iran supplied roughly 13 percent of China’s oil imports in 2003, according to official figures quoted by Xinhua.

 

China has been experiencing blackouts for years and it will get worse. The Washington Post report gave a good overview of the problem for the communists on July 15, 2005:

With so much competition for assets, China has pursued deals with international pariah states that are off-limits to Western oil companies because of sanctions, security concerns or the threat of bad publicity. China National Petroleum is the largest shareholder in a consortium running much of the oil patch in Sudan, a country accused by the United States of genocide in its western region of Darfur.

Last year, China signed a $70 billion oil and gas purchase agreement with Iran, undercutting efforts by the United States and Europe to isolate Tehran and force it to give up plans for nuclear weapons. If Cnooc acquires Unocal, it would have gas fields and a pipeline in Burma, whose operation by the U.S. company has been criticized by human-rights groups.

No matter if it’s rogue’s oil or a friend’s oil, we don’t care,” said an energy adviser to the central government who spoke on the condition he not be identified, citing the threat of government disciplinary action. “Human rights? We don’t care. We care about oil. Whether Iran would have nuclear weapons or not is not our business. America cares, but Iran is not our neighbor. Anyone who helps China with energy is a friend.

 

Is it in America’s best interests for Bush to bomb Iran – killing who knows how many innocent civilians – to shut down their nuclear plants? No doubt he won’t require a formal declaration of war because the U.S. Constitution is no obstacle for Bush. What about the reaction from nuke-rich Communist China that desperately needs Iran’s oil? Are the American people prepared for the retaliation if Bush bombs Iran? Are the American people ready to sacrifice thousands in our military for a perceived threat?

“In defense of the World Order … U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.”

– Aurthur Schlesinger Jr., July-August ’95 Foreign Affairs

The vitriolic exchanges and name calling over criticizing Bush’s war mongering continues to divide Americans. Bush supporters can stay in denial if it’s more comfortable, but America’s unconstitutional invasion of Iraq – an undeclared war – will fail miserably, just like all the other experiments in “nation building.” This is not a criticism of the job our troops are doing, it is based on past history. As I belong to no political party, I look at Bush’s actions based on the law, not party loyalty.

There isn’t a scintilla of authority in Article 1, Section 8 which allows the people’s treasury to be robbed and pillaged to spend $251 billion borrowed dollars to invade any country, kill those who don’t agree with the United States and then turn around and dictate how a new government is going to be set up, monitor elections, build schools, hospitals and train armies. George Washington must be spinning in his grave. On Dec. 20, 2005, the media reported there was still political fighting between the Shiites and Sunnis and that “the White House wasn’t pleased.” Does anyone see what’s wrong with this picture?

The hysteria over criticizing Bush’s warmongering has nothing to do with being anti-military or not supporting our troops. They are already in danger the minute they step off the plane or ship into Iraq. It is one of the most dangerous places on this earth. Those they war against will try to kill them regardless of whether or not we the people criticize Bush’s policy or embrace it. My husband is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served 27 years, including a tour on the jungles of Vietnam. He said it’s kill or be killed regardless of what’s going on in D.C.

How quickly people forget that the very same conservatives who are now defending Bush’s unconstitutional war are the very same people who so vocally criticized Clinton when he unconstitutionally and without a declaration of war invaded Kosovo.

John Hassell covered this quite well in an April 7, 1999, column:

Even as allied warplanes streak across the Balkan skies, another air war is going on, right here in the United States. The target? President Clinton. Still bristling with moral outrage over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the conservative hosts who dominate talk radio are now attacking Clinton for sending the U.S. military into Kosovo …

Nearly every conservative talk radio personality of national reputation – Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Roger Hedgecock, Baldwin and Liddy, to name a few – has opposed the war in Kosovo.

When Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic announced yesterday that his forces would observe a unilateral cease-fire through Sunday, Limbaugh said it offered NATO a way out. “Let’s cut our losses and accept this cease-fire,” Limbaugh said. He added sarcastically, “Give the president a Congressional Medal of Honor and let’s get back home!”

Does any of the above sound familiar today? Think our soldiers in Clinton’s quagmire in Kosovo were in greater danger while all these popular conservative media types were hammering him? Talk-show hosts like Melanie Morgan used her mike to pound on Clinton being a rapist (which he is). Did the constant criticism of Clinton by all these conservative talk-show hosts encourage the enemy?

It’s OK for conservatives to rip into Clinton every day for years over Kosovo while our soldiers were engaged in death battles with their necks on the line every day. Conservatives didn’t like that undeclared, unconstitutional invasion. But when it’s a war they approve of and you express your opposition, you are excoriated, you’re soft on terrorism, you’re un-American. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.

The American people are behind our troops 100 percent every day, but we want them to come home and stop working to establish a one-world government:

The U.S. military welcomes additional funds for special units. The Pentagon continues its downsizing in preparation for the New World Order.

– Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former Director of the CIA John Deutch, Dec. 1, 1994, “McNeil-Lehrer News Hour”

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We are on the cutting edge of the New World Order here in Bosnia.

– U.S. Army Major Bushyread, May 8, 1996, “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather”

Bush supporters who are too afraid to believe he has betrayed them can continue to parse words. They can hide behind clever wordsmithing, but there can be no denying the legal facts. There was never a declaration of war because the Constitution is no longer an obstacle to the lawbreakers in Washington, D.C. – and forget this sanctimonious BS-ing about U.N. resolutions:

The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve and America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund … when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.

– Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton, Jan. 7, 1999, USA Today

At the time of Bush’s invasion of Iraq, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., stated that “declaring war is anachronistic, it isn’t done anymore …” During the same time period, Ranking Minority Member Tom Lantos, D-Calif., called the declaration of war “frivolous and mischievous.”

Make no mistake: Bush has and will continue to use his endless “war on terror” as the burning match to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights while building a police state in this country to rival Joseph Stalin.

We the people elect our public servants to do the job within the constraints of the U.S. Constitution. Even when a president steps outside his authority, we the people have the absolute duty to question his actions and motives. Our military is for our security here at home. Routing out terrorists within our borders should be top priority, not ordering our military to destroy and then rebuild some foreign country rich in oil.

Bush is simply continuing the mission of his father. Quoting George W. Bush’s speech on Iraqi aggression in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 11, 1990:

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a new world order – can emerge … Iraq itself controls some 10 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves … We cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless. And we won’t … At this very moment, they (our soldiers) serve together with Arabs, Europeans, Asians, and Africans in defense of principle and the dream of a new world order. That’s why they sweat and toil in the sand and the heat and the sun.

Denial is a dangerous state of mind. We the people must open our eyes to painful truths. We must open them, for to remain blind to the truth is to dig the grave of this nation.

Congress continues to steal from the public treasury for votes with the full support of President Bush. Earlier this month, Bush said he fully supports a House plan for an extra $1 billion to help poor families pay heating bills this winter, an amount Democrats – surprise, surprise – say isn’t enough. Our “compassionate conservative” president also said he supports $2.2 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance program, which spent the same amount to help poor and elderly Americans pay their heating bills.

There isn’t a scintilla of authority in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that allows Congress to steal from we the people to pay heating bills for individual citizens or families. These lawbreakers in Washington will try to justify violating the supreme law of the land by claiming the general welfare clause of the Constitution allows it. Of course, when one has done the historical homework, it’s clear this is an unsupported argument. Shawn O’Connor of the Free Enterprise Society summed it up quite succinctly:

Discussion of the general welfare clause of the Constitution by the courts relies upon the Federalist Papers. This term simply means: Taxation was to protect the individuals’ life, liberty and ownership of private property. One can go to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution and read the general welfare clause. Then one can do some history research and see what the Anti-Federalists had to say about this clause: That this clause conveys absolute power to the central government.

Patrick Henry was very vocal in his opposition to putting this kind of language into the Constitution. Madison, however, assured Henry and others that all the general welfare clause represented was a preliminary introduction prior to the enumerating the specific powers the delegates were about to grant to this new federal government and that the general welfare clause granted no new power to the government whatsoever. It was simply an introductory statement.

The Anti-Federalists still weren’t satisfied. Hamilton and Madison came back to re-state that if the general welfare clause conveyed absolute power to the government, why would they go on to list the specific powers they were going to grant the government? That wouldn’t make any sense at all if they were going to give absolute power to this government. It was finally conceded by all at the convention that the general welfare clause conveyed absolutely no power to the government.

Make no mistake about it: This type of unlawful expenditure is for votes. State governors and legislatures do the same thing, and the chickens are coming home to roost at all levels of government. The only problem is not only is it unlawful, but there is no money to pay for these social welfare programs. The U.S. Treasury is empty. It is more than $8 trillion in the hole, yet on Nov. 18, 2005, Congress voted themselves a $3,100 raise.

There is no question this economy is already dead and that to keep it afloat without the kind of hyper inflation seen down in Argentina, the Federal Reserve will continue to paper this country with fiat currency. But, it won’t solve the dire situation, because neither Congress nor Bush are addressing the financial catastrophe that will hit when that first wave of 77 million baby boomers retire in ’08.

Recently, I watched a segment on the tube showcasing a family in Indiana. The husband works at an auto plant and makes roughly $50,000 per year. The mother stays home with three children. Their predicted heating bills this winter will run so high, they say they need federal assistance to pay them. This family’s problem isn’t unique. However, the federal government has no constitutional authority to pay their heating bills, either in full or in part. So what can be done to assist those in need?

We do it the constitutional way. First, the father earns $50,000, but by the time all the taxes have eaten the fruits of his labor, he will be lucky to take home $32,000 a year. Stop the temporary World War II tax called “withholding” and tell the American people the truth about Social Security. This would immediately bring that family hundreds of dollars per month into the household, which can be used to pay their heating bills. Remember: Not a single penny of your income tax (and it would be the same under these alternative taxing schemes) pays a single cent toward one function of the federal government. One-hundred percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the congressionally created national debt and contributions to transfer payments, i.e. unconstitutional payments to the communist U.N., the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and foreign aid.

Run the federal government on constitutional revenues. That can’t happen until the privately owned “Federal” Reserve Banking System is shut down. As long as Congress has the ability to borrow you and your grandbabies into massive, unpayable debt, the more dire the situation becomes. Get rid of the Fed, force Congress to spend within the limits proscribed under Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, and there will be no more direct taxation against the fruits of your labor and Americans will be able to meet those critical monthly obligations.

Americans are very generous with big hearts. Charity starts at home. Here in Sacramento, we have a voluntary donation program through the utility district. You can add a $1 or $5 to your payment each month, which goes 100 percent toward assisting low-income families with their heating bills. We add the extra $5 per month from November to April. An extra $30 out of our pockets – less than the cost of one restaurant dinner – but it assists the lower income-level families without raising taxes. When you use a system like this, not only is it constitutional, but set up properly for many other state expenditures, it makes it more feasible to lower city, county and state taxes.

The solutions are there, but they won’t get implemented by leaving the same inept, corrupt politicians in office. Additionally, the American people themselves must stop looking to mother government for social welfare spending unless you want to live under a communist system.

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

– James Madison, “Federalist No. 45,” Jan. 26, 1788

On Dec. 2, 2005, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly ruled that Illinois restrictions on the sale of sexually explicit, violent video games to minors is unconstitutional and barred the state from enforcing a law passed by their Legislature. Opponents of this law, which would have gone into effect Jan. 1, 2006, declared it a restriction on free speech.

Judge Kennelly agreed by ruling “the law would interfere with the First Amendment and there wasn’t a compelling enough reason, such as preventing imminent violence, to allow that.” Kennelly further went on to say, “In this country, the state lacks the authority to ban protected speech on the ground that it affects the listener’s or observer’s thoughts and attitudes.”

These retailers who complained so loudly about this law have not had their free-speech rights abridged. They can still sell to anyone over the age of 18. The 50 state legislatures in this republic are part of a union, but they are also separate, sovereign republics unto themselves. State legislatures routinely pass legislation that restricts the sale or consumption of certain products by minors. For example, states pass legislation that prohibits minors from purchasing and consuming alcohol and tobacco. The key word here is minors.

The retailers of these videos displaying violence and sexually explicit material operate within the states of the Union and are therefore under the control of the state just like any other retail enterprise. The Illinois State Legislature passed this law, not to violate the free speech of retailers who sell this garbage, but to restrict sales to minors. This is their right under the 10th Amendment.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

How, pray tell, is restricting the sale of any video to minors by a local retailer a violation of free speech? Congress isn’t in Illinois attempting to abridge free speech. Selling a video is now considered an act of free speech? How absurd, and yet here we have another federal judge stomping on the rights of the states under some flimsy and silly ruling. Of course, Judge Kennelly isn’t worried about any rotten decisions he makes because he knows there is no oversight of federal judges by the counterfeit U.S. Senate.

Another ruling by a federal judge that has received no media attention is the latest one in the Bill Benson case I covered in my column, “Checkmate,” a few weeks ago. This very important First Amendment case has taken another twist by a compromised federal judge. Benson’s attorney filed a brief that backed the U.S. attorneys into a hole so deep, they should have disappeared. Instead of finding in favor of Benson, federal magistrate Judge Keys simply ignored a prevailing Seventh Circuit ruling in favor of the hand that feeds him.

Benson’s legal team has filed their latest brief in opposition to this latest travesty. So far, not one single conservative radio talk-show host, cable show or mainstream media has covered one minute of this critical case. Judge Keys should be removed from the bench, but he knows that won’t happen.

Every day we hear from conservative leaders in Congress, talk radio, cable shows and on conservative websites all about how the ACLU – backed up by federal judges – is running amok over the First Amendment and its massive effort to erase Christ from America. There is and always has been a remedy that the Republican-controlled Congress (since January 1995) have refused to execute: Abolish the unconstitutional Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976. All this talk, but never any action to permanently fix the problem.

This issue is monumental in this country because these out-of-control federal judges are ruining people’s lives, e.g., the Kelo decision. Instead of getting tough with federal judges who ignore the Constitution and are legislating from the bench, what do these jokers in the U.S. Senate spend their time doing? Last week, the Herald Tribune and other media outlets carried this earth-shattering story: “U.S. Sens. Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg, both Democrats, recently proposed that the Senate recognize the release of the album that catapulted their fellow New Jerseyite, Springsteen, into stardom three decades ago. The GOP leadership in the Senate didn’t give the resolution a hearing.”

The U.S. Senate will waste time on bickering over a resolution to honor some rock singer, but they sit back and allow these federal judges – including U.S. Supreme Court justices – to continue destroying the rights of Americans and stomping on states’ rights with their unconstitutional and convoluted decisions. Thirty-three U.S. Senate seats are unlawfully up for re-election in 2006. If the voters once again reward these ineffective slackers by voting them back into office, the destruction of everything we hold dear will continue.

There was a great deal of D.C. doublespeak going on earlier this year about tax reform, tax cuts and selling the American people further down the road of financial bondage via alternative taxing schemes. Predictably, all this jabbering has produced nothing:

Tax-cut momentum waning … amid costly post-hurricane cleanup and soaring budget deficits, the Democrats and moderate Republicans who once rallied behind tax cuts are now hanging back.

– Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 29, 2005

There’s never has been any attempt to return to constitutional government since FDR began the massive push to inculcate the American people into a state of total dependency on mother government. It doesn’t matter if the GOP or the Democratic/Communist Party hold the majority in Congress, both parties violate the supreme law of the land every day they’re in session. Both parties have allowed the plunder of the people’s treasury to continue unabated since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was passed by a corrupt Congress.

Every so often, we hear that Congress “wants” to get rid of the death tax – another bald faced lie that will slam into the American people come 2010 if this republic even survives that long. Americans are fleeced during their lifetime by the Internal Revenue Service misapplying the tax code to them. Then, when they leave this earth, in swoops the Gestapo to tax what’s left. This tax is taxing what has already been taxed and taxed and taxed. Those courageous men of such wisdom who birthed this Republic would never have stood idly by and allowed this reprehensible picking the bones of the dead.

Deciding that there are too many single black mothers in Washington, D.C., those “smaller government” Republicans in Congress also approved a pilot program which gives $9,000 to couples in D.C. to forfeit living together and get married. This $9,000 stolen from your pocket can be used to provide capital for a new business, school or a down payment on a house after the marriage has taken place. There isn’t a scintilla of authority in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution which authorizes this kind of stealing from the people’s treasury to give borrowed money to anyone promote marriage.

On one hand, these scoundrels in Congress unlawfully whack married America by forcing them into a higher tax bracket, while the other hand is unlawfully handing out thousands of dollars to get couples to marry. There is a line in the Beatles song, “I am the Walrus,” which goes like this: “Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.” These crooks and the factually challenged in Congress are sitting on a cornflake – not waiting for a van – but for the complete and total financial meltdown that will fully materialize at least a year before the first wave of baby boomers retire in 2008. While these scoundrels in Congress will have “theirs,” don’t look to them to save your bacon.

The congressionally created national debt is running in excess of $8 trillion. To add insult to injury, Congress just voted themselves a raise in the amount of $3,100 on Nov. 18, 2005. After such taxing labor on your behalf, they then postponed work on zillions of smokescreen bills to chop unlawful spending on social programs, cut taxes and headed for a two-week vacation. Let me tell you a truth most will reject: Unless this stops, the middle class will retire into poverty and the marginally wealthy will retire trying to make ends meet.

There is but one solution: the constitutional solution I have outlined in so many of my previous columns. That won’t happen until we remove these incompetent employees serving in Congress. As Charley Reese so brilliantly wrote:

Are you telling me we can’t find 100 good men and women to replace the ones who have failed in their duty? That the present 435 members of the House represent the best people available in the United States? God forbid. We have not sunk that low. You could pick 535 men and women from any small city in America, pick them at random, and you’d have a vastly improved federal legislature.

Americans need to get out of a state of willful denial: The good ship is going down because you refuse to hold your elected servants accountable for their actions. Forget “save the party.” Our first priority should be to save this republic: Fire Congress in ’06!

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Bill Benson, for those who don’t know, is the individual who holds the 17,000 court certified documents that prove beyond any doubt that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was never ratified. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service uses the 16th Amendment, supported by compromised federal judges, to defraud the American people of the fruit of their labors via the income tax.

All the American people ever see or read is the propaganda spewed by the Department of Justice’s lackey U.S. attorneys is that the 16th Amendment was ratified, it is the basis for the IRS to collect taxes and any argument to the contrary is “frivolous.”

Right now my dear friend, Bill Benson, is involved in a major court battle with the feds. Despite his very serious health issues, this lion is not about to give up the fight. I encourage everyone to read it. What this lawsuit by the feds against Bill amounts to is the complete and total destruction of free speech. It is designed to crush the truth and the First Amendment using the full force of the federal machine. This lawsuit is to keep the truth Bill has uncovered away from the American people.

The non-ratified 16th Amendment says:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Few people, especially those pushing alternative taxing schemes have little or no understanding of the importance of “apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” It is because of those carefully crafted words that the shadow government was willing to risk the fraudulent announcement of the 16th Amendment. They needed this amendment passed because the Federal Reserve Act was to be passed later that year (1913) and the income tax was created solely to feed the central bank. The late, great Vivien Kellems knew exactly the importance of those words:

Since a capitation means a tax of the same amount for every person, this provision makes doubly sure that all federal taxes must be at the same uniform rate for everybody. This limitation that direct taxes be levied by the Federal Government must be in proportion to a census and apportioned among the States in accordance with numbers, is the only provision in the Constitution that is stated twice … “No capitation, or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the Census of Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.” And in those two sentences our forefathers bound fast the hands of Congress and secured the liberty and freedom of the American people. How? By making it utterly impossible to levy an income tax …

An income tax is certainly a direct tax, probably the most direct tax of all since it cannot be shifted but must be paid by the person receiving the income. By specifying that direct taxes must be levied in accordance with the number of people, not upon what they produced, as in the days of ancient Egypt, an income tax was simply out of the question. It cannot be levied upon a man, but must be levied upon what he receives …

The supreme achievement of the combined brains of all those men were written into those two sentences and the freedom and liberty of the American people were secured in them. For in those two sentences the right of the free man to own something was made inviolate. This was his distinguishing mark, the only criterion of freedom in all the world, the right of the common man to retain for himself the fruit of his labor …

But his power to levy direct taxes was limited by an ironbound restriction: that tax must be apportioned among the States in accordance with the population. Since all taxes were to be at a uniform rate, Congress simply could not penalize one section of the country, or one group of citizens for the unfair advantage of another …

This was the most brilliant plan ever conceived for guaranteeing the freedom of a nation. It protected every person in his right to private property, rich and poor alike, and under this protection we built the richest, most powerful nation on earth. We achieved and maintained for the majority of our people a standard of living undreamed of before, the hope and the envy of the whole world.

The feds may have finally stepped in their lies so deep, they cannot escape without the truth being exposed. As Benson’s brilliant legal counsel, Jeffrey Dickstein, points out:

As previously discussed, the United States can not prevail as a matter of law unless it can prove Benson “made or caused to be made false or fraudulent statements concerning the tax benefits to be derived from the entity, plan or arrangement” and that “he knew or had reason to know the statements were false or fraudulent.” This requires the United States to prove the Sixteenth Amendment was properly ratified, because if it were not properly ratified, Benson’s statements would not be false or fraudulent, they would be true, and the United States’ action would fail.

Checkmate.

“….we operate here out of directives that emanate from the White House. And the subject of those directives are, we are to use our grant-making powers to alter life in the United States so that we can be merged with the Soviet Union.”

– Rowan Gaither, Joint Committee on Regional Government hearings, Sept. 26, 1978

On Nov. 4, 2005, Congress once again, passed a grossly unconstitutional foreign-aid appropriations bill in the amount of 20.9 billion borrowed dollars. In this monstrous new foreign-aid appropriations bill is a $4 million expenditure to fund Russian political parties. Every time you buy cigarettes, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, excise taxes on tires and gasoline, you will be paying to support political parties in Russia – a corrupt, rotten government run by mafia gangsters.

The people’s treasury is already over drawn $8 trillion-plus, yet these buzzards in Congress are forcing you deeper into slavery. New World Order facilitator George Bush will sign this bill into law further violating the U.S. Constitution and putting every hard working American into more massive, unpayable debt. You are already paying $2700 per year to support illegals who smuggle themselves into this country. When will enough be enough?

There is nothing in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution which allows Congress to steal from the people’s treasury to give money to any foreign government. Just because Congress has been violating the supreme law of the land for decades does not make it legal.

Having a difficult time at the gas pump, trying to put food on the table, pay for medical coverage and clothe your children? Today you will work to pay for these $20.9 billion “foreign policy programs” which unconstitutionally provide financial aid to poor nations for health, education and military initiatives. Some $110 million alone goes for the “Middle East Partnership Initiative” – recipients include oil-rich Kuwait and Saudi Arabia!

Bush’s New World Order “Millennium Challenge Program” will get $1.8 billion borrowed dollars. This pet project of Bush’s is to “spread democracy to underdeveloped countries by tying foreign aide to political, economic and human rights reforms.” How utterly reprehensible that a sitting president of these United States of America would not only violate his oath of office by signing such an appropriations bill, but Bush is pushing the most evil form of government: democracy. No democracy has ever survived. Bush is promoting and supporting failure. Congress has been supporting his anti-American agenda and we the people are being forced to fund our own destruction.

None of this is by accident, but rather by a cleverly designed trap which the American people are walking right into because of blind loyalty to their political party favorite. Jeri Lynn Ball, author of “The Masters of Seduction, gives us a raw accounting of the truth:

Freedom-loving Americans are now on a collision course with the Russian and Chinese communists, and their ally, the Bush administration. These communitarian ruling classes are carrying forward the program for global communist conquest, a program initiated by communist gangster bosses, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

The morality they have been preaching, i.e. community values (the communist morality) is evil and their global communitarian and environmental programs and policies, strategies and tactics, treaties and alliances, plans and course of action are evil. Can there be any doubt that their aim is to scrap the U.S. Constitution, abolish American liberties and establish a military form of government?

The Sino-Soviet-U.S. communitarian governing elites have been achieving the altruization, collectivization, and Sovietization of the United States by inculcating in Americans Soviet communitarian ideology and communist morality (communistic community life, community building, and community values, i.e. selflessness, social duty, service to the community, and sacrifice and hard work for “the Common Good.”) The globalist ruling elites are the architects of the new world order – the builders of the communist international community and the global network of local communist communities.

This criminal cabal is made up of the governing classes in Russia, China and the United States … In each of these countries, the ruling class, the controllers, the privileged caste is the nomenklatura. The Soviet nomenklatura runs the Soviet Union. The Communist Chinese nomencklatura rules China. The Council on Foreign Relations is the U.S. nomenklatura …

The Clinton-Bush administrations have collaborated with the Russians and Communist Chinese to create a one-world government under the United Nations – a brutal, terror-inspiring, global totalitarian police state. These maniacs work together to impose a new world order comprised of masters and slaves – a world without Christianity, without principled individualism and private free enterprise, without liberty and justice.

America: The blueprint is right there to see if you will just open your eyes and get out of a state of denial before it’s too late. We the people are being stripped of our God-given rights, our property and our freedom. We are being run into the poor house to prop up corrupt dictatorships around the world. The sweat off your back is being stolen without any legal basis and given to citizens of foreign counties.

This transfer of wealth is bankrupting the American people and sending the middle class to the poor house. The process is almost complete. Is this really the legacy you will hand your children and grand babies?

During the extensive discussion over the Harriett Miers nomination, conservatives complained that Bush’ nomination didn’t fit the bill. The only choice as a replacement should be a “strict constructionist” who would stick to the Constitution and not legislate from the bench. That sounds like an excellent suggestion … too bad conservatives refuse to apply the same standards to their congressional representatives.

The Republicans have controlled Congress since January 1995 and they have collectively taken America straight to Hell ever since. Just because a politician says they’re conservative doesn’t mean they are adhering to the restrictions placed on them by the U.S. Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 8. Let me give you but a few examples of what the Republican-controlled Congress has given “we the people” since they took power.

They have refused to abolish the grossly unconstitutional NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and GATT-WTO (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). These destructive treaties have virtually destroyed our three most important job sectors (agriculture, manufacturing, industrial) and have cost millions of Americans their jobs. CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement ) was just unconstitutionally “passed.” This treaty will further destroy jobs and our sovereignty. And Bush wants the FTAA (Free Trade of the Americas) done by Dec. 31, 2005, and it will be the final nail in the coffin for American sovereignty.

They have given us the Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security and a plethora of draconian laws now on the books for the never-ending “war on terrorism.” There is no need for this monstrous beast called “Homeland Security,” we the people need only reconstitute the state militias.

The “smaller government” Republicans have shamelessly run up the national debt to the private banking cartel putting you, your children and grandchildren into forced indentured servitude. National debt as of Jan. 2, 1995, was nearly $4.8 trillion. As of Oct. 31, 2005, it had grown to over $8 trillion.

Counterfeit U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants to unlawfully raid the people’s treasury for $3.1 billion borrowed dollars to help eligible low-income households meet their home-heating needs. Pure communism, but will the Republicans stop this unconstitutional spending? Not a chance. Votes are everything, the Constitution is just a rag they continue to shred unchecked.

“Hate crime” bills sponsored by Republicans – i.e., Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Norm Coleman – are clearly unconstitutional. Think they care? They owe their big-money donors.

The Republican-controlled Congress just passed another new law that will give the dysfunctional Food and Drug Administration authority to ban virtually any herb or specialty product from the market if it failed to pass an arbitrary risk-benefit analysis. Remember: There’s no money in the cure, only the treatment. The big pharmaceutical companies have been buying the favors of Congress for decades, trying to destroy the organic food and supplements industry. Too many Americans have learned how to cure and heal naturally, cutting into the billions of dollars in profits for the pharma kings. In order to counter this multi-billion dollar industry to push more pills, Congress has been bought and paid for at the expense of the American people.

Until the fabulous Minutemen became a force to be reckoned with, the Republican-controlled Congress sat back and allowed a wholesale invasion to flourish, importing crime and disease on a mass scale – not to mention terrorist cells crossing the border. These RINOs (Republicans in name only) have done nothing to stop the FDIC and banks from unlawfully giving home mortgage loans to illegals. Now, when illegals smuggling themselves across the border will become a big election issue, these phony “conservatives” in Congress are jumping on the bandwagon.

Foreign aid is grossly unconstitutional, as are “transfer” payments to the communist United Nations, USAID, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of International Settlements, yet the Republican-controlled Congress has not stopped this unlawful stealing from the people’s treasury. Sen. Sam Brownbeck, R-Kan., got $3 million put in the budget to “promote democracy” in Iran. “This money should be made available immediately for those seeking to express their opposition to the hard-line Islamic government and to promote internationally recognized human rights,” said Brownback. What an outrage! Democracy is the most evil form of government.

The RINOs have refused to get rid of the Endangered Species Act, which has destroyed the livelihood of tens of thousands of Americans. They have refused to remove one compromised federal judge or any of the Supreme Court justices who voted against Americans and the Constitution in the Kelo decision. I could fill a hundred pages with specific examples of the Republican-controlled Congress simply picking up where Democrats left off. Two exceptions are abortion and the toxic homosexual agenda.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that the Republican-controlled Congress has done nothing to return to a limited form of republican government since they took control in January 1995, how can conservatives continue to vote them back in office election after election? Why do these conservatives continue to reward dishonest public servants who lie to them about Social Security, the misapplication of the income tax laws and refusing to abolish the central bank?

If the American people put the same communists (Democrats) and “conservatives in name only” (Republicans) back in Congress in ’06, you will see a massive financial meltdown and the final destruction of this sovereign republic. I hope Republicans will vote for any challenger to a GOP incumbent in the primaries (except Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo) or vote for a Constitution Party candidate.